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Old 11-02-2009, 09:43 PM   #5 (permalink)
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Paul, with a twin-trunk you can go with the combined girth of the two trunks, to give you your pot depth.

But -- you can also go with something shallower, provided it's also wider! The wider it is, the shallower it can be. I've seen some very nice multi-trunk compositions in wide, shallow containers.

You want the entire visual mass of the pot to be about 2/3 the visual mass of the tree itself. (Someone correct me, please, if I'm wrong about that ratio.)
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