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12 Sep 12
Anybody here familiar with bonsai for Japanese Maple? A couple of years ago we moved a bonsai Japanese maple to a much larger pot due to the previous pot breaking in an earthquake. It was a gift from my wife's dad, a bonsai expert, now deceased. It sprouted many new sprigs. How and when to prune? We are in northern CA, on the coast, cool and fog are common. We had a small black pine that we pruned in late January with good results, but it got too big and is gone now.
12 Sep 12
Originally posted by JS357Moving it into a bigger pot won't do its bonsai status much good. From what I understand about bonsai is that the roots are to be restricted and pruned. Perhaps you should just plant it in the garden as a memory to your wife's old man. Trees aren't meant to be cooped up anyway 🙂
Anybody here familiar with bonsai for Japanese Maple? A couple of years ago we moved a bonsai Japanese maple to a much larger pot due to the previous pot breaking in an earthquake. It was a gift from my wife's dad, a bonsai expert, now deceased. It sprouted many new sprigs. How and when to prune? We are in northern CA, on the coast, cool and fog are common. We ...[text shortened]... lack pine that we pruned in late January with good results, but it got too big and is gone now.
13 Sep 12
Originally posted by JS357In fact you can use as a rule of thumb that you prune the bonsai in the same way and time you would the actual tree. That means for a maple prune when the leafes have fallen (they do fall in CA?). And you prune in a way that the miniature looks like its "natural" counterpart.
Anybody here familiar with bonsai for Japanese Maple? A couple of years ago we moved a bonsai Japanese maple to a much larger pot due to the previous pot breaking in an earthquake. It was a gift from my wife's dad, a bonsai expert, now deceased. It sprouted many new sprigs. How and when to prune? We are in northern CA, on the coast, cool and fog are common. We ...[text shortened]... lack pine that we pruned in late January with good results, but it got too big and is gone now.
13 Sep 12
Originally posted by PonderableI'm not an arboriculturist, but I play one on the interwebz. Never prune or trim when the leaves are gone. Always do that after the new leaves have matured in the next growing season. 😉
In fact you can use as a rule of thumb that you prune the bonsai in the same way and time you would the actual tree. That means for a maple prune when the leafes have fallen (they do fall in CA?). And you prune in a way that the miniature looks like its "natural" counterpart.
The tree will suffer less trauma that way.
13 Sep 12
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Originally posted by ChessPraxisI am a chemist, my father is the arboculturist and always taught that one should avoid bleeding wounds. So we did pruning always after the leaves had fallen. Trimming however can be done any time, due to the much smaller wounds.
I'm not an arboriculturist, but I play one on the interwebz. Never prune or trim when the leaves are gone. Always do that after the new leaves have matured in the next growing season. 😉
The tree will suffer less trauma that way.
But since my father learned in the fifties the information could be outdated. I will take a look around.
Cheers
13 Sep 12
Originally posted by JS357play it Jimi Hendrix, Prince Charles plays Jimi Hendrix to his plants and they love it!
Anybody here familiar with bonsai for Japanese Maple? A couple of years ago we moved a bonsai Japanese maple to a much larger pot due to the previous pot breaking in an earthquake. It was a gift from my wife's dad, a bonsai expert, now deceased. It sprouted many new sprigs. How and when to prune? We are in northern CA, on the coast, cool and fog are common. We ...[text shortened]... lack pine that we pruned in late January with good results, but it got too big and is gone now.
14 Sep 12
Originally posted by JS357It does really depend upon the originality of the Bonsai itself....
Anybody here familiar with bonsai for Japanese Maple? A couple of years ago we moved a bonsai Japanese maple to a much larger pot due to the previous pot breaking in an earthquake. It was a gift from my wife's dad, a bonsai expert, now deceased. It sprouted many new sprigs. How and when to prune? We are in northern CA, on the coast, cool and fog are common. We ...[text shortened]... lack pine that we pruned in late January with good results, but it got too big and is gone now.
There are many factors and hybrids involved, which may have been developed for export to the US.
I keep Bonsai, but Thai Bonsai. I have 6. 2 of these are Sino/Thai hybrids, and they certainly to not like cool or lack of sunlight.
Japanese originals can cope with lack of sunlight, and to some degree a cooler atmosphere, as many were/are kept in shaded tree areas. Many original Japanese houses were built below ground level, with huge trees surrounding them, to cope with typhoons. Bonsai did/do well in these conditions, if original Bonsai from Japan.
The hybrids of today have many mixes, in the same capacity as roses and tulips and so forth have, for the export industries.
As for the pot..... you really should have placed it in a same sized pot. Pruning results in a short-cut to root development too, and most Bonsai rely upon clean air and little water for survival..... almost like Cacti.....
PM me, and give me a link to a pic, as I might be able to identify the variety - but unlikely if it is a hybrid.
A sprig, when the plant is settled, may easily be cut and placed in a development pot - the same size at all the others........ prune and permit growth, prune when growth is improved...... and so on.
This site isn't of much help, but it's a start.
http://www.infobarrel.com/Bonsai_Trees
-m. 😉