maple

(((WARNING! UNDEVELOPED UNSUITABLE SPECIMENS FOLLOW, proceed at your own risk Alrighty... let’s get right down to business. This idea has been in “embryo”ever since the informative discussion on the “most difficult tree to bonsai” thread. Since I have been making threads on a few of my...

Hello all, Let’s play name the fungus, if you will please? I swear I’ve seen this in pictures on the internet before but it’s no tar spot or common black spot, it looks.... worse. It’s a Maple, Beni chidori. It appeared on random leaves, not localised or on new or old leaves. Tree is otherwise...

Hello! This is my first post on this website, as I am new to bonsai since Fall 2019! I've read a couple books and watched a ton of YouTube videos. I could use some advice with a nursery Arakawa. I thought for sure I would have to air layer it [and never having air layered before, I was nervous...

Hi all! So my maple was sprouting new leaves last week and one day it got too hot and we left it out on our balcony (we live in an apartment), came home and all the new leaves wilted and eventually fell off. I notice there are black spots all over the branches and trunk. I’m not sure if it’s...

Curious if it is possible to propagate Japanese Maples from cuttings using a Oxyclone Hydrofarm recirculating unit. Do they respond well to the oxygen and water? Or do they require soil? I was thinking of adding some rooting hormone solution to the water but I am reading that just plan tap water...

First repotting of my new Sharp's Pygmy Japanese Maple. Ready for training in the Kaikou School of Bonsai.

Hi guys, I hope you are all doing well. Let me introduce you my little acer palmatum. I bought it last summer, did the major prunes in the fall and repotted it couple of weeks ago. Obviously, we have a long journey ahead of us but I’m curious to hear your thoughts on it and ideas on what to...

Leafing out. 1st March 2020

First re-pot

I've started training this maple about 3 years ago. It was a grafted cultivar. First season I ground layered it. The second season of having it, I put it on a board. No nails to spread out roots, just screwed to a board and left to grow. Third season, I skipped work. Just too busy with things...

I must have been inspired by @Brian Van Fleet to do a root over rock trident maple when I started this who knows maybe 3 years back? I got the cutting from @Eric Group. I cant remember but I think it's spent its time growing in containers. This time I'll continue but will let roots escape. I...

Deshojo Maple...roll on spring

Hello All, I would love some advice/comments from everyone with my new maples that I have recently acquired from a nursery ($40 each!). Both maples were just hand dug from field growing for the last 4-5 years and was planning my next steps for this coming spring. I plan on practicing air...

I just I just recieved a 2-gallon Emperor Japanese maple and the trunk has some spots where the bark has died back above the graph. The top looks healthy with clean bark but im concerned about the health of this. What is this from and is there anyway I can stop/heal this?

Here is an Amur Maple I bought at the GSBF annual show in late October 2018. Not much has been done on it besides a simple repot and removal of branches. This upcoming winter I plan to set the design for the tree. Unfortunately don't have any pictures in leaf. It had some interesting fall color...

Hi all! How far up the trunk would you to prune back this maple in order to establish good taper in the future? Which branch should be the new leader? Storm

Hi all, I can collect a Japanese maple from someones garden, for free (it has to go now). Never done this before and I would like to increase the chance of it to survive. How should I proceed?

Hello, I picked up a new Maple from Bobby. We are unconfirmed on exact cultivar, so please do have a few guesses if you like. I expect maybe next spring, as the leaves emerge and mature, will give more info. We do suspect 1 cultivar but I will not say it, and see what people guess :) DSC_0804...

There are 4 big, beautiful maple trees on my new property. Hoping for help identifying them, please? All pics were taken this month, and all of these trees are at least 40 years old (Hoping to start some air layers in the spring.) Maple #1 -- Leaves are all deep red in the spring, and as...

This is a small pinion pine that I collected from relatives land in Utah. It is doing well so far in a mix of fine washed diotomacious earth treating with liquid fertilizer most waterings. I am pretty confident in my ability to keep it healthy, but don't know much about conifer development. Any...

So I did air layering for the first time after watching many videos on it's so I knew how to do it properly. I did it on a lions head Japanese maple that I have; I air layered two branches on this tree and waited 8 weeks. I checked today if there were roots and this is what I saw (see pictures)...

Three weeks ago I ventured out and bought this nice Shindeshojo from a local Bonsai retailer. I was looking through their selection for a tree with potential but that had already been grown out a little bit. This tree was out back with a host of other impressive trees. It immediately caught my...

As the title says it’s my first I’m pretty excited. Just looking for some in put from the group I guess. I got a couple things I will do to it in the next couple days... like take that big crossing branch in the middle. Do you think that would root from a cutting? Here are the pics ?

I wired this trunk while still on the parent tree and removed it about three years ago. I’ve had it at a friends the whole time and missed repotting it every year. I’ll repot it next spring. This fall I want to cut it back to the primary branches and grow the leader out to thicken the top...

From the posts I’ve read on here I’m a little confused and there seem to be conflicting thoughts on whether or not defoliating helps to thicken a trunk faster. What I currently have is an Acer Palmatum still in he nursery pot. I bought it this year and wanted to wait (at least) until next...