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Thread to document some of my Japanese maple projects.
is an air layer off one of my bigger JMs that I separated last November. It’s a tall slender twin trunk. It was little more than 2 long twigs last August. Now it’s at least thickened up to be 2 small sticks in a pot
When I separated the layer November 2020
I did the initial styling in our fall in June. Today I repotted.
Start of the repot
Nice little nebari is starting to form. Any heavy, crossing or misdirected roots were cut off. Bottom of the football was cut flat under the trunk.
Settled in and watered. This season I’ll start the primaries and next section of each trunk. I plan for this tree to be remain somewhat slender and have elegant upward reaching branches. I imagine it’s a tree right at the edge of a forest so it’s found a spot where it can reach up and out towards the sunlight from under some large hinokis or cryptomeria.
Some trees for inspiration (props to @kokufu_maples on IG)
is an air layer off one of my bigger JMs that I separated last November. It’s a tall slender twin trunk. It was little more than 2 long twigs last August. Now it’s at least thickened up to be 2 small sticks in a pot
When I separated the layer November 2020
I did the initial styling in our fall in June. Today I repotted.
Start of the repot
Nice little nebari is starting to form. Any heavy, crossing or misdirected roots were cut off. Bottom of the football was cut flat under the trunk.
Settled in and watered. This season I’ll start the primaries and next section of each trunk. I plan for this tree to be remain somewhat slender and have elegant upward reaching branches. I imagine it’s a tree right at the edge of a forest so it’s found a spot where it can reach up and out towards the sunlight from under some large hinokis or cryptomeria.
Some trees for inspiration (props to @kokufu_maples on IG)