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| mine is going on 10 feet or more..
and it is losing most of its coloration.. other than green ... it is also being near totally shaded.. due to its neighbors.. as they all mature together ... there is no way to get it in more sun ... is it common for it to lose color with advanced age ???? .. or is most likely a sun issue??? should i move on with life.. and remove it... its simply pretty ugly.. w/o the coloration ... google brings up a fincham pic.. rather nicely marked.. in full sun ... ken ps: if i were to try rooting some.. and i took only green tissue.. would the white show later.. or would it be a waste of time.. and i should only do pieces with white there |
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- Posted by coniferjoy (My Page) on Sat, Apr 14, 12 at 18:55
| Ken, first of all it's Cupressus nootkatensis now instead of Chamaecyparis nootkatensis. Second, you mentioned a white variegation on your plant so 'Aureovariegated' is never possible, your's is a 'Variegata' like the one at Bob's pic. Third, 'Aureovariegated' is never possible because written this way it will be partly Latin and partly English which is illegitimate'. The problem with the 'Variegata' is that it will produce green branches regulary, also known as reversions. If I were you I would get rit of your ugly specimen, but remember that you're the cause that it became ugly because you didn't cut off the green branches in time. Use only the white variegated parts for propagation. |
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- Posted by ken_adrian z5 (My Page) on Sun, Apr 15, 12 at 11:23
| soooo back to the gist of my post... is it common for it to lose color with advanced age ???? .. or is most likely a sun issue??? to which i will add.. does anyone grow it ... and/or have a picture to share is there any other large specimen in the world.. other than the fincham pic if it were in full sun .... besides burning off all the variegation here in a MI winter ... would it be a better specimen ... and that really is the key ... every z5 winter it burns off the white/yellow ... so in theory.. every spring.. under the above logic. .. i would be deadheading the entire tree ... [which would have .. of course.. solved the issue long ago.. lol] so the issue is.. would it.. get more sustained color.. in sun ... regardless of winter... i guess what i am getting at.. is whether it is even worth rooting more ... ken ps: my hunch is that this is a very old cultivar.. which has fallen from the trade.. due to its failure to perform to expectations ... in other words.. its an oldie.. but perhaps not a goody ... [the latin name is a good indicator of its oldiness] |
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| Should be the same as anything else, including hostas. Sun will intensify variegated color while possibly burning it. From what I can read, the yellow color is only intense on new growth, while older growth gets more greenish. So an older tree will be greener overall? On the one hand the tree will grow somewhat in light shade, so unless you've got something better for that spot, why not leave it there. |
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| Ken, Ours is probably about the size of yours and is really nice this spring. We had a Z6 winter in Indy with no snow(so no reflective sunlight)and the ground was only frozen a couple of inches(root uptake all winter). Usually the yellow is brown by spring. 2 Joy, If you took cuttings from the green would'nt they be the same as the cultivar that mutated the yellow originally? Jay |
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- Posted by tsugajunkie z5 SE WI (My Page) on Mon, Apr 16, 12 at 16:48
| Not sure about this cultivar, but I have two Cham. obtusa 'Crippsii' and sun definately determines the degree of gold on them. More sun, more gold. tj |
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- Posted by coniferjoy (My Page) on Tue, Apr 17, 12 at 2:20
| Jay, if you take cuttings of the green parts the green colour will remain without any variegation. The green one isn't a cultivar but the species Cupressus nootkatensis. Btw, the variegation of this one isn't yellow but white... |
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