Very nice and good effort. Whether it will continue w/the yellow tips, who knows, but if it didn't, it would nonetheless be a fine specimen.

I was "driving" in street view on google maps in a PA neighborhood I knew was very well landscaped, and viewed this nice cryptomeria.

Thanks. I hope it stays that way too but so far promising. I’ll observe it for another couple years and I notice any more unique traits, maybe I can name my own cultivar?

They definitely are very fine specimens. Can’t wait until it 30+ft tall

It looks good but FWIW there's a known issue of variegated Cupressaceae not retaining much of the variegation as they mature. Embothrium has posted about it in the past - good luck finding it though, given the rudimentary search utility on this website. That's been the case w/my 'Sekkan Sugi', it still looks variegated at 40', but not as much as it did when it was 5'.

Well I'll enjoy it for now then, at least. You're 'sekkan sugi' was also grown from seed? Or are you talking about the actual clone, where you got as a potted/B&B specimen?

I presume it was cutting grown.

he said seedlings... but perhaps i lost track of reality ..

Juvenal forms of many conifers.. are wildly different than mature plants...

yours are sublime.. i hope that stay such as they mature...but im not holding my breath...

there are a multitude of variables regarding tree life... physical.. nutritional.. etc... what is or might be affecting yours is unknown at this time ... are they potted.. to many variables there.. to count ...

in 10 years or so .. tree time.. counted in decades.. you will now all abut your seedlings... and no sooner ... no matter what you wish..... get them in the ground an let ma nature take care of them for a few years.. that will remove all the potting variables.. and let you see what ma nature thinks about it all ....

good luck.. i ought to be dead by then.. or i would say let me know what happens...

4 stents and counting...

over the years.. i have enjoyed your quest for knowledge.. and i hope i have nurtured it along.. without being to obnoxious about it ....

God speed .. in your travels....

ken

God Ken this really makes me sad. I hope you are alright and that you and everyone here get to see my progress of my plants/garden over the years. One of the reasons why I stick around here. You really did help me to great lengths over the years along with many others, there's no doubt in that! I guess with this cryptomeria I will take pics and update every year.

Ken , you helped all of us . Good to hear you got some grafts going.

STAY WATERED !

Ron

It really pops

I don't have time to post a picture at the moment but while this has been bumped...let me obverse that I noticed my 'Sekkan Sugi' is getting yellower and yellower, especially near the top. It's now about 7-8 years since the hemlocks that had heavily shaded it was taken down. So it's almost as though it took years to 'recover' some of its coloring.

Bought around 2011, it was bright yellow. Planted in that shady spot, it lost almost all variegation w/in a couple years.

Thanks for updating!

Yea I'd expect trees to lose their unique coloring in too much shade. Thankfully mine is in a location with good amount of sun so I don't think it will be a problem.