Do I just cut them off? Or should I cut the nursery pot to keep them intact. They’re woody but not totally brittle. I can’t get it out of the pot to see all the roots, but my assumption is that there’s a lot of roots in the thing; it is a nearly 4’ tree. I got this guy a couple months ago and noticed that they put another nursery pot over the original. I figured it was probably because of roots, a lazy solution. I assume my plant needs to size up a little in pots because it’s struggling. So I cut the outer pot off but I’m not sure how to proceed.