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If you know what you are doing, thisis not to late.
I would however not put it in a bonsai pot. It seems horribly young and thin to start bonsai with, and as you will need to remove 80% of the branches if you want this to be a bonsai, you will have a few years of healing to do. So plant it in a large container, with suitable coarse substrate.

Thanks, it's main trunk is about 11mm across at the Base.

Do you think it will be OK fully outside considering its been in a nursery greenhouse?

Also, do I keep pruning the top down throughout the growing season or wait until next winter?

Thanks alot!-)

Justin83 wrote: I cant spin these pics? Even if I rotate them on my phone??

Then rotate the camera before taking the picture... hold it the way it is supposed to be held - which is horizontally, not vertically.

I'm using my phone, and the pics have been taken both ways, the screen rotates with the orientation of the phone and they are the correct way up on my phone so I'm not sure what's happening here tbh, the fact that they stay sideways even if I rotate them on my phone in the editor to compensate... It baffles me?

Can anyone advise on the effects of frost on a maple that's been greenhoused? My grow tent is not large enough to hold this plant so I will bring it under cover at night if need be?

I bought a maple last week which is fully leaved out. About 2 weeks ahead of years. I have repotted it when I came home, and placed it outside once the frost here was over on .. wednesday? I came home today finding it covered in snow, after an unexpected return to winter, and it was also exposed to 2 degres of frost last night. It is now in the greenhouse. Can tell you tomorrow whether I have lost the foliage.

Cheers.

So as far as the maple, plant until larger, keep the height down, wait for girth on the trunk maybe 1-3 more years?

Then pot, then prune and wire if need be the following year or same year?

I know it's not an exact science here but I'm guessing it's not good to pot as a bonsai and prune in the same year and hit the plant top and bottom?

Justin83 wrote: So as far as the maple, plant until larger, keep the height down, wait for girth on the trunk maybe 1-3 more years?

I have one that's bigger than this one. An Acer Palmatum 'Kyohime'. It's been in the garden for 3 years. It's going to need a couple of years more. I've 'hedge-pruned' it this year, first time.

You really cannot grow a bonsai in 1 year.

mmmm. kyohime.. lovely species.. not that easy though.. not fully Apical dominant.. but sweet autumn colours and cure small leaves..


ps.. Justin..

don't waste too much money on these garden center maples.. a lot of bonsai nurseries have raw stock of low priced acer starters.. and those are the species you want, such as Kyohime, Deshoyo, seigen,...

so maybe better to buy 1 good starter than 3 garden center plants?

OK thanks, it wasn't expensive, cost 16.99 will plant it up and wait then, it's a chiyo-hime this one btw.

Planning on a visit here soon...



They aren't far from me, I'm messing with cheap stuff atm anyway, I massacred a goldcrest conifer today and planted a privet cutting, it's a journey as im learning so just trying a few things!-)

It'll take some work, and patience...