Specialty Gardening: Bald cypress bonsai from seedling, 1 by wormfood

wormfood wrote:
I couldn't wait, I've been dying to chop the upper growth off because there's hardly anything on the bottom. There was one large branch coming out and I cut just below that. I can't believe I did that. But there's still a month or two of good weather here.

Rob Kempinski did a demonstration for our bonsai group, you'd think I would have learned something. But his 3 yr old plant was so much thicker because it grew in the wild.

The soil has to be ammended also, does the tree need recovery time before that? I might just dig a big hole, line it with plastic and plant it in that, like an in ground pool of dirt.