I appreciate to be corrected on this, I will be more careful next time.
Urbandori collection on a budget
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BobbyLane
Imperial Masterpiece
Have you tried repotting them in any other season out of spring with success? Potter seems to recommend it based on consistent results. May try my luck with taxus or spruce again this summer, since that timing has worked for me once before. Spring has been awful here. Getting them into good soil before any top work seems to be the key.
No just spring when buds start to push. Twice a tree struggled one year but I was rather aggressive as mentioned before. Definitely not taking on styling before repotting and seeing good regrowth though.
BobbyLane
Imperial Masterpiece
Agriff
Mame
Update 2: After 3 trips to the hardware store I finally finished building this grow box. I'm thinking I overestimated the size but I figured better bigger than too small. Internal dimensions ended up being 22 x 28 x 9 (inches). Going to put it in some pumice first thing tomorrow morning. How much pumice on the bottom is too much?
Colorado
Masterpiece
Nice work! You don’t want too much pumice on the bottom layer. Just a thin layer that you can settle the root ball into.
Agriff
Mame
More updates! Got it into the box yesterday morning. Decided to section it off to make it a bit of a tighter fit. As you can see the root ball is not as big as I would've liked it to be, since it was a bit of a struggle getting it out of the ground. I had barely enough pumice with the two 90lb bags I got, and wondering if I should throw something else on top.
I'm also quite worried about temps dipping below freezing tonight- I think it might get to be 31 degrees? I don't think this can fit through my garage door: any suggestions on how to protect it? If I had it my way I would have waited another few weeks to do this project but my neighbor/buddy is not a bonsai person and was insistent it got out of his yard this week.
Overall I'm happy how it turned out, and hope I can keep her alive!
I'm also quite worried about temps dipping below freezing tonight- I think it might get to be 31 degrees? I don't think this can fit through my garage door: any suggestions on how to protect it? If I had it my way I would have waited another few weeks to do this project but my neighbor/buddy is not a bonsai person and was insistent it got out of his yard this week.
Overall I'm happy how it turned out, and hope I can keep her alive!
Getting less roots than you want happens not always something that can be completely controlled. Overall job well done, make sure it is stable in the box as movement of the tree will impede rootgrowth and if available put it a spot that has morning sun but is protected from the midday sun.
Colorado
Masterpiece
Good job! Looks like you did well with the box. You could put some spaghnum moss on the surface, that’s what I like to do.
How did this fare through summer?
Kalebh
Sapling
Hi all, I have a very large yew that I transplanted about 2 years ago. It seems to be doing well, but I was on a time crunch when I originally transplanted it so I kept entirely to much of the original soil and threw it in a rudimentary box I made on the fly. With all that being said it took two of us to move it into the box, so it's way to big to handle on my own. I'd like to get it to where I can handle it alone, but I'm not sure how big of a box it needs. I did a rough estimate of the box the other day and it's 38 1/2 inches wide by 31 inches long and the trunk is about 14 inches across. I have about 5 years in bonsai and a decent amount of experience with yews, I just want to make sure I give this thing the best chance to survive. I will attach some photos of the initial transplant, and of it about a year ago with the first flush of initial growth.
