Bonsaify | Spring Work on Deciduous Bonsai Trees
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- Опубліковано 10 кві 2024
- Eric demonstrates spring work on seven species in less than seven minutes!
00:00:11 Mini Washington Hawthorn
00:00:37 Small Cork Elm
00:00:52 Leaf reduction on a field-grown Trident Maple. Eric removed this tree from the group last fall over a dormant period, and this is his first time working on it. He reviews the structure and makes corrections.
00:02:07 After removing a giant stub, Eric cleans up the wounds and seals them.
00:03:23 Twisty Maple experiment - what do you think?
00:03:40 Wiring a European Crab Apple
00:03:57 Mini Olives
00:04:28 Wiring two Trident Maples
00:05:26 Seiju Elm branch selection
00:05:43 Adding movement to a European Birch
00:06:00 Eric summarizes key elements of spring work on deciduous bonsai.
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I really liked the setting of this video - the lighting, the music and the mixed content 😊
Interesting work on small trees!
Some lovely looking small trees you have there. Im jealous 😊
Loving the smaller trees, great work
So many leaves 😮
Nice job keep up the good work mate thanks 😊
Here in zone 4 my most advanced deciduous trees have swelling buds!
In zone 3 Alaska, I'm still waiting for snow to melt! Getting closer! Crazy 🤪🤣
Nice small trees
some nice material - mine are at eh level just yet maybe another 2 weeks for a trim.
Love all your vids. You have inspired me to try to focus on mame and shohin bonsai. Can I ask, should you let a plant in the earlier stages just grow to thicken the trunk, or should you be pruning back smaller branches and new growth to encourage the plant to put more energy into the trunk!?
Thanks so much!!
Wild growth is what you need for bulking up the trunk, cutting it back wont help. But selectively cutting back avoids bulges. And getting the trunk taper often requires cutback in one form or another.
Fun, quick vid. I'll watch again at a slower speed, I'm sure.
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Quick question on japanese maples from what i know we can repot them soon as buds are swelling. If we cut the roots back hard are we sacrificing all of that stored energy in the tree for the spring push? Ive pruned some young katsura back pretty hard for a forest at the right time but now when the leafs started to push they seem pretty wimpy. Maybe i should have kept more roots but i feel like i kept a pretty good amount. Im in ny and trying to let the first flush fully leaf out in my shed cause of weather here. I water them in the shed but dont feel like im overwatering them. Thanks
With many deciduous trees a lot of the stored energy is in the roots/trunk - so removing a lot of root will slow things down. But depending on your stage of development you may want to slow things down anyway. I did a batch of 80 or so field-grown trunks last month; the ones where I left more roots have 12-18" shoots already (one of them was the maple in this video) and others, where a lot of root was removed, are just slowly pushing growth.
@@Bonsaify thank u for the reply. They are in a forest so im not looking for a ton of growth its just that from what i see and happens to me alot when the leafs come out they sag and i have to hope they survive. I kno its normal for them to leaf out drooping for some species but i would figure they would have fully extended by now. Just thought bec of such a hard cutback on the roots maybe i hacked too much energy from them away. I guess spring is the only time to cut roots on maples hard back or is there a better time maybe in fall early winter to do the same procedure and not have soo much energy taken away?
so is this the best time of the year to do big branch cutback (or trunk chops) of trees that you are growing up? Asking for a friend....
The best time to do heavy work on many deciduous trees (not all!) like the carving on the trident in this video is when the tree is growing like crazy. So you see where i started with the tree - covered in 12-18" long shoots and healthy leaves. The tree was in the greenhouse since January so it leafed and pushed out early and strong. Out in the field most of my tridents are not yet to the stage where I would do the same work. (Zone 10A.) It's more common to do this work in May I think. I try to stay just slightly ahead of everyone with video content when I can - kinda like a reminder of what you should be doing in the next 1-2 months.
Brought my Chinese elm back outside last week. How soon should I start seeing buds this spring? Thanks 🙏
If temperature above 10 Celsius outside you should already see it
Hard to say but see the other reply also. Chinese elms leaf out sooner than most other trees in my area, so I would expect pretty quickly.
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Yikes, assembly line bonsai! Clip clip clip clip clip, clip clip clip clip clip, and clip some more, then, you're not done. That's it. 😊 Don't you think?
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@Bonsaify , I love watching your videos, they are fun and very informative. Thank you. I am in the eastern US, zone 6. My trees are farther behind. I just finished most of my repot season. This is my favorite time of year.