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Repotting Season ‘21
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Author:  Owen [ 03 Mar 2021, 00:31 ]
Post subject:  Repotting Season ‘21
I always feel like I’m going a bit early being Up North, but our yard is well protected and a bit of a sun trap. The deciduous trees have been moving for a couple of weeks now. Has anyone made any big moves so far?

Field Maple Clump/Connected Root
Got ambitious picking this one up from Greenwood’s between lockdowns last year. I want to thicken some trunks and get some movements and taper in others, so it’s into a grow box for two or three years. Taking up a bit of real estate!

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Chinese Elm
From Markham Grange in September. Didn’t have a CE and this looked to have some interest in the base without really being able to see what was going on. The thought was to air layer this year and end up with a couple of trees, but the base leant itself to something a bit more radical. Next repot it can go a few degrees further.

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Parrotia
Garden centre rescue for a fiver. Had the chop 18 months ago and must have just taken 90% of the roots off. Fingers crossed!

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Author:  Gary Jones [ 03 Mar 2021, 18:36 ]
Post subject:  Re: Repotting Season ‘21
Good stuff. The repotting season is upon us. I've moved three very large trees from wooden grow boxes to large pots. Plenty of others still to go.
Author:  John M [ 03 Mar 2021, 20:47 ]
Post subject:  Re: Repotting Season ‘21
I have repotted so far...

one small oak
one larch

...and one mystery tree 4" tall, grey bark, willow-like leaves, which I picked out of
my big Acer's pot as a seedling 5 years ago and which insists on growing. I have no
idea what it is, but I'm really quite fond of it - a very plucky little tree.

Also, have pruned my big mountain maple (possibly a little early, but even now sap is oozing),
and several other various smallish trees.

So it's all beginning to happen.

J.
Author:  Keith Hansell [ 03 Mar 2021, 23:21 ]
Post subject:  Re: Repotting Season ‘21
Your Field Maple is slightly ahead of mine.

So far I have only slip potted two trees after their pots suffered frost damage.
Author:  tismeisthatu [ 04 Mar 2021, 10:23 ]
Post subject:  Re: Repotting Season ‘21
I’ve already repotted most of the trees that need to be repotted. My cherry is flowering, my larch are at the shaving brush stage (not all of them though) my English elm are bursting their buds & so are my hawthorn. My blackthorn is in flower. The only thing not moving yet is my beech bonsai & my zelkova but they are always the last to open their buds. The problem I have is I live in a valley & we had a frost last week so I have to put them all to bed in the shed & keep them cozy
Author:  paulb [ 04 Mar 2021, 10:42 ]
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That's a pretty amazing looking maple clump . A serious project to keep you going for a few years there ! Done most of my repotting now. Just got a number of 2/3/4 yrs larch seedling that need a quick repot before they take off. A quick trim, bit of wire to shape and then ignore for a couploe of months !
Author:  daryl [ 04 Mar 2021, 22:58 ]
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I’ve done most of my larches and today I did a bit of a restyle with a Chinese Elm.

It was originally an extreme S shape which I didn’t like and a few years ago I cut it at the first bend to create a cascade. It had been in a cascade pot for about 3 years but I couldn’t get the lower part to grow, it stayed weak while the top got stronger. So today I tried something a bit different and persuaded it into this piece of aquarium bog wood. Only one photo I’m afraid because my phone battery ran out.

Original tree
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Change of angle
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After the chop
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Top heavy cascade
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New angle in the bog wood ‘pot’
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Author:  keithmart [ 05 Mar 2021, 08:54 ]
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Hi Daryl

Most plants are apically dominant. In other words they favour the buds at the highest point.

That photo of yours is textbook of the way it works.

You could support the pot so that the underside becomes the top, only tuning it over for watering, or, in the case of a cascade, turn it upside down. You could then water it through the drain hole.

maybe next time?
Author:  13wendy [ 06 Mar 2021, 11:15 ]
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I have 2 Chinese elms that lived outside for years and each year they weren't doing very well despite tlc. Paul from greenwood's said they can live happily inside, give it a try.
So this winter despite all my reservations I bought them into my cool office after a bit of a leaf dropping rocky start and a period of adjustment they are doing really well. Better than ever before. So now for the other problem....as they haven't been allowed to winter when is a safe time to repot as they are very green and vigorous ?
Tia
Author:  keithmart [ 06 Mar 2021, 12:38 ]
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hi

Chinese elm are as tough as they come. Repot anytime now, but put them back outside once the frosts are over.

Mine stay out all year and thrive.
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