My Shohin Japanese Maple Tiny Leaf

FLABonsai

So How does it look bought it off ebay a week ago ?

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Here's last weeks pic when I first got it

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TreeBay

Looks like a good one! Don't forget to pinch out the centers of those growing tips everywhere you want less extension and more ramification, which, by looking at this tree would be everywhere except perhaps the weak lower branches on the right.

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FLABonsai

Thanx for the great advice. I live in florida, I don't know how well it will handle it here. Im keeping it in my west window it gets good sun from about noon on and I keep a light on it all night. I live in and apt so I have no choice but to keep it inside.

Bonsainut

Fla,
Congrats on a nice tree purchase. This is a maple. An honest to goodness real outside kinda mountain tree. It is not an inside the house type. If you love it you will set it free and move it outside in the sun and rain and wind.

Do you have an a secure place outside for it to live?

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FLABonsai

no not right now looking to move soon going to look for a apt or maybe house with a yard. Then I will move it outside. I try to give it as much sun as I can right now until I move.

DavidN

Are you able to keep the window open and try and provide as close conditions as to it being outside? I think it would struggle to survive being indoors.

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Ralph

That looks like a nice find from Ebay, but it's soon to be a gonner, unless you can put it out in the elements. Also in Fla. you will want this only to get morning sun, or partial sun. Here in Dallas they will only grow as an under-plant to larger trees. I have 2 growing in the ground on the eastside of my house in a shaded area. Another one I have in a grow box will soon move from the backyard to the shaded part of my patio, where it will only get indirect morning sun.
Good luck with yours!

bonsaial1

Some confusion about growing plants indoors;

Plants that are to be grown outdoors do not suffer from a "light' problem when brought indoors. Giving an outdoor plant the proper lighting conditions will not induce the proper growing conditions. What the plant lacks indoors is humidity . Most homes that are well insulated, covered indoors by sheetrock, and have moderatly efficiant windows, will just be too dry inside. The relative humidity even in the desert on a hot summer day will be somewhere around 10 - 15%. A home is usually around zero. This is due to things like sheetrock, wallpaper, carpeting, wooden furniture, and insulation. All these things tend to pull the moisture right out of the air.

Now, the plant will continually be drying out. It will not be obvious at first, but all of a sudden the plant will be fine one day and fold up the next. The signs of drying leaves and changing colors may not be apparent. The tree will just expire. Watering is not the answer. The leaves have the moisture sucked right from their surface. Walls in a home are like a blotter, and pull moisture from the room with great speed.

so... giving the plant more sun in a room with no humidity is like putting yourself in a redwood sauna and having someone say to you, how about a steaming cup of coffee?

Good luck, Bonsai-al

Oh..BTW that is a nice plant with a great shape and a great start to what looks like a promising future. Don't cut it short with a nice ledge in bedroom no. 1....

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