First Steps to Making a Huge Bonsai Forest Heirloom for my Grandchildren

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  • Опубліковано 4 сер 2024
  • Bonsai is very meaningful, living art. Today, I am working on a tree that will be a part of a giant bonsai forest heirloom that I will pass down to my grandchildren. I have 6 grandchildren so I will create a 6-tree bonsai forest and potentially add more to represent myself and my children. This is going to be a very exciting project, so please follow my progress!
    0:00 Why I'm making a bonsai forest
    1:40 How to design a bonsai forest
    2:11 How to expose the roots
    5:30 How to turn a branch into a bonsai
    8:48 How to create the apex
    11:40 How to make jin (deadwood)
    14:18 Basics to pruning a bonsai
    16:13 Before & after comparison
    16:22 Explanation of techniques
    To see the other forest videos I did:
    - How to Make a Clump Juniper Bonsai: • How to Make a Clump Ju...
    - Let's Build a Bonsai Forest! Work on the First 2 Trees with Me: • Let's Build a Bonsai F...
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  • @bruceteede
    @bruceteede 17 днів тому +1

    Can’t wait to see this in the future

  • @paulahrendt1766
    @paulahrendt1766 4 місяці тому +3

    I look forward to the progress of your forest

  • @raymondplodzien7459
    @raymondplodzien7459 4 місяці тому +2

    Love your idea Milton!!

  • @Fambamm-ib6pw
    @Fambamm-ib6pw 4 місяці тому +3

    Thank you for sharing this with us. I am eager to see what the end results look like ❤ in my opinion i would like to see 12 , but im a fan of the go big ideas.

  • @nerinat8371
    @nerinat8371 4 місяці тому +1

    This will be a mega forest, look forwards to it

  • @MANNY100123
    @MANNY100123 4 місяці тому +1

    A bonsai forest sounds amazing! I'll have to try that someday! Thank you for the video!

  • @joegarland4885
    @joegarland4885 4 місяці тому +1

    Great to make a forest heirloom representation of your Grandchildren and maybe your sons and you and your wife,what a great idea. John Naka was a truly wonderful bonsai artist and a special human being. Looking at the tree now you have dispensed with the foliage you don’t need creates the bare structure of what one is envisioning to be the final design, what I have learnt from you Milton is not to be too prissy about the trees, they are stronger than we think especially all types of Junipers and pines, you can be a bit brutal with them, the important thing is to make sure you leave enough green foliage to maintain the tree. To my mind the bottom branch will probably come off in a future design, I can’t see how it will fit in to a forest design, you don’t want a tree at the edge of the forest being so dominant it will draw the eye away from the main image you are creating. Joe.

    • @MiltonChang-ee6rq
      @MiltonChang-ee6rq 4 місяці тому

      That is a good point. Make a forest like a forest! Thanks!
      And I truly admire John. Does not matter I was Chinese, I am good if I like bonsai. My high school classmate Ernie Kuo was his student and became his close friend. In fact, one of Ernie's CA juniper was a state gift (I believe President Clinton brought to China )as a state gift.

  • @cyndydejoy6129
    @cyndydejoy6129 4 місяці тому +1

    Starting with a bunchy bush to an attractive bonsai! Had to subscribe! Will be looking forward to seeing the progress of your forest! I say make it for all 12 of you and your family!👏👏👏👍🤩😊

  • @dianedelello5906
    @dianedelello5906 4 місяці тому +3

    I am glad that you changed the number 6. I am an American who was lucky enough to study Ikebana who explained that we never use 6….Although I am glad that you have six grandchildren, you are truly blessed

    • @laddieokelley6095
      @laddieokelley6095 4 місяці тому +1

      My friend and teacher, a high-level Sogetsu artist, told me that past 5 elements she doesn't pay a lot of attention to the "odd number" dictum. I am all for artistic balance, but not so much for superstition or cultural dictates.

    • @dianedelello5906
      @dianedelello5906 4 місяці тому

      @@laddieokelley6095 I was told that six is a word close to death so not to be used in floral design… so I was told

    • @sal-1337
      @sal-1337 4 місяці тому

      people also believe we were descended from only two people and their offspring and that a snake fed them an apple. dont believe everything you hear

    • @peterlustig8021
      @peterlustig8021 3 місяці тому

      @@laddieokelley6095 if it was not in line with the teachings, the value of the final heirloom would lose a lot of its monetary value. for it to keep the value with six you would not need to be a bonsai master but a legend who can allow to go against the rules
      like creating a myth around the forest and its six trees
      all part of this artform

  • @patchymcq
    @patchymcq 4 місяці тому +1

    The tree looks great. Going through bushy juniper foliage is a lot of work u make it look easy

  • @alyssalee7422
    @alyssalee7422 4 місяці тому +1

    Taking on a 6-12 tree forest would be awesome!

  • @mikebeireis3990
    @mikebeireis3990 4 місяці тому +1

    Very inspired work you are doing. 12 is a great number!!! Looking forward to seeing more of this project. Subscribed 😎

    • @MiltonChang-ee6rq
      @MiltonChang-ee6rq 4 місяці тому

      Thanks! Send us email address too for announcement of availability...first year production is very low...Adn while you are at it, tell us what you like an ddislike about buying from other stores. Thanks!

  • @raymondblakeney5300
    @raymondblakeney5300 4 місяці тому +1

    I think that the eye can see the difference between the odds and even numbers when there are just a few trees, (ie you can see the difference between 2 & 3 at a glance)
    However when the number becomes bigger it's impossible to see whether it's odd or even ! Leaving you free to do what you please.

  • @phillipwaterman5721
    @phillipwaterman5721 4 місяці тому +1

    Nice job Milton keep up the good work mate thanks

    • @MiltonChang-ee6rq
      @MiltonChang-ee6rq 4 місяці тому

      Please stay tuned till we complete this projkect.
      Thanks

  • @mcbabs7495
    @mcbabs7495 4 місяці тому +2

    J'aime beaucoup votre travail, merci pour la vidéo!

  • @sunilbadmore6030
    @sunilbadmore6030 4 місяці тому +1

    ❤❤❤Very easy you tells about how give shape.

  • @11orana
    @11orana 4 місяці тому +6

    You could always include an extra forest tree for potential family/not family members, not just for more artistically balanced or lucky numbers. Sometimes our families can come to include more people than we think possible. My dad (now aged 95) teaches music and college-level math classes at a women's prison. Almost every Father's Day, my sister and I find that our family has acquired several new grandchildren in their 20's or 30's.

    • @MiltonChang-ee6rq
      @MiltonChang-ee6rq 4 місяці тому

      Ok, less is more; I will likely stop at 7; Maybe I will do a elm or a maple tree with many many more trees.

  • @UpstateYamadori
    @UpstateYamadori 4 місяці тому +1

    Awesome vision ❤

  • @laonongtrendinhdk
    @laonongtrendinhdk 4 місяці тому

    rất hay

  • @avocaracingstables9169
    @avocaracingstables9169 2 місяці тому +1

    Have you ever worked with eucalyptus trees?

    • @bonsaiheirloom
      @bonsaiheirloom  2 місяці тому +1

      No, it is going wild in CA and Hawaii, towering to 100’ and makes a mess with leaves that are large and do not decay.

  • @MrSoarman
    @MrSoarman 4 місяці тому

    You must understand, your grand children are a descendant of your genes, however one may accept your trees as a gift of treasure, while another will accept it as a gift of burden.

  • @bryanmorrion9503
    @bryanmorrion9503 3 місяці тому

    You or your wife would have to be that tree you just worked on with the family gathered around. 👍🇦🇺🦘