How To Bonsai A Japanese Maple Sapling

This article discusses how to do basic pruning to keep a maple looking good.
How to bonsai a japanese maple sapling. You don t want to remove the seedling. Place the seedlings with root balls in a bowl for transporting them. Japanese maples make wonderful plants for bonsai. In this video i will show you how to thicken the trunk for young japanese maple seedlings.
Turn japanese maple seedlings into a clump style bonsai part 1 bonsai u duration. Creating a maple bonsai tree in 20 mins easy. Plants are chosen with grafts that are low and or very clean. It s the first step in creating a japanese maple bonsai to let the base trunk thicken before styling the.
Maples grow very rapidly and a tree that looks great in early spring can be completely out of shape a week later. Herons bonsai 1 728 674 views. Turn japanese maple seedlings into a clump style bonsai part 1 bonsai u duration. Herons bonsai 278 956 views.
Things you ll need a maple tree sharp and clean knife or scissors sphagnum moss soak it in water for at least 15 minutes a small sheet of heavy plastic string rooting hormone available at any garden center container with good drainage holes for growing there are many bonsai container options. Japanese maple shaping decisions part 1 duration. Turn japanese maple seedlings into a clump style bonsai part 1 bonsai u duration. You want to remove the whole root ball around the seedling.