Pruning and Potting Young Maples, The Bonsai Zone, March 2022
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 5 ต.ค. 2024
- I'm pruning my young Silver Maple (Acer saccharinum) forest and I also root prune and re pot my new Field Maple (Acer campestre).
To see previous videos of the Silver Maple forest, click on the playlist here...
• Silver Maple Bonsai
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The French lilac plays the music itself Nigel doesnt edit it 🎶🇫🇷
Ha!
Maples, maples, and more maples. Tis the season. Can’t wait to take the pruners and scissors to mine. Thanks, keep growing
I’m listening on my nice headphones and hearing the clippings zip around the room in stereo is an entertaining angle to the video I wasn’t expecting
Thanks Nigel, now I know how to prune my silver maple forest…”there is no right or wrong way to do it”. I just have to wait for it to thaw, its frozen to ground, in my huddle of hardy trees.
Maples for days Nigel!
Maples are undoubtedly my favourite bonsai and I have a nice collection of lovely shohin maples and maple forests that are progressing and developing nicely. A couple of deshojo maples look almost luminescent as their pink leaves open and harden off in spring.
Watching you comb out the roots on that maple sapling makes me wonder if you have considered growing some of these young trees in the ground to thicken them up. I have a corner of my garden where I have paving slabs buried perhaps 5 inches deep where I can grow young trees to put on size more quickly. The slabs cause the roots to naturally splay and grow radially so preparing the trees for future life in a shallow pot. Being in the ground gives them free access to water and nutrients. As you have quite a sizeable piece of land, I just wondered if this was something you could consider.
It is still early days for me (I have been practising the hobby for about 4 years) and this is the second year for my ground planted trees. I understand that after the initial year of settling and getting established the trees will put on more rapid growth and thicken up in years 2 and 3 onwards.
Keep up the great work Nigel, your videos have been invaluable and incredibly educational and inspiring, particularly at the start of my bonsai journey. 👍
Excellent root pruning tutorial!!!
What a great way to describe the Field maple, which is my favourite tree along with the scots pine.
You get so much of the spring work done in the greenhouse! Long winter isn't that long this year ❤️❄️
This is a good heads up for me for some years in the future, i collected about 20 maple keys last fall 😁
Nice work Nigel! I've also got some maple pruning coming this weekend... but root pruning 😊
Interesting video on root development procedures for bonsai. Always learn something from your videos.
Caught a peek of your ta prohm Temple at 16:00. The moss and weathering is really starting to make it look ancient!
Nice my friend
Really looking forward to the grow session!! I just can’t wait to get my hands on some nursery stock!!!
The weather is warming, so exciting! I am so nervous, I put my apples and spruce outside. Single digit negatives at night. Hope they survived winter. I learn a lot watching you root prune. That Eiffel tower... 😄 I'm still smiling... Great video Nigel!
You got your channel back! 😀
Yes! Young maple work. Just the inspiration I need. I was out on the porch after work. Looking at all of mine,. Just thinking about which ones would get there own pots. I’ve got a pot full of boxwood cuttings, their all looking good still. Great video Nigel.👍😁
The glass greenhouse has really allowed you to get a head start this year! Great job as always Nigel. 👍
Great video! Keep up the good work!
Great pruning on the forest. Will grow out really nice. Cuttings?
I made it two minutes in and went to go do the first (major) rootwork on my Florida maple, now I'll finish the video lol.
Wow nice😍
Great repotting and video Nigel Thanks for sharing 👍 😀
So glad, you are back. 💪🍻
Im new to bonsai and horticulture, and I always thought that larger thicker roots were better and healthier than small ones
Thick roots are fine if the plant is in the ground, but in the limited space of a bonsai container you need to maximize the small fine feeder roots, which do the actual sucking of water and oxygen
@@mirandusings ah okay thanks for the info
Do you ever place something like a cd or a piece of plastic or wood under the roots/tree to spread the roots out? I started doing that this year. We’ll see what happens next haha
2 questions if I may. You look to still be in winter, here where I am, its 70°+/- daytime, 40's° at night. ( South West VA ) So all my young trees are fleshing out leaves and buds on the Junipers and Shimpaku's....
1....My young Japanese maple, ( about 12" tall, only has a 5/8" thick trunk and three branches, one I am developing into a leader ) already have the leaves opening. ( March 20th in VA right now) Can I still cut the branches back to a set of buds or is it too late for that, better to wait until next February.? I'd like to start developing some ramification on this young tree.
2.... When should the first feeding for maples be done? I have already fed my Junipers and pines just today, but I have heard its best to wait until early June for maples ( I have Tridents and Japanese Acers) for smaller node growth?
I believe maple trees are easy to grow from semi-hardwood and hardwood cuttings, right?
I topped one of my Tridents last summer, (the trunk at that point of cut was easily 1/2" thick, with a ton of small branches). After cutting the top off, I took a very thin layer of bark off the cuttings end, dipped it in root hormone, kept it warm and humid, and it started growing like mad within about two weeks. Right now, it has a TON of new leaves, and is only 3 " tall, with dozens of small branches.
I have had alot of success starting maples from cuttings, usually smaller twigs, and very little foliage work well for me.
Do you protect the repotted trees when you repot in now/late winter? Or do you just repot the frost hardy trees?
Hey Nigel! got a bunch of prebonsai, whats the best thing to use for 'welfare' soil?
I am going to be choosing some maples to play with from a friend's yard. How tall a sapling is too tall? 2-3 feet? Smaller?
Don't worry about the height, you will be cutting that off. Look at the root flare and the base of the trunk, and use that to choose your tree. You could be looking at a tree 2-3 meters, and potentially be successful!
@@rebeccahunter725 thanks! I will have to choose from photos my husband sends me. My physical state keeps me from having outdoor adventures except on wheels.
Is your soil inorganic?
Yes, half perlite, half SafetySorb and then I add about 10 to 20 percent reptile bark.
whats the medium made of anybody know ?
Paging Dr. Saunders. Paging Dr. Saunders. Surgery in Operating Room 3. Field Maple in dire need of your expertise. Paging Dr. Saunders.
Foist
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Spring is definitely coming! We have snow on the ground still BUT the sugar maples started swelling so we got them all tapped!
Spring fever is in the air!
Foist