These are very cool as potted bonsai! Invasives are a struggle to work with outdoors, I don't even want to welcome them to my property, but I love watching folks work on them.
Better off without them if possible. What sucks is when the neighbor has them and let them grow wild. That's basically what originally happened with mine. The neighbor had them for who knows how long and they were popping up in everybody elses yard.
@@BonsaiBoise We ran into that issue with some Japanese knotweed our neighbor planted as.. what I can only assume.. an attempt at a natural fence. They've since sold the house and left the overgrowth to the new homeowners. I don't think they understood what they were getting into when they purchased the property. I dig new growth out of our yard every year.
I dug up a whole loft of these in my backyard over the years. Then I found out you can make them into bonsai. I’ve got two in pots now. And you are right: you almost can’t kill them! Thanks for the video.
Got my coffee ☕️ and I’m ready to watch. That thing looks amazing. And yah totally invasive there’s a bunch around here growing wild I pull out and get rid of every year but it grows rite back because they come back even with just a tiny piece. They are horrible in the wild. Seems like it would be harder to keep these as a bonsai with how they stretch like that. I love how that root base looks, gives it a kinda aged look. Those big bubbly knobs in the roots are callous balls. That’s we’re new roots we’re going to explode from. Well gotta get at it, got a lot of potting to do today, thanks for sharing Mike!
Thanks! And yeah these things will take over a little wooded area if allowed to grow freely. We used to use them as rope swings when I was a kid. It's a wonder o survived all that lol.
I planted a Virginia Creeper vine last year, and I'm not sure what happened to it over Winter. I'm sure I have more growing in the wood pile if that one failed. They are pretty funky, but I've seen a few bonsaied online, and they look great. Keep on workin' those trees, and thank you for sharing!
Just watched your last video on it a few weeks ago. I can see they're "invasive" but at least it's an American native species, unlike Japanese honeysuckle or something. I am really wanting to start one of these, we have some chunky ones in our woods and was thinking of collecting a smaller specimen. Not sure if it will bud out after a trunk chop, so I probably should try cuttings. When you rooted your from cutting, was it in leaf yet or dormant hardwood cutting?
These are very cool as potted bonsai! Invasives are a struggle to work with outdoors, I don't even want to welcome them to my property, but I love watching folks work on them.
Better off without them if possible. What sucks is when the neighbor has them and let them grow wild. That's basically what originally happened with mine. The neighbor had them for who knows how long and they were popping up in everybody elses yard.
@@BonsaiBoise We ran into that issue with some Japanese knotweed our neighbor planted as.. what I can only assume.. an attempt at a natural fence. They've since sold the house and left the overgrowth to the new homeowners. I don't think they understood what they were getting into when they purchased the property. I dig new growth out of our yard every year.
I dug up a whole loft of these in my backyard over the years. Then I found out you can make them into bonsai. I’ve got two in pots now. And you are right: you almost can’t kill them! Thanks for the video.
Thanks! Good luck on yours
Got my coffee ☕️ and I’m ready to watch. That thing looks amazing. And yah totally invasive there’s a bunch around here growing wild I pull out and get rid of every year but it grows rite back because they come back even with just a tiny piece. They are horrible in the wild. Seems like it would be harder to keep these as a bonsai with how they stretch like that. I love how that root base looks, gives it a kinda aged look. Those big bubbly knobs in the roots are callous balls. That’s we’re new roots we’re going to explode from. Well gotta get at it, got a lot of potting to do today, thanks for sharing Mike!
Thanks! And yeah these things will take over a little wooded area if allowed to grow freely. We used to use them as rope swings when I was a kid. It's a wonder o survived all that lol.
Loved it! I thought I was the only one fooling around with these vines as bonsais and also doing offshore calls 😂
Glad I'm not the only one out there doing these!
I planted a Virginia Creeper vine last year, and I'm not sure what happened to it over Winter. I'm sure I have more growing in the wood pile if that one failed. They are pretty funky, but I've seen a few bonsaied online, and they look great. Keep on workin' those trees, and thank you for sharing!
Thank you! And yeah the ones I've seen online do end up looking pretty good. Hard to thicken up the trunks though.
Looks good Mike!
Grts
Kennet
Thanks Kennet!
Just watched your last video on it a few weeks ago. I can see they're "invasive" but at least it's an American native species, unlike Japanese honeysuckle or something.
I am really wanting to start one of these, we have some chunky ones in our woods and was thinking of collecting a smaller specimen. Not sure if it will bud out after a trunk chop, so I probably should try cuttings.
When you rooted your from cutting, was it in leaf yet or dormant hardwood cutting?
I can't quite remember but I think it was leafed out. I think? It was way back before I really knew what I was doing.