hello ! don't you have some black coloration on differetn parts of your trees ? If yes be carefull, it maybe verticillium (a fungus disease)When I asked my nursery guy about mine he said to just chop it. I did and now I have shoots coming from all the short stalks. Mine were about 3' tall and looked just like yours. Now they look like this, and this happend in a week!
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Hello, i would cut above 2 or 3 pair of leaves. And next spring, i would grow the tree in a wide and flat wood box to promote good nebariThis maple is pretty much still a seedling - about two years old. It keeps growing taller and taller. Should I let it keep doing this, or should I cut it down?
hello ! don't you have some black coloration on differetn parts of your trees ? If yes be carefull, it maybe verticillium (a fungus disease)
On the pic it seems that there is a black coloration on a long branch on the upper right of the picture. Don't know if it is really verticillium, but if it is verticillium, there is no efficient treatment because it is fungus that "came into" the tree from the roots in spring (sorry for my English) and when the fungus is Inside the tree, you cut the affected branches it will stay anyway. Hope it isn't veticillium !Yes, where I attempted to graft branches on it. But not where I clipped the stalks.
On the pic it seems that there is a black coloration on a long branch on the upper right of the picture. Don't know if it is really verticillium, but if it is verticillium, there is no efficient treatment because it is fungus that "came into" the tree from the roots in spring (sorry for my English) and when the fungus is Inside the tree, you cut the affected branches it will stay anyway. Hope it isn't veticillium !
Your trees are grafted on palmatum type ?
maybe it's not serious but for me it's not good that your branche turned black. it seem that something enterred by the wound. i'd cut/remove every black parts.The long branch was the one that was cut and attempted to be grafted onto the shorter stalk. I didn't know what I was doing, and still don't. It was an experiment.
No cutty!
Sorce
you wouldn't work on the nebari yet @KiwiPlantGuy and @sorce ?
I was learned (i read if you prefer) that the sooner you have a lot of sacrifice branches, the more the trunk will grow. 5 sacrifice branches growing well will make bigger trunk than just one crown growing well
Thanks for the advice! If no cutty, should I just wire it in place so that it won't keep falling over as it grows taller?I agree with Sorce here. Let them grow a 6 foot high trunk then after a couple of seasons chop and start again, over and over til you get a trunk girth you want to start pre-bonsai with, say 2 inch plus.
Charles
i could answer, in the same sarcastic manner as you do, that i ve never seen pencil thin trunk with big branches and the more sacrifice branches you have, the better conicity & smaler wounds you have in the futureMaples are apical, and at this stage grow more efficiently when the central leader is left alone. Unless of course you want a pencil thin trunk.
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I would have already wired and put some movement into it already.This maple is pretty much still a seedling - about two years old. It keeps growing taller and taller. Should I let it keep doing this, or should I cut it down? View attachment 201569
you wouldn't work on the nebari yet @KiwiPlantGuy and @sorce ?
I was learned (i read if you prefer) that the sooner you have a lot of sacrifice branches, the more the trunk will grow. 5 sacrifice branches growing well will make bigger trunk than just one crown growing well