Maple Bonsai Pruning

Maintenance pruning to maintain and refine the existing shape of a bonsai and structural pruning which involves more rigorous pruning to give a tree its basic shape or style.
Maple bonsai pruning. The pruning of strong branches should be done in autumn to prevent excessive bleeding or in the summer when callus growth is quick. I plan to get some cheaper bonsais to experiment with trunk chopping and pruning to get more comfortable working with bonsais. We want each. The first thing to do is carefully shorten all the long branches using the instructions below.
Maple pruning basics assessing your tree s shape. If you haven t pruned it lately it may look like this bushy and green. Trimming of shoots and twigs can be done year round. Pruning leaves to induce a new flush of growth bonsai defoliation involves cutting all the leaves of a tree during the summer.
Since i m really new to bonsais i don t feel that comfortable cutting major branches let alone trunk chopping a tree. However maple tree pruning in winter generally won t hurt a mature tree. Large maples are my favourite bonsai. I show pruning with scissors and using the plucking method.
More great stuff can be found. This video shows how to perform creation pruning and maintenance pruning on a japanese maple pre bonsai tree part 1. You can avoid this issue if you wait until summer to prune maples. For this trident maple i just want to maintain its look and prune it to get more fuller foliage.
If the tree is just a sapling however loss of sap may cause problems. In doing so you force the tree to grow new leaves leading to a reduction in the size of leaves and an increase in ramification. Japanese maples naturally have very shallow root systems and easily take to shallow bonsai dishes but is important to remember that care needs to be taken to avoid aggressively pruning back the roots due to impatience to have the tree in a perfect container. The bonsai tree will be put in a bonsai pot in early spring 2010.
In this video i shape a few smaller maples and a large twin trunk. Without doubt the most important way to train a bonsai is to prune it on a regular basis.