Mame Japanese Maple

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I'd like to - I'm curious as to how to go about developing one. Folks seem to say air layering is the best approach, though I'm curious about severely chopping one that's been grown with a washer around its base to create the spread nebari...
 

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I'd like to - I'm curious as to how to go about developing one. Folks seem to say air layering is the best approach, though I'm curious about severely chopping one that's been grown with a washer around its base to create the spread nebari...
This one started as a cutting about 3yrs ago. If you chop make sure to leave a visible node if not it may not recover.

This one will get cut back to the last node this summer, if you zoom in on the pic you will see it (where the yellow turns brown).
 
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I've got a few mikawa yatsuba cuttings. If they root, I'm planning something similar. I've seen people keep mame plants/pots inside of bigger pots to keep the moisture content of the soil up, is that something you're doing?
 

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I've got a few mikawa yatsuba cuttings. If they root, I'm planning something similar. I've seen people keep mame plants/pots inside of bigger pots to keep the moisture content of the soil up, is that something you're doing?
I don't double pot. This one sits on the second shelf of my propagation station and gets watered once a day.
 
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20190831_175819.jpg Mine was five or six years old. Lost it when we went out of town and the person watering did not water one day.
I think the pot was 1" wide.
 
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