How To Grow Strong Bonsai
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- Опубліковано 12 вер 2024
- In this video I share some tips that I have discovered over many years of growing bonsai. I explain why I let some of the trees grow unchecked for a period of time and why I give them a holiday from their bonsai pots every now and then.
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I love how Peter's semblance of time is so broad. "Maybe 5-10 years.." He seems like a wizard guardian of his forest, unbound by years and time. Love it!!
like when he suddenly forgets a tree for around 12 yrs in the field
In thought bonsai were expert knowledge. Then I discovered Peter Chan. And now I have bonsai I have made from scratch in 6 months. They won't win any prizes, but they are made by me and they add to my happiness. Thank you Peter Chan.
Absolutely - this is my philosophy to both bonsai and to life. Enjoy it my friend.
The collection of these trees is just spectacular! Absolutely beautiful. I can only hope that the trees I'm growing will someday look as stunning. Thank you for sharing your trees and tips with us!
I am a biologist, and I can say that the idea of a tree getting stronger by letting it have these periods of unchecked growth makes a lot of sense from a biological perspective.
I like the comparison, "Going to a party every day." I laughed!
I liked that to 😄
Each year i chose a tree, that i cut back constantly, to enjoy his beauty for the whole growing season. The following year i let him grow free again to recover. Works pretty good.
Sounds like a good method
How can there be bad comments Peter? You are a bonsai master, I leave my tree's till later in the year so all the nutrients transfer down to the roots then trim. There is always wisdom in experience, you have more books on bonsai than most folk have trees, dont concern yourself with negative people 👌
We receive hints, and 'secret methods' that simply can't be found other places. Thank you so much.
Peter gives his wealth of info so freely.
I love the way you experiment with your trees. And you are right, what works for you might not work for another. Do what is right you and you will always feel good about what you are doing.
Thank you for all your videos. If you take requests I’d like to see you put a tree in moss and remove a tree that has been in moss. I want to use moss to strengthen my trees but I am not 100% sure what you are doing or how best to do it. Appreciate your channel!
Maples are my favourite without doubt
Mr.Chan!
You have inspired me beyond belief with your videos and books, I have binge watched all your videos numerous times, and have just recently started trying to do my own bonsais
Thank you for being such a legend in the art of bonsai and making it seem so obtainable
I'm a botany student at University and allowing the tree to have a period of full growth makes perfect sense in regard to growing stronger trees. Like you said the leaves are how the trees convert sunlight to energy. More leaves = more energy for growth and storage for winter.
I agree, this is the way to get healthy trees. Let it go crazy during the growing season with maybe two trims for shape. Hard prune after leaf drop to get your branches where you want them. Excellent video as always. Thank you!
7:20 "So, I do give them a holiday, by releasing it in moss."
Good line. Always thinking roots.
Dear Peter , we are very lucky . your video's are as prolific as your beautiful trees, After a hard days work i look forward to nothing more than the viewing your latest video.
Hello from Ireland, I love seeing your new videos pop up, thank you for sharing your knowledge, I really appreciate it, I will come visit your nursery sometime:)
Let me know before you visit so that I can meet you personally
I always learn something new by watching your videos. Thank you Peter.
best shirt yet
It should be - after all it is a Hawaiian shirt from Hawaii. One of my staff bought it for me - how lucky am I.
Love your work Peter, you inspired me to love Bonsai
Me too
Me too
Thanks so much for stepping up the audio quality Sir.
It took me a while to realise that this growing method is more beneficial for my plants. I was trying too hard in the beginnings of this hobby and it showed in how my plants were not doing very good!!
I'm guilty of those too as didbt have many trees and was under the impression that you have to keep trimming to force the tree to stay small. I know now that this method leads to small weedy trunks.
I just started growing my first tree and I think your videos are great..thank you for all you great videos and knowledge
My friend and I got our first air layer last night, Arborvitae in sphagnum Peet instead of proper moss even. Got it separated and put in some proper Canadian sphagnum. Thanks Peter, so excited!
Just had to do an emergency repot, put one of my dwarf Alberta Spruce in a spagnum moss potting, it's turning brown on all it's branches, soil looked very damp, hope it doesn't die. Thanks again for another great video, think I will create a rock garden and put my trees in the ground to develop, with 40 plus trees plus a couple dozen babies, it keeps me busy taking care of them but what better way to spend a sunny evening in the PNW. Thanks again for another great video and as always more food for thought on keeping healthy trees.
I always feel so inspired after your videos
Beautiful collection Peter, I also let my bonsai in larger and deeper pot just for their health sake. thx for sharing and can't wait for the next one.
Sir...please keep your videos little long...We love to see you and learn from you.Thank U!!!
I thought long videos can be boring.
@@peterchan3100 Not at all Sir.Your videos are the best.Cant be boring
Yess longer videos from Mr Peter would be awesome!!
Dear Peter , i don t understand you get bad comments . So much love you give . Thanks 4 the secrets 🌳💚🌳
Stunning trees.
The Maple is so amazing.
I love the forest bonsai especially seeing what it has become and what it came from
Thanks for sharing this information.
I agree with you on your method of letting them grow unchecked and then pruning.
I did this without realising, I bought a very young juniper as my first bonsai in March, wired it, cut off unnecessary branches and to be honest I did not have a clue what to do with it! By mid June it started to turn back into a Bush.
I went at it pruning the the best I thought (I have watched many of your videos!!) And out emerged a healthy looking Juniper with strong branches which hold their shape
Dont be afraid to try - by making mistakes you can learn a lot.
Greetings from Canada. I learn something from you every video!
Working on a ficus bonsai I’ve had about 3 years. I let it grow crazy in the summer outdoors in a much larger pot, then trim it back nicely in the early fall, so I can enjoy it over the next 8 months indoors. I can’t wait to shape it in September. That’s the best part. I adopted a red select Japanese maple which I just potted, and a few days ago I found an oak sapling growing under a bush in my yard. Can’t wait to see those develop. The Oak is too small to even figure out what kind it is yet.
Some good advice and nice video. Like the ending too showing off the trees one last time.
What great advice. I’m just going back through all your videos watching them again. I never get tired of watching you work. I’m looking forward to Spring when I can start work on my projects. I will be buying a nice big bag of moss from the garden centre!
What a Maple how i wish i could afford it, Peter your videos are getting better every time.
Thanks Brian.
Hi Peter, I remember how that maple over the rock was struggling and the sphagnum moss has really brought it back, no doubt the green house humidity really helped too (its my favourite tree on the nursery). Great to see! Look forward to seeing you again soon, give my best to everyone. Cheers Johnny.
Thanks Johnny
This is the right way.
Master Chan!
I've been having some trouble with my bougainvillea in regard to vigor... But, I've been keeping it shaped. I will try letting the shoots grow a bit and see if that helps! Thank you so much for your kind wisdom!
Try feeding it with fertiliser
I totally agree with that method. We call it the "wild method". Letting the tree grow wild to become healtheir for the next defoliation, pruning and wiring. The branches become more matured and not susceptible to dieback when wired.
You make me love the bonsai plant you really know your stuff you are full of knowledge you are blessed in many ways thank you
Nice Basic pruning job on the Korean Hornbeam tree, and i totally agree with you about using large Bonsai pots in relation to the canopy of the Bonsai tree . A lot of the video that i viewed are spoiled by the small Bonsai pots are not in scale with the canopy of the tree in my view.
Beautiful work my guy!
Thank you Peter, because of you I've experimented with so much bonsai and had a lot of success.
Thanks Peter, now i know how to grow my little bonsai big and strong!
Good lord the base of that tree is awesome.
Thanks again from Derbyshire.
I adore these sort of maples and appreciate how well you're keeping it.
Very interesting to see. Wish i had as much knowledge.
What id give for any one of the cuttings,...lol. Thanks for all you do for your forever growing bonsai family... Please Stay healthy, love from Vegas
I really look forward to your videos.
Magnificent bonsai with its strong growth and a pruning perfect that has left precious, very beautiful.
Thank you, Teacher, for sharing this video.
Greetings from Barcelona👌😊
Excellent video as always 👍. I've not pruned some of my bonsai for months and will not be pruning them until next spring ☺️
Very impressive trees, Peter. Totally agree with your theory. Thanks for sharing 😊
It should be said that the Japanese often under pot for showing and then put into a larger pot once the show has finished. For trees in development it is good to build vigour by letting them grow long. As a tree approaches refinement, the branches are well ramified and the pot is filled with roots and growth slows considerably allowing a neat image to last a long time without much pruning. In this case there is such a thing as too much vigour, a big pot and long extensions would destroy all the fine ramification that has taken decades to build.
i loved maple tree sir.😊
This advice is good, I have been doing this for years, granted it was because I became lazy and did not trim my trees all the time. I found out that trees that I really kept in shape did not seem as healthy as the ones I just did not have time to do trimming. Also I use the Japanese training pots, which basically have mesh bottoms and they look decent but allow the roots to grow better.
Always looking forward to your new videos.. thank you .
Another master class. Loving your summer shirt collection mr chan. U the man😊
Thank you for the info about the difference between Korean and Japanese Hornbeam. Little did a know, but got more wise.
Wise thoughts, much appreciated 😀
Gracias por los consejos Maestro
Super, that’s really great and Informative. I love your garden!Thank You
Thank you for all these videos and tips. Much appreciated. @heronbonsai
I like the jazz piano at the end, reminds me of Charlie Brown.
I Love the little Forests
i did the same last year ... you are true ... tree is much stronger
Very beautiful trees. Thank you for sharing the video.
You spoil us rotten, Peter!
how nice you are Mr peter, beautiful spirit :)
Peter, you need to do a video on how you pick your beautiful shirts 😂😂
I wanted to say you're such a cool dude and a wealth of information. I really enjoy your videos 👍🌲
I will plant sickly trees back in the ground for a season, works very well to restore vigor and put on some trunk size.
My only 'complaint' is it is hard to see how you are shaping when there is green on green. A backdrop would help!
Peter"
This is Beautiful !! :-)
In Awe
Hi Peter, one of the mysteries I can't figure out is... What to do with dug out yamadori with distorted rootballs or substantially little fine roots? Should I let them grow unchecked so that there is 'food' to make new roots, or should I trim a bit, so that the tree does not dry out and dies? Every year I find it hard to find that balance. Thank you for your answer in advance. Regards! Walter
Thanx again for the instructive videos. I have several maples in pots pinned to the ground. It is my hope to bolster the trunks this way. Can you get equal or better results in these training trays grown in sphagnum?
Yes you will
Peter, excellent video! Do spruces do well in moss? I have a spruce tree that is not vigorous. It is about 25 years old and this year it did no have as many new buds/candles as it has in the past. I was thinking that next Spring might be a good time to report. What do you think?
Of course it will
I have a young maple tree, but I have problems to make it grow more branches, especially lower on the trunk. It only grows on the upper bit, so it doesn't have the triangular shape. How can I improve the growing, should I cut off from the upper branches?
BoszoliChan the wizard guy at my local nursery says to brush areas with soapy water. I guess it softens the bark a bit allowing chutes to come out. I literally only tried it today. Will update you in the coming months lol
@@jxshkxng Wow, would be appreciated to read about your experiences later! :)
My tree pruning not going to happen until next year anyway.
Just grow the tree in a large flower pot with good soil. Dont let the apex grow too strong as this will not encourage lower branches to develop - just be patient and if your tree grows healthily it will sprout branches lower down.
@@peterchan3100 Thank you! You're probably right, I need to be patient. It was a seedling growing wildly in my garden. I dug it out, pruned back, planted in a pot, and I left it like that for years and it didn't get anywhere xD I realized it last year that bonsais should be taken care of to grow the right size and shape.
This spring I did some leaf pruning on it and it helped some.
Mr. Peter how often do you put your bonsai on sphagmun, and for how long?
Only when I want it to grow stronger or if a tree is looking sick.
Maybe it depends on the type of tree youre working on. Constant pruning by pinching on a mint julep produces tight and compact foliages like a shimpaku as ive observed.
I think you did it perfectly right
I'd like a dedicated video to putting trees in moss
Makes a lot of sense.
You are the best
Peter,
When, and how often, do you perform structural pruning as opposed to the profile pruning you skillfully demonstrated? Thanks
When major branches die or new branches grow - you will then need to reassess the design.
I really admire your videos. I am from Darjeeling India and my question is do you ship Acer palmatum to India plant/seed?
Maples may grow in Darjeeling as it is cold there. Wait till November when we start selling our Maple seeds but postage to India will be high/
Thank you Sir for the reply. Please do let me know how much and how can I make the payment. Thank you
Just Beautiful
Wow, these are beautiful.
I'm starting too see our dish washer drain crates in a whole new light
Hi Peter greetings from Australia just a question about when you put you're plants in sphagnum Moss do you just use sphagnum Moss by itself thanks for the video
Yes - just moss.
@@peterchan3100 thanks
Hi Peter. I love your helpful videos. This time of year it rains a lot and it seems my pots and soil stay wet. I worry it may cause root rot. Any ideas or tips. Thank you.
What happened to the tree that brought to you to trim. The one that looked like a topiary that you altered to look like a bonsai? I wonder what the owner through of it after you improved it's appearance. Thank you for such great videos.....from Nashville, TN, U.S.
I will be showing the end result in due course.
Do you have any issues with moss wicking away the moisture? I only ask this because I live in the desert And I just went and collected some desert moss I’m going to try and cultivate it around my bonsai‘s
Moss should help keep the soil cool and moist.
I’ve enjoyed learning from your videos. I decided to start with two clearance Japanese maples from a big box store (Acer Japonés Tamukeyama and Acer palmatum var. dissectum 'Crimson Queen'). I don’t need them to be small. I like the larger patio-sized bonsai, like your larger examples. Toward what bonsai style should one aim in weeping/cascading varieties of Japanese maples?
The pruning videos for maples all use a variation of the upright style, which seems ill suited for these varieties. I can’t find any pictures of bonsai of this type or other guidance for cascading varieties of maples. Could you do a video on this type?