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tracey_shafer
12-24-2008, 04:50 PM
I got a Dawn Redwood for Christmas (Metasequoia Glyptostrobibes). The pot was shattered when it arrived and it took several weeks for the replacement pot to get here. When it finially got here I was so busy with holiday orders today is the first time I have had a chance to think about transplanting it. I kept it wrapped in the plastic the pot was wrapped in and put it out in my cold plant room so the soil is still moist. But when I started to peel back the broken pot it already seems rootbound.
This is only my second bonsai, I did in the first by keeping it in the house too warm so am very much a novice and can use alot of advice. This is a nice tree.
And my DD says if I kill this one she will not get me another.
http://media7.dropshots.com/photos/472911/20080124/172240.jpg (http://www.dropshots.com/tracey_shafer#date/2008-01-24/17:22:40)
http://media8.dropshots.com/photos/472911/20080124/172316.jpg (http://www.dropshots.com/tracey_shafer#date/2008-01-24/17:23:16)

Just Jessie
12-24-2008, 05:46 PM
My dawn redwoods live outside, I am not sure you can keep one in the house. They need the cold to go dormant. Ask Dick he will know.

tracey_shafer
12-24-2008, 06:01 PM
Jessie it is really cold in my plant room, I have to crack the door to the house open to keep my plants from freezing. I have several against the window that have frozen anyway. I just need to know if I have to trim those roots while I am putting it into a new unbroken pot for the moment.

tracey_shafer
12-24-2008, 06:43 PM
Well I found this on U tube so I am going to get to work then I will keep it indoors for a few days to recover. I don't think it would be good to put it right back in the freezing cold after transplanting it and trimming the roots.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f5JdbwMQu4E

Robert
12-24-2008, 10:11 PM
Jessie it is really cold in my plant room, I have to crack the door to the house open to keep my plants from freezing. I have several against the window that have frozen anyway. I just need to know if I have to trim those roots while I am putting it into a new unbroken pot for the moment.


Do not trim any roots now while the tree is in its dormant state. I'd just slip pot it into a slightly larger pot for now, doesn't matter what kind of pot, plastic,wooden box,or??? you could even just wrap the root-ball in burlap to hold it together till spring. Keep it in your cold room. Then in spring when the buds start to elongate root trim/re-pot in a new pot with a suitable bonsai soil mix.

By the way, roots in the pic. look every healthy, nice tree.

Hope this helps, Robert

dick benbow
12-25-2008, 12:54 AM
Excellent advice robert, I concurr.....Merry Christmas tracey!

tracey_shafer
12-25-2008, 05:08 PM
Robert I got that advice way too late, I should have asked long before I started. It is indoors now in the garage with the fish tanks and grow lights. I will have to lower the roots. I re-rooted too high and they are exposed put I ran out of time last night. We were going out and were already very late.