JR_Roosa

Thanks Olnyrey, but it looks nicer than it is. It has about 5 trunks, the biggest only 1/2 inch, hence the repot.

The foliage is growing like crazy this year. It started budding out INDOORS! That blew my mind since I thought it was barely surviving in the dry house all winter. I cut out about half of the branches a few months ago because they were coming out in whorls on the trunk and making burls. It still has a bit more pruning of bar branches to go, but I wanted to let it get its roots established in the new pot.

Anyway, I looked at your post, and that's what I would expect to see from a dry pot--an even dying back on most needles. The spottyness on mine scares me because it seems fungal or vascular, almost like the burns you get on japanese maple from hard water, but I didn't think that's a problem for sequoia. The kanuma its in now should be protective from that, but the "pea gravel" might have some limestone in it, which would overpower any acidity in the bark and kanuma.

I've cut back some of the low branches today that were on the soil, but some of the black needles were well above the soil.

The tree gets water from the sprayer you can see in the 1st pic with the hound, and from soaker hose in the pot that's in the background on some other pics. The soil is damp from watering to watering, since I've been keeping a close eye on the new system. I'm tempted to cut back on its water a bit now that it's getting more than a week or two from repotting, but I'm going to hold off until I hear back from more folks. I might even put a valve on the sprayer and turn it down a bit, but again I'm going to hold off until I hear more.

Thanks again for your advice, onlyrey. I appreciate it.

-Jason.