Bonsaify | Make Radiant Radial Nebari for Japanese Maple Bonsai

Eric shares his techniques for developing stunning nebari on young Japanese Maples grown from seed. Learn how to get your nebari growing in the right direction!

00:00:25 Dispelling the myth that Japanese Maples can't be grown from seed. Eric believes seed-grown maples have a good variety of useful and interesting characteristics.

00:01:42 Using 2-year-old plants to demonstrate trimming roots back to a cone shape.

00:02:30 Why removing circling roots is important.

00:03:31 How to decide which roots to remove from the trunk.

00:04:20 Normalizing roots to create a radial dispersion for the nebari.

00:04:54 How to avoid lopsided nebari.

00:05:46 Why fine roots should be trimmed into the shape you want the nebari to be.

00:07:04 Using a 4-year-old maple, Eric shares an additional procedure for larger plants with more roots circling.

00:08:53 For this older tree growing out in gallon can, Eric uses relatively the same process for roots.

00:09:35 Removing a large root and a hard cutback on another root.

00:11:18 Anchoring and repotting into an Anderson flat.

00:11:35 Repotting the three smaller trees into mesh-sided grow bags.

00:12:45 Eric uses top wires to stabilize the trees in the bags.

00:13:43 Establishing trunk line and sacrifice branches using a technique commonly used in Japan to grow maple trunks.

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