Spring Pruning Japanese Maple Bonsai
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 3 ก.ค. 2024
- Growing Japanese maples expand quickly once healthy. To create great bonsai it is important to prune these back in the middle of spring. Understanding which parts are strong or weak, and where to leave more of fewer leaves is important for the next phase of Japanese maple bonsai development.
Follow me as I trim these Acer Palmatum bonsai!
0:00 Fan of Japanese Maple bonsai
0:20 Main reason to prune Japanese Maple bonsai
1:05 Comparing strong and weak zones in bonsai trees
2:25 Purpose of pruning this maple
4:25 Be smart when pruning, not a Robot
8:02 Timing pruning Japanese Maples
9:40 A visitor to the maple tree
10:44 What happens when Japanese maple are not pruned
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Just a quick catch up to make sure my knowledge is in line with yours before I prune the maples today :)
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Hiya Jelle thanx for another great video. I have a question about a couple of supermarket Acers I bought 2 months ago. They were the best of a new delivery and are now 40 cms high n branching nicely. Should I prune them now or leave n do later, if at all? ✌️Gaye
@@gayefanner731 Great question. I am actually editing a video on growing acers from seedlings. There are three main routes: Train into bonsai from the beginning (Slow, yet very small wounds/scars), shaping a trunk and letting sacrifice branches ticken the trunk (Faster, but with many scars) or letting the trunk grow fat, then chop, en let the trunk grow out again, cut back a little higher etc. All three options have pros and cons!
Great answer! I have another consideration, I’m 68 tomorrow, running out of time are we all. Yes in a way I agree to some extent it’s about the journey, but we really need to address the question of the destination...God has blessed you with a good brain, keep an open mind 🙏✝️
@@gayefanner731 68 is the new 45, right? Of course, you could buy some more mature trees ahve those for display and younger stock for the journey?
Great job Jelle! Beautiful Arakawa. 😍
Thank you Jay! Hope you enjoyed watching it as much as I liked making this vid!
Wow, your maple is weeks before mine. The ones that have been in the greenhouse this winter is in leaf but has not grown yet. The outdoor ones is just about to leaf out now. Great vid Jelle. 😀👍
Oh wow! That is such a difference! All my trees are pretty much in leaf now. I have started to pinch my Beeches this week! And my trees stay outside over winter..
Perfect Timing. I'm about to prune my young maple but want to make cuttings. Looking forward to your video on it. Notification is on.
Great to hear! It will be about another week before that one is ready to go live. So next week Tuesday is my aim!
Just began some pruning of our Maples. Lucked upon you videos, several days ago. Like the videos. Good information and guidance. Keep them coming. 😃
Hi Jeff, great to hear! What type of maples do you have? You say keep them coming: Any specific topic that would help you, that I should put on my list?
Have several different ones: Sharpes Pygmy, Deshojo, Lace Leaf, etc. Styling, wiring v guy wires (pro/con), and the various soil mixtures for them, evergreens, and flowering bonsai. Oh, and hemlock and cork bark elms.
You gotta love those geometer moth larvae... We call it measurer here.
Really cool maple tree and tips. o/
Not sure I love them. They are all over my plants. Making holes and nest etc. But.. Who am I to kill them off for being in the wrong plant? The harm they do is not threatening the overall health of the tree so I generally let them be :).
Thanks!!
@@GrowingBonsai Yeah, they're not all that around here, so I just enjoy them when I see one, a hole here and there doesn't bother me.
Amazing 👏
Thanks 😄
Very nice and very helpful.. l really like the way you respect nature and living things I never use poison either ..
I TRY to avoid it wherever possible!
I absolutely love maples 😀
They ARE nice right!?
Beautiful bonsai, I like it...
Thx! If you are ever in the netherlands/germany border area, do drop by and take a look. In-person trees are always even better :)
I love maples... I can't wait to get my first one and get started!! I have a massive one in my yard I may try and get a cutting from that to start... or try my luck with an air layer??
Hello! I just subscribed after watching this video. I watched your video on taking cuttings, and I agree with your attitude. Also, you are clearly skilled. Thank you for sharing your knowledge, it is much appreciated.
Hi, welcome to the channel. Thank you so much for your kind words! I hope I will not disappoint you!
Prachtige video en een hele mooie Arakawa
Dank je wel! Blij dat je er plezier aan had!
Nice job! You'll have to do an update in winter so that we can see the branch structure at the end of the year!
Glad to hear you like it! Good idea about the winter image!
Thank you for a Great video. Really enjoy it! If i can give you a littel advice. Neem oil. Complete organic. And have help me with bugs for a long time now. It works great
Hi, thank you, I am aware of neem oil. I have had some leaf burning incidents, and now work with soap and garlic, it is in one of my other videos. But somehow this year the aphids are quite bad. Normally I add my garlic and have peace for the first half of spring.
@@GrowingBonsai if you treat the trees in full sun light they will get burned yes. Treat in evning and do a good water the next morning
Very interested in your technique for rooting cuttings. I have tried every year to root my cuttings and have had absolutely no success
Hi Eeealmo, last year I rooted cuttings of my Arakawa maple with over 50% rooting using a very simple technique. I think it is partially related to getting the right ime to take the cuttings... Next week Tuesday I hope to have finalize my editing and release the video on what I do exactly!
Nice informative video as always Jelle, thanks! To what extend would you be doing spring pruning to younger maple material? So 2-5 years
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Hi Jelle, I am newbie for japanese maple. May I have your opinion? I have problem of dried leaves tip.
at begining , leaes tip dry little bit but then wider in the following weeks untul the leaves become brown and crisp and falling . I try to prune all leaves. then new leaves bud come. but dry again after leaves are green, and repeat again.. I am in tropical country. temperrature range 24-30 C. soil used pumice, akadama, pine bark and , a bit ogf organic fertilize soil. I can say soil have good drainage and airation. watering everyday to get moist soil. I tried : not to have direct sunlight, avoid wind.
What are some possible causees of this?
thanks alot.
Hi Rumble, dry tips are typically the result of some problems with the roots: Overfertilized and/or tried out (Or a dense, wet rootball). Also, when you use foliar fertilizer this can happen, where the fertilizer accumulates at the tip of the leaf, killing the cells there. If it really is only the tips, then normally it is NOT sub damage or fungal causing it.
Hi, where are you located, in NL? Would uou be interested in selling or exchanging one arakawa cutting with a deshojo cutting (2nd year)? Thank you
Hey Andrei, I am actually in Germany, but near the city of Enschede. As the moment I have no rooted cuttings to give away;, BUT I have taken a whole bunch of them and would be happy to let you have one. I have sufficient Deshojo in my garden, thank you.
In my growing bed I have a bunch of 3 year old seedlings from Arakawa trees, several of which I expect to grow corkbark. Once I know which get cork, I would be happy to share.
@@GrowingBonsai i appreciate it. Looking forward to more of your videos.
@@mandrei99 Thank you! Do let me know how my videos come across when I post new ones! (Naturally, if you have people around you that might like my videos, feel free to share :) )
@@mandrei99 Make sure you check in on Saturday evening. I will upload a video on a horrible repot I did on a Yamadori Olive!