Bald cypress cascade update | The Bonsai Supply 

That's some amazing outside-the-basket thinking! Love it

Hello, Jerome. I watch your videos, because I am learning English language, and your voice and emphasis are very helpful for listening comprehension, and I am fond of gardening and flowers.

Very clever, impressive and great vision with the styled trunk!

I have a friend who builds small shade nets for the upper part of his cascades so that the lower parts get full sun but the top part is always in the shade. He also angles the cascading part upwards. For a while he had a bench that he would shade and hang the cascade parts off the shaded bench into the full sun but it didn't fully accommodate all of his trees so he switched to little shade umbrellas. Seems to even the growth out pretty well.

Thank you! Looks amazing!

Love this idea. Would have also love to have seen it longer that way but I get it. I could be wrong, but I think it would have gotten root bound quickly. Even if the tree is planted “upside down”, gravity will still take over and roots will grow downward. So the only way roots will climb and fill up the pot is if it got root bound and up was the only way left to go. You could plant it upside down sticking a lot of the trunk in the soil. Therefor there would be open soil for the roots to come downward. If that makes sense. Regardless, excellent idea! You are a blessing to this community. Love your content and always look forward to it

Oooo It’s like I had never seen it before, although I did watch a year ago. Still wonderful🥰🥰🥰

Very cool.

Lovely

Out of the box thinking to get a real masterpiece. GG

Instead of hanging it upside down...i can help you out here. I did this with a wisteria. I bent the vine and wrapped landscape fabric ( the woven fabric kind) around the pot and vine. I left the end open so the the end ( about 3/4 initially then half due to same sun issue.) What I found was 1 it was a pain to water so I stuck a small pvc water pipe through the fabric to help watering. Aside from that it actually grew noticeably faster than my others by alot. I think because I blocked light on the lower part the part that got sun wanted to elongate to put out more leaves to compensate. Mold was never an issue nor was rot, it breathed quite well actually. When I took the cloth back off to change soil the base was huge by comparison and I left it open to see what it would do. Honestly I thought it might kill it but instead it shot out a ton of new growth where it was covered. Considering that BC is also deciduous and back buds easily I'd go out on a limb and say it would probably work with them too. By happenstance I just purchased one so I may actually try the method out on BC myself now that I think about it. Worth a shot

Gorgeous! I have TWO shepherd hooks 5that would work Great for this upside down method .. And I have 7 newly purchased bald cypress rooted cuttings .. thank you!

A bald cypress never looked so good. Amazing!

Nice share

You’re creating a BEAUTIFUL, “elegant” looking bonsai!! Loved your “outside-the-basket [or cascade pot] thinking”, as Garin Knutson said! Would shading the top portion of the bonsai work as a way to decrease vigor and growth at the top? Would using some reflective material beneath the lower cascade, as Michael McCarthy suggested, be an option? Thank you for your videos and examples of your expert, creative work!!! Hello to Mari.

what if you put a reflective surface (like a mirror) below the pot to reflect light back up to the lower cascade to allow it to grow more vigorously?

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One question .. how often must bald cypress be reported, trimmed, to prevent busting the small diameter cascade pot?

I have one Idea for you tha you could try. Youse an artificial growing light source and use it from the opposite way. I mean from the bottom into the direction to heaven lighten the tree. so the tree can grow in direction to the light source. It would solve the problem you are shown in this video that you solved in a different way. What do you thing about my solution?

Foisting

Cypress does not grow like that in the wild. They grow in swamps and marshes but not on a mountain side