Summer Repotting

[sorce]

Roots.

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[sorce]

No sure signs of continued life on this but props to @M. Frary for this righteous little start.

It seems happier now, we love the Godzilla Mix, it feels good.



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[M. Frary]

No sure signs of continued life on this but props to @M. Frary for this righteous little start.

It seems happier now, we love the Godzilla Mix, it feels good.

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I wasn't sure it would pull through the repotting.
Glad to see it did.

 

[sorce]

I wasn't sure it would pull through the repotting.
Glad to see it did.

This one was in the white colander, the colander has long since been knocked over and the held together rootmass of Godzilla Mix was just rattling around in the colander.

When it got going this spring I put it atop, more than in, a bad pot of mine. An inch of held together soil mass above the pot, an inch of airspace below!

It has essentially just been "unpotted" for over a year....still ticking!

I think it's happy now. Along with the other, though I haven't seen visible roots, the tops are growing so that I'm sure they'll survive.

My, Ancient Elm, Layer at a friend's house elm, ... man, and like 5 others, dead from spring repotting.

This year, 4 elms successfully repotted the first full moon after the Solstice.

Time to get to work!

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[Ming dynasty]

Scott is correct, this was not an apples-to-apples comparison in any way. This was an experiment to see if I could get away with repotting (by my definition) in the summer; as many here advocate. Unless I’m simply shifting a tree to a different pot (which presents no risk, in my opinion, and is also not truly repotting), why would I choose to repot in the summer? By these results, I wouldn’t do it.

Hey Brian, so shifting a tree(Japanese maples) from one pot to another because of drainage issues is ok to do roughly now? Leaving the rootball alone. Simply changing the previous mix, it contains too much peat moss and dirt (didn’t know about sifting substrates) is decreasing the pots ability to get rid of water in timely manner.

 

[JesusFreak]

Great thread and glad I found this. I have trident, zelkova, and European beech seedlings that were sown late spring. Should I wait til next spring or repot mid summer in south GA? I assumed the seedlings can be reported anytime other than winter.

 

[Brian Van Fleet]

Hey Brian, so shifting a tree(Japanese maples) from one pot to another because of drainage issues is ok to do roughly now? Leaving the rootball alone. Simply changing the previous mix, it contains too much peat moss and dirt (didn’t know about sifting substrates) is decreasing the pots ability to get rid of water in timely manner.

Great thread and glad I found this. I have trident, zelkova, and European beech seedlings that were sown late spring. Should I wait til next spring or repot mid summer in south GA? I assumed the seedlings can be reported anytime other than winter.

Both of the trees in my example were dead by the next spring, so no. I won’t be doing ANY root work in our climates until spring.

Late Summer Repotting experiment

As an experiment to test the viability of repotting in the summer, when leaves aren’t growing, and roots are, I repotted a Japanese Black Pine, and a Japanese Maple. The pine had been in that…

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