willhopper
Shohin
I picked up a really nice sweetgum today. The guy I got it from really knows his stuff. This tree has some sick nebari but there is one spot in front where it could use another root. He told me I might want to thread graft a sweetgum seed there. And while I kinda got what he was telling me, I have a different question. Among the other impressive surface roots, there is one that crosses over another one. This root is the same size as the others. Is it possible to cut this root at the base of the trunk and move it to the bare spot I mentioned by grafting it there? I watched an Adam Lavigne video once where he cut roots off a willow Ficus and turned them into trees, and I saw a Bonsai Iligan video where he moved Ariel roots onto a trunk, so I wonder if this would be possible and better than trying to grow a root from a sweetgum seed.