develop acer palmatum bonsai

I purchased this tree from a local greenhouse back in September. I did some initial pruning earlier in the fall and now with the foliage all gone, am looking to get some thoughts on if a big chop is necessary at this point to help it along the process of becoming a decent bonsai. I thought I’d...

Hi everyone, I had a question about a project of mine that I want to continue on the way to becoming a bonsai, it's about an Acer Palmatum. A quick note: I'm going to Airlayer off the top over the graft this spring to first get rid of this problem, next year (after Airlayering) it will be put...

So I've collected about 300-500 seeds from many different Japanese maple cultivars this fall. Going to start them with these other seeds for the JBP contest. There is some interesting info on evergreen gardenworks website about growing JM from seed. Some info about pruning / pinching at about...