small Hinoki starter from the Monastery

[Japonicus]

The thoweil on the left from last October





Still sporting some Winter foliage
I butchered the root bound ball pretty good to jump start the soil transition. Truly a wane n rain potting up.
Found a twin trunk when I started thinning out the foliage around the nebari.

 

[Maloghurst]

How’s the sekka doing? Was yours the one that we thought was dying?

 

[Japonicus]

How’s the sekka doing? Was yours the one that we thought was dying?

Probably was. I knew it would have a dead-ish crown this Spring but I really felt it would not die from the beginning
just overly troubled. In other words a distorted poorly formed crown in the foliage.
There appears to be buds lower than the crown that will become a newer, more short crown

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Sekka Hinoki trouble

How often do you water your tree? Are the branches that you are having trouble with also the branches you have just wired? Good points, but I water PRN. It's been rainy just enough to avoid watering. This golden variety has been on the N side of the house since last month with all the rest of...

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The potting of the Sekka was strictly out of dislike of the soil, and permeability of the root ball.
Totally against my approach of getting it really strong the year prior to potting up.

 

[Japonicus]

Almost four years later now Thoweil gets a second wiring.
Really hoping I didn't manhandle it too bad. Ended up
switching to aluminum wire for 2 branches. Not my day for wiring,
but I'm excited for this little project named Thoweil.
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I wanted to rotate the top 1/3 of the tree counterclockwise, but I laid the wire on clockwise.
Next year if not this August, I will get it into its 1st ceramic or mica pot.

 

[Japonicus]

Did a little thinning yesterday