Bald Cypress Collecting Trip

dbz12fan

I went down to lowes today and picked up a 35 gallon plastic 'pond' to plant it in. I just potted it up a few minutes ago. I will get a picture up when I have a chance.

Dale if you make pots this large (35 inches in diameter), I would love to buy one custom made for it. Of course, that would be a few years from now.

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Charles Bevan
Vero Beach, Fl

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Bart Thomas(deceased)

Charles: That "pond" sounds just right!

I don't want to even think about carrying a 35" diameter ceramic pot, let alone one with a tree in it!

Good luck. You have a great tree and the time and skills to develop it.

dbz12fan

Nearly 30 dollars worth of soil later, here it is (I never realised how much younger I look wearing my hair down ).

BTW, someone at the site had a chainsaw, so after I took the first picture I cut it a little bit lower. I still need to do a taper chop, but that will come later.

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Charles Bevan
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Little Arborist

Shucks do I have alot to learn!

May seems like a stupid question, but do you hold high hopes of it surviving with no roots?

I apparently have more than I realized to learn about collecting. I also am now more confident in the collectiong I did of a Quercus agrifolia recently.

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dbz12fan

I am positive it will survive with that amount of roots. It actually has many fiborous (sp?) roots growing on it. There are, of course, other factors that can kill a tree.

Bald cypress don't mind being chopped up like this.

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pdbbonsai

Charles,

What a great one you got there....and the pot is a perfect fit! I too use plastic ponds and bins for large collected specimens.

Little Arborist,

There is a huge difference between what you would chop off of a BC and an oak tree when you collect. BC's will tolerate such chopping and grow roots almost readily. An oak on the other hand may need to have much more of a root ball still on it for survival when collected. I have learned that you should always get to know the tree before collecting to ensure its survival is greater. Generally, and I am not a collecting guru, you can be sure that trees that grow in drier soils would need more of a rootball than that of their swampy cousins.

Paul

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Little Arborist

I must say, I am impressed.

That adds up to good tree biology sense though.

The oak I collected will surprise me if it makes it, but I collected it more as an experiment to gain experience than anything. There are hundreds of them where I collected it.I'll eventually post a pic if it makes it.

I'll be curious to see how that big ole' cypress comes out in the end. Looks nice from here.

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Salvelinus

Nice job, Charles! That is one monster. Looks like you got the right "pot" for training. Better start saving up for its final pot . . . it's going to need a big one.

Please keep us updated on its progress. I'd love to see the branches/apex develop.

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jed1238

Charles, I was up at Brussels Nursury in Miss. this weekend. They had quite a few very large pots, you could check with them. I got a hand made 26" oval for 1/2 off, so it was just $90. He had some that were much larger than the one I got. They are not on his website or in the catalog, so you should just give them a call and ask. Hope this helps.

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