Miguelito's Blade
Mame
My Trident Maple is about 18" tall with a 1" diameter trunk. The wind hardly ever blows here so it came as a surprise when it blew yesterday. The Trident Maple was blown off the shelf onto the floor and lost all of its soil except what was in the sizable root ball; it has never been repotted yet since I got it from the nursery so it is heavily root bound. I heard it when it fell, but for those of you who don't know I am disabled and unable to get our of my hospital bed without help, and since I was alone at the time, I couldn't do anything about it until my wife got home from work a few hours later. When she got here we covered the roots with some leftover nursery soil we had and watered it, which was all we could do at the time. Some Bonsai Jack inorganic bonsai soil is arriving tomorrow. So my question is whether I should just put it in the decent soil complete with its solidly packed root ball and leave it until spring to repot as I had originally planned or, considering that it lay out in the sun and wind for several hours should I go ahead and do any root work on it now--I know it is out of season--and repot it in good soil.