Sean’s Trident Projects

[SeanS]

 

[clem]

Hello, I am pleasantly surprised by the small internodes on your trident maples.

I have no experience with this species, so it may be easier to obtain than on an acer palmatum ?

Can you elaborate on the techniques you use to have such small internodes ? (cultivation, pruning, defoliation, etc.)

 

[Yamabudoudanshi]

The multi trunked one in the round unglazed pot on the previous oage os really starting to come together.

Also, the multi trunk ROR reminded me of one I reported earlier this year. Not my tree, but at the garden I work part time at. Similar idea anyway.

Keep up the good work.

 

[SeanS]

The multi trunked one in the round unglazed pot on the previous oage os really starting to come together.

Also, the multi trunk ROR reminded me of one I reported earlier this year. Not my tree, but at the garden I work part time at. Similar idea anyway.

Keep up the good work.

Thanks @Yamabudoudanshi!
The round unglazed is the only pot I had on-hand that would fit the swollen nebari of that little tree, it definitely isn’t my first choice but it does the job for now. I started that tree with 5 individual saplings I collected from a local garden, which I tied together with a piece of wire. Part of the wire is still embedded in the nebari but has been covered by the tree.

September 2021

 

[SeanS]

Hello, I am pleasantly surprised by the small internodes on your trident maples.

I have no experience with this species, so it may be easier to obtain than on an acer palmatum ?

Can you elaborate on the techniques you use to have such small internodes ? (cultivation, pruning, defoliation, etc.)

Hi @clem, tridents do naturally have smaller internodes than JM when you apply bonsai techniques. Tridents can be defoliated (partially or fully) very reliably. I generally partially defoliate my tridents 2 or 3 times each growing season which then produces multiple flushes of small twigs and branches. Doing this year after year allows you to build up very fine, dense ramification.