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The pot that my elm pre bonsai was growing in was damaged by winter freeze. So I'm performing an emergency repotting to move the elm pre bonsai from the broken pot.
When using Bonsai pots that were not properly built for outdoor use we may find a freeze cracked pot (or even more) on our bonsai benches. If we don't attend to this problem the cracks can extend to the point that pieces start to break off and now we have a bonsai that sits in a broken pot. And this is certainly something to avoid as without the protection of the pot, the soil looses water faster and the roots may get exposed directly to wind (and sun).
This winter I left an European elm (Ulmus laevis) in a papercrete pot out in the elements to test if it can take the winter freeze. By now you can already tell it didn't do too great. It had so many deep cracks that when I tried to pick up the pot it basically disintegrated. So I had to do an emergency repot to move my small European elm prebonsai to a safer pot even though it has already leafed out. The only thing left to decide was if a thorough repot can be performed or if slip potting is the only option. Since the roots have already started to grow I had to go with the slip pot option.
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