The Japanese Maple Gardening pot or ground? 

You certainly can, so long as you progress up the pot sizes slowly 👍

Glad to have you on board and hope you find it useful! I’ve just subscribed to your channel. Carl

Very kind of you to comment and glad that sharing my personal experiences helps people. Carl

Thanks Ron good to hear it works for you too ! Carl

Thanks for taking the time to comment and I'm really glad you find the content helpful. It inspires me to do more! Carl

Thanks so much for the feedback and really glad you found the video beneficial. Carl ❤

My orange dream is in clay soil and has grown massively! If we get past and drainage issues, the clay is full of nutrients

Thanks for posting and good to know that this is working for you too. Carl

I have just discovered your channel; so I will be following along.

@@niccat7051 that’s great and glad to have you join my journey into Maples 👍

Thanks and 100% agree 👍

So do I!!!! But I do have a corallinum that still miraculously still has its autumn coloured leaves on show.

Once they get there roots down they really take off!

Hi there and glad you’re enjoying the content. The answer is indefinitely really, every few years they will need a bigger pot or root pruning, but I have seen examples decades old 👍

In my opinion I have no issue with planting now, as the weather here in the Uk seems to be getting dryer. I may in fact be planting a tree myself soon, but do advise planting a tree that’s 3-4 years old and a bit more established. I have fairly clay soil, so I will put a couple of inches of pebbles under the root ball, making sure the final height is just above ground level. No doubt I will do a video on this 👍

Thank you! I'd love to know where the concern about traumatising the roots by potting this time of year come from.. surely it can't be worse than being shipped! Really appreciate your reply and look forward to that video, thank you!

Compost wise I have always used a 50/50 mix of John Innes no. 3 and ericaceous compost. Never been an issue for me either, apart from it hangs on to moisture well, so great in the summer but not wise to over pot. From speaking to growers the only thing they really hate is alkaline soil. Thanks for posting, Carl

What type of soil is the ground please ?