5 Year Native Tree Challenge: Cajunrider’s Taxodium distichum

[Cajunrider]

Air layered by me. No styling or chopping as of April 10th 2021.

 

[Cajunrider]

My plan
2021 April: move tree out of pot, mount it on a board, and plant it in the ground for good nebari and fast trunk growth.
2022 January: First chop and spade around board.
2023 January: Second chop, spade around board, and first wiring of low branches.
2024 January: Third chop and moved to training pot.
2025 January: Fourth chop and moved to native pot.
2025 December: Give up and drink eggnog until drunk or sick or both.

 

[Cajunrider]

I got so busy and never got around to do anything. The tree is putting on some big growth this past month.

 

[Cajunrider]

Change in plan. The tree is growing so well in this large pot. I am just going to feed it and let it grow before chopping it next year.

 

[Cajunrider]

8ft tall 3” at the base with signs of buttressing and 2” diameter at 8” high. It is doing well. I am thinking about chopping it at 12” next spring.

 

[Cajunrider]

One unintended consequence of my collection of big honking BC stumps is that the original tree has been chopped in put in a BC forest. Now one of the BC collected stump will stand in. I just don't know which one yet.

 

[Cajunrider]

One unintended consequence of my collection of big honking BC stumps is that the original tree has been chopped in put in a BC forest. Now one of the BC collected stump will stand in. I just don't know which one yet.

It's going to be Franco in the native pot by @mwar15

Franco Columbo the BC builder

With a 10” base Franco is girthy. Franco had a fight with a track hoe and lost. Franco was rescued 4/14/2022

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