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So I’m a casual bonsai grower in Buckinghamshire, England, I have only a couple which I let grow free and just trim them to keep them looking tidy rather than styled as well as looking after them with the correct soil, food and root-trimming schedule.
However, sadly my Grandpa passed away in 2018 and I inherited his beautiful bonsai, as far as we can work out it’s a Sycamore and we’re pretty sure he grew it from seed roughly 28 years ago and it has been meticulously cared for ever since.

I’ve done some research into Sycamore 名媛直播s but the general consensus is don’t bother as you can’t reduce the leaves and they never look properly proportioned.
Being a filthy casual, this doesn’t bother me as I thought it looked great before and I just want to keep it going in memory of my Grandpa.

I’m aware that some species react badly to certain things (Oak having their roots trimmed at the wrong time of year etc) so I’m extremely cautious about how to go about properly looking after this beautiful tree.
It lives outside all year round as that’s what my Grandpa did and every few months or so I give it a little general-purpose liquid food. It seems perfectly healthy and is now starting to bud again which seems right.
However, I haven’t re-potted it since it came under my care and we’re not sure when my Grandpa last did it either. I was just going to use its current pot but trim the roots a little if they look root-bound and fill the pot with general bonsai soil. Is this acceptable or is there a better way of going about doing it?

Any other good advice for caring for a Sycamore?

One picture was taken last summer and the other just now.
It is definitely a Sycamore right?

It's a nice looking little tree you have.
The only way to check if it needs to be repotted is to check the rootsystem. If your rootball (the tree's I mean) fill's the whole pot it needs a repot.
Keep the tree and the memory of your grandpa alive. I wish I had one of my grandpa's.

Tried to get the root ball out of the pot and it wouldn't budge. Long story shorts, it seems that the tree hadn't been re-potted for years before it came under my care and have become so root bound in the bulge in the edge of the pot I had to get quite brutal and slice the roots off one side just to free it. The pot was more roots than soil but a laaaarge margin.
From there it got worse, two and a half hours of trying to tease the roots apart was mostly fruitless, I got long ones from the edges and bottom to safely trim but the core root ball was so twisted in on itself that it was physically impossible to get it apart, and then the inevitable happened. I damaged the tap root really close to the trunk (I assume, there were actually two large roots but couldn't see which was bigger, or where either came from, of if they were actually two different roots at all!). I did my best to cut the root clean to give it the best chance of healing alright, trimmed a few more outer roots and then re potted it.
Was possibly the most stressful thing I've ever done in my life because I really don't want to kill a tree that's practically as old as I am, especially as my Mum (whose Dad grew it from seed) put in my care.

That was a few days ago, I've kept an eye on it and the green buds that it had before are still nice an healthy looking so I'm hopeful it'll be okay.
Fingers Crossed.

Maples can take a lot this time of the year. Do not let it dry out, and do not drown now. No fertilizer untill you have good growth.

Did you get the tools of your granddad? There might be a sikkel, especially meant to cut the roots alog the pot perimeter. What you did it normal. (And the reason why I do not want pots anymore with an inward lip).

Ok cool, that's good to hear.
I haven't fed it yet so I'll hold off for a while.
I didn't get any tools off him, no. He wasn't specifically a 名媛直播 grower but he loved his garden and turned his hand to all sorts of things, so he didn't have a large selection of 名媛直播 specific equipment, just the basics like me. I have an old, thin blade that I shaped and sharpened specifically for the garden so I used that.
Yeah, with the exception of this specific tree, I don't think I'll ever get another pot with an inward lip, so much hassle.