japanes maple

Tried to air layer a bloodgood in our front yard in a few places. Cut them in and wrapped them in sphagnum moss around beginning of April. Checked them today 8/17 and found the calluses seemed to have bridged the girdle is this a failed attempt??

I picked up this grafted Crimson Queen for half price in the hopes that I could air layer the CQ off the rootstock, train the rootstock as a bonsai, and maybe use the CQ as a landscaping tree. I have lots of questions and I've never tried air layering or grafting. Would it be worth trying to...

Hopefully this picture shows what I am asking about, I understand that on some maples the bark darkens before it matures, this on the other hand leads me to believe it is some sort of fungal infection. This part of the trunk is directly below an air layer, I would assume that if this is an...

Every Japanese maple I own dies. I have had a 0-11 record with these trees. I actually decided I was done buying them till we move because I seemingly can't keep them alive no matter how hard I try. I purchased this tree last year and did a repot this year. Now I'm seeing signs of a bacterial or...

Hi everyone, I'm looking to get a Japanese Maple bonsai and want to choose one with the best potential for long-term development and styling. I've attached three photos of different trees I'm considering. Which one do you think has the greatest potential in terms of structure, future growth...

Hello, I am new to bonsai, so apologies if this is common knowledge. I recently found 3 Japanese Maple trees at my local nursery, they are all grafted. Two are Inaba Shidare and one is a Tamukeyama. My question is, would these be suitable for bonsai the way they are (grafted) or is it preferred...

I got this Little Princess dwarf Japanese Maple about 3 weeks ago. Aka 'Mapi-no Machi Hime‘. I’m a noob but I’ve been acquiring a lot of trees to work on and am learning a lot from this forum and YouTube ofcourse. When I received this one I repotted it into a pond basket with bonsai soil...