Koto Hime Maple Progression

[rollwithak]

great job
those shiwishagawa (sp?) style maples look great - they look like cannabis to me, and my coworker

I say the same thing about mine

 

[rollwithak]

aaaaaaand the quickest airlayer of 2023 goes tooooooo...

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uh oh. back up on the table for now

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[rollwithak]

Love following your progressions dude. I need to figure out how to have more success with layers and cuttings as I have had not a lot of success up to this point.

 

[ibakey]

Jesus.. And I thought the kotohime maple was slow growing. Your thread makes it seem like its pretty quick.
I just obtained a couple of young ones, excited to see how it progresses this year.

 

[Darth Masiah]

 

[Davidlpf]

Nice backbuding, and pretty dam fattening! Really you don't need to do any branch grafting in this cultivar. LOL

Thanks for sharing.

Cheers

 

[Darth Masiah]

 

[Cajunrider]

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Very nice!

 

[Dabbler]

Oh I love - the colors of the new growth!

 

[Colorado]

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Really beautiful!

 

[Darth Masiah]

 

[NateDyk47]

Those look amazing! If you ever start selling some of those cuttings...

 

[R0b]

Inspiring I had to go out and look at my Shishigashira too late for cuttings. So two questions do you also take summer cutting and if so when? What do you use as fertiliser and at which frequency?

 

[Darth Masiah]

i haven't been taking summer cuttings, but if i was going to, I'd take them when you see the leaves are done hardening off.

as far as fertilization, im still using up a bag of peter's professional 20/20/20 i bought years ago.
in spring as new growth is hardening off i use Real Growers Recharge microbes/kelp/acids mix at 2 grams per gallon once a month till leaf fall.
last year i fed the peter's at 2g almost every week.
when i see the trees are going into storage mode, i use Jack's Hydro 0/12/26 at 2g.

when I'm through with the peter's I'll be using a combo of calcium nitrate and jacks 0/12/26 at around 1:2 grams. maybe 2:3

 

[Davidlpf]

I can hear it....

Cheers!

 

[Darth Masiah]

repot. a little movement at first goes a long way later.




march '23 to march '24




see you again in two years

 

[Darth Masiah]

finished repotting and wiring up one year old cuttings.



the two extra large cuttings were fairly straight trunked, so i wired up the first year shoots for cuttings next spring with movement already baked in.

 

[bwaynef]

These are developing really quickly! Now I'm in the market for a kotohime.

 

[Piedmont Bonsai]

These are developing really quickly! Now I'm in the market for a kotohime.

I agree this thread definitely makes me want to get a Kotohime.

 

[dbonsaiw]

Wow, my koto hime just don't look like that. Mine are scrawny with ridiculously small leaves and barely grows at all.