What I like most about Peter Chan is he mixes traditional with innovative and the unconventional stressing that IF YOU like it then do what pleases you and ignore the criticism. I have learned so much from him and have done bonsai for almost 30 years, but was more traditional. I have changed my attitude and thinking considerably because of him. BRAVO!!!
I really respect that you can adapt your ways even after 30 years of traditional bonsais. So many people become conservative and don't change because they think everything they've done before was wasted energy. Adapt, overcome and do exactly what feels right in the moment.
what a great comment! even after 30 years! you can still learn more... traditional bonsai methods have always been a little intimidating to me... but Peter Chan has inspired me to give it a go again! I love bonsai so much.
I have always been fascinated by Bonsai but have never owned or grown one. I live on an Island on the coast of British Columbia and have found a Hawthorn that has the top cut off, probably about 5 or 6 years ago with very strong new growth coming out the top, and about a meter tall. The trunk is very interesting as it is whorled and distorted and thick. I am thinking of extracting it, cutting root and branch back and seeing if I can make something interesting. I think I could come up with something about the same size as the oak in this video. Of course it is not an oak but a Hawthorn so has thorns (which I can cut), nice variegated small leaves and lovely blossom and berries. It is now early summer here and I wonder if I should try this now, or wait until November. (I live in a rain-forest that is very dry in summer).
If I were to move to a climate that had a very short growing season, like up in the mountains of the western United States, how would I take care of it? Similarly, if I were to move to a tropical climate, how would I take care of a deciduous tree? Does it need to go through dormancy? If so, how would you facilitate that? Unless you literally put it in your refrigerator for 4 months
@American Boathead. And step two: pot it for 3 years. I wonder how many trees did not survive his early years of apprenticeship. I think I would end up killing this splendid little tree.
Come to Upstate South Carolina, I have 38 large trees in my 3/4 acre backyard. 3 types of oaks, poplar, cedar, holly, maple, sweetgum, crepe myrtle, pine. the amount of seedlings that come up every year are astonishing.
@@greenvilleobserver9431 I have 1/3 acre in Minnesota and I can't keep up with all the babies of my large oaks and sugar maples, that are about 100 years old.
Please tell Padmapriya hi from me. My name's Jack and I used to work in the health food shop with him. I watch your videos and what a coincidence to suddenly recognise him!
I have half a dozen oak bonsai in training and your video has been very helpful in understanding how much root pruning they can handle. A couple are 28 years old now and I got them as seedlings from my fathers garden after he passed away suddenly at age 59. He was from Portsmouth in England and having these trees makes his memory stay alive.😊
do you mind making a video? simply in the state they are now - i know many people with forrests and am thinking about salvaging one young tree to try and make something out of it - so i know what i should look for maybe?
In my country (The Netherlands), birds do this. At different spots they burry the nut in the ground, for a winter reserve i believe. The burying spots are being forgotten by the birds, because they made so much. And then in spring you see wild little oak sprouts comming up in your garden or balcony garden. There native to the Netherlands, latin name is Quercus robur (summer oak). There are more varieties. UK has old ones, also native and you have many squirrels, they can spread the nuts. Funny quick little animals. I got now 5 trees from the birds they are young and vigorous. Hope they make good bonsai. Good bye.
I really love Englsih oaks ! As well as they two oak shoots that Peter dug out for me in November, I also took about 10 acorns from the massive tree in front of the nursery car park. Of those acorns, 8 are now growing beautifully. so I have ten English oaks well on their way to becoming future oak bonsai, thanks to Peter and Herons!
I just love oak trees. I live in Northern California and in the park behind my house there are 300 year old oaks. There are huge and the branches come down to the ground to give shade to their roots. With temperatures 100 degrees or 40 Celsius on summer they don’t die. They are nature’s cathedrals! They are spectaculars!
Thank you for showing us some of the more practical side. I would love to see more of this. Especially how you cut and develop the trunks of field stock like this.
Did anyone else's mind explode when he's like turn the tree ightly counter clockwise and boom its like 1000 times better and you have no clue how thats possible
Don't clean your gutters for awhile, you'll have all the little trees you want👍 (Ps: I have a lot of respect for the talent this takes, before anyone thinks otherwise)
I start to develop oaks now that I have my two maples. I belive that Peter and me are connected because every time that I ask question to my self, Peter answer to it in a video fews days later... 😍 Love you little tree lovers 🇲🇫
I never use akadama ,it's just too expensive here. I use pumice and lava. Sometimes I add some decomposing wood if moisture retention is an issue. Of and a tiny bit of charcoal. I'm surprised you kept the bottom branch 😊
I read the comments before i started the video and I was confused by yours in particular, I really didn't now if you were making fun of the video content.... but a few hours later I finally got around to watching the video......and towards the end I am sitting here thinking "wow, I have about a bazillion little oaks on my property that I could do this with..... and I bet i COULD do this. And Tomorrow is a great day for scouting potential candidates!" (i won't dig anything up until after I find a suitable pot of course....) and that's when I remembered your comment. It suddenly makes sense! Weird how this works.... i'm brand new at this art and trying to decide if it's really worth the investment. but as I learn I'm starting to realize the only investment is a little money for pots and my time. I already have everything else. I just didn't realize it. And oaks are pretty forgiving trees. You can cut them down to the ground and they will just sprout new branches almost immediately.
Hi Mr Chan,I thought it was to late in the season to lift or pot on trees,I only ask as i have an oak i am waiting to lift. Will your oak stay in the greenhouse until spring now for protection from frost. Thank you ,it is a very beautiful ,natural tree.
So I started caring for a baby Oak from an acorn from 2018. I love it its so healthy and gorgeous looking. I never want to get rid of it, but no space for it to grow fully. I want to banzai it, it's about 1.5 foot tall, when can I start to bonzai it?
Same here.. I have a beautiful little oak that I planted 15 years ago.. it's still only around 1.5ft tall probably due to it being in a smallish pot. I'd like to bonsai it but I'd probably kill it :(
Loved that your doing a video on oaks. They're some of my favorites and don't get enough love in the bonsai world. Also the resolution looks much better in this video!
Nice. I have about a few thousand baby oaks from two years ago, when my white oaks went insane. I have gotten rid of a few other thousand, or at least it seems that way. I can now try practicing making a few oak bonsai. I live in the US, in Minnesota.
Love this video. I found an oak 3 years ago in my garden as well. A squirrel brought it from the neighbours yard with massive several hundred years old oaks in it. Instead of wasting it for lawn I decided to put it in a pot and hope for a nice tree in 30 years as well.
‘This pot looks a bit big, mmmm, but the tree will be more comfortable in this pot.’ That’s why i love this hobby. It can be seen to be brutal and harming, but experts down to the general hobbyist gain through this interest a greater respect for nature/trees.
Bout a year ago I picked up an oak tree seed amongst hundreds of seeds. Thought it looked cool and figure why not throw it it some soil. I paid it no mind since I planted it in one of my mother’s pots (since she waters her plants everyday). To my surprise I noticed a little plant sprouting months later. I was shocked the seed sprouted given the unfavorable conditions. Just soil and water with no prep work whatsoever. Really made me think a lot about life and it’s will to persevere. So here I am to prepare it for a long winter and hopefully a healthy and prosperous life.
My son had put some acorns in a plastic bag one day we visited a garden somewhere. The bag got thrown in a coat cupboard. A year later I tidied the cupboard and there were two oak saplings bursting their guts out in the bag! Life is strong.
Thank you for showing this procedure. Many of us do this for our bonsai at home. First grow in the yard then to a pot. I enjoy seeing what they will do in 10 years if i take care. Happy Holidays!
Most of the North American native oaks where I live will not tolerate bonsai culture. Infact prior to the 'Whitcomb' system came along 60% transplant success was hard to achieve by commercial landscape nurseries.
Hi if I had the money I would buy A forest from him he makes the beautifullest plants I have ever seen or banzai trees and one of his forest all my God I would love to have that Have a great day keep making videos I love them
I am surprised at such successes because letting what's called hair roots get dry is not a good practice. I make every effort towards a tree's shockless comfort by using a spray bottle to keep them wet. Humbly submitted to the Master. Thanks for your vids.
Que hermoso roble!!!! es mi preferido ....!!! No se ven con frecuencia bonsai de ellos ....!!!! Me gustaría saber mas sobre sus cuidados según su experiencia??? Muchas gracias...
I can reccomend oak trees to anyone who might not take perfect care, they are allmost unkillable!, I have left it without watering in a heat wave when there were family circumstances, and I thought it was dead, but it had only dropped its leaves and became lush green again in just a couple of rainy days. Oaks don't die in droughts, they just drop their leaves! I have a small oak in a deep pot filled with broken bricks and when it will have enough roots will cut out the bottom and put it on top of another pot and slowly remove the pot on top, in order to create bricks held together by roots. Will probably take a couple of decades.
Mr.Chan, if i may? Those thick roots is there any use for them, if one can grow a tree of them? When do u think is the best time for Yamadori the oaks?
We got a dark red (more burgondy) maple in our garden wich is a verry slow growing tree. It is about 7 years old and is about 1,50 meter high. Is it possibe to turn it in a bonsai shape without putting it in a pot ?? We need to move it anny way so putting it in a pot is not a big problem but i would love for it to be just in the garden on a small mount. I would love for it to grow ontop of our future out door celler.
I had a brain "fart" looking at you working on the hornbeam ?? (We call them beuk) thinking it looked a little like a old rose bush i had to remove long ago. (I allreaddy wached too much bonsai video's 😅😅) Have you ever seen one made or made one your self from a rozebush ?? I wanted to save the rose bush but the owner did not so he killed it and so there was nothing to save annymore sadly. They are prone to grow pretty "wild " so that could be verry intresting. But getting a thick trunk could be a challenge 🤔 Thinking of it.... Is there anny "woody" kind of plant you can't turn in to a bonsai ???
Thank you for sharing you talents and gifts with us! I learn so much from your instruction. Could you please share what the cut looked like, that you administered to this tree those few years back, to induce the new growth? Did you have to protect that cut in some way?
I love your videos so much, I have been trying to do my own bonsai for the last few years, one is now getting long and sparse, so I will now be taking it out of its pot for the first time, it's 7yrs old. I'm going to cut it back, tease the roots and hopefully it will come back better than before. I don't find any of your videos boring, I'm now I'm my 40s but have loved gardening since my teens and adapting large plants and trees to pots as my gardens is small. My biggest problem has been the hot summers we've had here in the UK the last couple of years, our garden is fully south facing, the only shade coming from a hardy twisted willow but it doesn't give much shade. The last two summers hit my plants hard, especially my bonsai maples; burning the leaves and killing a lot of branches of my favourite one. I cut them back and 75% was saved but it's now lost its lovely shape. I've started watching your wonderful insightful videos and hope to make it into a better bonsai than previously. Many Thanks
Oh my. I was with Mr. Chan until he started pruning the top. I am used to Nigel Saunders, who methodically and painstakingly studies his trees before making every cut, and has a reason for each one. When I prune my own trees I ask "What would Nigel do?", and proceed accordingly. Honestly I can't watch when Mr. Chan starts hacking away at his trees willy nilly with no rhyme or reason. Seriously, I can't watch.
I am so jealous! All I ever managed to find in matter of oaks are 3 miserable little sprouts I dug out from under an oak in the city park. (there aren't any tree nurseries anywhere in my town). They are sitting in pots in my yard for years now, but all they do is make 3 (three) leaves each year, on the very same spot, drop them at the fall, and nothing else. I planted millions of acorns but none have ever sprouted. The ones I took from under the tree that did, due to the fact that they were in the grass (it's a park after all) had been "mawed" along with it at least once already, you can tell. But they don't grow the smalles millimeter! How are they so sloooow? 😭
Hi, Do you (or anyone) know if it's possible to air layer a Pin Oak? I've tried twice, leaving it for a year each time and only had callouses. The tree is about 35mm diameter and has been grown as a standard. I'd love to bonsai just the top. Thanks
Hello from the Jersey Shore ! What a great project thanks for sharing your expertise and creativity with us ! I am always on the lookout for trees just like this oak, growing between fences, or mixed in with the brush !
I bought a regal prince column oak on sale from a nursery for $30 USD. It is about 3 meters tall, with an unsightly bend to the main trunk, but the base is very interesting, with three branches sprouting out down low. I will try to give it a radical cut down to about half a meter this February. Wish me luck, any advice is welcome!
Peter - Did you airlayer this oak? I understand oaks do not respond well to airlayering. I have an 8' Bur Oak growing in an elevated planting bed I have been caring for to thicken the trunk. Look forward to hearing from you.
Oaks? My yard is full of them. The squirrels bury them or they just sprout from fallen acorns the deer don't eat (they've been pretty hungry the past few years though...). Our yard is full of little "helper" trees that I can probably help myself to.
I first watched this video way back in March when I developed an interest in bonsai,watching again now as I have successfully germinated 3 or 4 oaks
What I like most about Peter Chan is he mixes traditional with innovative and the unconventional stressing that IF YOU like it then do what pleases you and ignore the criticism. I have learned so much from him and have done bonsai for almost 30 years, but was more traditional. I have changed my attitude and thinking considerably because of him. BRAVO!!!
you would love the videos from Walter Pall
Yes, I knew absolutely nothing, but already feel confident to have a go
I really respect that you can adapt your ways even after 30 years of traditional bonsais. So many people become conservative and don't change because they think everything they've done before was wasted energy. Adapt, overcome and do exactly what feels right in the moment.
what a great comment! even after 30 years! you can still learn more... traditional bonsai methods have always been a little intimidating to me... but Peter Chan has inspired me to give it a go again! I love bonsai so much.
I have always been fascinated by Bonsai but have never owned or grown one. I live on an Island on the coast of British Columbia and have found a Hawthorn that has the top cut off, probably about 5 or 6 years ago with very strong new growth coming out the top, and about a meter tall. The trunk is very interesting as it is whorled and distorted and thick. I am thinking of extracting it, cutting root and branch back and seeing if I can make something interesting. I think I could come up with something about the same size as the oak in this video. Of course it is not an oak but a Hawthorn so has thorns (which I can cut), nice variegated small leaves and lovely blossom and berries.
It is now early summer here and I wonder if I should try this now, or wait until November. (I live in a rain-forest that is very dry in summer).
If I were to move to a climate that had a very short growing season, like up in the mountains of the western United States, how would I take care of it? Similarly, if I were to move to a tropical climate, how would I take care of a deciduous tree? Does it need to go through dormancy? If so, how would you facilitate that? Unless you literally put it in your refrigerator for 4 months
I been waiting on this video¡)
@American Boathead. And step two: pot it for 3 years. I wonder how many trees did not survive his early years of apprenticeship. I think I would end up killing this splendid little tree.
You know you have a lot of bonsai when you can say “ i stumbled around this beautiful oak” in your own field
Come to Upstate South Carolina, I have 38 large trees in my 3/4 acre backyard. 3 types of oaks, poplar, cedar, holly, maple, sweetgum, crepe myrtle, pine. the amount of seedlings that come up every year are astonishing.
It's a tree nursery after all. It's like saying "you have a lot of cars" to a car dealer :D
@@greenvilleobserver9431 I have 1/3 acre in Minnesota and I can't keep up with all the babies of my large oaks and sugar maples, that are about 100 years old.
@@greenvilleobserver9431 should come see my 12foot garden!!
@@greenvilleobserver9431 Oh la la...
Please tell Padmapriya hi from me. My name's Jack and I used to work in the health food shop with him. I watch your videos and what a coincidence to suddenly recognise him!
Hello Jack, I will certainly pass on your greetings to Padmapriya, I remember you too from the health food shop. So nice to see you here.
Awesome! I love the coincidence!
Step one: chop the top off 5 years ago...
This is stupid idea how to make bonsai.
@@Lordosvk Your comment is stupid. You should feel bad.
😂😂😂
American Boathead 😂🤣😂👍👍
Alright then don’t do bonsai I’d you have no patience
"can you do it single handed?"
"yep"
*uses head*
11:30
HAHAHAHAHAHA
I have half a dozen oak bonsai in training and your video has been very helpful in understanding how much root pruning they can handle. A couple are 28 years old now and I got them as seedlings from my fathers garden after he passed away suddenly at age 59. He was from Portsmouth in England and having these trees makes his memory stay alive.😊
do you mind making a video? simply in the state they are now - i know many people with forrests and am thinking about salvaging one young tree to try and make something out of it - so i know what i should look for maybe?
That’s amazing!
The squirrels keep planting these trees, so maybe I’ll make a bonsai out of them.
In my country (The Netherlands), birds do this. At different spots they burry the nut in the ground, for a winter reserve i believe. The burying spots are being forgotten by the birds, because they made so much. And then in spring you see wild little oak sprouts comming up in your garden or balcony garden. There native to the Netherlands, latin name is Quercus robur (summer oak). There are more varieties. UK has old ones, also native and you have many squirrels, they can spread the nuts. Funny quick little animals. I got now 5 trees from the birds they are young and vigorous. Hope they make good bonsai. Good bye.
You have very hardworking assistant. He loves to work with a bonsai master like you i think :)
2 bonzai 4 senpai?
I really love Englsih oaks ! As well as they two oak shoots that Peter dug out for me in November, I also took about 10 acorns from the massive tree in front of the nursery car park. Of those acorns, 8 are now growing beautifully. so I have ten English oaks well on their way to becoming future oak bonsai, thanks to Peter and Herons!
I gave it a shot with acorns:
ruclips.net/p/PLLfXUppdVxvxDIz5zp9cmIBEJq0jjObXS
grts
K
I just love oak trees. I live in Northern California and in the park behind my house there are 300 year old oaks. There are huge and the branches come down to the ground to give shade to their roots. With temperatures 100 degrees or 40 Celsius on summer they don’t die. They are nature’s cathedrals! They are spectaculars!
It's a year later now, have you got an update?! Would love to see another year's growth on this and what you've done this year.
Yes 2 years later, I want to see it now too
Yes Peter let's see this tree today? Is it still alive?????
Thank you for including us Peter, I always love these seeing these mundane tasks
Thank you for showing us some of the more practical side. I would love to see more of this. Especially how you cut and develop the trunks of field stock like this.
I gave it a shot with acorns:
ruclips.net/p/PLLfXUppdVxvxDIz5zp9cmIBEJq0jjObXS
grts
K
Did anyone else's mind explode when he's like turn the tree ightly counter clockwise and boom its like 1000 times better and you have no clue how thats possible
who is also just high AF at 2 in the morning watching an old Japanese guy talk and cut an oak tree.
caught me!
lolll
🙌🏾
Thought his last name was Chan. That would make him Chinese. Correct me if I'm wrong.
Down the RUclips rabbit hole
I'd love to work for Peter, the amount you could learn would be fantastic
Don't clean your gutters for awhile, you'll have all the little trees you want👍
(Ps: I have a lot of respect for the talent this takes, before anyone thinks otherwise)
I just started bonsai you are the best teacher I've seen on here ive learning from you w every video
Thanks so much
When I'm unsure if the tree likes this, he goes ahead and says "these beautiful, fine roots" "it's quite safe to do this".
19:20 "quirky shape" is that a Quercus pun? Hahaha
No.
Quercus quirke, U mean?
I do enjoy your preference for big bonsai, I wont live long enough to see my potted oaks get that size! They are the size of the second one.
I love how you show us how to get big bonsai trees without waiting 50 years!
Thank you. Living in California I have wondered about making oak bonsai. This is perfect. We have about 300 species of oaks.
"It would be more comfortable for the tree."
Fabulously informative Peter! My favourite tree is my oak!
I start to develop oaks now that I have my two maples. I belive that Peter and me are connected because every time that I ask question to my self, Peter answer to it in a video fews days later... 😍
Love you little tree lovers 🇲🇫
I never use akadama ,it's just too expensive here. I use pumice and lava. Sometimes I add some decomposing wood if moisture retention is an issue. Of and a tiny bit of charcoal. I'm surprised you kept the bottom branch 😊
Maybe it’s a “sacrificial branch” to make the trunk thicker and then be cut off after a few years.
nice to see your helper at work!
is there a reason why you are not using air pruning pots ? they avoid root circling & also give better root density than traditional pots.
The ordinary plastic pots are deeper and better for trees newly lifted from the ground
Today: Watches Peter Chan "Making an Oak Bonsai" video...
Tomorrow: Digs up oak to add to pre-bonsai collection.
I read the comments before i started the video and I was confused by yours in particular, I really didn't now if you were making fun of the video content....
but a few hours later I finally got around to watching the video......and towards the end I am sitting here thinking "wow, I have about a bazillion little oaks on my property that I could do this with..... and I bet i COULD do this. And Tomorrow is a great day for scouting potential candidates!" (i won't dig anything up until after I find a suitable pot of course....) and that's when I remembered your comment. It suddenly makes sense! Weird how this works.... i'm brand new at this art and trying to decide if it's really worth the investment. but as I learn I'm starting to realize the only investment is a little money for pots and my time. I already have everything else. I just didn't realize it.
And oaks are pretty forgiving trees. You can cut them down to the ground and they will just sprout new branches almost immediately.
Love the oaks. I would hope to see more videos on the oak tree bonsais as there aren't many videos out there on them.
Hi Mr Chan,I thought it was to late in the season to lift or pot on trees,I only ask as i have an oak i am waiting to lift. Will your oak stay in the greenhouse until spring now for protection from frost. Thank you ,it is a very beautiful ,natural tree.
Yes I protect these newly potted trees in our greenhouse
Thank you , we understand
But Peter, if we do not have a greenhouse, what can we do to protect the Tree ?
So I started caring for a baby Oak from an acorn from 2018. I love it its so healthy and gorgeous looking. I never want to get rid of it, but no space for it to grow fully. I want to banzai it, it's about 1.5 foot tall, when can I start to bonzai it?
Same here.. I have a beautiful little oak that I planted 15 years ago.. it's still only around 1.5ft tall probably due to it being in a smallish pot. I'd like to bonsai it but I'd probably kill it :(
This guys room looks exactlty like Mr. Miagi's Bonzai shop from Karate Kid 3.
Loved that your doing a video on oaks. They're some of my favorites and don't get enough love in the bonsai world. Also the resolution looks much better in this video!
The guy doing the pruning has a killer gig I'm jealous! 🌱🌿🌲🌿🌱
I can't tell you how many acorns I have in pots lol
Try.
I had one acorn soaked in some water. It sprouted today. I want to grow it in a pot and I want it to grow as a miniature oak tree.
I've always loved this art. The Japanese are in a class of their own. So much respect for their discipline.
Again Thank You Master”P”
You are the Man!!!🙏🏿
Oaks make lovely bonsai subjects. 😀
Nice. I have about a few thousand baby oaks from two years ago, when my white oaks went insane. I have gotten rid of a few other thousand, or at least it seems that way. I can now try practicing making a few oak bonsai. I live in the US, in Minnesota.
Do you make money doing this?
I just planted my redwood seeds and hopefully I can make some bonsais
BONKSAI?
Love this video. I found an oak 3 years ago in my garden as well. A squirrel brought it from the neighbours yard with massive several hundred years old oaks in it. Instead of wasting it for lawn I decided to put it in a pot and hope for a nice tree in 30 years as well.
Who Else would enjoy helping hin out making a bonsai :)
Please make a hinoki bonsai
‘This pot looks a bit big, mmmm, but the tree will be more comfortable in this pot.’ That’s why i love this hobby. It can be seen to be brutal and harming, but experts down to the general hobbyist gain through this interest a greater respect for nature/trees.
Bout a year ago I picked up an oak tree seed amongst hundreds of seeds. Thought it looked cool and figure why not throw it it some soil.
I paid it no mind since I planted it in one of my mother’s pots (since she waters her plants everyday). To my surprise I noticed a little plant sprouting months later.
I was shocked the seed sprouted given the unfavorable conditions. Just soil and water with no prep work whatsoever. Really made me think a lot about life and it’s will to persevere.
So here I am to prepare it for a long winter and hopefully a healthy and prosperous life.
My son had put some acorns in a plastic bag one day we visited a garden somewhere. The bag got thrown in a coat cupboard. A year later I tidied the cupboard and there were two oak saplings bursting their guts out in the bag! Life is strong.
Its simple i see a old Chinese guy i like
Dongkel di mana mas?
hah, pigeon breast is an excellent description
Thanks for sharing peter just beautiful
Thank you for showing this procedure. Many of us do this for our bonsai at home. First grow in the yard then to a pot. I enjoy seeing what they will do in 10 years if i take care. Happy Holidays!
6:30 that "Oh is it" is such a perfect blend between your native accent and English
Thank you so much for posting this I was just wondering how an oak would do as bonsai. Very good!
On the first day of christmas my true love gave to me seven oak apples on a mini oak tree.
Very nice
Greenville - Not true. Stop it.
Most of the North American native oaks where I live will not tolerate bonsai culture. Infact prior to the 'Whitcomb' system came along 60% transplant success was hard to achieve by commercial landscape nurseries.
Even the white oak? I had one that was doing pretty well in a pot until the squirrel chomped it.
Hi if I had the money I would buy A forest from him he makes the beautifullest plants I have ever seen or banzai trees and one of his forest all my God I would love to have that Have a great day keep making videos I love them
I’ve been waiting for a video on this since I saved a young oak from our local park. Thank you very much for this!
No, thank YOU very much!!!!
I am surprised at such successes because letting what's called hair roots get dry is not a good practice. I make every effort towards a tree's shockless comfort by using a spray bottle to keep them wet. Humbly submitted to the Master. Thanks for your vids.
I would love to have that tree from Mr. Peter it's another one of his famous beautiful works of art Jesse
Que hermoso roble!!!! es mi preferido ....!!! No se ven con frecuencia bonsai de ellos ....!!!! Me gustaría saber mas sobre sus cuidados según su experiencia??? Muchas gracias...
I presume oak does not air layer?
Correct
I’m still yet to add an Oak tree in my Bonsai collection. Such a beautiful and majestic tree... the Oak. Thanks for sharing
I don't know about wasps getting into acorns but acorn weevils do, a small beetle, he may have been thinking about Figs.
"Oak apples" are galls formed by insects which later on hatch from them. They aren't acorns, despite the resemblance.
Hot damn! I have a giant oak in my front yard and last year was extra acorn year! We have a crap ton of seedlings in my yard!
I thought he was saying "tick roots". I honestly thought it was some kind of special roots that were good for Bonsai.
Peter a lovely Oak with the chop becoming a feature, looking forward to seeing this tree in two/three years time.
BONKSAI?
bagus banget, tampak alami
I can reccomend oak trees to anyone who might not take perfect care, they are allmost unkillable!, I have left it without watering in a heat wave when there were family circumstances, and I thought it was dead, but it had only dropped its leaves and became lush green again in just a couple of rainy days. Oaks don't die in droughts, they just drop their leaves! I have a small oak in a deep pot filled with broken bricks and when it will have enough roots will cut out the bottom and put it on top of another pot and slowly remove the pot on top, in order to create bricks held together by roots. Will probably take a couple of decades.
Thanks for this video! It always amazes me how rough you can be with these plants.
I didn't know Bill Nighy had an asian half-brother...
Great video.
Can you plant some of the roots you cut off?
Mr.Chan, if i may? Those thick roots is there any use for them, if one can grow a tree of them?
When do u think is the best time for Yamadori the oaks?
They dont grow from Root cuttings. Spring is best time for lifting from the ground.
wonderful - thank you for sharing! you've inspired me to try one from an acorn :-)
Great oak from an acorn grow. 😏
Thank you very much for sharing your knowledge. You make me more confident to grow my trees, from wild seebling found in garden or forest nearby.
Tried leaf mold this year for first time as part of compost mix for Maple. 👍
excellent. i studied with John Naka. this brings back memories. thank you
We got a dark red (more burgondy) maple in our garden wich is a verry slow growing tree.
It is about 7 years old and is about 1,50 meter high.
Is it possibe to turn it in a bonsai shape without putting it in a pot ??
We need to move it anny way so putting it in a pot is not a big problem but i would love for it to be just in the garden on a small mount.
I would love for it to grow ontop of our future out door celler.
Yes you can
I had a brain "fart" looking at you working on the hornbeam ?? (We call them beuk) thinking it looked a little like a old rose bush i had to remove long ago.
(I allreaddy wached too much bonsai video's 😅😅)
Have you ever seen one made or made one your self from a rozebush ??
I wanted to save the rose bush but the owner did not so he killed it and so there was nothing to save annymore sadly.
They are prone to grow pretty "wild " so that could be verry intresting.
But getting a thick trunk could be a challenge 🤔
Thinking of it....
Is there anny "woody" kind of plant you can't turn in to a bonsai ???
so many thanks from France for you videos !
Thank you for sharing you talents and gifts with us! I learn so much from your instruction.
Could you please share what the cut looked like, that you administered to this tree those few years back, to induce the new growth? Did you have to protect that cut in some way?
I just cut it with a saw - no sealant used.
That was a GOOD one!
BONKSAI!
I've run across more than a few oaks that I now have a reason to dig up. Thanks!
the bandicoot and the bensai are well farned together in the behowers of banshast, rriight?
@@Digalog yep
Well over prised nursery...and some stock.....well.....my 6year old son produces better specimens.....
I love your videos so much, I have been trying to do my own bonsai for the last few years, one is now getting long and sparse, so I will now be taking it out of its pot for the first time, it's 7yrs old. I'm going to cut it back, tease the roots and hopefully it will come back better than before. I don't find any of your videos boring, I'm now I'm my 40s but have loved gardening since my teens and adapting large plants and trees to pots as my gardens is small. My biggest problem has been the hot summers we've had here in the UK the last couple of years, our garden is fully south facing, the only shade coming from a hardy twisted willow but it doesn't give much shade. The last two summers hit my plants hard, especially my bonsai maples; burning the leaves and killing a lot of branches of my favourite one. I cut them back and 75% was saved but it's now lost its lovely shape. I've started watching your wonderful insightful videos and hope to make it into a better bonsai than previously. Many Thanks
Oh my. I was with Mr. Chan until he started pruning the top. I am used to Nigel Saunders, who methodically and painstakingly studies
his trees before making every cut, and has a reason for each one. When I prune my own trees I ask "What would Nigel do?",
and proceed accordingly. Honestly I can't watch when Mr. Chan starts hacking away at his trees willy nilly with no rhyme or
reason. Seriously, I can't watch.
I am so jealous! All I ever managed to find in matter of oaks are 3 miserable little sprouts I dug out from under an oak in the city park. (there aren't any tree nurseries anywhere in my town). They are sitting in pots in my yard for years now, but all they do is make 3 (three) leaves each year, on the very same spot, drop them at the fall, and nothing else.
I planted millions of acorns but none have ever sprouted. The ones I took from under the tree that did, due to the fact that they were in the grass (it's a park after all) had been "mawed" along with it at least once already, you can tell. But they don't grow the smalles millimeter! How are they so sloooow? 😭
Sweet now to go collect all of the oak and pine saplings around my yard lol
I'll take one hah. I've been looking everywhere when I go hiking/walking to find an Oak sapling :D
@@snowpeaky funny enough just found 5 today that sprouted from acorns
@@PickleJar251 Ah no way! Lucky you! :)
Hi, Do you (or anyone) know if it's possible to air layer a Pin Oak? I've tried twice, leaving it for a year each time and only had callouses. The tree is about 35mm diameter and has been grown as a standard. I'd love to bonsai just the top. Thanks
Hello from the Jersey Shore ! What a great project thanks for sharing your expertise and creativity with us ! I am always on the lookout for trees just like this oak, growing between fences, or mixed in with the brush !
Great moss trick to get roots to grow on the baren side.
I bought a regal prince column oak on sale from a nursery for $30 USD. It is about 3 meters tall, with an unsightly bend to the main trunk, but the base is very interesting, with three branches sprouting out down low. I will try to give it a radical cut down to about half a meter this February. Wish me luck, any advice is welcome!
Peter - Did you airlayer this oak? I understand oaks do not respond well to airlayering. I have an 8' Bur Oak growing in an elevated planting bed I have been caring for to thicken the trunk. Look forward to hearing from you.
I am R.D.philip from Bangalore , india. I will be in London last week of June 2023 . can i visit your place
Oaks? My yard is full of them. The squirrels bury them or they just sprout from fallen acorns the deer don't eat (they've been pretty hungry the past few years though...). Our yard is full of little "helper" trees that I can probably help myself to.
Thanks for this video 😁