Wulfskaar's Tiny Sequoia Grove

[vp999]

You can expect this in about 9000 years .

 

[Ruddigger]

I just dug my seedling out of the grow bed to put into a box. 4 years in the ground, I think.

 

[Wulfskaar]

I just dug my seedling out of the grow bed to put into a box. 4 years in the ground, I think. View attachment 579856

That is fantastic!

 

[Wulfskaar]

Hi there!
Did the sequoias make it through the summer?

I think it could use a spring repot into a larger pot to let it hopefully take off.

 

[Ruddigger]

You should be safe to do it now. We repot conifers early here.

 

[Wulfskaar]

I went ahead and repotted today into a bigger pot. Now it will have some room to stretch it's legs for a few years (with any luck).



I used this soil. I feel like maybe I should have added more organic material to it first.

 

[Wulfskaar]

The longer branches all kind of dried up. It was probably too weak and damaged for the repot, in hindsight. Also, the soil particle size is probably way too big for those tiny roots, so it think it was drying out too fast. It was fading slowly.

Added a light sprinkle of compost and watered that in. I also recently had some leftover sphagnum moss, so I put that around the base to trap moisture in a little longer.

It's now back-budding, so I have hope it can survive.

 

[doc spring _work]

The longer branches all kind of dried up. It was probably too weak and damaged for the repot, in hindsight. Also, the soil particle size is probably way too big for those tiny roots, so it think it was drying out too fast. It was fading slowly.

Added a light sprinkle of compost and watered that in. I also recently had some leftover sphagnum moss, so I put that around the base to trap moisture in a little longer.

It's now back-budding, so I have hope it can survive.

View attachment 599050

Hope it pulls through

 

[Wulfskaar]

Hope it pulls through

Thanks doc. It looked much, much worse 2 months ago. All that green is new growth, so it's still kickin'! It just needs to continue to gain strength.

 

[Icarus]

I just dug my seedling out of the grow bed to put into a box. 4 years in the ground, I think. View attachment 579856

Looks good! My trees are doing well too. Four years old now.

 

[Wulfskaar]

Looks good! My trees are doing well too. Four years old now.

If it can just "take root" and grow a bit, it can stay in this pot for several years. I'm just hoping it really takes this summer.

 

[Nera]

The longer branches all kind of dried up. It was probably too weak and damaged for the repot, in hindsight. Also, the soil particle size is probably way too big for those tiny roots, so it think it was drying out too fast. It was fading slowly.

Added a light sprinkle of compost and watered that in. I also recently had some leftover sphagnum moss, so I put that around the base to trap moisture in a little longer.

It's now back-budding, so I have hope it can survive.

View attachment 599050

I think you have a survivor there, I'm sure it will get stronger!