Such a great video, I’m so glad i found your video before my first dawn redwood arrives. So much knowledge and insight in your video. Thank you for taking the time to share your experience and knowledge!
Hi Candice. It’s the 17th of June, 2024, and I’m getting ready to prune my DR forest. I prepped the 3 year old trees in pond baskets for an additional year, and then hard pruned them above and below ground before planting the forest. The trees are ready for their first pruning and thinning of the season after the first flush of growth. I had to re-watch this episode. It is still the most comprehensive primer on DRs out there, and I thank you for leaving it (and your channel) up. I’m a fan of @Dave’s Bonsai, so I can still see how your forest has developed. I don’t know if you still read the comments, but if you do, thanks again and enjoy your new direction. If you ever make it back to Bonsai, know that I’ll be watching.
I now have three or four Redwoods really putting on some great ramification but only after 15 years of mis-treatment through lack of understandng those clear rules you've stated. I have to thank Ryan Neil for first helping me understand the key to effective secondary and tertiary branch development. Holding off pruning those green fronds is so difficult sometimes!! Love your approach. Cheers
Hey Candice! I've been growing my own Dawn Redwood forest. I've been so afraid to touch it this season fearing I'd ruin it. Then i thought of your video that I'd watched awhile back. I'm so glad i waited, and now feel a bit better about moving forward thanks to you! I really miss your videos, along with the knowledge i gained from watching them. I hope you, and your family are doing well. Like the last comment, if you ever decide to return, I'd immediately tune in! Peace ✌🏿☮️
After 45 years trying to learn what I could about bonsai, in all respect, I tip my hat to your, dare I say scholarly lesson on Dawn redwood pruning care. Never had a better explanation of what to do with this species. Thanks and regards, Dan Bialik, Raleigh, NC.
Hi Candice, really useful video. May I make a suggestion; you give great direction on how and when to prune, and you show where the cuts should take place. If you could show video of you making the cuts, and the before and after, this would help solidify the learning. Thanks.
Thank you so much for sharing this. Very newbie bonsai enthusiast here who just gifted a redwood seedling. Now I have a valuable reference and some confidence to know what to do. Or rather, what _not_ to do this year 😉 I will be watching this video over and over in the coming years. Thank you!
Well they are easier as they are a coniferous evergreen and then handled more like our Spruce varieties. You can email me if you have specific questions also! ccmso12@yahoo.com
Thank you so much for this video! I purchased a dawn redwood this last spring and I just had a feeling it was a strange tree, I decided to leave it alone at the time until I could learn more. I'm so glad I stumbled over this video! 😊
@@Candice.BonsaiScience I'm going back in again after looking around for more vids. You definitely have the best and most detailed info on these trees. Planning on applying this to mine this weekend. thanks again.
THANK YOU!! very helpful for me. i just found a redwood grove with a shit ton if vegetative offshoots that i stole some of and have no idea what to do with
I been looking for dawn redwood care/answer for my "cluster X " trees....you explained quite straightforward an very understandable steps to working with this tree...keep on keeping on..!!!
Nice tutorial on the dawn redwood, some really good info I must say. I plan to treat mine this spring with your technique. I’m pretty confident success will prevail, every thing you said makes sense. Glad to be a new subscriber, thanks
I have been fortunate to buy (at reasonable price) a large dawn redwood bonsai of approx. 25 years which has been neglected. I intend to apply the 'five rules' to it as it grows this summer. I am in the south of the UK. Hardiness zone 7-9. 👍 I also have a mature coast redwood! Redwood potty!! 🤣
Great video. Thank you. I have redwoods on a local park that I go to every year and take a branch for cuttings from. I have my dad a six inch cutting from last year but he said to me today that because it was from the bottom of the branch and I had chopped the top that it wouldn't grow. I definitely felt a bit "duh" when you started taking about selecting a leader! So I'll tell him about it and hopefully he'll get his seven foot tree that he wants in a few years.
my dawn redwood was about 7ft tall, got it on sale because top 5ish feet was dead. trunk is now about 1.5 inches across and its only 3ish feet tall. i got lucky on the find and because of your tips the tree has a bright future. thanks.
Thank you for the information. Did not know any of that. I have a very old and large DR that I’ve been working on the ramification for quite awhile but haven’t been entirely pleased with the progress. This new information will be very helpful. Thanks! 😁
Massive thanks 👍❤️ That‘s essential information. I wish you could make those videos for all kind of trees. 😊 Develop each tree in it‘s best way. Love your style. 😘 I wonder there aren‘t many viewers up to now, but I‘ll bet this will change soon. 👍
In my playlists of each tree type the first video of each list usually has all the info and care. Is there any specific tree type your needing information on?
@@Candice.BonsaiScience Thanks for asking. ❤️😊 I‘ve collected some yamadori horse chestnut trees, which do not propagate very well this year. Also some ashes, which develop quite well. Some willows (I found those in your playlist) and for the first time popular, from cuttings. Do you have experience with those trees? Any advice is highly appreciated. 😘
@@oachkatzlsmum many varieties of poplar can be a bit difficult in that they can randomly die back and are prone to some fungal issues. Let me know how it goes!
Hello. I love your content and enthusiasm. I have a DR and I’m concerned that it will not lignify before winter. Can you tell me why I do not see the golden color on the branches? It still looks like new growth.
Just bought a group from a local nursery this has been a fantastically helpful video, thank you. Please can you make a similar video in the autumn, sorry fall.
@@Candice.BonsaiScience Great thank you. A lot of people in the Bonsai society of which I am secretary here in southern England, bought groups of these trees recently at a nursery. I posted your video on our society facebook page encouraging them to view it. Have a good summer. Nice to see Nigel is a fan.
Great species specific video, great information, thanks for posting. Where did you educate yourself on this species, I’ve been growing theses for years and never come across this specific information? I’m planning a statement piece this coming spring using many of my current Dawn Redwood crop, I’ve got some fairly large trees for a rustic forest. Your information will be very useful, thanks.
Hi Excellent instructional video. I’ve just been given a small forest grouping of 5 trees. The tree heights are around 12 inches (300 mm). The trunk bases are around half inch thick but there planting is about inch and a half to two inches apart in a 6 inch shallow oval pot Would you recommend separating them out to develop them individually? They seem far too close together to allow any development of branches. Any repotting tips. I’m in the UK Thanks
Once the spring flush has hardened off and it’s time to go in and prune is a good time as there should then be enough time for any new apex growth to harden off before late fall/winter.
@@Candice.BonsaiScience This is Xosh from the comment above..Thanks again for your extremely helpful video! I worked on my tree a little today and thought you might be interested to see it. I tagged you in my description so hopefully others can find you. Thanks again! ua-cam.com/video/qTBnqpWm1Cs/v-deo.html
Asking about bald cypress because they are so similar. When deciding it's time to prune, how red does the branch have to be? A lot? Just A little? I have fronds that have bifurcated and they are turning color, but not entirely hardened. BTW, I have attached the five rules in my Bonsai Album database. Thanks.
I bought a dawn redwood which was about 4meters tall, which i cut back to about 1.5meter. it has some leaf-less branches but has buts along the tree itself. It is still in a big nursery pot with original nursery soil. Do u recomment to transfer it to bonsai soil and reduce the roots or keep it in there till it made branches with leafs?
Brilliant video. I’m having trouble with my tree in sunny England. Only top growth and all lower branches have died. Should I trunk chop this year ? Before spring. Thanks
Hi Candice, amazing information and beautiful tree composition. I'm now adopting your 5 rules and hope my badly treated 3 year old redwood will develop as it should. I have a coastal redwood(sequoia sempervirens), do I treat this with the same rules? Shane.
Hi, After watching this video I see you are very knowledgeable on Dawn Redwoods. Can you please help me out, my little grove seems to be struggling. Not sure if it's over or under watered. Is there an email where I can send you some pictures. Thank you in advanced for your time and consideration! 😁
Hey Candice, i don't want to be a pest but, what does it mean if the frawns aren't fully extending. Mine are kinda curly. I'd love to send you a pic of it if possible. If not i understand.
No, this is a 4” deep 32” pot, so plenty big enough for this stage of development in a forest grouping where we are trying to develop now the branching as a cohesive forest piece. The trees were developed individually in pond baskets and then placed in this big training pot when the trunks were my desired thickness.
Hi, I just bought 2 Dawn Redwoods from a mom and pop nursery. They are very skinny, half the size of a pencil, but they are 3ft tall. I'm brand new to all this and don't know what to do to start as a bonsai. Should I cut the top down about a foot so the trunk would thicken instead of just growing taller? Oh they are in a 1 gal. pot. Thanks for any info you can give. Well I just browsed thru your videos hoping to find something for newbies like myself but couldnt find anything. Can you recommend a channel for someone like myself?
This is a great channel for you then 🤣. Since you just got them let them acclimate and then this fall we will do a trunk chop when the foliage changes color and starts to drop
Hello! Question, so I can do some structural pruning in the winter before the buds open? If so how much can I prune? Thank you. Love your video and the technical talk. Fuckery is my favorite jejeje!
Thank you! That was so helpful, especially the part about letting the branch redden before pruning. Did you start your forest from cuttings or seedlings? I have a forest started but I think I let the trees get too big before I put them in the forest grouping and now I want to start another with smaller trees so I can do a better job from the beginning.
(3) were bought as 5 yo cuttings last year and then developed individually in an oar basket. 4 were purchased from and auction probably the same age and left to feather so they stayed smaller. 3 are cuttings from my original 3 I took over the winter
Can you truck chop a Dawn Redwood to get trunk thickness the way you would a maple? Would it backbud strongly if it's a healthy tree? I'm thinking of a situation where you basically take a tall tree down to an 18" stub without any branches. Would a DR respond well to that technique or would it likely kill the tree?
Absolutely! I’d probably do that type of chop after the spring flush hardens off and then the tree starts growing strong again - so for me like mid June
@@Candice.BonsaiScience Well, that sounds great, thanks Candice. I ask because I have a the chance to pick up a large one in the next week or so but it's every bit 10' now with very little low branching (as you said, very apical dominant) so I'm on the fence about it. I'd have to take it down to 6' or so even to get it home. Probably best to just look into a forest group in the future. Thanks again!
VERY cool. What do you do with the top? Just cut straight across and wait for shoots to grow and then select the shortest? I have a 1ft tall redwood. I dont think it’s a ‘Dawn’ but it’s a Redwood that I just potted this year.
@@chancellorism you could absolutely add movement to the trunk instead of doing a formal upright. IMO trying to maintain one as a windswept tree would be a nightmare 🤣
Thanks it was really helpfull! So i have one Dawn Redwood in a bigger Pot and he´s doing very fine .But in the other hand my small forest that i got recently, some of the top tips and leafes dried out so hard in one day you can crush them into dust between your fingers. It was not a hot day or windy either. You have any experience with that thing? I thought if they too dry the first thing they to is getting brown. Do i need do water a reddawn forest more than 2 times a day maybe i dont want the roots to rot. Sorry for my bad english ^^
Subscribed because clusterfuck. But for real, awesome video and I learned tons of stuff! Me and three young Redwoods (one mother, two kids) say thank you! Will try do manage my own clusterfuck from here on out. I repotted them again this second season/spring, and I removed buds super early in spring to direct growth and get that staggered structure from the get go. Is that ok/good if I know I wont be needing a branch there?
Depends- I leave mine all on until I do the post flush pruning since all the energy concentrated on the trunk will help it thicken. Removing the buds early isn’t necessarily bad or wrong - but it also removes potential better branches to switch to
Interesting. I have a big dawn redwood bonsai but i only do my pruning in the winter though, so to minimise the mistakes. Do you prune it in the summer so as to allow more sunlight reach the interior branches? Or does it help the second flush in the autumn?
More sunlight and to push a second flush of growth - in a good season you can get 2-3 flushes. Yes pruning one a year in winter minimizes wrong cuts - but then you miss out on directing energy to what you want to develop and pushing another flush to give you more to work with
Hello! I am waiting on a new 3-4 foot Dawn Redwood! I am wondering if I can keep it in a container until I find a permanent home for it. I know some trees need an air pot so that the roots aren’t restricted and become circular. I don’t want to keep it in a container for a few years just for it to topple over when planted in the ground. I currently have a rainbow eucalyptus in an air pit for this very reason! Thanks!
Absolutely no issue keeping it in the container - but if it’s going to be a in the ground tree I would get it there quick if you have real winter. I’d love to see pics of your young rainbow tree - I have been curious how they would work the last couple years and if they get colors and exfoliate when young.
@@Candice.BonsaiSciencethanks! Can I keep the Dawn Redwood in a container indoors thru a winter? Or does it need to go thru winter? Yes! I can send you the 🌈 eucalyptus. Not sure how to upload pics in chat. No colors for a few years... I’m told.
Candice Aspen in messenger DRWs need winter dormancy hours. Mine I harden off outside to 32-35f then they go to a cold room that’s 37-42 for the winter
If your wanting to keep portions of the previous trunk that’s developed from the trunk chop prior then you won’t chop in that area again until all the ‘rules’ have been met. If your wanting to trunk chop down into hardwood then any time. If chopping down to hardwood pick a spot just above a bar branch location or spot with newer green suckers growing - then give it a few weeks to see if it will push a new apex bud out growing upright - if it doesn’t you made your chop in a location then to wire up one of the bar branches or new growth pieces to become the new apex leader
I have not looked into those in depth but most likely the coastal redwood has similar parallels. The Bald Cypress is a completely unrelated species to the Dawn Redwood.
Beautiful composition and trees!!! Thanks, great information!
Thanks Nigel! Definitely my favorite!
Lots of detailed and useful information here, thanks for sharing your experience to save us some mistakes!
Such a great video, I’m so glad i found your video before my first dawn redwood arrives. So much knowledge and insight in your video. Thank you for taking the time to share your experience and knowledge!
Hi Candice. It’s the 17th of June, 2024, and I’m getting ready to prune my DR forest. I prepped the 3 year old trees in pond baskets for an additional year, and then hard pruned them above and below ground before planting the forest. The trees are ready for their first pruning and thinning of the season after the first flush of growth. I had to re-watch this episode. It is still the most comprehensive primer on DRs out there, and I thank you for leaving it (and your channel) up. I’m a fan of @Dave’s Bonsai, so I can still see how your forest has developed. I don’t know if you still read the comments, but if you do, thanks again and enjoy your new direction. If you ever make it back to Bonsai, know that I’ll be watching.
So glad you posted this, I didn't know any of this information. Thank you so much.
I wish I had know it last spring!
I now have three or four Redwoods really putting on some great ramification but only after 15 years of mis-treatment through lack of understandng those clear rules you've stated. I have to thank Ryan Neil for first helping me understand the key to effective secondary and tertiary branch development. Holding off pruning those green fronds is so difficult sometimes!! Love your approach. Cheers
Such a common tree to start as prebonsai, but we don’t ever talk about how specific they are in handling pruning!
Thank you very much! Best Dawn Redwood advice I’ve received.
Great information, learned loads. Lovely composition, beautiful tree's 😍👏👏
Hey Candice! I've been growing my own Dawn Redwood forest. I've been so afraid to touch it this season fearing I'd ruin it. Then i thought of your video that I'd watched awhile back. I'm so glad i waited, and now feel a bit better about moving forward thanks to you! I really miss your videos, along with the knowledge i gained from watching them. I hope you, and your family are doing well. Like the last comment, if you ever decide to return, I'd immediately tune in! Peace ✌🏿☮️
Definitely will have some video updates!
Thanks for the great info. Very well explained 👍
After 45 years trying to learn what I could about bonsai, in all respect, I tip my hat to your, dare I say scholarly lesson on Dawn redwood pruning care. Never had a better explanation of what to do with this species. Thanks and regards, Dan Bialik, Raleigh, NC.
Def going to watch this video a few more times, thank you for the great info
Thanks Percy
I’m a huge Dawn redwood lover. I’ve planted several in the past year and can’t wait to see their growth.
So great to watch them burst to life
Great info and that display of trees is beautiful. Now I have to make a new oval pot. 👍🫶😉
Thanks for this great video! I got my first DR this year which prompted the purchase of 4 more... quickly becoming my favorite bonsai species!
So much you can do with them and they grow so fast!
Hi Candice, really useful video. May I make a suggestion; you give great direction on how and when to prune, and you show where the cuts should take place. If you could show video of you making the cuts, and the before and after, this would help solidify the learning. Thanks.
Thank you so much for this! The Dawn redwood is one of my favorite trees and now I feel armed with some knowledge how to develop them correctly.
They are great rapid growing trees and so pretty❤️
Thank you so much for sharing this. Very newbie bonsai enthusiast here who just gifted a redwood seedling. Now I have a valuable reference and some confidence to know what to do. Or rather, what _not_ to do this year 😉 I will be watching this video over and over in the coming years. Thank you!
You’ll enjoy tomorrow’s episode then!
@@Candice.BonsaiScience I did! And the key thing I learned is that dawn redwood rules don’t apply to coastal redwoods, which is what I have 😞
Well they are easier as they are a coniferous evergreen and then handled more like our Spruce varieties. You can email me if you have specific questions also! ccmso12@yahoo.com
Thank you so much for this video! I purchased a dawn redwood this last spring and I just had a feeling it was a strange tree, I decided to leave it alone at the time until I could learn more. I'm so glad I stumbled over this video! 😊
Waiting till you know what to do is never wrong!
@@Candice.BonsaiScience I hear that! I'm thankful I did 😂 I look forward to seeing more dawn redwood (and other bonsai hehe) content 😊
This is so incredibly helpful. I will be pruning my Dawn Redwood based off of notes from this video for sure. Thank you so much!
Have been growing these for a few years but it’s really helpful to have that great info well explained. Thank you from Bondi!
Great trees they are!
@@Candice.BonsaiScience I'm going back in again after looking around for more vids. You definitely have the best and most detailed info on these trees. Planning on applying this to mine this weekend. thanks again.
This coming spring we will be going in and doing and discussing early spring pinching on these as a technique since they are ready for that!
THANK YOU!! very helpful for me. i just found a redwood grove with a shit ton if vegetative offshoots that i stole some of and have no idea what to do with
This Forest was so fun to create! Glad you found it helpful
I would LIVE to have this all in writing for future reference! Fabulous info. Thank you.
I been looking for dawn redwood care/answer for my "cluster X " trees....you explained quite straightforward an very understandable steps to working with this tree...keep on keeping on..!!!
Glad you found them! We will be working on them more this spring!
Absolutely stunning landscape. Thank you for being so clear, having just bought a 4 tree forest for my husband.. he may kill me. 😂
Needless to say-what a lovely composition!
Thank you! It’s coming along nicely
Nice tutorial on the dawn redwood, some really good info I must say. I plan to treat mine this spring with your technique. I’m pretty confident success will prevail, every thing you said makes sense. Glad to be a new subscriber, thanks
Thanks for being here Robert! I also can’t wait to get the growing season started!!
Just watched again.
You girl are brilliant 👍👍👍😎 thank you 🙏
Well thank you sir 🤣
Thank you for sharing
Such good information that I couldn't find anywhere else! Thank you!
Thanks Jason!
My bible for dawn redwood. Thank you SO much!
You are so welcome! Glad you are finding it helpful ❤️
I have been fortunate to buy (at reasonable price) a large dawn redwood bonsai of approx. 25 years which has been neglected. I intend to apply the 'five rules' to it as it grows this summer. I am in the south of the UK. Hardiness zone 7-9. 👍 I also have a mature coast redwood! Redwood potty!! 🤣
Such great trees to work with! I’d love to see yours Gwen!
@@Candice.BonsaiScience Can I send pix over this message service?
@@Candice.BonsaiScience ... have sent you an email with a pic of 'the big one'. 🤣
Super glad I found your channel ❤ looking forward to seeing more videos!! Happy bonsai 🌳
Great explanation! I'm just starting seeds now. So watching whatever I can...
May the force be with you ❤️❤️
I have 9 of these now, so thank YOU for the help!
You can never have to many!
Thanks for this tutorial , very helpful.
Glad it was helpful!
Very good informative video, thank you for the clear explanation. Enjoyed watching and learning, thank you and greetings from Belgium!
Glad you found it useful!
Thanks for this video. I wasn't sure why I wasn't getting ramification. These trees sure are tough.
Bravo! Excellent tutorial. Thanks, keep growing
Thank you Matt♥️
Wow that was an amazing explanation. Thank you for sharing all that with us. I greatly appreciate it. I'm so glad I didn't trim any of my trees yet. 🙌
Thanks Grace!! Glad you learned how to bring them along!
Great video. Thank you.
I have redwoods on a local park that I go to every year and take a branch for cuttings from. I have my dad a six inch cutting from last year but he said to me today that because it was from the bottom of the branch and I had chopped the top that it wouldn't grow. I definitely felt a bit "duh" when you started taking about selecting a leader! So I'll tell him about it and hopefully he'll get his seven foot tree that he wants in a few years.
Thankyou 🙏 I have a big one in a pot in the garden, now I feel more able to make the right decisions with it.
Glad to hear that!
great info, thanks , lovely forest you have there
Bookmarked for the future in case I ever get a dawn redwood! 👍
my dawn redwood was about 7ft tall, got it on sale because top 5ish feet was dead. trunk is now about 1.5 inches across and its only 3ish feet tall. i got lucky on the find and because of your tips the tree has a bright future. thanks.
That's a great video, I really learned a lot from it, so my dawn redwood group will surely benefit from it :)
Awesome Michal! Great to hear ❤️❤️
Wow, this was extremely helpful. Thanks so much
Glad you found it helpful!
Thank you for the information. Did not know any of that. I have a very old and large DR that I’ve been working on the ramification for quite awhile but haven’t been entirely pleased with the progress. This new information will be very helpful. Thanks! 😁
Would this info also be applicable to Bald Cypresses?
E144 - when I pre spring prune the forest I talk about the trees that it crosses into and the ones that it doesn’t
This was SO helpful thank you!
This is Great!! Thank you Thank you!!!!
Glad you found it helpful
Fantastic 🌲👍🌲
Great tutorial - thanks!
Thank you♥️
Thank you.... 🙏 😔 🙏
A very informative video....
🙏 🖖 🙏
Glad you found it useful!
Awesome video! :)
Thank you!
Thank you so much for posting this video, I am new to the redwood game and feel like now at least I might not completely f*ck it up 😅
Lol the good news is they are hard to kill
Thank you , bonny lass
No problem!
Great video ❤️
Thank you Jacky!
Great video
Thank you Joseph
Massive thanks 👍❤️ That‘s essential information. I wish you could make those videos for all kind of trees. 😊 Develop each tree in it‘s best way. Love your style. 😘
I wonder there aren‘t many viewers up to now, but I‘ll bet this will change soon. 👍
In my playlists of each tree type the first video of each list usually has all the info and care.
Is there any specific tree type your needing information on?
@@Candice.BonsaiScience Thanks for asking. ❤️😊 I‘ve collected some yamadori horse chestnut trees, which do not propagate very well this year. Also some ashes, which develop quite well. Some willows (I found those in your playlist) and for the first time popular, from cuttings. Do you have experience with those trees? Any advice is highly appreciated. 😘
@@oachkatzlsmum many varieties of poplar can be a bit difficult in that they can randomly die back and are prone to some fungal issues. Let me know how it goes!
Dope! Very succinct thanks!
Thank you ♥️
Hello. I love your content and enthusiasm. I have a DR and I’m concerned that it will not lignify before winter. Can you tell me why I do not see the golden color on the branches? It still looks like new growth.
Excellent instructions. Do you plan an update on these trees ?
Would love to see it.
Just bought a group from a local nursery this has been a fantastically helpful video, thank you. Please can you make a similar video in the autumn, sorry fall.
We absolutely will see this tree this fall ❤️.
@@Candice.BonsaiScience Great thank you. A lot of people in the Bonsai society of which I am secretary here in southern England, bought groups of these trees recently at a nursery. I posted your video on our society facebook page encouraging them to view it. Have a good summer. Nice to see Nigel is a fan.
Great species specific video, great information, thanks for posting. Where did you educate yourself on this species, I’ve been growing theses for years and never come across this specific information?
I’m planning a statement piece this coming spring using many of my current Dawn Redwood crop, I’ve got some fairly large trees for a rustic forest. Your information will be very useful, thanks.
Most the DRW info was sourced from Master Ryan Neil.
Hi
Excellent instructional video. I’ve just been given a small forest grouping of 5 trees. The tree heights are around 12 inches (300 mm). The trunk bases are around half inch thick but there planting is about inch and a half to two inches apart in a 6 inch shallow oval pot
Would you recommend separating them out to develop them individually? They seem far too close together to allow any development of branches. Any repotting tips. I’m in the UK
Thanks
Very helpful info. I will be using this this year on my tree. Curious... at what time do you take your apex chops?? Thanks for the video and info!
Once the spring flush has hardened off and it’s time to go in and prune is a good time as there should then be enough time for any new apex growth to harden off before late fall/winter.
@@Candice.BonsaiScience Awesome! Thanks so much. :)
@@Candice.BonsaiScience This is Xosh from the comment above..Thanks again for your extremely helpful video! I worked on my tree a little today and thought you might be interested to see it. I tagged you in my description so hopefully others can find you. Thanks again!
ua-cam.com/video/qTBnqpWm1Cs/v-deo.html
Dang i thought i wanted to start into this maybe but she kinda scares me i cant lie 😢
The Dawn redwoods scare you?? Just get one and we will all work together with you ❤️
Asking about bald cypress because they are so similar. When deciding it's time to prune, how red does the branch have to be? A lot? Just A little? I have fronds that have bifurcated and they are turning color, but not entirely hardened. BTW, I have attached the five rules in my Bonsai Album database. Thanks.
I bought a dawn redwood which was about 4meters tall, which i cut back to about 1.5meter. it has some leaf-less branches but has buts along the tree itself. It is still in a big nursery pot with original nursery soil. Do u recomment to transfer it to bonsai soil and reduce the roots or keep it in there till it made branches with leafs?
Why don’t you email me a picture so I can give better advice. ccmso12@yahoo.com
Brilliant video.
I’m having trouble with my tree in sunny England.
Only top growth and all lower branches have died. Should I trunk chop this year ? Before spring. Thanks
I’d chop after the spring flush- and then after it starts to grow again so like kid june
@@Candice.BonsaiScience thanks loads 👍
do these rules work with tomato plants? I am growing them in a AMAZON knock off aerogarden for the winter
I don’t know how a vegetable would respond or why you would treat one the same?
What kind of Bonsai medium works best for Dawn RWs? Any kind like you would get at Lowes? A friend of mine uses "Farm Ocean Forest Soil".
great!
do you know what age metasequoia start to produce micro/megastrobili?
Hi Candice, amazing information and beautiful tree composition. I'm now adopting your 5 rules and hope my badly treated 3 year old redwood will develop as it should. I have a coastal redwood(sequoia sempervirens), do I treat this with the same rules? Shane.
Hi, After watching this video I see you are very knowledgeable on Dawn Redwoods. Can you please help me out, my little grove seems to be struggling. Not sure if it's over or under watered. Is there an email where I can send you some pictures. Thank you in advanced for your time and consideration! 😁
ccmso12@yahoo.com
@@Candice.BonsaiScience Thank you for the prompt response, I just emailed you.😁
Rookie here. Does this info roughly translate to the Coastal Redwood? Going to be my first shot at bonsai!
Hey Candice, i don't want to be a pest but, what does it mean if the frawns aren't fully extending. Mine are kinda curly. I'd love to send you a pic of it if possible. If not i understand.
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Where did u get the landscape and pot for the forest?
Great tip for controlling branch development. However, aren't the pot you're using here way too shallow when growth is the goal?
No, this is a 4” deep 32” pot, so plenty big enough for this stage of development in a forest grouping where we are trying to develop now the branching as a cohesive forest piece. The trees were developed individually in pond baskets and then placed in this big training pot when the trunks were my desired thickness.
Hi, I just bought 2 Dawn Redwoods from a mom and pop nursery. They are very skinny, half the size of a pencil, but they are 3ft tall. I'm brand new to all this and don't know what to do to start as a bonsai. Should I cut the top down about a foot so the trunk would thicken instead of just growing taller? Oh they are in a 1 gal. pot. Thanks for any info you can give.
Well I just browsed thru your videos hoping to find something for newbies like myself but couldnt find anything. Can you recommend a channel for someone like myself?
This is a great channel for you then 🤣. Since you just got them let them acclimate and then this fall we will do a trunk chop when the foliage changes color and starts to drop
I’m always open to helping in email also ccmso12@yahoo.com
@@Candice.BonsaiScience I will have to write myself a note. Thanks
Hello! Question, so I can do some structural pruning in the winter before the buds open? If so how much can I prune? Thank you. Love your video and the technical talk. Fuckery is my favorite jejeje!
I wouldn’t - wait a bit until you see where bud swelling is occuring
@@Candice.BonsaiScience thanks for the reply. I see the buds and a few are opening up.
Thank you! That was so helpful, especially the part about letting the branch redden before pruning. Did you start your forest from cuttings or seedlings? I have a forest started but I think I let the trees get too big before I put them in the forest grouping and now I want to start another with smaller trees so I can do a better job from the beginning.
(3) were bought as 5 yo cuttings last year and then developed individually in an oar basket. 4 were purchased from and auction probably the same age and left to feather so they stayed smaller. 3 are cuttings from my original 3 I took over the winter
Can you truck chop a Dawn Redwood to get trunk thickness the way you would a maple? Would it backbud strongly if it's a healthy tree? I'm thinking of a situation where you basically take a tall tree down to an 18" stub without any branches. Would a DR respond well to that technique or would it likely kill the tree?
Absolutely! I’d probably do that type of chop after the spring flush hardens off and then the tree starts growing strong again - so for me like mid June
@@Candice.BonsaiScience Well, that sounds great, thanks Candice. I ask because I have a the chance to pick up a large one in the next week or so but it's every bit 10' now with very little low branching (as you said, very apical dominant) so I'm on the fence about it. I'd have to take it down to 6' or so even to get it home. Probably best to just look into a forest group in the future. Thanks again!
@@ryanbavery1247 is it a 10 ft tree in landscaping?
@Bonsai Science it's in a pot but yes, it would otherwise be a landscaping tree.
Is it going well in the pot and can wait to repot not this year but the next year? Or are you going to need to repot it this spring right away?
Were did you get the pot from ?
VERY cool.
What do you do with the top? Just cut straight across and wait for shoots to grow and then select the shortest?
I have a 1ft tall redwood. I dont think it’s a ‘Dawn’ but it’s a Redwood that I just potted this year.
Yes, I chop above a side branch so if a new bud doesn’t form and go up I can wire up that side branch.
Aha! Thank you!!!
Can you train a loop into the trunk or a sideways windswept look or is this not the right species to do this with?
@@chancellorism you could absolutely add movement to the trunk instead of doing a formal upright. IMO trying to maintain one as a windswept tree would be a nightmare 🤣
First Bonzai so nightmare probably too much of a challenge 😅
That’s how you super crop weed too. This bonsai stuff is just like weed.
I know nothing of that lol
Thanks it was really helpfull! So i have one Dawn Redwood in a bigger Pot and he´s doing very fine .But in the other hand my small forest that i got recently, some of the top tips and leafes dried out so hard in one day you can crush them into dust between your fingers. It was not a hot day or windy either. You have any experience with that thing? I thought if they too dry the first thing they to is getting brown. Do i need do water a reddawn forest more than 2 times a day maybe i dont want the roots to rot. Sorry for my bad english ^^
I find mine actually do best in shade with just some early morning sun.
Subscribed because clusterfuck. But for real, awesome video and I learned tons of stuff! Me and three young Redwoods (one mother, two kids) say thank you! Will try do manage my own clusterfuck from here on out. I repotted them again this second season/spring, and I removed buds super early in spring to direct growth and get that staggered structure from the get go. Is that ok/good if I know I wont be needing a branch there?
Depends- I leave mine all on until I do the post flush pruning since all the energy concentrated on the trunk will help it thicken. Removing the buds early isn’t necessarily bad or wrong - but it also removes potential better branches to switch to
The same word was in my mind wiring my windswept Chinese elm today 🤣
Interesting. I have a big dawn redwood bonsai but i only do my pruning in the winter though, so to minimise the mistakes. Do you prune it in the summer so as to allow more sunlight reach the interior branches? Or does it help the second flush in the autumn?
More sunlight and to push a second flush of growth - in a good season you can get 2-3 flushes. Yes pruning one a year in winter minimizes wrong cuts - but then you miss out on directing energy to what you want to develop and pushing another flush to give you more to work with
Do you know if the same rules apply to the coastal redwood?
I can do a profile on Costal Redwoods with their information- O have had a few ask the same question!
Nice grouping and kudos for you for getting a comment from Nigel! Did you grow your grouping from seed? I'll revisit you later...
Some were purchased and some were cuttings. DRWS grow very easily from cuttings.
Hello! I am waiting on a new 3-4 foot Dawn Redwood! I am wondering if I can keep it in a container until I find a permanent home for it. I know some trees need an air pot so that the roots aren’t restricted and become circular. I don’t want to keep it in a container for a few years just for it to topple over when planted in the ground. I currently have a rainbow eucalyptus in an air pit for this very reason! Thanks!
Absolutely no issue keeping it in the container - but if it’s going to be a in the ground tree I would get it there quick if you have real winter. I’d love to see pics of your young rainbow tree - I have been curious how they would work the last couple years and if they get colors and exfoliate when young.
@@Candice.BonsaiSciencethanks! Can I keep the Dawn Redwood in a container indoors thru a winter? Or does it need to go thru winter?
Yes! I can send you the 🌈 eucalyptus. Not sure how to upload pics in chat. No colors for a few years... I’m told.
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DRWs need winter dormancy hours. Mine I harden off outside to 32-35f then they go to a cold room that’s 37-42 for the winter
Can you apply to pruning Coastal Redwoods or is this specific to dawn redwoods?
Do you treat a swamp cypress the same way as the dawn redwood?
No
Hello
When do you chop the apex to control the height?
If your wanting to keep portions of the previous trunk that’s developed from the trunk chop prior then you won’t chop in that area again until all the ‘rules’ have been met.
If your wanting to trunk chop down into hardwood then any time.
If chopping down to hardwood pick a spot just above a bar branch location or spot with newer green suckers growing - then give it a few weeks to see if it will push a new apex bud out growing upright - if it doesn’t you made your chop in a location then to wire up one of the bar branches or new growth pieces to become the new apex leader
Would you happen to know if this same info translates over to Coastal Redwoods and Bald Cypress?
I have not looked into those in depth but most likely the coastal redwood has similar parallels. The Bald Cypress is a completely unrelated species to the Dawn Redwood.
The one thing missing seems to be where to prune.
As in the length? - if you wait for it to redden, bifurcate, and this set buds then you just prune to your desired length.
@@Candice.BonsaiScience okay thanks that’s what i was curious about. Just did mine tonight and this is what I did so thanks so much for the video.
😂funny