Tag Archives: Fall transplanting

Cutting Corners & Other Transplanting Tips

wayne | 09/08/2012

A freshly transplanted Black pine. The photo is from our Masters’ Series Pine book. Fall transplanting It’s fall transplanting season here in the north country. One advantage to transplanting in the fall is that the tree is fully recovered when the spring season starts, so no top-growth time is lost. The reason this works is [...]

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Field Growing #9: Fall Transplanting #2

wayne | 08/11/2009

Time to go back into the ground I moved this crabapple into this Tokoname pot in the spring. I wanted to photograph it covered in fresh little red apples, but the birds ate them the morning I planned on shooting. It’s not really ready for bonsai anyway; the nebari needs more time, the scar needs [...]

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Green Workshop: Fall Transplanting Pros & Cons

wayne | 08/07/2009

Time to repot. Morten Albek intentionally broke the pot to show this Cork bark Japanese black pine’s dense root mass. From Morten’s book, Shohin Bonsai (Stone Lantern Publishing). Why transplant in the fall? If you transplant in the fall your trees can take full advantage of the next growing season. If you transplant in the [...]

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