Growing a bald cypress grove indoors

[electronfusion]

I should add that the trees I started with were all bigger (I didn't want to wait for whips to become trees), with 2, 3, and 4 inch wide trunks already, so they may have been a lot less adaptable than small seedlings.

 

[haydenbraxton]

I'm also toying with the idea of an indoor BC bonsai in an open-top aquarium. I know nothing about bonsai though, so excited to learn. I'll probably start some non-aquarium bonsai and just bonsai in water in parallel as an experiment and see how they all do. And I'll probably start with seedlings or small whips so I can easily experiment with different setups.

Based on what I was reading elsewhere, it also seemed like indoor BC might be possible, but we'll see. The fish they'll be with are from the same native range, so I thought about chucking some ice cubes in the tank throughout winter to help encourage dormancy. Would honestly help the fish as well.

 

[electronfusion]

@haydenbraxton I'll be excited to hear the results of this experiment. One important consideration tho: chucking ice cubes in would just stress the fish with rapid temperature shifts and not effect the tree. To chill an aquarium, you'd need an aquarium chiller, which similar to an aquarium heater, has a built in thermostat to keep temperatures stable.

 

[Baron von Smoogle]

Looks like the OP never came back after the one post. That tells me it probably did not work for him.

 

[haydenbraxton]

@haydenbraxton I'll be excited to hear the results of this experiment. One important consideration tho: chucking ice cubes in would just stress the fish with rapid temperature shifts and not effect the tree. To chill an aquarium, you'd need an aquarium chiller, which similar to an aquarium heater, has a built in thermostat to keep temperatures stable.

Yeah. That's a good call on the chiller. We keep it pretty cool in the winter, so a budget cooling fan to get it just a few degrees cooler will probably be fine.