Newly acquired A. Palmatum root questions

Mortalis · 04-12-2009, 11:08 PM

East Texas is bad too.. Last week it was 32 one day then 88 the next..

Dav4 · 04-13-2009, 07:27 AM

It was 27F in my back yard this AM

...had to move approx. 500 pounds of potted plants into my garage and porch...even colder tonite.

Dave

Ml_work · 04-13-2009, 11:54 PM

Ouchhhh...Dave, that's a lot of plants or some very big ones. Your hands should have been too cold to type after all that. We are leveled off to normal now 75F day-45/50F night.

ML

Dav4 · 04-14-2009, 07:12 AM

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Originally Posted by Ml_work

Ouchhhh...Dave, that's a lot of plants or some very big ones.
ML

Both actually...the two potted maples plus about 10 other trees I re-potted, including a 500 year old rocky mountain juniper Juniper that weighs about 70 pounds in its new tokoname pot. Luckily, things will be warming up later this week and the trees can probably stay outside for good

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Dave

noissee · 04-14-2009, 10:15 AM

Just for kicks, I decided to make some notches around the side of the nebari, pack sphagnum around it, then cover it with some bark. I'm not gonna risk cuttin on the roots this year, but I figured I might as well try to get some new surface roots.
I had a design in mind for this tree that is similar to one I have seen on KoB. It's a Palmatum owned by Marinko Beg, and it has similar branch structure to mine. I have heard that one shouldn't try to "copy" someone else's trees, but this is just one of my favorite maples, and I think it's something that I could pull off with this one in the next ten years or so.
http://**********************/forum/...p?f=107&t=2575
Here's the link if you're interested.

Edit: Okay, well here's the picture. The Maple belongs to Marinko Beg as does the picture.

Ravenna · 04-16-2009, 12:58 AM

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Originally Posted by JLDoggett

Dav, you have budswell already? What a difference a short distance can make.

Oh dear, you are impressed because someone has budswell, Jim????

Here most of my trees have already opened their leaves. My Kiyohime, Seigen and Deshojo still need a bit of time but the other maples have pushed quite a from all of their buds already.

What variety maple is that noissee? I can fully understand the difficulty to resist a nice maple...

noissee · 04-16-2009, 10:06 AM

Ravenna, I saw pics of it in leaf, and it looked like a regular A. Palmatum Japonica.

Ravenna · 04-16-2009, 06:11 PM

Thanks for the info... they can look very nice too...

I couldn't resist my maplemania recently when I went to a garden centre and and saw some cheap (though young) beni komachi and Orange Dream maples. Guess what happened...

The beni komachi looks really quite interesting right now...

noissee · 04-21-2009, 12:37 AM

maples never get old.

04-12-2009, 11:08 PM	#11 (permalink)
Mortalis Darkness abides him. Join Date: Sep 2008 Location: Texas Posts: 132	East Texas is bad too.. Last week it was 32 one day then 88 the next.. __________________ "I'm ready to meet my maker, whether my maker is ready to meet me is another matter" W.Church hill.

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Dav4 Join Date: Dec 2007 Location: SE Massachusetts Posts: 93	It was 27F in my back yard this AM...had to move approx. 500 pounds of potted plants into my garage and porch...even colder tonite. Dave

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04-13-2009, 11:54 PM	#13 (permalink)
Ml_work Join Date: Dec 2007 Location: Alabama Posts: 277	Ouchhhh...Dave, that's a lot of plants or some very big ones. Your hands should have been too cold to type after all that. We are leveled off to normal now 75F day-45/50F night. ML

04-16-2009, 10:06 AM	#17 (permalink)
noissee Join Date: Feb 2008 Location: florida panhandle Posts: 206	Ravenna, I saw pics of it in leaf, and it looked like a regular A. Palmatum Japonica.

04-16-2009, 06:11 PM	#18 (permalink)
Ravenna Join Date: Dec 2007 Location: Switzerland Posts: 204	Thanks for the info... they can look very nice too... I couldn't resist my maplemania recently when I went to a garden centre and and saw some cheap (though young) beni komachi and Orange Dream maples. Guess what happened... The beni komachi looks really quite interesting right now...

04-21-2009, 12:37 AM	#19 (permalink)
noissee Join Date: Feb 2008 Location: florida panhandle Posts: 206	maples never get old.

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