Just viewed
yesterday and Bjorn decision of removing all of the original soil from the juniper kinda surprised me, as I though one couldn't do that with a juniper.
Fact is: I have a sabina juniper still in a training pot that I'm planning to move to a different pot this winter (basically mostly to change the position of the tree). It still won't be the definitive pot, as the tree still needs at least a season or two of training.
It is quite clear to me that the original soil in the rootball is probably too wet for the juniper: even tho the rest of the soil is quite draining, that part is always damp.
The video made me wonder: under which conditions is it safe to bring a sabina juniper to bare roots, and would my reason for giving it that type of stress justified?
I mean, the plant is probably 30 or 40 years old, and that's most likely the soil it grew in the entire time, it can't be
that bad...