Cjr BC with no name

[Cajunrider]

Collected April 2022. Good base, good size, good taper. Normal development. Growing well especially after being dunked. Here’s hoping for lots of knees in the next few years.
Perhaps the great thing about it is that it is all around good.

 

[namnhi]

Collected April 2022. Good base, good size, good taper. Normal development. Growing well especially after being dunked. Here’s hoping for lots of knees in the next few years.
Perhaps the great thing about it is that it is all around good.
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Great tree Uncle! Glad to see the Wrightia is doing well after the repot.

 

[Cajunrider]

Pruned back and wired
Before


After

 

[pandacular]

Looks awesome! In a few years, I'll have to get more details on your dunking technique once mine is ready for it.

 

[Cajunrider]

I left the branches long because of the heat. Usually I get some die back at the tip when pruning in summer. When the buds come out and are established, I will cut the branches back further.

 

[gfreak]

Man, all these bald cypress's i see really makes me wanna get more of em lol.

Is it actually planted with soil in that? Or is the rootball just submerged 24/7 in the water

 

[Cajunrider]

Man, all these bald cypress's i see really makes me wanna get more of em lol.

Is it actually planted with soil in that? Or is the rootball just submerged 24/7 in the water

It was planted in a mix of top soil and bark until the roots were well established. Then the tub is krpt filled with water to 3/4” above the soil.

 

[gfreak]

It was planted in a mix of top soil and bark until the roots were well established. Then the tub is krpt filled with water to 3/4” above the soil.

ahh gotcha gotcha appreciate it!

 

[Cajunrider]

It was planted in a mix of top soil and bark until the roots were well established. Then the tub is krpt filled with water to 3/4” above the soil.

The tree right now just sits in the tub with no tie down wire. If I push it, I can tilt it any direction I want. This is done on purpose because I think, in unstable environment, BC builds more roots to stabilize itself.

 

[Cajunrider]

Winter 2023

 

[Cajunrider]

It was planted in a mix of top soil and bark until the roots were well established. Then the tub is krpt filled with water to 3/4” above the soil.

The plan for this tree has changed. After the spring flush has hardened, it will be dunked to 6" above the soil for the summer.

 

[Cajunrider]

Looking so good now.

 

[Deleted member 47471]

Looking so good now.View attachment 548211

Every time I water the BCs at work I think about trunk chops and how I would make them into bonsai. They’re skinny but I like the formal upright slender look.

Can you pretty much trunk chop down low on a tall thin BC that has foliage and little branches sprouting low and the tree would conceivably spit out plentiful branches as a good future bonsai? Seems like they do

 

[Cajunrider]

Every time I water the BCs at work I think about trunk chops and how I would make them into bonsai. They’re skinny but I like the formal upright slender look.

Can you pretty much trunk chop down low on a tall thin BC that has foliage and little branches sprouting low and the tree would conceivably spit out plentiful branches as a good future bonsai? Seems like they do

Yes. It will take more time to develop the base but it can be done.

 

[Cajunrider]

Pruned and potted.