Fishtank307
Shohin
I absolutely hate to write this post...
I've had this bald cypress since last year. It was one of my favorite trees and I think I messed up pretty bad... It grew very well, had to prune it a couple of times during the growing season. Apart from a spider mite attack during spring, no problems whatsoever. It was very potbound, so in need of a repotting and root-pruning this spring. That's where I messed up, I guess.
Last year the buds popped and began showing green around mid May. Here's a picture of the tree on the 23d of May:
![IMG_20180523_112621.jpg IMG_20180523_112621.jpg](https://www.bonsainut.com/data/attachments/232/232448-0970b47f1dac2d57ed1056ee5afacf54.jpg)
(When it first started pushing growth, the tips were brown due to spider mites. I eventually got rid of them by spraying the tree every day with a soap solution and just keeping it in a very humid environment)
Here's the tree in full summer:
![IMG_20180731_134445.jpg IMG_20180731_134445.jpg](https://www.bonsainut.com/data/attachments/232/232449-dedda48b98d0bd2e3ed239eafa643152.jpg)
Fast forward one year.
I repotted it a couple of weeks ago when the buds started to become visible. In hindsight, this was probably too soon. After repotting, we've have (at least) one week with a couple of nights when temps dropped just below freezing. Also, I went on vacation for one week and relied on my gf for watering my trees. It was pretty warm that week and she didn't exactly overwater them, if you know what I mean.
So now we're at the same time of year, one year later and still no growth. When I scratch of a bit of the bark, I can't see any green, it's all brown. I don't see any change in the buds and when I rub them off, they're crisp and dry.
I know it's hard to determine what I did wrong, without any pictures of the repotting. All I can say is that I removed aprox. half of the rootball and combed out the roots as much as possible. Seeing the soil was pretty dense, I left a good portion of the rootball intact. I then used akadama, volcanic particles and some organics as soil mixture.
Is there still hope? Is there anything I can do now? (apart from throwing it on the compost heap)
I've had this bald cypress since last year. It was one of my favorite trees and I think I messed up pretty bad... It grew very well, had to prune it a couple of times during the growing season. Apart from a spider mite attack during spring, no problems whatsoever. It was very potbound, so in need of a repotting and root-pruning this spring. That's where I messed up, I guess.
Last year the buds popped and began showing green around mid May. Here's a picture of the tree on the 23d of May:
![IMG_20180523_112621.jpg IMG_20180523_112621.jpg](https://www.bonsainut.com/data/attachments/232/232448-0970b47f1dac2d57ed1056ee5afacf54.jpg)
(When it first started pushing growth, the tips were brown due to spider mites. I eventually got rid of them by spraying the tree every day with a soap solution and just keeping it in a very humid environment)
Here's the tree in full summer:
![IMG_20180731_134445.jpg IMG_20180731_134445.jpg](https://www.bonsainut.com/data/attachments/232/232449-dedda48b98d0bd2e3ed239eafa643152.jpg)
Fast forward one year.
I repotted it a couple of weeks ago when the buds started to become visible. In hindsight, this was probably too soon. After repotting, we've have (at least) one week with a couple of nights when temps dropped just below freezing. Also, I went on vacation for one week and relied on my gf for watering my trees. It was pretty warm that week and she didn't exactly overwater them, if you know what I mean.
So now we're at the same time of year, one year later and still no growth. When I scratch of a bit of the bark, I can't see any green, it's all brown. I don't see any change in the buds and when I rub them off, they're crisp and dry.
I know it's hard to determine what I did wrong, without any pictures of the repotting. All I can say is that I removed aprox. half of the rootball and combed out the roots as much as possible. Seeing the soil was pretty dense, I left a good portion of the rootball intact. I then used akadama, volcanic particles and some organics as soil mixture.
Is there still hope? Is there anything I can do now? (apart from throwing it on the compost heap)