this last winter i bought a dwarf chinese elm at a local nursery. this
spring i took it out of its nursery container.. in which it had been
growing for quite a few years and was breaking through into the ground. it
has a huge muddy root ball.(even some clay) I had removed about 1/3 off the
bottom of the ball... and cut some pie shaped wedges into the muddy mess in
about three different spots... then placed it in a large growing container
with bonsai soil and trunk chopped it. It has been growing nicely. prolific
shoots and buds. the growth is prolific on one side of the tree only
though. on the other side... buds break.. but dont thrive... the two
branches that have managed to develop on that side are lagging behind,
growing much slower than the other side. Im thinking that this may be from
the rather "blind"root pruning i did. could this be the case?.. that i
removed too large a section of certain roots feeding this side of the tree?
if so... will it rectify itself? how could i fix this? im afraid i were to
graft anything over there is nothing there to feed the branch anyway.

thanks stevew

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