Hey Clyde that looks like a start of an idea. I will not cut back any more till I see what happens in the spring, but I could wire those 2 small ones.
Cheers Drew, lets see a pic of that maple.
Here is all I have on them, Jeff Q was nice enough to send me a pdf with some info, I'm not sure how to attach it here. I got some info from someone on another forum, that has some, I've pasted what they said.
I think they are slow, but worthy of much more interest than they receive.
i'll attempt to figure out how to paste that pdf here too. (anyone know how to do that?) text below tips from someone who has them.
They're quite simuilar to Acer campestre in many ways.
They like limey soil and are heat and drought tolerant. Here, they bud out later than A. campestre. The wood is harder, and more brittle too, and they grow and heal more slowly than A. campestre.
Not as hardy as A. campestre when potted though, and more difficult to work on, but a very nice tree.
I currently have three Montpellier maples that I'm growing out for larger trees. I basically treat them the same as trident maples and feed them the same as well as keeping them in full sun.
I have noticed that they can be a bit brittle when bending older branches with wire as well as developing a thick callous when cut. One other thing that i have noticed is that they tend to put the majority of their growth out before summer and then sit the rest of the year. I'm out in California so we typically have a long growing season and these do grow a bit differently than the rest of my maples (both japanese and tridents) being much slower growers.
