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Enaisio wrote: My girlfriend just bought me one aswell , it is severely pot bound and I'm guessing you'res will be as well , so I'm keeping it indoors this year so I can repot it in autumn , then next year after any danger of frost is will try acclimatise it to the outdoors , it should be alright as long as I protect it from hard frosts .
I advise you to clean up the trunk a bit from the Moss that grows on it as I did and I found out that it was eating some of the bark away.

Why don't you just move the plant to a bigger container without bothering roots or replacing soil?

I thought about it but I don't want to increase the size of the pot as it is already big enough for the tree , actually I would move it to a shallower one when possible , and I think it will make it till autumn as it seems pretty healthy still . I have done some hard pruning on it just about a week ago and it's already pushing out new growth .
But that's my view of it , do you still think I should move it to a bigger pot for now ?

Here's a photo of mine now



Before it looked pretty much like the other one on this post

Enaisio wrote: I thought about it but I don't want to increase the size of the pot as it is already big enough for the tree , actually I would move it to a shallower one when possible , and I think it will make it till autumn as it seems pretty healthy still . I have done some hard pruning on it just about a week ago and it's already pushing out new growth .
But that's my view of it , do you still think I should move it to a bigger pot for now ?

What? why would you move it to a shallower one?. How do you know is pot bound?. If you did hard pruning, and is already pushing new growth, what makes you think is pot bound?. If the tree is root bound I think you have 2 choices, move it to a bigger container, or wait until next year and root prune. If your tree is on training, there is no problem for giving the roots a little more room. If the tree is pot bound, the container is not big for it. It is all relative of course, and it all depends what you want to achieve. If you want the tree to grow more vigorously and develop thicker trunk, a bigger pot would help. If you want to prepare the tree for a 名媛直播 pot, good root pruning and developing a nice root ball should be your goal. However, you should never force a tree to be root bound...

I'm sorry I forgot to mention that I would root prune when I repot in autumn lol I thought it was obvious that I would and it is obviously pot bound , you can even tell by the photo you see the roots coming out of the soil and underneath there is hardly any soil left but since its still growing vigorously I don't see the need to rush it into a bigger pot .
Hope this clears the misunderstanding

Enaisio wrote: I'm sorry I forgot to mention that I would root prune when I repot in autumn lol I thought it was obvious that I would and it is obviously pot bound , you can even tell by the photo you see the roots coming out of the soil and underneath there is hardly any soil left but since its still growing vigorously I don't see the need to rush it into a bigger pot .
Hope this clears the misunderstanding

Yeah I was just curious, and learning as well. The roots on the top don't look like the tree is pot bound, those are simply surface roots, and are there result of watering and whoever re-potted the tree the last time. Exposing the lower trunk usually exposes surface roots. If you lift the tree, and see long roots circling around the root ball, then you know it is pot bound. From what I know, if it is growing vigorously and healthy the right thing is to let it be.