Podocarpus fell

[maroun.c]

Have this podocarpus that came styled since around 4 years, half barerooted and moved to bonsai soil 3 years back. Took 1 year to recover from initial repot.
Last year it grew straight shoots some from low on the trunk and some from upper. Was supposed to cut those branches this fall and was about it till few days when we had crazy winds and the tree fell down around 3 meters, luckily it landed on the pot which shattered and tree was intact except for loosing couple branches.
Had to immediately repot and only had a bit smaller pot than I wanted.
Tree had good roots except for some.thick ones at the bottom that I had to prune to fit in the shallower pot. Also there was a portion of the original soul that had went bad abd there were no roots there so I had to be aggressive in cleaning that. Had to reduce the height of the root ball and to plant the tree a bit higher in the pot to minimize rootball prune.
We're in autumn but temp are typically 20 degrees Celsius during the day and around 15 celsius at night. Should I protect the tree from cold or sun

in old pot before it fell



Roots

Tree was in a deep pot so the rootball was deeper than new pot could allow. U can see the bad soil

In new pot

Believe next repot I should either get a deeper pot or root prune to have tree those low in the pot ???


Would it be ok to prune the straight shoots at this stage or wait till spring or next fall?
Should I shelter with our not so cold fall and winter???

 

[Shibui]

How cold does it get at your place? My impression is Beirut does not get much frost. If that's the case, no need to protect it, but if you do get regular temps down below freezing it may do better placed somewhere warmer.
Part shade would probably be a good move for a few weeks, just until it gets some new feeder roots going again.

Not certain about pruning the long shoots now. Most of us now believe that healthy, strong shoots help feed new roots after transplant of root pruning so leaving them on is probably a good move. Sometimes, if there's way too much up top after lots of root removal some of the shoots can die back a bit. That's the tree's way of balancing up between roots and shoots. In most cases the tree lets enough go but keeps enough alive to save itself.
I'm still old school and can't help removing some of the top after transplant. That still works which probably means that both ways are OK.

Fingers crossed your tree recovers.

 

[maroun.c]

Thanks,
Far from frost, we don't get freezing temperatures except may be 2-3 days in the most severe winters. Do t think we'll get close to 5 degrees Celsius before Dec jan and we most likely will get days with 20-25 celsius which is sunny days till then except few days of rain where temp drops a bit lower. Guess I'll watch the tree and if I see signs of branches suffering will help by cutting 2-3 of the straight shoots if that makes sense, otherwise would it be fine to prune it in spring if it doing well ???

 

[Shibui]

At those temps there should be no need to protect from low temps.
More likely need to protect from high temps and dry conditions.
Some tips of branches drooping in the afternoon is normal after root reduction but if it looks worse then go ahead and remove some - not all - of the long branches. Looks like there's plenty of other foliage to feed the tree.
Spring would be a good time to prune IF it is doing well. It took a full year to recover from the previous repot so may take more than a few months this time too?