I got this Cham. Thyoides (Top Point) today as an early Christmas gift. You can't see from the photo but the shop has sprayed it with glitter. Can I expect this to survive Christmas? If he does survive can this species be styled to become a bonsai? Thanks for any advice.
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Have no idea about the glitter, how harmful it might or might not be. Hopefully they just shook some glitter on it and you can just shake it off again.
You posted this in indoor bonsai, but I think your dwarf white cedar is not really an indoor bonsai tree. It is a cold hardy temperate forest tree and as such needs a period of cold dormancy. Depending on how cold your temps are now and what conditions it has been maintained under, you probably don't want to do that now. You definitely don't want to plunge a new bonsai directly from indoor temps to freezing with no transition.
But next fall you will want to leave your tree outside and let it gradually go dormant. It is hardy to below zero. I don't think you get a lot of that in Lancashire?
It should be a lovely bonsai subject. Here's a couple pictures:
https://www.artofbonsai.org/galleries/schmalenberg.php
You posted this in indoor bonsai, but I think your dwarf white cedar is not really an indoor bonsai tree. It is a cold hardy temperate forest tree and as such needs a period of cold dormancy. Depending on how cold your temps are now and what conditions it has been maintained under, you probably don't want to do that now. You definitely don't want to plunge a new bonsai directly from indoor temps to freezing with no transition.
But next fall you will want to leave your tree outside and let it gradually go dormant. It is hardy to below zero. I don't think you get a lot of that in Lancashire?
It should be a lovely bonsai subject. Here's a couple pictures:
https://www.artofbonsai.org/galleries/schmalenberg.php
