LittleDingus
Omono
I don't know that this forest planting will survive intact until the end of the competition...but here goes!
I have 5 bald cypress yearlings that I started from seed spring of 2020. The seed was harvested fall of 2019 and cold stratified in my refrigerator.
I should be planting them into larger grow out bags this year but, due to certain situations, growing out these guys is not a priority for me right now. These guys were grown from seed from a tree on my office's campus so they do have some meaning to me. I just have other projects I'd rather be working growing out consuming too much of my space just now I've been thinking about planting them into one container anyway to conserve space...I can get all 5 into the space that I'd normally use for just one tree that way. While wandering the local nurseries this weekend, I found a pot I kinda liked that could store all 5 of them for me for a couple of years without being an eye sore. So, since I'm moving them into a single pot for the time being anyway, I may as well enter them as a forest! Maybe these guys stay a small forest and I pick up more seed to start some bigger trees in the fall...maybe not...
It's a little early yet to be repotting these guys here but I had the pot and I can keep them above freezing from here on out and I currently have a need for some presentable 4" plastic pots which these guys just happen to be in and I don't want to have to buy more plastic pots! So, I pulled the trigger and repotted them today! That frees me 3 4" plastic houseplant pots that I can use for non-bonsai purposes without having to drive out to Walmart for more
Anyway, here's what I have today:
This pot is about 1" shorter than the depth they were previously potted. I did need to trim the tap roots to get them to fit but otherwise did no root work. The tap root on the tallest tree was winding around the base of the pot. Removing it removed more root than I would have liked given they are fully dormant and only a year old but I did leave over 50% of the root mass. Trimming the tap root on the other 4 was just that...a trim.
I have 5 bald cypress yearlings that I started from seed spring of 2020. The seed was harvested fall of 2019 and cold stratified in my refrigerator.
I should be planting them into larger grow out bags this year but, due to certain situations, growing out these guys is not a priority for me right now. These guys were grown from seed from a tree on my office's campus so they do have some meaning to me. I just have other projects I'd rather be working growing out consuming too much of my space just now I've been thinking about planting them into one container anyway to conserve space...I can get all 5 into the space that I'd normally use for just one tree that way. While wandering the local nurseries this weekend, I found a pot I kinda liked that could store all 5 of them for me for a couple of years without being an eye sore. So, since I'm moving them into a single pot for the time being anyway, I may as well enter them as a forest! Maybe these guys stay a small forest and I pick up more seed to start some bigger trees in the fall...maybe not...
It's a little early yet to be repotting these guys here but I had the pot and I can keep them above freezing from here on out and I currently have a need for some presentable 4" plastic pots which these guys just happen to be in and I don't want to have to buy more plastic pots! So, I pulled the trigger and repotted them today! That frees me 3 4" plastic houseplant pots that I can use for non-bonsai purposes without having to drive out to Walmart for more
Anyway, here's what I have today:
This pot is about 1" shorter than the depth they were previously potted. I did need to trim the tap roots to get them to fit but otherwise did no root work. The tap root on the tallest tree was winding around the base of the pot. Removing it removed more root than I would have liked given they are fully dormant and only a year old but I did leave over 50% of the root mass. Trimming the tap root on the other 4 was just that...a trim.