Your roots are to the stage that potting up to a larger pot would be appropriate. The roots are not pot bound yet but I would cut through them vertically from top to bottom in several places about 2 inches deep when potting up. I would not consider bare rooting them. Orchid mixes are usually mostly fir bark and come in large size pieces or small. The smaller size I think would be OK for your tree. Most houses in the winter with the heat on become very dry and tend to draw the moisture out of the foliage. Do what you can to keep a reasonable humidity and rotate the containers to equalize the light. You will need to water about once a week with enough water that about 20% drains freely from the container. If your trees show signs of wilting between watering, shorten up the watering frequency slightly. If available locally look for citrus labeled fertilizer that lists the minors on the label. Watch for aphids or scale and if found take the containers outside, and spray thoroughly with Neem or horticultural oil. Al

hey song I wish I could find out who started the idea that adding rocks to the bottom of the pot helps drainage. I mean simple physics answers that question. The smaller particles of soil will always fill the voids causing the perched water to be no different essentially than using the soil only. It bothers me that places still send that as instructions. Anyways I would get rid of that soon. Granite grit is chicken feed. The size for the gritty i believe is #2, could be wrong there. You can find Manna Pro chicken grit at Tractor supply stores. Look at some of you landscape supply stores for Turface. Ewing irrigation and some John deere stores have it. If you have no luck with that go to some of your local baseball and softball complexes and ask them. 99% of all baseball and softball field maintenance crews use it to dry the fields. They could help you find it. You want Turface MVP. Also there is a Napa Auto parts floor dry that is a good substitute for Turface. It has a specific part number youll get but I dont remember it. Search the forums and it should pop up. Mike

Yovan, one of the two cuttings did not make it, mostly my fault learning. The other cutting is doing very well. No where near the size it should be. I neglected it for 1.5-2 years due to countless life obligations that I could not get away from. June/2017 it was in such bad shape every leaf was curled and dried up to a crisp from not being watered for over a month in very hot temps. My family and I were forced to vacate our home due to an asbestos contamination and were unable to return. When i finally was able to retrieve my tree's and did my best to bring it back and have been taking overly good care of it since. It has completely come back to life, dropped all its old leaves and has grown all new and some. We are now in a new home and I am hoping this spring it will take off and make up for my lack of taking care of it for years! I will try and take a picture of it this evening when I return home.

DL, you should be able to ship bare-root safely. After shaking out soil, wrap roots in moist paper towels. Then wrap newspaper around paper towels. Tie newspaper so it doesn't loosen. It's best shipping on a Monday morning. One more thing. Remove tree from its pot either the night before, of better yet, the morning you ship. Good luck, Toni