How To Bonsai A Japanese Maple Sapling
Japanese maples make wonderful plants for bonsai.
How to bonsai a japanese maple sapling. You want to remove the whole root ball around the seedling. Dig all the way around the seedling with a small spade or shovel. Turn japanese maple seedlings into a clump style bonsai part 1 bonsai u duration. Turn japanese maple seedlings into a clump style bonsai part 1 bonsai u duration.
Turn japanese maple seedlings into a clump style bonsai part 1 bonsai u duration. It s the first step in creating a japanese maple bonsai to let the base trunk thicken before styling the. Creating a maple bonsai tree in 20 mins easy. You don t want to remove the seedling.
In this video i will show you how to thicken the trunk for young japanese maple seedlings. Place the seedlings with root balls in a bowl for transporting them. Often these maples are seedling grown without grafting so there is no graft scar at all. Herons bonsai 278 956 views.
Turn japanese maple seedlings into a clump style bonsai part 2. Plants are chosen with grafts that are low and or very clean. This article discusses how to do basic pruning to keep a maple looking good. Maples grow very rapidly and a tree that looks great in early spring can be completely out of shape a week later.