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bonsai:
The Japanese maple with harvest design...
ideasguy:
Great photos Peter, and lovely specimens, and pots!
What age is that Acer seedling?
You've done very well to master posting photos on the forum so quickly! Well done!
Thanks for the tips Peter
--- Quote from: bonsai on January 20, 2006, 09:27:23 PM ---...but if you want them densely foliated you should cut every new sprout between the first pair of leaves. You can do this with a pincer or with your fingernails. Otherwise they will have long shoots between every pair of leaves
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Do you mean the leading shoot, the sprout at the tip of the stem?
Eventually I intend to plant my Acers in the garden.
However, I love them so much that I keep my favourites at the back door, so I can see them every time I go outside.
I have a Pink and a White Diascia with one of my favourite dissectums (Tamukeyama) in one of the large pots and it looks real good with the purple foliage.
Being at the back door, I water them a lot (initially because they had these small plants in the same pot) at the same time as I water other container plants on the patio. In summer thats every evening, or perhaps every other evening.
I found the Acer really liked the water and the regular application of plant food (Chempak No 3)
I was surprised, as I read they are supposed to be light feeders.
It grew very well and developed a lovely weeping shape.
Talking about weeping, I was close to that myself when I returned from holidays and one main branch broken off "mysteriously".
A (dis)budding footballer in the family?
Its a bit lop sided now!
Anyway, another question to you... what sort of a program do you have for feeding your plants throughout the seasons?
bonsai:
--- Quote from: ideasguy on January 20, 2006, 10:03:23 PM ---What age is that Acer seedling?
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As I said before it's from 2002, so it's about 3 1/2 years old now...
--- Quote from: ideasguy on January 20, 2006, 10:03:23 PM ---You've done very well to master posting photos on the forum so quickly! Well done!
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Most forums are those php's and this is a little bit different but it's ok 8)
--- Quote from: ideasguy on January 20, 2006, 10:03:23 PM ---Do you mean the leading shoot, the sprout at the tip of the stem?
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In principle you have to do this with every branch. In the end it's up to you how you would like the plant's design...
--- Quote from: ideasguy on January 20, 2006, 10:03:23 PM ---A (dis)budding footballer in the family?
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You need a bodyguard, no what do I say, a plantguard ;D
--- Quote from: ideasguy on January 20, 2006, 10:03:23 PM ---Anyway, another question to you... what sort of a program do you have for feeding your plants throughout the seasons?
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Well it depends on the trees, but you can say out- and indoors every 2 weeks from spring until october. In the wintertime the outdoors are sleeping and the indoors will have food every 4 weeks. But this is just a common rule, sometimes it's different, if a tree has flowers for instance...
bonsai:
At the beginning...
ideasguy:
A lot of patience and care to bring those little seedlings to show, Peter.
Is that the mature specimens you showed previously when they were "babies"?
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