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27-Aug-2001
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Japanese Maple
This Japanese Maple was exhibited at a recent bonsai show.
What do you like or dislike? What would you do if it were yours? 
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7-Sep-2001
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Re: Japanese Maple
I would chop off the foliage blocking the view of the fork in the trunk. (If it were mine...)
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23-Sep-2001
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Re: Japanese Maple
This is easy for me. This tree would not be in a bonsai container at this stage of its devolipment. More likely it would be in one of my growing beds and if it did get into a bonsai pot it would not have the long trunk and the branching would be planed insted of just there. Good potinsi but not yet bonsai.
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23-Sep-2001
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Re: Japanese Maple
I tihink Rip has the right idea here. I would consider growing it out and then doing a trunk chop latter on and regrow the top.
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24-Sep-2001
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Re: Japanese Maple
Ditto. Nice color to the leaves but too much height for the trunk size and really leggy ramification. It could have stayed on the training bench for another year or two.
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26-Sep-2001
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Re: Japanese Maple
Looking at this tree I must agree that it needs more time in development. I question the lowest branch on the left, seems new and thin. I would like to see this tree in the ground for a couple of years. The height isn't all that bad. This said, I have trees that don't look this good in pots.
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26-Sep-2001
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Re: Japanese Maple
Sorry...left off the fact that I am not in love with the pot. It looks too small. To me it appears like a try to get the tree into a pot smaller than it belongs in. IMHO
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26-Sep-2001
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Re: Japanese Maple
Jay:
Here is a thought, If you cut the tree off about three inches above the soil line and regrew the top, the pot would be to big instead of too small. Also I think that I see a crosing root just above the soil line. Not a finger crosser that can be un crosed but a wraping root that crosses the trunk and needs to be cut out.
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19-Oct-2001
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Re: Japanese Maple
Other than cleaning up the leaves blocking the view of the trunk, I think it's a really great tree. Really nice taper and ramifications. I like the trunk thickness. It's very graceful. Looks like it could just use a few years of leaf pruning to reduce the leaf size a bit. Then, it should look terrific.
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19-Oct-2001
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Re: Japanese Maple
I agree that the appearance is natural and graceful. It does a good job of representing the natural character of a Japanese Maple, which is delicate and refined and very much not the "pine tree shape" that deciduous trees are often forced into accepting, and it is a suit that often doesn't fit very well.
One of the most significant characteristics of this is that the branches ascend. If you don't follow what I mean take a look at this tree and then the next deciduous tree you see in a garden or yard. You will probably find that the branches rise, split and refine, then rise some more. The general silhouette varies with the species, but some trees are certainly oblong or ovoid like this and not triangular at all. I think this is the kind of tree would appeal to Dave deGroot, who is curator of the Weyerhauser Bonsai Collection in Seattle, WA.
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