Repotting Pines

[Aaron S.]

I have a loblolly pine that I would like to repot. When is the best time to do that?

 

[Adair M]

Late winter or early spring.

 

[sorce]

Late summer or early fall.

Sorce

 

[Shibui]

How old and how big is this pine. You can do things to seedlings that would kill an older tree.

 

[Brian Van Fleet]

Late summer or early fall.

Sorce

Not this.

 

[Brian Van Fleet]

Late winter or early spring.

This.

 

[DrBonsai]

I think you are safe with Late Winter and Early Spring.
I repotted 8 Mugo pines this summer, (1st Week in August) with no casualties.
So it might possible to do summer/fall repotting , but not really sure if this would work
with Loblolly.

 

[Brian Van Fleet]

Big difference between Chicago summer and OKC summer...

 

[Colorado]

Late winter or early spring.

Adair, do you repot before you start seeing any movement in the candles? Or do you let the candles start to extend a bit (obviously still way before the needles actually emerge)?

 

[Aaron S.]

How old and how big is this pine. You can do things to seedlings that would kill an older tree.

It's about 4 years old and about 3 feet tall. I collected it when it was a seedling and put it in a large tub and let it grow. It got banged up a bit in the ice storm that we just had and it got me thinking that it is getting time for me to repot it and start working with it in the next few years.

 

[Adair M]

Adair, do you repot before you start seeing any movement in the candles? Or do you let the candles start to extend a bit (obviously still way before the needles actually emerge)?

It really doesn’t matter. I think it’s better to repot too early than too late.

The old Japanese “wives tale” is it’s safe to repot JBP until the cherry blossoms fall off.