You are an excellent teacher for those who have never done this before. Thank you so very much ❤

Thank you for making the nice video, I am looking forward seeing these maples growth.

Wow, you make it look so easy! I can be tired and watch one of your videos and I catch your energy and go outside and get in the plants. It's wonderful. You are the best! 🤗🤗😊🙋🙋😸😸

Nice and clear demonstration. Thanks.

Mike, New to your Nursery forum and I'm amazed how much fun it is to do this planting. Never had time before so I'll continue to watch. Great job

Great educational video. You simplify the process with perfection. Great job.

Those maples are brilliant!

Wonderful presentation. By the way, that's the best looking root stock, I've seen.

Thank you! I was really looking forward to this video!

Can’t belief how well your hand has healed! Learned a lot. Thx for the video!

Congrats! You have convinced me to give it a try!

One of, if not "the," best instructional videos I've watched. Thank you!

Great video Mike! Love these follow up videos! So satisfying! Hope your doing well!

Been waiting on this! Glad to see you had some make it! Cant wait to do it myself!

You got to appreciate the transparency on the chance he took by cutting back the tops. Proof that Mike knows what he's doing... and that you have to take chances now and again. That's how you learn things!

Great video and super easy to understand!

Nice! Those look really promising

I took some Japanese Maple cuttings on 30th March and have just made a new video on their progress. I would love to try grafting some of them one day. I always like to get a surprise variety of JM and enjoy seeing them return every year after the winter. All the best.

Thanks! Very instructional video. Always outstanding.

Great job Mike

Wow! That’s really cool, I may have to give grafting a try

Well I enjoyed my rainy day watching your videos. Have learned a lot. Going to stop by my aunts tomorrow and get a big branch off the willow tree lol I have a few Japaneses maples in my yard. I will keep an eye out for the seeds.

Thanks for the video! I’m a while off doing this as only just got seedlings going but will definitely give it a try in future! 🙏🏻

thank you for these videos

Good video ;). I always made my own grafting seal with 5 parts of white wood glue and 1 parts of Bordeaux mixture powder. It's very cheap and easy to use and clean. It's perfect for sealing grafts, protect pruning scars and cuts, recovery peeled bark....etc.

Wonderful job, thank you.

❤️ Thank You ❤️

Your best video yet.

Hi Mike, looks great! Don't be impatient next time 😉! 🤗🤗🤗🤗

gonna try it, thank you

Thank you for sharing the grafting skills. I watched a thousands of videos and no one shared the same amount of details like you. I will definitely subscribe you, I hope that your business is doing well and keep up with the content!👍

First video. Well haven't completely finished it yet. Had to sub man. We can tell right off the bat you know your stuff. Gald we gound you.

Great video!

Mike I did cringe when I saw you cut those top hardy looking plants but you are the expert and I watched intently at everything you you were doing and talking about to see how the big boys do this very delicate cuttings! You still will have some that will turn out perfect. You keep turning out your best and I’ll enjoy watching your channel 👍

Excellent video 👍

What a useful video. You are only one who is showing updaiting after grafting. And another great one is Dr. Suraj Prakash Agrawal from India.

Thank you very much, I learned so much

possibly the best grafting tutorial on youtube

Jest cudowny bardzo mi się spodobał.:):):)

Wow! Good Job 😍 Thanks

Thank you very much,

Wow learned a lot. Would you please make a video on come binding two plants . For example climbing roses and Clematis. I would love to see how it done so I can do it. Thanks for making these videos I really enjoy them. I just love gardening. I’m trying to be able to start doing it again since I been bedridden for 17 years from a fall on ice.I’m looking for some one to make me high planting beds so I can really get going on gardening again. You’re really inspired me to try something new and to start gardening again. Thanks so much.🌻😁🌹🌺☀️🌈

Thank you for sharing

Nice experience

Niesamowity i taki duży :):):) Piękny

Very nice video Thumbs up 👍🏻

nice job!

Yes grafting I want to get into doing this.

PERFECT MIKE🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟

you still the man, little bro.

I really want I would really love a clipping of that Japanese Maple someday if I can challenge myself to get any of these experiments successfully completed, I plan on going to my local nursery and pricing one. Yours are stunning

Thanks for the video. You have inspired me to give it try. Would love to see a video on how you got the rootstock!

Great video

I love your enthusiasm. Curious as to why you didn't use the top of the seedling for your graft

Thanks for telling the calendar but need to know the temperature as well. Love your videos and I always have seen some of them several times.

Hi Mike, great information. I'm looking to have a go at some grafting soon. I wondered if it was possible to graft A. japonica onto an A. palmatum rootstock or vice versa?

❤️Japense Maples! People stops to ask me about my trees! Late now to do this. Also they aren’t cheap! Louisiana🥰

Great presentation! Have followed from square one, enjoying each video. Do you trim branches for shape or strength, and do they need staking?

Same here 👍👍👍

Mike Your Enthusiasm is cultivating a healing addiction in me much loving gratitude I believe I could watch and listen to you talk about anything 👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍❣ Do you check pH balances of soil and water you are using ? I have a pretty small garden in my living room right now I live in the desert and I don't have my outdoor or my Greenhouse established yet but it's in the works I will get there . A little over 5 years now I've been growing pineapple , spider plants and Jade some Cactus also . I've actually produced One pineapple I didn't eat it I should have I bet it would have been delicious after smelling it for a little while but I replanted it to see what would happen it appears to not have survived . Mama survived and looking like she's getting ready to produce again . She's also given me five clippings that are doing very well !!! I did plant the pineapple because it was rich in Seed , so I'm still nurturing the soil . I have an ionizer that produces several levels of alkaline water and acid to down to a 2.5 and up to a 9.5 . I use the 6.0 what they call Beauty water not only my plants but my animals thrive on the 8.5 and I have truly been thriving on the 9.5 myself . along with lots of lemons and limes and tropical fruits . my goal is to cultivate tropical fruits in my Michael Reynolds inspired Earthship design greenhouses that hopefully I will be breaking ground and starting to build pretty soon . peace light loving gratitude pH balance bring equalizing freedom !!!!!!!!9 HHBpHhelps Henry I'd love to hear if and how you use pH balance ?

Mike is that maple autumn glory

i love inpatients, great flower. mike. of all the gardening show i watch, this video was one of the best instructional pieces i have seem... good work. everything was nice and clean and clear. your becoming a legend. have you seen the new grafting tools that are on the market? those are nonsensical. i think i know your answer. peter, the bonsai guy would be proud of you. now, what about bonsai? just one time with us, please. is it possible to show some air layering and some ground rooting propagation? --- thank goodness for spell-check. later man. have a good week, carmine.

Oh wow, thank you for this! I ordered a grafted JM online and had no idea there is additional care involved to promote growth of the desired section. I can’t wait to get home to figure out which part is the graft site & start to care for it correctly. Thanks again!

Hello Mike, thank you for the interesting videos and the amazing amount of information you pass on. I recently bought seeds online from seedrack for different japnese maples and i was wondering how to succeed in growing them. I’ve already put them in the fridge like you did so now just wait until February? Please note that i live in Cyprus 🇨🇾 and we have a fairly hot climate. Do you use only bark to saw the seeds? Any tips to make my efforts successful with the seeds? Thank you and keep up the great work.

Are you gonna be posting an update on these anytime soon? Curious how these are looking! Great video!

Love your videos. 😊 How do you get the root stocks?

Good video, do you remember where you got those long plastic bags to cover the scion? I've been using flimsy sandwich bags which are hard to gather and seal at the bottom.

Hi Mike. I tried growing several japanese maple trees from seed. After I put them outdoors most of them got ruined by some small animal or a bird. Since I only have one left I brought it back inside and put it near a window. I was wondering if you think that they need to be a certain number of years old before it is safe to put them outside, or if there is anyway to protect them when they are very young.

I can’t grow maples or rhododendrons because I’m on solid clay but I admire them very much and have learned a lot and really enjoyed the series so thank you very much from a very clayey part of England

We have a gorgeous Bloodgood growing outside our office building. I have 3 saplings planted in pots. Your video was so easy to understand and see the process that I think I might try it. My boss would like a clone too! I do kind of like the green tinged leaves of the saplings too so I might leave one that way. One question: Is there a perfect point in the growth of the sapling when it's time to graft? Your plants looked pretty good size. Thanks for the great video!

It's probably almost time for an updated video of these grafted trees once they come out of dormancy this Spring!! Right, Mike??

Great page! May i ask, Can you graft Crimson Queen on to a bloodgoon Japanese Maple? What rootstock and scion is it do you need to make the more shorter 8’-10’ weeping crimson japanese maple ?

Thanyou fot you time and experience.. There is rather little info about grafting... Y didn't know actually why they would use this rare grafting methot, but with you showing you mistake on cuying the main branch, is all understood... Savia on mapples does no climb up if ther is no more trunk Thank you, I'll will start soon, becouse my spring is coming.... Greetings from Chile

May I ask how and when we can collect the seeds of smoke tree? I never seen its seeds and not sure how they look like. I would appreciate if you guide me. Thanks a lot!!!

Another fantastic video Mike! I can't stop watching all your videos! I have a Red Leaf Maple growing in our backyard (landlords tree). I believe it's a Bloodgood. Would collecting and germinating the seeds from it still create the colouring variations? Hence the reason why you grafted yours?

Great video Mike thank you so much. What maple variety is the rootstock?

Excellent informative Video! How close do the Maples need to be graph. E.g. Can one graph a Dissectum onto a Palmatum?

I enjoyed however there are many questions still .. anyways I just love these beautiful trees ..

How strong are the new trees after they take root? I heard that they can die randomly after a few years is that right?

Hi Mike do you have acer Beni Tsukasa in your collection I just see it nestling in the background with your darker leaved Rhodos it's a beautiful acer with breathtaking Spring Foliage especially against a dark background. Thanks for a great vid u made it very easy to grasp the technique 👍

Dear Mike, great grafting technique. Two weeks ago I did this on a silver maple. I didn't use any wax or anything. I just wrapped with parafilm. The scion still looks green and buds are still green but the leaf stems turned brown and came off with no resistance, does this mean it took? Please let me know. I dont see much callus yet. Thanks

Hi Mike, great video! What maple did you graft to? My baby was only 2 ft when I bought it. This yr, after 4 yrs, it finally a gorgeous Red! Yum, love it.

one of the questions I'd like answered is...for those of us who do NOT have greenhouses....how would newly grafted trees be kept....and what about overwintered as well....

Thank you soooooo much for this video. I'm subscribed, now lol. So, the grafts were Bloodgood Japanese Maples? What kind of tree was the rootstock? I may have missed the part where ya mentioned it lol

Is the main benefit from this having the bottom plants benefits into this desirable cutting you want? Or was this to turn old branches into rootings & later taking one branch for cuttings to grow mature trees in a year from your scraps?

I have two Red Japanese Maples in my yard. I want to start experimenting. Maybe try to make a bonsai. At least root or graft a few clippings.

i wish my farm house had near you.

Great video. Is there a root stock video? Thank you.

Your pretty cool mike,I have a ? I really want a pink princess, but will not pay what they want for them. Your very knowledgeable on this subject, how and what plants do I use to get one. I'm sure I'll need a philodendron but need a red plant to ,I need help lol

Great Series watched all of them" wondering wy would you graft like this ? is it to have a bigger trunk or design ? and when cutting woudnt it be better to put a " paste" on the cut ? Thank you 👍

can i use a Acer pseudoplatanus to make a bloodgood variety?

Awesome instructional vid! What is the purpose of grafting this maple if you don't mind me asking? Does it stay short and compact?

8:40. The Russian grafting expert seals with plasterline modeling clay and what looks like window putty . He called it mastic putty. For sealing up the ends of the wax tape

Can you explain why you did the graft at that location on the root stock? Will the graft clean up enough that it won't be unsightly down the road? It seems like most trees I've noticed are grafted much lower so that point kind of ends up being at the soil level or right at the root flare. I consider myself an experienced home gardener but getting into propagation and some "niwaki" style pruning has me wondering about those things. Your video series was great and very informative and I do appreciate the tips and details. (I just bought a cute little orangeola maple that was grafted the same way.) Thanks.

I would take top an make cuttings to root with

Fertilizer , what and how much can you use on maple in general.

How long do they usually take?

Mike will this type of a graft work on a sugar maple? Also, how do you water your grafts while they’re healing without causing flooding of the graft? I mean when you water the rootstalk while the graft is healing. Thanks.

Also is it possible to split two saplings in half top down and join them together?

Hi Mike, I've really enjoyed watching all the videos about the Japanese Maples. I've watched every episode. My question is why are your using the Japanese Maples as root stock for another maple? Why not just root the seed from that specific tree that you want?