Bonsai Experiment
- Matt Markworth
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Bonsai Experiment
Hi All,
My neighbor has a Silver Maple and the helicopters really fly. I let some seedlings grow in a mulched area in my backyard and have used some of them (152 to be exact) for a Bonsai experiment.
Matt
My neighbor has a Silver Maple and the helicopters really fly. I let some seedlings grow in a mulched area in my backyard and have used some of them (152 to be exact) for a Bonsai experiment.
Matt
Re: Bonsai Experiment
I don't know much about bonsai, but I like what you've created. I've always like the foliage of silver maple, if not the tree itself. I'l'l be interesting to see how it develops.
Joe
Joe
Re: Bonsai Experiment
I can imagine where you are headed with this.
Like the concept.
Would like to see the stages of development ... and I'm sure you will be photographing.
...
Like the concept.
Would like to see the stages of development ... and I'm sure you will be photographing.
...
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Re: Bonsai Experiment
Matt,
I am intrigued by your experiment. I wonder of these small shoots will graft themselves together , or whether or not most of them will simply die off. Silver maples do commonly form fused stem multitrunk specimens, so I wonder if there is a minimum age for the process to begin.
Ed
I am intrigued by your experiment. I wonder of these small shoots will graft themselves together , or whether or not most of them will simply die off. Silver maples do commonly form fused stem multitrunk specimens, so I wonder if there is a minimum age for the process to begin.
Ed
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- Matt Markworth
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Re: Bonsai Experiment
Joe - Thanks, I really like silver maple leaves as well.
Mario - Thanks, I'll photograph it at least once a year.
Ed - Out of the 152 seedlings, 33 remain alive and are producing leaves. There are only a few that have noticeably larger girth compared to a year ago. There's no evidence of grafting, but it'll be interesting to see if that develops over time.
Matt
Mario - Thanks, I'll photograph it at least once a year.
Ed - Out of the 152 seedlings, 33 remain alive and are producing leaves. There are only a few that have noticeably larger girth compared to a year ago. There's no evidence of grafting, but it'll be interesting to see if that develops over time.
Matt
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Nice.
And spruce in the background?
LOL
And spruce in the background?
LOL
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- Matt Markworth
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Re: Bonsai Experiment
And Colorado blue too!mdvaden wrote:Nice.
And spruce in the background?
LOL
Matt
- Will Blozan
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Re: Bonsai Experiment
You plan on doing all the pruning and training with wires to make it look official or are you just kinda going to let it go?
- Matt Markworth
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Re: Bonsai Experiment
Will, Rand,
I haven't done any root pruning or training, other than tying a silver maple stem around the middle. I think I'll let it go for a couple years, and then use some wires to try to imitate a big, spreading open-grown silver maple.
Matt
I haven't done any root pruning or training, other than tying a silver maple stem around the middle. I think I'll let it go for a couple years, and then use some wires to try to imitate a big, spreading open-grown silver maple.
Matt