Prebonsai Japanes maple winterizing
- Meadowmorph
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I was given a pre-bonsai Japanese maple. It's been growing in the bottom half of a two liter plastic soda bottle. WINTER IS COMING! I honestly tried to find an answer to this. I want to put it into a mica training pot (It is very nice, but needs a couple more years in training). The question I have is this: Should I wait til the tree goes into dormancy before I re-pot it into its new shoes? Also, I've been getting differing opinions of when the tree really hits dormancy. I always thought it was when the leaves dropped for fall. Now I'm hearing that it needs to actually hit a freeze for a couple of days. Why can't this be easy? Should I mess with the root ball and remove some of the nursery soil before I re-pot it, or just sink it into its new bonsai soil? This is my first deciduous tree. Thanks bunches for help with this newbie problem. Hey! we all were newbies at one time.
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Replied by leatherback on topic Prebonsai Japanes maple winterizing
Posted 7 years 3 months ago #35846
If it needs a few years of growth it has no reasons to be i nbonsai substrate. Plant it in the garden and forget about it.
If you are convinced you want to mess with the roots, this is done in the early spring, as the tree is waking up from winter, and the buds are just about to open up (When the first buds burst, actually).
If you are convinced you want to mess with the roots, this is done in the early spring, as the tree is waking up from winter, and the buds are just about to open up (When the first buds burst, actually).
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