Trident Maple Bonsai Repotting • Bonsai Made Easy August 2021

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What’s up guys jerome here from the bonsai supply and today we are going to repot this strider maple and talk about its future progression so i just very recently acquired this very cool trident maple and of course i acquired it because it has a very cool root flavor very cool base which drew me right to it and i had to have it so this tree is fairly new um what i like about it a lot is that it is kind of like a shorter sumo sized tree with a nice root spread like i said there were two trunk chops made already which of course is going to save me a lot of time one was made here which has completely healed over the other one was made right up here which is also completely healed over which is really nice um now some of the things that are not so nice about it right now that we have to fix which is not a big deal i just like to point them out to you so one of the things is we have to repot this tree into a much larger pot because as you can see back here this root is pushing up against the edge of the pot and is growing over a pot so we need to fix that immediately and repot into a larger pot this tree also has far too many branches which we need to reduce but i’m going to wait until the first um flush of the year has hardened off that’s when i go in and do some branch selecting right now i don’t really know much about this tree i don’t know how vigorous it is or how healthy it is and that’s why i just let all the branches push out just to make sure that i have all the branches that will stay alive also it kind of looks like a pine at the moment which we can also fix you have that very very strong triangle which we need to soften over time as well now this tree we have to get it out of the soil immediately because this tree is only in lava rock and clay and the clay doesn’t do anything it’s just a filler so it doesn’t have any pores it doesn’t help but water drainage or fertilizer retention or anything like that so that’s why we need to go ahead and repot this tree immediately and of course repot it into our all-purpose bonsai soil mixture all right so the first job is to take this tree out of its current pot and we’re going to use a root sickle to uh gently uh loosen it because we don’t know how tight this tree is in here and so the reason why i’m repotting this tree now it doesn’t feel like there’s a lot of roots in here which is not surprising so this tree is going to pop right out so the reason why i repot this tree now is because since i don’t know anything about this tree i don’t know how healthy it is i don’t know how vigorous it is and that’s why i waited until i can see the buds starting to push that’s really good practice on deciduous trees to always wait until the new buds start to push and that’s really the safest time to go ahead and repot uh you can repot the situation a little earlier than that but japanese maple however are a little more finicky and so for those you really want to wait until you see the buds really push but as you can see up here you i see a lot of green now the tree is really pushing strong so i know it is safe for me to go in here and repot this tree now i just think it is a very safe practice to always wait with deciduous trees until you start to see them push and then go ahead and repot now obviously that’s easier said than done if you only have a few trees if you have a lot of trees you can get away with it earlier but really important is that once you repot the deciduous or conifer trees in early spring make sure that you protect them from freezing temperatures so try to keep this tree above 40 degrees fahrenheit and if it dips below 40 just take them inside the house move them into the garage just protect them from the very cold all right so as i’m driving my root cycle through the around the edges of the pot to loosen the pot i can tell that there’s not a lot of roots in here so what i can do to pop this tree out of the pot i can slide the chopstick in on the side like this and under the roots and then just gently push it up there we go can i use it like as a shoes shoe later is that what it’s called a shoe later or a shoe spoon and just push it out of the pot now you have to be careful with this here we go so pretty much what i thought um you can tell that this tree does not have a lot of roots and it has been in this pot for over three years i’ve been told so this is actually quite terrible on roots and that’s not surprising because of the soil that it came in but we’re gonna you know turn it around today so every time i acquire a new treat the first thing i do is repot it right away into some soil that i’m familiar with and that i know is going to make a big difference [Music] all right so now the good part about this tree is that all the work all the grunt work has already been done for me which is really nice um i have a very flat uh root system in here i don’t have a lot of roots but that’s okay it’s a maple it’ll push out i’m not too worried about that but as you can see in here inside of the underneath of the root ball here there’s no roots in here and so what we want to do is build up the soil into like a little mound so that we can set the tree on top like that and then wiggle it down and this is really good practice for all of your trees when you repot them make a little mound wiggle the tree down into position and that way you work out all of the airpods [Music] [Music] so [Music] all right so the part that i chose is handmade in the united states it is a lot shallower than the old one was which gives the roots a little more room to grow now obviously there’s not that much more room to grow but i did that on purpose because i don’t want the root spread to get too big now because this is a sum of trees it’s going to be a short squatty treat and i don’t want this root spread to get now too big i want to kind of keep the root spread in check now and and the part that i chose is a white crackle pot with some orange on top now i think that blends in really nicely with the tree itself because we do have a lot of white on the trunk as well as orange and red in the back here in the front you see it all over the tree there’s a little bit of white as well mixed with a red in here um and also once the fall colors really show the red is going to match the red of the fall colors quite nicely so i do like the part a lot um now you may have noticed that i’ve gone into a round pot which is not very typical for deciduous trees however i thought it was quite fitting for this particular tree here since it is a short squatty sumo styled tree now here’s what i’m going to do in the future once the first flush has completely pushed out the new growth has hardened i’m going to go in here and do some branch selecting obviously this tree has way too many branches for right now so i’m going to remove i’m going to say about 60 to 70 percent of all of the branches and just keep a very few i prefer to have more branches out here on the ramification versus coming from the trunk a lot of branches coming from the trunk is usually on a very very young tree and not on an old tree and we’d like to resemble an older tree here so that’s why i’m going to go ahead and clean up the trunk one of this once it is time of course let it push out once the new growth has hardened i’ll come in here and cut it back and do all the work that i need to do now one thing to look out for now that this tree is been repotted into a shallower pot it’s going to be most likely it’s going to be uh it’s going to need to be watered more frequently so there’s definitely something to keep an eye on in the summer but besides that i’m really happy the way that it turned out and if you have any questions on deciduous trees or maple specifically please comment them below in the comment section and i will catch you guys next time all right