What is the plan? Do you want more roots or will you cut down the trunk? However another wonderful Video. Happy easter and greetings from southern Germany
Good question Andreas! So, this tree had bad nebari because it was nursery grown and I had planted it 7 years ago for landscape tree and not bonsai. On one side the roots are acceptable and workable but from the other side they were very bad. Thick and going downwards. They were never going to be acceptable foe bonsai. So I grafted seedlings to make new roots and train them properly. In two years I will cut the old roots and keep the grafted ones. Probably I will graft a few more seedlings next year to make a symmetrical nebari. Thank you Andreas, happy Easter!
very nice video....I'm just wondering...have the same issues with an acer tree (on one side I have decent nebary, the other side is crap)...what is the best sulution...airlayer the tree or root crafting?
Thank you Koen! Well, it depends. How decent is the decent side? If it is almost perfect (or it will be in the future) I would go with grafting the other side, considering you have a good number of compatible seedlings. Airlayers can take a long time to grow good looking nebaris, even if done perfectly. Trees with developed nebari (but with faults) are better off with grafting. Though now is getting kinda late in the season to do so. The chances of the seedlings not surviving is getting high. Cheers!
Thank you! This a mix of 40% zeolite at 5mm size, 40% of perlite at 3-5mm size and 20% organic aggricates, topsoil from the forest. Really fast draining mix that does not break down over time, with great CEC (fertilizer holding capability). Cheers!
Nice work! Questions.:Is this doable in a wild olive with reverse taper on the base of the trunk? Should it be strictly oleaster seedlings too or can it be done with simple olive? And what time of the of the year ? Thanks in advance, απο βόρεια Ελλάδα.
Σε ευχαριστώ! With olive is better to air layer as they produce roots amazingly easy. I have a video air layering a Taxodium distichum. It will produce a much better result much faster. Καλή επιτυχία!
Exactly. For example I was a bit late for this in the season and most of the seedlings, except one, died. In a few days I'm going to do that all over.. Cheers Fabian!
I give up. I don't have time for your videos, or for growing my own bonsais (sinse my dad killed the two, I had been forming from the size you added to this one, by drowning them, when he had promised to water them a bit every other day, while I was away) but I keep on watching your videos, and "God" has thrown 5-6 bonsai pretty cheap pots of different sizes in front of me the last few years, so now I'm going to start looking for babies/teens for free..
Don't give up! Everybody has killed their fare share of potted trees! It's a process, Noone can escape. Keep in mind, if you are planning on grafting roots, do it during repotting season. I was a bit late, the seedlings had leafed out completely from the greenhouse and now some of them are stressed from barerooting. Cheers!
@@ArkefthosBonsai I'm "never" a quitter. It was the not growing any, because I "don't have the time", I meant, I was giving up on. I'm probably older than you, and bought my first (and only) book on the subject in the 80s or before. The best one my dad killed, was probably well over a year old, and I had spread the roots over a stone, and bent it down, so it would have had the crown about the height of the stone, and the roots - when they had caught the soil/turf under the stone I uncovered them - to be visualy gripping the stone. I "always" aim high, no matter what "hobby" I get sucked into, and sinse there are no rivers around here, where I can nerd with two hand fly fishing and tying, your videos have sucked me back into this. Your videos are pure meditation, and always seem to be much shorter, than they factually are - a very good sign, both for your videos and for my "need" of getting back to this. Cheers.
@@ArkefthosBonsai I'm not sure, what you mean (maybe it's me being danish, that is the problem), but both fly fishing (casting) and tying, is also very meditative, at least for me. A "perfect" cast is like making a red bull on purpose. And a complicated fly with no flaws at all (not to bragg, but I get lots of "did you tie those.? They sure are well done") feels good - even though it doesn't matter at all for the catching fish. You might enjoy watching someone tying a classic salmon fly - I actually just got goose bumps, while thinking of them (I don't tie this complicated/expensive ones, even though I probably could - the moves are the same - just flies for "ordinary" people ike me.) ua-cam.com/video/MDaokakGtJo/v-deo.html
No no, I do find watching fly fishing calming and meditative. It's just not creative, artistic. Maybe the thought process during fly fishing, knee deep in calm waters with just nature sounds can be, but the activity itself is not. Maybe I am wrong...
You will get better looking and stronger roots👌 nice job 🤩
Exactly! Thsbk you!
Great work 👍
Thank you! Still looking good.
What is the plan? Do you want more roots or will you cut down the trunk? However another wonderful Video. Happy easter and greetings from southern Germany
Good question Andreas! So, this tree had bad nebari because it was nursery grown and I had planted it 7 years ago for landscape tree and not bonsai. On one side the roots are acceptable and workable but from the other side they were very bad. Thick and going downwards. They were never going to be acceptable foe bonsai. So I grafted seedlings to make new roots and train them properly. In two years I will cut the old roots and keep the grafted ones. Probably I will graft a few more seedlings next year to make a symmetrical nebari. Thank you Andreas, happy Easter!
Amazing work !
Thank you mate!
Nicely done!
Great tree. Cheers from Ojai California
Thank you Jason! Cheers!
…….. great video, thanks for sharing!
You are welcome!
very nice video....I'm just wondering...have the same issues with an acer tree (on one side I have decent nebary, the other side is crap)...what is the best sulution...airlayer the tree or root crafting?
Thank you Koen! Well, it depends. How decent is the decent side? If it is almost perfect (or it will be in the future) I would go with grafting the other side, considering you have a good number of compatible seedlings. Airlayers can take a long time to grow good looking nebaris, even if done perfectly. Trees with developed nebari (but with faults) are better off with grafting. Though now is getting kinda late in the season to do so. The chances of the seedlings not surviving is getting high. Cheers!
Hi,great job and great video as always!...may i know please what substrate mix are you using for the japanese maple ?
Thank you! This a mix of 40% zeolite at 5mm size, 40% of perlite at 3-5mm size and 20% organic aggricates, topsoil from the forest. Really fast draining mix that does not break down over time, with great CEC (fertilizer holding capability). Cheers!
Thank you very much for your patience in replyng ! Your videos are really nice to watch ! Thanks again, see you soon !@@ArkefthosBonsai
You're welcome! Always a pleasure to have a conversation about this art!
nice job
Thank you Matt!
Nice work!
Questions.:Is this doable in a wild olive with reverse taper on the base of the trunk? Should it be strictly oleaster seedlings too or can it be done with simple olive? And what time of the of the year ? Thanks in advance, απο βόρεια Ελλάδα.
Σε ευχαριστώ! With olive is better to air layer as they produce roots amazingly easy. I have a video air layering a Taxodium distichum. It will produce a much better result much faster. Καλή επιτυχία!
@@ArkefthosBonsai thanks! keep up the nice work!
A esperar resultados. Correjir nebari no siempre es fácil.
Salud.
Exactly. For example I was a bit late for this in the season and most of the seedlings, except one, died. In a few days I'm going to do that all over.. Cheers Fabian!
👏👏👏
I give up. I don't have time for your videos, or for growing my own bonsais (sinse my dad killed the two, I had been forming from the size you added to this one, by drowning them, when he had promised to water them a bit every other day, while I was away) but I keep on watching your videos, and "God" has thrown 5-6 bonsai pretty cheap pots of different sizes in front of me the last few years, so now I'm going to start looking for babies/teens for free..
Don't give up! Everybody has killed their fare share of potted trees! It's a process, Noone can escape. Keep in mind, if you are planning on grafting roots, do it during repotting season. I was a bit late, the seedlings had leafed out completely from the greenhouse and now some of them are stressed from barerooting. Cheers!
@@ArkefthosBonsai I'm "never" a quitter. It was the not growing any, because I "don't have the time", I meant, I was giving up on. I'm probably older than you, and bought my first (and only) book on the subject in the 80s or before. The best one my dad killed, was probably well over a year old, and I had spread the roots over a stone, and bent it down, so it would have had the crown about the height of the stone, and the roots - when they had caught the soil/turf under the stone I uncovered them - to be visualy gripping the stone. I "always" aim high, no matter what "hobby" I get sucked into, and sinse there are no rivers around here, where I can nerd with two hand fly fishing and tying, your videos have sucked me back into this. Your videos are pure meditation, and always seem to be much shorter, than they factually are - a very good sign, both for your videos and for my "need" of getting back to this. Cheers.
Thank you! Such good character qualities would be lost in fly fishing!
@@ArkefthosBonsai I'm not sure, what you mean (maybe it's me being danish, that is the problem), but both fly fishing (casting) and tying, is also very meditative, at least for me. A "perfect" cast is like making a red bull on purpose. And a complicated fly with no flaws at all (not to bragg, but I get lots of "did you tie those.? They sure are well done") feels good - even though it doesn't matter at all for the catching fish. You might enjoy watching someone tying a classic salmon fly - I actually just got goose bumps, while thinking of them (I don't tie this complicated/expensive ones, even though I probably could - the moves are the same - just flies for "ordinary" people ike me.) ua-cam.com/video/MDaokakGtJo/v-deo.html
No no, I do find watching fly fishing calming and meditative. It's just not creative, artistic. Maybe the thought process during fly fishing, knee deep in calm waters with just nature sounds can be, but the activity itself is not. Maybe I am wrong...