Hmm, that’s weird since it’s literally what they’re made for. Guess we’ll see how they can do despite having the netting on still.
I'm sure they'll be fine! For future plantings though, do cut them off. It's not just me...this from Weaselcracker back in May as well:
A friend once told me that the peat pellets constrict roots. This was over 20 years ago when I was first attempting to grow. He’d done a bunch of commercial outdoor grows so ‘should’ have known what he was talking about. Still- I didn’t believe him. I’ve seen roots busting through concrete and pushing up sides of buildings- they seem unstoppable. How could a skimpy little bit of cloth hold back roots?
He was totally right though- at the end of the season we were pulling up plants with weird rootballs which were clearly weak and totally constricted by the cloth material - they sent some long roots out the bottom where they could but there was a central peat pellet shaped mass where it looked like most of the roots tried and failed to bust free. They looked pretty bad- like something the Blair witch might leave outside your tent in the night.
I also used to do a lot of forest industry tree planting and we’d see the exact same problem. The trees would eventually thrive on the roots that escaped the pellets- but I’m sure they were slowed down. I could pull up five year old trees with one hand- and the pellet material was still there in pretty much its original shape.
Maybe they make better pellets nowadays, but between what I saw of the root issues and the fact that they dry up so fast, I quit using them.
All the stocking were hung by the chimney with care...Mrs. N did a little decorating on the weekend as well.