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Here's a bunch of Japanese maples my mother in law collected for me 5 years ago. I didn't have the time or space, so I just put them in this pot. Someone also put a few twigs of rosemary in there, which strangely enough have hardly grown at all. Haven't really done anything since I planted them in this pot, but one of them died last summer, so this spring is time to put them in a proper pot, perhaps with big rock as a mountain.

I guess they are so small just because they are in a small pot.
After 5 years, they should be a lot bigger and thicker if they were in a big training box or in the ground.
If I were you I'd put them in separate training pots and would wait a little longer to get them reunited again.
But of course this is my way of doing things, it is surely not the only way and I could of course be wrong.

Clicio wrote: I could of course be wrong.

There is a first time for everything, right?

Ivan Mann wrote:

Clicio wrote: I could of course be wrong.

There is a first time for everything, right?

Don't flatter me.
I can become impossible.

Clicio wrote: I guess they are so small just because they are in a small pot.

I think so, too. I do have a few other maples in individual training pots, and 2-year olds have thicker trunks than these. But I'm quite happy with these being as small as they are. My source of inspiration is maple forests on the steep slopes in Kyoto, where the individual trees have elegant slender trunks. In public parks, the maples do grow bigger trunks, but that's because they are spaced more sparsely... Anyways, this will be an experiment to make a small maple forest

Not much has happened. Didn't get anything done last year, and thanks to the small pot, the trees have hardly grown. I did have another year to think what to do with them.



Mountain maples need a mountain. Now that I'm done, I think the mountain is a bit too far back. I guess I'll have to move it one of these years.



Getting Dark. Trees are on mountain.

How old are these little maples now?

They were collected in the summer of 2015, and I think they were born earlier that year.