Dawn Redwood in Progress

[Darth Masiah]

a way to avoid the bayonet look is to not use a shoot that's already established to be your new leader like i did. giving it a straight chop along with cutting everything else in winter/spring should give you a bunch of shoots to work with. wiring a new shoot as it comes out for the new leader and then doing the slanting chop later in late spring should give you more control to make the new leader straight. i thought about adding plastic wrap around the top of the trunk where the new shoots that you want to choose a new leader from are coming out at to keep them flat against the trunk. by early summer you can do a slant chop to the chosen shoot and it should already be pretty straight and ready for wire. i wouldn't use the sucker type shoots that might come out of the top of the chop itself. they grow too fast and look weird. I'd cut these off before they go crazy.

 

[Darth Masiah]

3/14/21
pulled out the lightsaber
Pssshhewwzzzzzzwoooooom...woom..woom..woom...

 

[MrWunderful]

Nice. I really appreciate that flat nebari on a dawn redwood. I myself have a monster one I am layering this year, and will use your exact approach.

 

[Enfield Snapper]

Seeing this has made me realize that I didn't do nearly enough root work on mine when I repotted.

 

[parhamr]

Top show! You clearly have technical skill and an appreciation for process. Looking forward to more!

 

[Darth Masiah]

I myself have a monster one I am layering this year, and will use your exact approach.

one thing i regret is not editing the roots in the fall of the same year i layered it. by the next spring, the strongest roots got too big in comparison to the rest.

 

[Darth Masiah]

Top show! You clearly have technical skill and an appreciation for process. Looking forward to more!

appreciate it brother. man, i totally goofed and wired this guy down at an angle. had a good laugh at myself the next day.

 

[MrWunderful]

one thing i regret is not editing the roots in the fall of the same year i layered it. by the next spring, the strongest roots got too big in comparison to the rest.

I noticed that and didnt want to call you out you would have a bit better taper if you had cut back harder to a secondary

 

[Darth Masiah]

I've pinched the first two shoots that started growing from two buds that were set last year, and boom! crazy bifurcation.

i broke the leader off by accident as it was extending, but looks like it's back.

 

[Darth Masiah]

pinched the two strong shoots

 

[GreatLakesBrad]

Looking strong!!

 

[Darth Masiah]

well, hello there

 

[Darth Masiah]

7/25/21

 

[Darth Masiah]

i was tired of looking at that bayonet




fall damage


too much pinching

 

[Darth Masiah]

 

[Darth Masiah]

 

[Darth Masiah]

i finally got some cuttings to take. i starting cutting strong shoots when i saw movement in the buds, and just stuck them in my heavy organic mix pot ive been poking miscellaneous shoots into for awhile now. I've failed taking cuttings after they leaf out at end of april, may june, august, and september.

3/7/22


10/15/22



i was messing around and broke off the only shoot it had, aaaaaaaand that was all she wrote
good thing it gave me some

 

[yashu]

Ugh. Always rough when one bites the dust like that.

 

[Darth Masiah]

only one of last years cuttings made it through the late march freeze


we're still in it

 

[Darth Masiah]

did good this year