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For small containers smaller than a nursery 3 gallon check the root system of your Japanese maple during the winter every 3 years. Add soil as necessary. For larger containers, you can go much longer without root pruning the roots of your Japanese maple. We suggest checking every years. For those that do not want to root prune, you can always upgrade your Japanese maple to a larger pot size or put the tree in the landscape, however, with a few minutes of root pruning every few years a Japanese maple can stay in any pot for its entire life.

This can often be purchased at Wal-Mart or your local garden center or department store. This simply gives Japanese maples the proper nutrients and hormones that will help it heal and recover and help it get back into a growing mode. Japanese maples are extremely easy to care for. The less you do the better. Japanese maples do not like a lot of nitrogen so fertilizers are not necessary.

Fertilizers with low amounts of nitrogen can be used in the early spring and mid-summer, however it is not necessary. Trimming your Japanese maple can actually make your tree grow faster. If you trim the smaller branches back leaving larger and thicker branching with buds, your tree will often grow very quickly.

This is because you get a cleaner flow or nutrients from Japanese maples that have been trimmed. It is like excersing your Japanese maples. It is best to do this in the early spring right before your Japanese maple leafs out.

This is typically around the late February to early March time period for us in North Carolina. Yes, that means you can trim a Japanese maple heavily. Remember to clean your pruning tools with rubbing alcohol.

This helps keep your pruning tools sanitized which helps your Japanese maple stay healthy. Start out by pruning out branches you don't like on your Japanese maple. Large branches you don't like only get bigger so it is best to prune them out early in the tree's life. Prune out the twiggier smaller branching. Smaller branching only makes smaller branching. This means these will make the tree grow slower. By pruning your Japanese maple and leaving the large branching you will get a larger tree quicker.

Trim out conflicting branching on your Japanese maple. This means if two limbs are touching are are too close, one of them should be trimmed out. A lot of pruning is judgement calls. Picking which one stays and which one goes will be a judgement call that only the owner or the pruner can make. If you are trimming an upright selection, make sure to keep one branch as a central leader. This is typically the tallest part of the tree on most upright Japanese maples.

If you are trimming a dwarf or a laceleaf Japanese maple, you can trim the Japanese maple to accentuate the natural shape of the tree.

This can be done with laceleaf types by trimming your Japanese maple to create different levels of branching. Trim out the fishtails. When there are three small branches coming out of the terminal buds on the end of a branch, it is often good to trim out the middle branch. This gives room for the other two branches and allows them have more energy. Average Width of Area ft.

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Remove all weeds and grass within a metre of the planting site, then dig a square hole as deep as the root mass and approximately twice as wide. We recommend sprinkling root grow in the hole to help Japanese Maples establish more effectively, especially if the soil is poor.

Remove the pot and place the root mass in the planting hole so that the surface is flush with the surrounding ground. Use ericaceous compost when possible as this encourages vibrant foliage colour in Japanese Maples.

Finish by watering generously around the base. The tree planting guide has further information and videos. Japanese Maples require a good watering regime for the first couple of years by watering well and regularly throughout spring and summer.

Increase in periods of hot or dry weather. If planting in autumn, you may only need to water a little. If possible, use rain water instead of tap water as this is more acidic and better for foliage colour. We stock a range of irrigation kits for more effective watering. Keep the area free of competing weeds and grass for the first couple of growing seasons.

If there is snow fall, gently brush the snow from the branches to ensure it does not weigh down the framework and cause damage. Pruning should be carried out in the dormant season November to March as Japanese Maples bleed during other times of the year, which can weaken the branches.