AusBonsai

Having made some space in my grow beds its now time to plant out the next crop of little maples. These guys are a mix of 3 and 4 years from cuttings and have been root pruned 2 or 3 times. Most of them have been wired and there are some reasonably placed sacrifice branches on them. I have started to scar the under sides of the trunks and sorted out some good radial roots. Because I am only interested in the nebari and lower trunks I have really packed them into the grow beds and will need to spread them as they get a bit more mature.
Craigw

Looking good craig!

Yep, I'll take those on lay-buy...

I'll pick them up in 2-5 years

Great work mate, I've finally set up a grow bed after getting inspiration from yours at the start of the year.

Scott and Joe, yes some of these ones will be really good, my skills have improved somewhat from the last batch and they are all cuttings from a selected form so will ramify nicely.
Craigw

Your a legend Craig. Keep up the good work mate.

craigw60 wrote:...and they are all cuttings from a selected form so will ramify nicely...

Great! An often overlooked aspect of stock. Good to see propagation and stock being grown from selected specimens rather than just random seedlings like mine

First you have to be clever and talented enough to grow trident cuttings Still quite difficult for me

shibui wrote:First you have to be clever and talented enough to grow trident cuttings Still quite difficult for me

Really? What seems to be the problem Neil? Tridents have been pretty easy for me, going right back to the 1/2 coke bottle days 10+ years ago. These days I use fogging, a poly-tunnel and I take cuttings anytime from late July to November, I don't worry about bottom heat, they just go into 0.5-2mm diatomite or perlite. I have never really grown Tridents from seed because cuttings have never been a bother.

Cheers,
Mojo

Neil, I take my cuttings in december from semi ripe wood and get an almost 100% strike rate with no bottom heat, just in the poly tunnel.
Craigw

Fantastic results Craig and really helpful advise to those of us who are relatively new to this hobby

Barry

Agree Neil, I have the same problem with airlayers on tridents I am awesome at growing callus, but roots don't seem to want to grow for me!

Thanks for the advice guys . I'll try striking cuttings in

december from semi ripe wood

and

anytime from late July to November

Such a short window of opportunity its no wonder I'm having trouble

I must have fluked it with the few trident cuttings I took ... they were taken in mid winter from semi ripe wood, put in diatomite and placed outside in partial shade.
Anyway, I wanted to say thanks Craig for another great thread on Tridents!
Cheers, Dario.

shibui wrote:Thanks for the advice guys . I'll try striking cuttings in

december from semi ripe wood

and

anytime from late July to November

Such a short window of opportunity its no wonder I'm having trouble

I'm elated that there are now 100 things you can do with Tridents that I can't and one thing I can do with Tridents that you can't.

If I live to be 400, I can probably catch up

Cheers, Mojo