Arizona in US: did my first air layering 4 weeks ago on 3 huge recumbent Junipers .. markdown nursery stock with wild long branches. I LOVE the idea of air layering .. and prewiring makes sense! Thank you
Once more, great content. Thanks for all your effort you put in your videos! Always interesting tips and tricks. Greats from Belgium. Keep growing your trees(of course) and channel!
Jelle, I find most people overlook the potential for creating quality trees from their existing stock, particularly through pre-training excess branches for later air layering. Really good bends happen best with thinner material, like the branches you're going to remove later anyway. I've been doing this on junipers while developing trunk girth. I don't need more trees, but I hated to just throw away meter-long sacrifice branches. So instead I started splitting them, wrapping with raffia, and wiring into wild shapes, and then air layering them, which usually results in good nebari because roots tend to radiate uniformly from around the cut. I now have a bunch of interesting starter trees with good size trunks, lots of bends, and good nebari. (I plan to gift them to our younger bonsai club members because good material is becoming hard to find as local nurseries sell off their land to become suburban developments.) I hope your video makes people re-think how they develop their trees, and realize how much more they can get out of them by thinking long-term.
Another amazing video, so easy to understand... Thank you! A small question, what makes you decide between a cutting and an air-layer? Thickness or age? What is your preferred minimum thickness for an air layer? I've never done one, but I'm interested to try! Greetings from Greece! Kostas
This is a great idea, I have a perfect Sango Kaku candidate for this that I’ve been trying to figure out how to tackle. It’s about 5 ft tall with a straight trunk and the lowest branch is about 3ft up from the base. Good stuff thanks Jelle
You didn't feel like air layering at the first trunk intersection to get a twin trunk tree out of it? Of course there are plenty of options to choose from, can't have them all. Great video to remind everyone to stay flexible.
Is it possible this tree could be 'Nishiki gawa' or are you certain it is 'Arakawa?' I personally don't have either yet but I hear Niskiki gawa' is less "rough" overall I think..
dude right on man I never thought to use my tree as a mother and take clones ( sacrifice branches ) that are already shaped that is genius .. do you have a video on how you layered off the branches ???
Oh, so that's why some people put their prebonsai in those unnatural spirals and loops, to avoid any angle appearing flat or straight. Makes sense, but still looks horrible. Much prefer your work, heh.
i'm really surprised you'd air layer one of the main trunks.. i'd much rather have one interesting tree as opposed to two mediocre trees.. to each his own tho 🍻
A "Y" shaped split like that happening above a relatively straight base isn't really desired by most people. Air layering one off, fixes the Y split, fixes the flow of the tree, and doubles your quantity of a highly sought after cultivar in Arakawa maples.
Arizona in US: did my first air layering 4 weeks ago on 3 huge recumbent Junipers .. markdown nursery stock with wild long branches. I LOVE the idea of air layering .. and prewiring makes sense! Thank you
Love your videos man! Keep em comin!
Thank you for this. Just got back in from wiring my sacrificial branches after your advice. Yes, it’s late in the year, but I gave it a try.
You got this! Shoudl be OK
Great advice, I love the idea of the dual purpose. Thanks!
Glad it was helpful! Aomething for next year foe you?
I never would have thought of doing that! Thanks for teaching us these things!
Good idea with that branch! Will give it a try in any of my maples. Great video as usual !
Arakawa is one of my favorites!! Seriously great advice!! Wire early and set the movement. Great video, thanks for sharing!
Such an important thing for us all to remember. I don't do this half as often as I should. Great video Jelle :)
Vos vidéos sont toujours très intéressantes, un grand merci à vous!
Once more, great content. Thanks for all your effort you put in your videos! Always interesting tips and tricks. Greats from Belgium. Keep growing your trees(of course) and channel!
Jelle, I find most people overlook the potential for creating quality trees from their existing stock, particularly through pre-training excess branches for later air layering. Really good bends happen best with thinner material, like the branches you're going to remove later anyway.
I've been doing this on junipers while developing trunk girth. I don't need more trees, but I hated to just throw away meter-long sacrifice branches. So instead I started splitting them, wrapping with raffia, and wiring into wild shapes, and then air layering them, which usually results in good nebari because roots tend to radiate uniformly from around the cut. I now have a bunch of interesting starter trees with good size trunks, lots of bends, and good nebari. (I plan to gift them to our younger bonsai club members because good material is becoming hard to find as local nurseries sell off their land to become suburban developments.)
I hope your video makes people re-think how they develop their trees, and realize how much more they can get out of them by thinking long-term.
Great video Jelle. 😊 Fibally got my hands on two Beni Chidori. Very hard to find in the U.S., so I’m wiring every branch for future clones. 👏🏽 🪴 🍁
Another amazing video, so easy to understand... Thank you!
A small question, what makes you decide between a cutting and an air-layer? Thickness or age? What is your preferred minimum thickness for an air layer? I've never done one, but I'm interested to try!
Greetings from Greece!
Kostas
This is a great idea, I have a perfect Sango Kaku candidate for this that I’ve been trying to figure out how to tackle. It’s about 5 ft tall with a straight trunk and the lowest branch is about 3ft up from the base. Good stuff thanks Jelle
Gladly. Go for it!
Just found your channel and subscribed ive got plenty of good hours viewing in front of me cheers mate
Thank you, Jelle! I love japanese maples 🍁
Great video Jelle 👊👊👊
Bought me a nice arakawa that im letting grow out this season. I need to get wiring!
Great tutorial! I’ll try this technique!
You didn't feel like air layering at the first trunk intersection to get a twin trunk tree out of it?
Of course there are plenty of options to choose from, can't have them all.
Great video to remind everyone to stay flexible.
Zeker vandaag ook wat draadjes gezet! Leuke video's ❤
Great video!
I wire the branches to get more ramifications, works with most tropical species, airlayring branches will be chosen later on
5 am in Melbourne and can't wait to get out and wire my JM 😊 thank so much
Definitely good idea that thanks
Mantap sekali Kaka, selalu berkarya, salam sukses 👍👍🇮🇩🇮🇩
Is it possible this tree could be 'Nishiki gawa' or are you certain it is 'Arakawa?' I personally don't have either yet but I hear Niskiki gawa' is less "rough" overall I think..
dude right on man I never thought to use my tree as a mother and take clones ( sacrifice branches ) that are already shaped that is genius .. do you have a video on how you layered off the branches ???
I do not have one yet. But juniper are so easy, just a tourniquette in fall and humid open substrate around it will get you root initiation by spring!
@@GrowingBonsai would really appreciate a vid on layering off maple branches
@@jefftay9850 like this ? ua-cam.com/video/z6wi2C4eh_Q/v-deo.html
Mogguh. Heb jij een adres waar je die pasta kunt kopen in NL of DE?
Hoi Jelle, dank voor de informatieve video. Ik heb een vraagje, kan je in plaats van airlayer ook stekjes knippen om de Arakawa te vermeerderen?
Zeker!
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Tip of the day-- It must be styled three-dimensionally. 👌
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The only time i wire a sacrifice branch is to get it out of the way. Its a waste of wire.
I fully 100% disagree with you on this.
@GrowingBonsai alot of people do
Oh, so that's why some people put their prebonsai in those unnatural spirals and loops, to avoid any angle appearing flat or straight. Makes sense, but still looks horrible. Much prefer your work, heh.
i'm really surprised you'd air layer one of the main trunks.. i'd much rather have one interesting tree as opposed to two mediocre trees.. to each his own tho 🍻
A "Y" shaped split like that happening above a relatively straight base isn't really desired by most people. Air layering one off, fixes the Y split, fixes the flow of the tree, and doubles your quantity of a highly sought after cultivar in Arakawa maples.