Stephen repotted his Raulii at my place yesterday. It was in a very shallow training pot and he brought along two pot options and we opted for the oval cream pot.
This was it before the start of the work. There was two possible fronts, this one with this nebari.
and this one which we finally opted for.
The root mass was shallow but was solid fine roots with no heavy stubs to be pruned. The previous owner had done a great job in the development.
Stephen taking a few record shots with his camera. Maybe he’ll actually get around to posting them on his own blog 😉
Washing out the roots to get rid of some old compacted garden soil.
an even bigger nebari is uncovered and was the reason for picking this as the front.
It’s new home.
The tree potted up.
This is a bud before pinching out the centre. A few have what look like flowers appearing. I’ll have to wait and see.
Evidence of pinching on the bench.
This is some of the back budding close to the tips. However major pruning is producing adventurous buds on old wood so this might be removed altogether to help fill inner branches with buds.
Bonsai Eejit 