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Like your study design 🤩👍😘

Beautiful 😍 Great results 🤩 Still not have a beech, but a hornbeam - Ich habe immer noch keine Buche, aber eine Hainbuche - Do you think this technique might work for hornbeams too? Because their names in German are so similar..😅 Absolutely enjoyed 🙏😍👍 Have a great day 😘 I’ll go to sleep now ☺️ Cheers 🙋‍♀️ Martina

I would love to see another video timelapse of this tree untill next year in august where you do this technique again and follow its results for a second year especially comared to your control tree.

If you are going airlayer it I would go for a tourniquet groundlayer instead of a normal one. That gives your tree more time to adapt and I think it will give it a bigger chance of success.

This is great. I've been wondering why my beech clump was so slow. Definitely going to do this next year. Thanks again

once again great video an info !!!,,,couple thoughts on roots...root grafting.. also try a wire girdle where you wanted to air layer then bury all current exposed roots below soil line in a deeper pot up to the girdled area...after new roots form cut away old big roots below new roots... keep filming !!!

That white pine is amazing from top to bottom! I especially love how the bottom of the trunk and roots flare out to meet the surface of the soil.

Enjoy the time-lapse video good to see the development over time

Nice video nice job well done keep up the good work mate thanks xavier

Fantastic watch Xavier everyday is a school day . Really enjoy your channel and its been a great help , take care 👍

i didn't know any of this!! thanks for the info

Hey Xav, I have a hornbeam with a very 2d root base, I found a technique where you drill shallow holes into the trunk where you want roots to grow, then fill those holes with a gel rooting hormone, I used clonex and a syringe, then cover the root base and holes with sphagnum moss and keep it damp over the growing season. This has worked great for me so far. I have lots of new roots shooting from the holes and through the moss. I have to keep covering the new roots lol. Maybe a good fix for these beech. I will definitely try this pruning on my beech, thanks for the video!

I would take off that thicker straight branch with no taper. Then you would have nice movement in the whole tree

Great video xav 👊👊

Excellent demonstration and informative. Thanks again.

👍♥️, thanks for sharing!

Lovely job

Thanks for the interesting video, Xavier. I never heard of successfully air layering a beech, so good luck on that. But air layering is in my opinion only smart if you want to keep the lower part as a separate tree. Do you? Otherwise put a tight tourniquet around the trunk and bury it deep. I think that might be more likely to succeed. For the tree with the two long legs I would think of making an artificial rock to fill up the gap. Remove the stub in the middle and use for instance slate and mortar to build up a pleasing shape which doesn't restrict the two roots in the future. Or prune the trunk to a few centimeters and wait to see what returns. Maybe a nice cascade? Or fit a nice pair of pants around its legs 😅

NO-bari

It's great to see that second flush of growth. It looks like you'll almost skip a year's wait for the buds further back to extend, which will give you more ramification and faster. It makes sense when you consider the tree has a preordained amount of foliage - if it can't get it from the strongest buds, it has to use the weaker ones. Thanks for the video!

Great experiment and results, I hope the air layer works, I have heard they are hard to layer.

Thanks! I usually use standard potting soil mixed with course aquarium sand. I now am trying peat less potting soil, but I don't really like it. It often is not composted enough and takes away nutrients instead of providing them. That's the reason I'm looking into alternatives.

I wonder how the have fused 🤔 the confusion fusion

Oh definitely cut the suckers off where you got the trunk bulge, that's why you have inverse taper. Look at all the scars from previous branches in that same area as evidence. As others have said the only fix for it is root prune the bottom roots in the spring and plant it deeper... scarring and hormone at the thickest part of base. Yeah, go for it with the carved deadwood (as a lightning strike perhaps) and lean it over, you got enough oaks to be able to try it on this one to make it a very unique tree!

If air layering oaks is difficult, then doing so where half the trunk is dead at the airlayer point might be even harder? Would the dead area be good for carving? It seems extensive and you might get quite deep without affecting the live section - which by the look of the growth above it is quite healthy. Not sure it would look any better carved, but fun to try. It might be that after the carving you could twist the remaining trunk? That would be a Tony-level experiment but if it doesn't work, you can still Jason it with a chop way down low.

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Unfortunately i don't think you have a lot of options with the one which is dead down one side and has pronounced inverse tape..... chop it low and let it go. You have a nice collection and variety of trees.

When one oak tree isnt enough....😂😂

Yeah the bar branch that will have to be dealt with and maybe the sucker one thats coming straight out a good bit then has a bend! It'll knuckel up there fast and cause abit of invese taper just keep an eye on that for couple seasons!

I won a nice old one in auction this year lovely thick upright silver trunk all flaky bark great finger nebari round front need to get some suckers down pinned into the soil see if can get them to root! But was watching another video great bonsai artist aswell showing how to prune all the birches leaves off to bring in smaller one like an elm! He's always successful with it but im abit hesitant.

You know me too well Xav. Trunk chop right back and re-grow the branching much lower down. Possibly air layer the top off (but quite high to reduce that long straight trunk). I much prefer those smaller oaks - they have much more charm and character. The tiny oak you gifted me is doing nicely sat beside the pond.

Loved the video! Powdery mildew loves oaks here too, even in our dry summers. I think you could plant that Turkey Oak in your garden and watch it grow for a couple of years, then put it back into a pot. It might just surprise you with a lot of healthy new wood. Hope you're enjoying the heat - it must be hard to take when you're not used to it! 🥵

Diky za skvelou ukazku prace na dubovem lesiku. Jen se mi nechce verit, ze jste do misky teto velikosti zasadil 21 sazenic. Mne se tam vlezli max. 11 semenacu. S plisni mam stejny problem, zatim nestrikam, listy jsem.ostrihala. Jsem zvedava na vas i muj lesik za rok🙂. Dekuji

Great collection, you could try your hand at carving out the dead part, a big Shari, I think it would give the tree a lot of character & age

Certainly an action-packed day! I love your sycamore. Those tiny leaves are quite amazing. What s your winter protection? Zita's apple is coming along wonderfully. Nasty creatures, those wooly aphids. Something always wants to eat our trees! What a lovely Japanese white pine. Fingers crossed for lots of back-budding.

Same as mentioned by someone else, put it deeper in a pot to encourage roots further up

I had the same problem with the white mildew. I figured out my problem was that I was watering the leaves and that was causing the mildew. This year I changed the habit and now I haven’t had a problem!

I might try a few oaks form my cabin next year. Or dig out a ton for Bonsai Acres

Please keep them oak videos coming! Your right that no body makes many videos of them when they are so easy to start and really fun to work with.

Hi Xavier just wondering if you've tried this remedy ...Milk spray: Mix 1 part full cream milk to 10 parts water and spray it on affected plants. Bicarb spray - Two teaspoonfuls bicarbonate of soda with half a teaspoonful of sunflower oil or horticultural oil, and spray on affected plants . I only use natural sprays and work well. Thanks again for the great work

Would it be possible to do a gentle ground-airlayer on your last oak? I know they don’t airlayer well, therefore gentle. Like: making 3 or 4 narrow vertical slits divided around the thickest part off trunk. Rooting hormone on and pot it up deep. If that would work that would be great.(only a idea) greets and keep growing

Nice work xavier 👏

Hi Xavier, thanks for showing the good and the bad ones. 👍 My Apple suffers from Powdery Mildew the same like your Turkish Oak 🫣 Noxious black dust fungal problem 😬 Thankfully I haven’t seen that. Your big oak- I would stay a little higher with the big trunk chop, as it tapers quite nice. 😘 Enjoy your day 🙏❤️ Cheers 🙋‍♀️ Martina

I was thinking the same thing, make it a sumo and see if it buds again. Great video again full of information. Bonsai for breakfast turns into Bonsai with latte around 9ish.

Mildew is a true "nightmare" always get panicked lol.

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Lovely job

This tree looks really interesting... good one.

Hi Xav I didn’t have you for breakfast but for lunch and it was very nice to, I love that little sycamore shape and you cut it off, I agree with the tiny apple pruning, wooly aphids are a pain As I water each day I check for the blighters and blast them off, last year I had loads but year very few, did you know that you shake the branch they do a little dance you can see with a magnifying glass, still no reason to keep them, blast them into oblivion I say. My memory is so bad that I had to put myself watching the video TWICE !! Good luck with the budls not my cup of tea, Iron is very useful for bringing back the colour to the leaves, old timers I think used to put Iron nails in the soil as they didn’t have spray in their days, Finally leave that Pine alone, all the best my friend with washing.

I was told my black pine can have yellow tips from burn or over fertilizing not sure if its the same for white pine or needles in general. Another thing ive been playing with for my trees is i take a pic of them and for some branches im not sure of removing i use the object eraser and remove branches on the pics and it does a great job showing me what the tree looks like with branches removed. Fun to play around with