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- How To Carefully Maintain Maple On The Balcony - Tips For Beginners
- Pouring in the fingertip - How to do it right
- Fertilize every 4 weeks
- Winter protection is mandatory - That's how it works
- Tips
Many Japanese maple species thrive in the pot - for example as bonsai
How To Carefully Maintain Maple On The Balcony - Tips For Beginners
Asian maple species can be excellently cultivated in the bucket so that balcony gardeners do not have to forego the spectacular fireworks of the autumn foliage color. Maple (Acer palmatum) and Japanese maple (Acer japonicum) demonstrate Far Eastern serenity not only in terms of their growth. How easy to cultivate the ornamental shrubs on the balcony, clarify these tips.
Pouring in the fingertip - How to do it right
Small-sized maple trees and bushes have a thing for Constance. This applies primarily to the water balance. The substrate should be evenly moist, neither powdery nor dripping wet. A simple finger test is enough to determine the current casting requirement. That is how it goes:
Please avoid overhead irrigation. Wet maple leaves have the risk of fungal attack in summer.
Fertilize every 4 weeks
The limited substrate volume in the bucket only makes a small contribution to nutrient supply. From April to September, give a maple in the pot a liquid fertilizer for green plants every 4 weeks. It is important to remember that you should water before and after with clear water so that the nutrient salts are absorbed completely by the roots.
Winter protection is mandatory - That's how it works
In the bucket on the balcony your maple is vulnerable to frost. Therefore place the container on an insulating wooden block in time. Wrap the pot with bubble wrap or coconut mats. A thick layer of foliage on the substrate repels the winter cold. To prevent the leaves from blowing, place pinstripe over them.
Just as important as the safeguards is the water supply. Maple in the bucket is more likely to be at risk of drought during the cold season than in summer. Therefore, pour on mild days so that the substrate does not dry out completely.
Tips
The slow growth of maple species in the bucket requires a pruning only in exceptional cases. If necessary, cut out branches protruding from the mold in early spring, just before the start of growth. As long as a cut is limited to the one-year wood, the tree drives reliably again.