🔵 Coast Redwood Yamadori, #2351

Second yamadori collection from Grace’s Skyline property. 12/10/23. Dug up a dual trunk of decent taper, with a fat base, very few fine roots so potted in a wide nursery pot—mix of Perlite/Pumice, black lava, Akedama, and potting soil. Will hope that fine roots develop and will then chop the large base flat—as it currently it taller than wide.

The tree was originally tall and my last attempt at hardwood cuttings appear to be healthy. Potted in a mix of lava/perlite/Akadama/black basalt fines/potting soil.

Summer 2024 declared all hardwood cuttings as dead—did not root.

Dec 2024 separation and repotting

Difficult to shape a tattered base with trunks being close and resulting in flat faces.
Shaped flat face with some blended taper, sealant, and potted with pumice. Followed by 1:1:1 mix, and topped with the original blend (some organic).
Final clean up of lower shoots.

Coming out of the 10 gal pot, the plant was healthy, fine roots developed mostly at the bottom—but about 8-10” below the soil line. Risked cutting 4” off the bottom to reduce the base height, removing some fine roots.

Styling consideration for angled trunk. Not a traditional or natural movement for redwood, but can be creative.

Allows the straighter trunk to grow upright and thicken a tapered base.

Sep 2024

Greedy M* F*

Possibly I should’ve thought twice before starting air layers, but I could not imagine styling these as tall as what I collected. Thought I might start some nice Shohin if these root.

Late Aug 2024

Continued growth after pulling suckers off base — Aug 9

Showing promising fresh buds (Jul 2024)

JT SBBK

Most natural twin trunks are adjacent or more of a “V” than a “U”
May look for the better of the two and pot separately—or bring the two closer together
Cut height as low as the lowest branch to be a new apex—but not a stiff branch, should be close to the trunk