I started growing plants a year ago when my husband left and filed for Divorce. I started watching this channel about that time. Learning Bonsai has taught me patients and helped me in dealing with this change in my life. Thank you for your channel you never know who your helping or in what way.
Thank you for the lesson sir, I am doing my best for my Chinese Elms, I have reflective foil on windows against sunburn. Every day soil check for watering, they have a humidity tray with pebbles. I’m starting with these two bonsai, I love elms, I am Dutch so Elms are typical for my country. I really hope they will do well.
Ficus trees also grow outdoors in the U.S. in southwest Florida. I lived in Fort Myers, Florida several years ago and was surprised to see that Ficus trees grew quite large there. They were HUGE. At first, I didn't know what they were, so I asked about them and was AMAZED to find out that they were Ficus trees! They grow very large, just like other sub-tropical trees do. There were Queen Poinciana trees, Banyan trees and many other species. So lovely!
I started with a Chinese Elm, and as Peter said outside is best. Mine was dying in the warm living room. Within six to eight weeks of being outside in the summer and it had fully recovered.
Hi Peter, Since I came across your vlog channel I’ve been thinking about what is a fast growing tree. Since I am in my twilight years and I don’t have enough years to start growing a pine tree or a Japanese maples tree. I needed a fast growing tree so I can learning to play with this hobby. I decided on the “Ficus” tree since it can be fast to grow indoors. I’m in my late 70’s and since I don’t have 35 years to wait for the tree to grow. I had rooted many Ficus from cutting to practice on my new hobby. I don’t have too many teeth to bite the bullet anymore. Just dentures. That is why I rooted so many Ficus encased I bite the wrong caliber bullet. 😅 Anyway thanks for all your tips on how to grow bonsai. Take Care my friend and have a blessed week. 🙏👍🙏
You are never too old to start bonsai. The other week I had a 93 year 'young' lady take a workshop with me. She picked up the general principles very quickly and her wiring is good. Enjoy your bonsai.
@@peterchan3100 Thanks for your encouragement Peter, It is not that I can’t take up the hobby it’s about picking up a fast growing tree. Either that or purchase an already mature tree and to practice my bonsai. I think that’s the best solution. Tree take a long time to mature. Take Care Peter and God Bless. 🙏🙏🙏
Ficuses certainly are a good option to get results fast. I started some from cuttings about 5 years ago; after 3 years they impressed experienced growers (and not just "for 3 years old"). If you can throw money at it, get a good grow light (not one of the electronic waste toys flooding online shops in recent years). Strong light will speed things up a lot (with granular substrate you can then water and fertilize agressively as well). The other option indeed would be to get an already relatively mature plant (not a styled bonsai, just a plant that has grown for a while already). Cutting back is fast, growing (especially bulking up) takes time.
I think Ficus benjamina can grow fast indoors. My Calamondin/calamasi (Citrus × microcarpa) grows fast when it is happy and you pick the flower buds so it doesn’t waste energy on flowers and fruits. But who can resist citrus flowers? But like many fruit trees it has a rather feminine look so don’t expect massive trunks. If you want super rapid growth and don’t mind that it is not an actual tree but can be a bonsai I think of Spekboom (Portulacaria afra). It is a succulent native from Africa and they are a favorite food for elephants, so imagen a heard hungry African elephants go loose on the bushes. It is like grass in cow field. You must grow like weed to exist. So when the Spekboom is in growing phase in warm period give it lot of water (sure soil drains well) and fertiliser and full sun and look how it takes away. After season you can hard prune it, because well it is used to hungry elephants.
I have several Citrus-trees and they are all very thankful and easy going. They come in variants for diffent habitats from Mediterranean to tropical so a broad range for adaption to your indoor preferences. They are also pretty tolerant to sub-optimal conditions to a certain extent. I think that important to indoor keept plants. Less stressed plants less risk for those hard to get rid of pest infestations that spread from plant to plant. So they are adaptive and from beginning not prone to pest beside occasional scale insects. They are very predictable how they grow and respond to pruning. Even hard prune. Every leaf base and thorn (yes citrus have them in some extent regular lemon have the biggest sharpest that can draw blood and like Calamondin have just small blunt bump) there is a dormant bud. I hard prune my Lemmon cutting down to its first three leaves and got instant new branches on all three leaves bases as I expected. Most want fruit trees as bonsai for flowering and Citrus get very rich and beautiful flowering that looks pretty AND smells better than the competition.
Seeing you mention the lemon trees makes me crave a video focused on citrus. I know I, and a lot of people, have some seedling lemon, orange or other kinds of citrus growing for bonsai eventually and your thoughts going in depth on care and trainning them into the beginnings of mature bonsai would be something I've love to see! Only a suggestion, of course, but one that came to mind watching this and figured might as well mention it!
Thank you for this Video!! I started with so called Indor- Bonsai because my parents and I lived in a flat with small Balcony no garden. So I had a few Trees, they didnt survived, I was in the age of 12, to give the right amount of water was the main problem plus "Indoortrees" need to stay outside during the summer (Northern Germany) That was during the 80' s. But I never gave up with that Hobby. Now my trees stay in the garden during summertime and everthig is way easier! I really love Podocarpus Macrophyllus, during winter they stay in a cold house with a temp. range from 6-12°C. They are easy to airlayer. Maybe we will enjoy Podocarpus on you Channel in the futur? Thank you for sharing all your wisdom with us! I have learned so many things from you! The impotant things I have discovered: Bonsai dont always have to be very small, outdoor trees with larger leaves are more in proportion if the have a good hight. If you grow your trees big, cut them down to get thick trunks! Use the small branches! You really opened up my mind!!!
Great video Peter - I do the same soaking technique with all my ‘sad’ plants but I add some seaweed solution too as it is a great tonic for strengthening roots 😊
Barbados Cherry is ‘Malphigia’ named after Italian ‘explorer’ who discovered it …not related to Sygizium…But, beautiful trees Peter… in Dubai we had 3 ‘Yamadori’ … beautiful flowers and mini ‘cherries’ … but not cherry family… Great videos for bonsai enthusiasts and experienced guys… Messaging from Dubai, UAE 👍🏼🍃
id love to see a ilex crenata demo from you mr peter. i like indoor trees alot. but sadly ive got no more room indoors over winter for tropical trees. so i been collecting more cold hardy things. just got a nice size ilex crenata over summer. letting it grow to learn more before i style and get to the root work its the northern beauty var. with super tiny leafs. thank you sir and your staff also
_🙏😔🙏 THANK YOU 🙏 😔 🙏_ Dr. Chan, I learn something new watching each of your videos. Thank you for educating us about the wonderful world of _Bonsai._ 🙏 🖖 🙏 😔 🙏
Bought a Chinese Elm September 2022 and it tended to drop leaves in my kitchen. Put it outside mid April 23 and after a few frosts it dropped all its leaves- thought I’d killed it then within about 5 weeks it was in full leaf. It’s now late November and still has all its leaves 😊
hi, I also have a chiniese elm which I keep outside all winter though. I may take it inside if the temps get below -10° C for a few days in a row, but one or two days of that the tree doesn't mind it seems. Sure, it lost all its leaves, but it sprouted in spring with no problems again. It may have come from a spot in China where it gets colder in Winter than some of the other elms sold in Europe. I have no real idea though how or why it did so well.
A good video, but what about Portulacaria Afra? A great indoor plant, though they really do love to spent the summer outdoors. Such a great plant for beginners and the leaves are edible.
Hello Peter. My name is Frank and i live in the netherlands. Is it possible to transplant my trident maple at this time of year???. We are moving to a different house. I have the tree in the garden for 10 years now and its almost perfect to dig out. Are there any options???
Can we have video about Buddhist Pine? That one seems very common Indoor bonsai and also seems very undervalued and it's hard to find any videos about that plant :(
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I don’t even have a bonsai I just like these videos 😂
then I recommend the lazy mans bonsai. They strive on neglect.
I don't either but love to see the videos and how amazing this hobby lifestyle is.
Well, you don’t have a bonsai as of yet… 😊
Me too 😂
YET!!
I started growing plants a year ago when my husband left and filed for Divorce. I started watching this channel about that time. Learning Bonsai has taught me patients and helped me in dealing with this change in my life. Thank you for your channel you never know who your helping or in what way.
Thank you for the lesson sir, I am doing my best for my Chinese Elms, I have reflective foil on windows against sunburn. Every day soil check for watering, they have a humidity tray with pebbles. I’m starting with these two bonsai, I love elms, I am Dutch so Elms are typical for my country. I really hope they will do well.
Ficus trees also grow outdoors in the U.S. in southwest Florida. I lived in Fort Myers, Florida several years ago and was surprised to see that Ficus trees grew quite large there. They were HUGE. At first, I didn't know what they were, so I asked about them and was AMAZED to find out that they were Ficus trees! They grow very large, just like other sub-tropical trees do. There were Queen Poinciana trees, Banyan trees and many other species. So lovely!
i liked the "number/score system" to give a better idea how hard or easy a plant is to grow indoors.
I have a ficus bonsai and I just got a juniper bonsai! Thank you for sharing your knowledge with us 🙏🏾
I started with a Chinese Elm, and as Peter said outside is best. Mine was dying in the warm living room. Within six to eight weeks of being outside in the summer and it had fully recovered.
all my indoor plants grow outside over the summer. It gives them enough strenth to survive the winter. A light also helps when the days get shorter.
0 for 2 with Chinese Elm. Batting much better with ficus... Over 80% start and succeed
Hi Peter,
Since I came across your vlog channel
I’ve been thinking about what is a fast growing tree.
Since I am in my twilight years and
I don’t have enough years to start growing a pine tree or a Japanese maples tree.
I needed a fast growing tree so I can learning to play with this hobby.
I decided on the “Ficus” tree since it can be fast to grow indoors.
I’m in my late 70’s and
since I don’t have 35 years to wait for the tree to grow.
I had rooted many Ficus from cutting to practice on my new hobby.
I don’t have too many teeth to bite the bullet anymore.
Just dentures.
That is why I rooted so many Ficus encased
I bite the wrong caliber bullet. 😅
Anyway thanks for all your tips on how to grow bonsai.
Take Care my friend and have a blessed week.
🙏👍🙏
You are never too old to start bonsai. The other week I had a 93 year 'young' lady take a workshop with me. She picked up the general principles very quickly and her wiring is good. Enjoy your bonsai.
@@peterchan3100 Thanks for your encouragement Peter, It is not that I can’t take up the hobby it’s about picking up a fast growing tree.
Either that or purchase an already mature tree and to practice my bonsai.
I think that’s the best solution. Tree take a long time to mature.
Take Care Peter and God Bless.
🙏🙏🙏
Ficuses certainly are a good option to get results fast. I started some from cuttings about 5 years ago; after 3 years they impressed experienced growers (and not just "for 3 years old"). If you can throw money at it, get a good grow light (not one of the electronic waste toys flooding online shops in recent years). Strong light will speed things up a lot (with granular substrate you can then water and fertilize agressively as well).
The other option indeed would be to get an already relatively mature plant (not a styled bonsai, just a plant that has grown for a while already). Cutting back is fast, growing (especially bulking up) takes time.
I think Ficus benjamina can grow fast indoors.
My Calamondin/calamasi (Citrus × microcarpa) grows fast when it is happy and you pick the flower buds so it doesn’t waste energy on flowers and fruits. But who can resist citrus flowers?
But like many fruit trees it has a rather feminine look so don’t expect massive trunks.
If you want super rapid growth and don’t mind that it is not an actual tree but can be a bonsai I think of Spekboom (Portulacaria afra). It is a succulent native from Africa and they are a favorite food for elephants, so imagen a heard hungry African elephants go loose on the bushes. It is like grass in cow field. You must grow like weed to exist.
So when the Spekboom is in growing phase in warm period give it lot of water (sure soil drains well) and fertiliser and full sun and look how it takes away. After season you can hard prune it, because well it is used to hungry elephants.
Try air-layering and yamadori for a faster solution than seedlings. Plant seeds for your grand-children, tho!!
I appreciate you putting this video together. Extremely helpful for folks like me just getting their toes wet with this artform.
I have several Citrus-trees and they are all very thankful and easy going.
They come in variants for diffent habitats from Mediterranean to tropical so a broad range for adaption to your indoor preferences. They are also pretty tolerant to sub-optimal conditions to a certain extent.
I think that important to indoor keept plants. Less stressed plants less risk for those hard to get rid of pest infestations that spread from plant to plant.
So they are adaptive and from beginning not prone to pest beside occasional scale insects.
They are very predictable how they grow and respond to pruning. Even hard prune. Every leaf base and thorn (yes citrus have them in some extent regular lemon have the biggest sharpest that can draw blood and like Calamondin have just small blunt bump) there is a dormant bud.
I hard prune my Lemmon cutting down to its first three leaves and got instant new branches on all three leaves bases as I expected.
Most want fruit trees as bonsai for flowering and Citrus get very rich and beautiful flowering that looks pretty AND smells better than the competition.
Seeing you mention the lemon trees makes me crave a video focused on citrus. I know I, and a lot of people, have some seedling lemon, orange or other kinds of citrus growing for bonsai eventually and your thoughts going in depth on care and trainning them into the beginnings of mature bonsai would be something I've love to see!
Only a suggestion, of course, but one that came to mind watching this and figured might as well mention it!
Thank you for this Video!! I started with so called Indor- Bonsai because my parents and I lived in a flat with small Balcony no garden. So I had a few Trees, they didnt survived, I was in the age of 12, to give the right amount of water was the main problem plus "Indoortrees" need to stay outside during the summer (Northern Germany) That was during the 80' s. But I never gave up with that Hobby. Now my trees stay in the garden during summertime and everthig is way easier! I really love Podocarpus Macrophyllus, during winter they stay in a cold house with a temp. range from 6-12°C. They are easy to airlayer. Maybe we will enjoy Podocarpus on you Channel in the futur? Thank you for sharing all your wisdom with us! I have learned so many things from you! The impotant things I have discovered: Bonsai dont always have to be very small, outdoor trees with larger leaves are more in proportion if the have a good hight. If you grow your trees big, cut them down to get thick trunks! Use the small branches! You really opened up my mind!!!
Great video Peter - I do the same soaking technique with all my ‘sad’ plants but I add some seaweed solution too as it is a great tonic for strengthening roots 😊
No dwarf schefflera??
Very popular here in the US and extremely easy to grow and propagate from cuttings. Thanks, keep growing
The only trouble is that they dont look like tree as they dont have decent trunks. Nigel Saunders has some nice ones.
Agreed. I have much good luck with these. Impossible to overwater
Barbados Cherry is ‘Malphigia’ named after Italian ‘explorer’ who discovered it …not related to Sygizium…But, beautiful trees Peter… in Dubai we had 3 ‘Yamadori’ … beautiful flowers and mini ‘cherries’ … but not cherry family…
Great videos for bonsai enthusiasts and experienced guys…
Messaging from Dubai, UAE 👍🏼🍃
id love to see a ilex crenata demo from you mr peter. i like indoor trees alot. but sadly ive got no more room indoors over winter for tropical trees. so i been collecting more cold hardy things. just got a nice size ilex crenata over summer. letting it grow to learn more before i style and get to the root work its the northern beauty var. with super tiny leafs. thank you sir and your staff also
Glad to see you wearing the shirt me and my dad gifted you. 😀
Great video again 😉👍
My Carmona is doing pretty good.
I also use a tray beneath the pot to pour some water on for the humidity 😉
Great Video! Very Interesting! Thank you Peter and the gang.
_🙏😔🙏 THANK YOU 🙏 😔 🙏_
Dr. Chan, I learn something new watching each of your videos. Thank you for educating us about the wonderful world of _Bonsai._
🙏 🖖 🙏 😔 🙏
Ilex Crenata grows well outside in Cornwall!
Thank you, Peter!
Thx for sharing Peter 👍
Bought a Chinese Elm September 2022 and it tended to drop leaves in my kitchen. Put it outside mid April 23 and after a few frosts it dropped all its leaves- thought I’d killed it then within about 5 weeks it was in full leaf. It’s now late November and still has all its leaves 😊
hi, I also have a chiniese elm which I keep outside all winter though. I may take it inside if the temps get below -10° C for a few days in a row, but one or two days of that the tree doesn't mind it seems. Sure, it lost all its leaves, but it sprouted in spring with no problems again. It may have come from a spot in China where it gets colder in Winter than some of the other elms sold in Europe. I have no real idea though how or why it did so well.
A good video, but what about Portulacaria Afra? A great indoor plant, though they really do love to spent the summer outdoors. Such a great plant for beginners and the leaves are edible.
How would a Nandina do as a house plant? Or at least inside during the winter. And would the water immersion method work on a Juniper that dried out?
How delightful
I keep my ficus outside 'till the temp drops to ±9 in the night. They react with a burst of growth, when i bring them inside
Usefull advice
Hello Peter. My name is Frank and i live in the netherlands. Is it possible to transplant my trident maple at this time of year???. We are moving to a different house. I have the tree in the garden for 10 years now and its almost perfect to dig out. Are there any options???
Nice
What are your thoughts on the dwarf schefflera? I have seen some of them styled convincingly.
Hi Peter , why are some of your trees under a cover within the greenhouse ?
Very helpful thanks 😊
How would you rate bougainvillea on your 1-10 scale, Peter?
Can we have video about Buddhist Pine? That one seems very common Indoor bonsai and also seems very undervalued and it's hard to find any videos about that plant :(
Love the shirt Peter! Wonder where it came from 🤔
Your shirt my friend.
@@peterchan3100 looking good Peter. Keep up the great videos
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