Vonsgardens

OK, you have a young trdient maple. I am not sure how much experience the previous posters have with this species (doesn't sound real confident)? We raise several thousand a year. It is "fall" (even in coastal california), so you can do just about anything to the little devil.It looks wet and sunburnt. So, go to your nearest nursery= get some perlite, and some Oil dry (it doesn't freeze hard in Oakland) and if you must some fir/pine bark. Mix them 1to 1 to 1. Don't woryy about sifting. Tease the curent muck away from the roots (like a bad hair day at the beach...) plant in the new mix in the nursery container. Waer thoroughly, place in afternoon shade. In January add a little fertilizer (biogold, osmocote).

You have some tremendous bonsai talent just a few miles away- Johnny Uchida in Hayward, Boon in Alameda and I would expet Mike P and friends across the bay- sign up and do the club thing.

Best of luck.
John

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