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bonsaiTALK Master Craftsman
Join Date: Sep-2001
Location: Gulf Coast
Country: Texas
Posts: 772
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So... this winter it was top priority.
Fix the dead and rotting basal wood.
Protect and nurture all surviving roots.
Well, how do you do that? If you were to ask, most folks would say you had to cut all that punky wood out. However, I've observed that cypress will scar over and engulf deadwood- so that idea was not to be considered. If not, it would at least provide visual mass while the new buttresses grew. The dead wood stays. This seemed to be the shorter road also.
Using some techiniques learned from some other bonsai guru- Dan Robinson- I set about returning integrity to all that rotted stuff.
Expensive but effective, this product is a penetrating epoxy system used to repair boats and rotted architectural details. I think it's advantage to other products is that it will be sucked up by the rotted wood, will be drawn along the fiber lengths.
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