Sorry to hear about the infuriating and unnecessary deaths of your plants clematisdorset. One has to be so vigilant! I have a current issue with a teabagged 2L pot of Berberis Maria. I got most of it off but the tightly spiralled roots within were impossible to unravel and continue to restrict new root and top growth. So even removing them doesn’t always solve the problem.
If anyone follows Monty on SM, please can they implore him to do an exposé of these pernicious things on air?! Plenty of evidence on here, mostly thanks to B3.
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@Nollie is your type of Berberis a typical spready roots one? I think a lot of Berberis are quite tough. I dug one up the other year and still finding viable live looking roots.
Just that I have been reading up on root bound trees and shrubs. And was surprised to see quite how hard you can root prune to hopefully make a better system long term. Takes a bit of after care. And some things need top growth removed to balance things a bit. May be a bit kill or cure in some cases. But a few videos and pages on here. https://hort.ifas.ufl.edu/woody/root-prune-summary.shtml
I now use an old saw to root prune perennials in pots. Sorry slightly off topic from tea bags. But may help.
Thanks @nollie and I am sorry you have found more mesh on similar sized woody shrubs. I agree, an exposé on the horrible things would be timely. From now on, I will check every plant I buy. The bigger the plant, the more chance there is that the roots have been winding about for months. (I buy mainly 2 and 3 litre plus plants, mostly shrubby or dub-shrubby plants). At the very least, plant growers could add a warning label to their plants!
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Yes it is a spready one @Rubytoo 😀 Trouble is, the constricted roots at the top are a kind of fused lump and I fear I may decapitate it if I tried to prune that. There are fibrous roots growing below it but rather wimpily.
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Nollie so sorry to hear that. It does sound like one of the give up and throw away examples of the site I linked to. If you love it could you try cuttings? I just looked it up. A bit wow! A bright leaved stunning thunbergii type and it gets reddish hints. It looks lovely. And one with the paler type yellow flowers. I hope you can save it
Managed to get a photo of the exposed mesh. Cotinus shrub is dead but I left it in the soil. The mesh was not previously visible, even when I removed the plant from its container and inspected the roots. You can see roots of different sizes here,straining out of the mesh.
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I wonder if this could be a consumer rights issue because the deaths of these plants is really a problem because the "manufacture" makes them unfit for purpose in some cases. I'd wager that like most things, we just don't complain enough for the problem to ever go away. I doubt complaints would get us very far because I believe these are mostly from mechanised propagation machines which seem to be the industry standard for mass propagation. Has anyone had issues with them from small local nurseries?
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If anyone follows Monty on SM, please can they implore him to do an exposé of these pernicious things on air?! Plenty of evidence on here, mostly thanks to B3.
I think a lot of Berberis are quite tough. I dug one up the other year and still finding viable live looking roots.
Just that I have been reading up on root bound trees and shrubs.
And was surprised to see quite how hard you can root prune to hopefully make a better system long term.
Takes a bit of after care. And some things need top growth removed to balance things a bit.
May be a bit kill or cure in some cases.
But a few videos and pages on here.
https://hort.ifas.ufl.edu/woody/root-prune-summary.shtml
I now use an old saw to root prune perennials in pots.
Sorry slightly off topic from tea bags. But may help.
If you love it could you try cuttings?
I just looked it up. A bit wow! A bright leaved stunning thunbergii type and it gets reddish hints. It looks lovely. And one with the paler type yellow flowers.
I hope you can save it
Another complaint about these awful teabags:
https://gardenprofessors.com/another-wow-why-oh-why-biodegradable-mesh-for-plugs/