Trident maple bonsai, late spring tasks
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- In this video Terry Erasmus works on a customers Trident Maple or Chinese Maple. He demonstrates pruning technique, partial defoliation and also how to fill a large cavity with cement in order to promote healing over.
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Well done Terry.
Thanks Herman!
Thanks Terry! You can’t imagine how much I appreciate your videos. There is always something new to learn!
Gee thanks so much German! That’s great to hear.
This is as always a very interesting video. Thank you for sharing your knowledge with us.
My pleasure Walt.
Keep up the great work. Very informative video and look forward to many hours of watching in the future. 🙂👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼👌🏼👌🏼👌🏼
Thanks so much. Thanks very kind William.
GREAT VIDEO FOR PRUNING INSTRUCTION, i JUST GOT A TRI MAPLE GROVE BONSAI, Nice shape but needs thinning out just like you showed
Great Ed! I’m glad the video will be a bit of a help to you. Enjoy your tree.
A lot of instructional gems hidden in this vid. I've been learning by trial and error on kaede (Japanese term for maples in general) and still impressed by the easy to understand depth and succinctness found in this video. Oh, and thanks for the reminder that I need to clean my tools before the sap hardens, especially, LOL.
Thank you so much for your comments EV! Kaede for sure refers to Trident maple. Momiji refers to Japanese maple though. Both amazing material for bonsai of course.
Enjoy the meditative action of cleaning your tools 😉
@@TerryErasmusbonsaicommon names for trees are funny and confusing things! Here in Japan where I live, the "Chinese maple" is called 唐楓 (tou-kaede), which is specifically for Acer buergerianum species. I'm sure Chinese call is some else! The "tou" (pronounced like the toe of our foot) part of the kanji characters is likely a reference to the old Tang dynasty China and region the original trees may have come from. 楓 Kaede (pronounced ka-eh-deh), comes from the Japanese word kaeru, meaning frog, and te/de, meaning hand. It's easy to imagine various maple leaves looking like frog hands! This refers to all species of maples in general. Hope that helps other curious viewers! Looking forward to more videos, cheers!
Hi EV thanks for that explanation. I myself have spent a lot of time in Japan and around bonsai. I am not saying you are wrong of course but this not how I am familiar with the Japanese references to the species you have raised. No matter, we fortunately both understand what the other means.
@@TerryErasmusbonsai I think a simple Google search for "toukaede" or even "trident maple Japanese" will objectively and unequivocally show that toukaede (トウカエデ, 唐楓) is what the Japanese language refers to as trident maple, or acer buergerianum . When you call a trident maple a kaede, well, in a way you aren't wrong, since a trident maple is indeed an Acer species within the Acer genus. But then again, I can call any cultivar of acer palmatum kaede and that would be right, since they are also Acer species/subspecies/cultivars within the Acer genus. Kaede means maple (Acer genus) in Japanese :)
Thank you so much. I haven’t seen the cement trick before this way. Very helpful!
Thats great, I hope you will be able to use it someday.
Thanks for the video Terry! Love my tridents and this is very helpful advice
Soooooooooooo much informations !!! thaannkkk youuu
Very glad the information is useful to you Andreas!
So cool to see your trees in leaves because it's winter here in Germany!
Ha ha. Yes. Opposite to us.
Hi Terry :) would love to see an update on this tree please and thank you.
Thanks Wesley. If the customer has me work on it again I will do so. However I have a lot of other maples around and will be doing some interesting work on them in the coming months.
Thanks for the information on filling cavities. It would be great to hear a talk on substrates in the South African climate for bonsai and pre-bonsai respectively.
Thanks Matthew. I am not going to do such a talk. I use the same media which is used internationally namely: akadama/pumice/lava based substrates. There is no reason why South African should be the exception. I am so tired of trying to convince people to change from their sand, compost, bark mixes. I now feel they should do as they please hoping they will see from my work and trees the advantages of changing their media. I have an ebook on my website on growing media and have also blogged extensively on the subject. You will find this content on my website if you care to read it. Thanks for the question or request though!
Great vid! Full of great info as always!
I do have a question regarding petiole length during leaf pruning.
Is there a specific length you keep?
I have read/seen people leaving the entire petiole, some half and so on.
I’ve been leaving roughly half,
I know there is nutrients in the petiole that must contribute to the new bud formation.
Thanks Terry!
Good question to which I do not have a definitive answer. It falls off anyways. Whether the nutrients in the petiole is of any meaningful amount I would not know. I seem to cut it near the leaf but I think this is more a result of ease rather than a conscious decision.
@@TerryErasmusbonsai agreed!
Thanks, a very instruktive lesson. 🌳😎
Thank you so much!
Nice video Terry, would you say now is the right time to defoliate maples?
Thanks Garreth. I believe I answered that in the video.
Terry, I have a large trident with a branch chop similar to this one. However with mine it ha fully calloused over but the callous is fairly coarse and not at all smooth. Could you address methods of addressing this? Would it require slicing off the coarse tissue and letting it regrow hopefully with less tissue buildup?
Yes that sounds about right, you would need to remove the coarse wart like parts with a grafting knife or similar and allow it to heal over again. You might need to do this in late spring rather than early spring as sapflow is lower then. Some sealers, especially those with added hormones can cause this too, you may want to experiment with a different sealer.
Great video, thanks very much!! I have a quick Maple related question, though... I have a Acer Palmatum Virdiris which is currently in develpment phase (it is only 10 years old). I do not have any good ramification because the node lengths are too long from letting it grow out and strengthen. Can I cut the branch back quite far to growth that was done 5-6 years ago and let it bud and back bud in order to start developing the tree, or would that just kill it?
Thank you!!
mmmm, that's a good question. It "should" work provided the tree is very healthy and you do the major cuts in late spring once the spring leaves harden off as this is when the trees energy will be at its peak. It is a risk though. Perhaps you want to thread or approach graft some branches further back where you are hoping to get buds to break, this is a more certain technique in my view - particularly as you mention that the branches are quite old.
i have the same kind of "hole" in my trident maple. I 'll use epoxy to fill it in order instead of cement
Epoxy is fine. You can use anything which will provide a sound surface on which callous can form.
I defoliated my black monkey thorn about 4 days ago and scared that i might have killed the tree will it shoot buds withing a couple of days or have a destroyed it 🙈😥
Provided the tree was strong and healthy when you defoliated it will be fine. 4 days is a bit quick to expect to see new growth. I’d say at least 14 days and longer. I am sure your tree will be fine.
@@TerryErasmusbonsai thnx so much love the channel 👏
Would love to see more native species of trees 👏👏 Just got into bonsai i got given a book called Growing bonsai in south africa by doug hall teaching me alot of patience...
@@Jason697 that’s great. Good to read books but be aware that a lot has changed in bonsai technique in the last years so make sure what you read is still valid. I don’t work with a lot of indigenous species, unless they are a customers tree’s. However the techniques I demonstrate can broadly be applied to indigenous too.
i always wondered what happened to the spoon kid from matrix.
HA HA HA HA HA, well now you know!