Fall clean up on a red maple forest planting

[@nickaleshin7149]

Hell yesss an upload from the legend Jonas Dupuich himself!!!!! Can we expect more videos like this from you on this channel in the future???

[@JonasDupuich]

Working on it!

[@DavesBonsai]

Jonas, Great to see you doing videos. I can't wait to watch more. Thanks for sharing your wealth of knowledge with us.

[@saturnynetitan]

It's funny, but here in Florida, where these Red Maples (Acer Rubrum) are native and plentiful, a lot of local bonsai enthusiast think this tree is not worth the effort and is often met with derision. I'm glad I'm not one of them. I think they make great specimen and forest plantings. This planting proves it. I live right next to a state preserve where these are plentiful and I come across seedlings in my yard all the time. I've collected a few that are now in a 9 tree forest planting that 4 years later, is coming along nicely. Thank you for posting this.

[@matthieuparmentier3127]

Thank you very much Jonas for pushing new videos. Your blog and newsletter are always a pleasure to read every week, and videos like this one are the "cherry on the cake". Your explanations are clear and easy to understand 👍

[@777greglee]

That was fantastic. Love the running commentary about technique and your general thoughts. Keep the videos coming!

[@WLLYLOMN]

Thanks Jonas! A great speaker and educator. an absolute pleasure. Beautiful composition aswell.

[@PatriciaOConnorBonsaiBalcony]

Jonas ,This is awesome as I have said several times you are one of the better teachers out there. I look forward to seeing more of you . Cheers! -❤P@ oh, Frida says Hey!

[@alexandros1973]

Jonas,thank you for this video 🙏 Your video is of great educational value and at the same time very pleasant to watch. Please give us more! Especially more videos with unexpected tree species like this. Keep up the good work, I love it!

[@mattbrennan647]

Nice work Jonas. I have a 21 tree native red maple forest in development for several years now here in Connecticut. Those fall colors are absolutely gorgeous. Looking forward to watching future videos. Thanks, keep growing

[@bonsaisn]

This tree has beautiful leaves, I wish you lots of health

[@BostonBonsaiIdiot]

I love red maples and always wonder why we don't see more used as bonsai. Great vid!

[@dk2614]

The leaves don't reduce well for use in bonsai. To keep them in scale they need to be large bonsai.

[@BostonBonsaiIdiot]

@@dk2614 yeah I mess around with Norway maples a lot, so I’m used to it. It’s a step in the right direction, comparatively!

[@TheWatchpoplars]

I fell in love with bonsai at the end of last year. I found a Sweetgum (Liquidambar) seedling growing in a garden bed in my high school. It died over the winter because I collected it in the wrong time of year, but in spring of this year I started again and with much more success. I planted plum cuttings, a Boxelder Maple cutting, Gray Pine seeds, a White Alder seed, Valley Oak acorn, and over the summer they exceeded my expectations! I may be in my teens, but I am already having a big vision for the future of my spare time! My inspiration is the youtube channel, "The Bonsai Zone" by Nigel Saunders.

[@eeeealmo]

greetings from midori down in san jose! glad to see you uploading

[@ivanvazqueznegrete1789]

nice you are here, I just finish all your blog,

[@themichaellerner]

Thank you for this lovely video! Your instructional manner and style are wonderful. I will look forward to more of them in the future....

[@G_909]

Really enjoyed the video, Jonas !Hope there is more to come :)

[@emy1111]

Great to see you on youtube Jonas, will be looking out for more in the future, great vid!

[@wolffwoodbonsai]

This is really great, Jonas. Thanks for sharing! Just got my akadama and other soil from you on Bonsai Tonight in the last few weeks. Big thanks for offering that service to the bonsai community. High five from Kentucky!

[@cactsai]

Welcome back to KZbin, Jonas. You took an 11 year break. Posting videos here can help beginners and intermediates alike get clear instruction in this new era of content. I read in a new study today that most young people use KZbin as their main source of content now so this is a good way to bring in some viewers and drop some knowledge to new bonsai enthusiasts. I'm about 18 months into my bonsai journey at 45 years of age so I still have a lot to learn and not a whole lot of time to learn it. I will say this about your videos so far, including the sekka hinoki video you posted recently as well, (I hope you don't take offense to this because I genuinely mean it with the utmost respect and positivity) you have a quality that is one part Bob Ross and one part Mister Rogers that is quite pleasant to watch. Your voice is soothing, you style is concise and easy to understand. Thanks for posting, and I hope you continue to bring new content in the coming years.

[@JonasDupuich]

Ha, thanks so much, I really appreciate it! I’m imagining Mr Rogers with Bob Ross hair 😂

[@OjaiBonsai]

Awesome Forrest. Thank you I just subscribed keep them coming. Cheers from Ojai California

[@raynorris135]

Thanks Jonas, great video demo

[@hashiramabonsai]

keep these videos coming! great stuff

[@SazzadAli-u1g]

It looked so pretty with the few leaves left on the right side.

[@MattNowell]

you are awesome

[@matteo8831]

hey! I love maples very much and I'm loving this project, I'm going out of my way to give you some opinions on how I would proceed: you should do a job of repositioning the trunks (very carefully, perhaps helping yourself with an iron bar and some thick guy wires and tension wires if needed): some appear too straight while others are intersected and do not follow an overall flow. The low branch on the right (looking at the video) leaps too far forward and also follows a counter-flow trend: saw it off mercilessly! On the right there are no low branches to give triangularity to the whole: if you notice the branching on that side starts from very high up, you would give it much more appeal by putting a nice thick low branch in that position. Speaking about the two slingshot plants (you pointed it out too) you should prune hard, forcing the plants to bud. I advise you to do this at the vegetative restart and after fertilizing with a liquid starter. the remaining plants do not have major defects, if I were you I would also develop some low back branches near the base to give triangularity to the back too. if you notice in the video when you turn the plant, the composition is a little flat from the lateral perspective and the plant falls too far forward, having the low branches on the back you also creates the right balance for the side view and back view of the plant. Broad-leaved trees take on much more character when they have low, thick primary branches ;) Good luck!

[@JonasDupuich]

Thanks for the tips - I appreciate it! I expect I'll make a number of these changes down the road once the trunks are in the final position and rooted in better.

[@thatblessedhope]

Nice video, I need to prune my Red Maple actually... it's a lovely tree and so are yours. Subscribed for future videos :)

[@victortaboada2058]

Thank you Jonas. Aren't you hesitant to tear leaves like that for feat to rip the latent buds at the base of the petioles? Also, no sealant on any of the wounds?

[@JonasDupuich]

Thanks! The buds on red maples are pretty small at this point and I was checking along the way to make sure they were OK. And good catch about the sealant - I applied cut paste before I put the tree back on the bench.

[@victortaboada2058]

Thank you so much @@JonasDupuich ! Trying to refine my techniques.

[@kubbonsai]

🔥🔥🔥

[@matshagstrom9839]

Jonas, A big thumbs up and major thanks for posting this video!!! How can we support you to make more videos? Patreon account perhaps? Happy holidays my friend. Mats

[@JonasDupuich]

Thanks, Mats! I'm aiming to do this on a regular basis so simply watching and sharing as you see fit will be the best support I can think of at the moment :)

[@garymccarthy4994]

THRILLED to see you're doing a video to go along with your blog post!

[@rakuyobonsai]

🥰

[@DarthMasiah]

🖖

[@madhusudanrao2375]

Just wondering, do you really have to pluck all the leaves or can you wait for them to naturally fall off before pruning?

[@JonasDupuich]

Sometimes it's too late if you wait for all of the leaves to drop as the tree will have gone fully dormant by then. Plus you can keep the garden clean if you remove most of them at the same time!

[@JohnGoodenow]

Or if preparing for a sillouette show

[@Foxtrot1967]

This is a good example of the wrong variety (large leaves) maple to "bonsai"