Problem Planting.

I collected this Lonicera last year and it has been growing well.



Unfortunately, it got knocked out of the pot by fighting cats so i decided to see if it was able to go into a new pot.
There were a lot of fibreous root growing but the nebrari is very poor. The only way i could keep the tree upright was to plant it in a crescent pot.



It has a loverly hollow trunk.



I am pleased with the result for now. The other option would be to plant the tree on a rock.

Looks like a candidate for layering at some date in the future.

Hello Peter. Why don't you put an airlayer on it to improve the roots? Not sure that this tree suits a crescent pot.

Do you have other Lonicera that you collected? Perhaps you could create a multiple planting with this tree planted in an extreme angle, reclining, plus other trees added, among an rock outcropping. Or air layering it would solve the inverse taper.

Todd Ellis wrote:Do you have other Lonicera that you collected? Perhaps you could create a multiple planting with this tree planted in an extreme angle, reclining, plus other trees added, among an rock outcropping. Or air layering it would solve the inverse taper.

Good ideas.

O.K.
I now see where you are seeing this one.
I did not see an inverse taper just a continuation of the main root.
However, If I layer the tree i would loose a lot of the character of the base.
So, this one needs to be planted deeper on a rock base to hide the defect.



A & B show where the roots are. C the proposed layer line.



Sorry, my computer skills are limited. I can't put the rock or pot on the image.

Todd Ellis wrote:Do you have other Lonicera that you collected? Perhaps you could create a multiple planting with this tree planted in an extreme angle, reclining, plus other trees added, among an rock outcropping. Or air layering it would solve the inverse taper.

Hi Peter
Very nice Lonicera

Todd is very well written.

Maybe be another solution. Tilt the right side. Maybe?
Pavel

That looks a possible option Pavel.
once again Thank You for the virtual.

Pavel's solution looks great!