Bare Root Dawn Redwood, Metasequoia Giveaway St Louis, MO Area
Toronado3800 Zone 6 St Louis
7 years ago
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ISO Advice about Dawn Redwoods
Comments (15)scotjute - Thanks for the recommendation. I've never heard a complaint about Forest Farm. I'll place the order this morning. The nurseryman who sold me the 6'+ trees said when he got them less than a year before, they were 1.5' tall. Is that possible? Terry - thanks for the advice. I don't want to create a solid wall of dawn redwoods so I increased the spacing between trees. I visited a Coastal Redwood park near SF this spring. Some trees were growing inches apart - if you lay down inside a grove and look up, it's a remarkable sight. I wondered about the feasibility of small dawn redwood grove, planted very close like that. Spruce: You are having far more success with your seedlings. At least 25% haven't leafed out. Some are leafing out from the bottom, others have buds. No sign of life in the tupelos. Weeds are a bear and it's only May. I planned to use a pre-emergent herbicide but by the time all the seedlings were planted, it was too late. I look forward to updates in your "planting on my new 6 acres" topic....See MoreDawn Redwood
Comments (38)Before I yard planted metasequoia in Texas I would compare the climate to what St Louis had last year. Our record setting heat and drought, which might be normal for your area, would probably have killed my decade old metasequoia if not for this ridiculously heavy watering schedule I went to. Now it was rough on many of our natives also and maybe mine was just acclimated to the climate it knew its whole life, but I don't know how much heat and drought metasequoia is built for....See MoreWhy can't I grow a Dawn Redwood?
Comments (19)I think I planted mine in NJ/Zone 7 in 2010 or so, from a four footer and now it's at least 20 feet tall. This time of day, the sun hits it at a certain angle and the leaves look yellow-green (even though it is the all green species, not a GoldRush, etc.). What's to say. It's impressive still being able to plant trees at a mature age and being able to look forward to a Sequoia a few years down the line!! I just limbed up mine a bit too. Should do NO HARM, btw. But I would encourage you to water as we are about to start a heat wave here in the East and much of the country. They are okay in heat and drought but NOT AS MUCH so as Bald Cypresses. (Which is btw, another terrific tree!) I have about a half dozen each of Bald Cypress and Dawn Reds to be planted out back in the Autumn. Cheers!...See MoreDawn Redwood
Comments (28)Dawn redwoods are easy to grow from cuttings. Or pick one up at your nursery in the Bonsai section in 2" pot. I have grown DR and Bald Cypess, Pond cypress side by side in pots; to see which would grow the fastest. Starting with ~14" plants in 5gal containers, moving to 20gal eventually. It was almost a tie at the end of the season. The plants all reached 7-8ft in one season here in California (east bay side of San Francisco Bay). Or Fremont and Union City to be more exact, zone 9. Two of the trees currently reside in my back yard and now after 16 years are about 45ft tall. Wonderful trees! (Constant moisture, nutrients and Microrhizia) for test. Black plastic Pots in almost all day sun sitting on concrete patio for heat sink. Our weather here rarely reaches the 90s in the summer though. Extremely rare the 100s....See MoreToronado3800 Zone 6 St Louis
7 years agotoronado_3800
7 years ago
Drat, my source is out of bare rooters again and we only have a few left lol.
Not sure the potting soil, zip tie and zip lock storage method would work for every species (that's you I'm talking about nyssa sylvatica!) but metasequoia seems not to mind over a month.
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