Metasequoia

I bought this Metasequoia in 2003 from Danny Use at bonsai-center Ginkgo.

The first styling was done in December 2003,and now in 2009 I styled the tree again and re-potted it in a Chinese pot.

And on the last photo you can see a virtual,this is how the tree will look like next year

This tree becomes better each year
Greetings Ed

Ed,

I need to be brutally honest, I liked the original destination as depicted in pic 4 & 5 but I am having difficulty with it's present direction.

Rick Moquin wrote:Ed,

I need to be brutally honest, I liked the original destination as depicted in pic 4 & 5 but I am having difficulty with it's present direction.

My thoughts exactly. I like what you have done so far, Ed. Here is your last virt (light adjusted) and a possible development based on images 4 and 5:

Hi Dorothy,I love your virtual
I will use the lowest branch on the right,to accomplish your idea to make the tree more in balance
I will show you next year the further development from this Metasequoia.
And thank you for your idea to make this tree better
Greetings Ed

Ah yes! The credibility of sparse growth (due to damage ) on the left has once again been established.

I like what you have done with this tree. I have one that started as a seedling in a three-inch garden pot. It has been growing in the ground now for five years, with regular pruning of the apex. I wasn't sure what else to do with in in terms of style, and seeing yours has helped me decide what it will do. Thanks!

Hi Carolee,I am glad you get a idea to style your tree by looking this bonsai
Can you please put your photo's on this forum,when you style your tree
Greetings Ed

Update Juli 2010,I let it grow freely this year
Greetings Ed

Update from this tree
Greetings Ed

Wow, this is the most beautiful Dawn Redwood bonsai I've ever seen. Great work!

Very nice work Ed!!!!! I've got 25 or 30 of them in the ground that I've been cutting back for the last 10 years and now I know what to do with them thanks to your post. Will be intrested in watching how yours progresses.

Randy

Hi Ed

Very nice development. Really a very interesting tree.
Congratulations .

Gretings Pavel

Hi thanks for the nice replays.
I will show the tree again when it is full in leaf
Greetings Ed

I have a juvenile metasequoia, probably about three years old. It stands about 16 inches but although there is the start of thickening of the nebari area, it is really still 'a stick in a pot'. I have grasped its requirement for survival. What can I do to accelerate its growth and development. I really can't plant it in the ground.

for a nice winter silhouet wouldn't it be an idea to just begin over again ?
Then you can get rid off that S-curve.
For summer silhouet I like the way you're aiming for.

Gr

FRed

Hello Ed. Have been looking at thee posts for the last couple of days to see how the replies went. I have real problems with the development of the crown of this tree. Far too curvy for such a formal trunk in my opinion.

Hi Will,your absolutely right about the curvy top.
Each year I am thinking how to solve this problem,if I straighten the top the tree is to long and must short it heavily.
The tree is made from two branches and it was not easy to make a good tree from it,and the curve make the tree more compact.
The Summersilhouet is what I like and want for this tree,maybe you have a solution to make this tree a bit better than this.
I am open for good ideas,if this make the tree better in the future
Greetings Ed

Hi Ed.
Much better already.
Difficult trees develop sometimes in to something interesting.
But i wondering here, would it be to consistent if one would cut of the whole apex branch
and work further with the remaining back branch??
regards, Sunip