Japanese Maple Post Flush Pruning

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8 ай бұрын

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In this video Josh shows you how to prune and select branches in the next stage of development for this Japanese Maple Bonsai. Learn how to make educated decisions on what branches to keep, what branches to remove and how far to prune them back and when you should perform these techniques.
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@loriedmundson782 6 ай бұрын

Best video explaining maple branch selection I've ever seen! Thank you so much! Love your channel.

@steveanacorteswa3979 8 ай бұрын

Thanks for the vid, I have 2 large trunk maples that I cut back last year and are growing wild, this helps to decide what to keep.

@AlexBraunton 8 ай бұрын

Great video Josh. Thank you for the knowledge! It would be great to see an update on this tree in the autumn please

@jeffhurst4744 8 ай бұрын

A lot of good design considerations and why. Always like to hear the thoughts as to why you’ve let something’s grow more and how to maintain the tapering and over all end design coming through to the eventual design. Keep the videos coming.

@scotthogbin613 8 ай бұрын

Top notch video Josh, Your explanations and reasons for the decisions you made are clear and simple to understand. Loved the tool test and proverb.

@HoundStuff 8 ай бұрын

Nice video! Good to see you back with some new ones recently...hoping to see more, too! cheers

@BonsaiEn 8 ай бұрын

There is certainly more planned!

@marcsaunders8599 8 ай бұрын

Excellent video, Josh! It’s always great to understand the thought process behind each cut. Every time I see a video like this, a new light comes on in my brain. Thank you.

@SteveSBSSams 8 ай бұрын

Another straight forward excellent vid clip. Thanks.

@leoanastas 8 ай бұрын

excellent video Josh well explained

@aesotope1592 8 ай бұрын

Very useful. As always.

@Matt6644 8 ай бұрын

Southern hemisphere gang unite!

@greasylimpet3323 8 ай бұрын

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@nerinat8371 8 ай бұрын

I received my branch cutters and wow they are amazing, this was perfect timing. thanks so much

@BonsaiEn 8 ай бұрын

There's some pruning in your future!

@andrewbeattie5245 8 ай бұрын

Great video thank you. Clear information, reasoning and strategy. Just one question, will keeping the top pruned, slow down the healing of the big wounds? Thanks

@BonsaiEn 8 ай бұрын

Hi Andrew, yes it will slow the healing of the wound but I can live with that, what I wouldn't be able to live with is having to create another wound to remove the top of the tree again if it get too thick and out of control. The wound should mostly heal within a Single season though with the putty applied, it's only been 2 months since I worked that wound down and it's all ready rolled over a fair amount.

@kanelambkin1545 8 ай бұрын

Hey Josh thanks for that, awsome stuff, what about internode length, what would you do if the only branch option has a long first internode?

@BonsaiEn 8 ай бұрын

You would either have to cut back to that internode then try and keep the growth under control from there or hope for a new bud near that area to grow a new more suited branch from. Otherwise you may have to change the design of the tree to suit the longer first branch, in this case you may need a more elongated design rather then a short stout design.

@shaneallen3502 8 ай бұрын

Great video Josh, I lost most of my Maples this year due to something that turned the branches black which continued down the trunk, any ideas?

@BonsaiEn 8 ай бұрын

Without knowing too much more my first thoughts are was it summer time and the tree had minimal foliage on it or none at all? Sometimes maples can have a summer dormancy and if kept out in the sun the water trapped in the trunk and branches can actually cook the tree. Otherwise you may have had some sort of fungal infection or maybe even a pest like aphids, they can leave behind a sticky residue which is called honey dew, this then turns into sooty mould which is black.

@shuancook9005 8 ай бұрын

Summer there we are just coming into winter how sad 😪🌲

@johnrb9397 8 ай бұрын

So informative. You make it look soo easy. Way to go mate 👍. No need to keep branches near the cut site to aid in healing?

@BonsaiEn 8 ай бұрын

The wound was worked on first to allow some time with a large amount of foliage above the cut to help it along a bit, it will certainly slow down now but its more important at this stage that i get that apex branch under control otherwise i will end up needing to remove it causing yet another wound. In a perfect world i could do both but unfortunately we live in the parallel un perfect universe haha.