Cjr bald cypress work

[Cajunrider]

For the work on my BCs without individual progression threads. This isn’t meant to be a study just document samples of my BC work. I want to see how my skills progress.
202040730
Style setting on four trees
Tall slender flat top


Flat top with multiple top branches and a good trunk.



Up right with stately big trunk


Flat top with slender trunk. Base will be split soon.

 

[Dabbler]

You have too many tree's my friend - I can give you the number of a good therapist....


j/k You can never have to many tree's! - unless you ask my wife

 

[Cajunrider]

You have too many tree's my friend - I can give you the number of a good therapist....


j/k You can never have to many tree's! - unless you ask my wife

I don’t talk to nor tolerate the rapist.

 

[Cajunrider]

20240730 initial style set of yet another BC

 

[Dabbler]

I don’t talk to nor tolerate the rapist.

huh? Im not sure I follow - if this was a joke it's in poor taste

 

[Cajunrider]

huh? Im not sure I follow - if this was a joke it's in poor taste

Apologies.

 

[Dabbler]

Apologies.

I finally get what you did - but in the future maybe not go to the extreme as sometimes peoples family may have had to deal with this

 

[Barbells and bonsai]

I finally get what you did - but in the future maybe not go to the extreme as sometimes peoples family may have had to deal with this

Wait until you hear the one about the psychotherapist..

 

[Cmd5235]

For the work on my BCs without individual progression threads. This isn’t meant to be a study just document samples of my BC work. I want to see how my skills progress.
202040730
Style setting on four trees
Tall slender flat top
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Flat top with multiple top branches and a good trunk.
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Up right with stately big trunk
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Flat top with slender trunk. Base will be split soon.
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I absolutely love the first tree. Love the scale, proportions, and possibilities. I hope to see it in person some day when you move up here!

 

[Cajunrider]

Collected and chopped to 34” last year. This tree grew to over 7 ft. Apex was chopped this morning. The tips of the small side branches on the chopped apex were snipped to encourage new buds instead if side branches being promoted by the tree to become new apex. The dominant side branch was also chopped to allow lower branches to develop.

 

[Cajunrider]

I am undecided on this one. Keep the big side branch and carve the trunk down for a flat top or chop it to trigger the tree to promote the top tip at the chop to a new apex?

 

[Cajunrider]

Apex selected and the chop carved to match the front selected.

 

[Barbells and bonsai]

Collected and chopped to 34” last year. This tree grew to over 7 ft. Apex was chopped this morning. The tips of the small side branches on the chopped apex were snipped to encourage new buds instead if side branches being promoted by the tree to become new apex. The dominant side branch was also chopped to allow lower branches to develop.
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How did you decide how long to keep the apex when trimming?

 

[Cajunrider]

How did you decide how long to keep the apex when trimming?

Usually when the diameter is 1/4 of the main trunk at the chop.

 

[Cajunrider]

Removed choking knee/root and minimal carvng at the top chop.

 

[Cajunrider]

Had a bunch of healthy shoots at the original chop but I chose to use the old side branches for a flat top.

 

[Cajunrider]

Selected a new apex and chopped off the rest of the top shoots. Also carved the chop.

 

[Cajunrider]

Put together early this year, first prune and trunk carve today. I am quite pleased with the way it turns out. The tiny juvenile clump is charming.

 

[johng]

You might be the only person I know that has more collected BC trees than me. I collected 45 trunks this season with only one loss. Moved about half of them in to full sun yesterday evening.

 

[Cajunrider]

You might be the only person I know that has more collected BC trees than me. I collected 45 trunks this season with only one loss. Moved about half of them in to full sun yesterday evening.

I collected about the same amount but soon won’t be collecting BCs much anymore. Your work has been inspiring to me.