Always wire sacrifice branches (Not only on Japanese Maple)
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- Опубликовано: 29 апр 2024
- Why should you always wire our your sacrifice branches when growing out your Japanese Maple Bonsai Trunk? Shape your young Japanese Maple branches in spring, to avoid breaking when bending and getting the most out of your bonsai branches, trunks and sacrifices!
Arizona in US: did my first air layering 4 weeks ago on 3 huge recumbent Junipers .. markdown nursery stock with wild long branches. I LOVE the idea of air layering .. and prewiring makes sense! Thank you
Love your videos man! Keep em comin!
This is a great idea, I have a perfect Sango Kaku candidate for this that I’ve been trying to figure out how to tackle. It’s about 5 ft tall with a straight trunk and the lowest branch is about 3ft up from the base. Good stuff thanks Jelle
Jelle, I find most people overlook the potential for creating quality trees from their existing stock, particularly through pre-training excess branches for later air layering. Really good bends happen best with thinner material, like the branches you're going to remove later anyway.
I've been doing this on junipers while developing trunk girth. I don't need more trees, but I hated to just throw away meter-long sacrifice branches. So instead I started splitting them, wrapping with raffia, and wiring into wild shapes, and then air layering them, which usually results in good nebari because roots tend to radiate uniformly from around the cut. I now have a bunch of interesting starter trees with good size trunks, lots of bends, and good nebari. (I plan to gift them to our younger bonsai club members because good material is becoming hard to find as local nurseries sell off their land to become suburban developments.)
I hope your video makes people re-think how they develop their trees, and realize how much more they can get out of them by thinking long-term.
Vos vidéos sont toujours très intéressantes, un grand merci à vous!
I never would have thought of doing that! Thanks for teaching us these things!
Such an important thing for us all to remember. I don't do this half as often as I should. Great video Jelle :)
Arakawa is one of my favorites!! Seriously great advice!! Wire early and set the movement. Great video, thanks for sharing!
Good idea with that branch! Will give it a try in any of my maples. Great video as usual !
Once more, great content. Thanks for all your effort you put in your videos! Always interesting tips and tricks. Greats from Belgium. Keep growing your trees(of course) and channel!
Just found your channel and subscribed ive got plenty of good hours viewing in front of me cheers mate
Thank you, Jelle! I love japanese maples 🍁
5 am in Melbourne and can't wait to get out and wire my JM 😊 thank so much
I wire the branches to get more ramifications, works with most tropical species, airlayring branches will be chosen later on
Great tutorial! I’ll try this technique!
Great video Jelle. 😊 Fibally got my hands on two Beni Chidori. Very hard to find in the U.S., so I’m wiring every branch for future clones. 👏🏽 🪴 🍁
Definitely good idea that thanks
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Great video Jelle 👊👊👊
Another amazing video, so easy to understand... Thank you!
A small question, what makes you decide between a cutting and an air-layer? Thickness or age? What is your preferred minimum thickness for an air layer? I've never done one, but I'm interested to try!
Greetings from Greece!
Kostas
Tip of the day-- It must be styled three-dimensionally. 👌
Great video!
Bought me a nice arakawa that im letting grow out this season. I need to get wiring!
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You didn't feel like air layering at the first trunk intersection to get a twin trunk tree out of it?
Of course there are plenty of options to choose from, can't have them all.
Great video to remind everyone to stay flexible.
The only time i wire a sacrifice branch is to get it out of the way. Its a waste of wire.
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Is it possible this tree could be 'Nishiki gawa' or are you certain it is 'Arakawa?' I personally don't have either yet but I hear Niskiki gawa' is less "rough" overall I think..
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Mogguh. Heb jij een adres waar je die pasta kunt kopen in NL of DE?
Hoi Jelle, dank voor de informatieve video. Ik heb een vraagje, kan je in plaats van airlayer ook stekjes knippen om de Arakawa te vermeerderen?
Zeker!
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Oh, so that's why some people put their prebonsai in those unnatural spirals and loops, to avoid any angle appearing flat or straight. Makes sense, but still looks horrible. Much prefer your work, heh.
i'm really surprised you'd air layer one of the main trunks.. i'd much rather have one interesting tree as opposed to two mediocre trees.. to each his own tho 🍻
A "Y" shaped split like that happening above a relatively straight base isn't really desired by most people. Air layering one off, fixes the Y split, fixes the flow of the tree, and doubles your quantity of a highly sought after cultivar in Arakawa maples.