First JM: The I Did All Wrong But It Turned Out OK Progress Thread

[Firstflush]

Here is the beginning. Fried and diseased JM from a nursery in 10B.

Picked Up a Japanese Maple, Drowning - Is it too late to repot and prune?

Got this aged tree for a good price. Little beat up. There is some powdery mildew and hopefully nothing more. Some weird yellowing going on. 5 gal pot with about 3 gals of soil. The soil is a heavy clay or some other organic fine dense substrate. The 3 gallons of soil did not dry out in about a...

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I hard chopped in October and repotted in April. Roots not happy. Wrong sequence and way ahead of myself.

Repotting Time after Hard Chop JM

What’s your opinion on getting this into a basket/box in proper soil. It was hard chopped about 2 months ago. Buds are thickening up and it is sending out new shoots. Would it be too early to repot? The soil is fine grained and retains moisture. I need to take care of that knobby crossing root...

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Noxious Vine Rhizomes Or Tuber All Up In My Ball

Saw this today working on a tree. When I bought it there was a weedy vine wrapped around the tree. Working the roots I saw these rhizomes or tubers all packed and tucked up under the crown in the root ball. Made me have to take way more off then I wanted to. May lose the tree.....Anybody deal...

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The “is it truly a green AP” post....

Bought as a Standard Green AP - Is it?

This was a beater from a local nursery. Here in socal almost all the JM cultivars are grafted to standard green AP root stock. I saw this was not grafted and was one of the smaller ones they had. Looked beat up like a potential return. This is the first flush of growth. Do you think it is a...

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I really liked Clem’s work with a shallow large box for root surface area and development of nebarI. I wanted to build a box and give it a try.

Acer palmatum beni tsukasa (from cutting)

I bought this palmatum in a nursery 3 years ago. here is the tree in november 2017-> In april 2018, i repot it in a large and flat woodbox + i cut the crown -> The Young leaves of the beni tsukasa cultivar -> In june of 2018 the summer growth starts -> August 2018 -> November 2018 ->...

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Here we are today in a 28 inch box. Main leader is about 16 inches. Nebari width about 2.5 inches. Trunk about 1.5 -2 inches. It’s against a wall facing east so it gets sun only to about 11-12 pm. It did come from a socal nursery so it is used to the heat. Upon repotting it got a healthy dose of worm castings and about once every 2 months it gets a light application of gypsum/minerals. Feed about every 2 weeks.

I am happy so far with the progress. First wack at a JM.