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I did a few searches and was surprised not to find anything, I apologize if this has been beaten to death previously.
I feel like I'm a little unclear on a couple aspects of potting. I recognize there are an array of opinions, so I won't ask for any definitive answer, but I'm curious how people think about when a tree goes into a pot.
The reason I ask is because I always thought that as a best practice - like, top tier, it's your job style - they basically lived in boxes until showtime, and then after the show, back into boxes they went. As hobbyists, we probably aren't doing that.
However, in a glazed pot, my understanding is that growth is stunted (that being part of the point), and so thickening should be done in grow pots. Once the trunk is as thick as you're going to want it, primary branches as thick as you're going to want them, and the tree is moving into refinement, you can put it in a glazed pot. That's as I understand it.
I do however see a lot of very talented people seeming to grow substantial parts of the tree out in pots - this one is just an example:
I would have thought this is somewhat early.
For comparison, here's a pomegranate I've abused and currently in the process of allowing to hopefully recover - bad time of year for it I suppose, but am hoping with the lights that I could try this out. There's that peeping leaf and lots of buds, I think it lives, at least!
Now, I had popped this in here as a placeholder thinking I'd move it to a grow pot next year - thinking, really, that I'd have to in order to get it to really go nuts. Now I'm questioning myself, and wondering if the thickening of branches/healing of wounds in glazed pots is considered at least a reasonable if not best practice? The linden is certainly a different caliber and maturity of tree, but I sort of would have thought even this would be a tree that most would advise to put in a grow pot, so I want to make sure I'm clear on it. I think it's very possible the linden is far more advanced that I'm thinking it is, I know he spoke about cutting branches at the length you want them and building taper back from there rather than trying to grow taper out from shorter branches to fit a wider profile.
Further, a sub-question about pot materials that I want to ensure I have clarity on. My understanding is that glazed pots are the most restrictive in terms of allowing a tree's free growth (oxygen exchange through the glaze, something like that). I thought unglazed, however, allowed a tree more oxygen and was, if it were the same size as a grow pot, essentially be a grow pot. So would these two pots be accomplishing the same thing?
Or would terracotta allow for more oxygen exchange and be the better vessel? Would you consider that a good option for growing out the maple on the left, or would you be more inclined to put it in a box or an Anderson flat, assuming you were roughly happy with the height and going for something a little more graceful than squat and beefy?
This is all less about "can I get my trees into pots faster" (I mean, they're where they are for now, aren't they) and more trying to understand the specifics in a bit more detail.
I feel like I'm a little unclear on a couple aspects of potting. I recognize there are an array of opinions, so I won't ask for any definitive answer, but I'm curious how people think about when a tree goes into a pot.
The reason I ask is because I always thought that as a best practice - like, top tier, it's your job style - they basically lived in boxes until showtime, and then after the show, back into boxes they went. As hobbyists, we probably aren't doing that.
However, in a glazed pot, my understanding is that growth is stunted (that being part of the point), and so thickening should be done in grow pots. Once the trunk is as thick as you're going to want it, primary branches as thick as you're going to want them, and the tree is moving into refinement, you can put it in a glazed pot. That's as I understand it.
I do however see a lot of very talented people seeming to grow substantial parts of the tree out in pots - this one is just an example:
I would have thought this is somewhat early.
For comparison, here's a pomegranate I've abused and currently in the process of allowing to hopefully recover - bad time of year for it I suppose, but am hoping with the lights that I could try this out. There's that peeping leaf and lots of buds, I think it lives, at least!
Now, I had popped this in here as a placeholder thinking I'd move it to a grow pot next year - thinking, really, that I'd have to in order to get it to really go nuts. Now I'm questioning myself, and wondering if the thickening of branches/healing of wounds in glazed pots is considered at least a reasonable if not best practice? The linden is certainly a different caliber and maturity of tree, but I sort of would have thought even this would be a tree that most would advise to put in a grow pot, so I want to make sure I'm clear on it. I think it's very possible the linden is far more advanced that I'm thinking it is, I know he spoke about cutting branches at the length you want them and building taper back from there rather than trying to grow taper out from shorter branches to fit a wider profile.
Further, a sub-question about pot materials that I want to ensure I have clarity on. My understanding is that glazed pots are the most restrictive in terms of allowing a tree's free growth (oxygen exchange through the glaze, something like that). I thought unglazed, however, allowed a tree more oxygen and was, if it were the same size as a grow pot, essentially be a grow pot. So would these two pots be accomplishing the same thing?
Or would terracotta allow for more oxygen exchange and be the better vessel? Would you consider that a good option for growing out the maple on the left, or would you be more inclined to put it in a box or an Anderson flat, assuming you were roughly happy with the height and going for something a little more graceful than squat and beefy?
This is all less about "can I get my trees into pots faster" (I mean, they're where they are for now, aren't they) and more trying to understand the specifics in a bit more detail.
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