Always wire sacrifice branches (Not only on Japanese Maple)

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  • Опубліковано 29 кві 2024
  • Why should you always wire our your sacrifice branches when growing out your Japanese Maple Bonsai Trunk? Shape your young Japanese Maple branches in spring, to avoid breaking when bending and getting the most out of your bonsai branches, trunks and sacrifices!

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  • @lindac446
    @lindac446 Місяць тому +2

    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

  • @therealapex7643
    @therealapex7643 Місяць тому +4

    Love your videos man! Keep em comin!

  • @XaviersBonsaiRetreat
    @XaviersBonsaiRetreat Місяць тому

    Such an important thing for us all to remember. I don't do this half as often as I should. Great video Jelle :)

  • @FrostBiteBonsai
    @FrostBiteBonsai Місяць тому

    I never would have thought of doing that! Thanks for teaching us these things!

  • @backbudbonsai
    @backbudbonsai Місяць тому

    Arakawa is one of my favorites!! Seriously great advice!! Wire early and set the movement. Great video, thanks for sharing!

  • @mcbabs7495
    @mcbabs7495 Місяць тому

    Vos vidéos sont toujours très intéressantes, un grand merci à vous!

  • @shivangnisharma9448
    @shivangnisharma9448 Місяць тому

    I wire the branches to get more ramifications, works with most tropical species, airlayring branches will be chosen later on

  • @jbm8535
    @jbm8535 Місяць тому

    Good idea with that branch! Will give it a try in any of my maples. Great video as usual !

  • @acer_p_bonsai
    @acer_p_bonsai Місяць тому

    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. 👏🏽 🪴 🍁

  • @scheers100
    @scheers100 Місяць тому

    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!

  • @johnholloway691
    @johnholloway691 Місяць тому

    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.

  • @daveminshull8448
    @daveminshull8448 Місяць тому +1

    Just found your channel and subscribed ive got plenty of good hours viewing in front of me cheers mate

  • @mattlohr3901
    @mattlohr3901 Місяць тому

    Thank you, Jelle! I love japanese maples 🍁

  • @peter1718
    @peter1718 Місяць тому

    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.

  • @sbragaglia
    @sbragaglia Місяць тому

    Great tutorial! I’ll try this technique!

  • @nerinat8371
    @nerinat8371 Місяць тому

    5 am in Melbourne and can't wait to get out and wire my JM 😊 thank so much

  • @paulturner1072
    @paulturner1072 Місяць тому

    Definitely good idea that thanks

  • @kostastheo2043
    @kostastheo2043 Місяць тому

    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

  • @DarsaBonsai
    @DarsaBonsai Місяць тому

    Mantap sekali Kaka, selalu berkarya, salam sukses 👍👍🇮🇩🇮🇩

  • @jaiprakashpathak8974
    @jaiprakashpathak8974 Місяць тому

    Tip of the day-- It must be styled three-dimensionally. 👌

  • @sakekampstra8727
    @sakekampstra8727 Місяць тому

    Zeker vandaag ook wat draadjes gezet! Leuke video's ❤

  • @stephenward2631
    @stephenward2631 Місяць тому

    Great video!

  • @lolpwndk
    @lolpwndk Місяць тому

    Bought me a nice arakawa that im letting grow out this season. I need to get wiring!

  • @Bonsaicrazy
    @Bonsaicrazy Місяць тому

    Great video Jelle 👊👊👊

  • @DeciduousSnurb
    @DeciduousSnurb 23 дні тому

    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..

  • @ebel-janschepers3709
    @ebel-janschepers3709 Місяць тому

    Mogguh. Heb jij een adres waar je die pasta kunt kopen in NL of DE?

  • @Tedsj
    @Tedsj 15 днів тому

    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?

    • @GrowingBonsai
      @GrowingBonsai  15 днів тому

      Zeker!
      ua-cam.com/video/mLRLUcv5Ro8/v-deo.html

  • @DarthMasiah
    @DarthMasiah Місяць тому

    👍👍

  • @brucedeacon28
    @brucedeacon28 Місяць тому

    👍👌🙂

  • @abydosianchulac2
    @abydosianchulac2 Місяць тому

    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.

  • @jmyers2897
    @jmyers2897 Місяць тому

    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 🍻

    • @shortsthatdontsuck2174
      @shortsthatdontsuck2174 Місяць тому +2

      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.