Hope your redwoods are feeling better soon! This weekend I took some inspiration from you and moved my rapidly growing dawn redwood out of its two gallon pot and slipped it gently into a five gallon grow bag.And even my dawn redwoods are mostly living off their initial leaf flush still I'm really not used to them being so sparse by this time of the year.
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But I do have one that has filled in reasonably.
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It's weird the way a lot of my trees are growing this year.
Anyway, it's this one somewhat vigorous guy that I worked on a bit today. Mostly I poked around the nebari without digging the whole tree up. I found places with small roots in bad places like these
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and removed them
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I was really hoping to put this guy into a pot after the heat...maybe mid August...but now I'm thinking about leaving it in the bag for another year.
Hope your redwoods are feeling better soon! This weekend I took some inspiration from you and moved my rapidly growing dawn redwood out of its two gallon pot and slipped it gently into a five gallon grow bag.
Thanks for sharing, I just got my hands on an edition of "The White Redwoods: Ghosts of the Forest".I'm old school...I rarely watch youtube or internet videos. Faster to read. There are some tings better in video, but I can navigate information so much faster when it's in print.
Do you do anything for humidity? The first winter the coastals were indoors under lights and did fine. The second winter they were too large for me to keep all of them indoors. I did keep on indoors though. The next season, the first trunk hardly grew at all...the tree started a second trunk instead. I think what happened is the growth buds dried out. Since redwoods are an extension species...the tree opted to start a new trunk rather than for new buds on the old trunk. I'm curious what will happen this season as there was some minor new growth on the old trunk...which is now half the size of the new trunk. I'm wondering if they will both grow now.
I have an albo-spica that I don't think I've talked much about on this thread yet. I picked up that one because its growth tips start off white then green up over time. It reminds me of the albino redwoods which are super cool! I hunted down the "christmas tree" albino when my wife took me to see the redwoods.
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We ended up seeing 2-3 other albinos while we were there as well. The albo-spica is the only one I've thought about trying to root a cutting from. Otherwise, my existing trees are so small that any cutting I take doesn't give much of an advantage over starting from seed. The albo-spica is a cultivar though...not much choice BUT to clone from cuttings for that one.
...and yeah I hear you on the group plantings to save space! The past few years have been ballooning up my collection to get some fun stuff to play with. This is supposed to be my reduction year since we're hoping to move next year. We'll see how that goes...
Thanks for sharing, I just got my hands on an edition of "The White Redwoods: Ghosts of the Forest".
It made for a very interesting read about the double stomata amount on the albino's and propagation experiments. Here's a link if you're interested:
Amazon.com: The White Redwoods: Ghosts of the Forest eBook : Davis, Douglas F., Holderman, Dale F.: Kindle Store
Amazon.com: The White Redwoods: Ghosts of the Forest eBook : Davis, Douglas F., Holderman, Dale F.: Kindle Storewww.amazon.com
Nice! Are these the ones you were talking to me about?Just dumping some thoughts here to avoid derailing another's thread with unrelated to their thread information...
This is a severe distillation of my experience with redwoods in Chicago thus far:
Dawns are no problem. They can winter outside here. I've had them for a number of years near Chicago before we moved to Kansas City.
We moved back to Chicago last spring and the verdict is still out on the coastals and sequoia. In KC I could mostly winter sequoia outside and only brought them into the garage during prolonged freezes. My coastals wintered in my garage under some weak lighting where they were too chilled to grow.
Winter is both longer and harsher here.
My sequoia died last spring because I just had too much else to do with the move and forgot about them. I haven't restarted any to replace them yet...that'll happen this spring. So not much info on them.
I have 5 coastal redwoods in the basement under lights right now.
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One is a cultivar and is smallish (not pictured). The other 4 are 4-5' tall. They flowered for me this year Well, conifers so not flowers...but pollen and cones!
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They are growing sporadically now because the basement is warmer than the garage I used to keep them in...but it freezes in this garage so too cold for long term storage
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...but the outer/lower branches are also starting to show dessication damage
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In KC, I was able to keep the coastals lush pretty much from soil to tip. But the lower leaves are dying off here. It might be too little down there. It might be humidity. Were I a gambling man, I'd bet on too little light down there and the tree is giving up on those "useless" branches
I've got another 2 months before I can safely start doing the 2-step with them. I doubt they are going to die on me...but they might need a few months warmer months to recover from the winter treatment! I'll have to try and readjust next year...it would be great if I could keep them about 20F cooler than where they are in my basement now!
Nice! Are these the ones you were talking to me about?
Nice! I don't even remember that pot!
Can we get a closeup?
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pictures from when I bought it in 2019