These pots remind me of the times when I started with ceramics. I still have a few of my crooked beginner pots and I cherish them a lot because they remind me of how I started a wonderful hobby.
It's a little past midnight I'm off to great start and what better way to celebrate my bithday then to sit back and watch some bonsai videos. Nice work on them junipers, I currently made my own mame pot that looks like an old twisted up wooden stump.
I love that irregularity and the glaze drop on the first pot, but since it's the highest face, it feels a bit awkward to me as a front, to be honest. But otherwise these pots are just stunning as a representation of a cliff side where a cascading tree would grow.
Thanks Bob! I had fun with these four - and I had Nikii pot up trees into the rest of the batch. Gonna be great! She said she had a lot of fun with those little guys.
I love what you did with the last third of the video, and the music was just apt. Your diabolical laugh after you “simplified” the first mame reminded me of when you trunk chopped your s-curved ficus (looking forward to another update). Really enjoyable video but I wonder that these mame require a lot of continued misting and maintenance in such a tiny pot. Thanks again.
We find that growing them in a tray of soil and allowing a bit of escape rooting makes things a lot easier, but yes, mame are a bit more labor intensive than larger trees. Misting is not so much as just staying on top of watering.
We did do a couple of them: ruclips.net/video/m3FHt5fP1t4/видео.html ruclips.net/video/1lAgk9l_Mf8/видео.html But, I might get to doing another sometime soon.
Make sure you've got the right season down for repotting - otherwise, species selection and stepping down containers one year after another is the best. Note that I did not try to go from a gallon can into a thimble - the trees were already in tiny 2" containers.
This was enormously helpful! Thank you so much. I'm just about to create a cherry seedling Mame in one of those .75 clay pots. (I dream of being able to afford something as beautiful as Bob's pots!) I'll be sure to mention you in my Bonsai Diaries! :D
First of all, thank you for sharing your hard earned knowledge with everyone through these videos, I enjoy and learn so much from them. Gets me excited for bonsai!!! :) It maybe unwanted but if I could suggest a few ideas for future videos? We have seen you do a lot with smaller shohin and mame development. I for one would love to see how you would develope young trees for medium to large bonsai. Black pines, wiring, shaping the trunks, I have a hard imaging, what the movement/bends should look like on a 2 to 3 year old seedling for a larger tree you plan on growing out to a 3" to 4" thick trunk, 20" to 30" tall, bonsai. As a example, maybe just a nice informal upright shape. A larger literati style trunk like would be nice also. This would probably be boring subjects to you but I feel it would be helpful to a lot of us that are growing trees that will hopefully become American's future bonsai material. :) Not that you need it, I just thought you might could use ideas for future content for your growing channel/ brand. Also just as a side question, is growing a pine from seed to become a high quality formal upright feasible? Or does that pretty much require growing it very slowly, in a container for 50 plus years? Thanks again, love your videos.
Thanks for the suggestions, I'll consider those. There are several reasons I do mostly small trees but diversity is the spice of life! Formal uprights are tricky, the best one I made was going reasonably well at age 16 when I sold it. But, they are very rigid in terms of your ability to adapt the trees growth. I would suggest that you aim for moderate growth rates, and yes, it's going to take a lot longer than an informal upright that you ground grow.
There are a bunch of mame videos in the back catalog - start with this one which perhaps covers creating once from a juniper: ruclips.net/video/9v-K2qxOZMo/видео.html
The best time, like many other trees is in early spring as the trees begin to grow and after danger of cold weather. You can do it in Fall - after Oct 1st for me - as long as you can provide cold protection for 4-6 weeks. For the record - this was filmed in late January - and because I live in a mild climate that is a perfectly fine time to do it here. But - one of the four did die. These pots are very tiny!
That type of advice is often something that people make up as a rule when they don't understand how plants react or are affected by different operations. At its core, it may be good advise simply because over-working plants is one of the top culprits in killing them. Keep in mind that age and size can have an effect on how well plants tolerate work. When the work is done in the right season I find that you can repot and wire junipers with no problem. (we work with thousands.) However, doing this type of repotting in July or August - mid-summer - would result in certain death - or at least a 90% fatality rate. (we've tried it, wiring alone is fine, repotting is not). I tend to encourage my students to do things empirically. Rather than shying away from something on the advise of another - ask yourself this question each time you work: "I wonder what would happen if I ... .... " Of course, it helps if you have a lot of trees to play with. Finally - one recommendation - Michael Hagedorn's book "Bonsai Heresy" is a great resource for addressing this type of statement. He doesn't cover all the bonsai myth-rules out there - but he does a good job of covering some major ones.
Were you eating crackers? 😉. Thanks, I really enjoyed rewatching the stop-motion animation at the end on that one...actually forgot about that part. Do you mean the tool sounds? I didn't hear any cracking - e.g. wood....?
Oh, you just have to start when they are still small and flexible. The ones in this video were wired once before, but they're still small enough to bend more. We actually sell pre-wired junipers on bonsaify.com also.
Professor Eric from Hogwarts school of Mame magic!
First time i am watching these videos. Tq sir
love to hear of craftspeople whose name is the same as their craft, like Bob Potts the potter, or Robyn Wood the carpenter
Amazing work!
These pots remind me of the times when I started with ceramics. I still have a few of my crooked beginner pots and I cherish them a lot because they remind me of how I started a wonderful hobby.
Love the addition of stop motion to the already excellent videos. A great help in grasping what is changing on such small trees.
Love your videos... keep up the great work
Thank you!
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It's a little past midnight I'm off to great start and what better way to celebrate my bithday then to sit back and watch some bonsai videos. Nice work on them junipers, I currently made my own mame pot that looks like an old twisted up wooden stump.
Happy birthday!
Nice little trees, like the way you filmed it too
I love that irregularity and the glaze drop on the first pot, but since it's the highest face, it feels a bit awkward to me as a front, to be honest. But otherwise these pots are just stunning as a representation of a cliff side where a cascading tree would grow.
Such a sucker for your trees, just love them!
Love it!!! It is hard to find good mame content online that's not Japanese.
Please make more...
Stunningly beautiful 😍 The time lapse video was fascinating to watch, thank you xx
Nice 🙂👍👍 video
Fantastic!!! Love what you did with all 4 examples, and the video editing was SUPER !!
Eric-did you see the BonsaiQ video that was posted on Feb 4th? Magnificent tutorial on wiring and bending mame.
I cannot wait to get my mame juniper repotted this spring! Thank you for the guidance and inspiration!
I've done bonsai for almost 20 years and never really cared for mame size. I absolutely love it now and it's 100 percent your fault. LOL.
Willing to accept full responsibility LOL!
@@Bonsaify LOL
Love the mame videos lately! It inspires me so much with mines
Enjoyed the vid, spooky music ending was fun
They look great! Thanks for the shout-out :)
Thanks Bob! I had fun with these four - and I had Nikii pot up trees into the rest of the batch. Gonna be great! She said she had a lot of fun with those little guys.
Outstanding!
Bonsai phill very good video nice shape tree s thanks
Gorgeous little works of art
I love what you did with the last third of the video, and the music was just apt. Your diabolical laugh after you “simplified” the first mame reminded me of when you trunk chopped your s-curved ficus (looking forward to another update). Really enjoyable video but I wonder that these mame require a lot of continued misting and maintenance in such a tiny pot. Thanks again.
We find that growing them in a tray of soil and allowing a bit of escape rooting makes things a lot easier, but yes, mame are a bit more labor intensive than larger trees. Misting is not so much as just staying on top of watering.
Thanks for sharing.
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Bravo! Good show :)
11:04 Dramatic music starts to play
*BONSAI-ING INTENSIFIES*
Would love to see a video on what you would do with your Washington hawthorn starters. I bought 2!
We did do a couple of them:
ruclips.net/video/m3FHt5fP1t4/видео.html
ruclips.net/video/1lAgk9l_Mf8/видео.html
But, I might get to doing another sometime soon.
Lovely work! Hope the plants survive. Have always had problems with repotting mames
Make sure you've got the right season down for repotting - otherwise, species selection and stepping down containers one year after another is the best. Note that I did not try to go from a gallon can into a thimble - the trees were already in tiny 2" containers.
This was enormously helpful! Thank you so much. I'm just about to create a cherry seedling Mame in one of those .75 clay pots. (I dream of being able to afford something as beautiful as Bob's pots!) I'll be sure to mention you in my Bonsai Diaries! :D
Primo content. More Mame please.
First of all, thank you for sharing your hard earned knowledge with everyone through these videos, I enjoy and learn so much from them. Gets me excited for bonsai!!! :)
It maybe unwanted but if I could suggest a few ideas for future videos? We have seen you do a lot with smaller shohin and mame development. I for one would love to see how you would develope young trees for medium to large bonsai. Black pines, wiring, shaping the trunks, I have a hard imaging, what the movement/bends should look like on a 2 to 3 year old seedling for a larger tree you plan on growing out to a 3" to 4" thick trunk, 20" to 30" tall, bonsai. As a example, maybe just a nice informal upright shape. A larger literati style trunk like would be nice also. This would probably be boring subjects to you but I feel it would be helpful to a lot of us that are growing trees that will hopefully become American's future bonsai material. :) Not that you need it, I just thought you might could use ideas for future content for your growing channel/ brand. Also just as a side question, is growing a pine from seed to become a high quality formal upright feasible? Or does that pretty much require growing it very slowly, in a container for 50 plus years? Thanks again, love your videos.
Thanks for the suggestions, I'll consider those. There are several reasons I do mostly small trees but diversity is the spice of life!
Formal uprights are tricky, the best one I made was going reasonably well at age 16 when I sold it. But, they are very rigid in terms of your ability to adapt the trees growth. I would suggest that you aim for moderate growth rates, and yes, it's going to take a lot longer than an informal upright that you ground grow.
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Absolutely love these! 🌳 Do you cover starting mame. Thanks
There are a bunch of mame videos in the back catalog - start with this one which perhaps covers creating once from a juniper: ruclips.net/video/9v-K2qxOZMo/видео.html
@Bonsaify thank you! 😊 I've been checking out some. I really like the idea of the tray you have too. Do you keep them indoors in winter?
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Great video, i Will be attempting a few mames in another few weeks. I'm thinking to start a bonsai channel aswell. What camera do you use to record?
Sony A7iv in this video - and in most videos since. I also use a Insta360 Go3 on some shots, and my iPhone 13.
nice! Do you grow all your seedlings/cuttings in the same mix of perlite and coir?
Yes, pretty much everything. Sometimes mixing the coir at higher percentages.
When do you do your repotting for junipers?
The best time, like many other trees is in early spring as the trees begin to grow and after danger of cold weather. You can do it in Fall - after Oct 1st for me - as long as you can provide cold protection for 4-6 weeks. For the record - this was filmed in late January - and because I live in a mild climate that is a perfectly fine time to do it here. But - one of the four did die. These pots are very tiny!
Can you share your soil component for these mame bonsai?
I use shohin Aoki mix. Then sift it in half to use the smaller particles for the mame.
ruclips.net/video/jaTZHXKPFeU/видео.html
Some one told me that you shouldn't repot and wire juniper at the same time, you have to wait for 6 months to to each action ..is this correct? Thanks
That type of advice is often something that people make up as a rule when they don't understand how plants react or are affected by different operations. At its core, it may be good advise simply because over-working plants is one of the top culprits in killing them. Keep in mind that age and size can have an effect on how well plants tolerate work. When the work is done in the right season I find that you can repot and wire junipers with no problem. (we work with thousands.) However, doing this type of repotting in July or August - mid-summer - would result in certain death - or at least a 90% fatality rate. (we've tried it, wiring alone is fine, repotting is not).
I tend to encourage my students to do things empirically. Rather than shying away from something on the advise of another - ask yourself this question each time you work: "I wonder what would happen if I ... .... " Of course, it helps if you have a lot of trees to play with.
Finally - one recommendation - Michael Hagedorn's book "Bonsai Heresy" is a great resource for addressing this type of statement. He doesn't cover all the bonsai myth-rules out there - but he does a good job of covering some major ones.
@@Bonsaify awesome ! Thank you.
👌 Very nice.. Ive just started a Spring and Summer Mame challenge if your interested in having a go.. Using Heather 👍😀
How old are these trees when they were potted up?
About 3 years old.
How do you get the bends in the trunk? I get weary and stop when I hear cracking sounds
Were you eating crackers? 😉. Thanks, I really enjoyed rewatching the stop-motion animation at the end on that one...actually forgot about that part. Do you mean the tool sounds? I didn't hear any cracking - e.g. wood....?
@@Bonsaify the trunk line
I meant when I first tried to bend a small juniper
Oh, you just have to start when they are still small and flexible. The ones in this video were wired once before, but they're still small enough to bend more. We actually sell pre-wired junipers on bonsaify.com also.
❤What sustrateb is perlite 😊
First check this:
ruclips.net/video/jaTZHXKPFeU/видео.html
Perlite is a mined and processed mineral. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perlite
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