Air Layer Instructions and Root Graft Check on Japanese Maple Pre Bonsai
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- čas přidán 4. 07. 2024
- Detailed step by step instructions for air layering Japanese maple bonsai. We also check a root graft from a year ago and discuss the development of nebari. We will use this one piece of material to create multiple bonsai trees.
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0:00 Into
1:10 Sumo Base Close-up
1:45 Root Graft Check
3:12 Removing Grafting Pin
4:42 Trimming Root Graft Apex
6:04 Branches Below Air Layer
7:17 Upward Look at Future Bonsai
8:02 Starting the Air Layer
10:55 Cutting Bark
11:31 Cork Cambium, Phloem, Cambium, & Xylem
15:12 Removing the Cambium (Stem Cells) - Jak na to + styl
I can see a very nice triple trunk tree. A lot of information. Thanks for sharing!
Thanks for checking out my video! 🙏🏽 I hope it inspires people to clone their trees! 🪴🪴🪴🪴🪴
Great video and very informative 👏👏
Thanks for tuning in! 🙏🏽 I’m glad you enjoyed it!! 📺 🪴 🍁
You make me wanna get in to bonsai. Good job. You got a new subscriber
Thanks for joining the conversation! My goal is to put out all the maple knowledge I have, and share as many of my major projects as I have time to record.
⚠️ Careful! Once you get the bonsai-bug it’s hard to let it go! 🤣
What an amazing maple tree
Thanks for stopping by! 🙏🏽 📺 This tree has amazing white bark from its time baking in the Carolina sun! 🌴🌞🌴
no lime sulphur necessary! 🍯🖌️
Awesome demonstration man! I think I will definitely be attempting some soon myself, I used to alway be intimidated by it but you video has helped alleviate some of that anxiety. I'm looking forward to seeing updates. Strong, clean work!
Thank you friend! I have about 30-40 (much smaller) layers to apply over the next 6 weeks- hajime! 😆 I think this was the biggest one for this yeah though! Thanks again for tuning in! 🙏🏽 🪴 🍁
@@acer_p_bonsai Of course! I'll be lurking haha 😆
Next level work AP
Thanks bro! 🙏🏽 😎 almost time for another meetup eh?
@@acer_p_bonsai Yes Sir! I’m ready whenever you are.
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You’re welcome! Thank you for tuning in! 📺 🪴 🍁
Very good video,thank you for sharing.👏🏻👏🏻👍🏻
Hey, thank you for watching and for the kind comment!! 🙏🏽 I’ll share an update when it roots out! 🪴 🍁
Fantastic video, loved the explanation of the xylem and nutrient transfer. I called my 11 year old over to watch that part because literally 3 hours ago he was answering questions for homework on that exact topic!!! Fingers crossed for the air layer 🤞🤩🤞 I’ll be doing a few smaller air layers in the next couple weeks… hopefully 👍🤙
Ha! Love it!! 😆 🤩 say hi to your little scholar! 🤓
Bonsai nerds always thinking we’re post-doc plant physiologists…over here crushing 6th grade biology. 👏🏽 👏🏽 👏🏽 🎉 🤣
great explanation keep growing!
Thanks for tuning in! 🙏🏽 Lots of great air layer videos out there, so tried to show and tell a little different from the others.
ABC! Always be cloning!!!
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We whait for the movie when the roots are there 😊
Thanks for tuning in! 🙏🏽 📺 I have high hopes for this tree! 🤩
I wanted to air layer it last year, but the growth was so weak after I saved it I had to wait…just glad it survived and totally looking forward to building a little sumo out of the understock! 🪴 🍁😎
Now this tree is providing you with some good projects.
Good tip about letting the cut section dry out for a while to kill any remaing cambium cells, this i haven't tried yet.
I'm a big fan of using pots for air layers, as long as I am usually nearby to monitor the moisture on a day to day basis, but that is a very very wide and shallow pot for an air layer 😂, though I have no doubts it'll work, it just caught me off gaurd a little.
Now im itching to start my layering for this year.
Haha, yeah I’m stoked about the base of this one, in particular. When I dug it up, it was buried past the graft with only a few sparse branches so there was no obvious sign that it had a sumo stump. I kept digging deeper and bam 💥 there it was, and all the lower 1-2” roots were rotten.
I consider myself pretty good at keeping maples alive, but I was worried about this one…all the remaining leaves self defoliated after the transplant, and had to drive it from SC to NY in a shitty nursery can in the passenger seat of the civic. Luckily it sprung up a weak second flush of leaves, and I was able to nurse it back over the autumn. 😅
What varieties are you layering this year?
@@acer_p_bonsai Dang you hauled that tree quite a distance. Glad to see it turned out healthy.
I will probably be air layering (Maples) 'Seiryu' and 'Ukigumo' since they've worked out for me last year. 'Ukigumo' 1.25" trunk rooted absolutely crazy for me and my tree was in pretty good shade too which was surprising.
Flame Amur maple I'm also going to try. It is only pencil thick which is small but I was wanting to fuse an air layered portion of the original to make a twin trunk over time. I previously had a different twin trunk Amur from a local nursery that had an awesome root base, though not perfect. Months later I was bummed to find it had verticillium wilt and couldn't go on with it. So I'm hoping to style the new one as a twin.
Japanese Black Pine is another one I'll be doing, though only .5" - .75" stems it's a good way to get more JBP to mess with in a relatively short amount of time. I'm only doing 2 of those this year as I already have over a dozen 😬
Oh and the top my Bald Cypress that I'm growing out in ground.
So nothing as thick as your air layers this year, but in time.
That’s awesome! I’ve heard a lot of back and forth about air layering JBP. My gut tells me it will work well, just takes patience and care. Thinking about trying one on a little Kotobuki I picked up last year, since it has a horrible graft maybe I can get a few little clones off it. 😂
SOLID VIDEO with a great view of how you approach doing an airlayer!! I'm a visual learner and appreciate watching AND listening to. What sort of placement in your garden will this tree be placed whilst the tree does "its thing" and produce new roots? Morning sun, dappled sun, full sun, no sun?? I have only tried 2 layers before, 1 survived barely and the other failed completely. I think my placement/aftercare could've and should've been better........ thanks for sharing how you do an airlayer. I want to become proficient at layering before I try it on some nicer trees i have.
I leave it right in the same spot I had it. Morning sun, shade after 1pm. As for after care, I water it daily like the rest of my trees. If you go for the typical plastic wrapped air layer, the goal is to get the moss moist, but not too wet, then seal it in nearly completely, or with just a few holes at the bottom. With this open setup, we have it set up with well draining media so it will always get plenty of aeration, and need to focus more on making sure it doesn’t dry out. We’re already heating up here in VA, but the humidity has been high, perfect weather for growing new roots.
Good luck with your airlayer project!! If any questions come up, feel free to DM me on Instagram (same username). 🙏🏽 🪴 🍁
Why did you leave the lower portion of the cut exposed? Won't xylem fibers dry out and kill the upper portion? That's the only thing that keeps it alive until the upper part produces it's own roots right?
Possibly one or two layers of xylem could dry out, but it will not kill the tree for quite a long time. Even if I didn’t try rooting the top part, it would probably live for 2-3 years completely bare. I guess I could have added a little cut putty around the lower edge of the cut, but I don’t plan on keeping most of the middle of this tree unless is sprouts a bunch of nice branches. Trees are surprisingly good at self-compartmentalizing, and for this sort of operation I wouldn’t waste the cut putty. I have another bonsai that I will be layering soon, with an extremely valuable base, so will be treating that tree like it’s going in for open heart surgery. 🙏🏽 🪴 🍁
@@acer_p_bonsai I will be waiting for the results.
I’ll admit it if it dies or struggles. 😆 😭 A few of my larger air layers took 2 years to root (Shishigashira and Sango Kaku about 1” diameter on each of those.)
@@acer_p_bonsai I really appreciate the honesty man. I really wonder the results.
Bold move man.if it goes "south" you will lose a great tree.hope for good results...keep us informed.super trees on the backround🍁🍁🍁
I’ll definitely keep you updated, good or bad! 🙊 Ive had high success with air layers…probably over 90%. Each failure has been on either a weak cultivar or with a problem I could specifically identify. The biggest issue I’ve dealt with was excess moisture. We want it damp but not soaked! 🙏🏽 🪴 🍁
It has taken me a while to watch this all the way through - too many interruptions! I am very interested to see that you did not fully enclose the whole cut area for the layer. Every other one I have seen has fully enclosed the cuts. I have had good success with the bag - and fully covering the wound. I wait eagerly to see these results! I am also interested in the use of the training pot right off the bat. Harder to keep moist, but easier to transition to it's next pot . . .
Thanks for watching! And yeah…I encourage you to question the “why” of a technique, and examine the physiological process underlying success.
You’re right that the closed bag is a very successful technique, I think it’s because when done correctly, you seal the wound with a “perfect” amount of moisture.
I’ve found that it causes the roots to grow bunched up into a ball shape (to the inside edge of the plastic bag. These can be somewhat brittle and break when trying to pot the layer up. Regarding the sealing off of the entire cut, there might be a slight benefit of protecting the lower cut edge from infection, but in my experience on larger layers, they are going to die back anyway with or without the wrap/protection (a bit less for trees in the ground, because they are more vigorous but nearly always die back at least one node. The only example of this not happening was not on a layer, but on a cut branch of my Kiyohime pre bonsai…I cut a 1/2” branch and it healed right over the flat cut branch; wow! Probably a result of the extremely high fertilizer at the nursery.)
One possible benefit of leaving that lower end of the wound exposed is that a few layers of xylem will start to dry out at the top end of the lower tree. This will slightly restrict water flow, and therefore encourage new root growth in the layer.
This also being such a large air layer, I’m going to need to grow the roots out for probably a full year, or possibly 2 full growing seasons before removing it. I figured starting it straight away in a can would get me the roots growing the way I want, and set the layer up so it doesn’t need any sort of repot/up-pot until I separate it.
The most important concept of the entire process is that once we’ve severed the phloem (and cambium) the upper tree is only receiving water and minerals from the lower tree. All of the sugar/energy to heal and grow roots comes from above the cut. Look up some of the Japanese videos, and you’ll see that it’s very common to use open containers for air layers.
@@acer_p_bonsai So true about that frustrating little ball of roots; it then requires a bit of corrective pruning to get it flowing well.
I might give this technique a go next spring (moving into winter here in Australia) and see how I like the results. Nothing as big as this one, I have to say!
Good luck!
isnt it god, not good, im confused😅
Are you talking about the cultivar name?
Acer palmatum ‘Bloodgood’
Acer palmatum ‘Blood God’ sounds way more metal 🤘🏽⚡️👹 😂
@@acer_p_bonsai The cultivar yeah, turns out it is bloodgood, my been saying blood god all my bonsai life 🤣🤣
Great tree for the yard, leaves too big for bonsai 😆 haven’t decided yet what to graft over it.