Mike Corazzi
Masterpiece
I know how popular threads asking advice ...after... it's done so ....
I have a CATLIN elm. Little leaves. Never as hardy as my Chinese Parvifolia but it eked out an existence and last year even seemed happy.
THIS year I wanted to repot it in a better shaped pot so... I did.
Buds were a-poppin and itty bitty green tips were showing so I thought, "hmmm, it's hasn't been repotted for 2 years...so.... here goes."
My effin GAWD! Lifted it out of the pot and must have been two FEET of roots packed in. Good looking ones.
But.... no way to stuff that mass in a pot.
So I trimmed them down to the usual 3 or so inches from the center. Nice looking roots. Some white sprouty (?) ones. And repotted it.
Now... I hope it doesn't sulk like it did when I first potted it 3 years ago.
I have a CATLIN elm. Little leaves. Never as hardy as my Chinese Parvifolia but it eked out an existence and last year even seemed happy.
THIS year I wanted to repot it in a better shaped pot so... I did.
Buds were a-poppin and itty bitty green tips were showing so I thought, "hmmm, it's hasn't been repotted for 2 years...so.... here goes."
My effin GAWD! Lifted it out of the pot and must have been two FEET of roots packed in. Good looking ones.
But.... no way to stuff that mass in a pot.
So I trimmed them down to the usual 3 or so inches from the center. Nice looking roots. Some white sprouty (?) ones. And repotted it.
Now... I hope it doesn't sulk like it did when I first potted it 3 years ago.