Air Layering A Japanese Maple - bonsaiTALK Community

15-Sep-2002	#1
stephentoddpope bonsaiTALK Master Join Date: Jun-2002 Location: alabama Country: usa USDA Zone: 7b AHS Heat Zone: ? Posts: 450	Air Layering A Jap Maple when is the best time to start an airlayer on a jap maple, and how long should it takeif i start next spring, should it be ready next fall __________________ "A Bonsai! A Bonsai! My kingdom for a Bonsai!" William Shakespeare

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15-Sep-2002	#2
Carl_Bergstrom Old Mister Crow Join Date: May-2002 Location: Seattle, WA. Country: USA USDA Zone: 8 AHS Heat Zone: 2 Posts: 3,197	Japanese maple can't you people PLEASE exert yourselves and type those extra five letters?It's really not all that hard. -a-n-e-s-e When and where I grew up, "Jap" was a racial slur on par with k--- or n-----. Sorry, but this pisses me off every time I see it here or anywhere else. Old Mister Oh. And you want to airlayer your damn tree next spring. And it should have roots by September if all goes well. __________________ In love with trees Last edited by Carl Bergstrom : 21-Aug-2003 at 04:56 PM.

15-Sep-2002	#3
stephentoddpope bonsaiTALK Master Join Date: Jun-2002 Location: alabama Country: usa USDA Zone: 7b AHS Heat Zone: ? Posts: 450	sorry __________________ "A Bonsai! A Bonsai! My kingdom for a Bonsai!" William Shakespeare

15-Sep-2002	#4
stephentoddpope bonsaiTALK Master Join Date: Jun-2002 Location: alabama Country: usa USDA Zone: 7b AHS Heat Zone: ? Posts: 450	its ok. Matt will you please change the title of the thread to japanese, cause i don't mean to offend anybody, especially omc, cause i vaule his opinion alot __________________ "A Bonsai! A Bonsai! My kingdom for a Bonsai!" William Shakespeare

15-Sep-2002	#5
bonsaial1 Greybeard Join Date: Aug-2001 Location: Fresno, CA Country: USA USDA Zone: 9 AHS Heat Zone: 13SH Posts: 5,248	One could also use: "J. Maple" if your lazy. Or, just acer.

16-Sep-2002	#6
Tony bonsaiTALK Master Craftsman Join Date: Jan-2002 Country: USA USDA Zone: 7 AHS Heat Zone: ? Posts: 861	That's ridiculous. He's talking about a tree for God's Sake. Not a person. It's nothing like calling someone the N word. I must have been snoozing when political correctness took over the world. Tony

16-Sep-2002	#7
juliet-of-oz Learning Every Day Join Date: Apr-2002 Posts: 241	Jls hands OMC (who is too lazy to type his whole name) some 'be nice' pills and tells him to go sit in the corner stephentoddpope, if its a maple you care about, wait for spring. It is the best time to attept to layer your JAPANESE maple. I live in aust (RALIA) and so i can layer maples in autumn too, late summer early/autumn is fine if it doesnt get cold too quickly and you need to have mild winters or offer the JAPANESE maple some protection from the cold. If its a maple you just plan to practice on, I'd say go for it. Juliet

16-Sep-2002

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Re: OMC may be an overly-sensitive PC bastard, but....

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Originally posted by oldmistercrow
can't you people PLEASE exert yourselves...[edit]

perhaps a perfect opportunity for a PM...(cringes while waiting for the wrath of OMC)

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16-Sep-2002	#9
stephentoddpope bonsaiTALK Master Join Date: Jun-2002 Location: alabama Country: usa USDA Zone: 7b AHS Heat Zone: ? Posts: 450	i can sorta see where omc was comeing from, i see my mistake, caust i really whouldn't want someone asking how to air layer a n---- pine __________________ "A Bonsai! A Bonsai! My kingdom for a Bonsai!" William Shakespeare

16-Sep-2002	#10
Carl_Bergstrom Old Mister Crow Join Date: May-2002 Location: Seattle, WA. Country: USA USDA Zone: 8 AHS Heat Zone: 2 Posts: 3,197	All ya'll are right, a private message would have sufficed here where stephentoddpope was concerned. But I've seen this usage a dozen times here this month, and I really dislike it for exactly the reason that stephen points out in the previous post. So I figured I'd make my point where people would see it. So yeah, he took the heat for the last dozen posts of this sort. Sorry, stephen. Thanks for being a good sport. Tony, I think that stephentoddpope's above post makes it quite clear why this is not just PC-ism run amuck. To put another way, most of my memories of that particular word involve hearing it as an eight-year-old while standing next to my best friend (a Japanese American). It was always a prelude to severe ass-whoopin' by the "big kids." And let me tell you, according to those kids my friend had a "jap haircut" and a "jap lunchbox" and "jap books" and if he'd had a tree at home it probably would have been a "jap maple." So sure, I'm sensitive. But don't think that calling Pinus nigra a "n_ pine" makes it ok, just because you're talking about a tree. Or just write me off as a PC bastard. That's cool too. Seriously. Cheers, OMC __________________ In love with trees Last edited by Carl Bergstrom : 21-Aug-2003 at 05:00 PM.

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