Five years ago I cut off a seven foot winged elm, and today was finally the day to put it in a training pot. The roots actually worked out fine, but one was bent wrong and I wanted to straighten it out, which should have been easy with the right size wire.
On branch on the tree went from about 4 mm to about 1.5 cm in two years, so I would expect lots of thickening in the future. Should I expect the same with the roots? If the root thickens like the branch, would the roots do the same? I can take wire off of branches easily. Could I take it off roots without doing essentially a repot? I really would not want to do that in June. Can I bend it somehow else?
BTW, my USA based spelling correction really resists typing mm and not changing it to mom. It argued quite a bit.