dawn redwood

Wanted to start some progress threads on my trees to share their progress and of course seek advice. This past winter / spring / summer I lost all of my outdoor trees and all but two of my tropicals. I was in and out of the hospital with some surgeries and my trees were not getting the care that...

I'm trying to prepare for this ahead of time and I want to add it to my calendar so I will know when to do the deed. When is the best time of year to do a trunk chop on a Dawn Redwood. Also how do you do it? Do you cut it straight across it or do you cut it at an angle? I did one on a dawn...

Hello, Does this appear to be a bald cypress or a type of redwood? This was in Chicago, zone 6a. Thanks for your input!

Put together this forest, my first, in Feb 2023 from 2-3yo potted saplings

Hello all, I’m new here, I got several bonsais but Dawn Redwood is completely new for me. i got this tree for 6 months already and it looks very healthy. I didn’t prune at all. I want to make a nice big old straight up bonsai trunk with nice branches. Where and when should I cut the top? Thanks ☺️

I am newbie to Bonsai Trees just got these Dawn Redwoods about 4 weeks ago. When I got them they were really green, I am Western PA and past week or so really got hit hard with High Temperatures in 90s. I was watering morning and night. Seems like each day I am getting more and more brown...

Anyone who has had Dawn redwoods before have any ideas for this? Let it grow another few seasons before chop? Small chop now and thin some branches out?

I have a Dawn redwood I have had since January, it has grown a lot, but here in Texas it has been 100-107 every day. It receives morning sun (6ish-2pm) on an southeast facing balcony. A lot of the interior branches have been dying off, and there are brown tips on the green leaves, should I be...

I've found a couple redwoods at the box, and they have relatively large trunks. Downside is they are nor entirely straight (nature isn't perfect), but they've also seen some roughing up I think. Lower leaves are decent, but nearly missing on one side, top looks pretty bare, but doubtful tree is...

Anyone know what this is? Found them all on a dying juniper in my garden about two weeks ago and sprayed some neem oil. Then two days ago a potted up a Dawn redwood sapling that I just got and when I went out today I saw the same bugs so I snapped a pic real quick. Are they pests or are they...

Picked up this Dawn Redwood forest and pot at our club auction last fall. The pot is really huge (about 25-26 inches across) and unique and that's mainly what I was bidding on - it was made by an older member of the club who can't really do pottery anymore and I want to own a few pieces of his...

I just got some Dawn redwood seeds for next year. I am wondering what everyone’s ideas are for best germination practices? Also does anyone have a progression from seed - seedling - tree? I can’t seem to find good timelines of them. I’m wondering how many years it’ll take to get a decent...

Hi all, I'm quite new to this hobby and would like any advice or input anybody is willing to give me. In fact, as of now, I haven't styled, nor do I yet plan to style, any trees. For the time being, I'm only interested in growing young saplings to raise in the coming years, while reading up on...

Greetings. I recently acquired a forest of 5 Dawn Redwood Bonsai which arrived to my home full of life as you can see in the first picture. I decided to put it outside the window and water it once per day. I live in an island in Spain with a humidity of 50-70% and temperatures between 30 and 34...

Hello everyone! This is my first post on Bonsai Nut, but I have around 30 bonsai and have been working with them for approximately five years. I recently went on vacation for six days, and to keep my plants alive, I placed them in a circle with two sprinklers in the middle. All my bonsai are in...

Hi folks - I'm a bonsai newbie on my second year growing out a pre-bonsai dawn redwood. A couple days ago, I noticed it has several leaves that have turned brown and wilted, which are scattered across the tree. We had a couple prematurely hot days over the weekend (almost 90*), but I gave the...

I have three young Dawn Redwood trees planted this year. During a storm last night my miniature greenhouse got knocked over and the three trees took some severe damage. I’ve repotted all three and am ready to put them back outside but which each losing at least one of it’s branches is there any...

Hi Everyone, With summer ending I wanted to give an update on how my RoR Trident Maple progress as well as share some other progress pics of my other trees. I've taken the advice of others here and decided to just let the seedlings grow. I think they've done quite well bit welcome thoughts...

Hi - Bonsai newbie here. I got a dawn redwood in May this year and it appears to be growing well. Trunk is around an inch in diameter at its base, and so far I've just been focused on trying to keep it healthy and thickening the trunk. Eventually I'll look to do a trunk chop and work on...

Hi all! Just a quick question. As you can see from the photos some of the foliage on my dawn redwood is turning reddish brown. :( Could it be too much fertilizer? I hope that it’s not something worse. I fed it with an 18-4-10 slow release fert in teabags for about a month and a half, and then...

If so, does it look like this? 🤞🤞 (Sown on May 1st in 50-50 Peat & #1 Chicken Grit, misted twice daily, in greenhouse)

Just a few questions, and I know you all can help. I recently acquired this Dawn Redwood tree described in the title and need some direction. Note: I live in zone 6A western Pennsylvania. There are so many conflicting strategies from all of the bonsai pages and I don't know what to believe...

Recently purchased little (2 foot) Dawn Redwood in zone 6a. Still in nursey pot. I left town for a few days and had watering set up, but the forecast changed and now the next few nights are supposed to get down to 28-30 degree F. There are a lot of buds on the tree currently. If I was home, I...

Hey all! I hope this is the right forum for this thread, if I need to post to a different one no worries. Looking for advice on how to keep my last three year-old Dawn Redwood seedlings alive. I’m unsure if the browning and shedding of leaves is from dehydration, lack of fertiliser or lack of...

Hi Everyone, I just acquired some new trees and figured I’d share them with the group. @cbroad mentioned that Meehans Miniatures in Maryland was in my area so I went with them and ordered a Dawn Redwood, Trident Maple, and a Bald Cypress. Once I am able to more freely travel I plan on going...