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I obtained a Bald Cypress from a nursery in about a gallon pot that was about 2and1/2 feet tall. I cut it down in sections and treated the ends with rooting hormone and stuck them in soil to get some smaller plants. The base I left at about 12 inches high, it has a slender trunk. I noticed it was infested with small black ants the next day so I pulled the base out and washed away the soil. Upon removing the base from the pot I seen that under the soil line about an inch the trunk almost doubles in size and then another inch down it becomes two trunks the size of the trunk above the soil top, a little over an inch in diameter, this extends for three inches then goes to the bottom of the pot where it has grown roots that are circular around the bottom and the shape of the pot about a quarter of an inch to 3/8s of an inch. These roots look very unique but I do not know what to do with them. I seen in another thread here by Smoke how he air layered roots on his tree. I am afraid to try this method on this Blad Cypress as i read where the roots weep saps out when they are not dormant and actually bleed out and kill the tree so you must cut them while dormant.
I don't know whether to cut these roots or just pull the tree up exposing the branched roots below the surface and leave it like that. These roots may even look great planted where the circular ones are on the surface too. Any advice would be appreciated, especially as I have never found a Bald Cypress before and have always wanted one to work with. I would really hate to kill this tree.
I did not get a picture of it out of the pot, this is a drawing to give you an idea of what I am talking about. Be prepared, as I am no artist!
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I don't know whether to cut these roots or just pull the tree up exposing the branched roots below the surface and leave it like that. These roots may even look great planted where the circular ones are on the surface too. Any advice would be appreciated, especially as I have never found a Bald Cypress before and have always wanted one to work with. I would really hate to kill this tree.
I did not get a picture of it out of the pot, this is a drawing to give you an idea of what I am talking about. Be prepared, as I am no artist!
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