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if the salt spray on a small island would allow for it, but I saw maples near the shore in Provincetown, MA and you would think they must get some year round salt spray.
I live on an island surrounded by 10C salt water and I live within 200 meters of it. I have about a dozen different varieties of acer palmatum, plus a few acer shirasawanum and acer japonicum. None are affected by the year round salt spray.
 

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THats an awesome Idea..I have a fridge under my house. I guess I can make room - Ill be loosing beer space though.. LOL

Do you water in while its in the fridge?
I watered when the soil (akadama) was just barely moist and the tree wintered beautifully for me in Orlando. They just needed to get enough chill hours. As a side note, I would shade Japanese maples there in the Keys.
 

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I live on an island surrounded by 10C salt water and I live within 200 meters of it. I have about a dozen different varieties of acer palmatum, plus a few acer shirasawanum and acer japonicum. None are affected by the year round salt spray.

That's excellent news!
 

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I watered when the soil (akadama) was just barely moist and the tree wintered beautifully for me in Orlando. They just needed to get enough chill hours. As a side note, I would shade Japanese maples there in the Keys.
I definitely will shade them. At least we are going into our "winter time" now. Its still hot as balls but that will subside in the next 6 weeks or so. - hopefully.
 

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So, i worked my maple seedlings all winter long with various techniques that i will be posting on over the next several weeks as i get time.

Firstly, i want to show the clump process. I will take current pics of all the clumps i planted to share soon.

I spent some time trying to research how i wanted to make some clumps. I do mean clumps also, wasnt really thinking much of a forest but i think now i should have considered. O well, we will see how they turn out. I can always start some more in the coming years.

First, i took a cheap cutting board and drilled about 8-10 holes, (probably should have been odd numbers but o well). Bought some cheap plastic salad bowls and drilled drainage and tye down holes in them.

Something i was thinking about for a while was how do you backfill the soil underneath the plate that the seedlings are grown through. So i just did it the best i could. See below.

First, the seedlings, since they were potted up several times last year, were rooted trimmed back to their original plug diameter to allow me to bunch them up closely.

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These seedlings were grown with the clump in mind so they were not wired last year like the other seedlings. The required seedlings were bunched up in the pot and plate carefully slid down the seedlings. Once i got the plate down and made sure the rootballs were located in the required space, i would lift up the plate some and backfill with soil.

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Once the soil was filled enough to when i pressed the plate down it would push soil out the sides a bit, i secured the plate down. Then i filled with soil and used twine to pull and position the trunks how i wanted them.

Keep in mind that i am shooting for a clump style where all the roots grow together and basically become a large raft look. This will take a while but i have the time. Some i will grow larger and allow to thicken and some i will keep smaller.

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I dont have any final pics as of now, but i did fill the bowl up to the top with soil, not all the ways but close.
 

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Among those that germinated in 2016, I've got some, collected in Britain, that must be from weeping cultivars, like these one (comparison with a leaf from a specimen in the ground, plain species, about 3 metres+, 10 feet+) :

1st one, about 60 cm :

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2nd one, about 30 cm :

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Life is like a box of chocolates... :D
 

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This is what I ended up doing to a lot of the singles. I also tried CDs. My roots were crap on most as they were started in small trays then up potted last year without touching the roots. Figured it would be better to let them later then try and mess with the roots.

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This spring has been soooo hot this year with no rain. I’m having to move all my maples in just about full shade to keep the leaves from burning. Need rain. I keep hoping the rain will start soon. Seems like I can keep them in full sun when it rains every day. Normally that starts around June.
 
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That is one of the problem we southerners face with Acer Palmatums. Spring is the best season for us that is why am ready for Fall already.
 

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i had a few other that put on roughly 8 ft of growth last year. Huge leaders. This year though growth has been maybe 2ft and now burning bad. the shoots are turning brown. about to spray for fungus. dont see how with it being so dry though
 

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i know the big plastic white tubs are a little large for sure on these.. I'm thinking they will grow into this year. just repotted this year, 2021 spring.
 

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This is probably the strongest and largest. I'm thinking of putting in ground this year but i have more time to think about it. was trying to work on roots first.. for a bit at least.


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I just watered by the way.
 

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There is alot to share. I still have ALOT of trees, at least for me. I'm mostly just enjoying it by learning it through feel the advice given.

I'm planning to try and get most of them on the thread this spring.
 

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There is alot to share. I still have ALOT of trees, at least for me. I'm mostly just enjoying it by learning it through feel the advice given.

I'm planning to try and get most of them on the thread this spring.
Looking forward to the update
 

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O no. dont tell anyone about the sap.

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Its probably not the best. Just having fun.
 

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i will likely cut the long branches even closer when i figure out a spring plan.
 
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