Redwoods have shallow root systems and can absorb moisture through the air… Anyway when they came to unclog one of our drains 2 years ago; they do it now from the inside with a drill and patch some how so it is pretty non invasive. That was a septic line. It back flowed for like a month before we fixed it! Happens every 10 years or so with the ash.
Here is that Coast redwood and glowing Bald Cypress, plus another Bald Cypress that came up this spring in the front near side walk… i just threw some sand on top of abunch of Bald Cypress seed pods last fall and one came up!
The one in Ault Park is bigger which is where i found the seedling last summer. It didnt nut though last year because of the drought so probably wont see any this year, bit I found 50 Bald Cypress seedlings at the pnc bank in Hyde Park. More just keep comming up. I am using those all over the place to deck out all my fishing spots this year… see what takes.
Here is that glowing Bald Cypress again during day.
It is important to understand Bald Cypress is relativly simple DNA strand that dates back to the Paleazoic era making it one of the oldest living species on the planet. It isnt hexaploid like Coast Redwood, but is a diverse speicies with a very large gnome. You have a simple DNA sequence with a gnome 3 times larger than human you get a species that is highly adaptable.
I’m growing quite a few dawn redwoods and bald cypress in the VA/MD area, they are being grown as pre-bonsai materials. Some are planted in the ground and some are in pots dunked in water. The tree on the left is a DR and the two to its right are BCs. They were collected as seedlings last year and have grown 3-4ft this season.
I have a few going right now. I cut a few branches off my tree in the early spring and stuck them in airpots and left them. They rooted quickly. I feel like they rooted as fast as willow. Here’s a couple of them from early August. I have a sequoia cutting between them that seems to have rooted as well…just not as aggressively.
I don’t have any sequoias, but around the 1/2 acre farmpond here at the house, i have several baldcypress, a couple of pond cypress (Taxodium ascendens), and one Dawn redwood that i grew from seed collected in the Auburn University arboretum. The DR and one of the PCs have struggled, as they are essentially planted in gummy clay subsoil at the edge of the pond. The baldcypress and other pond cypress must have lucked out and gotten better soil at their spots, 'cuz they look happy as can be.
Not sure. If you could keep the humidity up maybe it would work. I’d be afraid of a stick that young and green drying up, but I’m no expert on rooting cuttings…especially DR.
This sequoia was planted in my city in the Netherlands by someone in their front garden in 1975. I remember it beeing a gorgeous tree around 15 years ago, when they didnt have to prune the stems out of their windows😆
