After the tree drops its foliage in fall, plant it in the garden. Water the plant with 2 inches of water each week for the rest of the season.When roots have developed, transplant the cutting into a 1-gallon nursery container filled with a mixture of equal parts loam, sand, and compost.It features an upright, narrowly conical form that enhances many landscapes. It may take two or even three months for anchoring roots to develop. Metasequoia glyptostroboides Gold Rush (Dawn Redwood) is a large deciduous coniferous tree of great beauty. Test for roots after one month by tugging on the branch to see if roots are holding it in place.Placing the pot on a heated mat may speed up the rooting process. Place the pot in a sheltered outdoor area and keep the sand constantly moist.Insert the branch, cut side down, into the pot of sand, burying it to about 1/2 its length.Coat the cut end and the scraped area with acid rooting powder.Scrape off a segment of bark about 1/2-inch long and 1/4-inch wide near the cut end of the branch but take care not to damage the leaf node. Angle the cut end at 45-degrees, just below a leaf node. An ideal cutting will have a stem about 1/4-inch thick. Cut a 6-inch-long shoot from a side branch on the tree with a pruning saw.Run water through the container for five minutes to rinse it thoroughly.Fill a 1-gallon nursery container with sand up to within 2 inches of the top.The Spruce Home Improvement Review Board.campus: NE of Community Hall, toward 15th St. Habit: Metasequoia glyptostroboides 'Goldrush' grows to be a medium sized or eventually large, slender tree with a narrow, conical habit. It is also occasionally seen listed as 'Golden Mantle.' Regardless, since 'Ogon' is the original recorded cultivar name that is the only one considered valid." patent for this tree under the name, 'Golden Oji.' As it became aware that the plant was already circulating with a couple of different cultivar names, the patent was soon withdrawn. It was first reported by PLANTS at Chelsea Flower Show. 'Ogon' Metasequoia glyptostroboides 'Ogon' (Gold Rush) is a striking new addition to the extensive range of conifers supplied by specialist dwarf conifer grower, Lincluden Nursery of Bisley, Surrey, England.
In 1995, New Oji Paper Company applied for a U.S. Metasequoia glyptostroboides 'Gold Rush' / Trade name for M. The peeling antique red bark adds an interesting dimension to the landscape. The ferny bipinnately compound leaves are highly ornamental and turn an outstanding gold in the fall. It has attractive chartreuse deciduous foliage which emerges yellow in spring. Around that same time, Larry Stanley & Sons nursery, Boring Oregon received it and starting distributing it under the name 'Gold Rush,' which to this day is the most commonly seen misspelling. Gold Rush Dawn Redwood is primarily valued in the landscape for its distinctively pyramidal habit of growth. In 1993, Pieter Zwijnenburg Jr., Boskoop, The Netherlands got the first propagation material directly from Japan and renamed it 'Goldrush' and began distributing it under that name in 1997. With this definition, the name 'Ogon' is the valid cultivar name. Its original Japanese name was 'Ogon' which translates to "gold bullion" or "gold coin". This plant has a very long and confusing saga pertaining to its proper nomenclature. The original tree was planted in 1977 at the Kameyama breeding station, Institute for Forest Tree Improvement, New Oji Paper Co., Ltd, Mie, Japan. "This cultivar originated in 1974 in Japan as a seedling selected from a batch of X-ray irradiated seed by the New Oji Paper Company. The following is from the Amerian Conifer Society. Easy to transplant, performs best in moist, well-drained, slightly acid soils Deciduous conifer, tree, grows somewhat slower than the species, bright yellow foliage in spring and retains much of the color throughout the summer in autumn needles turn an orange-brown before they fall.