When do you repot your pines?

Matter as in subject.

I do repot all my deciduous in late winter/early spring, while all the junipers get serviced in fall (usually mid-october): given the seasons here (northern italy) it still gives them at least a couple of month of mild weather to heal before there are real chances of frost. When frost happens, that is (not really much the last few years).

What's the agreement here on when to repot pines?
I've seen people strongly seconding repotting in spring, others say in fall like I do with the junipers. Others say they have the best results when repotting is made in the middle of the summer, when growth is slow due to the heat; that, over here, would be more or less from early july until more or less now: we still have 28-32 C highs and 16-20 C lows and it should stay this way for another week before it starts to go down a bit.

The repotting I'd be making should be pretty harmless (don't expect to do much to the roots, in theory, just need to move it from grow box to the actual bonsai pot), so: when would you do it if you were here and why?

Don't hold your guns...

I repot pines and junipers by the very beginning of the Spring, when I see the buds swelling in the pines and when the junipers start to push new growth.
The only non-tropical species I repot in the Fall are the quinces, like Chojubai.
Tropicals whatever, they really don't mind. I avoid repotting them in the winter though, as they usually respond better when they are growing. High summer here is a dormancy period for many species, so I avoid that also.

For Mugo there is a lot of discussion. I repot one a few weeks ago.

Other pines I think are pretty much universally repot in spring.

leatherback wrote: For Mugo there is a lot of discussion. I repot one a few weeks ago.

Other pines I think are pretty much universally repot in spring.

Heh, forgot to specify: a ~20yo JRP would/will the subject of the operation...

leatherback wrote: For Mugo there is a lot of discussion..

We don't have Mugos in Brazil, but the JRP I repot in the Spring.

What about pine yamadori collecting? I allways thought that the best time for collecting was right after winter. Someone with experience told me that mid summer dormancy is the best time to dig pines in zone 6. Any comments?

I'm repotting mugo, yew and sylvestris in August .

lucR wrote: I'm repotting mugo, yew and sylvestris in August .

By the end of your summer then.
Interesting.

Clicio wrote:

lucR wrote: I'm repotting mugo, yew and sylvestris in August .

By the end of your summer then.
Interesting.

Correct. I hear / see/ read more and more about repotting during summer dormancy.

Clicio wrote:

lucR wrote: I'm repotting mugo, yew and sylvestris in August .

By the end of your summer then.
Interesting.

Yup. Hence my doubts...
The idea would be that pines can react faster after they already had a successful seasonal growth sustaining a fast recovery of the root system, more than they would in spring.
Or so I understood it...