Atom#28
Chumono
I have several of these Pinus nigra in big nursery pots. The pots are filled with lots of circling roots, and I want to get these trees into bonsai soil as soon as I can. However, the rootball is so deep (tall?) that I'll likely need to reduce them just to get them into a training pot or grow box. Roots appear healthy, new fleshy white growth tips are visible throughout the mass of roots. Foliage seems healthy as well. I do not plan on performing a full bare root on them, since I hear that's not best for pines. However, these pots seem to be about 90% root and 10% soil right now. The pots are about 15" tall.
Can someone give me some advice? would you just slice the entire rootball horizontally to reduce the height? or comb it all out and trim?
Can someone give me some advice? would you just slice the entire rootball horizontally to reduce the height? or comb it all out and trim?