BonsaiOnTheBrainTX
Yamadori
I purchased my first Trident Maple. It’s about 5 ft tall with no movement in the trunk. The base is about an inch and half thick. The first bud is about 6in up from the base. Ive had it a couple weeks and I’m just letting it acclimate, I haven’t repotted or looked at the roots yet. I’m trying to come up with my plans for this tree. It does have some branching up toward the top that could be useful down the road. Here is my thought process if anyone would like to chime in with feedback or advice I would appreciate it!
1. Because it’s late in the season I’ll let it continue to grow as is until early spring 2025. When spring comes I’ll start an air layer up towards the top, right under where the significant branching starts. I might do some wiring of the top branches now to introduce some kind of movement up there that could be useful.
2. After the air layer is completed next summer I’ll trunk chop it right above the lowest bud that has started growing out, you can see it in one of the pictures. It’s about 6 inches up from the base. That will become the new leader for the bottom portion. I’ve already taken and planted about 14 cuttings from when I first received it, hopefully those with strike and maybe I’ll try a clump style down the road with those.
Thoughts? Am I missing anything? I’ll continue to post updates of this tree in this thread as it progresses.![Smile :) :)](https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png)
1. Because it’s late in the season I’ll let it continue to grow as is until early spring 2025. When spring comes I’ll start an air layer up towards the top, right under where the significant branching starts. I might do some wiring of the top branches now to introduce some kind of movement up there that could be useful.
2. After the air layer is completed next summer I’ll trunk chop it right above the lowest bud that has started growing out, you can see it in one of the pictures. It’s about 6 inches up from the base. That will become the new leader for the bottom portion. I’ve already taken and planted about 14 cuttings from when I first received it, hopefully those with strike and maybe I’ll try a clump style down the road with those.
Thoughts? Am I missing anything? I’ll continue to post updates of this tree in this thread as it progresses.
![Smile :) :)](https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png)