Hi all,
just a post to keep record of a little taiwan maple that I had purchased from bonsai south 2 years ago.
Its only a start but its reasonable I think.
Happy to hear any thoughts or critiques.
Squizz
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Re: taiwanese maple
Acerrrssssssss
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Re: taiwanese maple
Thanks guys.
Will have to be quicker with getting the wire off this year.
squizz
Will have to be quicker with getting the wire off this year.
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Re: taiwanese maple
My question to you Mr Squizz is, how do you envisage this when its 'finished'?
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Re: taiwanese maple
I envisage it to be awesome 
I will try a vert when I get a chance. I cut it back close to the trunk to get some nice tight branching and I dont imagine I want it much taller than this which is currently 150mm or there about.
Squizz
I will try a vert when I get a chance. I cut it back close to the trunk to get some nice tight branching and I dont imagine I want it much taller than this which is currently 150mm or there about.
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Re: taiwanese maple
In general your heading in the right direction. Feed water trim feed water trim and for nice flat pads lots of wire. Loosely wire the shoots while very young, they set fast & wire can be off so you have no chance of bite.
Look forward to your virt & watching the tree develop over the coming years.
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Re: taiwanese maple
Here it is in leaf and a couple of sacrifice branches wired down to the right. I have cut the growing tips out quite early as I found that I did it later last year and everything stopped so my guess is it was to hot and the stop producing the new soft growth in hot conditions. I hope to get some more branches happening straight away.
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Re: taiwanese maple
Squizzy, you have been growing bonsai for 3 years now and what I love here is that you had the stones to take a young piece of deciduous material back to pretty much a bare trunk. There are plenty of "highly regarded" deciduous bonsai in Australia and abroad that have overly heavy branches that spoil fantastic mature trunks and decades of work. If you can avoid the temptation to religiously hold onto "precious mature wood" and keep design objectives in mind, I promise that you will be able create fine bonsai.squizzy wrote:Hi all,
just a post to keep record of a little taiwan maple that I had purchased from bonsai south 2 years ago. Its only a start but its reasonable I think.
Happy to hear any thoughts or critiques.
Squizz
Build, reduce, rebuild, reduce, rebuild and refine.
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"Any creative work can be roughly broken down into three components- design, technique and materials. Good design can carry poor technique and materials but no amount of expertise and beautiful materials can save poor design". Andrew McPherson - Furniture designer and artist
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Re: taiwanese maple
Hi Mojo,
Mate I would love to say I know what I am doing and yeah I have the stones. Truth is mate I just cut the branches back because the first internodes were too far from the trunkline. I am on to it this year though ( i hope). I am not sure at this stage if the tree itself is too tall and if it is I am not sure where to cut it. Maybe I dont have the stones
Cheers
Squizz
Mate I would love to say I know what I am doing and yeah I have the stones. Truth is mate I just cut the branches back because the first internodes were too far from the trunkline. I am on to it this year though ( i hope). I am not sure at this stage if the tree itself is too tall and if it is I am not sure where to cut it. Maybe I dont have the stones
Cheers
Squizz
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Re: taiwanese maple
Here is an update on this tree. Another year has passed where i didn't get a chance to re pot. Lets hope I don't kill it from leaving it too long. It has set some seed this year which is sometimes a sign of stress but I think it looks healthy enough. Might see if I can let the seeds mature and stratify them next year.
Photo to come
Squizz
Photo to come
Squizz
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