Talk about pot bound ...

[Jimdavis]

This cedar has been in this terricata pot for approx 15 years. My grandfather had placed it there with the intent to plant it somewhere in the yard and it was forgotten. Decided I would attempt to get it out hoping the nebari would have a good bulge under the pot. Unfourtunilty it was planted in close proximity to a stand of bamboo then had completely infiltrated the rootball off this tree. I'll keep my fingers crossed. I'm gonna let things die off as I expect they will and maybe next year I can get a better idea of what I have left to work with.

 

[just.wing.it]

The bamboo roots came up thru the drainage hole???

 

[Jimdavis]

Every hole crack and surrounding area lol this thing was struggling for a long time.

 

[just.wing.it]

Every hole crack and surrounding area lol this thing was struggling for a long time.

Well damn! Wow....
Well, maybe you saved it!
Keeping Grandpa's tree alive, that's cool man.

 

[just.wing.it]

And I'm digging that Taxus in your avatar pic....
Did you make a thread on that beast?

 

[jeremy_norbury]

It's not EVEN pot bound

Amur maple - 3 years
03043704 by Jerry Norbury, on Flickr

 

[Jimdavis]

 

[Jimdavis]

Not yet man it's in the works. I collected it last year from a farm that was getting bulldozed. Owner gave me free rain lol I took 3 taxus, an Acer disectum ( that I'm thread grafting into a sharps Pygmy this season ) an azalea and a lilac.

 

[Jimdavis]

This thing was sitting so long it pulled itself into the ground @jeremy_norbury

 

[just.wing.it]

Not yet man it's in the works. I collected it last year from a farm that was getting bulldozed. Owner gave me free rain lol I took 3 taxus, an Acer disectum ( that I'm thread grafting into a sharps Pygmy this season ) an azalea and a lilac.

Nooiiice!

 

[just.wing.it]

Woah, it was pot bound from the outside!

 

[Victorim]

It's not EVEN pot bound

Amur maple - 3 years
03043704 by Jerry Norbury, on Flickr

This is the highest degree of pot bound.. when jeremy slipped ( i say slipped but this would have been a titanic struggle involving power tools!), out of that square pot, the roots would have imploded, expeling rapidly what little soil remained. Always where googles when repoting of this magnitude!..

 

[CWTurner]

The bamboo roots came up thru the drainage hole???

Unless you have lived with a "running" bamboo, its a bit hard to believe what they do.
I made the mistake of putting some in my landscape and, while very interesting and beautiful, they took over the corner of the yard. I hacked them to the ground 3-4 years in a row, which mostly took care of them, but I still get shoots popping up 10-15 feet away in the spring. And the stumps just won't rot. I believe that they are waiting for me to ignore them, and they will come back in numbers.
CW

 

[michaelj]

Unless you have lived with a "running" bamboo, its a bit hard to believe what they do.

I can vouch for this. I put a bamboo "screen" to the left of my spa in 2000. Supposedly a "clumping" species. Within 2 years, saw shoots popping up in the lawn 10-15 feet away. Decided to eradicate it. Had to do in again every six months for at least 4 years. Didn't completely rid myself of them until probably 2008.