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DarkTrak said:
There is no doubt in my mind that the method he is advocating works, but I am unsure if it is better to rip up the root ball compared to leaving it as undisturbed as possible. I am a little dissapointed that he did not directly address the most importan part (for this thread) of my Q: "So I gather you've done it both ways ..."
His reply can - at best - be considered anecdotal evidence and is nowhere near a burn. Sorry.
MrArboc said:There is no doubt in my mind that the method he is advocating works, but I am unsure if it is better to rip up the root ball compared to leaving it as undisturbed as possible. I am a little dissapointed that he did not directly address the most importan part (for this thread) of my Q: "So I gather you've done it both ways ..."
His reply can - at best - be considered anecdotal evidence and is nowhere near a burn. Sorry.
Sense of humor FAIL.
MrArboc said:There is no doubt in my mind that the method he is advocating works, but I am unsure if it is better to rip up the root ball compared to leaving it as undisturbed as possible. I am a little dissapointed that he did not directly address the most importan part (for this thread) of my Q: "So I gather you've done it both ways ..."
His reply can - at best - be considered anecdotal evidence and is nowhere near a burn. Sorry.
If you will kindly look at my reply; you'll see the first word is "YES" in answer to your question. Frankly, I don't see how I can be any more direct than that. I followed that with a little info on 40 years of...oh, never mind!
MrArboc said:There is no doubt in my mind that the method he is advocating works, but I am unsure if it is better to rip up the root ball compared to leaving it as undisturbed as possible. I am a little dissapointed that he did not directly address the most importan part (for this thread) of my Q: "So I gather you've done it both ways ..."
His reply can - at best - be considered anecdotal evidence and is nowhere near a burn. Sorry.
Burned for picking on silly, meaningless details once again
Having done it both ways, anecdotally speaking, I prefer to not disturb a single root hair on a root ball during transplant. I take the whole ball and plop it into its new home. dirt and all. While it does then seem to take a while to get established as, I guess, the roots have to find their way out of the ball, I'm of the opinion that disturbing the root ball causes subtler long-term damage to the plant that doesn't show up much later but isn't trivial.
FYI. still not sure what's the best method to re-pot. One person does it one way and someone discounts that method. Guess I will take the plant out of it's current home and try not to disturb the roots and re-pot. Hopefully that works.