I have watched probably 20 - 25 of your videos in the last week and have learned so much! .... I made my very first bonsai and I'm happy to say it actually came out great, Thanks to all your teachings... It was a blue rug juniper, and I did the roots over rock technique, with moss... I found granite chunks of rock and it literally looks like realistic shear cliffs.... First one, I am very pleased.... THANK YOU FOR ALL YOUR SECRETS!!
Dear Sir, let me just tell you that your videos have been the best and most usefull we have seen on You Tube during the pandemic. We are so gratefull for your openness, you have absolutely rekindled our enthusiasm for bonsai and gardening. We wish you the best of health and a lot of energy to carry on with all your amazing projects!
I never get sick of seeing you work with maples. There is always something new to learn and you have so many different stages of the maples for us to see you working on.
Peter you are a exalant teacher as you can explain what you are doing as you do the work on the trees, you have inspired me to do lots of bonsai and pre bonsai and gave me the confidence and knowledge to take changes. I never knew that's trees where so tuff.
I will never tire or get sick of the Japanese maples. I'm envious of the rows and rows of different kinds of maples you show while walking around the nursery. Thank you for sharing all of your plants and trees!
Finally! I can see it!!! The S shape that you make is a coil! Its spiraling upwards! Now I really understand how to mimic this, will report back in a year.
And thank you for your self videoing during the pandemic. I have binged on your youtube channel and simply love your work, your ideas, your nursery. Honestly I have watched all 200+ videos and really enjoy them. Will probably watch them again and again.
Peter, I never tire of your videos on maples and other deciduous trees. These are very common in my area (Northeast Ohio in the Great Lakes region of the United States) and are therefore the bulk of the material I have to work with as I begin my journey with bonsai. I have about a dozen very young maples (all under 10 mm thick) that I am beginning to train. For the first year, I am trying to focus on root development and keeping them alive. Next year, I intend to begin working on ramification and shaping. So the wealth of knowledge to be found in your videos is invaluable. And your passion for these trees is absolutely contagious. Take care and be safe!
Thank you for all this info! I am rescuing 5 maplesnfrom a local nursery. They are oretty rough but it should be fun. With your guidance, I am confident that the trees will have a good chance.
I will never get tired of seeing maple bonsai videos. From the smallest to the large trees. I watch Maple videos over and over again and enjoy many of the elm videos too. I do however usually skip most the pine videos unless it's specimen tree. Not sure why, they never did catch my interest.
Brilliant video for Sunday breakfast with Peter part 26 now time to get back to my maples. Have a great Sunday Peter go and enjoy your family Stay well Stay safe
I love learning as much as I can about the Maples. I got my first Trident Maple about a month ago, and I love it. I'm already looking to getting another Maple.
So that's how to wire small baby maples..broken some branches in the past haha. Going to try and have a go again with that trick Peter showed.. thx for sharing Peter and stay safe to all.. cheers
Love your maple videos! I've been learning bonsai for about 3 years mostly starting from seed to gain experience and confidence on working with big trees. If you could do a video on wiring young maple seedlings that would be beautiful!
Such a wonderful video, thank you Peter! I especially enjoy how your videos give specific notes (literally to take notes helps me to remember the wealth of information ) and also then to watch it, a second time , for the insight and judgement calls on which of the many options are best for a specific situation, and why. Truly another masterclass! Thank you, Sir! And always, your joy of creating comes through so strongly. You make us fearless!
Maples are my fav so never tire of them. Would have been gold to discover you during the pandemic when we were isolated but at least I found you. I have 5 sm seedlings under my red maple tree & repotted them for a future grove. I’m excited that I found a bonsai nursery nearby & purchased a few 3 yr seedlings & I’ve already wired into an “S” shape. Also found great supplies incl Akadama & bonsai pots. At almost 75 I am excited to have yet another hobby. Ps During the pandemic (2021) I was successful at growing 1 cherry from a seed. Last week it was 2 ft tall & today it’s wired to a beautiful “S” shape. 👍
I always love Peter's videos and especially ones about Japanese maples. I wish he would do one about the different varieties of Acer palmatums he grows and why he grows them. There are so many varieties and he seems to stick to mostly just a few, like his deshojos.
Deshojos are most popular and most purchased ones, and they kinda supplanted other varieties a lot. There will always be others, but producing many of them is not profitable.
love to watch you work on Acer have one just growing this year I found it in another plant pot with my yew so I've taken it out to grow on its own guess it's ready for a hair cut thank you Peter
I really appreciate all the detailed information you provided. It has been quite helpful for me, thank you many blessings and much appreciation and love for you and your experience.❤ please don’t stop sharing your experience and knowledge with others. ❤❤❤❤
After I watched Mr Chan Video. I felt in Love with Bonsai, also learned how to find seedling and just CUT excess brunches. it is because “ A sacrifice bring another new life” haha. After that, I went out and trimmed my Bonsai directly 😂
"Some of you might say that I've spoiled the tree."🤣 But by the way bonsai tree making is a fun thing to do during the lock down .... Loved the video 😘
Now I have learned about maple bonsai and I will try an experiment with my “deshojo “. Much later I may get and try “shichi-go-san”. I owe you a lot. Thank you Mr Chan.
Thank you for another amazing video. I've learned so much. I'm having trouble training sapling pines and other young trees correctly. If you have the time for a video on how to train young trees properly, it would be very appreciated.
thank you so much for the videos! I love all the little bits of information you put in that you just dont learn anywhere else! I have a couple baby maples started and cant wait to be able to turn them into bonsai!
Absolutely love the progression of trees in this video. I am hoping for something along this line for twin trunk maples, please! Eagerly awaiting the start of spring in the midst of COVID induced winter ennui in Victoria, Australia.
Enjoyed the video, I have 3 maples growing from digging out in a yard, after a year they are pretty big so putting some shape in them, I guess they say you need 3' of growth for 1" of trunk? So I am letting them go pretty wild to thicken up in the 1 gal pots. Good thought to make sure it doesn't get to overgrown to shade the inner portions of the tree where I want budding. As always lots to learn from your videos, wish this virus was over, was really wanting to go to the Bristlecones this summer.
Honestly, it took me a minute to understand why Peter said that one split trunk was a fault at c.23:00, but I think I get it now, and I appreciate the lesson.
I have three maples. They're very pretty. They're young though. I just (two weeks ago) cut one down to bonsai size, and it's already sprouting tons of new shoots/branches. :) I think it'll look nice once it's more trained as a bonsai. It has a very neat taper in the trunk. I'm gonna cut down the elms too, they're getting very big and tall and branches everywhere. XD
Oh no! I just pruned my maple that I let grow since February! Now I see 1 week later that I should have done it in May! I hope I haven't messed up my tree.
@@zoutewand It actually turned out well! I'm sure I lost a growth period so it may be around 6 months stunted, but now in Spring, it is really growing vigorously! Just like the video says, they are so vigorous there's no real reason to worry too much. I will, this May, do the process properly but certainly doing the work in mid-summer did not harm the tree and it is looking very healthy!
@@andrewadams9924 thanks for the update! And yea, maples are really tough. I see small (but relatively old) maple trees when walking in the cracks of the sidewalk.
Peter.. May I ask how long you have been preparing bonsai trees? I know you have been in herons since 1986... so I’ll guess that’s around half of your life?? Any details beyond? I’d also like to comment on a philosophy of yours I’ve noticed more than once. As a grower... you would not sell a bonsai; that you yourself would not have!! So admirable!! Your quite a man!!
In one of my videos (about a year ago) - How to choose bonsai pots- I think its called - I give the history of how I started in bonsai back in 1967 when I used to make pots as a hobby. Have a look.
Very interesting, even if I am not a big fan of "s"-shape. I was surprised that you cut such a big branch on the last bonsai. I thought that such a structure cut could only be made in the late autumn or at the very beginning of spring before leaves come out...
I wonder if the same 4 who thumbs down Peter’s videos have his channel pushing notifications to their phone. They wake up, ah new Peter vid, now DUMP IT 🤣🤣🤣 what’s wrong with these people.
Thank you so much for good advice kupchak 🙏I very good ideas for tree maple and Luther on way around yes sri turning loudly doing pirates on way different types beautiful 🥰🙏🥰
i wish we could get peter chan trees in the u.s. even the small ones are perfect and if they arent peter wouldnt rather not sell it. thank you peter for the awesome videos as always
I've never been a big fan of the S shape tree's and always feel like they look to gimmicky and unnatural, however it is nice to see how they are made and how that information relates to other styles of tree's. Do you have any mature S shape maples you could show us? Maybe a well made mature S shape maple would change my mind on these.
No need to change your mind. I think the s shape is good training for beginners for developing bonsai skills. I had a bunch of young ficus plants from cuttings and I styled two of them straight and the other two as an S shapes to see how they will turn out.
I was the same. Thought it was so unnatural. The important part is to keep the top trimmed so the bottom branches get sunlight. No sunlight = death. The branch allows the thickening of the truck and the extension of the branch will become more natural. You will develop your "eye" the more you stick with it.
I can’t get enough of maple videos. Will never get sick of them.
I have watched probably 20 - 25 of your videos in the last week and have learned so much! .... I made my very first bonsai and I'm happy to say it actually came out great, Thanks to all your teachings... It was a blue rug juniper, and I did the roots over rock technique, with moss... I found granite chunks of rock and it literally looks like realistic shear cliffs.... First one, I am very pleased.... THANK YOU FOR ALL YOUR SECRETS!!
Chuck Gale he’s a great teacher 👍
Congrats Chuck, the virus won’t stop your creativity.
@@questionablecooking7019 🙏💪🌲
what kind of rocks do you use?
Dear Sir, let me just tell you that your videos have been the best and most usefull we have seen on You Tube during the pandemic. We are so gratefull for your openness, you have absolutely rekindled our enthusiasm for bonsai and gardening. We wish you the best of health and a lot of energy to carry on with all your amazing projects!
Thank you for your kind and gracious comments.
I never get sick of seeing you work with maples. There is always something new to learn and you have so many different stages of the maples for us to see you working on.
Peter you are a exalant teacher as you can explain what you are doing as you do the work on the trees, you have inspired me to do lots of bonsai and pre bonsai and gave me the confidence and knowledge to take changes. I never knew that's trees where so tuff.
The use of the office chair is a fantastic find. Ty
So grateful for this video. I have a young sapling from my garden Maple I am going to make it into an S shape today. Thank you
Sue Richardson me too wire time 👍
Not bored with Maple videos at all. Please keep them coming! And thanks so much for what you do!
Just wanted to say thank you for all your efforts over the decades. Bless you and your family sir.
I will never tire or get sick of the Japanese maples. I'm envious of the rows and rows of different kinds of maples you show while walking around the nursery. Thank you for sharing all of your plants and trees!
Finally! I can see it!!!
The S shape that you make is a coil!
Its spiraling upwards!
Now I really understand how to mimic this, will report back in a year.
Same!😂🤣💕
A year later and yes, now I can much more easily see it in even the more aged specimens. Its very akin to being granted [vision].
And thank you for your self videoing during the pandemic. I have binged on your youtube channel and simply love your work, your ideas, your nursery. Honestly I have watched all 200+ videos and really enjoy them. Will probably watch them again and again.
Watching Peter work his magic is how I meditate...many thanks for your work!!!
Got my first Japanese maple to develop into bonsai and i'm learning a lot from you...thanks
I’m starting cultivation of a native sugar maple from my late mother’s yard and I know Japanese maple is different but I still enjoy the maple tips!
I learn so much from these videos. The approach today where you bring the dominant shoots close to the camera and explain. Marvelous!
Never would or could get sick of maples, to me they are beautiful trees and love them as bonsai.
Peter,
I never tire of your videos on maples and other deciduous trees. These are very common in my area (Northeast Ohio in the Great Lakes region of the United States) and are therefore the bulk of the material I have to work with as I begin my journey with bonsai. I have about a dozen very young maples (all under 10 mm thick) that I am beginning to train. For the first year, I am trying to focus on root development and keeping them alive. Next year, I intend to begin working on ramification and shaping. So the wealth of knowledge to be found in your videos is invaluable. And your passion for these trees is absolutely contagious. Take care and be safe!
I never get sick of maples. Videos or trees.
Thank you for all this info! I am rescuing 5 maplesnfrom a local nursery. They are oretty rough but it should be fun. With your guidance, I am confident that the trees will have a good chance.
Maples are stunning. Your bonsai training, gentle manner and clear passion for what you do is wonderful.
I will never get tired of seeing maple bonsai videos. From the smallest to the large trees. I watch Maple videos over and over again and enjoy many of the elm videos too. I do however usually skip most the pine videos unless it's specimen tree. Not sure why, they never did catch my interest.
I do like maples as well as pines or conifers. The evergreen trees are lovely with the dead wood and layered branches
Brilliant video for Sunday breakfast with Peter part 26 now time to get back to my maples.
Have a great Sunday
Peter go and enjoy your family
Stay well
Stay safe
I love learning as much as I can about the Maples. I got my first Trident Maple about a month ago, and I love it. I'm already looking to getting another Maple.
How's your trident maple doing?
I am so grateful for this guy I have got into bonsai here recently and he has made it so easy to learn and get better at growing and plant bonsai
Never enough Maples, thank you again for another great video
So that's how to wire small baby maples..broken some branches in the past haha. Going to try and have a go again with that trick Peter showed.. thx for sharing Peter and stay safe to all.. cheers
Hi mr c I never get tired of watching your magic on maples!,,
Love watching Peter work his magic
I learned something of how to think and work long term towards a tree's development. I look forward to viewing more of your videos.
I'm trying to grow my very first maple bonsai and I find this video very useful. Thank you ;)) Also greetings from Lithuania!
This is a beautiful hobby, and you make it look so easy.
Very inspiring indeed!
Good to see you again my friend . Kirk here , back in America , Louisiana. Always enjoy learning from you ! BLESSING ALWAYS KIRK'OUT'PEACE
I was planning to specialise on Norwegian trees, but the Japanese maple is so nice that i can`t help my self.
And they are so easy to work with. :)
Can never get enough of your maples.
Love your maple videos! I've been learning bonsai for about 3 years mostly starting from seed to gain experience and confidence on working with big trees. If you could do a video on wiring young maple seedlings that would be beautiful!
Such a wonderful video, thank you Peter! I especially enjoy how your videos give specific notes (literally to take notes helps me to remember the wealth of information ) and also then to watch it, a second time , for the insight and judgement calls on which of the many options are best for a specific situation, and why. Truly another masterclass! Thank you, Sir! And always, your joy of creating comes through so strongly. You make us fearless!
Thanks Peter, I have some small maples and some cuttings coming on, its nice to see what to do.
Thank you once again Peter for sharing your wonderful knowledge and must say I do love the maples 😀🙏🏻
Maples are my fav so never tire of them. Would have been gold to discover you during the pandemic when we were isolated but at least I found you. I have 5 sm seedlings under my red maple tree & repotted them for a future grove. I’m excited that I found a bonsai nursery nearby & purchased a few 3 yr seedlings & I’ve already wired into an “S” shape. Also found great supplies incl Akadama & bonsai pots. At almost 75 I am excited to have yet another hobby. Ps During the pandemic (2021) I was successful at growing 1 cherry from a seed. Last week it was 2 ft tall & today it’s wired to a beautiful “S” shape. 👍
You are the Master through big M Your films are my inspiration
This video inspired me to work on my little Deshojo and Mountain Maple. I'm much happier with them now that I've established the branch positions.
I too have maples growing every year
And will be trying some S shapes.
Thanks Mr Chan for the info.Big Fan
I always love Peter's videos and especially ones about Japanese maples. I wish he would do one about the different varieties of Acer palmatums he grows and why he grows them. There are so many varieties and he seems to stick to mostly just a few, like his deshojos.
Deshojos are most popular and most purchased ones, and they kinda supplanted other varieties a lot. There will always be others, but producing many of them is not profitable.
I wish I could buy all of these maples, another brilliant hugely informative video. thanks peter
Peter never no never sick of maples I love them beyond measure
You are such a great teacher. THANK YOU!
Thank you peter chan!
Hope to meet you one day
From australia
love to watch you work on Acer have one just growing this year I found it in another plant pot with my yew so I've taken it out to grow on its own guess it's ready for a hair cut thank you Peter
I really appreciate all the detailed information you provided. It has been quite helpful for me, thank you many blessings and much appreciation and love for you and your experience.❤ please don’t stop sharing your experience and knowledge with others. ❤❤❤❤
After I watched Mr Chan Video. I felt in Love with Bonsai, also learned how to find seedling and just CUT excess brunches. it is because “ A sacrifice bring another new life” haha. After that, I went out and trimmed my Bonsai directly 😂
"Some of you might say that I've spoiled the tree."🤣
But by the way bonsai tree making is a fun thing to do during the lock down .... Loved the video 😘
“You’ll either become an expert with maples or never want to see one again”. Haha !! I could listen to Peter talking about bonsai all day.
Now I have learned about maple bonsai and I will try an experiment with my “deshojo “. Much later I may get and try “shichi-go-san”.
I owe you a lot. Thank you Mr Chan.
Thank you for another amazing video. I've learned so much. I'm having trouble training sapling pines and other young trees correctly. If you have the time for a video on how to train young trees properly, it would be very appreciated.
Great informative video, Peter! I will never get tired of seeing your maples
I found a maple bonsai in my side yard. This video is great for help.
Thanks Peter. Really grateful for you sharing you wealth of knowledge and experience. Hope to join one of your workshops. 👍
thank you so much for the videos! I love all the little bits of information you put in that you just dont learn anywhere else! I have a couple baby maples started and cant wait to be able to turn them into bonsai!
Absolutely love the progression of trees in this video. I am hoping for something along this line for twin trunk maples, please! Eagerly awaiting the start of spring in the midst of COVID induced winter ennui in Victoria, Australia.
Will never get tired of maples! Could you do a similar video but with a bit larger maples please
Thank you for yours teaching. Very precious
The open coil Maple (grey pot) is so graceful with S shape Apex. Proposed name:Daphne
Oh I love watching u do the maples
This is quite clever, the structure is everything. It’s very easy to grow an ugly shaped trunk of left unchecked.
Never get sick of maples!! 8)
Enjoyed the video, I have 3 maples growing from digging out in a yard, after a year they are pretty big so putting some shape in them, I guess they say you need 3' of growth for 1" of trunk? So I am letting them go pretty wild to thicken up in the 1 gal pots. Good thought to make sure it doesn't get to overgrown to shade the inner portions of the tree where I want budding. As always lots to learn from your videos, wish this virus was over, was really wanting to go to the Bristlecones this summer.
Very good and detailed explanation. Thank you!
Honestly, it took me a minute to understand why Peter said that one split trunk was a fault at c.23:00, but I think I get it now, and I appreciate the lesson.
Love what you did with these trees!
The video approach today was excellent
Half the ‘fun’ is the labor of creating a ‘style’. The other half is spent in reflection on a successful ‘work of natural art’.
I have three maples. They're very pretty. They're young though. I just (two weeks ago) cut one down to bonsai size, and it's already sprouting tons of new shoots/branches. :) I think it'll look nice once it's more trained as a bonsai. It has a very neat taper in the trunk. I'm gonna cut down the elms too, they're getting very big and tall and branches everywhere. XD
I also love the background songs of the birds!!!!!
Not Long now for Spring, great to watch
NEVER SICK OF MAPLES :-)
Oh no! I just pruned my maple that I let grow since February! Now I see 1 week later that I should have done it in May! I hope I haven't messed up my tree.
Hey, im just wondering how this turned out. How are they doing?
Hey, im just wondering how this turned out. How are they doing?
@@zoutewand It actually turned out well! I'm sure I lost a growth period so it may be around 6 months stunted, but now in Spring, it is really growing vigorously! Just like the video says, they are so vigorous there's no real reason to worry too much. I will, this May, do the process properly but certainly doing the work in mid-summer did not harm the tree and it is looking very healthy!
@@andrewadams9924 thanks for the update!
And yea, maples are really tough. I see small (but relatively old) maple trees when walking in the cracks of the sidewalk.
nice to see your back
Peter.. May I ask how long you have been preparing bonsai trees? I know you have been in herons since 1986... so I’ll guess that’s around half of your life?? Any details beyond? I’d also like to comment on a philosophy of yours I’ve noticed more than once. As a grower... you would not sell a bonsai; that you yourself would not have!! So admirable!! Your quite a man!!
In one of my videos (about a year ago) - How to choose bonsai pots- I think its called - I give the history of how I started in bonsai back in 1967 when I used to make pots as a hobby. Have a look.
All your trees looks nice❤
Beautiful maples!
i have the same exact maple i have been trying to figure out the species.... thank you 🙏
mine is 2 years old from seed i trained it to have 10 main banches and they all branch out horizontally and curl clockwise its about 5 inches tall
The Master at Work
Very interesting, even if I am not a big fan of "s"-shape. I was surprised that you cut such a big branch on the last bonsai. I thought that such a structure cut could only be made in the late autumn or at the very beginning of spring before leaves come out...
He has said in past videos that he can get away with this because of his greenhouse.
I wonder if the same 4 who thumbs down Peter’s videos have his channel pushing notifications to their phone. They wake up, ah new Peter vid, now DUMP IT 🤣🤣🤣 what’s wrong with these people.
Thank you for the educational video!
Inspired... Again!
lovely and inspiring as always
Thank you so much for good advice kupchak 🙏I very good ideas for tree maple and Luther on way around yes sri turning loudly doing pirates on way different types beautiful 🥰🙏🥰
Wonderful information, thank you.
Like your style Master Chan
i wish we could get peter chan trees in the u.s. even the small ones are perfect and if they arent peter wouldnt rather not sell it. thank you peter for the awesome videos as always
THANK YOU SO MUCH!
i like your work ... you have fantastic feeling for the future composition ... i am missing it little bit as a beginner (since 2017)
Loved the video! I learned so much. Thank you!
Great information ! Very helpful.
OH....my Sunday's mornings with Peter.....
Thank You for sharing, Sir.
I whach your all the vidios .i have trees .i love bonsai .i need to study bonsai
I've never been a big fan of the S shape tree's and always feel like they look to gimmicky and unnatural, however it is nice to see how they are made and how that information relates to other styles of tree's. Do you have any mature S shape maples you could show us? Maybe a well made mature S shape maple would change my mind on these.
No need to change your mind. I think the s shape is good training for beginners for developing bonsai skills. I had a bunch of young ficus plants from cuttings and I styled two of them straight and the other two as an S shapes to see how they will turn out.
I was the same. Thought it was so unnatural. The important part is to keep the top trimmed so the bottom branches get sunlight. No sunlight = death. The branch allows the thickening of the truck and the extension of the branch will become more natural. You will develop your "eye" the more you stick with it.