Just took my 12-14 year old lace leaf maple and pulled it from the pot, trimmed roots and repotted. Here is a description of what I did plus a few photos. I have an identical age second maple to do the same. Since the first repotting was by the seat of the pants. Perhaps someone would tell me what adjustments that I should make on the next tree.
The tree is in a 30-35 gallon pot. I pulled the tree. Trimmed off all of the circular choking roots and cut most others back by about half. When refilling the pot, added about 5 gallons of soil, pumice, perlite, styrofoam noodle mix to the bottom, next added five gallons of soil and perhaps 20% perlite mix. Placed tree on top of that, then added another 10+ gallons of soil/perlite mix to fill in around tree. Finished the last two inches or so with 100% synthetic potting soil, so as to not have the ugly perlite showing. Covered surface with rocks and moss. Trimmed perhaps 15% of top growth back. Watered lightly and was done.
Tree removed from pot:
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After roots have been pruned.
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Tree place back in pot:
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Repotting completed:
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Pull, trim roots, repot
Last edited by hendi_alex on Wed Feb 18, 2009 11:37 am, edited 1 time in total.