Japanese Maple Clump from Bennie Badgett

[markyscott]

Four years on a board. Board was nearly rotted away completely.

 

[markyscott]

After editing the roots. Onto a fresh board and roots directed radially away from the trunk. It went back into the Anderson flat

 

[MrWunderful]

Starting to really develop well.

 

[Cadillactaste]

Your vision has really come into its own. Coming along nicely!

 

[markyscott]

Cut back and the soji, before and after. I removed a trunk that was in the front of the tree and spread the remaining trunks out a bit.

 

[markyscott]

Pulled Bennie’s maple off the board. The old plywood was in pretty good shape and it had produced a nice radial rootball.

 

[markyscott]

I ended up bare rooting the tree. The nebari has swelled noticeably since I last repotted. I corrected some crossing and downward growing roots and repotted into the training container without a board this time.

 

[DeepSouth]

I really like the clump style, we have many large red maples on our property that have developed in this way over the years. Great tree!

 

[Dan W.]

Excellent thread! Thank you for keeping this updated.
I also love a good maple clump!

 

[Brian Van Fleet]

Cool project, that base is putting on some wood. Are you planning to keep all of the trunks it has now?

 

[markyscott]

Cool project, that base is putting on some wood. Are you planning to keep all of the trunks it has now?

Although I like the new front, when I rotated the tree it made the left trunk appear to have an awkward angle. I’m considering grafting on a new one.

- S

 

[Wood]

Peg graft that trunk to a new position!