Pot now or Spring?

Ml_work · 10-26-2008, 12:24 AM

I have a boxwood that I put in a large flower pot his summer. I want to move it to a large plastic bonsai pot. I have already cut the roots and many limbs when I found it so it will be a simple move from one pot to the next. It is taller than what I want but will wait until spring to do any cutting. Is that a sure kill to re-pot this time of year?
Also I collected a nice pine today, about 2" trunk at the bottom and some nice movement throughout. Again it is too tall I think but has such good shape I may leave it as is. I was thinking of putting it in one of the large pots as well. I know not to do any cutting or wiring on it for at least a year but wonder about the bonsai pot for now as the trunk is the size I want. I have not ordered the pots, I found them on-line for $10.00 for 19x16. I figure this will be a testing pot, if the tress make it I will purchase a nice pot when the time comes for re-potting.

Keep LOOin Up!
ML

shrimpy · 10-26-2008, 07:11 AM

Hi Michael
When you say Boxwood I take it you are taking about Buxus Sempervirens, a photo would help some varieties are much hardier than others.

Shrimpy

JLDoggett · 10-26-2008, 02:19 PM

Given your location I would wait. You still have a bit of growing season left this year and leaving it alone would aid its recovery. Spring will be here soon enough though I would give it a full second year to re-establish itself before repotting.

Ml_work · 10-28-2008, 12:28 AM

Thanks for the replies. I think our grow season just got cut short, the forecast for tonight is mid to low 30s for most of Alabama. I brought all my tropical plants in, it has been getting in the 40s a few nights already.
I do not have a good picture of the boxwood and the one I have is too large to upload. I will get one this week. I do have one of the pine I got this weekend. It was really easy to dig, they are growing in an old sand pit. The main tap root was not deep at all. The bad thing is the sand just falls off, no way to keep it on the roots. I only cut the length on a couple of roots that would not fit the pot.

Thanks,
ML

Ml_work · 10-28-2008, 12:37 AM

I forgot to upload this, could not figure how to Edit and add.

noissee · 10-29-2008, 01:33 PM

good luck with that pine. that's the same kinda we got around here. they are very difficult to collect successfully. i would definitely just leave it alone for at least a year. if the rootball actually fit into that pot, then you've got a great start.

Ml_work · 10-30-2008, 01:01 AM

Shrimpy.....this is a picture of the "boxwood" you can not tell much about the trunk as it is down in the pot. But you can see the leaves...I do not know if it is a boxwood or not....I guess I think all small leaf shrubs are boxwood. It did not have much growth when I put it in the pot, I have cut a good bit of it. Can you tell what it is?
Thanks,
ML

shrimpy · 10-30-2008, 04:47 AM

Hi Michael
I would leave as is for one more full season.
If it were mine what I would do is about one month before spring kicks in and things start to flush I would water in a small handful of Dolamite lime and a teaspoon of fertilizer that is high in Potassium and low in Nitrogen this should give you short strong back budding all over the plant.
(Lets see what other feed back you get)

Shrimpy

Ml_work · 05-26-2009, 12:38 AM

Shrimpy...or anyone....
I forgot about your advice for this tree this spring. did not add anything extra besides some miracle grow. It is doing good and I want to move it to a bonsai pot. This pot it is in is too deep, I cannot see enough to work on it. I don't think I will have to do anything to the roots as I cut it back when putting in this pot. I have 2 pictures of it today...will it kill it to move now? or does it need another year to grow?
Thanks,
ML

noissee · 05-26-2009, 12:14 PM

If you don't need to mess with the roots a lot, then I would think you would not have much of a problem putting it in a different pot. It sort of looks like a yaupon holly or something.

By the way, how is that pine doing?

10-26-2008, 12:24 AM	#1 (permalink)
Ml_work Join Date: Dec 2007 Location: Alabama Posts: 279	Pot now or Spring? I have a boxwood that I put in a large flower pot his summer. I want to move it to a large plastic bonsai pot. I have already cut the roots and many limbs when I found it so it will be a simple move from one pot to the next. It is taller than what I want but will wait until spring to do any cutting. Is that a sure kill to re-pot this time of year? Also I collected a nice pine today, about 2" trunk at the bottom and some nice movement throughout. Again it is too tall I think but has such good shape I may leave it as is. I was thinking of putting it in one of the large pots as well. I know not to do any cutting or wiring on it for at least a year but wonder about the bonsai pot for now as the trunk is the size I want. I have not ordered the pots, I found them on-line for $10.00 for 19x16. I figure this will be a testing pot, if the tress make it I will purchase a nice pot when the time comes for re-potting. Keep LOOin Up! ML

10-26-2008, 07:11 AM	#2 (permalink)
shrimpy Join Date: Dec 2007 Location: Waikato, NZ Posts: 90	Hi Michael When you say Boxwood I take it you are taking about Buxus Sempervirens, a photo would help some varieties are much hardier than others. Shrimpy __________________ Protect your dreams for they will carry you beyond all obstacles. If a man is alone working on his Bonsai and he speaks and there is no women to hear him...... is he still wrong ???

10-26-2008, 02:19 PM	#3 (permalink)
JLDoggett Join Date: Oct 2007 Location: New Hampshire, USA, Posts: 512	Given your location I would wait. You still have a bit of growing season left this year and leaving it alone would aid its recovery. Spring will be here soon enough though I would give it a full second year to re-establish itself before repotting. __________________ "Resolve to be tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving, and tolerant with the weak and wrong....because sometime in your life you will have been all of these" And I further resolve to click on an ad, each time I visit, to help support the site and to be welcoming to lurking guests when you join! After all, you're already here.

10-30-2008, 04:47 AM	#8 (permalink)
shrimpy Join Date: Dec 2007 Location: Waikato, NZ Posts: 90	Hi Michael I would leave as is for one more full season. If it were mine what I would do is about one month before spring kicks in and things start to flush I would water in a small handful of Dolamite lime and a teaspoon of fertilizer that is high in Potassium and low in Nitrogen this should give you short strong back budding all over the plant. (Lets see what other feed back you get) Shrimpy __________________ Protect your dreams for they will carry you beyond all obstacles. If a man is alone working on his Bonsai and he speaks and there is no women to hear him...... is he still wrong ???

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10-28-2008, 12:28 AM	#4 (permalink)
Ml_work Join Date: Dec 2007 Location: Alabama Posts: 279	Thanks for the replies. I think our grow season just got cut short, the forecast for tonight is mid to low 30s for most of Alabama. I brought all my tropical plants in, it has been getting in the 40s a few nights already. I do not have a good picture of the boxwood and the one I have is too large to upload. I will get one this week. I do have one of the pine I got this weekend. It was really easy to dig, they are growing in an old sand pit. The main tap root was not deep at all. The bad thing is the sand just falls off, no way to keep it on the roots. I only cut the length on a couple of roots that would not fit the pot. Thanks, ML

10-29-2008, 01:33 PM	#6 (permalink)
noissee Join Date: Feb 2008 Location: florida panhandle Posts: 206	good luck with that pine. that's the same kinda we got around here. they are very difficult to collect successfully. i would definitely just leave it alone for at least a year. if the rootball actually fit into that pot, then you've got a great start.

05-26-2009, 12:14 PM	#10 (permalink)
noissee Join Date: Feb 2008 Location: florida panhandle Posts: 206	If you don't need to mess with the roots a lot, then I would think you would not have much of a problem putting it in a different pot. It sort of looks like a yaupon holly or something. By the way, how is that pine doing?

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