20 year old Sequoia Tree in Pot
- Thread starter Javi
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Colorado
Masterpiece
That’s pretty huge and awesome!
If it were me, I would repot into a wider but shallower bonsai pot next spring. I am not sure about the exact timing for sequoia. You may need to do some research on that. But generally, the spring is the safest time to repot most species.
I would use an akadama, pumice, lava mixture in a 2:1:1 ratio when you repot it.
Make sure that you anchor it well into the new pot with wire tie downs!
Hope this helps. It is a cool tree and you don’t see many sequoia bonsai.
If it were me, I would repot into a wider but shallower bonsai pot next spring. I am not sure about the exact timing for sequoia. You may need to do some research on that. But generally, the spring is the safest time to repot most species.
I would use an akadama, pumice, lava mixture in a 2:1:1 ratio when you repot it.
Make sure that you anchor it well into the new pot with wire tie downs!
Hope this helps. It is a cool tree and you don’t see many sequoia bonsai.
Crazy Diamond
Omono
How tall is that thing? I guess it wont be easy to force backbuding lower in the trunk and idk if they graft well, so not a lot of options
Coastal redwoods backbud readily on a bare area of trunk if their upper branches have been removed (learned that one year when I mistakenly left mine outside throughout a Michigan winter), but I don’t know if Giant sequoias behave the same way. Same genus, so it at least seems plausible. The bigger unknown is whether or not they’ll backbud on wood that’s 20 years old.
Crazy Diamond
Omono
Yeah its a complicated situation in a lot of aspects, that one look like giant sequoia, maybe the best is keep it as garden niwaki or something
rockm
Spuds Moyogi
Would help to know the OP's location. Looks like So.Cal?
It’s 9.5 feet tall. It’s in original pot. It came from my neighbor next door. I’ve tried to mimic the location where he had it for 20 years. Sacramento, California. As you can see, brown leaves at top. Really hot here at times. I placed it on rollers so I can move easily if necessary.
DavidBoren
Mame
This.
And after a year in said "wider but shallower bonsai pot", assuming it is healthy, I would see how it responds to being cut down to ~8 feet tall. If it backbuds... I would cut it to ~7 feet a year later... and ~6 feet a year later... and ~5 a year after that. Again, that is assuming it backbuds after each haircut. Regardless, the tree will probably never be smaller than 4-5 feet tall.
I would not cut the top on any year you repot or do root work.
