Here is Acer Truncatum (rootstock) with pictum uptop... This is after I removed the extra soil from what I received. It was planted too deep, and the secondary roots above was more -vigorus- than the ones at the base of the leader. I tried to capture a better angle but it doesn't even capture how *bulbous* that area is compared to the continuing understock going down. The leader of the tree is let's say thin, than the bulb is really *fat*, and then the understock leader is let's say medium. So ugly.... https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/ie6n...ey=cgx0rmuxl6wno8z4mmwgryqtp&st=kk6t109x&dl=0
Isn't the proper *flare* at the bottom of the leader where the roots are @ the bottom I can see how if this was older mature full grown tree.....where landscapers continually volcano mulched it....and down the road for root flare treatment, they saw something similar where a large part of the *root system* was maybe the secondary above similar to the pic and decided to leave it alone. For such a young tree, I'm presuming these 2 roots do need to be pruned off next February/March.... Right now, all the energy is focused there. I excavated the soil around the roots of this tree received. The lower part is just fibers roots and *not much* and the root in the pic is growing more -vigorously *
