flase cypress and deadwood

ElGringo

hi everyone


I've just read that some species of cypress will heal over dead wood? Is this true for false cypress as well? seems like creating jins may be a waste of time on the couple that i have, if this is the case.

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rockm

Any tree will heal over dead wood, just depends on where the deadwood is and the location of the nearest living tissue. If living tissue is adjacent to the wound, it will slowly cover the deadwood, especially if there is a branch or other "sap drawer" nearby.

If you're trying to recover a big jin, forget it. Shari, however, often has to be re-carved as the callus tissue tends to cover them up.

ElGringo

thanks for that mate

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Dale Cochoy

Gringo,
Rockms statement was well said.
Heres a good example. I took this pic for you today while I was puting trees away in winter storage .
This is a large jin spike I created on a large multi-trunked Alberta Spruce about 18 years ago during a workshop with Susumu Nakamura.
I had bought this uncommon multitrunk DAS especially for taking to this workshop. It was the first one Mr. Nakamura ever worked on, and he liked them! BOY, did we cut it back!!
Mr. Nakamura thought we should remove one large ( the largest) trunk and spike it. So I did. It oozed sap for several years as it healed. It has not been re-cut and stripped since then. ( I know, I know, it will get done at next repot and bit of restyling). The tree has been slowly healing over that spike for all these years and I imagine if never recut and stripped it will soon completely cover over the old spike. It has regrown about 3" since cut!
Regards,
Dale

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Ashbarns9999

Dale, as an aside, that is one great picture you have shown there. It gave me a great sense of having walked through a forest and came across this very natural setting, this powerful trunk.

Regards Ash

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RedPine

Let us see the whole tree Dale. Looks like high quality stuff.

mossbear

Very nice tree and trunk. Does anyone know the type/name of the very small grass-like plant near the trunk (not the moss)?

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rockm

'Does anyone know the type/name of the very small grass-like plant near the trunk (not the moss)?"

That would be Sagina. Avoid it like the plague. It is extremely invasive in bonsai containers. It can form dense inpenetrable mats in days which will shed water in the summer and use up soil nutrients. I have worked years to get rid of it in my backyard. It's tough.

mossbear

I first found it in a moss specimen collected from Washington state, near Bellingham. It has "jumped" to some of the others in my collection. I remove it as soon as I find it. I just didn't know what it is.

Thanks for the note.

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