Japanese Maple Winter Maintenance/Trimming - Tom Lau - Bonsai Technique - Baikoen Bonsai Club
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- Опубликовано: 6 янв 2023
- In this episode in our series of bonsai techniques we will be covering winter maintenance and trimming of a Japanese maple winter. The purpose of this video to show how to style a Japanese maple in progression. Usually, maples should be worked on early spring while the leaves have not budded out but in winter when the plant is dormant you can trim but not flush trim or repot until bud push. This video will be in conjunction of a series where we will dive deeper into Japanese maple species. So please join us in this new series. If you enjoy these videos please like, subscribe and leave a comment below!
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Nice work on this tree. And nice ramification on the other four Maples.
Thanks for noticing! Appreciate the kind words
Good information and great video!😊
Glad it was helpful!
You’ve been doing a great job with your content. Thanks for all the work you do and God Bless
Thank you for watching and the words of encouragement
I would have made the cut too, but I would have gone just past the next node, then trimmed the remainder in late spring. Great video, thanks for sharing!!
Good call! Thank you for watching
Regarding the last branch you were cutting. I think your last cut was really good, but I'd hold off on cutting it back further for now. Give it until spring, or maybe even next winter before deciding on the next cut.
Thanks for the suggestion! I’m going to wait until spring to make my clean cuts and seals as winter pruning will cause dieback of some sort
More of these videos please 🙏
Thank you for watching! I got couple more progression styling planned.
I really enjoyed your thought process. I agree that branch needed to go. It did not fit in with the rest of the tree. Hello from windy Norfolk UK
I’m seeing a consensus about that branch. Thanks for commenting really appreciate it. Glad to hear international folks chime in!
Great video on this tree and I love the ramification you are getting on your trees. I wouldn’t go any further until early spring but it seems like you have a good grasp on what your doing. You have quite a collection of maples and they look like some of them are pretty old? What is your oldest maple and what cultivars is it?
Keep up the great work and have fun.
Thank you for your gracious words. Most of my grown maples were mother stock at one point used for grafting. That largest tree is a kashima and is approximately 35 years old as a mother stock and another 5-8 years as grown into prebonsai
I would take that last branch further back imo but nice tree
Thanks for the comment! Yeah. I’m going to take it even further in spring.
Nice ramification! Maybe a small electric leaf blower would make these easier to appreciate
Ahha just haven’t time or extra money to pick one up yet. But it’s on my HD/Lowes wish list!
really appreciate your detailing the thought process and selection pattern..hard to hear though...maybe you could add a lapel Microphone?
Thank you for the encouraging words. Haha as my wife says, “what are you mumbling about”. I’ll try to speak into the microphone better.
Wow!!! All of ur maple bonsai have massive trunk diameters. Were they field grown for many years? I have only one “big” trunk maple bonsai, bout 3” diameter, it was field grown for 10 years.
Yes most of the Japanese maples were grown by Ed Clark as mother stock trees
Good cut but wait a bit before cutting it further- imo. Thanks for the video
Noted!
Did you make a tour video at someone’s house that liked making boxwood bonsai? I remember seeing a wall with all kinds of boxwoods. I can’t find the video and don’t know if it was you. Thanks!
Not sure. Everybody has a boxwood somewhere
Cool maple to further develop……. Random question, you are in California yeah? How are you able to give your maples a dormant period? Does it get cold enough for long enough? Or do you have some sort of cold room set up? Obviously your trees are doing just fine by the looks of it. I’m just curious…….. keep up the awesome videos
Thank you for watching and your insightful questions. Leave drop usually happens right around Thanksgiving and in Southern California where I’m located I get about 14 days of frost. So it’s cold enough for long enough to set flowers for apples and cherries. Also location of where my trees hang out plays a huge role. 4-6 hours of direct sun light during winter and 6-8 during Summer.
@@BaikoenBonsai New to your channel. I also live in SoCal but have never been able to grow a Maple do to the extreme heat (90+F) in the summer. On those hot days/weeks would you suggest bringing the maple inside the house and in doing so would it damage the tree in the long run? Thanks and look forward to more of your videos.
@@Stu.Williams honestly you have to find the right micro climate in your location to really grow JM. In SoCAL it’s hot and dry summers and Santa Ana winds dry out JM way too fast and hard. I found in my particular microclimate of 6-8 hours of direct light with afternoon full shade and a huge pool to drive humidity up helps tremendously with my JM. At my other location it grow under a pepper tree and they also did well with overwatering to drive humidity up.
I sub before I watched the video because of the quality of trees shown.. im a simple man.... nice rock on you finger btw.. my wife better buy me one when she asks to marry me.. see,,, simple man..
Laughs, thanks for watching or at least noticing the tree photo
Take it off further,completely
Thanks for the comment. I think in spring probably take it down further
@@BaikoenBonsai Keep up the videos I enjoy them thoroughly all the way here in Cape Town
@@percyacutt3110 Cape Town South Africa? Nice