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Masterpiece
First off let me say I know this was neither a great buy or a great tree. You ever see something that just appeals to you though, and I am not a big fan of deciduos trees either. This tree kinda reminds me of the christmas tree purchased by Charlie Brown in the old Peanuts Christmas cartoon. Its a small japanese maple, scrawny little trunk, Slanting style which is my favorite! its growing in a shallow pot with very little soil and has the roots prominent on the side away from the lean. It was freshly leafed out when I seen it and I fell in love with it, two small foliage pads loaded with striking small maple leafs.
The first thing that attracted me to it was the shallow planting, the pot is less than 2 inch deep and there is no more than 3/4s of an inch soil that its growing in. I know there will be no root reducing needed. Despite this it has vigorous leafing. When I spied it at NDGC I had to wait for the Bonsai guy to get a price, he said "Well that little Jap maple needs some more work than my usual Bonsai maples, I could let it go for $59. I was buying it anyway and as usual when I am enthralled with something I did not bother with a counter offer. It has a cheap pot and is nothing special, I will post some pics when I pick it up. I put $20 bucks on it and had him hold it until the end of April as the leaves are already out and we were expecting some cold weather.
I am glad I had him hold it as we had a hard freeze the next night and it did a lot of damage to my tropicals and my Vomitoria. The tropicals have bounced back, they lost about 1/3 the leaves to the freeze, despite being in a box covered with a tarp, the little Ilex has been the slowest coming around, I even took a little damage on a few of my Junipers too. It went down to 28 degrees for about 10 hours though. This would have ruined the leaves on this maple for certain.
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The first thing that attracted me to it was the shallow planting, the pot is less than 2 inch deep and there is no more than 3/4s of an inch soil that its growing in. I know there will be no root reducing needed. Despite this it has vigorous leafing. When I spied it at NDGC I had to wait for the Bonsai guy to get a price, he said "Well that little Jap maple needs some more work than my usual Bonsai maples, I could let it go for $59. I was buying it anyway and as usual when I am enthralled with something I did not bother with a counter offer. It has a cheap pot and is nothing special, I will post some pics when I pick it up. I put $20 bucks on it and had him hold it until the end of April as the leaves are already out and we were expecting some cold weather.
I am glad I had him hold it as we had a hard freeze the next night and it did a lot of damage to my tropicals and my Vomitoria. The tropicals have bounced back, they lost about 1/3 the leaves to the freeze, despite being in a box covered with a tarp, the little Ilex has been the slowest coming around, I even took a little damage on a few of my Junipers too. It went down to 28 degrees for about 10 hours though. This would have ruined the leaves on this maple for certain.
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