Bonsai axie tank

[axiekeepeer]

Ok this is getting sad. There is a dwarf bald cypress used for indoor bonsai even I know that. Sorry, but thats just basic research done by a newb.

I'm gonna get something local from the garden center that might possibly work and figure out a way to make it work.
Some rescources say shefflerra would be best for this, others say ficus could work, ill see what I can get and make it happen.
I'm geussing that this Kind of project I'm doing is something that never gets done in bonsai, cause there really is no reason for it to have.

Ill keep u All updated on what plants I end up killing.

[The Ficus Guy]

No Bald Cypress, regardless of its size, is suitable for indoor growing. Wherever you're getting that information from is wrong.

[axiekeepeer]

Well I found a small ficus for eight bucks. Has an interesting shape to start with. I'm gonna set it up in an essentially drip hydroponic setup with lavarock and smooth pebbles. The plant will be able to reach standing heavily circulaited water if it wants/can. Ill get it set up today.

My earlier post was of frustration... Didnt mean it to be so harsh. While ive foind that u can do indoor swamp cypress it is reccommended to be put outdoors during summer for best results due to extra air circulation and light.
This would have been my first choice if I could have purchased locally as I run cooling fans and will be providing as much light as neccesary. I still want to do bald cypress and am gonna get some cause theyre awesome.

[The Ficus Guy]

My earlier post was of frustration... Didnt mean it to be so harsh. While ive foind that u can do indoor swamp cypress it is reccommended to be put outdoors during summer for best results due to extra air circulation and light.
This would have been my first choice if I could have purchased locally as I run cooling fans and will be providing as much light as neccesary. I still want to do bald cypress and am gonna get some cause theyre awesome.

Don't know where you heard that Bald Cypress can do well indoors, but that is completely false. Being that it is a deciduous tree it has to stay outdoors so that it can go dormant during the winter. That's that and there's no way around it.

[axiekeepeer]

. Ive got one guy saying u cant grow bald cypress indoors at all and a whole web of info. Saying otherwise. And this is the first ive read about needing to supply winter season for dormancy, all other info. Says that dormancy happens with indoor bonsai regardless, there is a small temprature fluctation winter to summer in homes and ecspecially in my basement, is this not enough? Most info. I find says it is.

[The Ficus Guy]

. Ive got one guy saying u cant grow bald cypress indoors at all and a whole web of info. Saying otherwise. And this is the first ive read about needing to supply winter season for dormancy, all other info. Says that dormancy happens with indoor bonsai regardless, there is a small temprature fluctation winter to summer in homes and ecspecially in my basement, is this not enough? Most info. I find says it is.

Don't believe everything the internet says. Bald Cypress is not an indoor tree and anyone who says otherwise is an idiot. You're getting your information from all the wrong places. Sure, trees like Ficus and Schefflera work all right for indoor growing, but Bald Cypress lives outside and does best outside (like every tree, really).

If you want to waste your time and kill a tree, go for it. Ignore an experienced indoor grower. I tried.

[axiekeepeer]

So u killed your indoor cypress?

[The Ficus Guy]

So u killed your indoor cypress?

No, but I know of several people that did. I don't know how many times I have to tell you until you realize that it's not an indoor tree and never will be.

[applestar]

Here's a way to tell --

Baldcypress USDA hardiness zone range is Zone 4-10, which are temperate areas that mostly definitely experience various degrees of frost and freeze.

Schefflera arbocola is Zone 9b-11.

Yeah, there's an overlap in zones where it hardly ever freezes, and maybe that's how some people managed to keep theirs alive for a period of time -- you need to also question if they are STILL alive too. So many blogs are about doing something for the first time/starting a new project -- I often wish they would also mention it if/when the project has failed and why.

[axiekeepeer]

The Ficus Guy
Full Member

"No, but I know of several people that did. I don't know how many times I have to tell you until you realize that it's not an indoor tree and never will be."

tell me which is cause Ive never seen a tree native to the indoors. your only expressing an opinion so don't get elitist on me, I wont take anything on word only, how am I to know your info. is accurate and no one elses is?. how about letting my thread move on?

[The Ficus Guy]

The Ficus Guy
Full Member

"No, but I know of several people that did. I don't know how many times I have to tell you until you realize that it's not an indoor tree and never will be."

tell me which is cause Ive never seen a tree native to the indoors. your only expressing an opinion so don't get elitist on me, I wont take anything on word only, how am I to know your info. is accurate and no one elses is?. how about letting my thread move on?

I'm not expressing an opinion. It's a proven fact that deciduous trees cannot live indoors. The conditions aren't right. Poor light, poor humidity, no temperature changes. As I've said, there are trees that are better suited to indoors such as Ficus.

But hey, your thread, you're right. Go ahead, don't listen to me and waste trees.

[axiekeepeer]

I updated my thread with new pics under the link on page 1.
That is if anyone is still interested after that fun bit.

[axiekeepeer]

Ficus bonsai I bought from home depot is doing great, went dormant like at first shock I assume and is now pumping out new leaves.

[tomc]

Ficus bonsai I bought from home depot is doing great, went dormant like at first shock I assume and is now pumping out new leaves.

Figs respond to changes (in weather) by dropping leaves.

Figs are a tropical, and root very well (by cuttings).

I'm just a lot less sure how wet you can keep their feet.

[tomc]

If it was koi, and you wanted a pond-side tree (or bonsai) a bald cypress might be a good choice.

I'm still floundering with what you intend to do. I'm just not getting my head around your hope.

[axiekeepeer]

Its already done. Ive got a ficus growing out of the back of an aquarium. 3 1/2 months now, and for the last couple weeks its been putting out new growth. [/url]

[applestar]

Love to see photos when you get the chance!

[axiekeepeer]

heres some pics.

one picture shows the bonsai right after planting and at its fullest, then I made a rookie mistake of trimming the leaves that weren't where I wanted them, too early. Didnt have much die off, but now it s growing new leaves. green pipe is pushing water to base of lava rock, some of ficus is submerged but is also wicking water from heavily saturated rocks. green pipe will hide later, but ive got a leak to fix. My purple waffle died off pretty quickly.

its all for that cute little axolotl. soon to be joined by two more once there big enough to not be considered food.






I'm satisfied that this will work just fine and may add to ways that bonsai can be grown or describes a method already being used.[/img]