Mame Japanese Maple

[Pitoon]

Here's a little JM mame I'm working on, curious to see if anyone else is working with JM mame's.

 

[badatusernames]

I'd like to - I'm curious as to how to go about developing one. Folks seem to say air layering is the best approach, though I'm curious about severely chopping one that's been grown with a washer around its base to create the spread nebari...

 

[Pitoon]

I'd like to - I'm curious as to how to go about developing one. Folks seem to say air layering is the best approach, though I'm curious about severely chopping one that's been grown with a washer around its base to create the spread nebari...

This one started as a cutting about 3yrs ago. If you chop make sure to leave a visible node if not it may not recover.

This one will get cut back to the last node this summer, if you zoom in on the pic you will see it (where the yellow turns brown).

 

[Marlborough Handcraft]

I've got a few mikawa yatsuba cuttings. If they root, I'm planning something similar. I've seen people keep mame plants/pots inside of bigger pots to keep the moisture content of the soil up, is that something you're doing?

 

[Pitoon]

I've got a few mikawa yatsuba cuttings. If they root, I'm planning something similar. I've seen people keep mame plants/pots inside of bigger pots to keep the moisture content of the soil up, is that something you're doing?

I don't double pot. This one sits on the second shelf of my propagation station and gets watered once a day.

 

[skychaser]

wow! That little thing is 3 years old! Nice

 

[Yosemite Goat]

Mine was five or six years old. Lost it when we went out of town and the person watering did not water one day.
I think the pot was 1" wide.

 

[skychaser]

ouch, so sorry

 

[RobC]

i have this JM seedling and a pot i didn't know what to do until i saw this thread. thanks for the idea.

 

[Pitoon]

i have this JM seedling and a pot i didn't know what to do until i saw this thread. thanks for the idea.

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You need a smaller pot.......I know a guy that has a couple listed for sale right now!

 

[TinyArt]

You need a smaller pot...

Unless the camera’s made it look bigger in the foreground

*on second thought, go for it — be my Pitoon-pot proxy!

 

[0soyoung]

i have this JM seedling and a pot i didn't know what to do until i saw this thread. thanks for the idea.

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That is a nice pairing.

 

[RKatzin]

I have this one mame. It's a seedling start and about eight years old.
Pics courtesy of@sorce

 

[Pitoon]

I have this one mame. It's a seedling start and about eight years old.
Pics courtesy of@sorce

No pics???

 

[RKatzin]

No pics???

Easy tiger! It's Sunday, maybe the dude is taking the day off. They'll come.

 

[Pitoon]

Easy tiger! It's Sunday, maybe the dude is taking the day off. They'll come.

Lol, so Sorce is going upload.

 

[sorce]

I missed that tag cuz it was attached to the of@RKatzin.


Sorce

 

[Pitoon]

Nice fat trunk there!

 

[RKatzin]

Nice fat trunk there!

Thanks! I just fired off some pics after I trimmed it up today.

 

[sorce]

Sorce