Elena,

Are you speaking of the mark on the main root (light green oval shape w a bit of beige/brown area within? If so, it should be fine. Is it wet or soft? If dry and firm, I would keep an eye on it, but otherwise should be fine. On one of my plants when potting up with a similar mark. When I potted it, I added a pocket of straight Perlite right at that area up against the root and continued to fill with my regular mix.

As for the other plant. I am with Bragu on it. These roots (heavier ones) could add character later on.

Rick

It really depends on your personal taste. I snip off roots above the soil line myself because I prefer the clean look too. I like the caudex to be fat and gnarly but I don't like thin strings of roots that will no longer fatten up well because they're above the soil. I use a wire cutter.

Pagan

...and I operate on mine with a craft scalpel. I too would slice off the finest stringy roots on plant one. You might find the largest parts of those uppermost roots fatten up if left on, and could look interesting, so I would just clean them up personally. The area you're unsure of is right where I would place the soil line if it were mine. As Rick suggests, an area of perlite would be good as my soil would almost bisect that patch.

The second plant I would place the soil line slightly above that indent in the root that springs from the right and then drops down centrally. I would clean all the finest roots off above soil level as it's got lots of feeder roots below. Any roots that don't touch ground will dry and possibly wither, well, they won't grow and dig down I mean and that's especially so with the smaller ones, not had any experience with large ones that are airborne.

Just my thoughts anyway :-) will be good to see what you decide so please do tell.

I can't see any scars on mine from my surgical operations. Just use a very sharp instrument that's sterilised between each cut, or washed at a minimum.

Gill

Thank you everyone! Root pruning wasn't that scary after all, they look much better now :)

Very nice.

Tyler

Looking great!

Gill

They all look great all potted up. The one w the twisted roots on the surface will look even more special as it's roots grow larger! Very nice.

You have nice color in your garden still, unlike most of mine for flowers. Are the yellow blooms of chrysanthemums? Nice sunny day.

Rick

Oh. Thanks, Rick. I was going to ask about the puffy yellow things in the background. I have a fairly large yard and still don't know what to do with it. And can't tell which chrysanthemums are perennial in my zone.

Nicely done, Elena.

Pagan

Yeah we still have a few nice days here, roses and petunias are still blooming. I don't know what kind of mums those are, but they are definitely splash of color! They're huge and leaning , would look definitely better with support. I got them at 99c store couple years ago and they never label their plants. It only said "annuals"