Japanese Maple 09A (Acer palmatum)
Formal upright

April 1, 2025

APRIL 2, 2025. Time to catch up with this one! I’ve grown more and more fond of this one. I do regret trying to top it off too soon a few years ago, but that’s done with. I’ll just have to live with that crazy jog to the side up top. Too bad. It’s been in a couple of pots on its own, and now I’ve repotted it into a plastic grow pot in the hope that it will spread out, lengthen, and grow like crazy this year. Time will tell. I’m working on making it a more graceful formal upright by letting some branches obscure the trunk from time to time. There’s a possibility I’ll remove some of the branches I have now, but it looks too good like it is to do that now. I’ll have to decide on a real pot later. First it has to grow. 

October 30, 2022. As I said I would do back in the spring, I’m starting a new page for this tree. There might have been a page for it earlier — at some point or another, but if there was, it’s been lost.

To recap from the “Maple Forest” page: I got this tree from Mark; he had potted up a seedling in his yard but didn’t want to move it to Grants Way. I think I’ve had it for almost ten years, at least one of which it spent in the ground. That’s how it got the over-developed surface root that looks so bad. I used it for the center tree in the forest for a while, but that never did really look right. So in March this year I broke up the group and put this one back in a separate pot. I’ve got a lot of cleaning up to do, especially around the apex, but I’ve already gotten a start on that by letting the top grow out all year. I have hope for a better future for this tree.

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