Hi again
Have just been looking at some books about different styles and
was looking at Raft style,Doesnt say what happens to the original tree?Does
it die or can you cut the original trunk along side each tree
Can someone please help again
Thanks in advance
Grid.

AGrid wrote:
Hi again
Have just been looking at some books about different styles and
was looking at Raft style,Doesnt say what happens to the original tree?Does
it die or can you cut the original trunk along side each tree
Can someone please help again
Thanks in advance
Grid.

Not sure you understand the raft style. The raft IS the
original tree. All you do is lay a tree on its side, wire
the appropriate branches up to become new trunks, then, over
the years, reduce the rootball that (probably) forms a big
lump at one end of the pot (and hope that new roots sprout
along the trunk that is lying down in the pot half covered
with soil).

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

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