In only four weeks the seedlings had all fused at the contact points where they were wired together.
I already had seedlings, so I experimented by wiring 3 pairs of seedlings together. There is an article in a book titled Bonsai Master Class that demonstrated an approach grafting technique (referred to as fusion) of multiple Trident Maple seedlings to create a large trunk perfectly tapered bonsai in a very short time and I thought this might work with Metasequoia glyptostroboides. What to do with 100 trees? Planting 100 trees is quite a chore and disposing of a critically endangered species (IUCN Red List) like Metasequoia glyptostroboides was something I was not willing to do. 100 of those seedlings survived through the first winter. Having read how hard they were to grow I was surprised to find that 156 of the seeds germinated. When spring rolled around I shook the box and hundreds of seeds fell out. During the late summer and fall I gathered the cones and tossed them in a shoebox for the winter. Fast-forward 18 years and that broken stick had grown over 60 feet tall and produced several hundred seed cones. What arrived was a pathetic bare rooted broken stick, so I planted it in the corner of my yard and ignored it. In 1990 I purchased a Metasequoia glyptostroboides (Dawn Redwood) through the mail. Metasequoia glyptostroboides ( Dawn Redwood) Fusion Bonsai
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