Just sharing my new Maple from Brent... Moved from shipping container into 2 gallon growing bag... Will try to leave alone this year, stew about where to chop next. Love the color of the leaves, think Fall will be better.
Brent
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Let it grow, let it grow, let it grow.
Wonderful that Brent makes these cutting grown maples available. No graft to worry about. Love the colors of the leaves.
Wonderful that Brent makes these cutting grown maples available. No graft to worry about. Love the colors of the leaves.
LanceMac10
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From my favorite Clapton album....
much more colorful in spring. not many leaves make it to October!
much more colorful in spring. not many leaves make it to October!
0soyoung
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Faked me out. I thought this was a thread about a Cercidiphyllum.
I immediately had to look that up, feel like I learn something new here every day... The tree to be clear, can almost play the Clapton .. ; )
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Colorado
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Nice choice! I’m assuming this is from Evergreen Gardenworks. I’m about to order a few myself!
Was this ordered as the 2 3/4”, 4”, or one gallon?
Was this ordered as the 2 3/4”, 4”, or one gallon?
Yes, evergreen - 1 gal. I debated which to buy all winter, think the colors of this finally won out. Think it will be beautiful in a few years, really looking forward to watching its growth
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Colorado
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Thanks! I agree, the colors are beautiful. This thread might put me over the top and make me pull the trigger on one myself....
William N. Valavanis
Chumono
The beauty of a bonsai Katsura Japanese maple
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penumbra
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I thought so as well.
Japonicus
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The 1st one here I got from Brent last year. Pretty sure it was 2-3/4" pot
which I moved to a 6" round shortly after I got it.
2nd one in ground I got from eBay. Ground is warmer than air so most of my maples
in ground are opening up ahead of the ones in pots with a few exceptions, but Kat for Kat
and Viridis for Viridis, potted ones are lagging behind in ground ones.
Huh. Had to look that one up too.
I have an acer Japonicum but not Cercidiphyllum Japonicum.
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Colorado
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Wow! That’s a lot bigger than I expected for a 3” pot.
Japonicus
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With the pot gone, and the lack of account details (can't view history/orders) on his site
there's a chance it was a 4". If both available, I'd always go for the larger of the 2. Document your trees...
Just pulled my Viridis from the hibernation cave. It's just a weak cutting, and pretty small
but hey!...it survived me for one Winter and that's always a plus
Wish I'd gone for the 1g but was keeping cost down as I got several items.
Glad the fires didn't knock him out. Essence of the Tree in Potter Valley, Ca considered calling it quits
but still there. They had to evacuate several times this year though...
Japonicus
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Would you be speaking of the likes of the one @grouper52 put in his resource thread on "baby bending"?
Those trees are pretty sweet trees, especially the European hornbeam. Looks like a miniature of an old American beech,
one of which my Dad and I cut for firewood with a 2 man crosscut saw, then had to carry it steeply uphill to the house.
This is what bonsai should invoke, memories, feelings, inspirations.
0soyoung
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Agreed that the artistic side is about invoking memories, feelings, inspirations. The other side is about horticulture/physiology.
I was interested because I have a 'Red Fox' (actually 'Rotfuchs') Katsura cultivar that I'm trying to make into a bonsai. I was expecting ...
AndyJ
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Fantastic tree and wonderful colours, Bill. Do you do anything in particular to help with spring and autumn colour? Eg, full sun gives best autumn colour or dappled sun throughout the year gives best autumn colour?
Andy
Nanuk
Shohin
From my favorite Clapton album....
much more colorful in spring. not many leaves make it to October!
You have good taste in music sir. Sir Clapton is the man.
I always enjoy seeing your maples also.
Nanuk
Shohin
Looking good. I've got two maples that I got from Brent. Both are doing very well.
I've been thinking or ordering another. I know think I know which one.
One of the things that sold me on Brent was the cutting grown thing.
I don't really like grafted trunks.
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I'm thinking of chopping it, or air layering it above the lower branches on the right - is that reasonable, should I wait another year? Growing great... 7.5" pot, considering putting back in a growing bag, but I am not sure that's necessary if I keep it smaller - maybe after separating the trees?
Brent
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