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Construction or maintenance work that makes intrusions into a tree’s root zone will benefit from use of an AirSpade. Air-spading is safe to the tree’s roots and a highly efficient method to perform exploratory excavation to locate existing roots and utilities. Almost any site work operations – including the building of foundations, pavements, drainage infrastructure, and utilities – present ideal opportunities for air-spading and root pruning.

Proper root pruning will encourage future growth and minimize negative impacts to structures or utilities. Once the existing roots have been excavated, a certified arborist can easily determine the best places to make clean cuts using a hand pruner.

In all cases, an arborist should oversee care for the tree before, during, and after construction. In this type of application, the tree’s excavated root zone may often remain exposed for several days or more. For this reason, it is important to protect and cover roots (for example with soil, mulch, or burlap cloth) and to provide supplemental water as required.

Root Pruning Of course, it is preferable to remove as little of a tree’s root system as possible, and site planning of utilities or new structures should try to minimize impacts to established trees whenever possible. If large roots or a substantial percentage of a tree’s roots need to be removed, then the tree will be under significant stress and may require special attention through an extended recovery period.

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Root pruning for construction begins with preliminary site layout exploratory excavation by the arborist. Soil should be stockpiled and replaced as soon as possible to avoid undue stress to the tree. The arborist may advise the best location for utility placement to benefit the tree as well as the ongoing maintenance of the utilities. The arborist may excavate as much as necessary to properly locate and stagger pruning cuts and to allow roots to be trained around or away from the new construction. The arborist should provide oversight throughout construction to ensure tree protection and proper tree care and watering.

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@Bonsai Hunter ,

firstly we use colanders for ground growing, after 1 to say 3 years, you can lift the plant and colander out of the soil with
no real disturbance as the roots go.
Just set aside for a few months and tree naturally regenerates fine feeder roots.

Additionally [ for apartment dwellers ] we have a test running on the colander within a colander technique seen in
Bonsai Today.
The idea being - the roots still have root run and trunk /branch growth is encouraged.
Will let you know in 2 or 3 years how that went.

We first ran an air-pot against a normal pot. To see what would happen.
Result was the air pot grew much faster [ trimmed 3 times ] and because we used only as much soil as the normal pot,
the root examination after a year showed the tree in the air pot was so filled with roots that it looked like wood.

[2] Second test - a metal colander and a plastic colander against an air pot.
The air pot enhanced feeder root growth so much that the tree placed into a Bonsai pot had trouble handling
the full sun due to too much foliage.
We had to thin it out.

When we next test, we will see if we can change the air pot to a rectangular shape, to act as the pot for the Bonsai
,lifting the plant out for temporarily placing in an exhibition bonsai pot, when exhibiting.

However, the ground growing makes everything so easy, that we will most likely abandon the air pot.
We have several sizes of air pots from a seller on Amazon.

For whatever reason the colander just does not do as the air pot does. So we use colanders only for ground
growing [ presently ]

Could not presently find the images with plastic colanders in use.
As I make more time I will look for those.
Here are the others.

All soils are our standard 5 mm inorganic and sifted aged compost done by volume. 2 inorganic to 1 organic.

Give me a few days to locate the plastic colander image and the tree in the images presently in a bonsai
pot.

It would be a waste of time to air pot a ficus as it's roots already handle air in nature.
Good Day
Anthony,


First test - speed of growing ---------- air pot at this stage has been trimmed three times for long shoots.
The soil volumes are the same ------- note placement of tape.
Trees were the same age. Full sun and next to each other.
This air pot design is well researched as science goes.

Note our air pot clay pot ----------- doesn't quite do as the air pot - chuckle.




close up and look at the holes you can see the inorganic material of the soil.




second test - full container of soil - had to be pruned 4 times.



defoliated



metal colander

firstly we use colanders for ground growing, after 1 to say 3 years, you can lift the plant and colander out of the soil withno real disturbance as the roots go.Just set aside for a few months and tree naturally regenerates fine feeder roots.Additionally [ for apartment dwellers ] we have a test running on the colander within a colander technique seen inBonsai Today.The idea being - the roots still have root run and trunk /branch growth is encouraged.Will let you know in 2 or 3 years how that went.We first ran an air-pot against a normal pot. To see what would happen.Result was the air pot grew much faster [ trimmed 3 times ] and because we used only as much soil as the normal pot,the root examination after a year showed the tree in the air pot was so filled with roots that it looked like wood.[2] Second test - a metal colander and a plastic colander against an air pot.The air pot enhanced feeder root growth so much that the tree placed into a Bonsai pot had trouble handlingthe full sun due to too much foliage.We had to thin it out.When we next test, we will see if we can change the air pot to a rectangular shape, to act as the pot for the Bonsai,lifting the plant out for temporarily placing in an exhibition bonsai pot, when exhibiting.However, the ground growing makes everything so easy, that we will most likely abandon the air pot.We have several sizes of air pots from a seller on Amazon.For whatever reason the colander just does not do as the air pot does. So we use colanders only for groundgrowing [ presently ]Could not presently find the images with plastic colanders in use.As I make more time I will look for those.Here are the others.All soils are our standard 5 mm inorganic and sifted aged compost done by volume. 2 inorganic to 1 organic.Give me a few days to locate the plastic colander image and the tree in the images presently in a bonsaipot.It would be a waste of time to air pot a ficus as it's roots already handle air in nature.Good DayAnthony,First test - speed of growing ---------- air pot at this stage has been trimmed three times for long shoots.The soil volumes are the same ------- note placement of tape.Trees were the same age. Full sun and next to each other.This air pot design is well researched as science goes.Note our air pot clay pot ----------- doesn't quite do as the air pot - chuckle.close up and look at the holes you can see the inorganic material of the soil.second test - full container of soil - had to be pruned 4 times.defoliatedmetal colander

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