Spring maples

[treeman]

All repotted and ready to go. Big leaves this spring due to the NEVER ENDING RAIN!!
The bark is starting to turn white here and there which means they are finally maturing.

Otome Zakura..

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Kamagata...

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Trident...

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[TimS]

Love the red foliage against the trunk of the Otome Zakura.

Interesting how large the leaves on your Kamagata are too, i briefly had a young one that didn't survive an early ham fisted air layer attempt that had tiny leaves.

i'm still searching for Katsura for the peach spring foliage colour, I tried Yamina but never heard back sadly, but that red against the trunk is dynamite.

[KIRKY]

Lovely Spring colour, great trees treeman.
Tim, When we can finally move more than 5K, try Bulleen Art and Garden they had them.
Cheers
Kirky

[TimS]

Thanks for the tip, i'll certainly need the 5km limit removed and them to re-open!

[bki]

awesome trees man. did you repot the today?

[Matthew]

Really like that first tree Mike . You find these cultivers aint a huge fan of full defoliation and generally harder to maintain say then usual mountain maples ?

[MJL]

I have said it before but that Trident group is one of my favourite group/forest settings. It's true beauty is revealed in winter IMO because I find the the silhouette of the finely ramified winter branches a wonder to see.

[treeman]

Really like that first tree Mike . You find these cultivers aint a huge fan of full defoliation and generally harder to maintain say then usual mountain maples ?

Some are better than others but they can all handle defoliation if they are reasonably young and vigorous and have been repotted in the last season. Usually they don't need it after a while.
The trick with the dwarfs are to repot yearly. That keeps them moving. That Kamagata for example is over 30 and has never missed a repot every year.

[SuperBonSaiyan]

Some are better than others but they can all handle defoliation if they are reasonably young and vigorous and have been repotted in the last season. Usually they don't need it after a while.
The trick with the dwarfs are to repot yearly. That keeps them moving. That Kamagata for example is over 30 and has never missed a repot every year.

I just put an air layer on a Kamagata yesterday - do you know why dwarf maples are more vigorous with frequent repotting?

I would have thought the opposite to be true since the roots are being stressed yearly.

Not disagreeing with you, but just wondering why.

My first year trying air layering, but if it works, next year I'll try a thicker branch.

[dansai]

When we repot we take off some roots and give the tree some room to grow new ones. The new roots tend to be vigorous, which in turn induces vigorous growth. Once trees mature we tend to repot less as we aren't looking for vigorous growth, but slow controlled growth. Any tree that has not been repotted for a number of years will put on more vigorous growth after a repot.

I try and repot trees that I'm developing in nursery pots every year. Even if its just going back into the same size pot. Sometimes its a hard root prune, sometimes only a light one and into a bigger pot for extra growth.

Specific to the Dwarf maples, I assume Treeman suggested it as they tend to be slow, and regular repotting will keep them vigorous and growing as strongly as possible.