A yearly guide to Japanese Black Pine Bonsai Care
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- Опубликовано: 11 июл 2024
- I've packed a ton of info on this video. It's a 17 month long journey on how to care for Japanese Black Pine Bonsai. I'll show you how to:
1. Compact leggy growth
2. Balance energy distribution
3. Create ramification
4. Needle Pluck
5. Develop smaller needles
6. Fertilize
7. When to work on your JBP
8. Candle Pinch
9. How to decandle your JBP
10. and Branch selections
As well as show you the results of each method.
*You'll get quick updates on my koi pond progression
0:00 Intro
1:20 Japanese Pine Animation
2:25 A little inspiration
3:03 May 2019 Initial Purchase of JBP - Initial Needle Pluck
4:00 February 2020 More Needle Plucking
5:30 March 2020 Fertilization
6:18 April 2020 Candle Pinching
10:48 June 2020 Decandling
22:20 July Update 2nd flush
23:59 July 2020 Leggy Branch Cutback
28:25 Late August Candle Selection
33:22 September Update and Fertilization
39:45 Final Thoughts - and Yearly Schedule
Other names to Japanese Black Pines:
Pinus thunbergii, Pinus thunbergiana, Kuromatsu, king of bonsai
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Over 33 yrs. in Bonsai. Great job! Working on some Super JBP cuttings. Grown using the Brexit hydroponic propagation ideology and given CO2 at night. At 11 weeks I put them in Bonsai pots and wire them. These are amazing and will stay under the radar until the 2024 Florida Bonsai Convention. I will have about 30 for sale then and just blow peoples minds with these. These cutting have 1000 times the sugar content of normal JBP's and needles are almost black. Some even excrete a crystal like substance. Some have at least 10 branches at 10 weeks old.
One of best videos of seen on caring for bonsai. Excellent job Ben!
Don't apologise for a long video, 40 mins isn't long anyway. Especially when full of good info. An attention span of 40 mins is nothing to ask. Thanks for the time and effort you put into it.
What I found on my JBP as long as you leave the needles on the old wood you can cut back to them and they will bud back but if you pluck all the needles from the old wood your chances are next to none of getting it to bud back . I have been growing mine JBP from seed for the past 10 years .
I started a Japanese black pine from seed in 2020. 2 years later I have 3 sproutlings. I am so proud as I have never successfully grown anything this long. However after 2 years they are only about 4 inches tall and don't seem to have stop growing. They are just continuing to live.
Great video! Love all the detail and progress you included!!
Loved this video so much! Appreciate your work and patience making this!
This video is such a great resource! Thanks for taking the time to film and compile all this information, really great stuff!
I love your videos. Thanks so much for putting the time in making them!
A relation bought me a Bonsai tree grow kit, when I looked on a few videos how to get them started I thought ‘What’ lol, It looked so hard I put everything back in the box and threw it on the side. Today I thought I’d have another look and I found you thank goodness. You have explained and shown everything in such detail I can now understand and am looking forward to starting. Thank you Ben
Best viveo I have seen on JBPs. Thanks a lot.
I loved the experiment with the old wood cutback. No one talks about it and now it gives me more options. Thank you!
very good video. so informative and the updates with a variety of media are awesome. well done Ben
Thank you for this great, very detailed tutorial. Great to see the whole development with the step by step instructions and summary. ❤️
Watched and took notes, thank you so much. I really appreciate the time you took
Ben, thank you SO much for this incredible tutorial. Thanks, keep growing
Awesome video... thanks for taking the time to help us help our trees!!!
Love it not long enough Ben
Thank you for your time so we can learn more
Very intersting video. Thank you for charing your knowledge.
Wonderful documentary. Good Luck with you JBP!
Super teaching with helpful "written" short summaries. A distillation of essentials.
Great video. Really informative. I need more pines in my collection!! I was scared of Pines initially but videos like this are brilliant about showing the way to go. They are wonderful trees. Many thanks
Good stuff Ben , you have inspired me to revive all my old and neglected black pine specimens . All the best from the land down under .
Really appreciate the knowledge. Have just been staring at my pines not daring to work on them. No problem now after your very efficient video.
Awesome video man very informative and very helpful!
Best (for a beginner) JBP video out there! Thanks dude!
Thanks heaps, Ben. This is very educational. I liked the fact that you took the effort to do a full 4 season cycle video. I learned a lot. My first black pine was a disaster (and I am scared for my current one) so I actually took notes! Thank you also for the added feature of development of your pond. Good stuff, mate.
Most useful approach to cover a one full year cycle. The dates & times, sequencing, and techniques became very clear. After watching so many others, my question was always related to the 'whens'. Great job.
Thanks for taking the time to share your knowledge
Legend. This is a great easy to follow video on JBP. Im from Australia. Just have to adjust to our seasons. Thanks heaps for doing this.
Wow, this is an impressive video on black pines. Even better than some online courses I've seen! Thank you putting this together. Amazing!!
I really enjoy your videos! Keep it up and many thanks for this awesome stuff 👌👌👌
Solid information! Thank you for sharing the timing of what/how you do for jpb’s. This is especially helpful because I’m just south of you, down in Tacoma. Go PSBA!! Take care and HAPPY BONSAI
Japanese bonsai style I like too. Thanks for sharing.❤
Thank you so much for this video Ben ! I own 3 young little Japanese Blackpine and your video is gonna help me very much .
Great information!! Took lots of notes. Thank you !!
Very helpful video learn a lots just got my first Black pine tree to work.Thanks bro.
great video, I learned TONS!
A great video!! I really learned a lot! Thank you.
one of the best video and explaination on JBP anyone has ever done on RUclips or even in paid premium courses
Thank you for sharing your knowledge, I always wanted to make bonsai of JBP, Now I have enough confidence in myself that I can do it
I have a JBP about 4 yrs old now. I have learned a lot from your videos. Keep the info coming.
I’m in indonesia so I get year around growth.
This is a great video!
Very nice Ben!
I just added a black pine to my collection,, they are truly beautiful tree
Thanks so much. An incredibly valuable video.
thank you for the video it is very well done and clear to understand. I have approx 150 pines seedling between 1-4 years old that i started from seeds and always love to learn more about Bonsai...KAIZEN! Continuous improvement....always learning!
Excellent viedo, good information, thank you
Thank you Ben. I'm more interested in creating niwaki Japanese black pines rather than bonsai, but because the principles and aesthetic are the same, I learnt a lot from your video that I can apply to the development of my niwaki Japanese black pines.
Thank you for this very interesting video!
Very informative video, thank you!
I watched your full demo Video , I am going to impress your bonsai garden.
I had no idea you had a channel. Was watching Bonsai Worx and this popped up. Glad I found it👍
Beautiful!
Thanks so much for this very interesting video 👍👍👍🙏
This was great
Beautiful show bonsai sir. Nice and good ...
Very good lesson many thanks 🙏🏼 from Birmingham 🇬🇧
Great video. Thank you
Super informative! Thx!
Thank you for sharing
Loved and Subbed!
Great video. Would love an update on the 2 main Pines here Ben. Even if just a static picture. Although fully anticipate you may well have a 'conversion to Bonsai' video in the pipelinee.
muy bueno este video. gracias
thanks for the info
really helpful, thank you
Little Luke........your assistant in training.......will inherited some good stuff
Great Job! Greetings from Philippines!
Thank you!
Excellent
Just noticed you ,great video nice pond ,subscribed 👌😷
Can you keep making videos like this it was so helpful to me I have a few white pines a few red pines and like 8 black pines I didn’t know I could cut the candle li,e that
This is a great video, informative yet concise. It’s the best JBP video I’ve seen and watched it several times. Now if you could donate 17 months of your life to producing a JWP video that would be awesome 😂
Good work awesome 👏
Got the JWP video in process now. Wont be ready until next fall though.
Liked It!
Loving the bonsai videos! Would love to see more on your pond too. What are the little black baskets in the bonsai pots for?
Thanks barb. The baskets hold ferts
This was an excellent video! As a beginner I really admire Japanese pines trees but they do scare me off! I'm going to take this amazing knowledge from your video and invest in some small JBP. Thank you Ben.
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I stupidly forgot the login password. I would love any help you can give me!
@Larry Elisha Instablaster =)
@Langston Zachariah I really appreciate your reply. I found the site through google and I'm in the hacking process now.
Seems to take a while so I will reply here later when my account password hopefully is recovered.
@Langston Zachariah it did the trick and I actually got access to my account again. I'm so happy:D
Thank you so much you really help me out!
@Larry Elisha glad I could help =)
Ben great video. I have a few JBP that I would love to apply your fall fertilizer . Can you state the ratios of the ingredients and can you also put a link in the description to the fertilizer holders you are using. I would highly appreciate it. keep the high quality videos coming.
Great video. I wish you had shown the actual process of branch cutback. Just getting started with JBP here in California. Fun trees to work with.
Me too, I think I was rushed that day because I had a small window to do the work.
Hello from Perth Western Australia , first I'd just like to say I love ur work and love even more the way you pass ur knowledge on, it's awesome and muchly appreciated. I have a question about jbp here in Perth or the lack of them and then when I finally get one they are really sensitive and will die if watering is done an hour late. My question is are there equivalent pines around perth obviously not native that offer some similarities as the jbp?
We have massive pine plantations used for the building industry usually monetary pines. I think possibly there are two other species commonly used in plantations around Perth and also an allepo pine I have a sapling from. Is there any point in pursuing bonsai from these sources? Thank you
Big fan of your assistant, lil Luke, next video maybe featured pls
Great video, nice to bring it all together, I am in Anacortes so same weather, I have a couple hundred JBP & JRP I am growing and growing from cuttings, oldest is about a year old, assume just let them grow till they are bigger.
Hey do u wanna sell a few Jbp?
@@johngonzales7317 Yes I do, I am setting up a bench at AZUZA Nursery off Highway 20 near Farm to Market road, will let you know when it's setup 4", 1 gal and #3 sizes
@@johngonzales7317 where are you located? I have 4" 1gal and #3 trees
Hey @ben thanks for literally taking us through a whole year of care for the Japanese Black Pine. Really helpful information, I’ve probably watched this like 100 times. I have a couple of Japanese black pines, 1 is a small sho -shin and another one is a big field grown pre bonsai
However, over the last few months my big tree started getting brown needles and yellow/black band spots on all the needles. After some research I believe it got a fungal disease and I’m pretty sure it’s Dothistroma needle blight. I had a bunch of my lower branches and even some of my bit my maid branches have their needles turn brown.
I sprayed it with copper fungicide and cut off all the brown infected needles. And repotted it. I also think I was watering it too much. There was root rot when I put it into a pot.(I bought it at a nursery as a pre bonsai) it was in a 16’ mica pot.
It’s been almost a month since I worked on it and it is still alive but needs. Lot of TLC
There’s. Ton of green long old needles and it’s pushing out candles now but I’m stressed about how to approach it next.
How often are r you watering your pines?
Do you wet the needles and trunk when watering?
Do you have any advice about how to treat it?
This video was soo helpfull . I dont have a black pine yet they are too hard to find online but i did find some japanese white pine. They are pretty expensive online but one day i hope to get a jwp. Does this same technique apply to a jwp? Great video this was soo worth it and doesnt matter how long . It takes alot of research and u summed it up well! Thanks
Great video and it's not too long at all. I will apply the work schedule and check the results. Do you shorten the candles from the second flush and when? Regards from Poland.
Great video. I just planted my japanese black pine seeds and I'm hopeful that they are successful. Only time will tell but if they do germinate I will definitely follow your advice in this video. I'm new to the bonsai world and I'm already figuring it out that we don't train the bonsai but the bonsai trains us. It's teaching me patience.
Yay!! Dosewallips👍
Thanks Ben ! I started training a black pine i had since fey years in the yards the kind « what can i do with such a horrid one « And made a Bujing .. i made a report until today mid sept 2020 .. u confirmed we made same steps and had same results .. so i was right ! Regards Theo Geneva Switzerland
Very informative video. I live in Indonesia and have my first jbp that's about 2 years old. I have no idea on the seasons for jbp here. Any suggestions for Asia?
Do you not get a whorl at the apex when you leave a bunch of branches growing from the same spot? Love your videos!
yes that certainly happens, the fat knuckles form when the base of the branch collars begin to swell into each other. so it's better to choose the finer branches as the apex
What would be the NPK for fertilizing during Spring for a development pine that can be planned to be decandled?
Found it extremely informative...growing pine bonsai can be a bit complicated...
In india , pine is rarely used as bonsai...
I have a doubt which I hope u would clarify...
I'm growing a pine since 5-6 years and while developing bonsai we first aim at growing a fat trunk..so, if I keep cutting candles every years, won't the trunk thickness get reduced...??
Or, should we apply these techniques only after the desirable trunk thickness has been achieved....????
Thanks in advance
Hi mate, what soil mix do you use for black pines in development
How much of each fertilizer in the little pots in the fall. Bonemeal do you do it every week and how much.
Nice pond landscaping Ben! I think you will get a lot of trunk thickening at the top of your tree leaving so much apical growth, which isn't ideal if you are trying to create taper, but perhaps you are planning to grow them out into much taller trees, in which case a thick trunk at the current top is not such an issue since it will be the middle of the tree later. It may still decrease taper though. I generally leave sacrificial branches towards the bottom of my trees so as to get thickening near the base.
thank you, that's not necessarily true. If you refer to bonsaitonight or bonsai heresy they favor the sacrificial leader over the the sacrificial branch. The lower branch causes swelling where it grows and not an even growth of girth on the trunk, and most sacrificial branches are grown in the back to hide the future scar so the swelling is not always where you can appreciate it. A sacrificial leader will not cause the lost of taper because a true leader will grow beneath it. bonsaitonight.com/2017/02/28/replacing-sacrifice-branch/
I have to agree letting the top branch run with thicken the entire length of the trunk
Hey Ben, great video! I am from Germany and currently starting a project. I want a Black pine as a Tree next to an architecture. Problem is: local tree nurserys only sell bonsai cultivars of black pines. These cultivars are limited in hight to about 150-300cm. Goal is to have a n actual tree of about 15-30meteres. Do you have any experience of how bonsai or a special cultivar of black pines (banshoho, sayonara, kotobaki) can be used to become a tree if not treated as bonsai?
Edit: I am thinking about finding someone in Japan or Korea to send me some seeeds, which are found in the forest.
When you decant the Japanese black pine do you need to use cupcakes to cover the wound or do you leave it as is
hello what happens when you pinch the candle in half with unopened needles below do you get new shoots from were you pinched sorry i am just a novice but learning cheers
How old were these when you started them? Do you know a good place to get black pines @ 2-4 yr old or so ?
Thanks for a great video. Where do you recommend finding JBP in Washington similar in size to your trees?
Bonsai NW they might not have much left in the future
Thanks Ben. Looks like a phone call and possible road trip from Richland is in order.
Hi Ben, Good and informative video you have. I have been looking for jbp stocks like that but no luck because I am in Colorado. Can you point me to a nursery that has them and takes online orders? Thanks a lot.
This is magic info, please can you do the same for Japanese White Pines, please, please!
Working on it my bonsai videos take a year to produce sometimes