My Senjumaru JBP is doomed…

[keri-wms]

Not 100% sure why but my Senjumaru (sport of Kotobuki) JBP has suffered total root system death. Initially assumed weevils but there’s not much evedence. Did have an original very compact gritty inner rootball and I potted up into looser mix….might be frost, might be over-watering…anyway. The roots are dead but the top hasn’t got the bad news yet. Even has swelling buds.

SO….all I can think to do it turn 90% of it into scions, and leave a very minimal (but re-balanced) skeleton in pure course grit/pea gravel in a humid greenhouse. Totally gutted…





The thick root is also dead…

 

[keri-wms]

At least it’s rootball now “fits this pot”….gahhh.

I saved this JWP using the gravel method, also had “no roots”, but it was a close thing and took three years, and it lost most branches. The issue with this WAS compost/weevils:

 

[bwaynef]

That terracotta pot full of pumice w/ the tree COMPLETELY immobilized give it its best chances ...after correctly identifying the issue that led to this condition and eliminating it. In *THIS* case, I'd consider some of the mycorhizal products.

 

[penumbra]

Soak in peroxide and them plant in pumice.

 

[keri-wms]

I don’t have any pumice, closest thing is perlite but that’s possibly too water retentive. I think the issue was long-standing, there was japanese (landscape?) cloth embedded in the inner root ball!