Silly question really but some life needs injecting into this forum so I thought I'd ask this.
I was given a large plastic garden pot about a metre wide with two trees planted into the same container. These trees (I have no idea what they are; they have leaves and that's as far as my knowledge goes) have grown quite large. They are about two meters tall but have definitley outgrown the container as they are severley rootbound.
I couldn't find much info on seperating them so I removed them from their container so the soil and roots were exposed as a large circular lump. I tried seperating the roots but they were too badly matted and tangled.
So, in a probably retarded & half-assed way to resolve this issue I took a large saw and cut the rootball apart straight down the middle vertically between the two trunks. I now have two semi cirles each with a trunk. I potted them each in their own container.
Was this a stupid thing to do and what's the chance of them surviving? Will they grow or have I @@@@ed them up?
I don't expect many to know this but worth a shot.
