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Aug 1, 2013 10:24 AM CST
Name: Tina
Where the desert meets the sea (Zone 9b)
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This will be my first year where I need to re-pot some DLs and trim up their roots so that they'll make it another year in their pots. Would love to hear how others do it - which roots do you trim (outer, lower, etc) how do you trim them (at the top stem where they connect to crown, or cutting off lower end of the bulb-root?), how much to you trim (half? one-third?), do you have to treat the newly cut roots in any way (soaking?) or just get them back in the pot? Photos would be a boon ... and I will try to take some this fall as I also start taking pics of the roots systems. I'm hoping others will upload root systems to the DB someday ... showing what type of roots a cultivar has (multiple fans on one crown, multiple independent but entangled crowns, feeder shoots, etc).


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