Rooting Japanese Maple cuttings!
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- čas přidán 28. 06. 2024
- In a step by step description I show the proven methods for taking softwood cuttings of Japanese Maple bonsai, and my little-known trick to improve rooting success when converting trimming to rooted cuttings of Japanese maples. Join this video and learn how to grow Japanese Maples from cuttings
0:00 Early spring love for maples
0:33 Start rooting cuttings
1:47 Proven methods for rooting Japanese Maples cuttings
3:59 Increasing the success rate of rooting Japanese maples
5:56 The secret weapon when rooting cuttings
7:31 Early spring Japanese maples
7:47 Types of maple cuttings: Hardwood and softwood cuttings
8:10 The importance of strong and weak zones on cutting success
8:55 Health when clipping cuttings of Japanese Maples
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Can confirm!… just got to the end of my 8 week growing process following this method and legit every single cutting 30/30 has rooted with mega roots! Pulled today 23-1-23 and I planted them 24-11-22! Thanks a lot for the great content!👏🏼
Great to hear this! So glad this worked for you!
Where do you get these type of bags? Can I keep these plants in a window
@@homie3461 ginkgo roots very well feom this years growth. I have rooted them by just popping cutoffs in substrate and placing it in a corner out of the sun
Be extremely careful to not plant directly in your yard, better let them stay in pot for one year. Hopefully you can update the results in 2024.
These cutting which were placed in the coir didn’t stand a chance because it was way way too wet.
I managed to air layer 2 2 inch thick branches of my 10 ft Acer! I had instant 3 ft trees to reduce and shape with a thick trunk! If you want to skip 5 years !:)
Nice work!
❤ QUESTION and comment:
- When you say “No sunlight”, do you mean no DIRECT sunlight? I have a few places next to my house that have no direct sunlight. Or, I could keep in my basement if no sunlight needed.
- This is the best video I’ve seen so far! Makes me feel like I actually have a chance of success.
No direct sun light.
Been watching several how to take cuttings videos and this is the best yet. Thank you for an informative and concise presentation.
Hi martin, thank you so much!
If you have a minute: What is it that makes this video good for you? I would love to understand better, so I can keep this in other videos I do!
I agree with you. And yet Jelle's latest video showing the result of planting clones is worth watching
IMO 😀
So nice to have a video from someone who really knows what they are doing and why they are doing it. I love the technical language - substrate - inter nodal distance. It demonstrates technical ability sadly missing by so many people. Thanks
Thank you so much! I TRY to make videos that clarify basic processes!
Tom from Grow & Clip Bonsai for Seniors channel loves using that vermiculite for growing seeds and cuttings.
Hey Jay, good to see you here again. I do not think I know the Grow and Clip channel. Should take a look. Sounds like Tom has great ideas!
Always informative, clear and interesting viewing Jelle. Thanks for this 🙏
Glad you enjoyed it! Hope you have some success rootong cuttings too!
Really detailed considering this video is super short. I’ve done an air layering on my Shin Deshojo but I wanted to try cuttings. Im 22, and quite new to this so your videos really help!
:) Deshojo should work this way!
I watched this video last yr…… and many many more…… this is definitely one of the best “cuttings” video I’ve seen to date! Jelle, knows what he’s talking about!! He loves Japanese maples and so do I! I have had success following his advice with cuttings and so can anybody else!
So nice of you! Glad to hear this worked for you!
Jelle uses jelly for rooting. Got it! This is a great channel for bonsai and small tree care in general.
Hey Jelle, I can vouch for your “secret weapon” too! I used your bag method for some juniper cuttings in January after seeing you suggest it on BNut and had success for the first time after several failed attempts and they’ve rooted! That reminds me - I need to take some cuttings of the fancy field maple I found a couple of years ago. The mother is doing well in a pot and i promised to send out a few kids at some point. 🙂
:) Yes you do. Although I am afraid it will not be easy getting them to all the people around the world!
Great to hear you are having success!
Would you mind providing both the product name of growing hormone and the formula you use to wash the cuttings (soap/ rubbing alcohol etc..)? This looks very interesting, - Thanks, Carol
Hey Carol, I use Clonex for rooting. I just ad a few drops of soap and a dash of alcohol in a small amount of water. But only when really infected. Normally I do not bother.
Great job & great video Jelle!
Thank you so much. This one was really nice to make, too!
This video is top-notch, looking forward to trying this
Hi Jimmy, thank you! I hope it works for you. Do let me know how it goes!
As always... super video 🙂
Thank you Kurt. Any subject on your mind I should make a video of?
I love acers, so will give this a go at the right time of year here in the UK.
Informative! Your video deserves more views!
haha, I agree. Lets see whether youtube agrees. Naturally, feel free to share the video in your socials ;)
Great video, looking forward to the follow up in the future showing them rooting!
me too ! :)
Hi! When are you going to present rooting results? 😳
Really need to test this, not had succes yet with Japanese maple cuttings. Thank you for this clear explanation!
great to hear! Looking forward to succes stories!
great to hear! Looking forward to succes stories!
Thank you so much Jelle! I'm currently living in Ireland and just try a similar method here this late summer. The only difference is that I have a small green house, so I've been using it instead of the plastic bags. Hopefully in 8 weeks I have good results. Fingers crossed!
Looking forward to positive news!
I learned so much with this demonstration. Thank you.
Hi Rajesh, so happy this helped you! Thank you!
@@GrowingBonsai yes, it filled in the blanks on why I may have been unsuccessful in the past. Thank you so much for sharing!
So informative. I've learned a lot .Many thanks
Hi Wendy, I am glad you like it!
I've just tried this method today per your instructions exactly, but for propagating Box Elder (Boxelder Maple) trees and also White Ash trees. My goal isn't for bonsai, but for adding big trees for the birds and for shade in my back yard. I will give an update in 8 weeks!
Excellent! How are they now? Still looking happy?
Sir this is the best video I’ve seen. Thank you so much, I’ve earned a sub !!
Thank you Sir Jesse James. Great to hear if people ike my videos!
This realy works I have made cuttings in June in vermiculite and got roots in October and I am in Québec Canada, I was so happy seeing roots, Thank you ! very good vidéos
Wonderful!
Thank you so much for a Great video! One of my favorit channels. Keep up the good work my freind
Thank you so much for these kind words! Lets see how viewer numbers develop the next months. Overall, I am not sure whether the work involved balances out with the views they are getting. :(
I have always wanted to know how to take japanese maple cuttings, so thank you!
You are very welcome! Do drop by in a few months and let me know how it went!
@@GrowingBonsai Hopefully I will have good news by then!
Very informative video. May I ask if we should make small holes to the platic bag...??
Finally, Waited for this video. Pruned my maples already and put them in perlite pinebark coco coir substrate. Will try vermiculite next time I take cutting.
Thanks for all the helpful tipps.
should work well too! Once you get growth, do let me know! Curious to hear how you went about it!
Hi @watsup6084 - did this work for you? Thank you!
@@bmiller1958 was not successful so far but I think it had more to do with the location than the substrate
Hi Jelle, wondering if there was a difference between coco coir and vermiculite? thanks, and nice video, congrats on the success you have earned
thanks!
This is what you are after! czcams.com/video/64efnSZEX1I/video.html
Awesome video! Thank you Jelle!
gladly!
So far I have only gotten fig cutting to root all others have failed! Will keep trying thanks to your inspiration Jelle!🙏
So Sorry to hear that! Hope you have better luck after watching?!
Thx for showing your technic ! 👍👍👍 i will try it
Please let me know the outcome!
@@GrowingBonsai ok i let you know! I Hope it
Thank you for the information
My pleasure. Will you give it a try ?
Patience seems to be paramount here👍🏼
You think? All in, I feel it is pretty fast?
Another top quality instructional video. I have always struggled to get my maple cuttings to strike so I am using sphagnum this year but will also not try to be so greedy with lengths of cuttings!
somehow smaller cuttings seem to do better. I am not sure why this is. Any indiciation yet whether yours will root?
@@GrowingBonsai Only just taken so time will tell.
I’ve found through trial and error that putting the pots/flats with the cuttings on the ground contacting the earth makes a significant difference in strike success! I’ve had better that 80% success with the flats of cuttings sitting in the ground! Mother Earth power!
@@kylepurvis6231 Interesting! COuld it be that the soil climate is more stable that way?
@@kylepurvis6231 that is quite a profound tip that just makes sense somehow. Thanks, a year late lol
I’ll try, thanks
Good luck!
I'm new to it , my first attempt at propagating was a pink blossom cherry tree non fruit edition. I put growth hormone on the twig that came up from the base of a big tree I should have put a baggie around it because it got burnt on just a small amount of sun, still alive and giving it more attention
I have one red Japanese mable growing here in cold Finland and it somehow have survived many winters. Last summer I tried to grow cuttings of it but did not succeed. I will try again this spring with your advice.
Helpful tips.
Glad to hear that :)
I have a lovely little tamukeyama in my flowerbed at the house. Been meaning to propagate but never have time!
Well shoot. I need to try this technique!
Yes you do :)
Hi, great video! I will for sure give it a try on my Arakawa maple. I’m curious to know if an Arakawa can be air layered where the “rough bark” has already formed? Or only on parts that haven’t “barked” up? Thank you for any and all info. Take care and keep the great videos coming! LOVE AND RESPECT from the west coast of the United States. BONSAI!!
Hey Dan, great to hear from you. I am going to have ton answer based on hear-say. My understanding is that arakawa roots very well, also from well-aged trunks. I am planning on giving it a go on one of my old arakawas next spring, so I know from personal experience how that works!
Very interesting! 👌🏻👍🏼
excellent video thank you
Great to hear you like it! Thank you!
Hi
Very interesting
What is the rooting hormon you use?
Thank you
Laurence
Looks like Clonex.
I'm attempting this for the first time off a mature adult maple tree growing near our house. Hoping it goes well! I may be a little late to do a cutting, but I was challenged to plant a tree this week and show a progress update in August after we move to Oregon from Indiana.... so I need to get a little creative. Going to do some cuttings from a yew bush as well to see if that works better.
Hi Dan, wishin you lots of luck there. If not, there is always next year. Then, try a little earlier in the year!
Update?
@@TreeGuyTy1 the move went well, but ultimately the tree didn't survive after a few months. The yew survived a bit longer than the Japanese maple did. It was a fun experiment though!
i watch many videos on the subject of bonsai, yours have been the most informative to me sir. your "don't do this" video really help me. from north alabama, i say thankyou!
i have my japanese maple cuttings, spring in North Alabama, taken outta water and potting soil, followed your process, including the baggies, will let you know. they were not doing well otherwise, thanks again.
So nice of you! Glad you like them!
Fingers crossed!
Very helpfull and good thx
Gladly! Wish you success!
Thank You!
You're welcome!
Thank you 😊
Ever my pleasure
Thank you very much this video is very useful and you have some wonderful Trees 🌲🙏🏻🌳
Hi Mark, thank you very much! Looking forward to hearing you succesfully taking (arakawa) maple cuttings this year! I hope you will look around a bit on my channel and consider subscribing!
I most certainly will thank you.
Just watched this video & I plan on trying it tomorrow. Question: how often & how much do you water the clippings while you are trying to get them to root?
Woow... Beautifull bro
Thank you Mas Kamet! Glad you liked it! I hopee it helps you to propagate!
i found a red version of this in the garden the other day i transplanted it and put it under a grow light it looks like a success about a month ago
why under a grow light?
This really works, right now mines are growing leaves hopefully I can transfer into bonsai pots
😄😍👍
I hope the cuttings will be successful.🥰🤗💕
they should be!
Hi Jelle. When are you fertilising the cuttings? In the current year, after roots have formed or only after following year?
As soon as I see the first buds starting to open up. That for me is a sign of the tree (starting to) root. Mind you, if a cutting just sits there all summer, I do not fertilize. Whereas if they start pushing 6 weeks after taking the cutting, that is when I start
Hi @Growing bonsai by Jelle, which soap do you use?
Hey! thank you for making this, how long do you keep the cuttings in the bags?
This video’s golden, yet, I have a question for ya… 😁
I’ve done the same exact steps shown in your video at the beginning of June and now I can see that the majority of the cuttings are still alive and should’ve rooted. It took 7.5 weeks for this. Now what should I do? Let them grow (not under direct sunlight I guess) in the same pot together till I see more substantial growth or would it be better to repot? 🤔
I leave mine where they are for the year. Slowly I will get them used to drier air by opening up the baggie. Maybe around leaf drop, or else in early spring will I take a look, lift them from the pot and plant them up properly. Hurrying the process is a recipe for problems!
That was such a great video! Very informative! I and my sister decided to plant our Japanese maples using this method. We have Bloodgood, Beni kawa, Tamukeyama or Scarlet Queen (I'm not sure which one we have), and a green Japanese maple (we think it is a Weeping Green Laceleaf). So far, it's going on pretty well, except that one or two wilted. When is it obvious that the cuttings have rooted? Is it normal if they wilt? We will be very grateful for your help.
Thank you!
They do not really wilt for me. Rooting.. Can take more than a month to be visible. Patience is key.
Thank you very much! Have a blessed day! 🙏🍁
Another wonderful video by Jelle!!!! Will this work with all cultivars? Katsura? Shin Deshojo?
This works for the ones that root from cuttings, which shindeshojo and katsura do, so yes
I have successfully rooted cuttings of all kinds in perlite
So nice plant 🎉🎉🎉🎉
Thank you!
Excellent video. Thanks for sharing this contents. 😊 Btw, How much soap and rubbing alcohol mixed with water?
I rooted maple cuttings in small screened pumice, as it allow air movement around the stem.. I also used the same timing of early leaf cuttings…a horticulture professor told me it was beginner luck
luck or not.. You have rooted cuttings!
Hi, what brand did you use? Ty
Blue jay sent me over here so i am your newest follower
That is nice of Jay! Welcome Anders! I hope you enjoy my vids!
Your trees are beautiful. Does the plastic bag have to fit tight over the pot of cuttings or can it be larger? Thinking it would make it easier for me to use a slightly larger bag. Thanks.
Great video and advice, I took cuttings from a Japanese Maple on 30th March and have just made a video on my channel about their progress. That's a good idea with the plastic bags for moisture, I used a large moisture box which was slightly open to keep the air moving. The true test of winter will be tough but will see how many of them wake up in the coming spring. Your plants look great :)
Nice work!
Thank you for the great video!
Which specific rooting gel do you use? Are they about the same?
The best soil for rooting these are? I plan on rooting some crimson queen cuttings. Same process? Thanks.
I use clonex.
As for substrate..
Did you watch the video? czcams.com/video/mLRLUcv5Ro8/video.htmlsi=IZofHRRtl8rnIhLn&t=92
Love it man, thank you so much 🙂
From your experience: which substrate is best to use for rooting maples?
Hi JK, vermiculite, by far for me.
@@GrowingBonsai Damn, expensive in my country... 😁 But if you say it's worth it... 2-4mm fraction will be ok???
Keep posting man, great videos. Very informative!
@@JK-qz1sw Ohw really? Here it is cheap as potting soil. 6E gets me a bag! There might be other things that work just as well. But I have used this for a few things and never looked back. Which reminds me.. I need a new bag!
Thank you! Will try to create another usefull video then! ;)
Nice video man. Do you think this would work for redwoods as well ? I planted one 4 years ago and would like a couple more. Thanks
Thank you! I am not sure what a redwood is, soc cannot help you there!
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i’ve tried multiple times to do cuttings and didn’t work but this gives me hope! thank you!
Fingers crossed for you!
Thank you for the video, can you tell me what is the name of the rooting jelle? where can you buy it?
Hi Will, it is clonex. I get it on amazon 👍
I don't have such bags, so I just keep the soil a bit moist or just wet?
Do you have to cut off the growth tip for the cutting to produce new growth? Or can you leave them?
If you have a green house do you need to do the bag trick?
Very helpful and informative video! Forgive me if this is a stupid question: I have a full size Japanese maple in my front yard. Would it be possible to take cutting from the full size tree as opposed to a bonsai? Thanks!!
Hi there. This is absolutely possible!
Have you ever experimented with rooting in fluval stratum? I've had excellent success with rooting houseplants in that substrate.
To be honest, I am not sure what you are referring to! What makes that substrate good?
Any feedback on these cuttings - difference in success rates between the coir and the vermiculite as substrate?
Absolutely! czcams.com/video/64efnSZEX1I/video.html
Hi Jelle, thanks, I love this video of yours and, after watching this, I went into my garden and took some cuttings from Acer P plant. As you suggested, potted (x 4) and put in sandwich bags. Now, approx 2 weeks later (end of July 2022), they seem to be looking as I planted them, ie not died. At what point will I know they have rooted and at what point do I remove/open the plastic bags, please?
Many thanks for any help, J :)
I have 6-8 weeks as a rough indication when I expect them to start rooting. I just unlock the ziplocks, nothing else. Every once in a while I might take the pot out, shower them, and let them air a bit. In fall I will check which have rooted.
@@GrowingBonsai Thank you so much for your response, and so promptly too ;) Very impressive !
OK, so I need to mark on my calendar, cos I have such a poor memory, to do this in about 4-5 weeks time
Then, presumably, re-pot as/when roots are showing in the bottom of the pot? I intend to, ultimately, have at least one, in reasonable-sized pot, on my patio. I think it will be a few years before it's a nice little size LOL
Thank you again for your help :)
As said, I just check in fall. Then I take them all out of the pot and see which ones have rooted. Dropping leaves does not always mean dead !
Beautiful bonsai of Japanese 🍁 . I need some advice on how often do you water this plant? Is an over watering could kill these plants?
If you have poor substrate, yes. It is important to allow the rootball to get slightly dry between waterings.
@@GrowingBonsai Thank you!
I'm wondering if you can root larger cuttings than just little twigs like that? I have a lot of very large (20 foot tall) japanese maples in my yard that need t be pruned back hard, I would love to get some small trees out of it
I would recommend airlayering. Larger cuttings are less successfull.
What is the gel called? A great video, thank you so much!
Not sure. It is just a rooting gell made by the compagny clonex.
@GrowingBonsai good to know thank you
Wow.
would love to know which growing medium worked better, or worse.
Is there a better time of year to take cuttings on maples?
Great video, and I am looking to try this one day soon
Did you see the follow-up video studio.czcams.com/users/video64efnSZEX1I/edit? I prefer mid-spring cutting taking.
@@GrowingBonsai Great, thank you!
Really good, I had no success with the coco coir last spring.
I have a question, I've let my Trident maple get more than 1 meter tall so it could thicken the base... It is said that large cuts are made on the winter, since sap flow it's slow, almost null. But if I want to make those long sacrifice branches into cuttings, would it be on the winter? or I would have to wait till late spring to make those big cuts? Same situation with air layerings, you do on mid/late winter or late spring?
Oh, I just got to the part you mention hardwood cuttings.
I have never understood why people want to make big cuts in winter. In fact, today I have taped a new video (Out next month I am afraid, lots of editing). In this video I take a rotary tool and carve a big chunk of trunk away. I do this NOW because the tree is nice and actively growing. It is right now responding to the damage, sending all energy straight to the damaged site to repair. Do this in winter, and you have to wait till spring for it to start repairing. I make big cuts in mid spring to summer. Which would coinside with airlayering in spring and then separation in summer.
Let me know how you go on the hardwood cuttings on trident. I have not been succesfull with tridents yet.
@@GrowingBonsai Well, because people say that once maples got active again, they would bleed a lot throught big cuts... Also maybe because it would induce the plant to bud on the right spots once spring comes by? Idk, all the maple care is really new for me.
@Albanus35 The period from around late feb to the start of growth is when maple roots start pushing juice into the trunk. (Think maple syrop!). If you trim in that period some water comes out. But nothing to the extend that it will seriously harm it. After that, once the leaves are out, bleeding is virtually non-existent :)
Thanx Jelle, perfect timing of course and all the info we need for success. I have a neighbor with an aphid n ant ridden Acer n I’m gonna have a go this weekend! God bless you 🙏✝️ ✌️🇺🇦🌻✌️
Curious to see how your project turns out! I hope you have success!
Do keep in mind: It is best to use materials from healthy plants.
Good point n tactfully put, thanku 🤝 ✌️
Interesting, but how can they survive in the long-term? Grafting onto hardy root stalk ensures a better survival rate
Hi joanne, once these are rooted they have regular survival as other maples. Grafted arakawa has the downside that the nebari does not get the rough bark. I have 2 mature arakawa on their own roots (see my videos, one of them is in there). They are on their own roots too.
Will powder rooting compound work or does it need to tbe the gel variety?
I think the powder should do the trick too, but I have the unprooven feeling that since I started using gel, I have better success.
great video! Do you have any issues with fungus growing inside the bag when its so airtight closed?
Hi Alessio, thank you for asking. Interestingly, so far, I have not had that problem!
@@GrowingBonsai How often do you water and how much being in the bag? Do you remove it each time or just do a spritz?
@@Soul_N_Control I do not need to water normally. I do every month or so take them out, wash them and flush the soil. Let them drip dry and putthem back in!
@@GrowingBonsai Ty!
Great video.
What rooting gel do you use?
This is made by clonex
Thank you. I’ll give it a try!
Hi Jelle, how are the cuttings doing? Could you make a short about them? Really curious!
I think I made the mistake of giving them away.. Good idea, I should do some longer term videos of maple cuttiings!
@@GrowingBonsai Beautiful video! By this answer do you mean that they all succeeded? Did those in cocopeat turn out just as well as those in vermiculite? Am really curious ! greetings from Belgium
Hey there, my question may seem silly but I must ask. My neighbor has a purple Japanese maple shrub and in a windstorm the other day a small branch(all green around the bark line and nice healthy white wood)got blown off. Is there any chance of me succeeding in getting this branch(like a ft in length and maybe a half inch round) to sprout new rooting using this method in the video or in any method whatsoever?
japanese maple can be tricky to root. Older branches do not always work. So I would take smaller cutting, place them in substrate, quite deep, and leave them in a sheltered spot hoping for spring growth.
Hallo Jelle, Bedankt voor je video's erg leerzaam. Ik zie dat je gebruik maakt van een stengel. Heb je ook andere ervaringen met andere stekmiddelen, zoals Rhizopon. Ik zie dat ook veel mensen gebruiken. Tot op heven heb ik nog geen geweldige ervaringen met stekken van Acers m.u.v. Acer buergerianum. thanks
From Germany here. Happened to see your video just now. Wondering if it too late to propagate now ?
It's been cold until day before yesterday, like in spring.
I think you are experiencing a second growing flush at about right now too. I could imagine that ot would work, but I have not tried a late season. Let me know if you try!
@@GrowingBonsai I've made some cuttings from two of my Maple trees/plants. 🙏 hoping they will grow 😃😍
I have a fungus on my tree, it’s also on my rose of Sharon and on another tree. We had lots of snow twice. The ground was super wet. What can I use for fungus, maybe baking soda and neem oil?
It depends a lot on what fungus. Hard to give specific info without knowing what is on the tree!
Hello, thank you for the informative video! Also do i have to use a rooting hormone or can I have success without using it?
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