More repots 2025

 Back at it with the repots. I decided to post this on my new and improved Blog. This post will contain some pretty pathetic looking trees, but based on the growth I got in one month before the cold whether started, Spring should be very lucrative.  With the very close root prune invigorating the plant, they should explode with new growth. Training will start straight away and I will post follow ups here.

First up is a trident maple. Of the three I bought at Eds last May, just 7 months ago, this first one really showed the most promise. Not only did it have the best trunk, but it had the most growth and fastest branch growth of the three. That's why this one got a pot. The other two went back into a clay till next Fall. The tree out of the pot had the scar from last May's flat cut right after the nursery visit.  It was nearly three inches across. This year I took off another 3/8 inch of trunk base. You can see how small I pruned back the roots for placement within the pot. 

Tree fit right into Koyo pot. This is the first pot I bought after I met Garret Ryan. I went to his house in Sacramento and bought directly off his shelf. This was my first real foray into the world of top shelf Shohin pots. That was about ten years ago.

This is a Yaupon Holly. This is a very chunky tree. The base is 2 3/4 inch across at the soil and just tapers away from there. I won't bore you with the roots cut away but it was a lot! Pot by Satomi Terahata

This is a cotoneaster v. Corokia

Corokio, also known as the wire-netting bush, is a tough, New Zealand native shrub with a distinctive zig-zagging branch pattern. It produces small yellow flowers in spring followed by red, orange, or yellow berries.

This time planted in another Koyo from Garret Ryan.

This small plant is a pyracantha v. Santa Cruz. It's still in development but the base was good and it fit well in the pot so I decided to grow this one out in a pot versus a clay pot. I repotted three more that all went into clay pots with more room and I want to see what restricting the roots does to the top growth during Spring. Pot by Yamafusa.

This is a Gardenia v. radicans.

Out of the can this little tree responded well and it went right into a little pot by Seika.

This is another gardenia v. Radicans, that is being trained in the Semi cascade style. A favorite of mine. It is planted in a nice Ruri blue pot by Won Hung Lo