Bigger pot and cut back

[Killermiller]

I live in Vancouver and just got a nursery stock kotobuki is it too late to put in a bigger pot and cut back some off the top. I was just going to leave e original root ball and fill in around it wi Th bonsai mix thank

 

[0soyoung]

Slipping it into a bigger pot can be done most anytime - just knock off the plastic pot, loosen the roots from the exposed surfaces and stick it into a bigger pot. Fill with a mix of bark or wood chips and no more than an equal volume of soil/dirt. Around August is a good time to prune - there won't be much resin bleed mess and the tree is still active enough that it will stimulate lots of back budding.

Lastly, I'll caution you to not put it into too big a pot. The tree won't grow much above ground until the roots have pretty well populated the pot. Further, until then it is too easy to over water it, which really means drown the roots. So no more than 2 additional inches in diameter. Take up the additional depth with bark/chips mix before you pop it in the pot.

 

[Killermiller]

Thanks will do

 

[sorce]

Welcome to Crazy!

If it eventually needs to go into a smaller pot, creating a wonderful place for great healthy roots to live ...outside of the zone you will eventually stick in a pot, is completely useless or worse. Worse, it's definitely worse.

Those roots are going to be in the business of taking over, especially when the inside doesn't get wet anymore.

So when you rerepot into that smaller pot, you definitely become a Killer, cuz the tree will have no more good roots.

Just saying.

Sorce

 

[Mike Corazzi]

Welcome to Crazy!

If it eventually needs to go into a smaller pot, creating a wonderful place for great healthy roots to live ...outside of the zone you will eventually stick in a pot, is completely useless or worse. Worse, it's definitely worse.

Those roots are going to be in the business of taking over, especially when the inside doesn't get wet anymore.

So when you rerepot into that smaller pot, you definitely become a Killer, cuz the tree will have no more good roots.

Just saying.

Sorce

That's a discouraging item about slip potting.