Montezuma Cypress growing & care tips please.
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Montezuma Cypress growing & care tips please.
I just purchased a nice size Montezuma Cypress but cannot find growing and care guides online. I saw a lot of reference to it as John Naka's first bonsai but not much else.
Does anyone have some tips to share?
Does anyone have some tips to share?

Poink88- Member
Re: Montezuma Cypress growing & care tips please.
I don't think there's much difference, except less knees and maybe less cold hardy.
Russell Coker- Member
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Russell Coker wrote:
I don't think there's much difference, except less knees and maybe less cold hardy.
Did we determine that this was close to something else? Bald cypress?
Jkd2572- Member
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Just interesting.
http://www.delange.org/Tule/Tule.htm
http://www.delange.org/Tule/Tule.htm
Jkd2572- Member
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I have one growing in the yard, or had one, I don't live there anymore. They are just like your typical bald cypress, except the limbs have a natural tendency to weep. Care should be pretty much the same.
John Lee- Member
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Good to know.Russell Coker wrote:I don't think there's much difference, except less knees and maybe less cold hardy.
I was looking at Google images and I didn't see a flat top version but saw a lot more different "style" (in natural setting). Mine will probably be a pine looking tree though I initially planned on a flat top. Thoughts on this?
Thanks guys!!!
Poink88- Member
Re: Montezuma Cypress growing & care tips please.
As Jeremy's last link would indicate, there was/is debate among taxonomists as to the distinctiveness between Taxodium mucronatum, T. distichum, and even T. ascendans.
The natural habitats in which each grows is different, and T. mucronatum does grow a long way from the other two. However, they all cross pollinate when grown together. Florida taxonomists I used to associate with are convinced they're all subspecies of T. distichum.
At any rate, as bonsai, treat it as you would treat a bald cypress.
The natural habitats in which each grows is different, and T. mucronatum does grow a long way from the other two. However, they all cross pollinate when grown together. Florida taxonomists I used to associate with are convinced they're all subspecies of T. distichum.
At any rate, as bonsai, treat it as you would treat a bald cypress.
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JimLewis- Member
Re: Montezuma Cypress growing & care tips please.
That should be easy enough. Thanks!JimLewis wrote:At any rate, as bonsai, treat it as you would treat a bald cypress.
Poink88- Member

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