How to Work on Japanese Maple Bonsai with Big or Small Leaves

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@massivebulge2298 3 күн бұрын

I just got a maple starter kit from seed for Christmas,I was hoping for a maple tree but my wife and mother blessed me with something even better! First time starting from seed and I’m excited

@bonsaiheirloom Күн бұрын

Great to hear! Enjoy!

@growclipbonsaiforseniors1951 8 ай бұрын

That tree you took is not ugly to me. Looks unique. Different. Not the standard norm that everyone wants. Great to be different for a tree, to me that is. Glad you are saving it.

@MiltonChang-ee6rq 8 ай бұрын

🙂 thanks!

@chromeoiran951 5 ай бұрын

That chunky red maple is exquisite, and I'm so glad you gave it a good home. 🍁What a beauty it'll become under your care. ❤

@bonsaiheirloom 5 ай бұрын

Thank you!

@chromeoiran951 4 ай бұрын

@@bonsaiheirloom - 😊I'd also like to thank you for sharing your knowledge, Mr. Chang, and I can't wait to learn more from you.

@Angel-lk1ir 8 ай бұрын

I can't wait to see the progress of the little maple tree 😍🥳💚

@bonsaiheirloom 8 ай бұрын

Please stay tuned!

@cparks1000000 7 ай бұрын

Just discovered your channel and have been watching for nearly 3 hours. Great content.

@bonsaiheirloom 7 ай бұрын

Thank you so much!

@tanarehbein7768 8 ай бұрын

I follow three different US bonsai masters. But just when I had decided my style and theory most closely resembles yours, then you surprise me again. Thanks for so much new material and reasonably short videos.

@MiltonChang-ee6rq 8 ай бұрын

Glad you like it. How can I improve based on your experience?

@tanarehbein7768 8 ай бұрын

@@MiltonChang-ee6rq I have about a year of bonsai experience. I would not advise you. I have more experience with outdoor topiaries and pruning fruit trees and Japanese maples that are in ground as landscape specimens. That's why I'm learning from you. However, the horticultural foundation I have is beneficial. An understanding of how trees respond to stimuli (fertilizer, pruning, weather, seasons, etc) is essential.You are a good teacher, and a good teacher can teach anything and make it enjoyable.

@thegreenmanalishiyamadori371 8 ай бұрын

9:27 Bonsaimaster : it' not gonna break anything - it's not gonna break the branch really....famous last words😂😂😂 reminds me of something recently happened...🤷‍♂️🤷‍♂️🤷‍♂️

@40ozoracle61 8 ай бұрын

These videos are always so calming to me, i've taken a cutting of juniper from my backyard. Going to attempt to root it and create my very first tree!

@MiltonChang-ee6rq 8 ай бұрын

Have fun!

@picklesnoutpenobscott3165 8 ай бұрын

Hi Milton, thanks for covering maples!

@MiltonChang-ee6rq 8 ай бұрын

Welcom!

@ebenoid6643 3 ай бұрын

Thanks for this I have 3 Japanese maples now all different sizes and they have been overgrown except my shohin sized one. I’m waiting to bring them back as I do not want extremely big trees in the future.

@maverickbonsai 8 ай бұрын

That big maple is pretty cool! Thanks for the styling tips. They're very helpful!

@MiltonChang-ee6rq 8 ай бұрын

Thanks!

@jonathanzellner906 8 ай бұрын

I love that “famous last words” fits in every hobby, community and culture And I know you are flooded with emails, but I can’t wait to see your advice about my driveway mimosa from the emails. Amazing works as always my friend!

@MiltonChang-ee6rq 8 ай бұрын

I thought I responded. Mimosa is a very good material for bonsai. I forgot what you asked specifically. I rarely respond to postiiubng beyond two or three days.

@MiltonChang-ee6rq 8 ай бұрын

Lucky to have old material to start with,

@DavidSmith-yk6li 8 ай бұрын

I enjoyed this video. That little nugget of information about the age of the tree itself compared to the bonsai age and how you can have an idea of age by the ramification was priceless wisdom gained for me.

@TheBonsaiGarden 8 ай бұрын

Thank you 🙏

@TheBonsaiGarden 8 ай бұрын

Great video 👍

@MiltonChang 8 ай бұрын

Thx

@MiltonChang 8 ай бұрын

Thx

@fernandoBOT 7 ай бұрын

i'm looking forward to the 3-6-9-12+ month updates on the tree!

@OutsidethePot 8 ай бұрын

I will be looking forward to following these two trees. I’ve been looking at maple trees lately. A little more mature two to three ft tall. I had 8 huge maples on the property I grew up on.

@MiltonChang-ee6rq 8 ай бұрын

Stumps are nice material to start.

@ShaneLovesGardening 8 ай бұрын

Perfect timing Mr. Milton! I'm currently working on several native North American maples (red maples/sugar maples). North American Maples are HUGE leaves, and the point you make about making a bigger tree to scale makes so much more sense. Do you have any experience working on North American maples? Or do you plan on working on some in the future? Thank you for taking the time to share your knowledge!

@MiltonChang-ee6rq 8 ай бұрын

I avoided them because the leaves are usually VERY LARGE. On the other hand, hedge maple has smaller leaf...I figure traditional bonsai material has proven to work..I have to conserve time. Right?

@pamelamorgan3986 8 ай бұрын

Wow! You added so much beauty to the tree people formerly, no doubt, wanted.

@bonsaiheirloom 8 ай бұрын

Thanks for the kind words!

@jackraglin5526 22 күн бұрын

Great video, but I am still hankering for some instruction on how to carve trunks to acquire age and interest. Also perhaps you could take us to a nursery and point out ignored trees that have potential.

@bonsaiheirloom 17 күн бұрын

I actually did not carve the trunk…merely break the branches to simulate what might happen in nature. Carving is a good technique. Use the tip of a chainsaw, a chisel, a scraper…or whatever to simulate what would happen in nature. :)

@maryweber4176 8 ай бұрын

I really like how you even utilize a broken tool for further use!!

@MiltonChang 8 ай бұрын

Not accustom to waste 😇

@maryweber4176 8 ай бұрын

@@MiltonChang well said.

@3did-oy7ec 8 ай бұрын

A very nice transformation of both maples. When you were trimming them, I was thinking about what I would cut...I wasn't as brave as you. The hardest thing for me was deciding what the new apex would be. Thank you.

@MiltonChang-ee6rq 8 ай бұрын

You will be more bolt as you gain experience...and if you believe that you CANNOT make mistake, because there will be many shoots for you to have more design opporrtunity Make if fun! 🙂

@MiltonChang-ee6rq 8 ай бұрын

Apex just means the top., Just do it...keep the otp and work to make it rhyme with the tree below. Have fun!

@joegarland4885 8 ай бұрын

Thanks for the Maple video Milton. The first red tree is a really nice Maple not much used for bonsai due to leaf size as you say, when I moved house had left behind the same Maple which I had worked on for years but forgot to take it out of the brick planter I had made for it, I often think about it, yours reminded me of it, the Maple you bought from auction has great potential as you say, more fool the others for not bidding for it. This years in the U.K. all my maples have much bigger leaves than usual, due I think to the weather over winter which was mild and spring alternated between wet and dry sunny periods, in the main I quite like the leaves being a bit bigger, all my maples have been placed in shade which has kept the leaves pristine, the problem then arises that the internodes get longer, so what ever you do there are good and not so good outcomes, my Amur maple has flower buds for the first time in the 20 odd years I have worked with it. There is a thought that trees that normally don’t flower but have for the first time, is because the tree is under stress and is trying to replicate its self before it dies. Years ago this happened to one of my small trees it flowered profusely and then started to die and there was nothing I could do then to save it. Once again thank you for your video. Joe.

@MiltonChang-ee6rq 8 ай бұрын

Enjoy your trees. nodes will gert shorter as it gets more branching.

@raymondplodzien7459 8 ай бұрын

Nice work Milton!!

@MiltonChang-ee6rq 8 ай бұрын

Thanks!

@jesusarmendariz9128 8 ай бұрын

Thank you for sharing Mr.Milton very nice work on those two maples👌

@MiltonChang-ee6rq 8 ай бұрын

Thanks! 🙂

@MANNY100123 8 ай бұрын

I love that "ugly" tree! It looks so nice with all those leaves! :D

@MiltonChang-ee6rq 8 ай бұрын

Great!

@JMDares 8 ай бұрын

I have an Emporer 1 and Bloodgood Japanese maple. Beautiful trees, and they're my prize plants in the yard. They grow very quickly here in North Carolina.

@MiltonChang-ee6rq 8 ай бұрын

Yes...that is much more superior than the popular blood good. Color during the year and in the fall. I love that tree.

@Limara64 8 ай бұрын

Thank you for passing on your knowledge & wisdoms ❤

@MiltonChang-ee6rq 8 ай бұрын

Thanks!

@louismilienou5442 8 ай бұрын

Nice video as always thanks I’m trying your method with my trees some of them are quite old like me thank you

@MiltonChang-ee6rq 8 ай бұрын

Lucky to have old material to start with,

@yashuajames 8 ай бұрын

Thanks Bro I really like what u did with these 2 trees very beautiful

@R3LI2UI 8 ай бұрын

I could be incorrect, but have been told in the past that in order to properly compliment a bonsai, one does not use the term 'beautiful' (It's like saying a guy is cute instead of handsome (?)). Terms like 'Masterful', 'Stunning', 'Ancient-looking', or similar adjectives are more in keeping. If I am incorrect, please someone chime in.

@MiltonChang-ee6rq 8 ай бұрын

@@R3LI2UI Thank you both! I take compliment in any form 🙂

@R3LI2UI 8 ай бұрын

@@MiltonChang-ee6rq Thank you for straightening me out 8)

@Angelina-sj9oo 8 ай бұрын

I love this video. I’ve been afraid to work on a JM because I heard they are delicate. I have 2 beautiful trees that started in pots in my bed for a couple of years before we transplanted to the bed last year. They don’t look good anymore. It’s in the same spot but the leaves are shriveled and some tips stopped growing. My gardener thought they had to much much so we removed some. I would like to send you a picture

@bonsaiheirloom 8 ай бұрын

Sure! You can email me at hello@bonsaiheirloom.com. I will do my best to help.

@Angelina-sj9oo 5 ай бұрын

@@bonsaiheirloom I sent you pictures and videos in email

@matthewgrice6902 3 ай бұрын

Thank you for video.

@bonsaiexpression 8 ай бұрын

Beautiful tree. Can't wait for an update 😁

@MiltonChang-ee6rq 8 ай бұрын

Thank you!

@R3LI2UI 8 ай бұрын

Absolutely love what you've done with these two. I have multiple Maples in my collection and this will help me take better care of them. I'm curious if you have worked with any nut/fruit producing trees; I have two English Walnuts, Cherries, Plums, Pears, and a Crabapple also. I had heard allowing them to fruit was not healthy, but my eldest Cherry seems to have done well enough (15 year old Rainier...Cherries the size of peas), but it also hasn't produced any fruit in the last two years. I worried I'm doing something wrong; time will tell I suppose. Great Post!

@MiltonChang-ee6rq 8 ай бұрын

I love flwoering/freuiting bonsai, especially mume and crab apple. Have fun!

@R3LI2UI 8 ай бұрын

@@MiltonChang-ee6rq Thank you Sir, I am very blessed to be their current keepers. 8)

@zanescents3986 8 ай бұрын

Great video! Love your chanel compared to others. Very easy to watch and understand.

@mcbabs7495 8 ай бұрын

Un grand merci pour la vidéo!

@MiltonChang-ee6rq 8 ай бұрын

merci beaucoup : 🙂

@Kosi-yt2jh 8 ай бұрын

ty for this video! learnd a lot

@MiltonChang-ee6rq 8 ай бұрын

Great!

@brianl1397 8 ай бұрын

i love the back view

@phillipwaterman5721 8 ай бұрын

Ugly acer is beautiful will be very good in2 to3 years old trunk looks just right thanks Milton keep up the good work

@MiltonChang-ee6rq 8 ай бұрын

Yeah!

@H-T-HUYNH2020 8 ай бұрын

I âm going to do like your way with my small trees too. 🎉🎉🎉

@MiltonChang-ee6rq 8 ай бұрын

Hve fun!

@gunnyaustria 8 ай бұрын

Nice to see and good informations.. Thanks

@nerinat8371 8 ай бұрын

Appreciate your knowledge, thank you

@MiltonChang-ee6rq 8 ай бұрын

Welcome 🙂

@growclipbonsaiforseniors1951 8 ай бұрын

Nice the way you broke off the cut to look like the top broke off from the wind.

@MiltonChang-ee6rq 8 ай бұрын

Got to be able to tell a story how it happened in natrure

@bonsaiheirloom 8 ай бұрын

Yes! Always emulate nature!

@pablososalizama8061 6 ай бұрын

Thank you!

@tmlwe 8 ай бұрын

Nice video! Thanks for sharing Mr. Chan!

@sunilbadmore6030 8 ай бұрын

Very nice👍👍

@MiltonChang-ee6rq 8 ай бұрын

Thanks!

@johnrb9397 8 ай бұрын

I have a blood maple also but it doesn’t like to flush out more than once and the back buds only occur near the cut sites not further back!

@MiltonChang-ee6rq 8 ай бұрын

You may have to water more and fertilize...and if it is a potted bonsai, maybe it is time to report.

@pesoverwatch9324 7 ай бұрын

I really need to try that moss powder, can you do that with any kind of moss? I live in Belgium, but the moss kinda looks the same.

@bonsaiheirloom 7 ай бұрын

Yes! You can find moss on sidewalks or on the sides of buildings. Let it dry out and then blend it.

@OvidiuHretcanu 8 ай бұрын

7:02 has anyone tried to graft a maple with different varieties of leaves color? ...could be interesting...

@bonsaiheirloom 8 ай бұрын

The short answer is yes…for sure with different varieties in the same cultivar…that is of different name varieties of acer palmatum, for example. A more philosophical question is why…one never sees a tree with multiple varieties in one tree in nature.

@pjsullivan128 8 ай бұрын

Very nice, but I am concerned with cutting back larger branches in the springtime. Maples belong to a group of plants called bleeders which are not supposed to late winter through spring because the sap will run. In the 80s and 90s I had a landscape nursery business in South Jersey. It was called dwarf Gardens, landscape nursery. a guy from Marlton, New Jersey named Michael came by and bought some plants. I went to his townhouse which looked like Mr. Miyagi would’ve lived there, and he came to me because he had pruned his Japanese maple that would not stop bleeding. We tried everything eventually it did. Michael introduced me to Chase. Resade from new Hope Pennsylvania Chase said gotten about 20 San Jose junipers from me and just recently I moved to the area and went to visit him at his nursery last year anyway your thoughts on pruning hard in the spring time. I first got infatuated with bonsai in the early 70s. I came across my first book. It was a Sunset Garden book on bonsai. It was $1.75 L O L.

@R3LI2UI 8 ай бұрын

I have multiple Maples in my collection, and have trimmed them over the years [decades] at different times of the year with little or no effect long term. Yes they do bleed in the spring time, but typically heal up within a week. I typically make sure not to cut them too close to the final joint I wish growth to propagate from...I can always reduce dead branches with no impact.

@MiltonChang-ee6rq 8 ай бұрын

I tend to agree, the downside is overstated...but I jus tlearn a new trick...when comeone backed a truck into my Japanee maple, he put soild on it to stop bleeding. No harm done 🙂 @@R3LI2UI

@JamesDavis-cf4bb 8 ай бұрын

What type of auctions are available to buy trees like this?

@MiltonChang-ee6rq 8 ай бұрын

I annually go to the Mammoth auction held by the Oakland Lake Merritt bonsai museum in October...Usually close to a 100 decent trees. This museum has a very nice collectioin.

@bonsaiheirloom 8 ай бұрын

I got this at the Annual Lake Merritt Mammoth Auction & Sale.

@djmerchant 8 ай бұрын

I am sure that you will get into it with updates on the small maple tree but I really am curious- Why did you put it back into its original pot instead of a bonsai pot? I am planning on buying a one or two year old maple tree from a nursery and figured that I would immediately transplant it to a bonsai pot. Is there a reason that I shouldn't?

@bonsaiheirloom 8 ай бұрын

I put it back into the growing pot because there will be more room for it to grow well established roots and a thick trunk. If I move it into a bonsai pot too early, the pot is shallow, and the bonsai will not thicken or grow quickly. I will move it into a bonsai pot once it is thicker and the roots are well established.

@djmerchant 8 ай бұрын

@@bonsaiheirloom Thank you so much! I would have made a HUGE mistake. About how long should it stay in the growing pot? Is that in terms of years or just when you get a sense that the trunk is thick enough to move into a bonsai pot?

@garyjohnson2989 8 ай бұрын

So how many weeks after jp leafs push out do we prune? I thought they had to be harden off?? That would be in late May early June? All my maples leafed out 2 months ago, zone 9

@MiltonChang-ee6rq 8 ай бұрын

You are right...I cut sooner for the p urpose to enable you to visualize the design. I cut after a flush of growth to thicken the trunk and strengthen the tree, which is about what you stated.