Little man BC

[Cajunrider]

BC progression
Bald cypress collected April 9th 2022

 

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April 26, 2022

 

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With this much growth,I am expecting healthy root growth. Branch section will be done late summer so I get good branch size growing in the fall.

 

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5/28/2022

 

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Little man got plenty of branches and roots going on now. He will get his first styling in mid July. Still not sure how I’ll style him yet. Any suggestion is appreciated.

 

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Branch selection done

 

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4 months after collection

 

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[nuttiest]

Nice cut. Keeping your options open or healing in stages or keeping all?

 

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Nice cut. Keeping your options open or healing in stages or keeping all?

Set up for healing at the base of the branches. I want a lot of foliage up there now for fast healing . I may reduce to two but that is way down the road.

 

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Final trim 2022
It will be a number of years before decent taper. Perhaps carving is in its future.

 

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More carving to get better taper

 

[johng]

Trees with minimal taper are tough... Personally I like my apex branches to leave the trunk at vastly different heights on the trunk....these three feel like they all exit the trunk at a very similar height. In the last picture, imagine removing the left most apex and carving down to the branch that comes out about 3" lower on that left most top branch. The second thing I think would help is to get some movement in the apex branches...they are already approaching a size that might make difficult... just my 2 cents...

 

[Cajunrider]

Trees with minimal taper are tough... Personally I like my apex branches to leave the trunk at vastly different heights on the trunk....these three feel like they all exit the trunk at a very similar height. In the last picture, imagine removing the left most apex and carving down to the branch that comes out about 3" lower on that left most top branch. The second thing I think would help is to get some movement in the apex branches...they are already approaching a size that might make difficult... just my 2 cents...

Thank you. I was thinking the same thing but was reluctant to get rid of a healthy branch but you are absolutely right. I will work on the branches as well this afternoon. Your post is the very reason I posted what I did because I wasn't entirely happy with it.

 

[Cajunrider]

Trees with minimal taper are tough... Personally I like my apex branches to leave the trunk at vastly different heights on the trunk....these three feel like they all exit the trunk at a very similar height. In the last picture, imagine removing the left most apex and carving down to the branch that comes out about 3" lower on that left most top branch. The second thing I think would help is to get some movement in the apex branches...they are already approaching a size that might make difficult... just my 2 cents...

One of the three top branch was removed and the trunk carved down to a lower branch. It looks better now.

 

[johng]

One of the three top branch was removed and the trunk carved down to a lower branch. It looks better now.
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Looks much better!!

 

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After staring at it for more than two weeks, I decided to take the second biggest branch off and carved it down further.

Good enough for now. When I have time I will do more carving to define the branches a little better.

As soon as it leafs out, it will be dunked to build root flare.

 

[Backwardsvg]

What is the size of reference for this? Is it like 20-30 inches right now?

 

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What is the size of reference for this? Is it like 20-30 inches right now?

Trunk is 5” dia. Current height is 22”. The plan is to finish the next stage at 27”. The base needs to flare out a lot more though. Thankfully it is BC so it is entirely possible.