Looking to buy JM seedlings ( less than 1 year old) for my collection (Southern California)

[oshaver]

Starting a Japanese maple seedling collection to eventually grow into bonsai. I'd like to purchase brand new seedlings (<1 yr.)

preferably:

• Deshojo/ShinDeshojo
• kiyohime
• Arakawa
• Katsura
• Shishigashira
• Seigen
• Yama-Momiji

Im open to other varieties if they make good bonsai, but I try to steer clear of laceleaf varieties.

here's a photo for reference of about the age of what I'm looking for.

 

[jszg]

I think what you are looking for are cuttings: Japanese maples do not come true from seed, but the seedlings usually share some traits with the parents. Maples are wind-pollinated, so the "dad" could be anyone. (That being said, for obvious traits like coral or cork bark, seedlings work fine enough)

As far as I know, basically the only place to get cuttings of Japanese maples is from Evergreen Gardenworks.

 

[Housguy]

Starting a Japanese maple seedling collection to eventually grow into bonsai. I'd like to purchase brand new seedlings (<1 yr.)

preferably:

• Deshojo/ShinDeshojo
• kiyohime
• Arakawa
• Katsura
• Shishigashira
• Seigen
• Yama-Momiji

Im open to other varieties if they make good bonsai, but I try to steer clear of laceleaf varieties.

here's a photo for reference of about the age of what I'm looking for.

Where do you live in Cali? I have some year old and older JM, but don't know the variety and you can have them for free, if you want to come by and pick them up? I live in Chino Hills.

 

[BonsaiDTLA]

I'm sure you've read this before, but I'm going to say it anyways.

JMs do not do really well in SoCal, the water sucks unless you're filtering the water someway. I have a deshojo that I got from Bill Valavanis as well as a Kiyohime, Kotohime, Arakawa, and a seigen maple (+ more im forgetting) from other bonsai folks. The last three are grafted, the deshojo was a cutting grown.

I've found that they don't really thrive as well as the regular green japanese mountain maple. Made me think about giving them to a buddy of mine who loves J.Maples and who lives in a place that has colder winters.

These days I only grow the green mtn JP maples and tridents as they both seem to do better with the heat here.

 

[Paradox]

California has strict plant importation rules so you're probably going to have to find sellers mostly in California.

 

[BonsaiDTLA]

Edited, misread!