So this video will be quite a long one Because we've got six Trees I think it's six This large Japanese maple This Scott's Pine And We have A very large beech tree This is our order European beach which Was made from hedge material This is the famous tree that I dug up From my front hedge in 1986 when I came To herons and it has been created into a Bonsai Since then another of our Semi-trained Maples which have gradually Been created into this lovely shape It was a garden tree from Japan very Tall and it was cut down and Successively Added with taper all the way to the top And If you remember the earlier Clips I Showed when I was at Wesley the roots Are so tight that the roots have got Nowhere to go they're trying to jump out Of the pot almost And in this case this beech tree look at The Moss it's about two or more inches Above the soil We have this great big tried Maple which Is one of our best tried and Maples I've seen another video where people
Boast about how much the trees are worth Look at this tree this tree is about At least 12 inches across at the base Look at the detail on this this is all Natural Nebari natural tree Hollows and the Ramification has been achieved simply by Constantly pouring the tips of the Branches This is a Japanese Beach group it's Grown grown a bit tall so I have to both Trim it down and repot it so let's begin With the beach first because this is the One with the Moss coming right out so we Remove the Moss first and see where the Surface of the roots are so here I have Steve he is our chief uh repotting man Not the chief reporter but Chief Repotting a guy at herons been doing it For more than 30 years so he will show Us what to do if we can we might get it Back in the same pot but we could Probably put in a slightly Larger part many people keep asking us To show a separate video about the Choice of pots but I always talk about Topics as I go along so let's begin with This one okay Far Away Steve we take the Moss off Muscle always good as a decorative Surface dressing but when it gets too Thick it can be a problem look at it It's almost like lumps of hair Massive
Some people ask me is the most good or Bad It really serves as a decorative Dressing on the top I think it can help to keep the tree a Bit moist no more than that But too much Moss can look unsightly You must be wondering why there's so Much gravel on the surface of this pot When we keep our trees at Wesley for Some reason the children who visit Wesley are very fond of sprinkling the Gravel from the ground onto the pots we Don't tell them off because they enjoy Doing it but I don't think it does the Tree any harm so the gravel there Is not armed are doing it's been placed There by children who visit Wesley A tree like this even with two or three Of us working on it I would say would Take the best part of one hour so can You imagine three Manors or three Personals working on this tree is quite A lot of Human Resources put in a tree So when people expect the chief to be Done for nothing I think would be asking A bit much of us And there's the expertise involved as Well and the fact that we work very fast Trees of this size Usually are not within the capability of Ordinary obvious because for a start They are very very heavy And it requires a lot of uh you know
Strength to lift trees of this size We're only scratching the surface wait Till we try and get it out of the pot That's another major exercise so let me Pause the camera for a while one thing I Want to show you That because we had so much moss on the Surface it has encouraged All These Fine Roots to come to the top so as I said if You have too much Moss you can get this Problem and this can spoil the base of The nimbari of the tree okay now we're Going to tilt the tree up and see if we Can price it open We may need to use a mallet of some kind Oh God Wonderful wonderful Okay it's solid as a rock okay have a go With the big hook and see if for Eign Table to make the repotting easier you See how the roots have come to the edge It's got nowhere to go absolutely Nowhere to go There's some weird Roots as well and it Is absolutely solid absolutely solid Look at this so rude Okay let's cheese away and see what we Can get But you see how despite the root ball Being so compacted and potbell the tree Is absolutely healthy you couldn't find A more healthy tree than this it's Absolutely healthy so
I've come to the conclusion that over The years I've discovered that Even if the tree is spot on or not Repotted for many years this tree hasn't Been repotted for I would say at least Six years And they still do well as long as They're fed and watered they will be Okay It improves the ramification And it also reduces the leaf size to a Certain extent So when the soil gets old And constant feeding the soil turns Black But I dare say if you use the old soil For something else the soil is still Okay It's not detrimental to the tree We're going to have fun sorting The Roots out See all these roots at the edge there So we've Prepared the pot with the wires and the Mesh I don't need to show you that and We put our standard compost which is one Third akadama one third volcanic grit And then one third organic matter and Then we're also putting sphagnum Moss to Encourage roots to form so it's almost Like a sandwich layer and then we will Put the tree in and then we will Because it's in the open it looks or
Even with this part we have to find Another pot or this so this is too much To the left Positioning in the pot is important Right to the edge Okay You need a little more to the right I Think Put some Moss as well In between the soil We'll put some water just to help the Roots The most will deteriorate and then once It breaks down you can put more soil up To it The most certainly will encourage The formation of roots more easily You cannot tie the tree in and then React to it Okay Foreign So we didn't after that we will cover The whole thing with a bit of moss and This tree is going to stay in the Greenhouse where the temperature is like Between 5 degrees and 10 degrees is now A heated greenhouse and I'm also going To take the opportunity to do a little Bit of spooning if you do this sort of Pruning just taking the chips out Not only does it help the ramification Development but it also puts less Stress on the roots having to support Too many leaves
So just in general clipping back you see Some clipping back about two three Inches all around So if you take a shot here and then take It compared with the off the shot you'll See that I have actually trim the tree Again I don't look at each of the notes I just Shouldn't like that if I'm doing a hedge Everyone has their own particular way of Doing things You see the lengths we're taking out About three inches long Any Crossing branches we have to take Out This is important to do whenever you Leave off the tree and also as a general Cleaning exercise if you think you're Doing this the tree will become too big You have to take it back a bit from time To time Foreign So I'm looking at the tree From what was the back of the tree I was Trimming the branches and the trees you See that's the overall shape of the tree It's very pleasant But if One felt that the tree is getting too Tall I will just get Tracy not to hold the Camera I'm going to do my famous bag Trick because I just noticed that what Was the back could be a very nice front
Cool if I was to do this place And make that the New River And convert this size to front This could be a much shorter tree not so Tall we would still have quite a good Taper So that's a possibility So whoever owns this tree could even Consider doing that The point I'm trying to make is that one Should always keep an open mind whenever I talk about doing Bonsai the importance Keeping an open mind in case you want to Change the front Actually change the front Before this is for doing it this is the Original I will show you again it's Quite nice the tape is quite nice but It's just to prove the point that The other side could also be a possible Front if you didn't want the tree to get Too tall Because As I said earlier There's always a temptation to keep Letting the tree grow taller and taller And never deal with the top In which case You won't know when to stop So this tree won't be Chewable for at least a year While it recovers So we're going to put it into intensive Care in this greenhouse
And let's see what happens Very nice tree with a lot of history To it Associated with me since I came to Italians it's the first tree I dug up From our own French So it's had a trim You can see it I shaped it quite a lot Of taken up We've taken all this off It's quite a lot of things off the top So it's certainly made it a bit Smaller in size And we will just keep an eye on it and As the leaves emerge I will show it to You again So this has been a mammoth exercise In repossing so that is number one done We've got five more trees to do We're doing the second of our Wesley Trees this great big mountain Maple Which is over a meter tall I think it is about 1.21 meter tall Again in a mica pot Tap it Foreign So we will tease away and you see how The roots have gone to the side because It can't escape can't go anywhere So let's deal with this one So we've got that bar look at the fine Roots the maples have finer Roots than Many other trees there are not many Thick Roots so all these fine Roots can
Easily be cut off So we'll carry on It's like a birds the scraping Birds Nest we won't cut any after we teased Everything to show you how much wood We're going to cut off So this is the mess of roots that we've Managed to tease out And we prepared the pot And we put the wires like this Two pairs of wires so we tie a cross not Crisscrossing but just across the root Ball Now I'll just show you what I'm going to Cut the roots with try not to use your Ordinary trimming scissors to cut Roots Because whenever you cut the roots Because there's soil involved and grit It blunts the tooth so always set aside A special pair of scissors just for Cutting the roots so should these get Blunt you can always sharpen just these Ones That is Ideal tool for cutting the roots So if I can just ask All the camera it's running And we show you how much to compensate Fairly simple As we say it's just like cutting hair Many people are afraid of cutting roots Without getting a utility but I always Think that cutting Roots is like cutting Your hair cut It will go again and it stimulates
The development of more roots and finer Roots Also All These Fine Roots will grow Again We caught this tree at the right time We haven't done it for possibly five Years So it produced a lot of root in that Time And you're going to put it in a slightly Larger pot on a very slightly like on The tree around Okay I'm going to move the street back So this tree Again has taken the three of us to do it So biggest tree like this Require quite a lot of human effort That's what quite a few people bring Their trees especially that are large Trees to our Nursery To have them done And of course there's the Technique as well you know knowing how Much root to cut All this has an important bearing on the Health of the tree I never get all the soil off I've seen In countless Japanese magazines and books they eject Every grain of salt off especially with The Satsuki azaleas they tend to do that I don't know why it works for them but I Always am afraid to do that Okay
These roots are going to the side of the Pot I don't want that happening Not forming radial roots Sometimes if I have a problem I'll just Use an axbury cake I can just turn it forward a little bit Okay now this is going that side I didn't want him to go that side I Wanted to spread radially Okay so I cut that root This root is going sideways rather than Use that let me just chop it carefully Well I use the ax very carefully you Know I'm not just being a mad accident I'm quite accurate in how I use the apps And there are going to be a lot of Comments about that but if it works for Me It works for me So that's going that way let's get rid Of that Give your tennis back again to get some More Roots off the bottom Okay we got all that from across So much Rudolph So we're going to Prepare the pot and put the tree no need To show that in detail so that's the Next step So we're taking care when we Tie the wash to avoid putting the wire Over the roots and try to get it Underneath the roots So apart from filling the soil this tree
Is done I don't need to show us Putting the soil in We are now going to tackle this large Trident maple Which we brought back from Wesley This is a grand old tree look at the Nebari on this I still believe that because we haven't Been repotting this tree so often But now the Demario the root system is Remained very tight if it was in a Larger pot The Roots would have spread Much more but because we've kept it Confined to this pot The Roots have Kept close to the trunk and as you can See it has a lot of character by the way Many of these holes are Euro uro which The Japanese refer to are the result of Not sealing the tree You can see all these natural Hollows Have come about from just leaving the Cuts untreated and you can see this Beautiful natural effect that happens And of course in nature This is how you get this effect On large trees this is where the birds And owls live and with the Bonsai it is Completely natural so this is a lovely Future so let's see what's happening With this tree if you can look at the Edge of this Mica pot You see the edges are slightly bored Because The Roots have pushed the pot out of
Shape You see a slightly bored let's see What's underneath the roots so we will Cut the sides with the sickle And we will proceed okay come back side I will cut this side Because this pot is not in curve it's Not going to be too difficult to get it Out of the pot and this is the tour I'm Using this improvised Indian tool made For my reinforcing bar that's a typical Japanese tool what they call a sickle And it's specially made for undercutting The roots of taking the trees out of the Pot I just checked that it's not tied in Okay let's have a look at the pot Oh it's fine let me just hold the card Holder for me while I cut this Piece of water We hold the pot because we don't damage The branches and it falls off It comes out very easily so this is not So much square Ah There you go So if you come close and have a look Although I reckon I haven't repotted This tree for At least 10 years it doesn't look that Congested It doesn't look that congested Usually The Roots come to the edge So we will tease away And see what happens
Okay Look at this train we've teased the Sides and we found that despite having Not pouring this for about 10 years the Roots are not that pot down on the side But the base Seems completely matted if you look Underneath here This is very very congested So we're gonna take these bits of mesh Off and see what comes out from the Place You can see that this is literally like A big bird's nest liquid roots So all the roots have gone to the bottom If I can get it back in the same pot I Like to get it back in the same pot We always have this habit of trying Putting it in bigger and bigger pots With the result that you'll end up Eventually with pots that are far too Big and you'll never be able to find Pots big enough for the tree So it's always good to get it back in The same pot I would like to show you some pictures Of these trees that the Japanese Pot up in the display and exhibitions And they always seem to be in very Unreported Situations you know where the tree seems Far too large for the pot Okay look at the thick Roots here these Thick Roots have just gone round and
Round Not fine it was really thick all these Why we've got the tree in this position I'm trying to cut some of them off Here in the south of England We find that February is a very good month and today We have a very mild spell of weather Temperatures nearly 14 degrees Centigrade which is very very mild And this is the ideal sort of weather For repotting And of course You might still get a spell of frost so If if you can't protect it in a shadow Under some sort of shelter you are well Advised to cover it and protect it if You do get laid Frost Of course I keep repeating that we have These Facilities here where our unheated Greenhouses provide the ideal Environment for protecting the trees Immediately after repotting So continue cutting away at the roots Like this So you see all these fine Roots these Are the roots that we like to keep the Tick Roots don't matter because thick Roots are usually the roots that Support the fine roots And they're not the feeder Roots the Feeder roots are the ones you need to Try and keep
Again a big heavy tree like this We require at least two persons to Handle it So look at the amount of soil we're Gonna so we're gonna try putting it back In the same pot It's amazing how resilient this Micropods are Lost a long time We're testing it again so I think there's enough room for new salt To be put isn't it only about a couple Of inches And we're going to use the same part of Course the micropods as they get old They get a fattener which makes them Look almost like a ceramic pot so Or to the good So the rest of it is just tying the tree In and putting soil we won't show you That so we will show you this tree when We finish doing it And we will go to a large Japanese white Beach Forest Again it came to this country about 30 Years ago and it was only that tall to Begin with about 60 or 65 centimeter now It's about one meter tall it's far too Tall so let's begin by pulling it a bit Before we even start re-possing this if I pulled it back a bit It'll be less cumbersome to handle So again no great Rocket science involved
We just prune each tree to shape Reducing the overall height and by Pulling the ends We will be encouraging more ramification Some of the trees have suffered the tops Of this one for instance has died but I Continue to let it grow rather than try And take it out Like this one the top of this tree has Died but I kept this as like a fake Trunk And when it is going you can't see it The leaves cover that So it's a bit of a cheating really So I'm being quite drastic I'm taking Four to six inches off the tops And reducing it Like this one I'm going to be quite Drastic I know that many of these trees Especially deciduous trees they are Better at night without their leaves on But the beach retain the leaves through The winter so it stopped really a Situation where like the mountain Maples You get more appreciation of electricity Of the branches So you see how I've reduced it quite a Lot So let's continue doing it this mind you Is an exceedingly heavy group I can Barely lift it I reckon this tree weighs At least 50 kilos
Like a weight of two suitcases To see how dense this tree is Look at this one This would make a beautiful individual Tree But you see this is all Grown too big and it's in fact taking Over the tree I'm going to reduce it in Bits Does the word of warning to those who go A white beach in the UK For some reason they don't go as strong As our nation's European beach which is Vegas This is Vegas Granata And they tend to have more die back For the golden Western Europe Some reason the Japanese climate is Better suited to the species This very thick broads are going to take Off If it's too big I'll use this You see how useful this tool is many of You will have seen me use this large Tooth And once you've cut the bulk off then You can go in with the When cutter or bronze cutter and pair it Down Into a more manageable stump Unless we will seal that cut It's actually quite considerably and now The top of that I need to really reduce this a bit
This is a situation where I have to bite The bullet We always keep putting it off and Putting it off Wanting to tackle these difficult jobs I've got some point you have to do it I did say that when reprotting the trees If you reduce the Foliage of the Bulge quite a bit It puts less strain on the roots So pruning the superstructure At the same time as repotting Is quite beneficial Look at the front again There was the time I could lift a piece Like that on my own But at my age I can't do that Could lift 50 kilos with no difficulty 60 kilos even Everybody That's too thick there Let's get rid of that I will try and get the editor to compare It with What it was like before Because you will appreciate that we have Done a very radical pruning look at that We've certainly taken about 12 inches Off the top And Let It Grow Again Now the Moment of Truth as you again Look closely You see how The Roots have mounded up in the moss on
Top This by the way if you hold them close This is a peppermint or Corsican mint if You touch it and smell it it smells of Mint so I'll try and save some of this Material it's a lovely thing to grow Alpine girls use it for all sorts of Things You will serve them Planted on some of our other plants And because this Moss has been growing On the surface I think what it will have done is to Encourage a lot of these surface roots Of the beach To come to the top It's both a good and a bad thing because It helps to sustain the tree but then if You get too many roots then the nebari Or the root system or the surface roots Get spoiled it will look so good So I'll continue removing all this your Home enclosed you will see we've taken That cosecant mint of Ruger take sheets Of it about two inches thick and because This has provided a nice environment Under which The Roots have been growing Look at how the roots have just gone Crisscross The Croods have gone Completely crazy so like I said a moment Ago Having a lot of that moss on the top is Both a good and a bad thing it's good in The sense that it keeps the thing moist
And it encourages roots to grow well but On the other hand because it is so Protective The Roots generate on the Surface and don't go deep and as a Result you get all these criss-crossing Routes which for bonsai are not really Attractive for the tree it may be Horticulturally good but we don't want These criss-crossing roots ideally every Single tree should have a radial root System you see these roots are going This way At right angles to the tree they're not Really radio So we try and eliminate as much of these Crisscrossing roots as possible And try and find radio roots Which we will encourage to grow so This route has gone back on itself see Like that it's gone back on itself with It it should be going forward I hope there will be enough Roots Underneath so that we won't have to cut Too many of these fine roots of And then We have The sickle And we have cut around the edges You always have to do that you cut down The edges like this and by doing that we Are able to Take the tree or the clump out of its Pot there you are So have a look
Again it is very very congested Extremely congested so this is what We're going to tease This is going to take us at least 15 Minutes To tease out gently but all nice fine Roots very fine thick Roots we will cut Them so this is the next process that we Are going to do again if we comb in on This Group You see that there are some thick roots And those are the roots we are going to Take out we don't want the thick ones we Just want to encourage Young Roots to grow So this can be cut and taken out As we go along we keep cutting the thick Ones to take out Many people ask when you repot a group Do you have to take all the trees apart And reassemble them together again no You don't once the group has been set Especially with an established group Like this the roots are all meshed and Tangled with each other And It's not that easy to take it apart so Once it's set it's set for life Then we are going to take All the roots on the periphery Cut it out Cut about one or two inches so that we Get it back in the same pot this is a
Pretty hefty over like a pot I don't Think I Certainly don't have a ceramic pot this Size and even micro pots this is as big As they make the ovals Shallow So you have to remove enough root So that the whole group can go back in The same pot So we do the perimeter and then we do The other side so we will show you when All the thing has been done So if you home in on this you can see What I meant by leaving too much Moss The Roots all crisscross each other They're going all over the place so this Is going back on itself which it Shouldn't really do this is coming Around like that rather than radio That is okay that's slightly radio But it encouraged all the roots to come To the surface And as a result you get very untidy Roots It's not a good thing But then it did help the tree to survive Well especially in the hot summer Crisscrossing roots are going to be Taken off thick Roots also going to be Taken off And you can see this almost like a After him look at it All that is going to be cut off There's some very thick Roots here look
At that that recruit Those are the roots we don't want So this group hasn't been repotted I Would say for at least six years I know you could have done it sooner Than that maybe after four years But I still don't reckon you need to do It everywhere Okay it's just a flat mass of roots So Again Nothing special we will just throw it Away like this Reduce the root pour and then we'll show You when we put it back in the spot So let me show you how we've prepared The pot we've put the mesh we put the Time wires in and we put a very fine Layer of sphagnum moss because we've Prune The Roots quite hard So we want the roots to regenerate as Quickly as possible so we put a bit of Moss so we're trying to tidy some of the Surface Roots out The tickle Roots which seem to be more Established I'm not going to touch in Case it upsets the balance of the tree But this is how we've tied it this root Ball and this is just going to go Straight back in I'm almost being put And that's it so George you're lift the tuner I think Again
Fit in there going in It doesn't matter put it back to front We can always turn see something And grind it in a bit Yeah perfect you see how much room we've Got on the perimeter at least two or Three inches for Fresh soil to be put so you grinded it So that all the crevices of food there You go so it's just a question of Chopping it up with soleno So we've prepared the pot for this Trident method to go back into the same Pot and I put a layer of sphagnum moss At the bottom and then I put a tiny Layer of our standard compost and let me Remind you again this is the nature of Our standard compost that we sell so It's 30 to 40 percent of akadama With some organic material like loam and Very fine chopped Pine bark and then we Also use a Japanese volcanic grit so That's the compost we use not hundred Percent academic and we're going to put This tree back you see all the fine Roots that remain we'll just put the Tree in fill it with soil a little bit Of sphagnum moss around the edges of the Roots and that will be the reporting Exercise done So the repotting of this Japanese Beach Group is complete that's the compost on The top But although we've put the compost on
A very good practice is to put some Sphagnum moss on the top This keeps it more moist And it also Prevents the new compost being washed Off So that's another little Practice that Is done very often to in Japan Where they've got all this Bonsai to Find out And that will be the Final thing done after a couple of Months you can then remove the Moss And we will spread it all over And this tree the same we've just Put some spagnum Moss touching the roots And then the soil and then we will Put a tiny bit of boss on the surface So we've done two major trees today Two major trees yesterday two more to go We start on a happy note today is the 15th of February and look at the bright Sunshine we've got temperatures of 14 Degrees there is a blast of warm air From the Uh Azores and from North Africa so we've Got a mild spell all of a sudden So the trees are springing into life and I've got two more trees from wisley that I'm going to repot I'm just walking to The back Greenhouse to show you what we Do so this is a long video showing how I Repotted those six big Bonsai that I
Brought back from Wesley so here we go I'm walking into the back Greenhouse And here we are These were the trees we did yesterday It's great big tried Maple was done Yesterday the beach was done yesterday And now we've got This big Maple to do This is the maple You can just look at that beautiful root Base beautiful nebari and again I reckon I haven't done this for about seven or It's been eight years so the roots have Got nowhere to go And we're going to take it also If we just prepare the pot cut around The perimeter Okay here we go Again that tree must be every bit 1.2 Meter tall The base is about Where you've measured Must be at least 12 inches or more Easily because this is not an end curved Port so let's turn the pot upside down And rest it on that part Ners So trees like this can't be done by one Person it requires at least two people More like three Foreign This tree because we haven't repotted For about six seven years look at how The roots have gone round and now and
These are really mature Roots really Thick mature roots and it's so compacted I'm even using a floor Hammer to pull The roof wall out So don't laugh at me but everything that Works Use it don't mean And say that you can use little thing Like that that will get the muscle but I Don't think it is so effective in Getting these heavy Roots out so in this Desperation using the floor hammer and See how effective that is all these Roots have to be cut anyway so it Doesn't matter if these roots on the Perimeter get the slots so you can see How I've already got at that area So there are three of us working can I Just turn the tree around have a look at This side see this is like a nest look At that big root coming right across so That's doing nothing so that's going to Have to be cut off so I might as well Cut it off now We can bring the big loafer for me and Use the big Lopper So it's just follow the shape of the pot That's the good okay we cut there and Cut the You can get that Locker in Case I'm going to get this up because this is Doing nothing it's not a radio route So we're going to try somehow to get
This off over here As close as possible Okay now with the claw hammer again Well these have been Left like this for a while but it's hard To Get the Leaves compact so let's cut it here as Well Foreign Let's see if we can get some of the Diesel so if you can use the big loppers Putting here Okay and I tilt the tree and have a go At the bottom let's see what lies Underneath You need to slide it forward in case it Fall off the turntable look at how thick These roots are almost like a banyan Tree Absolutely thick roots Many of you will tell me that I should Have done it sooner but then This tree was very healthy still very Healthy To do I think this lump should come off I think this must be a first using a Claw hammer to Do reporting you may laugh but it works If it works what's wrong with that It will be unconventional Look at that look at that if you were to Use that little rig it will take you a Lifetime
Perhaps will be solid This we will use the hook Okay let me come this side Soil is a bit Putrid So there's another big boot here so Wherever we find the big Roots we're Going to put the Lopper in and cut that Off that one there And now we will radially tease away And then of course underneath there's Going to be a problem we've got this Little cut some good look at that root Look at that root it's almost like what You would find on a banyan tree you know The root over rocks Okay So I'll show you where we've got to now You see this is the End result that you should be aiming for Where you get fine Roots you've teased Into the root ball loosened it all up And there is room for the roots to Breathe room for new soil to be put in And look at the amount of root with cut This is what we got out look at all that Look at that that's a serious amount of Meat really serious amount of route that We got out so This tree Was well due for repotting and it turned It up I will just deal with this root This could eventually become a nice Surface route we'll test it back in that
Pot was it this part This one okay just bring it near I will Test it and see how it fits no need to Put on the turntable I just want to test To see space If I need to cut any more root out That should be okay that should be Enough so we've still got like Two inches here two inches an hour at Least two inches at the bottom because We want to mount it slightly so use the Same part again I always think that you Should try and use the same pot because If you keep putting it in bigger and Bigger pots you'll soon router run out Of pots to use so I think this is enough So that is the state of the root ball We've got it down to nice neat compact Root system Carrying the pot We always do This by the way is a micropod but They're so authentic you won't think That's Mica it looks very convincing as The ceramic pot so there you are And then we're going to put sphagnum Moss underneath Followed by our standard compost and Then sphagnum Moss again Sprinkle a bit And loosen up fluff it up Then a layers of compost and then before The roots coil we put another layer of Moss to
Encourage roots to grow quickly Okay we mount it just a little bit in The center to grind it down You put another layer of moss and then We put the tree in another level of moss Little more than that because It was just compact It won't take any room Okay now we put the tree in Grind it in Need your help I think it needs to be a little more to The left Just pull it towards you 've got anymore okay all right Part grid and then we just put salt so That's that one is done Remember try to thread The Roots through Okay so that's another one Literary Scott spine brought back from Wesley look at the roots It's so congestive and the pot it hasn't Got anywhere to go so it's formed this Beautiful root base and if you were to Keep it uh another few more years in This pot this route will become a Complete mess like a plate so I don't Want to disturb any of this this we may Need to deal with so let's see if we can Get it off I dare say it's going to be Very very compacted and because this is A mica pot we're not afraid of Breaking the pot so if we put it on the Edge
Here and I will knock it with the Hammer or Mallet And see if anything happens That you can knock it from that side Rubber palette This is the beauty of the micropods Foreign Reciprocating sauce There you go let's look at the underside Look at how much it is solid And look at it it's literally lifting The tree out of the pot see all that Hole is lifted the tree out of the pot That's the root mesh and because it's so Compacted I'm going to use this ax So when the ax comes out you know I'm About Look at that And the truths are healthy so whatever You might say and criticize as long as The tree is healthy that's all that Matters I don't know why that wasp is underneath There okay if you can rotate it I will Try and Cut some more Over here These roots will have to come off anyway So how we do it doesn't matter Okay a little more Gradually Look at that So this is a ducting
Tools for the situation At hand Look at that how efficient is that if You were to try and use that tiny little Rake it'll take you ages some more So why do you think we work so fast I always like to think of this as a Bird's nest And there's only very little mycelium There is some mycelium but not enough So we will now the next thing is to Loosen this get the mesh off and we will Show you the progression of our teasing Of the roots so there you go So we had to decide what pot to put it In This is the original pot on the left But because the root ball was so Compacted and The Roots were literally To the edge and I don't want to cut any Of these perimeter Roots off over here I didn't feel that we could use the same Pot The next size Mica pot is a much larger One We were having doubts as to whether that Would be too large if it was a Japanese Girl he wouldn't use such a large pot Because they like to underpot their Trees they will try and force it back Into the original pot because this tree Has a lot of height the proportions are Not wrong so I've decided to put it in a Bigger pot just for the sake of the
Health of the tree although the tree is Not unhealthy look at it it's so green And vibrant Who would think that it was so badly pot Bound so this tree is in the pink of Health So it's been at Wesley again for about Last six seven years And all this contorted wiring was done Years Ago by me That was a leader that he bent back Double And you see all the Old Wire marks The wire marks when they grow out they Will have a lot of character on the Branch So I don't need to show you the actual Potting up it's just filling soil so We've done all the six trees that I Brought back from Wesley so there you go We've finished the repotting of the Wisley trees And I'll just show you the final shots of What we did to some of these trees After repotting we always dress it with Most so that it keeps the moisture in And also prevents it drying out So those are the finishing touches for Repotting So I hope you enjoyed this series of Video videos about the Wesley trees Foreign
