![]() If you can make an angle cut to clean out all but one leader, it will heal in time as well. It looks like multiple leaders have started at a chop point. It's hard to see what is going on in the blue circle given the angle of the photo. As the trunks thicken, the bend for the new apex will become less noticeable as well. Of you can get that old chop stub off, the trunk should heal over much nicer. In most cases, you should be able to keep the bark around 3/4 of the new leader while trimming off the old stub that will not heal well. Now that the new leader has established, you can use an angle or concave cutter and cut off the stub of the old leader. While it's bare, you might want to take a pair of angle cutters and try and "smooth out" the transition from the last trunk chops and remove some of what might become troublesome branches. With one of these, it's quite possible that you could have raked out the bottom of the root ball to untangle it enough to flatten out into that pot without having to cut very much. The first time I used one, I was amazed at how much it helps untangle roots. Let's hope they survive and grow a lot this year !Īny comments or suggestions, please write them below, I don't know as much about bonsai so I may have committed some mistakes. ![]() ** Notice the huge difference between the old and the new pot, talking about size ** Metasequoias before repotting (as well as a Ginkgo, Silver maple Hydrangea and Jasminum in the back ) : ![]() The pot, white, 28cm wide aprox, it's a cheap and bad quality one, but it's fine: ** I know that the repoted metasequoias have a 'mountain' of soil in the center, that's due to the big size of roots I didn't want to remove, as I'm a bit scared of killing any tree by cutting too much roots ** In addition, the old soil was a bad quality one, so I used Akadama and Kiryuzuna (in a 60/40 proportion) in this repot. The previous pot was extremely tiny, so I chose a bigger one (despite not being the most appropriate for the type of bonsai) to let the roots grow more, as well as the trees themselves. Today, 2nd of May 2021, I've repotted my Dawn Redwood (Metasequoia glyptostroboides) bonsai forest.
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