Am I Killing My Trees? What's Right or Wrong in Bonsai? | Q&A
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- Опубліковано 4 сер 2024
- Hi everyone! Today, I'll be answering some questions and discussing what I think about the "right" or "wrong" way to do bonsai. Stay tuned until the end for a special tour of my huge bonsai in the back and my dinosaur sculptures!
0:00 Introduction
0:10 Shoutout to Tony's Bonsai!
1:47 What is right or wrong?
5:11 Thickening your trunk
5:45 Soil mix alternatives
7:44 Wiring vs. clip & grow
9:09 Bonsai care in winter
9:58 Aerial roots
11:34 BIG Bonsai tour!
16:11 Thank you to this community!
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Hi Milton and thank you for the mention
I watch all of your videos and I love your laid back style and relaxed approach to bonsai. None of us know how long we have left, so I enjoy making the most of each day sharing my love of Bonsai
Keep up the great work and keep on inspiring people to experiment and have a go themselves.
Gotta keep making that lemonade 🍋
Hi Tony, thank you for all that you're doing for the bonsai community. It's very clear that your videos bring a lot of people joy and inspiration. Yes, when life gives you lemons, keep making that lemonade! Best wishes to you and your bonsai.
Tony, thank you for what you contribute with your energy and care. Much love.
Thanks for doing that for Tony. He’s made a real difference to the UA-cam bonsai community. Very nice for you u you to do that 👍👍👍👍
Of course, he's an inspiration to many in the bonsai community.
Well done Mr Chang,very good of you to give tony a mention,I know he will appreciate it.
Thank you for all the information and especially the shout out to Tony- he is a very inspirational individual and a fabulous artist and award winning photographer.
Thank you for the kind words!
Happy thoughts for Tony, thank you for what you contribute to the community with your life.
You are passing down a giant family heirloom to all of us! Thank you
Love that! Thanks for watching and supporting!
I wish the best to Tony!❤
You’re a good man Milton. Positive words don’t take much to say but are still so rare to hear. Tony will be ecstatic to hear from you 👍🏻
Thank you for your kind words!
Tony you have my prayers. Never ever give up. Much love ❤❤❤
That black pine is incredible!! I hope mine can reach that level one day. The shout out to Tony's bonsai was very nice. Thanks for the video
Keep going! You can do it!
Thanks for the video. I think our climate is similar to yours, so your tips are very relevant.
Thanks for mentioning Tony - he's a great bloke who loves his trees and he's got a fantastic following.
Mr Chang thank you for another heartfelt video . I can’t wait for the next one .
Thanks for the support!
Mr Chang I love your video efforts so much and anxiously await each new video you post! Thank you for all the knowledge you share, giving me the courage to pursue this hobby!
Rick
Thank you, Rick! That means a lot to me because my hope is to get more people to start doing bonsai. It's a wonderful hobby and has many benefits to it. I'mg lad you've started your bonsai journey and feel free to let me know if you have any questions. I'll do my best to help!
Great video Milton! Very interesting!
Thanks for watching!
Sending love and light to Tony …. I just love this channel I’m very excited with every new video….
Thank you so much….
Thanks so much for watching and supporting!
Milton ihave been keeping bonsai tree s for 30 years now and still have the same wishes for bonsai now keep it up mate thanks
Thanks and best of luck to you and your bonsai!
Hi Milton another great enjoyable video and thank for the nice words for tony i enjoy his videos very much awesome guy
Thank you so much for watching!
Fantastic video Thank you for the shared knowledge as always. Ohh and so nice hearing you mention Tony I love his videos as well.
Thanks for watching and supporting!
I love your videos. You bring beauty into the world, and you make us aware of the beauty that is here. Thank you.
Thanks you for your support! It means a lot to me!
Yes I love hand watering because I see each of my trees daily, and am able to see what they exhibit, both good and bad, very quickly.
Yes, it's wonderful to see your trees progress.
Never to old, good information, great content.
Glad you think so!
north east us here. for over winter with my cold hardy trees i found a south facing wall (most sunny for my part of the world) i put my pots right on the ground up tight to the wall. and let the fallen leafs build up to cover the pots. dirt would work fine too for covering pots. tho that means you have to shovel. thanks milton! always great info
Thanks for sharing, Mike!
Great talk through... always picking up tips on your posts
Glad to hear it!
_THANK YOU_ .... 🙏 😔 🙏
For sharing the knowledge and encouragement. Knowing that one is never too old for Bonsai is great.
One can begin a hobby very early on, but life can get in the way. Amazingly though life made a botanist, kinda' by accident. It is what I initially wanted to be, and in my elder years, I am.
You are spot on about _sandy loam,_ the grains are small and light enough to not compact and young roots can penetrate the strata thus inducing greater root growth.
🙏 🖖 🙏 😔 🙏
Thank you for sharing your story! Yes, it's never too late to start bonsai. I'm still doing it at my age now!
I recently became interested in Japanese Maples and bonsai. However sometimes I feel it's to late for me to get into this because of my age and health. I'm worried that I will not be able to see the fruits of my labor. However I've started the journey and enjoy what I'm doing. I'm in the process of building a pond that will have a waterfall flowing into it and it will be surrounded by Japanese Maples and other plants. I can only do a little bit at a time and hope to have it finished by years end.
I enjoy watching your work and other bonsai channels that inspire me to keep moving forward to create a space I can enjoy when I won't be able to do anything else but appreciate the beauty of Gods creation. Thanks for all you do.👍
Thank you for sharing! It's never too late to start doing bonsai and I'm still doing it at my age now!
@@bonsaiheirloom how long did it take you to feel you knew what you was doing and felt confident in producing a respectable bonsai tree?
Mr. Chang, love your videos with your relaxed style. With your years of experience you provide valuable info, however you being in California and needing a lot of moisture, is quite different than here in the northeast, with your organic soil compared to my lava and pumice soil. Keep up the good work. Steve.
Thanks for sharing your soil mix for Northeast weather! Hopefully, this helps others in your area as well!
i think your trees are great, i was just commenting on that particular tree dig. I hope yall are handling the crazy weather ok, your trees are looking good
Thanks for the kind words and thank you for leaving the comment. I wanted to address it because I wanted to talk about how there can be many different ways to do bonsai and one way is not necessarily wrong compared to another. It was good feedback and sparked a discussion! Thanks again!
Bonjour Monsieur Chang,
un grand merci à vous pour ces précieux conseils!
Thank you so much for the tour and the history of the statue and the big bonsai, I really enjoy all your videos
Thanks for watching and supporting!
Thanks for the advice Milton, I did what you said before this from your previous video advice anyway now and new leader is growing strong.
I plan to let some lower branches stay for a while to thicken the base and take off more branches that could cause inverse taper once it’s recovered a bit.
Best Wishes, Dalton
Thankyou for your great feedback
Sounds great! Keep us updated on the progress of your bonsai :)
Great video! I appreciate that you are honest in what you don't know from personal experience. I look forward to your pine videos. I mentor beginning bonsai enthusiasts from our club, and your experience helps me to guide them with what I have seen others do. I refer them to your channel. When I began doing bonsai years ago, I asked every member of our club what they did with their trees in the zone 6 winters. Every single person had a different opinion and method! It was confusing for a newbie, so I tried to take the key points and adapt them to my own situation. Fortunately, it works for me. Thanks for your advice.
So glad to hear that. I definitely appreciate your kind words. Thank you for watching!
Thanks for the video mate
Thanks for watching!
First of all, thank you for the good content you provide - love your videos.
Could you make a video or share your opinion on Ivy bonsai?
I have seen good ivy bonsai because of ivy has interesting curved trunks. However, I have not done one myself. I would start with an old big trunk and proceed as any tree.
You’re so right! It builds such a great community
Also i forgot to add for that gentleman with the scared maple tree, what I do is, put little slices in the wire groove in line with the branch, not with the groove. This way you're not cutting any water fibers. The slices will swell up and fill the grooves. Steve.
Thanks for sharing!
What's your opinion on repotting in late summer/early fall vs. early spring when the buds are pushing? This is more aimed at repotting conifers.
Spring is ALWAYs preferred. As a general rule, you can repot evergreen trees during the summer months. Just make sure you keep the root loss balanced by cutting off branches to shape the tree. In a recent video, I showed the oak I worked on sprouted in just a couple of weeks.
A little late but I think i live next to the nursery Mr. Chang is talking about. It is the Yamaguchi Bonsai nursery. Unfortunately it is closed permanently. I do see a lot of vigorous trees planted in the nursery lot and a house further the down street with the nursery sign on a fence. I have been debating if I should go knock on their door to see if they would even be willing to talk about bonsai but I haven’t yet because I am super shy.
Yes…it is. You can always yell to get attention haha.
The grandson is still there. Please stop by and tell me the conditions of his trees. Pretty neglected…let's see if we can buy unopened cones from him.
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Thankyou for the video. Do you give any special care to trees just after you dig them out? Any advice to keep yamadori alive after digging them out?
Hi there! I hope I am not creating an impression of being careless. :) The key point is not to let them dry out, damage as little of roots as possible. Reduce the foliage to balance the root loss. If need be, dig over time in sections to encourage the growth of fibrous roots. Once it's out, plant in porous mix, and keep it moist by putting it in the shade to avoid water loss. Reduce big roots over time to be able to put into shallower bonsai pots, but do it over time. Hope this helps!
With my ficus I plant cuttings in the ground and tie them to low branches and they fuse together. Kind of cheating but works
Interesting! Thanks for sharing!
There's a big snail on one of your trees, around the 2:55 mark.
Good eye!
@@bonsaiheirloom thanks
have you ever made a bonsai from a big juniper?
I am ripping out some overgrown shrubs that are at least 50 years old. But I would really like to keep 2 juniper. I'm thinking of making them into bonsai. Suggestions??
Do you mean bigger than the junipers I have? Old junipers can be great materials. Just make sure you cut back to a point with some needles to start over…or air-layer the top if it way too tall. Stay tuned…I will do a few big ones from my garden!
@@bonsaiheirloom thank you for responding ! like your videos and appreciate sharing your wisdom pruning trees
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Thanks, Bruce!
What's right or wrong in bonsai👍🙏
Hi do you ever join any Show? I want to see your tree on show.
Yes, I do shows. Here is a video of someone critiquing one of my show trees: ua-cam.com/users/shorts0PK8yak9r3I
Hi my name is Donald I have a white elm bonsai tree that is sick with Stegophora ulmea Disease how can I save my tree any help will be appreciated thank you.
Good question, but above my paygrade. When I don’t know I resort to Mr. Google. According to the UC, this is a fungal disease, so consider replacing severely infected trees. It can be cured if you remove most of the branches and keep it on the dry side. My recommendation is to keep your hobby pleasurable, unless it is a big sentimental issue, replace! :)
well need to count your rings to be sure youre really that old
Haha!