Weeping maple help

[papymandarin]

depends on cultivar, some do well on their own roots (Deshojo, Katsura, Sangokaki ...even if most of the time not with same vigour as regular palmatum), some don't, some are not even able to root from cutting or layers. Laceleaved ones are notorious for usually not doing well on their own roots , when they can root at all.

 

[Jcmmaple]

Yeah I am going to try some cuttings from it and see what happens, also I have a bloodgood and just some green ones to take from. We are trying to start a small nursery so I was planning on it anyway, hope they do good but if not it’s all fun anyway learning.

 

[Jcmmaple]

Also the green ones that do root will be there to learn grafting, hopefully I can do it where it isn’t so ugly.

 

[Hyn Patty]

One thing you can try that I am told works well is to airlayer right immediately below a fairly clean graft. So that the roots come out of the grafted material but the join scar is right there where the roots will swell out to form the nebari, spreading and blurring the scar. Then if the grafted layered roots still out grow the scion, it will be much less obvious.

I would think it would be tricky to get it just right and I have no idea how well it works. I would also think you could augment weak roots with root grafts of a stronger growing variety and perhaps dodge the original visible graft stock entirely. Not sure but possibly worth trying if you can get a cutting to root but it’s roots were weak.

All of this may already have been tried by others and I just not know about it.

 

[Jcmmaple]

So here is the tree I got for free, sorry I didn’t get a better pic of the second one because it is pouring rain and has all day. These should be fun projects for my personal collection, and I’ve not even got to get the burlap undone yet so who knows what’s under there. The only problem I have is how much root pruning to do next year, is it a little at a time each season to get it where I want it? And 2nd question is can I clean some of the soil out now and leave a little and put some better draining soil around them?the one in the second pic is the red one