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It is a smaller tree, achieving a maximum height of about 15 feet after 15 years.

'Michael Steinhart' has leaves that are bright yellow.

It has excellent red, yellow, and orange fall color.

' Aeryn' is a good choice as a street tree or medium-sized landscape shade tree, growing to a maximum size of about 35 feet.

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By adding to the taper in this way, you will eventually get excellent taper. Each year the leader is allowed to grow long and then cut back to 4" (10cm) or less of the new growth. Some of my big Tridents have taken nearly twenty years to get good taper. Over a period of time the taper will merge nicely with the rest of the trunk. You have to let the leader grow unchecked each year and cut the leader back to 4-6" (10-15cm) each time. The process of developing the taper is probably the most difficult part of growing a nice specimen Trident. With a strong growing tree, the leading shoot can grow 3-4 meters in one growing season. Encourage branches to grow unchecked and select a strong upward growing shoot to grow as the leader. I find that developing a taper is best done when the tree is transferred into a container. It is at this stage that the tree should be lifted from the ground and planted into a large container or training box.Ī tree ready for the next phase developing taper. Once the desired trunk thickness has been achieved, the tree should be cut down to the desired height or the top air-layered to begin the next stage of training. Grow the tree in good rich soil as this will considerably speed the growth rate. Lifting the tree out of the ground every three or four years will also give you the chance to cut the thick roots back so as to encourage fine feeder toots to develop.

To overcome this, you can either lift the tree out once every three or four year and cut the tap root back, or grow the tree over a paving slab or flat stone to prevent the tap root from going right down into the soil. If the tree is left unchecked, the tap root goes straight into the ground and very little surface root will develop. There is just one drawback to open ground cultivation and that is the development of the tap root. If you plant a cutting in open ground, you will get thickening in a very short space of time. There is no substitute to growing in the open ground in order to get a thick trunk. There are four distinct phases in developing large size Tridents: What I discovered in the twenty or more years that I have been experimenting with Tridents is worth sharing with you. Nor is the creation of good taper and nebari. They continued to grow on year by year and the trunks got progressively thicker and branches would sprout from all over the trunks.Īlthough growth is prolific with Japanese maple Bonsai –getting branches to sprout from just the right places is not that easy. I grew them on in our nursery in large training pots but not in the ground. They were so ugly that no customers were interested in them, which was all the more reason that I was determined not to sell them. They had no taper or branches at all, - hence the cheap price. In 1990, on one of my regular trips to Japan, I came across some very thick Trident stumps that were being sold quite cheaply. This is what we aim to achieve a Bonsai with a thick tapered trunk. Once I got the taste of the Trident maple, I began to experiment with the development of good Surface roots, or Nebari, taper and ramification at my nursery in Surrey. On my buying trips to Japan, I was able to pick Tridents of all sizes to grow into the styles and shapes that I liked. By planting the cuttings in open ground, I was surprised to find that they could grow into large trunk trees with trunks of 4" (10cm) diameter in just four or five years! But it wasn’t until I started my own nursery in the mid 1980’s, that I started experimenting with Tridents seriously. About that time, I purchased one such tree and made quite a few cuttings from it. Most of them were just small plants costing very little, but there were a few with trunks of around 4" (10cm) diameter which fascinated me. My first encounter with Trident maple bonsai trees dates back to the early 1970s when a couple of UK Bonsai nurseries first started importing Tridents. Acer buergerianum, and none are as easy to develop in a short space of time as the Trident. none are as impressive as the Trident maple -i.e. But of all the species commonly used for large Bonsai. They do not grab me in the same way that large Bonsai can do.

Shohin and Chuhin may be cute, but to me they do not have the power and majesty of larger Bonsai. Shohin and Chuhin size Bonsai do very little for me. Although Bonsai is the art of growing miniature trees, I have always been fascinated by Bonsai that are on the large side.