Now I did the invert on my JUNIPER

[Mike Corazzi]

This was the procumbens that had the decomposed akadama and REALLY went bad on me.
Pix of soil:



Concrete!
So this morning I did what I did on my JBP and inverted the pot and took the concrete OUT! No disturbance of the tie down wiring so the juniper did not move and there was minimal disturbance.

This thread illustrates what I did to the pine.

Save some soil on ROOTBALL.... okay...

I just took a pine with too much decomposed kakadama and TURNED IT UPSIDE DOWN !!! The junk that fell out got GOOD soil put back in. Tree remained wired in pot. MINIMAL root disturbance. :D Had to do ....some... "poking" but it fell out. Drainage now EXCELLENT !! 😍

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Here's hoping it also works well. It sure drains nicely now. It is really hard (pun) to understand how that mix could decompose and set up that hard.

Wish me luck. This juniper has been with me a long long time.

 

[Pixar]

Any updates ?

 

[Mike Corazzi]

Any updates ?

Saving them for the repot in a few weeks. I think it leans more than I want.

As far as the above inversion, it grew even better after dumping the kakadama.

 

[Potawatomi13]

Wish me luck. This juniper has been with me a long long time.

Nice appearing tree. "Luck" comes with non crapadama substrate.