Since I watched a lot of these videos I decided to give it a go and dig up a small oak I had growing by my fence.I did the proper ways to extract and now weeks later I have small branches growing from its trunk again.I hope to be able to bonsai it
@@ogsxl I have found too the length of time you need to go before starting to train a specific species of tree depends on that individual species also. Spruce and some Pine and Juniper's you can start to train them after their first new growth. Here we have the Ground Juniper and you can start training them as soon as you know a transplant has gone to root and puts on its first new growth. My best Bonsai to date is a Black Hills Spruce that we brought home coming on 3 yrs ago this October. It honestly grew in a crack in a boulder then around a chunk of granite rock to get to water ! It was a little over 14" tall but had a trunk that was nearly 4 1/2" in diameter and it was all twisted and it's growth stunted by lack of water and because of the Altitude it was growing at. we brought it rock and all home and we will of had it here growing in a Pot we designed and the Wife made for it (Pottery and Photography are her hobbies) this October for 3 yrs. I started training it the first spring after pruning it and it's the center piece in our entryway to our home where it gets morning to mid afternoon sun year round. I tell everybody All we did was prune and train it a little....MOTHER NATURE did the rest....lol.
Looking back at what we have done or when we did it, or even looking at our children & seeing them at 40 yrs of age. I sit & think of the time which has passed by us. wonderful thoughts & peaceful. I thought of this when you know when & where you have started each bonsai. I'm sure you have some great memory's looking back at your business & what you have created.
😭 I thought I preferred the first 3 trees until the video continue and turned out I want them all 😁 haha. So many to gawk at and admire, beautiful and healthy. Well done Peter and thx for sharing 🙏 until next one, cheers 🌲🌿☕.
39:40 It's lovely seeing you're field maple (acer campestre), I have one of my own that is much younger then you'res. I have it wired and have seen some success from wiring it earlier in the year already. I look forward to seeing it's autumn colour, but, of course the real star is the bark. The bark is very rugged looking with those paler lines going down it. It has not produced seeds for me this year, but that's ok. If it produces seeds I'll propagate a few more.
Morning Peter iv not long discovered your channel,iv been keeping up with all your videos,iv just pruned my three bonsies ,you have taught me so much ,my trees are 70 years old thank you for teaching us what to do an not to do ,your love for all these trees shine through sending lv Ann uk x-
thank you Peter.... I would love to see a time lapse camera video of all you do in one day. I'm sure it would be amazing to see just what you do in one hours time!
It’s the perennial problem of doing something you love as a calling/career/business: it can take a lot of the joy out of the experience. It’s something you have to consider carefully before taking that leap. Love these videos though and I wish I had the experience to be able to prune with that efficiency. Impressive.
Thanks for the lovely video Peter. Such a lot of pruning, and nicely done, you are like poetry in motion. Enjoyed it all, and look forward to the next one.
loved this and I have the book I used to have 20 silver birch but. .. ..sadly all lost now I have quercus, Taxus, horse chestnut , maple, Betula, love your walk about a as it mentions trees I have thank you Peter such a beautiful legacy just hope My saved videos stay saved (thank you UA-cam) I had a stroke in 2020 and I'm enjoying my trees and videos. love your shirts too
I LOVE YOUR VIDEOS, Peter! I am fairly new to bonsai - always loved trees and their natural beauty. I appreciate the depths of your videos - all the dirty work, no video cuts. I enjoy listening to you speak about the trees and hearing your thought process on training the trees - it makes me feel like I am in the room with you and learning. So I know you get comments about the length of your videos but I love it! Keep up the amazing content. If I had to have a wish for your videos, it would be for before and after videos, like watching a video from a year or 2 ago, I'd love to see an update of the tree with a before and after :)
Thank you. Your kindness comes through your intelligent discourse and makes all the information easier to assimilate. I am gathering materials to make some hypertufa pots and tools and was granted permission to harvest from a few neighbors woods... thank you soo much.
Moin, Thank you for this greate Video! The Gernman version of your Book "Masterclass" is a bit differend. The mentioned famous tree ist not on the outside, it is on page 72 / 73 but it is the same picture. Thank you very much to show the tree and tell the story behind it. For me, if I look at the picture, the first thing I see is definitly the blue pot. This is a very good exampel about the interaction between the Pot and the Tree. Thank you for sharing your wisdom and experience!!!
I enjoyed this very much. I really get a lot of inspiration from watching you work so effortlessly. Makes me realize that my hobby is a form of meditative distraction for me, in my unbelievably, stressful life. I was sitting yesterday evening, looking at my benches full of my trials and errors, and contemplating how I am going to have to chop the trunks on two of my Tridents at some point. They are about 12 years old, but have very slight taper from the root base along their height. ( These were bonsai nursery stock I bought this year ) I have done trunk chopping in the past with my Japanese maples, and Dawn Redwoods, but the massive loss of the tree on these Tridents will mean years of "grow back" just to start training again. At my age, I sometimes find myself just leaving them and concentrating on branch training, and ramification, knowing I may not be here to see them through the process of re-growth....I should have started learning this many, MANY years ago...
I totally understand your regret for not starting your bonsai journey earlier in life. At nearly 73, I've only been on this marvelous path for 5 years. It's been a marvelous learning experience and an adventure in creative growth (pun intended). I don't worry about my potential lifespan--I consider it as open-ended.
@@michaelhoward487 That's a lovely way to view it. I'm a lot younger then yourself but I hope to view my advanced age in such a way. My grandmother lived to be 95, so it's well possible that you may live another 20 years
Stunning vid thank you for sharing. Nice to see the oak in the carpark again. Spring has come early here a lot of the trees are budding but we expected to get minus 2 next weekend so will have to cover them all.
The most common advice I've seen in the bonsai forums is to get LOTS of plants because the worst thing you can do to a bonsai is show it too much love because it's all you have to work on. Constantly messing with it...Peter has thousands of trees and proves this is true by quickly giving it a haircut and moving on to the next one that needs a LITTLE attention.
This is very true. I only have two bonsai but I try to leave them alone as much as possible. One was repotted last year but I'm allowing them to take on some growth this year so I can restyle them next year. No rush!
Wire marks most certainly have a time and place. I wrapped the trunks of a load of larch saplings 3 years ago. Probably frowned upon by purists, but it's given me 20+ twisty shohin trees that have brilliant taper in their trunks now. No wire in sight either as it's now contained inside the trunk! Literally 4/5 years to a very believable tree.
I work at an Architecture practice. A lot of our clients' residential developments are in Purley! We are currently looking to develop a site there ourselves. Personally for me, a community-based bonsai/ garden housing scheme would be a dream but alas, finances and planning make that dream hard to envision.
Another great video.. I would love to have any of the maples in that long row that said not for sale lol. That that Japanese hornbean is beautiful. All of them are
Good morning ...i had caterpillars prun my larch this year.🥲🥲🥲 so no satisfiing pruning for me .tho its has al new growth.im happy it did not die .guess i was rite on time saving it
Hey Peter, how are you and your family? I wish almighty must keep you and your family best of health and happiness. Great effort ,, the knowledge you share is Priceless cause you put your Heart to deliver it to the subscribers. Seriously hats off to you 👍👍
@@peterchan3100 Wow you been to Chandigarh!! It’s like 5 kms from my house and Peter is there any plan to visit again in future? Peter when i saw your video on UA-cam i started trying making Bonsais and wanted to humbly rectify the tools name which you call Chimta well actually it’s Pakad means Grip is used to pick utensils which have no handles to grab on specifically when the utensil is on the hot plate or a cooktop and Chimta is a very flattened tweezer kind of tool.
Video 16:00 regarding the pretty blue pot... traditions are often based in practicality. Are there justifications for using an unglazed, porous pot for a pine to allow the pot to shed salts and allow air exchange? And also, a glazed pot would better maintain humidity for moisture- loving trees such as maples. Curious.
You mentioned chopping the trunk to create taper. Is there a "best" time to do this for deciduous trees? Some say dormancy, some say early spring to encourage healing through the first growth season...your opinion?
You have beautiful beautiful do you sell any of them because I love to buy one from you it's real real beautiful and it's a lovely job you have wonderful hands to make bonsai you are very good artists with plants
how many times have I heard from you "how easy it is to cut your finger when pruning trees" ... and so I was not careful and cut my finger with scissors
I must have cut the tip of my left hand forefinger at least six times in the last fifty years which is not a bad average. Butchers cut their fingers more often than that.
About wiring... I wired My plants outside and bended 2 branches that losed all the leaves and now they are redoing the leaves and new growth losing thin branched did this year. (I am talking about my edge plants) Is it cos I did it in the beginning of the summer ?
Mr. Chan, in reference to the japanese goumi tree you mentioned, does it have thorns? We have three in our yard that we grow to make jelly out of and they have some gnarly thorns on them some maybe 2 inches.
After watching several of your video it appears that you are not a big fan of cascade type bonsai.Is it just personal preference or is there is technical reason behind it.
I love the trees but for my taste and budget lol not to mention my back..they are just too big. Also a question on the scotts pine... is it possible to get back budding on really old wood?..man...i wish i could send you a picture of my pine for advice.
I did show it on the video - all you do is to cut the growing tip off (but you must leave some green needles to pull the sap up) and it should back bud very quickly
I live in the Black Hills of South Dakota in the United States. Have been interested in Bonsai all my adult life. I'm actually a logger and have made my living cutting Pine, Spruce, Red Cedar, Fir & Hemlock as well as Aspen, from the British Columbian Coast AND the Canadian Rockies down into Washington and Oregon, across to Idaho, Montana, Wyoming to here in the Black Hills of Western South Dakota... and while I know it's odd for a person who cuts down Pines and Spruce to enjoy the Art of Bonsai...or to care about Trees, actually I wanted to get my degree in Forestry and work for the National Forest Service but when I was a Sr. In high school my Father was crushed and nearly killed by a run away section of Ponderosa Pine log that was 35' long and about 8' across at the big end while he was running a Log Skidder so since I was the oldest and we had employees to pay and contracts to fill we worked it out with my high school so I could finish my schooling at night so I could graduate at mid term from High School and help my Mom run the family Logging Business, and I have been in the Timber ever since. When I married and we had children they we worked so both our kids could go to college and now our Daughter works for the U.S. Fish and Wildlife service in Yellowstone...and our Son Works as a Forester for the National Forest Service and...the Wife and I....well we still own and run our little family Logging Company and I still carry a chainsaw to the tall timber every day only now we work through the US Forest Service and Thin out over grown forest to help rid us of the Pine Bark Beatles....it's an up & down hill ( honestly) job but very rewarding when we see forest that we thinned 15 years ago now full of beautiful huge Ponderosa Pines and Black Hills Spruce, Blue Spruce and White Fir growing to sizes un-seen and not heard of here in nearly a hundred years...we have Ponderosa now that are 100' tall and 5' across at the stump and they are as straight as telephone poles and perfectly healthy. Anyway Mr.Chan I just wanted to say thank you so much for your videos and your experience and taking the time to teach people who want to enjoy the Art and beauty of Bonsai....since I have been working along with your videos "using the 2 branch method" my blood pressure has dropped so much it's not even funny. The peace and quiet, the beauty and serenity that one creates when working with a nice healthy Spruce or Juniper is simply amazing. Thanks Again so very much. Oh I am told that the Black Hills Spruce is a species of Spruce that grows NO WHERE IN THE WILD BUT HERE ....All I know is they have wonderful snow white wood and are very hardy trees they can and do grow outside in the earth up to 80 to 100 feet tall but yet the will grow on a rock if there is a crack where the tap roots can get water ....I would love to send you some seedlings if it's possible to do so ?....one if my best Bonsai is a Black Hills Spruce that had honestly grown its roots around a bucket size piece of Granite and has naturally stunted growth and it was all twisted to start with ....well It was on a hillside that was going to have a forest service road cut through it so I got permission and removed it rock and all and brought it straight home and put it in a heavy home made clay bonsai pot that my wife made for me in her pottery shop ( her hobby is pottery ) she and I designed one that could hold the chunk of granite it was growing around that I had to bust in half so we could lift and move it later and I have been working on it for about 2 years now ...it's my greatest joy and a reminder of what nature can do on its own so much better than I can. Thanks Again so much Mr.Chan R.C. and Tracie Hill. Post Script: Sorry this was so long a reply but I wanted you to understand how much your kind and selfless act of making videos goes even to people a long way from the U.K. !
Hi Randy - I dont often revisit videos that have been posted a long time ago but just happened to stumble across this one again and read your wonderful story. You have a hard but ever so interesting life. Honest labour makes for a good life. I wish you all the best. I would love to visit the Black Hills one day. Which song is it that refers to the Black Hills of Dakota? If you have some seeds of various trees, I would love to sow them and see how I get on. Stay blessed my friend.
@@peterchan3100 Hello, I just got the notice that you had replied. Sat right down and read what you said. I would only be too happy to send you seeds from the Ponderosa Pine and Black Hills Spruce. We just need to figure out how to communicate, it's odd that you found my reply, I actually replied before I realized it was to an older video ! Anyway this last week I put down some seeds from both Species and some from our ground juniper (don't know the proper name for it but it's some sort of ground covering juniper it smells so wonderful when it's pruned....lol) this is my first attempt of growing trees from seed so we will see how it goes. So you let me know how to get them sent to you and I will send you all the seeds you want. Both Species are very hardy trees the Ponderosa seems to grow anyplace it wants but the Spruce seems to like more water ? I use a mixture of the soil they come from, and bonsai soil with all the ingredients you speak about like Aka-dama I hope I spelled that right ? And all the other ingredients like the volcanic rock and so forth it's supposed to be formulated for Pines, Spruce and Juniper but who knows lol the soil they grow in out in the forest is just soil with rocks in it and they grow like weeds out in the forest and I have found leaving them in the soil I dig them up with is best at least for these trees anyway. So you let me know how and what to do and I will send you a bunch of seeds for both.
Crazy to think that this nursery will outlive Peter and his children and grandchildren’s🙏🏼 bless to witness such life with nature
Peter, you have cured my anxiety.... Thank you
Watching Peter Chan videos on bonsai is my evening zen activity.
Since I watched a lot of these videos I decided to give it a go and dig up a small oak I had growing by my fence.I did the proper ways to extract and now weeks later I have small branches growing from its trunk again.I hope to be able to bonsai it
Leave it for 2 yrs before pruning if you are serious on growing it. Average recovery time for collected specie is 3-4 yrs developing new roots
@@ogsxl
I have found too the length of time you need to go before starting to train a specific species of tree depends on that individual species also. Spruce and some Pine and Juniper's you can start to train them after their first new growth.
Here we have the Ground Juniper and you can start training them as soon as you know a transplant has gone to root and puts on its first new growth.
My best Bonsai to date is a Black Hills Spruce that we brought home coming on 3 yrs ago this October.
It honestly grew in a crack in a boulder then around a chunk of granite rock to get to water ! It was a little over 14" tall but had a trunk that was nearly 4 1/2" in diameter and it was all twisted and it's growth stunted by lack of water and because of the Altitude it was growing at. we brought it rock and all home and we will of had it here growing in a Pot we designed and the Wife made for it (Pottery and Photography are her hobbies) this October for 3 yrs. I started training it the first spring after pruning it and it's the center piece in our entryway to our home where it gets morning to mid afternoon sun year round. I tell everybody All we did was prune and train it a little....MOTHER NATURE did the rest....lol.
Looking back at what we have done or when we did it, or even looking at our children & seeing them at 40 yrs of age. I sit & think of the time which has passed by us. wonderful thoughts & peaceful. I thought of this when you know when & where you have started each bonsai. I'm sure you have some great memory's looking back at your business & what you have created.
Thanks for showing us your book photo of the famous pine, along with its later development. Love to see such comparisons.
It's Sunday. Must be coffee morning at Heron's with a new video ❤
Such an amazing and beautiful story, That Scott Pine is an amazing and beautiful specimen!!
Brilliant, love to see these nursery tours.
You made a great pun-going to pot! I so admire your talent.
😭 I thought I preferred the first 3 trees until the video continue and turned out I want them all 😁 haha. So many to gawk at and admire, beautiful and healthy. Well done Peter and thx for sharing 🙏 until next one, cheers 🌲🌿☕.
39:40 It's lovely seeing you're field maple (acer campestre), I have one of my own that is much younger then you'res. I have it wired and have seen some success from wiring it earlier in the year already. I look forward to seeing it's autumn colour, but, of course the real star is the bark. The bark is very rugged looking with those paler lines going down it. It has not produced seeds for me this year, but that's ok. If it produces seeds I'll propagate a few more.
Morning Peter iv not long discovered your channel,iv been keeping up with all your videos,iv just pruned my three bonsies ,you have taught me so much ,my trees are 70 years old thank you for teaching us what to do an not to do ,your love for all these trees shine through sending lv Ann uk x-
You must come and visit us sometime.
There is so much work to do!
Always love to watch you at work,Sir!
Should love to do these tasks any were,myself,wonderfull!
It's always a pleasure to watch your nursery tours
thank you Peter.... I would love to see a time lapse camera video of all you do in one day. I'm sure it would be amazing to see just what you do in one hours time!
It’s the perennial problem of doing something you love as a calling/career/business: it can take a lot of the joy out of the experience. It’s something you have to consider carefully before taking that leap. Love these videos though and I wish I had the experience to be able to prune with that efficiency. Impressive.
Thanks for the lovely video Peter. Such a lot of pruning, and nicely done, you are like poetry in motion. Enjoyed it all, and look forward to the next one.
Good morning from Trinidad. I am learning so much.Thanks Peter for your time and tutorials.💕
Thank you for sharing the history of the trees. Hope to see more of these videos.
loved this and I have the book I used to have 20 silver birch but. .. ..sadly all lost now I have quercus, Taxus, horse chestnut , maple, Betula, love your walk about a as it mentions trees I have thank you Peter such a beautiful legacy just hope My saved videos stay saved (thank you UA-cam) I had a stroke in 2020 and I'm enjoying my trees and videos. love your shirts too
WOOOOOOW. The same tree. Oh! I ❤️this tree.
I LOVE YOUR VIDEOS, Peter! I am fairly new to bonsai - always loved trees and their natural beauty. I appreciate the depths of your videos - all the dirty work, no video cuts. I enjoy listening to you speak about the trees and hearing your thought process on training the trees - it makes me feel like I am in the room with you and learning. So I know you get comments about the length of your videos but I love it! Keep up the amazing content. If I had to have a wish for your videos, it would be for before and after videos, like watching a video from a year or 2 ago, I'd love to see an update of the tree with a before and after :)
I do updates from time to time on different projects
You're right, the pruning never Ends! Amazing Trees as always!
Thank you. Your kindness comes through your intelligent discourse and makes all the information easier to assimilate. I am gathering materials to make some hypertufa pots and tools and was granted permission to harvest from a few neighbors woods... thank you soo much.
I'm in love with maples
Moin, Thank you for this greate Video! The Gernman version of your Book "Masterclass" is a bit differend. The mentioned famous tree ist not on the outside, it is on page 72 / 73 but it is the same picture. Thank you very much to show the tree and tell the story behind it. For me, if I look at the picture, the first thing I see is definitly the blue pot. This is a very good exampel about the interaction between the Pot and the Tree. Thank you for sharing your wisdom and experience!!!
These trees are magnificent!
Thank you... 🙏 😔 🙏
Dr. Chan, thoroughly enjoyed the tour....
Another very dense(filled with information) video,,,, as are all your videos....
🙏 🖖🙏
Thank you for another great video Uncle Peter!!
I enjoyed this very much. I really get a lot of inspiration from watching you work so effortlessly. Makes me realize that my hobby is a form of meditative distraction for me, in my unbelievably, stressful life. I was sitting yesterday evening, looking at my benches full of my trials and errors, and contemplating how I am going to have to chop the trunks on two of my Tridents at some point. They are about 12 years old, but have very slight taper from the root base along their height. ( These were bonsai nursery stock I bought this year ) I have done trunk chopping in the past with my Japanese maples, and Dawn Redwoods, but the massive loss of the tree on these Tridents will mean years of "grow back" just to start training again. At my age, I sometimes find myself just leaving them and concentrating on branch training, and ramification, knowing I may not be here to see them through the process of re-growth....I should have started learning this many, MANY years ago...
I totally understand your regret for not starting your bonsai journey earlier in life. At nearly 73, I've only been on this marvelous path for 5 years. It's been a marvelous learning experience and an adventure in creative growth (pun intended).
I don't worry about my potential lifespan--I consider it as open-ended.
@@michaelhoward487 That's a lovely way to view it. I'm a lot younger then yourself but I hope to view my advanced age in such a way.
My grandmother lived to be 95, so it's well possible that you may live another 20 years
✂️🌿🌿🌿🌿🌿🌿✂️🌿🌿🌿🌿🌴 another relaxing start to a Sunday morning! You could of called this video (PETER SCISSOR HANDS)! 😊👍
31:21 primary branches of a hornbeam grow upwards naturally
Thanks for your informations you give in your videos. i'm looking all of them.
I just started a bonsai collection so this was very helpful! Thank you!
First!
Two weeks to my Peter Chan tribute tour to Wisley and Herons 😊
Always very interesting and amusing to hear your stories and anecdotes. 🙏
Stunning vid thank you for sharing. Nice to see the oak in the carpark again. Spring has come early here a lot of the trees are budding but we expected to get minus 2 next weekend so will have to cover them all.
The most common advice I've seen in the bonsai forums is to get LOTS of plants because the worst thing you can do to a bonsai is show it too much love because it's all you have to work on. Constantly messing with it...Peter has thousands of trees and proves this is true by quickly giving it a haircut and moving on to the next one that needs a LITTLE attention.
This is very true. I only have two bonsai but I try to leave them alone as much as possible. One was repotted last year but I'm allowing them to take on some growth this year so I can restyle them next year. No rush!
😁the madness method i like but i am always tempted to prune and enjoy the daily cut. Thanks for sharing your knowledge Sir.
Very interesting story about your famous tree from the book cover.
Wire marks most certainly have a time and place. I wrapped the trunks of a load of larch saplings 3 years ago. Probably frowned upon by purists, but it's given me 20+ twisty shohin trees that have brilliant taper in their trunks now. No wire in sight either as it's now contained inside the trunk! Literally 4/5 years to a very believable tree.
I work at an Architecture practice. A lot of our clients' residential developments are in Purley! We are currently looking to develop a site there ourselves. Personally for me, a community-based bonsai/ garden housing scheme would be a dream but alas, finances and planning make that dream hard to envision.
I would love to design and make something there for you.
Wonderful demonstration and talk. Thank you!!
I have really enjoyed all the videos he does it has really helped me try to figure out how to care for mine
Thanks Peter, some super trees there, far too big for my garden though.
thank you sir for showing this, you have a beautiful bonsai garden.
Hi from Pamplona. Peter Chan is the best
two different wellies - classic!
Another great video.. I would love to have any of the maples in that long row that said not for sale lol. That that Japanese hornbean is beautiful. All of them are
those maples are being grown on to refine.
Great work Mr.Chan , truly fantastic trees! Thanks for the video. Greetings from Belgium.
I have that book. Had it for many years.
=========maybe a video about seedlings /cuttings? what can now be rooted ?
Good morning ...i had caterpillars prun my larch this year.🥲🥲🥲 so no satisfiing pruning for me .tho its has al new growth.im happy it did not die .guess i was rite on time saving it
Hey Peter, how are you and your family? I wish almighty must keep you and your family best of health and happiness.
Great effort ,, the knowledge you share is Priceless cause you put your Heart to deliver it to the subscribers. Seriously hats off to you 👍👍
Thank. you for your good wishes. I am well. Where in India are you?
@@peterchan3100 Punjab
@@sabbigill1 - I have been to Chandigarh a couple of times.
@@peterchan3100 Wow you been to Chandigarh!! It’s like 5 kms from my house and Peter is there any plan to visit again in future?
Peter when i saw your video on UA-cam i started trying making Bonsais and wanted to humbly rectify the tools name which you call Chimta well actually it’s Pakad means Grip is used to pick utensils which have no handles to grab on specifically when the utensil is on the hot plate or a cooktop and Chimta is a very flattened tweezer kind of tool.
@@sabbigill1 I know Mrs Rupan Deol Bajaj very well. I call her the Ficus bonsai queen. Her bonsai skills are very good.
Video 16:00 regarding the pretty blue pot... traditions are often based in practicality. Are there justifications for using an unglazed, porous pot for a pine to allow the pot to shed salts and allow air exchange? And also, a glazed pot would better maintain humidity for moisture- loving trees such as maples. Curious.
Hadir mengikuti, Mantap perawatan bonsai🌳nya mister Sukses selalu 😀👍 salam dari INDONESIA👍
1st minute..me...dang he got good trees !
You mentioned chopping the trunk to create taper. Is there a "best" time to do this for deciduous trees? Some say dormancy, some say early spring to encourage healing through the first growth season...your opinion?
Spring and Summer are good for doing this.
@@peterchan3100 Many thanks!
Super.! Jeszcze proszę pokazać jak formować świerk.
I love this guy!
Thank you
i like that u wear two different pair of rubber boots ;)
I dont throw anything away,
@@peterchan3100 Just like my dad except one is size 10 the other size 11 ;)
It would be nice to have some videos on tropical bonsais 👍
Tropical bonsai is called indoor bonsai here in The north and Peter made some videos About "indoor" bonsai on his channel
Not so relevant for a temperate climate bonsai nursery.
Check the back catalogue of videos. Peter has covered ficus amongst others. 😀
learn so much, thanks for sharing!👍
koleksinya keren om
Hi Peter,
What do you use to feed the trees? Do you use different fertilisers for different trees?
Best wishes from South Africa.
Same for all trees but high N in Spring and high P &K in late Summer
Love from Bharat!
Thank you for good advice kupchak 😂🥰
Can ornamental Apricot trees be trimmed in July or is it better to prune the, in late winter after they bloom?
Thanks Bob in USA
I would love to work there!
You can come and work for a few days - I have a few fans who do this.
@@peterchan3100 I live in Ohio in the United States. If I ever take a European vacation I will definitely do that
Me, too!
thanks for sharing, lov'it!
Well done !!
Love your videos. Thanks
Where can I find the big shallow plastic pots? Like the last tree in the video?
You have beautiful beautiful do you sell any of them because I love to buy one from you it's real real beautiful and it's a lovely job you have wonderful hands to make bonsai you are very good artists with plants
Another inspiring video, what is the red tree over your shoulder in the background?
I've been watching listening to Peter for 4 hours. Is that normal?
Very beautiful.
Amazing Sunday morning viewing Peter. Would love to see how you prune juniper procumbens. 🙏🏻
Обалдеть Красота какая😍
Is wire a part of a bonsai tree. Can a finished bonsai be really a bonsai only if there is no wire in it.
If I travel to England can I bring some of your plants back to the US ?
NO - US customs will destroy them
Tradução Pará o português do Brasil GRATIDÃO. Quanto custa um bonsai destes?🙏🙌👏.
Nice bonsai
how many times have I heard from you "how easy it is to cut your finger when pruning trees" ... and so I was not careful and cut my finger with scissors
I must have cut the tip of my left hand forefinger at least six times in the last fifty years which is not a bad average. Butchers cut their fingers more often than that.
Same 🫣😂
About wiring... I wired My plants outside and bended 2 branches that losed all the leaves and now they are redoing the leaves and new growth losing thin branched did this year. (I am talking about my edge plants) Is it cos I did it in the beginning of the summer ?
Very good
🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹 thanks Peter
Nice video!!
Do you sharpen your scissors and secateurs often?
Once a fortnight
Mr. Chan, in reference to the japanese goumi tree you mentioned, does it have thorns? We have three in our yard that we grow to make jelly out of and they have some gnarly thorns on them some maybe 2 inches.
Yes they do have thorns
Always a good idea to invest in some good gloves. I wear two pairs at once, otherwise my fruit thorns and roses kill my hands
After watching several of your video it appears that you are not a big fan of cascade type bonsai.Is it just personal preference or is there is technical reason behind it.
Is there any kind of tree that you wouldn’t shape as a bonsai?
Nice
I love the trees but for my taste and budget lol not to mention my back..they are just too big.
Also a question on the scotts pine... is it possible to get back budding on really old wood?..man...i wish i could send you a picture of my pine for advice.
Yes it does bud back on old wood
@@peterchan3100 how would i do that? Is there a way i can send you an image via email.
I did show it on the video - all you do is to cut the growing tip off (but you must leave some green needles to pull the sap up) and it should back bud very
quickly
Yo, sir!
I live in the Black Hills of South Dakota in the United States. Have been interested in Bonsai all my adult life. I'm actually a logger and have made my living cutting Pine, Spruce, Red Cedar, Fir & Hemlock as well as Aspen, from the British Columbian Coast AND the Canadian Rockies down into Washington and Oregon, across to Idaho, Montana, Wyoming to here in the Black Hills of Western South Dakota... and while I know it's odd for a person who cuts down Pines and Spruce to enjoy the Art of Bonsai...or to care about Trees, actually I wanted to get my degree in Forestry and work for the National Forest Service but when I was a Sr. In high school my Father was crushed and nearly killed by a run away section of Ponderosa Pine log that was 35' long and about 8' across at the big end while he was running a Log Skidder so since I was the oldest and we had employees to pay and contracts to fill we worked it out with my high school so I could finish my schooling at night so I could graduate at mid term from High School and help my Mom run the family Logging Business, and I have been in the Timber ever since. When I married and we had children they we worked so both our kids could go to college and now our Daughter works for the U.S. Fish and Wildlife service in Yellowstone...and our Son Works as a Forester for the National Forest Service and...the Wife and I....well we still own and run our little family Logging Company and I still carry a chainsaw to the tall timber every day only now we work through the US Forest Service and Thin out over grown forest to help rid us of the Pine Bark Beatles....it's an up & down hill ( honestly) job but very rewarding when we see forest that we thinned 15 years ago now full of beautiful huge Ponderosa Pines and Black Hills Spruce, Blue Spruce and White Fir growing to sizes un-seen and not heard of here in nearly a hundred years...we have Ponderosa now that are 100' tall and 5' across at the stump and they are as straight as telephone poles and perfectly healthy.
Anyway Mr.Chan I just wanted to say thank you so much for your videos and your experience and taking the time to teach people who want to enjoy the Art and beauty of Bonsai....since I have been working along with your videos "using the 2 branch method" my blood pressure has dropped so much it's not even funny. The peace and quiet, the beauty and serenity that one creates when working with a nice healthy Spruce or Juniper is simply amazing.
Thanks Again so very much.
Oh I am told that the Black Hills Spruce is a species of Spruce that grows NO WHERE IN THE WILD BUT HERE ....All I know is they have wonderful snow white wood and are very hardy trees they can and do grow outside in the earth up to 80 to 100 feet tall but yet the will grow on a rock if there is a crack where the tap roots can get water ....I would love to send you some seedlings if it's possible to do so ?....one if my best Bonsai is a Black Hills Spruce that had honestly grown its roots around a bucket size piece of Granite and has naturally stunted growth and it was all twisted to start with ....well It was on a hillside that was going to have a forest service road cut through it so I got permission and removed it rock and all and brought it straight home and put it in a heavy home made clay bonsai pot that my wife made for me in her pottery shop ( her hobby is pottery ) she and I designed one that could hold the chunk of granite it was growing around that I had to bust in half so we could lift and move it later and I have been working on it for about 2 years now ...it's my greatest joy and a reminder of what nature can do on its own so much better than I can.
Thanks Again so much
Mr.Chan
R.C. and Tracie Hill.
Post Script: Sorry this was so long a reply but I wanted you to understand how much your kind and selfless act of making videos goes even to people a long way from the U.K. !
Hi Randy - I dont often revisit videos that have been posted a long time ago but just happened to stumble across this one again and read your wonderful story. You have a hard but ever so interesting life. Honest labour makes for a good life. I wish you all the best.
I would love to visit the Black Hills one day. Which song is it that refers to the Black Hills of Dakota?
If you have some seeds of various trees, I would love to sow them and see how I get on.
Stay blessed my friend.
@@peterchan3100
Hello,
I just got the notice that you had replied. Sat right down and read what you said. I would only be too happy to send you seeds from the Ponderosa Pine and Black Hills Spruce. We just need to figure out how to communicate, it's odd that you found my reply, I actually replied before I realized it was to an older video ! Anyway this last week I put down some seeds from both Species and some from our ground juniper (don't know the proper name for it but it's some sort of ground covering juniper it smells so wonderful when it's pruned....lol) this is my first attempt of growing trees from seed so we will see how it goes.
So you let me know how to get them sent to you and I will send you all the seeds you want. Both Species are very hardy trees the Ponderosa seems to grow anyplace it wants but the Spruce seems to like more water ?
I use a mixture of the soil they come from, and bonsai soil with all the ingredients you speak about like Aka-dama I hope I spelled that right ? And all the other ingredients like the volcanic rock and so forth it's supposed to be formulated for Pines, Spruce and Juniper but who knows lol the soil they grow in out in the forest is just soil with rocks in it and they grow like weeds out in the forest and I have found leaving them in the soil I dig them up with is best at least for these trees anyway.
So you let me know how and what to do and I will send you a bunch of seeds for both.
What brand of pruning shears are you using?. I am i Australia
The red ones are Felco No.2
Thanks Peter.
So does Japanese style bonsai any different from Chinese one ?
Yes very different