Just trying to help. Your post prompted more questions than
information. Sorry if I offended you. I guess the gist of what I was
trying to say was that by the time you figure out what it's going to
take to get the bald cypress to grow successfully indoors, you'll have
upset what's working for the rest of your trees. (maybe a Dupla
substrate heater?)

You have a nice day.

Bill Butler

You could be right, the main probelm I have is I am not really trying to bonsai
these trees but what i am trying to do is set up a living display (stylized) of
what a swamp looks like. I spent a lot of time and effort in the swamp
observing what was going on with the trees and the associated plants. I was
amazed when it turned out that fish lived much better under the conditions in
my "Swamp" than they ever did in an aquarium. It took many years and the final
product was only set up for a couple of months beofre hurricane Floyd and
another less well known storm ended my work in progress. I am sure if it had
been allowed to mature for four or five years my "Swamp" would have been an
even more amazing sight. I do have a small 15 gallon tank indoors that i have
had set up as a "Swamp" tank for five years now and it looks great. I'm not
even sure i can recreate the originale due to heath problems ( I am disabled)
and money problems. (it takes a lot of money to play sometimes!) I thank you
for your efforts to help me. since the problem of not growing extends to some
other plants but not to some I suspect there is something i am missing and I am
too old and weak to promise i ever find the problem. sometimes you have to
admit your limitations. I am going to give it a try one more time and I will
post the results with pictures for anyone who is interested but it's still not
really bonsai, more of a freshwater version of a coral reef aquarium. which is
exactly what i wanted to do. I figured if something as delecate as coral can be
grown and culitivated under artificial lights then cypress should be easy
considering how easy they are to grow. I guess I will find out.

Moon