Maiden's Miyasama Yatsubusa Trident

[Maiden69]

Time to make a thread for this miyasama whip that I received from MrMaple on July 2023. As almost all the trees from MrMaple, it is grafted, probably on regular trident root stock. My intent is to allow it to grow a little more, then air layer the miyasama off the root stock. It bare grew during the rest of the 2023 season, and I don't recall it changing colors in the fall. This one was one of the first tridents to wake up this spring with new buds everywhere! Like a larger version of the mikawa JM or my kotohime that develop buds all over the tree.

As received in July 2023





The graft



There is a huge whorl of branches coming out of the very top of the tree and I am debating whether to let them grow and do my first air layer close to it to start developing a clump. Or if I should reduce to 2. Needless to say this seems like a cool cultivar.








Buds

 

[roberthu]

My Miyasama from Kadae-en looks very different. Mine has smaller, darker and waxier leaves. They are almost plastic looking...

 

[andrewiles]

Mine looks different as well. Leaves are definitely smaller and more congested. I supposed it could just be heavy fertilization while growing at MrMaple.

 

[roberthu]

Mine looks different as well. Leaves are definitely smaller and more congested. I supposed it could just be heavy fertilization while growing at MrMaple.

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This is exactly what mine looks like.

 

[Maiden69]

Here are some pics from MrMaple website. Will post more later once they harden up a little. I do fertilize heavy as well.

 

[Weaponman]

This is exactly what mine looks like.

Mine also looks very dwarfed. Op’s looks much larger like the regular trident subspecies ‘formosana’ of which the the miyasama is a dwarf.