The Process in Pictures

Guess where the fertilizer spreader turned around...

My Other Pot is a RootMaker®

Still do not trust rabbits with our elms.

Filling up with crapemyrtle

Stacks of propagation containers ready.

Roots don't have to circle in containers...

We wait for second set of crapemyrtle leaves for 1st transplant.

Shantung Maples coming up.

Very close to crapemyrtle transplanting time.

Sand pile for media mix is good for other things, too.

Why the spray tank ALWAYS should be cleaned.

Knit fabric containers harvested and wrapped. In 1 1/2 hours. Crew of ... 1.

Guthrie Greenhouses know how to utilize space.

Creative cinder block planter with knit fabric bags and RootTrappers®.

Kids can be hard on trees... and I don't mean young goats.

Icicles up, not down. Thanks to fog and just the right temperature.

Happy Mandevilla in RootTrapper® in a greenhouse.

Mild 2012 winter so far, but still glad we have a winterhouse.

Interesting snow pattern on unprotected socket pots.

Tough Oak amazes that it can grow anywhere, even out of rock. But transplant?

Bougainvillea over winters in RootTrapper® in a greenhouse.

Grateful for any winter color. Here, River Birch propagated in RootMaker® 32-cell trays.

Tree bands only send roots down and do not improve lateral branching.

Let's keep these circling root pictures in B&W...

Much like pruning a rose for more blossoms, this is how we see root branching.

Why you don't park too close to a burning brushpile with the latest Kubota.

An oversized papaya tried to circle in RootMaker® #3 but forced to branch.

Big RootBuilders® and RootTrappers® off to make a happy yard.

Happy begonias in RootTrappers®

Iced tea also alerts of gnat presence.

Sticky cards help monitor fungus gnats

Another way to use standard round pots

Oaks with wire baskets

Dr. Whitcomb at Athen's Field Day

One use for standard smooth containers...

Front loader damage on maple while removing snow at school.

Fun RootTrapper® Koozie idea

Want to see what roots do AFTER transplanted out of a 24" knit inground container?

1970 research rejected container design with just slotted sides because too passive, no direction of roots to holes, continued circling and downward growth.

New root tips are created with every timely shift of this root pruning system.

With B&B, new roots form only at open wounds of cut root ends, which is a great opportunity for pathogens or bacteria.

Copper testing in 1973 resulted in abnormal tree growth, so rejected.

RootBuilder® back in 1990, now there is an even more efficient model.

The "stair-stepper" container trapped and branched roots in 1984... but there was room for improvement.

Woody Warehouse of Lizton, IN. turns acorn taproots into fibrous root systems equipped for transplant success.

In 1968, Dr. Whitcomb was growing in bottomless milk cartons. Even though air root pruning is absent on sides and occurs only at the base, some containers resemble this still today.

Garden center roses in RootMaker® 3 gallon

20 days of Oak root growth in plugs (left, downward only) and RootMaker® 18-cell (radial, entire column, all directions)