Beginner Gardening: Important to remove old soil when potting up?, 1 by tapla

tapla wrote:
I would bare-root it completely before the soil change, just be sure the roots are ALWAYS moist while you're working on them. I usually work with a hose or over a tub & keep dipping the plant in the water every minute or so as I remove the soil and prune out the largest roots. Most growers THINK their plants will rebel at having their roots tinkered with, but that's far from reality. Here's an example of how I regularly root prune even trees in pots. Here is a Ficus repot/root reduction. The plant hardly missed a beat ....

Al