Dawn Redwood

By now I’m very happy to see that everything works out well and repotting + root pruning didn’t effekt the tree much. In my view this tree need more width and more ramification. So cutting the foliage back might help it produce more side shoots at the branches.

Good it survived, the foliage emerges. I love how it looks so feathery as it expands its leaves. Now I wait for the tree to grow throughout the summer and maybe prune it.

Sadly I accidentally dropped the photos of this event. I didn’t cut much root but I took out the large knobbly bit at the bottom of the base. The rest was simply filling the new large pot with endless amounts of soil. Btw this is the biggest pot I own. This should give the tree enough room to conquer and grow larger with a thicker trunk.

You can see the big wounds of 2024 where I reset the whole tree. But new grows has emerged evenly. Throughout the year I left this tree alone and fertilized it through spring and summer. I don’t wire the tree yet because the branches are to thin.

As you can see the pot stands inside a larger pot, which is preserved for next years spring. My expectation is that the tree will thrive in a larger pot. And while I’m on it I can remove the woody round bit at the bottom front. That’s really ugly.