Hello, greetings from SPAIN, Mallorca, an island in the Mediterranean, I really like your videos and your way of working with trees, substrates, collecting trees in the field, pruning, etc. I also appreciate the subtitles in Spanish since my English is very basic, your way of narrating the work you do is very nice and educational, thanks for the tutorial videos...a hug from Mallorca!
This is one of the prettiest bonsai trees I've ever seen. I don't know how you got such a beautiful trunk.Greetings from Poland from the city of Cracow 👋☺️👍♥️🇵🇱 (Thank you for letting me translate the subtitles to my language )
My first Bonsai channel subscription, being from Appalachia means I watch you first. NW Georgia here. Going to bonsai pepper plants. Thanks for taking time to educate us, there is a positive place in the next world for people who do that.
That's a great find. I have a thing for split trunk honeysuckle. I have gotten two. They are so cool and I can't get over the roots in mine as well. That one is amazing 👏
So glad to see you making another video. I hope your studies are going well. I too cultivate these. They are prone to a honeysuckle maggot that eats it's way around the cambium. I usually peel the bark that would naturally exfoliate like a silver maple bark for instance. It keeps the maggot from being able to hide and or take hold. I like the pot your tree is in btw. I wanted to add that with tree's like these the dead wood and rotted hollows are almost countercultural in that most deciduous are trained as healthy robust mature trees but your tree looks ancient and struggling to survive. Much needed in the world of bonsai! Thanks for the video!
Love this! And thanks for the insight on the wormy bits. That might explain a few things. I peel bark on the junipers and my dogwood for this, but didn't think about it with the honeysuckle.
Thank you....🙏 😔 🙏 It is so nice to see someone working on the honney suckle. They smell so good. Thank you for showing us what it looked like then and now. 🙏 🖖 🙏 😔 🙏 🙏 🙏
I have a honeysuckle tree in my yard I am going to do bonsais tree it’s small like yours with thick trunk!!! Thanks for sharing! I will share my experience.
Thanks for the video!!! I have been watching waiting and hoping you would still be doing these. I'm in upstate NY and just repotted my multistem Amelanchier canadensis. And now have my eye on a yamadori Paper Birch when I can find time to dig it up. Keep the videos coming I really enjoy them!
Hi a great Lonicera they can make spectacular trees, I have four large ones, the wiring technique I use a lot with the thick bar underneath, you wrap the wire around it before threading through the holes I will copy that method which makes sense, so thanks for the video, I have mine to repot later this week.
How strange. I haven't watched any of your videos lately except last night, I watched your honeysuckle video from years back....then today you upload this 👍
Upvote for the 'Safe-T-Sorb"' I have some of that stuff now, too. But I also have, as of today, 360pounds of crushed brick. So I'm ready to collect, and repot,. Good to see you again. .
Wow... what a nice surprise to see you, again! I have a Honey Suckle as a bonsai. The vine was planted at a poultry yard on an old farm in Houston, Texas. Got verification from an elderly gentleman who knew it was planted from a cutting back in 1901. I have been working with it since 1994. Really enjoyed this presentation and am glad to see you, again. Cheers, Dick from Vancouver.
Good to watch this video. As this vine is so invasive, after almost ten years this August I have removed from my front yard. I was scared whether such big vine will recover or not. I spread rooting hormone and it is showing its growth! As we are approaching winter in North in zone 5, yesterday I placed it in my new hoophouse. Hope your work will help me start my journey in coming spring. If you have any advice!
lol, at first I thought you just popped up from behind the tree. Summer fun incoming. I want to repot a tree that I just reported last spring. I used some make shift soil. I was out of my normal mix. But I’m worried about stressing the tree. But I also think it could grow better in proper soil. It grew slow all last summer. Not sure which is the lesser of 2 evils.🤷♂️
It should be okay, especially if it's not a pine. You can still do it with a pine, but only if you haven't done other major work. There are some people that will collect a tree in the autumn, then repot again in the spring after it's recovered some and acclimated to its new environment.
Super glad to see new videos from you. Let us know how the safe t sorb works for you. I use to use it put I found it broke down quickly, about a year or so. I think it does pretty good specially if use no more than 50% safe t sorb in your mix. My experience was I used 50 50 safe t sorb and perlite and on the surface, the perlite would get washed away, leaving mostly safe t sorb and on the top inch or so and it would break down on the surface very quickly but not nearly as bad lower in the pot where there was still perlite. I think using a mix that is safe t sorb, perlite, and bark, the safe t sorb won't break down much at all. Also adding DE to that mix or substituting perlite with DE so it doesn't wash away on the surface like perlite does, maybe the best. But who knows I think different batches of safe t sorb is better than others. I switched back to DE, bark, and a small amount of perlite, I hope it does well. Is the color the only reason you stopped using DE? It is hard to get good affordable soil mix, like pumice on the east coast. You got any pointers? If I remember correctly, I've seen you use expanded shale, or decomposed granite? Do you recommend any of these and if so, where do you get it from? Thanks and sorry for being so long winded. :)
Wonderful to hear from you! I switched from DE to the safe t sorb mostly for color. The DE has also broken down quite a bit in my soils, so I figured, if it's gonna break down, might as well make it look good. The expanded shale comes from NC. It's a product called Stalite. It works great and looks great, much like a mix between lava rock and Turface, but the particle size of off-the-shelf bags is too large for what we do. The NC Arboretum has a contract with the producer to get smaller sizes, but they also order it by the truckload. Not good for you and me. The decomposed granite is chicken grit. I haven't used in a while because it's very heavy, but any farm supply store will have it. Color varies depending on the quarry.
@@AppalachianBonsai Okay, thanks for the info. I just bought some napa DE that is much different than what it normally is. The same 8822 bag but it is tan-ish brown. I guess it is from a different mine/quarry, I don't know if it is just this batch, or if napa has changed the supplier and all of it will be this way from now on. The one bag got was much smaller particles, after sifting, all I got was probably not even 1/4 of the bag that is useable. I hope other bags have larger particles, if so it might be very good. I don't know how it will hold up with freeze and thaw cycles but it does look much better than the old white stuff. When it is dry it is a light tan, but once it is wet, it turns a nice light brown or dark tan, similar to the color of akadama.
Adobe Audition and their standard stock editor. You can grab a small section of sound then remove those frequencies from the whole thing. They made it easy.
When taking a cedar out of the wild do you suggest cleaning the root system out all the way and replacing with your mix or would you leave some of the old soil to try and promote growth? Love your Channel
I'd leave a little old soil under the main trunk, but I usually don't have any issues with cleaning a root system. I have stopped rinsing in water to preserve any mycorrhizae that cling to the fines.
You cannot imagine how busy he is. Full time professor at a prestigious university, running a business, running a bonsai club where he helps the elderly members with their trees, helping his autistic nephew. Every video is a gift of love.
I didn't. It was growing like a weed, which is what it is. I've been working on it for 5-6 years now. There's a collection video about it on my channel.
Happy to see another update! It was my understanding that Turface *was* calcined clay -- am I wrong? are there different products with substantially different properties?
I was wrong when I made my soil test a few years ago. Turface is an expanded clay (LECA - Lightweight Expanded Clay Aggregate). Calcined clay is a little different.
@@AppalachianBonsai ah, you’re lucky. I’m in suburban upstate NY. Didn’t have a problem last year, but this year they’ve already killed two of my newly collected pines 😡
I’ve been working on a honeysuckle (much inspired by yours) and I’ve missed my repot window. Leaves are already out. What should I do: late repot, or wait until next year?
I've always gotten mine at NAPA Auto Parts, part #8822. It doesn't do well over winter, it turns to mush. That's why I'm moving away from it. I'll be trying SafeTAbsorbent from Tractor Supply this year.
I was afraid these had stopped. So excited to see how things have come along!
The whole family watched this during our corned beef dinner. Thanks Ben. Great freaking trunnnnnkkkkkk. Cheers 😎🍺🍺
Right on!!!
good video. thank you for coming back.
I've really enjoyed your soil science videos, but this is the first repotting video I've seen. Thanks for posting it!
Wonderful! I have a few more.
Every great piece of art needs a beautiful frame. The pot you're using is perfect. Very nice.
I love it!
Wow, them's some vigorous roots for sure. The trunk has a TON of character already!! Cheers, great vid!
The audio came perfect!!
Great to see you back with these videos
I cannot believe how far this tree has come!!! Wow. Incredible
This one is probably my favorite one so far you have shown. Beautiful tree! Thanks for sharing, have a blessed day.
One of the best yamadori I've seen ever
the sound filter work is fantastic. your voice changes a bit, but it think it's 1000x better than noise.
wish everybody was able to do what you did.
This plant has a spectacular strain . Beautiful! Congratulations. Gianni
Hello, greetings from SPAIN, Mallorca, an island in the Mediterranean, I really like your videos and your way of working with trees, substrates, collecting trees in the field, pruning, etc.
I also appreciate the subtitles in Spanish since my English is very basic, your way of narrating the work you do is very nice and educational, thanks for the tutorial videos...a hug from Mallorca!
Welcome back, nice little video 👍
great vid Ben! lonicera is an amazing resilient, versatile, vigorous species! great work. love the pot too.
Nice! And thank you!
So glad to see/hear from you again!!
Good to see your still at it. East Tennessee here!!! Look forward to more videos
This is one of the prettiest bonsai trees I've ever seen. I don't know how you got such a beautiful trunk.Greetings from Poland from the city of Cracow 👋☺️👍♥️🇵🇱
(Thank you for letting me translate the subtitles to my language )
My first Bonsai channel subscription, being from Appalachia means I watch you first. NW Georgia here. Going to bonsai pepper plants. Thanks for taking time to educate us, there is a positive place in the next world for people who do that.
“Smells good…”
Totally know what you are talking about!!!
Keep up the great work!
Love your channel brother. Beautiful tree. I grew up in Bluefield, WV. Keep up the work.
So happy you continued uploading Ben...good job
A beautiful plant. You certainly have a good eye!
Good to see another video of yours.
Bonsai update 22 nice bonsai thank you for sharing mr.
That's a great find. I have a thing for split trunk honeysuckle. I have gotten two. They are so cool and I can't get over the roots in mine as well. That one is amazing 👏
I value your videos. Thanks for posting.
Haha I just watch a 2018 update before this. Rocky’s a big boy now. 😊
Glad to see you’re back at it Ben!
Good to see you on here, too, Matt!
So glad to see you making another video. I hope your studies are going well. I too cultivate these. They are prone to a honeysuckle maggot that eats it's way around the cambium. I usually peel the bark that would naturally exfoliate like a silver maple bark for instance. It keeps the maggot from being able to hide and or take hold. I like the pot your tree is in btw. I wanted to add that with tree's like these the dead wood and rotted hollows are almost countercultural in that most deciduous are trained as healthy robust mature trees but your tree looks ancient and struggling to survive. Much needed in the world of bonsai! Thanks for the video!
Love this! And thanks for the insight on the wormy bits. That might explain a few things. I peel bark on the junipers and my dogwood for this, but didn't think about it with the honeysuckle.
Thank you....🙏 😔 🙏
It is so nice to see someone working on the honney suckle. They smell so good. Thank you for showing us what it looked like then and now.
🙏 🖖 🙏 😔 🙏 🙏 🙏
Glad you’re back, might collect one of these tomorrow
I love bonsai like that. They look like and old tree that has survived everything lightning and tornadoes. Great work Cheers from Ojai California
A great set of roots. I really like the look of this tree. 👍👍
Woah! That honeysuckle is so dope. Love it.
Great to see you back Ben
You're a bonsai wizard Ben!
You're amazing yourself!!
I am beginner I learn alote from yours video
Hai im from indonesia and i love youre vidios thx
I have a honeysuckle tree in my yard I am going to do bonsais tree it’s small like yours with thick trunk!!! Thanks for sharing! I will share my experience.
Thanks for the video!!! I have been watching waiting and hoping you would still be doing these. I'm in upstate NY and just repotted my multistem Amelanchier canadensis. And now have my eye on a yamadori Paper Birch when I can find time to dig it up. Keep the videos coming I really enjoy them!
Hi a great Lonicera they can make spectacular trees, I have four large ones, the wiring technique I use a lot with the thick bar underneath, you wrap the wire around it before threading through the holes I will copy that method which makes sense, so thanks for the video, I have mine to repot later this week.
I always look forward to your videos. Another good one, and nice tree
Bonsai indah ,
Love this trunk. Great progress!
That is a beauty.
really nice tree!
Beautiful tree I love'it
Beautiful tree. Nice film.
How strange. I haven't watched any of your videos lately except last night, I watched your honeysuckle video from years back....then today you upload this 👍
BaBAM!
Looked back on this 4 months later, you just called me your father in Turkish. Haha, "Babam!" means "My Father!" in Turkish.
Upvote for the 'Safe-T-Sorb"' I have some of that stuff now, too. But I also have, as of today, 360pounds of crushed brick. So I'm ready to collect, and repot,. Good to see you again. .
Wow... what a nice surprise to see you, again! I have a Honey Suckle as a bonsai. The vine was planted at a poultry yard on an old farm in Houston, Texas. Got verification from an elderly gentleman who knew it was planted from a cutting back in 1901. I have been working with it since 1994. Really enjoyed this presentation and am glad to see you, again. Cheers, Dick from Vancouver.
Whew!! What a tree you must have!
@@AppalachianBonsai Yes, it is very cool but dosen't have the mazzive trunk yours has.
Interisting..for watching your vid..
Good to watch this video. As this vine is so invasive, after almost ten years this August I have removed from my front yard. I was scared whether such big vine will recover or not. I spread rooting hormone and it is showing its growth! As we are approaching winter in North in zone 5, yesterday I placed it in my new hoophouse. Hope your work will help me start my journey in coming spring. If you have any advice!
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lol, at first I thought you just popped up from behind the tree. Summer fun incoming. I want to repot a tree that I just reported last spring. I used some make shift soil. I was out of my normal mix. But I’m worried about stressing the tree. But I also think it could grow better in proper soil. It grew slow all last summer. Not sure which is the lesser of 2 evils.🤷♂️
It should be okay, especially if it's not a pine. You can still do it with a pine, but only if you haven't done other major work. There are some people that will collect a tree in the autumn, then repot again in the spring after it's recovered some and acclimated to its new environment.
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Super glad to see new videos from you. Let us know how the safe t sorb works for you. I use to use it put I found it broke down quickly, about a year or so. I think it does pretty good specially if use no more than 50% safe t sorb in your mix. My experience was I used 50 50 safe t sorb and perlite and on the surface, the perlite would get washed away, leaving mostly safe t sorb and on the top inch or so and it would break down on the surface very quickly but not nearly as bad lower in the pot where there was still perlite. I think using a mix that is safe t sorb, perlite, and bark, the safe t sorb won't break down much at all. Also adding DE to that mix or substituting perlite with DE so it doesn't wash away on the surface like perlite does, maybe the best. But who knows I think different batches of safe t sorb is better than others. I switched back to DE, bark, and a small amount of perlite, I hope it does well. Is the color the only reason you stopped using DE? It is hard to get good affordable soil mix, like pumice on the east coast. You got any pointers? If I remember correctly, I've seen you use expanded shale, or decomposed granite? Do you recommend any of these and if so, where do you get it from? Thanks and sorry for being so long winded. :)
Wonderful to hear from you! I switched from DE to the safe t sorb mostly for color. The DE has also broken down quite a bit in my soils, so I figured, if it's gonna break down, might as well make it look good. The expanded shale comes from NC. It's a product called Stalite. It works great and looks great, much like a mix between lava rock and Turface, but the particle size of off-the-shelf bags is too large for what we do. The NC Arboretum has a contract with the producer to get smaller sizes, but they also order it by the truckload. Not good for you and me. The decomposed granite is chicken grit. I haven't used in a while because it's very heavy, but any farm supply store will have it. Color varies depending on the quarry.
@@AppalachianBonsai Okay, thanks for the info. I just bought some napa DE that is much different than what it normally is. The same 8822 bag but it is tan-ish brown. I guess it is from a different mine/quarry, I don't know if it is just this batch, or if napa has changed the supplier and all of it will be this way from now on. The one bag got was much smaller particles, after sifting, all I got was probably not even 1/4 of the bag that is useable. I hope other bags have larger particles, if so it might be very good. I don't know how it will hold up with freeze and thaw cycles but it does look much better than the old white stuff. When it is dry it is a light tan, but once it is wet, it turns a nice light brown or dark tan, similar to the color of akadama.
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love the vid, cant wait for more :)
nice bonsaï
Amazing❤❤
Great job! Whatever program you used to remove the wind noises worked great! 👍
Adobe Audition and their standard stock editor. You can grab a small section of sound then remove those frequencies from the whole thing. They made it easy.
Bravo!
Much appreciated!
When taking a cedar out of the wild do you suggest cleaning the root system out all the way and replacing with your mix or would you leave some of the old soil to try and promote growth? Love your Channel
I'd leave a little old soil under the main trunk, but I usually don't have any issues with cleaning a root system. I have stopped rinsing in water to preserve any mycorrhizae that cling to the fines.
Finally a new video.
You cannot imagine how busy he is. Full time professor at a prestigious university, running a business, running a bonsai club where he helps the elderly members with their trees, helping his autistic nephew. Every video is a gift of love.
Nice
It's good
Did you find it like this? I love the look of these hollow trunk bonsai
I didn't. It was growing like a weed, which is what it is. I've been working on it for 5-6 years now. There's a collection video about it on my channel.
That's great teacher, I'm student Brazilian at English and bonsai, please the English Sad
super arbre
epic tree bro
Oh yeah!!! Good to see you!
@@AppalachianBonsai great to see you!
I think i heard it ask to keep the sideburns long but you trimmed away lol
Happy to see another update!
It was my understanding that Turface *was* calcined clay -- am I wrong? are there different products with substantially different properties?
I was wrong when I made my soil test a few years ago. Turface is an expanded clay (LECA - Lightweight Expanded Clay Aggregate). Calcined clay is a little different.
olá meu amigo, quanto tempo que não venho aqui prestigiar seu trabalho, tenho trabalhado muito e fiquei sem tempo, espero que esteja bem 👍🏻
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Nice video , " i see a human face on your main trunk in the upper section " did you carved that?
I didn't, but the bugs gave it their best shot!
Very good! Question, how do you plan on stabilizing the dead, and i presume soft wood?
There are some products on the market that use an acetylate process (basically super glue) that binds to the wood and hardens it.
Where at in SW Virginia? My family is from there, a little town called Saltville.
Floyd. About 2 hours from you. Always wanted to check out Saltville. Maybe one of these days I will
I'm from Big Stone Gap. You near there by chance?
No, I'm about 3 hours away in Floyd county
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How do you keep squirrels from digging in your pots?
Dogs & Redtail Hawks. I'm rural, so I don't have as many squirrels on this property as I did in the suburbs, thankfully.
@@AppalachianBonsai ah, you’re lucky. I’m in suburban upstate NY. Didn’t have a problem last year, but this year they’ve already killed two of my newly collected pines 😡
I’ve been working on a honeysuckle (much inspired by yours) and I’ve missed my repot window. Leaves are already out. What should I do: late repot, or wait until next year?
You can do a late repot. This month is still good. I haven't repotted the majority of my plants, but I will be soon, too.
Did you move again?
Yup. 3 times in 4 years. Change of career and change in marital status. Lots of changes.
Me: how dense is the root structure? Him: shakes a teaspoon of gravel out.
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Hi, where do you purchase diatomaceous earth?
I've always gotten mine at NAPA Auto Parts, part #8822.
It doesn't do well over winter, it turns to mush. That's why I'm moving away from it. I'll be trying SafeTAbsorbent from Tractor Supply this year.
@@AppalachianBonsai thanks for your update, please keep me updated for future same kind of “soil “finding
It looks ancient.
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