Great video I love tanuki and the idea of taking to separate entities one dead and one live putting them together so even the most experienced eye can’t tell !! Credit to you it’s a beautiful tree 👍🏻
Hans Karamotto no problem Hans I often wonder why people have a problem with tanuki yet they are prepared to wire bend carve and graft trees yet that all seems acceptable 🤷🏼♂️love your larch by the way the one you collected from the ski slope 👌
Hi Mik! I am glad to hear that it is informative because that is what I hoped for! It is such a fun technique that can lead to a very acceptable result with cheap easy to obtain and findable material! Cheers, Hans van Meer.
Good to hear VC Reptile! I use to have many snakes in my early teens up to my early twenties. Mostly constrictor snakes like a super aggressive 5-foot reticulated python that I donated to the local zoo (too save my life), rock pythons, a 6-foot long Indian python and several ball pythons, one of them "Pietje" lived with me for more than 17 years. But there were also several poisonous snakes like two small spitting cobras! Needles to say that they all slowly disappeared when I started to live together with my present wife! :) Now after 30 years looking back at that crazy part of my life, I have to smile, realizing that I now probably would be a bit afraid to handle any of those beautiful creatures! Bonsai as a hobby for me is a safer way to go these days! ;) Cheers, Hans van Meer.
Hi Rick! Thanks for the compliment and that is a fitting name for any Tanuki! :) I have about 20 Itoigawa cutting in different sizes waiting for me to find a suitable piece of deadwood! My problem is that we don't have much nicely shaped dead or alive hardwood trees here in Holland! :( But the cheeses are alright though! :) Cheers, Hans van Meer.
Bravo!! is the word that comes to mind! I have collected multiple deadwoods and only recently have decided to begin my first Tanuki bonsai, and YES it is considered Bonsai. As you correctly stated it is your opinion and mine as well. I feel this Art form like all other art forms are all in what you want it to be. No one else's opinion should matter. So I say Thank you for the informative video and again Bravo on the creation and patience. Patience I feel is the biggest down fall for most Bonsai artists. I struggle with it everyday, but as the saying goes, "Rome wasn't built in a day!" I only hope to have a similar outcome. All the best, Namaste' from Boston, USA!
Hi BeReal Relentless, thanks for your uplifting comment and opinion it is highly appreciated and a positive push in my back to keep on doing what I am doing! It is in Bonsai, as in the real world not always appreciated when you are outspoken or go against the establishment that claims the rules to fit their own narrow-minded purposes to legitimize their own work and to keep their loyal followers close at their side! In the land of the blinds, one eye is king! Bonsai is a legitimate art form and there should be no limitations in sincere and honest creativity as long as it doesn't harm what Bonsai should represent.... a downsized fantasy image of a tree or trees in or on a container! We should value the outcome of an artist work with our hearts and souls, and not bias with our own list of rules as a guideline! This limits the progress of any creativity in Bonsai and in all art forms for that matter and is very confusing and paralyzing for the novice and amateur alike! I ones wrote on a Bonsai forum: Creating a bonsai by following all the rules is like making love with the Kamasutra lying next to you. You might be doing everything just right, but it sure as hell is not much fun! ;) Cheers, Hans van Meer.
Thanks, Harry I am glad you like it! During all these years I have given weekly doses of Fish-emulsion from Matsu as foliage feeding and Bio-green fertilizer from Matsu all throughout the whole growing season. And I had Bio-gold cubs or something similar in those smallholding plastic baskets sticking in the topsoil. But in times when I was out of some of that professional stuff, I simply used cheap allround liquid supermarket fertilizer from Lidl...Itoigawa is not that fuzzy...it just wants to get fed a lot! As long as you make sure that the nitrogen (N) is not too high in any fertilizer you use during the growing season and reduce and stop when the growing season is over and switch to a( P.K) fertilizer for two or tree 2 weekly doses...well then you can go wrong and they will grow like a mother! Good luck with your Tanuki project! Cheers, Hans van Meer.
Yes, I do, but I live in Holland and our sun is only a few months a year strong (if we are lucky)! And I use Itoigawa cuttings for my Tanuki and they love sunlight. But be careful that the (small) cutting doesn't dry out in the full summer sunlight, part shade is better then! That's why I make a Tanuki in Spring time when the weather is not so hot and the cutting has time to recuperate from its ordeal! Hope this helps you a bit?! Good luck with your Tanuki projects! Cheers, Hans van Meer.
Sorry for the late reply delatroy. It is hardwood that I used so it will last a very long time! It will only need bleaching every few years with Limesulfur to keep it white and to protect it! Cheers, Hans.
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Great video I love tanuki and the idea of taking to separate entities one dead and one live putting them together so even the most experienced eye can’t tell !! Credit to you it’s a beautiful tree 👍🏻
Thanks, Matt! I appreciate that!
Cheers,
Hans.
Hans Karamotto no problem Hans I often wonder why people have a problem with tanuki yet they are prepared to wire bend carve and graft trees yet that all seems acceptable 🤷🏼♂️love your larch by the way the one you collected from the ski slope 👌
Very interesting and informative. Thank you for sharing.
Hi Mik! I am glad to hear that it is informative because that is what I hoped for! It is such a fun technique that can lead to a very acceptable result with cheap easy to obtain and findable material!
Cheers,
Hans van Meer.
I am definitely inspired to start training one.
Good to hear VC Reptile! I use to have many snakes in my early teens up to my early twenties. Mostly constrictor snakes like a super aggressive 5-foot reticulated python that I donated to the local zoo (too save my life), rock pythons, a 6-foot long Indian python and several ball pythons, one of them "Pietje" lived with me for more than 17 years. But there were also several poisonous snakes like two small spitting cobras! Needles to say that they all slowly disappeared when I started to live together with my present wife! :) Now after 30 years looking back at that crazy part of my life, I have to smile, realizing that I now probably would be a bit afraid to handle any of those beautiful creatures! Bonsai as a hobby for me is a safer way to go these days! ;)
Cheers,
Hans van Meer.
Amazing transformation I am going to do another one and name it the racoon dog. thanks for sharing this one brother!
Hi Rick! Thanks for the compliment and that is a fitting name for any Tanuki! :) I have about 20 Itoigawa cutting in different sizes waiting for me to find a suitable piece of deadwood! My problem is that we don't have much nicely shaped dead or alive hardwood trees here in Holland! :( But the cheeses are alright though! :)
Cheers,
Hans van Meer.
Bravo!! is the word that comes to mind! I have collected multiple deadwoods and only recently have decided to begin my first Tanuki bonsai, and YES it is considered Bonsai. As you correctly stated it is your opinion and mine as well. I feel this Art form like all other art forms are all in what you want it to be. No one else's opinion should matter. So I say Thank you for the informative video and again Bravo on the creation and patience. Patience I feel is the biggest down fall for most Bonsai artists. I struggle with it everyday, but as the saying goes, "Rome wasn't built in a day!" I only hope to have a similar outcome. All the best, Namaste' from Boston, USA!
Hi BeReal Relentless,
thanks for your uplifting comment and opinion it is highly appreciated and a positive push in my back to keep on doing what I am doing! It is in Bonsai, as in the real world not always appreciated when you are outspoken or go against the establishment that claims the rules to fit their own narrow-minded purposes to legitimize their own work and to keep their loyal followers close at their side! In the land of the blinds, one eye is king! Bonsai is a legitimate art form and there should be no limitations in sincere and honest creativity as long as it doesn't harm what Bonsai should represent.... a downsized fantasy image of a tree or trees in or on a container! We should value the outcome of an artist work with our hearts and souls, and not bias with our own list of rules as a guideline! This limits the progress of any creativity in Bonsai and in all art forms for that matter and is very confusing and paralyzing for the novice and amateur alike! I ones wrote on a Bonsai forum: Creating a bonsai by following all the rules is like making love with the Kamasutra lying next to you. You might be doing everything just right, but it sure as hell is not much fun! ;)
Cheers,
Hans van Meer.
very interesting videos hans! Amazing how healthy it looks in the end
Hi Guilherme, thanks I am glad you appreciate it and like it!
Cheers,
hans van Meer.
Such a cool video!!!
What fertiliser did you use on your juniper to get that much growth?
Thanks, Harry I am glad you like it! During all these years I have given weekly doses of Fish-emulsion from Matsu as foliage feeding and Bio-green fertilizer from Matsu all throughout the whole growing season. And I had Bio-gold cubs or something similar in those smallholding plastic baskets sticking in the topsoil. But in times when I was out of some of that professional stuff, I simply used cheap allround liquid supermarket fertilizer from Lidl...Itoigawa is not that fuzzy...it just wants to get fed a lot! As long as you make sure that the nitrogen (N) is not too high in any fertilizer you use during the growing season and reduce and stop when the growing season is over and switch to a( P.K) fertilizer for two or tree 2 weekly doses...well then you can go wrong and they will grow like a mother!
Good luck with your Tanuki project!
Cheers,
Hans van Meer.
Yes, I do, but I live in Holland and our sun is only a few months a year strong (if we are lucky)! And I use Itoigawa cuttings for my Tanuki and they love sunlight. But be careful that the (small) cutting doesn't dry out in the full summer sunlight, part shade is better then! That's why I make a Tanuki in Spring time when the weather is not so hot and the cutting has time to recuperate from its ordeal! Hope this helps you a bit?! Good luck with your Tanuki projects!
Cheers,
Hans van Meer.
How long will the deadwood last? Will it rot?
Sorry for the late reply delatroy. It is hardwood that I used so it will last a very long time! It will only need bleaching every few years with Limesulfur to keep it white and to protect it!
Cheers,
Hans.