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We offer bonsai trees grown locally from seed and cuttings; unique bonsai containers; high-quality tools and supplies; workshops and classes; lifestyle merchandise; and easy-to-follow advice so you can keep your bonsai happy and healthy. We care deeply about the planet and creating a business that gives back to nature, which is why we're honored to have reforestation through One Tree Planted as an integral part of our business model - we donate 1% of all our sales to One Tree Planted!
Bonsaify | Decandling Pine Bonsai on Repeat: Tips, Tips, and more Tips!
No, you're not hearing voices or seeing in triplicate...Eric toggles between three Japanese Black Pines at different stages of development throughout this decandling and summer thinning video!
00:01:23 360 degree view of the high density of growth.
00:02:56 Keeping tree as compact as possible.
00:04:00 Decision-making process of cutting at the node vs behind the nodes.
00:05:35 Discussion of sacrifice branch.
00:07:03 Thinning needles to reduce crowding and maintain light penetration.
00:08:37 Psych! Thinning work on a refined tree with great nebari and bark.
For a much more linear instruction on decandling and thinning of pine bonsai, check out Part I, Chapter 6 of "Mastering Shohin Japanese Black Pine Bonsai: A Step-by-Step Guide to Cultivating and Growing Your Perfect Tree"! www.bonsaify.com/products/mastering-shohin-japanese-black-pine-bonsai-ecourse
Please give this video a like; share it with your bonsai friends; and subscribe to our channel for more great bonsai videos! Thank you!
00:01:23 360 degree view of the high density of growth.
00:02:56 Keeping tree as compact as possible.
00:04:00 Decision-making process of cutting at the node vs behind the nodes.
00:05:35 Discussion of sacrifice branch.
00:07:03 Thinning needles to reduce crowding and maintain light penetration.
00:08:37 Psych! Thinning work on a refined tree with great nebari and bark.
For a much more linear instruction on decandling and thinning of pine bonsai, check out Part I, Chapter 6 of "Mastering Shohin Japanese Black Pine Bonsai: A Step-by-Step Guide to Cultivating and Growing Your Perfect Tree"! www.bonsaify.com/products/mastering-shohin-japanese-black-pine-bonsai-ecourse
Please give this video a like; share it with your bonsai friends; and subscribe to our channel for more great bonsai videos! Thank you!
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Bonsaify | Watch and Learn: Mini Elm Trim
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Eric trims a small Chinese elm. This small tree is about 3" tall, an air layer from a larger tree originally. Check out Bonsaify.com for elm starters!
Bonsaify | Summer Cutback on a ROR Pine
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Previous Video on the same tree: ua-cam.com/video/QcFd0Qziu6Q/v-deo.html Eric performs some summer cutback on a Root-Over-Rock Japanese Black pine that was the subject of a video 18 months ago. Summer cutback is the best way to create compact growth on a pine while simultaneously allowing a sacrifice branch to bulk up the wood. 00:00:45 - There have been two spurts of growth since the last vide...
Bonsaify | From Mass Market to Masterpiece Ficus Part 5: Growing Aerial Roots
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Eric revisits our favorite Ficus to continue its journey from mass market, to show-quality masterpiece! Highlighting the work needed to promote the growth of aerial roots, this video includes cutback, wiring and unwiring, and lots of root work. 00:00:15 Revisiting previous work from September, October, and November 2023, including removing excess shoots, recutting old stubs, and wiring. 00:01:4...
Bonsaify | Jay's Towering Redwood Bonsai
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Eric checks in with Jay and helps him wrangle a redwood that has escaped from bonsai training for the last few years. Jay says this is episode 5. 00:00:25 - Jay explains a bit of the history and shape of the tree. 00:01:55 - Eric and Jay get to work, looking at the silhouette and reducing some branching. 00:03:27 - Some wiring tips 00:04:30 - Jay explains the lower dead branch and deadwood on t...
Bonsaify | Hornbeam Raft-Style Bonsai in Spring: So Many Leaves to Pluck!
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After years of ground growing in our yard, this raft-style Korean Hornbeam looks so healthy and very leafy! Eric began thinning out the leaves as an example of deciduous work done in the Spring, as part of a demo for the Redwood Empire Bonsai Society (REBS). He finishes the work in this video, and shares a critical step for developing a deciduous bonsai. Check our Korean Hornbeam starters on Bo...
Bonsaify | Two Techniques to Create an Ideal Zelkova Broom Bonsai
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Trying to get closer to making the ideal broom-style Zelkova, Eric experiments with a new technique he discovered in a Japanese bonsai book. 00:00:39 There are two substyles of Zelkova broom - the first is all branches come out from a central place, and the second still has a leader but there's rapid tapering and dividing. 00:01:17 Eric shares an example of the second technique with finer branc...
Bonsaify | Revisiting a Chinese Corkbark Elm: How Accurate were Eric's Predictions?
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Eric revisits a root-over-rock Chinese Corkbark Elm he worked on in spring 2023. During this video, he focuses on leaf cutback and wiring to continue improving the tree's branching structure. Last year, he made certain predictions about the tree's growth patterns. How accurate were his visions for the future? 00:00:54 Removing a significant portion of the leaves to see the structure. 00:01:33 E...
Bonsaify | Spring Work on Deciduous Bonsai Trees
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Eric demonstrates spring work on seven species in less than seven minutes! 00:00:11 Mini Washington Hawthorn 00:00:37 Small Cork Elm 00:00:52 Leaf reduction on a field-grown Trident Maple. Eric removed this tree from the group last fall over a dormant period, and this is his first time working on it. He reviews the structure and makes corrections. 00:02:07 After removing a giant stub, Eric clea...
Bonsaify | Genius Tips for Early Development of Genus Carpinus (Hornbeam)
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Eric shares three examples of bonsai early development work on Carpinus japonica (Japanese Hornbeam) and Carpinus turczaninovii (Korean Hornbeam). This work includes repotting and a review of the trees' structure. While Korean Hornbeam is a prized species for bonsai, the differences in speed of growth and other characteristics make it fun to grow both species! [Yes, we had a little fun with the...
Bonsaify | Cavalier or Fear? Working on Black Ezo Spruce
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Eric discusses how he advises his students to overcome nerves or push back against over-eagerness when working on trees, using Black Ezo Spruce (Picea jezoensis) as the exemplar species. 00:00:24 These spruce surprised Eric by growing vigorously in the Bay Area since they tend to be cold climate plants. 00:01:20 Pinching off new tips to create more dense branching structure. Also, thinning out ...
Bonsaify | Are You Developing a Good Dwarf Jade Trunk?
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In this follow up video Eric revisits a Dwarf Jade (Portulacaria afra) that he cut back heavily a couple years ago. First video on the older tree: ua-cam.com/video/CGgnDVwB3fo/v-deo.html Second Video: ua-cam.com/video/3NvKbzp7wHU/v-deo.html Developing dwarf jade should be similar to developing other bonsai species. The trunk is the focus of the composition and the branching is the icing on top....
Bonsaify | Make Radiant Radial Nebari for Japanese Maple Bonsai
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Eric shares his techniques for developing stunning nebari on young Japanese Maples grown from seed. Learn how to get your nebari growing in the right direction! 00:00:25 Dispelling the myth that Japanese Maples can't be grown from seed. Eric believes seed-grown maples have a good variety of useful and interesting characteristics. 00:01:42 Using 2-year-old plants to demonstrate trimming roots ba...
Bonsaify | Repotting a Root Bound Nursery Tree
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Root Bound. Root-Bound. Rootbound. No matter how you spell it, repotting a root-bound nursery tree is labor-intensive, difficult, and time-consuming. 00:01:06 Eric demonstrates with a Juniper, though the same techniques generally apply regardless of species. 00:01:34 Eric tries a few techniques, including cutting down the side of the container. Finally, he goes with a POWER TOOL! 00:03:17 Using...
Bonsaify | Juniper Bonsai Basics: Succeeding as a Student or a Teacher!
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From his 20 years of experience teaching basic bonsai classes with the Bonsai Society of San Francisco and through Bonsaify (bonsaify.com), Eric explains the basics of bonsai and shares tips for how you can teach others! He also shares what he considers to be the best material to use. 00:00:57 First thing to do is to pull off any downward-growing needles, to expose more of the tree's structure....
Bonsaify | Composing a Zelkova Bonsai Forest: Eric Goes BIG!
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Bonsaify | Composing a Zelkova Bonsai Forest: Eric Goes BIG!
Bonsaify | Wiring and Styling a Tanuki Bonsai: More Tricks One Year Later
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Bonsaify | Wiring and Styling a Tanuki Bonsai: More Tricks One Year Later
Bonsaify | Get Growing with Great Scots Pines!
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Bonsaify | Get Growing with Great Scots Pines!
Bonsaify | Narrowing Lifelines on a Young Juniper to Create a Good Shohin
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Bonsaify | Narrowing Lifelines on a Young Juniper to Create a Good Shohin
Bonsaify | Crazy Air Layer Japanese Maple Repot!
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Bonsaify | Crazy Air Layer Japanese Maple Repot!
Bonsaify | The Bonsai Nut 6-Year Pine Contest
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Bonsaify | The Bonsai Nut 6-Year Pine Contest
Bonsaify | Fall Color on Deciduous Bonsai: Have you Heard of the Skittles Effect?
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Bonsaify | Fall Color on Deciduous Bonsai: Have you Heard of the Skittles Effect?
Bonsaify | Great Fall Results for a Field-Grown Black Pine!
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Bonsaify | Great Fall Results for a Field-Grown Black Pine!
Bonsaify | Stop Doing "This" and Make Better Bonsai!
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Bonsaify | Stop Doing "This" and Make Better Bonsai!
Bonsaify | Bonsai Inspiration: Take a Walk Among the Wild Junipers
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Bonsaify | Bonsai Inspiration: Take a Walk Among the Wild Junipers
Bonsaify | Quirks of European Crabapple for Bonsai
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Bonsaify | Quirks of European Crabapple for Bonsai
Bonsaify | Monterey Cypress Rough Cutback for Bonsai Development
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Bonsaify | Monterey Cypress Rough Cutback for Bonsai Development
Bonsaify | Mass Market to Masterpiece Ficus, Part 4
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Bonsaify | Mass Market to Masterpiece Ficus, Part 4
Bonsaify | Crafting CASCADE Style Juniper Bonsai
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Bonsaify | Crafting CASCADE Style Juniper Bonsai
Bonsaify | Blue Atlas Cedar Propagation: Grafts, Air Layers, or Cuttings?
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Bonsaify | Blue Atlas Cedar Propagation: Grafts, Air Layers, or Cuttings?
To confirm: "node" here refers to the point where one flush of growth ends and the next begins? I mostly do broadleafs so not sure how the terminology maps over.
Thank you thank you thank you for the video video video
Thanks Eric- great video, so useful to review the de-candeling basics every year..
Nice job Eric thanks for the video keep up the good work
Thank you for the lessons. This video reminded me about the hormones going to the top sacrificial branch. I have to remove some needles.
Those black pines look fantastic, great video again as always. Are those branches from the second tree from backbuds or some other technique? Such a compact design, it has huge potential.
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Foisting 😊
Just worked on mine today. Guess I’m starting to get the timing right. Thanks, keep growing
Incredible complexity and balance in such a small project, kudos!
Hola, se puede hacer desde esquejé ? Tanks.
Si! es facil.
If I use 50 grams of a 5-3-4, that will give me 2.5 grams N, 1.5 grams of P, and 2 grams of K. How do I know how many grams of each I need for my bonsai?
Well - you dont. Just play with how much and see what happens. There are ways of finding out, but it's complicated and expensive.
Gotta say love ur channel i learn alot thank
Love what you are doing with this BAC. I have been working on one for a few years now.
Can you tell me why, when I work on bonsai, almost every aspect of the designing process and finished overall image of trees interests me but when it comes to this small size of tree, as is your Chinese Elm, I start to lose interest? I've been trying to figure this out and can't understand why. I want to love these smallest of bonsai but after about 10 seconds, my interest wanes. Larger bonsai I could stare at for hours. Any idea?
Well, scale is important to perception. Big trees create awe and give an experience more similar to seeing a tree in nature. Little trees are "cute" which is a whole different feeling. Little trees are also less likely to show mature characteristics like bark and fine twigging. But you should probably post this to bonsainut if you want a more robust discussion.
@@Bonsaify I think you hit the nail on the head. I now understand my feelings towards small trees. It's not that I dislike them, it's that I get disinterested easily due to the lack of, I think what you're calling, aged character. But we as artists can work towards this and try our best to create the most personality out of the tiniest of plants. Thank you for helping me understand this. I liked that you called them cute. 🤭
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Thank you for all the tips. Your trees look truly great. I have about fifty trees collected over 10-12 years, slowly as each takes care. I have five bald cypress started 8 years ago, not quit redwood, but your tips are valuable for training them. Thanks.
Loved this!
Nice job Eric looking good video thanks
heard your suppose to let cutting wounds callous over for 3/4 days before rooting ?
I really liked the setting of this video - the lighting, the music and the mixed content 😊
As a beginning beginner, this information is exciting, appreciated, and invaluable! I have all the suggested "dupes" on the way. Fingers crossed I can keep my three new bonsai alive as I historically murder other plants by overwatering.
Je to Ulmus parvifolia?
Ulmus parvifolia 'Catlin' I think. But it may be a normal Ulmus parvifolia. It was an air-layer off a friend's tree.
Excuisite
I have been after one of these for a while,it is my all time favourite tree
I love this series! I have an S shaped Tiger Bark Ficus that I got as one of my first bonsai. As ive learned more about bonsai I’ve decided it looks too contrived. I have implemented your technique to try to get air roots to help improve the trunk and perhaps a trunk chop as well. Thanks!
This was great
that makes my hands shake just watching lol very small material
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No explanation, which is normally why I get super interested in your vids, yet so satisfying. Amazing little tree, wow.
👍👍👍 Saluti e complimenti da Gianni . Ti seguo dall'Italia
Great video! What is the mix ratio for the soil? That's interesting perlite and coco. Is that better than using bonsai inorganic soil?
Beautiful tree!
I have some maple seedlings that sprouted last year in Spring. I have them in 3-4” pots. When would be a good time to add some wire to give them movement? I’ll wait until next March to repot them.
Which lab is it where plant samples can be sent ?
I love it! That was such great fun to watch, and I learned too!
I find it so difficult to water such tiny plants. Do you have some auto system in place?!
You can put the pot on top of another pot with bonsai soil for extra moisture.
i use a standard 2 gallon pump sprayer for my smallest trees. works great.
I do not for my own collection. I water everything by hand. But, I live in San Francisco where the summer temperatures are very moderated by fog. If I lived in a hotter area I might use an automated system for increasing humidity. But as one of the other commentors mentioned - using a tray of sand/fine lava under the mame is my main strategy for keeping them happy. This one has a large enough pot that it's not in a tray, but once I pot it down into a smaller show-size pot it will need that also.
That's almost as tiny as you brain ERIC?
Beautiful work
Hermoso video, hermoso olmo. Salud !
so meticulous. i have much to learn.
Thanks for the great info. I think you solved the problem with my pathetic strick rate with easy-to-root species nobody else has problems with. I bought the encyclopedia through your link. Best of luck to you.
thanks for sharing very helpful🎉🎉❤
I grow mine in the higveld in South Africa, where they are from. Winters get to lows of 30 degrees. I have no issues keeping them out doors in the cold weather
Interesting. I wonder if there is significant genetic variation between the commonly found ones here in the US and the ones you have. We saw that some were damaged in light frost (at like 34F) while others were fine. But in the end, all ours drop leaves and look really sad in winter if we leave them out in the cold!
@@Bonsaify Would be interesting to know... We are at a elevation of 4500 ft, and the past week we have had nights and mornings of 35 degrees and below. and all my dwarf jades are doing just fine. That said, the temp down here vary alot. Winters are a minimum of 30 and a daily max of 80.. We dont get snow, and we dont have the cold all day long
For early and middle development, what are your thoughts on pumice instead of perlite? Do you like is perlite better for cost as a grower? Or because it is lighter than pumice and perhaps that helps with roots? Just seeking to understand why one over the other. I have access to both so sourcing is not an issue for me. Thanks!
Pumice is not uniform, so I have to wash it to ensure uniformity which is a huge pain. Perlite is both lighter and cheaper. Both work, and mixing them would be fine. Perlite is basically inert media - where pumice has some beneficial chemical properties for soil, although residual minerals from the mining process are possibly problematic...hence the washing. With perlite/coco I've started adding fir bark also for longevity; the coco breaks down too much over 2-3 years so adding the bark allows a bit longer timeline before repotting.
@@Bonsaify thanks for the reply! I will definitely make sure to wash the pumice and lava that I have. Thanks to your inspiration I’ve started using 66% “course and chunky” perlite with 33% Ocean Forest potting mix (aged forest products, peat moss, sandy loam, pearlite, organic fertilizer) for my rooted cuttings. Hopefully this will act similarly to your mix and get some good roots and thickness. Do you think I’m on the right track?
When you expose the roots, how much do you expose each time? How often can you expose more roots?
I'd say 4-6" vertical at a time, and not more than a couple times per year to be safe. But it also depends on how vigorous the plant is growing - if it's ripping along then likely you can go a bit faster because the roots will have run faster into the container below.
Hi, rather than muck, why not just wire the roots to rock, or wrap the roots on the rock, and bury the rock and roots?
Such a great choice to start a new creation
Sweet! Can we get a late spring update tour of your trees?
Mushrooms seem to have gotten in the mix
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