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I ordered a red maple bonsai on Amazon from Brussels 名媛直播. It was supposed to be 6 years old and 14 to 18 inches tall. When I received it, it was 28 inches tall. Amazon told me to keep it and gave me a refund. I just need to know where I should prune it to start a bonsai? I am a beginner at this.

Nice tree. Effectively you are asking how to grow a bnsai. That is a very lengthy thing to answer. I would recommend reading the articles on this site.

In the end, you want to aim for a tree height that is max 12 times the thickness of the trunk. So with this trunk, the first branch would be your tree.

Just for trials sake: Take a picture of just the lower part of the tree on a homogenous background. Then someone here can photoshop the trunk out, and you get some idea of what the tree looks like. Of coura bigger tree.

I have tried to take a photo of bottom of tree.

Let me tilt that for you:



While visiting a bonsai nursery, I had a serious discussion with another club member about a similar, but more developed tree, that a new member was interested in buying. I said that If you cut off the trunk above the lower branches, you already have a small tree.
However, according to him that was short term thinking. If you want to create a good tree, you should put it in the ground, leave it as it is, and grow a decent trunk first. That's indeed how I grow my own maple (buergerianum).

I guess it depends on your view on the future of this plant.

I will probably try the short term at my age. Thank you for the information.

If i were you i would put it in the ground for a while.
But at the same time. Correct me if im wrong the red coloured cultivars grow at a slower rate to the standard acer palmatum due to less chloroform in the leaves so it may take a while to thicken the trunk up a bit.
I think as it stands the trunk is too thin for the height so you could chop it to the lowest branch and wire a new leader from that and end up with a small shohin tree but because of the thin trunk it would have to have something special about it (direction changes or character to the nabari) to pull it off properly.
Good luck and read up on a few topics that can help you make the right choices like.
? Growing in the ground vrs growing in a pot for speed of development.
? Geting a good nabari or root flare. (As that would add charicter to a small tree).
? how to make a convincing shohin tree from your material. ( there are plenty of good progression blogs and info out there.
? use the info on this website and also bonsai4me as its brilliant.

Thank you for all the information. I probably should just look for another tree.