Deciduous azalea - prioritize repotting or pruning?

[radhatter]

I’ve got a deciduous azalea finishing flowering soon and I’m looking for advice from those that have worked with azalea before on whether I should prioritize getting it out of its very large (10 gallon or maybe more) nursery pot or if I should focus on doing its planned hard pruning while it’s still in the nursery pot. I plan on repotting into kanuma into a 15.75” 5” deep Anderson flat if I do that this year.

The soil it’s currently in is what it was collected in roughly 2-3 years ago.

 

[Deep Sea Diver]

Would do one big thing a year. Especially to a plant one is unfamiliar with.

Also, one might do a bit of research as deciduous azaleas are a different breed than evergreen azaleas.

Some enterprising BNutters have been working on figuring out these trees. Check out this thread.

Looking forward to seeing the progress of this tree.

cheers
DSD sends

 

[radhatter]

Lots of great info in that thread… also a little drama
Thanks for the reference DSD!