Your videos make keeping bonsai feel so achievable to me! Some things make me feel like its too hard to do. Ive been growing my own maple sprouts, so rewarding! Hopefully they make it through dormancy during winter..
I bought all mine into the garage, lost my favorite but the rest were fine, just make sure when it warms up a little give them some water but not on the coldest days.
The chunky larch is a beautiful looking tree. I have let an Aleppo pine get extremely leggy. I will try cutting the new growth in the spring to try to produce some back budding. Otherwise I will have to learn how to make approach grafts. Perhaps you could do a video on this sometime. Many thanks for taking the time to produce the videos.
When I candle prune pines I use my fingers and snap them off. That way I do not have the brown ends on the needles that were also clipped. Just a little more tidy for me. I am not doing hundreds at a time. Love your videos.
Hi Peter. My Mom and I are learning so much from your videos. They have helped us to become more skilled at making bonsai. Do you think you could make a video on how you grow moss at your nursery? Thanks so much for your time, and we look forward to your future videos. Have a nice rest of your day! :)
Could you do a video of fruiting bonsai care please Peter... Pears, apple, fig, plum, cherry, citrus.. .. .. How do we care for these pruning , water, feeding, remove fruits or keep?
Would love to see a similar video about junipers. I ave a small juniper procumbens that needs thinning out, but I don't know exactly how to go about it.
Another wonderful video Peter, so on the Hinoki, you use scissors or pinch? I have been pinching but they need a deep trim. It is a busy time, I have my first Red and Black pine from seed cuttings, it's amazing the nebari, some that elongated I have cut again for a double cut, wish I could post a picture, I have a couple hundred red and black pines growing now, hope to sell them in the future, my 2 year old red pines already have beautiful red bark. Just found out yesterday Black pine is masculine and Red Pine is feminine, I guess in style, interesting, thanks for the tips I need to get on these trees.
Will the Aleppo Pine grow from cuttings? I have a tree that is the great grand child of the Lone Pine, and would love to propagate it to make bonsai for my kids. Like many Aussies, we have a family connection to Gallipoli, and I would like to honour it in a living way.
Thanks for all your videos, which hled me a lot. I have an request that you should make for bonsai on some Indian species which helps me even more I hope you would help.
@@priyadharashni3270 don't try to copy the styles used in Japan or Europe. Search for mature pictures of trees and scrubs that grow in India and adapt these to bonsai. Keeps you closer to your country as even your climate is mostly completly different to Japan or Europe. I wish you luck
Do you have any advice for using true firs as bonsai? They seem to be a fairly rare subject and as such it's rather difficult to find information on how to care for and shape them. I have a yamadori noble fir which I collected in early spring (well before it came out of dormancy), the tree is doing well. I believe it has quite a lot of potential, it's taper is fantastic and it has an almost perfect shape for a clinging to rock style (since it was indeed clinging to rocks). I do not plan on working the tree for quite some time but when I do I'm uncertain where to begin. I also have a mountain hemlock specimen which is a perfect candidate for literati style (or something similar) but again finding information on how to care for the tree is quite difficult.
Very informative and nice video again! Dear Peter, do you know by chance if air layering an "pinus cembra" is problematic or is it kind of the same as with other pine species?
Question about the pine maintenance, the other bonsai guys say to keep 2 branches or 2 candles and continue developing the branching in that way but you don't mention this, why you don't do it this way ? Just curious, many thanks - great video !
So good to wake up in the morning with a video about conifers from you! I just collected a lot of mixed pine seeds, when is the best time to plant them? Cheers from Italy!
you could still try now, but the seedlings may only grow weak this late in the year and won't survive the winter. It will be better if you sow them in early winter directly into the earth or stratify them in your fridge for a few weeks.
Could you tell us how to prune junipers? I've heard that it shouldn't be pruned like other trees and new growth should be kept, as tree takes all of its energy from these new tips.
wire must be removed just before it starts to grow into the bark, otherwise you will get ugly marks on the branches which can take years to grow out if ever. So keep an eye on the wire and remove it if you think it will grow in. Even if there are instances when wire will be let grown completely into the bark to get a more older look it may take a decade or longer to let these scars disappear again. You can always wire the tree once more if the wire didn't do the trick of keeping them in the position you wanted them. But take your time and let the tree decide when to wire again, don't overdo it or you might kill your tree. Patience is everything with bonsai.
actually you remove it just when it starts to grow into the bark, it helps with recovery and further strengthening of the branch keep a very close eye on it monthly, although for conifers this can take up to 2 years, they just grow so slowly depends on how tight you wire it, too
HERON PLEASE RESPOND FAST PLEASE, so I am growing an indoor serissa bonsai and it’s in super good conditions and I will be wiring it and shaping it into Nigels African style bonsai with wire it’s my first time wiring it’s three years old and it has a 1/3 inch trunk so ya I need some tips please . ありがとございました
Kupchak I sell management tree 🌲6tree with their long cutting free doing pirates because shrf different middle ages loudly big tree netflix body 1" Netflix 👌different turning cutting tree thank you for good advice kupchak 🙏🥰🤩😊😚
But people who people love natural desires don't trees president bonsai disease i see bonsai 🌶🇹🇭bonsai 🍋🇹🇭bonsai 🌴🇹🇭very beat just people 🇹🇭buy different types yes friend different see festival bonsai would natural 🌲yes already they wow people turned bonsai turning turning world management show design bonsai original Japanese 🇯🇵
Peter Chan is selfvideoing most of his recent videos, either by holding his phone with one hand, using scissors with the other and talking at the same time or using a tripod. I don't think you could do better under the current covid-19 pandemic while keeping his staff safe
Thank You, for bringing the joy of Bonsai into my life. I learn so much from everyone of your videos and they are sheer joy to watch. God Bless You !
Wow, what a lot of valuable of formation; both visual and spoken. Thank you. Nicely done. 👍
This video is very helpful. A lot of videos are focused on creating - seeing how to maintain gives me a better idea of how development works.
Peter, seeing your videos pop up on my feed give me the most happiness, you have no idea 😢 Great work once again 👏🏼
why?
@@blackwhitebd1727 Because they're awesome. THATS why
Triple tasking recording video, pruning and talking at the same time, really isn't easy at all. Bravo Peter 👍, can't wait for the next one..cheers
Peter your are indeed inspirational you really love these trees, thank you for sharing
There's something satisfying about hearing the snip snip of Peters shears!!
Very useful demonstration on pruning Ghent various conifers. The latch is particularly impressive for such a small tree.
Wow, that first Larch is magnificent.
Your videos make keeping bonsai feel so achievable to me! Some things make me feel like its too hard to do. Ive been growing my own maple sprouts, so rewarding! Hopefully they make it through dormancy during winter..
I bought all mine into the garage, lost my favorite but the rest were fine, just make sure when it warms up a little give them some water but not on the coldest days.
Those larches are gorgeous!
Love that shirt, Peter, very cool!
Great video. Takes the fear out of pruning conifers
Thanks for the video! Great point of view when you take the camera closely to your scissors.
Thank you for explaining about pruning. I very much enjoy your video. And my lilac cutting is doing very well still Thank God 👧
Thank you for your comment
The chunky larch is a beautiful looking tree. I have let an Aleppo pine get extremely leggy. I will try cutting the new growth in the spring to try to produce some back budding. Otherwise I will have to learn how to make approach grafts. Perhaps you could do a video on this sometime. Many thanks for taking the time to produce the videos.
Thank you so much..I always enjoy watching your video..and keep learning from you
When I candle prune pines I use my fingers and snap them off. That way I do not have the brown ends on the needles that were also clipped. Just a little more tidy for me. I am not doing hundreds at a time. Love your videos.
Such a great video, im currently deciding what to do with my mugo pine. Can't wait for the workshop ive booked in February with you.
Thanks for another great video
Stay well
Stay safe
Thanks Peter, almost didn't recognise you in the plain shirt 😉
I love that first Larch. Nice job.
Hope you are well.
Thank you Mr. Chan.
"Ramification simply means, more twiggery."
That's a neat term.
Hi Peter. My Mom and I are learning so much from your videos. They have helped us to become more skilled at making bonsai. Do you think you could make a video on how you grow moss at your nursery? Thanks so much for your time, and we look forward to your future videos. Have a nice rest of your day! :)
I will one day
that hinoki on a rock is sooo nice i love it
Wooow thank you for the tips ..you have very nice Bonsai trees :-)
That Larch in the square pot is lovely. I'd love to see a video on how you deal with Chinese Junipers or Junipers in general.
Thank you very much for this video. 🙏
When my pine grows candles I pinch the candle twist and then pull and it works really well.
That middle tree looks so beautiful : )
Maaaaan that first larch 💥💥💥💥 🖤🖤🖤🖤
I wish for more info on what time of the year to trim or shape trees. Plz thanks love the videos!
Very good tips! I think the key with pruning conifers is you can’t prune to bare wood. You always have to leave some green to regrow
There was no trimming Willy Nilly there. Beautiful styling video. I would give my right arm for that Larch bonsai.
Awesome larch
Could you do a video of fruiting bonsai care please Peter... Pears, apple, fig, plum, cherry, citrus.. .. .. How do we care for these pruning , water, feeding, remove fruits or keep?
Would love to see a similar video about junipers. I ave a small juniper procumbens that needs thinning out, but I don't know exactly how to go about it.
Did you end up finding any good info on this? I have two small procumbens myself and would love to know :)
Very helpful 👍🙂
If you find any examples of Larch bud back i would be interested to see them?
Merci ! Bonjour à tous et à toutes ! See you later.
Thanks Peter
Another wonderful video Peter, so on the Hinoki, you use scissors or pinch? I have been pinching but they need a deep trim. It is a busy time, I have my first Red and Black pine from seed cuttings, it's amazing the nebari, some that elongated I have cut again for a double cut, wish I could post a picture, I have a couple hundred red and black pines growing now, hope to sell them in the future, my 2 year old red pines already have beautiful red bark. Just found out yesterday Black pine is masculine and Red Pine is feminine, I guess in style, interesting, thanks for the tips I need to get on these trees.
Will the Aleppo Pine grow from cuttings? I have a tree that is the great grand child of the Lone Pine, and would love to propagate it to make bonsai for my kids. Like many Aussies, we have a family connection to Gallipoli, and I would like to honour it in a living way.
Pines dont grow from cuttings - Seed or grafting.
@@peterchan3100 Seed it is then, thank you!
Thanks for the anti twiggery tip !
Thank you for this very useful video. Am I too late (mid July) to prune this year ?
No - not too late.
Thanks for all your videos, which hled me a lot. I have an request that you should make for bonsai on some Indian species which helps me even more I hope you would help.
I dont have the raw material for this. I have been teaching in India on and off since 1993
@@peterchan3100 thanks for your reply. Can you give me some guidance verbally.
@@peterchan3100 I find it difficult to adapt your styles on western trees on the Indian ones can you help me verbally.
@@priyadharashni3270 don't try to copy the styles used in Japan or Europe. Search for mature pictures of trees and scrubs that grow in India and adapt these to bonsai. Keeps you closer to your country as even your climate is mostly completly different to Japan or Europe. I wish you luck
Do you have any advice for using true firs as bonsai? They seem to be a fairly rare subject and as such it's rather difficult to find information on how to care for and shape them.
I have a yamadori noble fir which I collected in early spring (well before it came out of dormancy), the tree is doing well. I believe it has quite a lot of potential, it's taper is fantastic and it has an almost perfect shape for a clinging to rock style (since it was indeed clinging to rocks). I do not plan on working the tree for quite some time but when I do I'm uncertain where to begin.
I also have a mountain hemlock specimen which is a perfect candidate for literati style (or something similar) but again finding information on how to care for the tree is quite difficult.
Very informative and nice video again!
Dear Peter, do you know by chance if air layering an "pinus cembra" is problematic or is it kind of the same as with other pine species?
I have not had succes with pines so I don't bother air layering them anymore
@@peterchan3100 Thank you very much for your answer and advice!
Question about the pine maintenance, the other bonsai guys say to keep 2 branches or 2 candles and continue developing the branching in that way but you don't mention this, why you don't do it this way ? Just curious, many thanks - great video !
Thank You Merci ! ;)
Mr Chan, Sir, what fabric is your shirt? Is this jeans or cord? Looks super good
Its cotton but not jeans material - I bought it in Delhi from a shop called 'Fab India'
I only had 3 trees make it through last winter out of 8 trees, now i need to do a trim but i'm scared to loose the rest of them lol.
So good to wake up in the morning with a video about conifers from you! I just collected a lot of mixed pine seeds, when is the best time to plant them? Cheers from Italy!
You have to stratify them
you could still try now, but the seedlings may only grow weak this late in the year and won't survive the winter.
It will be better if you sow them in early winter directly into the earth or stratify them in your fridge for a few weeks.
Could you tell us how to prune junipers? I've heard that it shouldn't be pruned like other trees and new growth should be kept, as tree takes all of its energy from these new tips.
What type was the first larch in this video?
Do alberta spruce have flexible branches?
Yes
Please show more San Jose juniper content (I know you have a lot of itoigawa and shimpaku videos). 🙏
Im new in this game and i have a question. do you remove the wire? if you do, when do you do it then?
wire must be removed just before it starts to grow into the bark, otherwise you will get ugly marks on the branches which can take years to grow out if ever. So keep an eye on the wire and remove it if you think it will grow in.
Even if there are instances when wire will be let grown completely into the bark to get a more older look it may take a decade or longer to let these scars disappear again.
You can always wire the tree once more if the wire didn't do the trick of keeping them in the position you wanted them.
But take your time and let the tree decide when to wire again, don't overdo it or you might kill your tree. Patience is everything with bonsai.
actually you remove it just when it starts to grow into the bark, it helps with recovery and further strengthening of the branch
keep a very close eye on it monthly, although for conifers this can take up to 2 years, they just grow so slowly
depends on how tight you wire it, too
HERON PLEASE RESPOND FAST PLEASE, so I am growing an indoor serissa bonsai and it’s in super good conditions and I will be wiring it and shaping it into Nigels African style bonsai with wire it’s my first time wiring it’s three years old and it has a 1/3 inch trunk so ya I need some tips please . ありがとございました
Tree juneper 🌲
Has anyone heard of japanese umbrella pines?
Hi Peter, I can't understand the name of the larger one, is it possible to write his name? Thanks Peter ... good job
Which one do you mean?
hi
Twiggery
Kupchak I sell management tree 🌲6tree with their long cutting free doing pirates because shrf different middle ages loudly big tree netflix body 1" Netflix 👌different turning cutting tree thank you for good advice kupchak 🙏🥰🤩😊😚
But people who people love natural desires don't trees president bonsai disease i see bonsai 🌶🇹🇭bonsai 🍋🇹🇭bonsai 🌴🇹🇭very beat just people 🇹🇭buy different types yes friend different see festival bonsai would natural 🌲yes already they wow people turned bonsai turning turning world management show design bonsai original Japanese 🇯🇵
This is not bonsai, it’s topiary. It’s the equivalent of licking an envelope and sticking it down and calling it origami
The camera work is a disaster ...
Peter Chan is selfvideoing most of his recent videos, either by holding his phone with one hand, using scissors with the other and talking at the same time or using a tripod. I don't think you could do better under the current covid-19 pandemic while keeping his staff safe
At least its better than nothing and besides lots of viewers like the video.