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bOkay, okay,

I guess that I need to clarify a few things. Firstly, the tree is about 10 years old and was collected. The person I got it from has had it for about 4-5 years in a container, probably a 5 gallon. Before that it was also containerized. So, it is not newly collected and the roots have not been touched. The only reason it was semi-barerooted was for shipping purposes. There is still a fair amount of soil left, but not complete.

It most definitely has a knee! This was one of it's interesting points. Unfortunately, my digital camera is not working or I would post a pix.

What worries me a bit, is that as I said before, I removed several lower branches and basically cut them flush with the trunk because they were VERY low and undesirable. I did not put cut paste on the flush cut. I hope in my ignorance of these guys, I did not do damage. Do the very new growth need to be cut at an angle and cut paste used if it is only from this season?

I also used the Miracid but will not again if that is the prevailing opinion.

Anyway, I will not do anything else with this guy except for putting it in a basic bonsai soil before I get some kind of consensus of what to do.

Any other tips will be greatly appreciated! Thanks......

P.S. The knee is about 1.5" from the trunk and DEFINITELY has the shape of a knee. This is one of the things that attracted me to the Cypress, even though the branch development needs work......

Here is a picture of it. The only difference is that the new branches you see mostly in front way down have been removed. As you can see, it was in a 5 gallon container.....