Hi june_2007, Welcome to The Plant Exchange. Possibly you could find someone to trade some cuttings with you, if you could either list in your post, or better yet, on your Member Trade page, some things you have available for trade. hth. chemocurl

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Most of the roots will be in the top one to two feet of soil and will extend out to around three times the diameter of the canopy. Roots will not enter sealed pipes unless there is a break in the pipe. This used to be more of a problem back in the days when sewer pipes often leaked a little. Since your picture didn't come through (guess you tried since this post is in the gallery), I can't tell what it might have had to do with the text of your post.

I would wait until all the catkins have opened and gone, even if it has started to grow leaves. If it's like the ones that were for sale here, they are grafted to be pretty short "trees", between 18" and 36" tall. Because the grafted top is probably very vigorous, you can cut all the stems back to 2" from where they begin to grow from the thickened area of the trunk, and they will be as long or longer than they were, when you bought the tree, by the end of summer. Keep the pot well watered but not soggy and in bright light, not too warm, and it should do fine. This CAN go in the ground in the spring - I would still keep it inside, in a cool, brightly lit spot, until the danger of late frosts was over - and then gradually acclimate it to the temperatures and sun of outdoors, putting it out a hour or so longer each day, over about a week. If you work, and can't do that, then put it out in a shady spot, and gradually move it more into the sun over a week. You can then plant it - and the pussies will be back in the spring, if not as soon as when you bought it. Keeping it as an indoor plant over the summer and trying for early pussies probably won't work - it was "forced"/grown in a green-house with careful attention to light levels and temperature, which is very difficult to duplicate in your house.