OK I was able to check the roots. On the bottom there's a mesh but
there are actually roots over that as well. I did not see any black
roots, dark brown but not black however it's hard to see underneath the
mesh, to remove the mesh I would have to disturb the roots that have
grown around it an those roots looked good, meaning brown, parts light
brown. It looked like a jumble of roots and what looked like sand mixed
in, hardly any actual dirt, everything seemed pretty tightly packed.