Golden Mop chamaecyparis False Cypress

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This is my little Golden Mop. chamaecyparis

I’d like to throw this out for your advice and suggestions.

I got this plant looking a bit rough 2/16

It had very little good roots making it easy to pot in this little trainer with half original potting soil and half NAPA Oil Dry with a little bark. I was afraid to mess with the small unhealthy looking rootball much at the time. 5 gal pot with a quart of roots.


Looking for suggestions about where to go from here. I like this little guy and want to keep it small. I know they don’t backbud but so far have been able to keep folage close in. It grew well and was trimmed once late summer.


I’d like to go back after the roots this spring if it’s not too soon. The root ball was barely the size of the moss patch which came in the original nursery can. Hope they look better by now. At least I want have a look and hope to rake out and clean out more of the original soil I’d left behind.


I’d like to get it into a proper pot and would like to hear suggestions on that. I know it’s not worthy of much yet but a shape and color?


I have wired and removed once. Only now have a wire on the (hopeful) apex branch and one other. What to do with the first branch. Strong and healthy. Building trunk is my thought now but it’s so low. Wondering if exposing more root and raising/tilting at repot.


Lay it on me as I’ll appreciate your time good or bad. I’ll attach too many pictures for this little tree. I have no show ambitions LOL but It makes me smile. It’s good winter fun planning.
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As I got it a year ago. Cut a ton of dead branches and removed a ton of healthy weeds.
It was a free plant by the way...
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One for scale/size with my classy wine glass. and that branch...DSCN5679.JPG
 

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No love (or hate) for my little mop?
Just being polite? "If you don't have anything good to say..."
50 views all snickers at the new guy? LOL
 

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I would probably repot it into a much smaller and shallower pot with some well draining soil if it was my tree.
 

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What type of pot would you suggest? That is my plan as long as the roots look good.
Thanks
Small. I have a couple 2.5" square shohin size pots that I would use. But it's hard to judge the size of your tree. I would go just slightly larger than the root spread. If I imagine the close-up picture you have (#8), that's about the size of pot i'd use.
 
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I like it. I like most everything in the Chamaecyparis family. They're hardy enough (but tend to suffer from root freezing, so make sure to take precautions to overwinter them properly). That being said, they grow well and have beautiful foliage, and a pleasing scent too (got about fifty cuttings of C. nootkatensis I'm trying to root in my living room atm lol). And they're hard to overwater/drown, but don't take drying right out too well.

I like the showy, half dead roots on it IMHO - though i'm sure others won't.

Personally, I would see if you could get a bit more bend to the right in the main trunk, but that's just my opinion. Good luck. Cheers.
 

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I like it....

In time....

I'd lose one of the bar branches.

Nice trunk!

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The first I have seen the thread. I love Chami's this one has an especially nice trunk and newark. This alone makes it worth dealing with for a Shohin or smaller. I would consider attempting to graft Gracilis Nanna on to it.
 

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Personally I think you've worked it to it's limit, therefore I'd leave it alone this year.
 

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Slow down there Mr. Wood. I'm not sure I'm not sure I'm ready for all that. :) I'm only in my second year here...
I certainly will keep it in mind. Maybe practice on one of my landscape mops first.

I thought I had a pic of the dismal roots and before I cut out all the dead branches out. It seems to have bounced back well though.

I really want/need to get the roots cleaned out and I assume spring for this work?
What style of pot would you suggest?
Thanks all.
 

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Personally I think you've worked it to it's limit, therefore I'd leave it alone this year.
Nothing done since last Feb when I basically pulled it out of the nursery can and plopped it in this basket. One trim late summer. I was afraid to touch the rootball at the time as it was very small and unhealthy looking. Smothered in weeds.
I appreciate your input.
 

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Never worked with chami before. Looks great so far, I have no advice to offered outside of that due to lack of experience. But a nice shohin tree is emerging
 

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P.S. I drink wine out of a mug too, sometimes a pint glass
 

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Nice little tree. I like it and the tree likes your care. Nice growth in one season after repotting. Hearing about how few roots it had I wouldn't disturb it this year with repotting... and would take an opportunity to style it. I like the cultivar foliage.
 
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