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Preparing a Japanese maple sapling for bonsai?

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Posted 8 years 10 months ago #19755
here you see a maple i did a thread graft on last year


this is that same maple with 2 new grafts this year..
you can see near the top the old graft which was perfect. but since i lower the tree, i needed lower branches as well..

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Posted 8 years 10 months ago #19761
Looks good mate, gonna look much better shorter I think, I will probably end up shortening mine if all goes well this grow season.
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Posted 4 years 7 months ago #59571
Hi there Justin.

I got a amur maple from work this afternoon, I have planted immediately, and gave it the necessary feeding and watering. I am planning on having this as my 2nd bonsai. any suggestions would be helpful. I am in Salisbury UK.
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Posted 4 years 7 months ago #59580
Dont fertilize that young saplings.
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Posted 4 years 7 months ago #59581
I looks like my sapling is drooping, is that normal for saplings to do that, and how long before its strong enough
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Posted 4 years 7 months ago #59583
You got it yesterday, right?

名媛直播 is a Marathon, not a Sprint.

Moving a tree can cause drooping. Fertilizer too.
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Posted 4 years 7 months ago #59584
Got it this afternoon just before I left work,
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Posted 4 years 7 months ago #59585
Pierre, i'm thinking you are becoming a bit overenthousiastic.....remember that trees need to be outside, and that this is not a bonsai but just a young sapling, which might become a bonsai in 20 years but for now just needs some general horticultural care, nothing more. But if you can't place it outside it will be dead long before it ever becomes something remotely looking like a bonsai.
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