Coiled roots above the ground
 

What is the best method of dealing with these roots, time of removal, ect.?
They are on a quince that I've had for several years which will need to be
repotted next year.

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katie
zone 6b

Helena Handbasket wrote:
What is the best method of dealing with these roots, time of removal, ect.?
They are on a quince that I've had for several years which will need to be
repotted next year.



If they're "incidental roots" (not THE roots feeding the
tree), I cut them off any time they start to bother me.

Jim Lewis - - Tallahassee, FL - Nature
encourages no looseness, pardons no errors. Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Katie,

I suggest cutting them off well before repotting (perhaps one every few
weeks) so the other roots can gain strength. However, as Jim points out
there had better be some other roots to keep the tree alive.

Marty

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Jim Lewis

Helena Handbasket wrote:
What is the best method of dealing with these roots, time of removal,
ect.?
They are on a quince that I've had for several years which will need to be

repotted next year.

If they're "incidental roots" (not THE roots feeding the
tree), I cut them off any time they start to bother me.

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++++Sponsored, in part, by Kevin Bailey++++
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