In the hot summer I only pot up to larger pots without
cutting any roots. I do this only if I didn't get
around to repotting in spring and the plant shows
stress from being pot bound.
That said, I have more to say. Why do people bring
home new plants and mess with them right away? The
plant may be stressed by the move. You don't know how
it will react to where you place the plant. So how do
you know which thing affected the plant the most?
I usually let my plant settle in before I do anything
drastic to them. I didn't do that last year and I
lost a beautiful trunk I purchased because I tried to
make a bush into a tree too quickly. I purned too
much off the top and the roots/leaves proportions were
too off for the plant to survive.
Kitsune Miko
--- Steve Parr wrote:
I recently picked up my first buttonwood at the MABA
convention in Cincinnati
earlier this month. This past weekend I repotted it
into a large training pot
from a plastic flowerpot. The new mix consisted of
probably 3 parts pine bark,
2 parts 1/8" haydite, 1 parts 1/8" grit, 1 part coir
(a byproduct of coconut
production), and a couple of handfuls of milled
sphagnum peat (used for seed
starting, not the dry brown stuff) a different mix
from what I normally use.
The tips of the branches seem to almost wilting, not
quite though, just limp.
The leaves are still upright in respect to the stem,
but the stem droops, so
the overall appearance looks pretty haggard. I
watered it in well and kept on
eye on things for the next day or so. The soil dried
considerably, enough for
to water again, but the stem tips still seem quite
limp. The tree receives
morning sun from sunrise to about 11:00 am (north
side of my garage) and then
maybe from 6:00 pm till dark.
Is it normal for buttonwood to resent repotting and
medium root pruning? By
medium, I mean removal of maybe 1/3 to 3/8 of the
root ball (there is still a
good size root ball of fine feeder roots, a bit one
sided, but still quite
reasonably sized).
Steve Parr - Cincinnati, Ohio -
USDA Zone 6, Sunset Zone 35
"Now who's respon... I say who's responsible for
this unwarranted attack on my
person"
Foghorn Leghorn
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