Structural Work on Japanese Maple

[AndyJ]

Hi folks,

I've not been too well this year and haven't looked after my trees as well as I wanted to. Broken trunk on JW due to poor thought and planning, wire cutting in to beech branches, dead trees that fell off the bench and I didn't notice....

Anyway, I'm feeling a little better now and had a look at one of my JM and found another tree I'd wired and forgotten about. The wire has bitten in quite a lot and I fear it will take years to recover. I've had a look and think I can redesign it by cutting off the scarred trunk.

So my question is, am I too late to do this now? Still a few weeks of growing possible this year - will it be OK? Or do I wait for next summer?

Thanks all,

Andy

 

[WNC Bonsai]

In Japan they sometimes actually leave wire on the trunk to make it thicken up faster. Peter Chan talks about this in one of his recent videos on his YouTube channel.

 

[AndyJ]

In Japan they sometimes actually leave wire on the trunk to make it thicken up faster. Peter Chan talks about this in one of his recent videos on his YouTube channel.

I think Peter Chan is referring to that techniques use on pines isn't he? I don't know if I'd like to do that on a maple

 

[WNC Bonsai]

I think Peter Chan is referring to that techniques use on pines isn't he? I don't know if I'd like to do that on a maple

Maybe it was in his video on pines. At any rate can you air layer above the wire marks?

 

[leatherback]

Yeah, cutting now can still work. It gives you a start on closing the wound, which would continue next year. With a bit of luck you might still get one good flush before years' end.

 

[ysrgrathe]

A photo would help.