How To Create Large Trunk Maple Bonsai

[Music] creating a deciduous bonsai is quite different from creating an evergreen bonsai with deciduous bonsai making the trunk is the first and most important step of the process usually trees that have thick trunks especially deciduous trees are more impressive than trees that have slender slim trunks unless you want to make a tree look really elegant and slim we do not prefer this hideous tree that have tendrils like this try to maple this tried maple is probably about eight years old it was imported from Japan as a stump with no branches back in 1993 and all the branches and the complete apex from here to there has been gone over the last 25 years this is another example of a tridon that was grown from really a cutting about 35 years ago and then it was grown in the field and then dug up and then progressively reduced in height and the superstructure has been created that is another maple that's a Mountain maple Aesop Army item produced from a fear country and it's been successively pruned over the years to create the branches this is the rough bark maple also referred to as the Arakawa that's the Japanese botanical name is upon me item Arakawa it's got the rough bark but as you can see again it's got a thick trunk the trunk is at least six to the eight inches at the base and the nebari is a at least 10 to 12 inches but the way it's been made it's a large tree that has been cut down progressively the first cut made their second cut there and then I've been cutting it ever since every time the new leader goes and that's how we produce these maples this is a large Aesop amitabh ordinary Japanese maple we also call it the Japanese Mountain maples but this has been produced by a layering we do a lot of air layering at the nursery and this tree was aired only ten years ago and when it was layered it was only about three quarters of an inch in diameter but it has been grown in this large pot all the time and the loop size you can see and gone through the pot and have come through the pot as you can see it's such a vigorous tree very very vigorous tree now we can do various things with this if I wanted to I can keep Aaron airing and get several 20 countries or multiple countries but as you can see I've already kept cutting it but I don't want it to go on forever and I think it's time that I made it into a bonsai so when we come to making it a bonsai we have to see which is the part that we want to keep this tree has many possibilities it's got a beautiful base and it leans to one side and this was the original top of the tree that we could discard and then we've got to decide which trunk line we're going to follow and what will be the front we turn it around and see whether it's plaited this side or that side even this side has got possibilities but I still think the other side is more interesting but if we look at the street closely I think this is going to be the leader because this is the most obvious leader all the other six branches unfortunately will be discarded now I will show you the implements that we use we will use this very very very sharp Japanese sword these swords are extremely vicious and dangerous and wherever you use them to cut please wear a glove a left-hand glove if you're right-handed or the other way around if you're left-handed but be careful you don't want to cut yourself so we're going to make a new leader here so we're gonna cut there and then we're going to get rid of these branches so if I ask Jack to come we're going to leave about half inch because we don't want to cut it hard back to where the new shoot is coming so we will cut there and these shorter branches I will just cut it with the loppers for now [Applause] all this growth for 10 years has been used only to divert the fungus once the job is done we only need the trunk so we said that we're going to keep this this is the leader so we're going to get rid of this as well so if Jack can make a cut cut it from the bottom first and then try and cut so we're going to cut all this off you when I cut maples I never take it hard back to where I want the final cut to be made because with maples you'll always get a little die back so this will die back to here so it's better to let it rot naturally if you cut too close you may damage the whole trunk like here I've left about quarter inch so that it can die back to this point and now I will seal it and then we'll take it out of the bottom let's see what the tree is like I'm now going to get rid of this piece of dead wood you you you you [Music]

Channel: Herons Bonsai

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Length: 7min 48sec (468 seconds)

Published: Fri Mar 16 2018