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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