Don’t believe he does that with all his very valuable plants - he is just trying to make a point on getting started and to encourage folks on getting started. But yes he does have a lot of starter material so he can be ruthless on some. Doesn’t mean you would on a plant that’s now worth $500 or $1000 or certainly those In the 10s of thousands of dollars. You did hear his words “tease”. And he is quickly showing us as many examples as possible - in some of his videos he has talked about the hours and hours it takes to renovate a plant.
@@plips71755 I think it's just a matter of knowing when such attention to detail is beneficial and when it isn't. If he's working on developing the nebari of a very mature tree, perhaps Mr. Chan will take great care with the root arrangement, but if he's just doing a repotting or the tree otherwise doesn't immediately need micromanaging then he knows there's no need to bother until the time is right.
@@plips71755 - Dont you believe that my friend. Even the most expensive and very old trees get the Chan treatment. Efficient is what I call it - not namby pamby !!
I like your practical, rough and ready, approach. When you have as many trees as you, it is necessary to be time-efficient. You give beginners like me confidence. Thankyou for sharing.
I agree, it's very encouraging to see learn from such an approach and to see Mr. Chan not treating each tree like it were a delicate animal which could die at any moment if you touch it wrong. Seeing his confidence and efficiency and how much progress he makes over the course of one video makes the prospect of starting out in bonsai seem accessible to anyone.
I am in America and would love to go to Britain just to visit your nursery. I am learning so much from you as well as incorporating bonsai lessons into life lessons. Wonderful how approaching bonsai relates to approaching life. I purchased a small ficus and have wired, defoliated as well as repotted all the varieties of jade that I own. One of them once divided up I was able to make into a forest.
i love your views on rules, and being able to circumvent certain things (tools, soil, etc) if they're not readily available to you. it makes starting bonsai seem much more doable and realistic, opposed to if you were saying you can NEVER use normal soil for bonsai, you MUST have seperate pruning/root pruning shears, and so on. it's one of the things that makes your content so accessible for beginners and for bonsai growers with more experience... the adaptability and in the moment problem solving you show to us is really heartening and makes so much sense. thank you!!
If I had that pine at the beginning of the vid, 100% zero doubt my cat would have pushed it out of it's pot day 1, hahaha. Thank you Peter for the great content and constant inspiration.
Super useful info! I think the approach of just taking the most obvious overgrown roots off is probably the best approach for most home bonsai owners. Doing stuff like totally bare-rooting the tree and raking out the radial roots and all that feels really dangerous to me and doesn't seem totally necessary.
Thanks you very much for your generosity Peter, I live in Patagonia Argentina and as we are in the other hemisphere, we repot the bonsais in August. I work with pines that grows in my farm (Ponderosa, Murray and Oregon pines) I use to collect the yamadoris from the nature and mantain them in a training pot during one year, after that period I put them in a bonsai pot and start with the shaping. I am learning a lot with your videos, again thank you very much for your teaching. Best Regards. JG.
Thank you Sir, I bought myself my first bonsai tree a couple days ago (syzygium buxifolium) and I think it needs to be repotted in new soil. I learned how to prune and how to water the tree thanks to your helpful videos.
Wow... Exactly what I needed at this point of time. Thank You very much for the compact informative sharing. Gave me confidence in my effort raising my fruit trees. (Mangoes and durian)
Thanks for your insight Peter. Invaluable if your a beginner. I wish i had found you sooner. I've learnt through years of experience. But i still find you very informative.
Its so great having a Channel for Bonsai advice. I remember 20 years ago, there were only books (which were good) but was difficult to know if you were doing things right. He makes things easy to understand. Thanks Peter!
Peter you are so wonderful. I am so thankful to have found your channel. My family teases me because all I want to do now is talk about creating Bonsai and caring for trees .All in fun !! Thank you !!
Your philosophy about rules ("there are no such things as rules") reminds me of a quote I found a while ago. 'Rules are like paperclips: meant to keep things together, fun to bend, and easily twisted out of shape.' 🤣
Thank you Peter. I've only got my two indoor trees and a maple repotted so far. You and Ryan Neal from Mirai Bonsai are the best people to get best information from on everything. Both of you come to repotting from the point of view that you want to give your trees the best chances and don't go overboard and make your trees suffer.
Peter you have inspired me no end and I am eternally grateful for you and the way you share your knowledge You are so generous with your secrets and tips so much so you do yourself out of customers 🙂 never trying to sell us things in fact money does not come into it at all , you said in one of your earlier videos how if you can inspire young blood to follow on into Bonsai you would have fulfilled your purpose in life And my friend you certainly have I for one has watched 80 percent of your videos and have been inspired and encouraged to grow trees and make Bonsai forever more You are a national treasure in my eyes And I would love to have the honour to meet you and spend time at Herons with you one of these days You should be knighted arise sir Peter Chan 😊 Long may you continue Kind regards Chris Banner
no chance for repotting at the moment here in Germany. Although I am living in the south-west, with usually milder weather, it’s too cold right now. Must wait until end of February, I’d guess.
Thank you for the repotting lesson. This is what scares most people away from Bonsai I feel. Everyone who comes to my place with their tree in hand I happily help them re pot it for free just to get them over the fear of it.
Very helpful that you give guidelines for timing the repotting as to when is the best time of year. Especially in temperate climates. I’m assuming there are better times of year also for top pruning, and whether they are deciduous, evergreen, or tropicals. That would be helpful information as well.
Peter I know you like to experiment,so have you tried the cat litter (molar clay one) I have been using it for years now and I find deciduous trees absolutely love it and produce loads of roots.It doesnt break down like acadama and can be used again and again,it also makes for easy root pruning.
I need to repot a pomegranate tree I’ve had for three years. Roots are coming out the bottom. It’s allegedly a tree from the 1960’s. I’m scared to repot as I don’t know what soil to use! Some people use more organic material soil and others look more like rock and bark. What is the best to use, yours? Do you have a video on soil preparation? Thank you much, I’ve learned a lot from your content.
Very informative video, really enjoyed it... Pearls you are giving us 👍 Seeing the repot of a large tree would be awesome 🙏 I’m aiming for 1 M plus trees 😀
Its The first week of March, I started repotting over a week ago....always seems like a race against the season here in VA to get them done before we go from 35° during the day, to upper 60's in a week....LOL I have lost more trees washing the soil off of my trees, I learned the hard way a few years back now, not to.. good point to bring up since MANY "experts" tell you to do so... wonder how many trees didn't survive afterwards? The chopstick method.. I just stuck myself so badly using my chopstick while repotting, my thumb still stings...LOL
Great informative video. Getting ready to repot my bonsai retusa that's still in its nursery pot. Was wondering if I need to place wire in it as its quite small.
You are best! Thank God you aren’t 007 or you’d have to ki*l us after telling us the “secret soil mix” While pruning my ficus my brain was running your commentary 🙏🏻 I happily bit the bullet
Thank you so much Sir. I only wish if I could show you a ficus bonsai which I inherited. I dont know how to cut/prune/care for that poor but gorgeous tree.
Me -gently teasing roots, selectively cutting to make it look good, using a chopstick to get rid of air holes...
Peter-Rip, cut, ram, done!
I love it!
I also excel at picking airholes with chopsticks. Not.
Don’t believe he does that with all his very valuable plants - he is just trying to make a point on getting started and to encourage folks on getting started. But yes he does have a lot of starter material so he can be ruthless on some. Doesn’t mean you would on a plant that’s now worth $500 or $1000 or certainly those In the 10s of thousands of dollars. You did hear his words “tease”. And he is quickly showing us as many examples as possible - in some of his videos he has talked about the hours and hours it takes to renovate a plant.
@@plips71755 I think it's just a matter of knowing when such attention to detail is beneficial and when it isn't. If he's working on developing the nebari of a very mature tree, perhaps Mr. Chan will take great care with the root arrangement, but if he's just doing a repotting or the tree otherwise doesn't immediately need micromanaging then he knows there's no need to bother until the time is right.
@@plips71755 - Dont you believe that my friend. Even the most expensive and very old trees get the Chan treatment. Efficient is what I call it - not namby pamby !!
"We amateurs," says the master. 🪴
Beginner's mind, keeping it zen 😎
I like your practical, rough and ready, approach. When you have as many trees as you, it is necessary to be time-efficient. You give beginners like me confidence. Thankyou for sharing.
That is the whole purpose of our Videos - Keeping it simple
I agree, it's very encouraging to see learn from such an approach and to see Mr. Chan not treating each tree like it were a delicate animal which could die at any moment if you touch it wrong. Seeing his confidence and efficiency and how much progress he makes over the course of one video makes the prospect of starting out in bonsai seem accessible to anyone.
I love the videos, but it scares me to handle them how Mr. Chan does lol
“We use a secret formula for our soil” then proceeds to tell us. Goat 🐐
He told you some of the ingredients, but not the amounts.
@@DavidMFChapman - just mix equal parts and see if it feels right - not rocket science !
Light on the rocks, rest dirt.
Definitely Greatest Of All Time 😁
@@DavidMFChapman He's mentioned the forumula many times in this channel.
I am in America and would love to go to Britain just to visit your nursery. I am learning so much from you as well as incorporating bonsai lessons into life lessons. Wonderful how approaching bonsai relates to approaching life. I purchased a small ficus and have wired, defoliated as well as repotted all the varieties of jade that I own. One of them once divided up I was able to make into a forest.
Come when Covid is over. We have a guest house which is for the use of visitors too.
Thanks a ton
Peter watching u working is a sheer delight
U make things very easy in understandable terms for ur followers.
Love from India
i love your views on rules, and being able to circumvent certain things (tools, soil, etc) if they're not readily available to you.
it makes starting bonsai seem much more doable and realistic, opposed to if you were saying you can NEVER use normal soil for bonsai, you MUST have seperate pruning/root pruning shears, and so on.
it's one of the things that makes your content so accessible for beginners and for bonsai growers with more experience... the adaptability and in the moment problem solving you show to us is really heartening and makes so much sense. thank you!!
I enjoy watching and listening to him. His approach is straight forward and not inserting confusing approaches.
fine fast working .... you made 4 trees by 20 mins and i need 4 hours to repot only 3 almost same size :D
I’ve been binch watching these videos and Peter’s choice of words can be so humorous at times. “If you just ram it in” lololol
Thank you for sharing your knowledge and experience. Love from Canada. 🇨🇦
Thanks for sharing all those years of knowledge in a easy way. 👍👍
keep the great videos coming peter! Your content is always the best 👏🏼
Learning something new with every video.
Ok great 👍🏽. I was going to repot my tree 🌳 but it’s far from pot bound so I’ll leave it for now 🙂
How lovely it is to first see this video. Calming
Thank You, I never get tired of watching and learning from you.
This is exactly what I needed as I’ve been contemplating reporting mine for a couple of weeks and have been afraid to do it.
If I had that pine at the beginning of the vid, 100% zero doubt my cat would have pushed it out of it's pot day 1, hahaha. Thank you Peter for the great content and constant inspiration.
Thanks for the upload. Im happy you talked about the drainage layer. I had been wondering.
Super useful info! I think the approach of just taking the most obvious overgrown roots off is probably the best approach for most home bonsai owners. Doing stuff like totally bare-rooting the tree and raking out the radial roots and all that feels really dangerous to me and doesn't seem totally necessary.
8:23 please do more of this stage pruning . As many trees as possible .
Love this channel!!!
Thanks you very much for your generosity Peter, I live in Patagonia Argentina and as we are in the other hemisphere, we repot the bonsais in August. I work with pines that grows in my farm (Ponderosa, Murray and Oregon pines) I use to collect the yamadoris from the nature and mantain them in a training pot during one year, after that period I put them in a bonsai pot and start with the shaping. I am learning a lot with your videos, again thank you very much for your teaching. Best Regards. JG.
Love ya Peter...Live long and prosper my friend.
I always have more confidence after watching your videos
As always it's a pleasure learning from you. Buying your book is one thing but this is first hand experience
Thank you Sir, I bought myself my first bonsai tree a couple days ago (syzygium buxifolium) and I think it needs to be repotted in new soil. I learned how to prune and how to water the tree thanks to your helpful videos.
Mr.Chen, your videos are simply a gift for all kinds of amateurs or bonsai enthusiast as you say really appreciate thank you Giuliano from Verona
Thank you so much for the video! I am glad you mentioned indoor bonsai! I live in Canada and outdoor is so much harder to do here. Have a great day!
Love listening and learning from you...all the way from Cape Town South Africa
Wow... Exactly what I needed at this point of time. Thank You very much for the compact informative sharing. Gave me confidence in my effort raising my fruit trees. (Mangoes and durian)
Just when I thought metaseqoua bonsai is always formal straight and tall..😁 now I know..thx Peter, until next vid 👍
That’s how they tend to grow in nature, but if it’s your tree make it how you want to
Thank you Peter, one of your best videos for us beginners.
Thanks for your insight Peter. Invaluable if your a beginner. I wish i had found you sooner. I've learnt through years of experience. But i still find you very informative.
I always learn so much from you Peter. Thank you!
Secret soil mix, proceeds to describe all the composition. Love it!
Thanks Peter.
The Bob Ross of Bonsai. In case the English don't know, that's a very nice complement.
that Mic make the difference😉
Omg!! Yup, my girlfriend and I enjoy his videos and everything he has to say, it was a bummer losing audio when he would walk around. This is awesome!
Its so great having a Channel for Bonsai advice. I remember 20 years ago, there were only books (which were good) but was difficult to know if you were doing things right. He makes things easy to understand. Thanks Peter!
I learn a lot from your technicus as a masterclass thank you.
Peter you are so wonderful. I am so thankful to have found your channel. My family teases me because all I want to do now is talk about creating Bonsai and caring for trees .All in fun !! Thank you !!
Brilliant video and timed to perfection! I am repotting mine this afternoon and my confidence levels are now very high 😁
Your philosophy about rules ("there are no such things as rules") reminds me of a quote I found a while ago.
'Rules are like paperclips: meant to keep things together, fun to bend, and easily twisted out of shape.' 🤣
Such a lovely quote !
Thank you Master Chan for more valuable information for a bonsai noob like myself 🌳👍😁
Great work..Peter.
Beautiful bonsai😍
Thank you for the confidence boost
Good reminder thank you!
Just thank you for your work!
I love how you make bonsai so accessible. Your work is really beautiful.
"A tree needs repotting only when it NEEDS it" great piece of advice :)))
Glad you are still doing well and out there promoting bonsai. Thanks. I haven’t had much time lately and have missed watching your videos.
Thank you Peter. I've only got my two indoor trees and a maple repotted so far. You and Ryan Neal from Mirai Bonsai are the best people to get best information from on everything. Both of you come to repotting from the point of view that you want to give your trees the best chances and don't go overboard and make your trees suffer.
this information is a goldmine!
I love this guy - Mr.Straight Forward.
Thank you for all this wonderful and useful information!!!
Always a pleasure to see you video’s !
Very good my friend! Thanks for the explanation! Regards from Brazil!
Peter you have inspired me no end
and I am eternally grateful for you and the way you share your knowledge
You are so generous with your secrets and tips so much so you do yourself out of customers 🙂 never trying to sell us things in fact money does not come into it at all , you said in one of your earlier videos how if you can inspire young blood to follow on into Bonsai you would have fulfilled your purpose in life
And my friend you certainly have I for one has watched 80 percent of your videos and have been inspired and encouraged to grow trees and make Bonsai forever more
You are a national treasure in my eyes
And I would love to have the honour to meet you and spend time at Herons with you one of these days
You should be knighted
arise sir Peter Chan 😊
Long may you continue
Kind regards
Chris Banner
Thank you
Brilliant tips and very relevant as I had many questions on repotting my trees, thank you Peter! Simona
9:30 super helpful to see differences in trees.
no chance for repotting at the moment here in Germany. Although I am living in the south-west, with usually milder weather, it’s too cold right now. Must wait until end of February, I’d guess.
I use a mix of potting soil, perlite, akadama, and leca pellets. :) Seems to work.
Morning sir
Thank you for the repotting lesson. This is what scares most people away from Bonsai I feel. Everyone who comes to my place with their tree in hand I happily help them re pot it for free just to get them over the fear of it.
I like to watch your videos. They are great, because you explain everything what are you doing. Best reagrds from Poland.
Great video - really helpful thank you !
Still 15- here in northern sweden...
When I repot.. I push down around the inside edge and leave a CHANNEL all the way around..this helps to catch the water..
No need to do that as the soil is porous and will let water through anyway.
Very helpful that you give guidelines for timing the repotting as to when is the best time of year. Especially in temperate climates. I’m assuming there are better times of year also for top pruning, and whether they are deciduous, evergreen, or tropicals. That would be helpful information as well.
Great info thank you sir. Hope your little bird is still around.
Thank you for all the Tipps and Tricks-you are a real Master! God bless U
Amazing bonsai sir
Peter I know you like to experiment,so have you tried the cat litter (molar clay one) I have been using it for years now and I find deciduous trees absolutely love it and produce loads of roots.It doesnt break down like acadama and can be used again and again,it also makes for easy root pruning.
Great video as always
Excellent video and so helpful! You are so generous with your knowledge, Peter. Thank you from all of us aspiring bonsai gardeners!
Thank you for this video.
As a new subscriber I will watch all your videos. Thank you for your mentorship.
good
I need to repot a pomegranate tree I’ve had for three years. Roots are coming out the bottom. It’s allegedly a tree from the 1960’s. I’m scared to repot as I don’t know what soil to use! Some people use more organic material soil and others look more like rock and bark. What is the best to use, yours? Do you have a video on soil preparation? Thank you much, I’ve learned a lot from your content.
Lots to do and some great tips to use
Information packed video Peter. Thank you. I see you are working on a pepper tree. It would be amazing if you could do a video on that species.
EXACTLY the video I’ve been waiting for you to do !!!
perfekt timing Peter Thank you !!!
Very informative video, really enjoyed it... Pearls you are giving us 👍 Seeing the repot of a large tree would be awesome 🙏 I’m aiming for 1 M plus trees 😀
Great info thanks
Those redwoods have so much character..
16 times the detail
Its The first week of March, I started repotting over a week ago....always seems like a race against the season here in VA to get them done before we go from 35° during the day, to upper 60's in a week....LOL
I have lost more trees washing the soil off of my trees, I learned the hard way a few years back now, not to.. good point to bring up since MANY "experts" tell you to do so... wonder how many trees didn't survive afterwards? The chopstick method.. I just stuck myself so badly using my chopstick while repotting, my thumb still stings...LOL
Hi Mr, chan, how about the ficus? When do you repot? Thank you
Late Spring or early Summer
Ougeinia oojeinensis as a bonsai? Mine land tailings piles are bonsai pots.
Excellent
Great work
nice video = )
Awesome!!!
Great informative video. Getting ready to repot my bonsai retusa that's still in its nursery pot. Was wondering if I need to place wire in it as its quite small.
You are best! Thank God you aren’t 007 or you’d have to ki*l us after telling us the “secret soil mix”
While pruning my ficus my brain was running your commentary 🙏🏻 I happily bit the bullet
Be BOLD.
@@peterchan3100 🙏🏻 I’ll definitely try
Lovely video, thank you!
Northern UK is about 2 weeks behind Southern UK season wise just FYI for folk in the comments
Thank you so much Sir. I only wish if I could show you a ficus bonsai which I inherited. I dont know how to cut/prune/care for that poor but gorgeous tree.