Acer buergerianum

[AlainK]

I think I already posted about this one, but I couldn't find the thread again, so :

July 2007 :



June 2008 :



The air-layers didn't survive the 2011 winter.

May 2009 :



Etc.

March 2019 :



March 2020 :





No trimming so far, but it needs a haircut...

 

[John P.]

Wow, nice save on that one. Over many years, too. I’ve given up hope and thrown away tridents in haste after setbacks, but won’t do that again.

I really like the double trunks that didn’t make it, too. Way to make lemonade out of lemons.

 

[MrWunderful]

Quite the change! Looks great.

 

[jonathanvperth]

That’s really great work!! Great results

 

[leatherback]

DId not see that coming from your failed airlayer image. Nice!

 

[Mikecheck123]

Etc.

LMAO. That Etc. is doing a lot of work.

 

[Woocash]

Nice. How much of those 12 years was spent in the ground or was it all in a pot?

 

[Hack Yeah!]

Very encouraging, I've got something similar and was wondering if cutting a second trunk off would ever heal

 

[AlainK]

 

[AlainK]

It greww, I trimmed some shoots.

There's still something to do with the roots : either grafting seedlings, or repotting in in a flat, much wider grow-box so that the roots will fuse :

 

[AlainK]

Still green in spite of the weather we've been having :



His little brother, well, his cousin from seed (Aug. 18th) :

 

[ajm55555]

June 2008 :

That's how beavers airlayer :-D

 

[hinmo24t]

That's how beavers airlayer :-D

beavers love trunk in my experience too.
great Maple OP and smoke em if you got em

 

[leatherback]

That's how beavers airlayer :-D

Cool! Where did you see that? Hahaha, never seen a beaver make such neat cuts. It almost is as if they wanted to layer. But they went a little too for that!

 

[ajm55555]

Cool! Where did you see that? Hahaha, never seen a beaver make such neat cuts. It almost is as if they wanted to layer. But they went a little too for that!

That's Alain "the Beaver" K at the beginning of this thread ;-)

 

[AlainK]

That's how beavers airlayer :-D

Yeah....

I had almost no experience with air-layering trident maples, especially that size, so I overdid it, yes. Actually I was lucky there was enough living tissue for the sap flow. I have a big, grounded one (over 3 metres, 10 feet) that I'll air-layer next year, I won't be as "beaverish"....

 

[just.wing.it]

There's still something to do with the roots

Grafts sounds good, but difficult.
I would bury it deep for a few years, then maybe new roots will grow out over top of what's there.....wider and better.

Edit: Very cool tree though!

 

[AlainK]

I would bury it deep for a few years, then maybe new roots will grow out over top of what's there.....wider and better.

Very good advice : in fact that's what I'm planning to do next spring.

I have a rectangular pot, wider, deeper that will be perfect for the next 2-3 years - or more ?

Once again, I will let all the branches grow freely, more or less, for one season, then prune it back hard.

 

[hinmo24t]

God bless that maple

 

[AlainK]

God bless that maple

That's what I call a good sense of humour.