Share Your MAPLE LITERATIS

MACH5 said:
A style not often seen used with maples. Here is one I created from a Japanese maple seedling. Now in its fourth year of development. Those that have them, please share!

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any updates M5?
 
I have a question, @MACH5. So for a maple in literati style how do you handle their proliferous back budding? Do you have to do any bud management on the trunks (if so how/what) or do they tend not to bud on trunks once they reach a certain length?
 
MACH5 said:
Soon Max. Waiting for final leaves to drop off and photograph the tree.
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Cool! I was scared it might be sold. I am very intereseted to see what you can do with a tree that most of us could have something similar available.
 
PABonsai said:
I have a question, @MACH5. So for a maple in literati style how do you handle their proliferous back budding? Do you have to do any bud management on the trunks (if so how/what) or do they tend not to bud on trunks once they reach a certain length?
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Back budding is always present (and remains so) on healthy Japanese maples no matter their age. So something that always needs to be addressed. In this case, I try and achieve fine and delicate ramification by fertilizing very sparingly and leaf pruning areas that show too much vigor to avoid excessive thickening and produce fine tips. Of course there will be a point where cutting back to finer ramification will be needed but that's always the case no matter the style of tree you're working on. In the case of my literati, I have to be as vigilant as possible and rub off any adventitious budding as soon as they appear. It is a bit challenging as the tree needs to look as delicate and as simple as possible for it to work. I think bigger size literati maples might prove to be much easier to maintain.
 
Adair M said:
Hey, Sergio! How did your California gig go? Did they make you work on an Ume?
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It went great Adair! On Sunday I decided to do a simultaneous demo on the elm and maple to keep things interesting and moving along. Sometimes it can get pretty tedious watching someone wire and style a tree for two or three hours. The large room was full and by the time the two hour limit was reached the room was still pretty full so that was a good sign. The audience was very engaged with lots of questions and comments. I also tried the Ryan Neil method of asking the audience to be part of the styling process which seem to work quite well and kept people feeling like they were part of the process.

Got to see very quickly the Lake Merritt collection which had some outstanding specimens. Very beautiful and well kept and designed. Kudos to Cathy and Gordon Deeg and to all the volunteers that help maintain it.
 
Good job! That exhibit hall is where Boon used to have his show for several years.

Glad you had a good time. The Bay Area has a lot of talented bonsai people. (Their hair isn’t as well styled as yours, and for sure their shoes aren’t as fashionable, but they know their bonsai!)

Will I see you in Kannapolis for Winter Silohette?
 
Adair M said:
Good job! That exhibit hall is where Boon used to have his show for several years.

Glad you had a good time. The Bay Area has a lot of talented bonsai people. (Their hair isn’t as well styled as yours, and for sure their shoes aren’t as fashionable, but they know their bonsai!)

Will I see you in Kannapolis for Winter Silohette?
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LOL!! Yes some pretty knowledgeable and advanced folks there! I knew coming in I could not BS my way through it and distract them with my fancy kicks! 😂😂😜 One board member jokingly said to me as she introduced herself. Are you funny? Are you any good? Ok please tell me you won’t suck!! That right there made me feel so welcomed! 😂
 
Interesting idea, the Literati Maple.

Acer Eruditus, Doctus, Litteratus, ? Acer Magister ? :)

This is the kind of idea I had when I started putting Japanes maples in pot. They were thinner than my arteries, I mean the inside of my arteries, I soon "lerned" from different forums that "Bunjin" was a complete no-no for A. p.

But two things make me reconsider :

First, your tree is very refreshing in some way, which is almost an oxymoron : how can the concept of smthg like "Wisdom from (at least) decades of experience suit such a strong and supple looking tree ?

I mean, I love the look of it, but it's just that the name doesn't fit for me. For me, it's not a "scholar" or any other word you can use in in your native tongue, it's a free teen, a young adult in its full strength. A slender young man biting into life, not an old, venerable has-been 😄

-TBC-
 
-C:

Corollary :

Quel terme choisir ? The term bunjin is a translation (= an adaptation) of a Japanese word which is not only a word. It carries along a tradition, a culture, a point of view.

It doesn't describe a "shape", it reflects a state of mind, a set of values.

Great project. For lack of words, I'll call it slender boy rtather than "literati" :)

And I won't even spare you the uillean pipes ;) - you don't have to listen, but at the moment, that's, what I like, to hear :

 
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