Bald Cypress "Briseuse de Coeur" Video 2 of 2

[BillsBayou]

Video 2 of 2 is up for the bald cypress bonsai I've named "Briseuse de Coeur" (Heartbreaker). The first video was a rush to clean up a tree for a meeting of The Greater New Orleans Bonsai Society. I got great advice at the meeting, and thanks to Randy Bennett, I decided to attempt a very tricky technique. This video covers the work I did one week after the first video. A link to the first video is in the description of this one.

 

[Vin]

Dude, that looks 100% better! You really turned the corner by bringing that top branch over. Well done brother.

 

[Dav4]

Nice! Let's see a current picture of the Heart breaker with some new growth on it, please.

 

[Vin]

Nice! Let's see a current picture of the Heart breaker with some new growth on it, please.

Only one out of five of mine have started popping. That's normal for around here.

 

[mcpesq817]

Awesome work as always Bill. Thanks for sharing!

 

[Appliance Guy]

Bill, you're a mad man!

 

[BillsBayou]

Bill, you're a mad man!

Heartbreaker BROKE MY HEART!!!

That'll be the title of next year's video. She burst out in growth like a wild woman. Yellow growth.... What?

I made a critical error that ruined this year's work. The tree's soil is hard-pack muck. There's plenty of lava rock to give the roots ramification, but there's not food getting to the roots.

When the tree burst forth in response to the work I did, it did not have the reserves it needed to do so. Thus, yellow growth. A dead branch carving. A dying thread graft.

No worries. I got her to green up by mid-summer. The growth tells me she is vigorous again. I'll repot her in December and make another attempt at the thread graft.

The base of the branch I tried to bend has several new branches growing very well. It'll have a minimal impact on the current development schedule.

 

[Cajunrider]

Heartbreaker BROKE MY HEART!!!

That'll be the title of next year's video. She burst out in growth like a wild woman. Yellow growth.... What?

I made a critical error that ruined this year's work. The tree's soil is hard-pack muck. There's plenty of lava rock to give the roots ramification, but there's not food getting to the roots.

When the tree burst forth in response to the work I did, it did not have the reserves it needed to do so. Thus, yellow growth. A dead branch carving. A dying thread graft.

No worries. I got her to green up by mid-summer. The growth tells me she is vigorous again. I'll repot her in December and make another attempt at the thread graft.

The base of the branch I tried to bend has several new branches growing very well. It'll have a minimal impact on the current development schedule.

I so enjoyed this series of video.
So you've mended the broken heart!

 

[BillsBayou]

I so enjoyed this series of video.
So you've mended the broken heart!

The tree will return!