He didn't know maples would not grow in the tropics, so he went ahead.

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The japanese maple I own show this kind of behaviour: during fall/winter the leaves start to dry and fall without fall color, like the leaves from the back of the picture are now.

Exactly.
When they go dormant here, I am now carefully cutting the dead and dry leaves, leaving the petioles.
I try not to touch any visible buds, and it's been working well. So when they wake up they just sprout new leaves.

 

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"Bonsai do Campo" is the biggest bonsai nursery in Brazil, run by Carlos Tramujas and located in the state of Paraná, the next southern state coming from São Paulo.
Those are pictures from this week, and the maples are healthy, happy and some of them old enough to make a point about their pretense decline for lack of snowy winters.

 

[leatherback]

poor weak maples!

 

[Clicio]

Little update on my Maples:

Kotohime is growing like crazy:


One of the Deshojo saplings is already green:


But they are all alive and well, no burnt leaves so far!

 

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Trident mid Spring:


Deshojo color gradient:

 

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Kotohime waking up from the summer dormancy, as well as the Deshojo. They got the burnt tips even being in the shadow...

 

[gopix]

Kotohime waking up from the summer dormancy, as well as the Deshojo. They got the burnt tips even being in the shadow...View attachment 355560

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Hi, do you have an update on your maples? Big Thanks!

 

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Hi, do you have an update on your maples? Big Thanks!

Yeap, all is well.
I will take some pictures later on today.

 

[Clicio]

Well, Spring is here and the maples are waking up.
They all look healthy!

Kiyohime and Orange Dream.


Laceleaf Maple

 

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Deshojo and Palmatum.

 

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They look happy today.

 

[Clicio]

Well, after over 40°C - 105f - for a week around here, my Maples have a few burned leaf points, but they have survived alright.

Kiyohime today:

 

[clem]

Nice tree with natural appearance !
Be carefull with the scars if you unwire too late. Maybe a guy wire would be less risky because as soon as the wire touch the bark, a brown linear scar will appear and it will only disappear when the bark becomes mature (brown color)

 

[czaczaja]

Wonder if it works the other way around. I have a couple of redwood/cypress seedlings in zone 6. We will see if they even germinate

 

[Maros]

Looks really nice. It seems it doesn't miss dormancy and enjoys 40C summers.