Peter thank you so much for all you do for the bonsai community! I am so thankful to have the privilege to learn from you, from across the globe! I am a maple lover myself and by watching your videos, you give me great confidence in how I maintain my own maple collection. Thank you.
I'm a new bonsai enthusiast and just started working on a very small Japanese Maple. Not only have started some trunk shaping on the main structure, I've successfully cultivated 5 branch cuttings I started in mid-March...it's very exciting.
Awesome video again !! I am a complete novice and so intensely learning as I want to shape and prune a large (~1.8m) exterior maple bonzai I purchased a while back... It's now bushy as in this example and the layers are fading and the branches are becoming .... Thanks again and keep them coming !!
One of my favourite trees, I have owned a weeping maple for years and now am enjoying the bonsai maple. Thank you for sharing a more simplistic approach to pruning maples.
A very healthy and loved tree. I too love Japanese maples!! They move and grow so well This tree is a great definition of this species potential. Keep up the great work!!👍
Thank you Peter, another informative video, amazing how the tree transforms when it's thinned out. Just did my first maple, cost me $45 dollars and it's only a foot high, came out great, I am excited to see how it transforms over the years, trunk is still the size of my pinky but it's not a pine so I'm excited.
Hi Peter, please can you do a video on pruning and producing ramification on cryptomeria? I did a workshop with you in February and you roughly shaped a nursery plant I brought. I've wired it all out and it's got lots of new growth but next step is what to do with the new shoots! Planning on coming back next year for another workshop, so hopefully you'll see it again!
I actually did my first bonsai today a yew and a juniper. Following your tips, they are currently placed in training pots, pruned,a bit wired, and with top roots exposed... Dont know how well theyll work out, but i want my last one of 3 to be this kind of plant....
I very much enjoy your videos Peter, thank you for taking the time to make them and for all the thought you put into them. I avidly watch them all from here in Paris. In contrast to large maples, I'm wondering whether you have any smaller Acer Palmatum Dissectum at the nursery that you shape and keep as Bonsai? I have a lovely young one that I picked up in Giverny and she naturally looks like a Bonsai - if you do have some in the nursery, may I start a petition for a video on laced-leaf maple shaping and care? All the best.
Hey Jack! I also recently got an acer palmatum dissectum and I also live in Paris! I would love to see more bonsai shapes for it too, and I was also thinking of going to some bonsai nurseries around Paris. Do you know if there are any? Here's a picture of mine: instagram.com/p/BxNude1nWWS/ I pruned it, grafted some bent branches, shaped some of them, and also got rid of the useless leaves so that more sun gets into the tree. It's definitely not a bonsai yet because the trunk is too thin still, but it has wonderful curves and I think it will turn into a beautiful tree in time.
@@peterchan3100 Thanks Peter - not sure you saw the whole post, but in any case I am hoping to pass by Heron's on my next trip back to Blighty so will peruse everything you have in then! Keep cultivating!
@@oanafl Hey Oana, I don't know of any proper ones no, nothing like Heron's in any case! Let me know if you find one - checked out your laced-leaf, she's a beauty!
Amazing tree, but why conical for deciduous species as it’s not their natural shape? I think I would reduce those lower branches a lot more to create more of a natural dome shape. I do understand that the conical shape allows light to all the branches though.
Hello from GA USA! Question ❓ can I do a late February winter structural shape pruning on both upright and mounding maples and again in April first flush and yet again in July after second flush as you recommend? Thanks for your fantastic videos that have played a significant role in my maple collection and the development of their natural beauty. You helped me save a few already that I thought had died on me and they can back even stronger after taking your advice and guidance. Cheers my friend!
Another master class thank you Peter ,we have a beautiful maple growing in our front garden that my wife planted about 15 years ago I keep saying to my wife it would be great as a bonsai, she said if I as much as touch it she will chop my man hood off 😂😂😂 I love seeing you work on your trees you are very gifted I at what you do thank you again....
Hey Mr Chan. We have a japanese maple in our garden and I am considering to make a bonsai from a cutting out of it. I am not sure how i schould do this. Do you have any tips regarding this idea? Greetings from Germany
Very nice video! I'd love to have a spring-color maple tree like that in my yard. The video would have been nicer if the maple could have been moved to our left just a bit so that the other tree wouldn't interfere with the view, since we only have 2-dimensional vision on the computer. I imagine it's very heavy, though.
Many thanks peter for another great video . I remember pruning a palmatum in mid summer a fw yrs ago and every branch died back and the tree died. Not sure what i did wrong so any advice would be great. I did notice in video you are only pruning new growth and perhaps i had been cutting old wood.
I remember in one of your videos you talked about nebari and said that "turtleback" nebari is deemed to be most desired. It is a matter of taste, I suppose. To me it does not look natural. But is there any reason for turtleback nebari to be valued so highly?
@@peterboneg These are field grown - Have you ever visited our growing fields? I will show you the one I did with the Axe and crowbar. It looks just like this one. Look out for a video I am going to show as a follow up to that video. Its almost looking like a specimen maple like this big one here.
just a simple question... if i want a big bonsai, should i rather buy a big tree and cut it down or can i also buy a young small tree and but it in a huge pot, so it has more space for roots and nutrients? or is the bakery boxes ( this is how they are called in germany, these euro boyes with mesh design that u use for other trees) and put a root barrier on the bottom but the roots can extend to the sides? and when it is big enough to cut off the roots around the box? or would that be too invasive to the roots?
Love your maples sir!!.. have a question..do you pluck out the new centre bud when they just start to grow for the season?..I've seen this in other videos...or do you only prune twice a year..
Sir what do you mean by if you grow a maple by seed it will never come out true to form. Will they just not be as full and vibrant? Thank you. Anyone please help
Hi... could you clarify something for me. Were the leaves that you were plucking hardened off when you did that, or were they still pre-hardened? Thanks, Bob
Hello Mr. Chan, I have a question, can we work, as you do on this maple palmatum, on a maple palmatum recently won? Sorry for my approximate English, I speak very little English (thank you Google) but I can understand your explanations in your videos. thanks a lot for your help
@@peterchan3100 Thank you so much, I will follow your advice and wait until my maples have resumed their growth. I understand that the key lies in the patience thank you, Mr. Chan
The best thing to do with bonsai is buy a few hundred young maples ,plant them in a field ,then go and get a job any profession will do.retire after thirty years and then dig your maples up put them in a little pot,do a bit of pruning and sell them.then retire to the south of France.
Peter thank you so much for all you do for the bonsai community! I am so thankful to have the privilege to learn from you, from across the globe! I am a maple lover myself and by watching your videos, you give me great confidence in how I maintain my own maple collection. Thank you.
Perhaps you can share some of your Maple knowledge too.
Plucking leaves..another technique to learn. Great video. Thank you Sir
Edward Scissor hands has nothing on you Peter. Beautiful specimen. Thanks
I'm a new bonsai enthusiast and just started working on a very small Japanese Maple. Not only have started some trunk shaping on the main structure, I've successfully cultivated 5 branch cuttings I started in mid-March...it's very exciting.
Awesome video again !! I am a complete novice and so intensely learning as I want to shape and prune a large (~1.8m) exterior maple bonzai I purchased a while back... It's now bushy as in this example and the layers are fading and the branches are becoming .... Thanks again and keep them coming !!
Ahh the shirt is so good!! Also the colour of the leaves are so beautiful. It’s like having autumn in spring. Such a wonderful tree
“Ordinary sophisticated topiary, a lot of people make it out to be more than that, it really isn’t”. 💜💜
One of my favourite trees, I have owned a weeping maple for years and now am enjoying the bonsai maple. Thank you for sharing a more simplistic approach to pruning maples.
I enjoy watching you so much. You do marvelous work, and you do it deftly, quickly and confidently. This is a beautiful maple.
Another killer video and even better shirt. Thanks for the imperial units, by the way.
That’s a beauty! I’m going to watch this with interest, recently purchased a beni chidori, so I need to learn 🙂
Just ordered 2 of these today, hope i'm still alive to see them in all the glory this one shows one day lol
A very healthy and loved tree. I too love Japanese maples!! They move and grow so well This tree is a great definition of this species potential. Keep up the great work!!👍
So much growth!
In the North of England we have barely got the leaves out.
Clearly about a month behind your trees which are marvelous 👍
Wonderfully crazy bonsai you are growing there Peter... Love the huge Maples...
Thank you Peter, another informative video, amazing how the tree transforms when it's thinned out. Just did my first maple, cost me $45 dollars and it's only a foot high, came out great, I am excited to see how it transforms over the years, trunk is still the size of my pinky but it's not a pine so I'm excited.
This man's trees are always fantastic
Next time we visit our friend in London, I am taking a train down to Lingfield to visit this magical place.
Another great video Peter, it was a pleasure to meet you yesterday on my one to one training, you can't put a price on knowledge.
It was a pleasure teaching you!
Hi Peter, please can you do a video on pruning and producing ramification on cryptomeria? I did a workshop with you in February and you roughly shaped a nursery plant I brought. I've wired it all out and it's got lots of new growth but next step is what to do with the new shoots! Planning on coming back next year for another workshop, so hopefully you'll see it again!
Cryptomeria is difficult
🥰🥰 Absolutely beautiful colours.
Great video. Great shirt. Thanks
I actually did my first bonsai today a yew and a juniper. Following your tips, they are currently placed in training pots, pruned,a bit wired, and with top roots exposed...
Dont know how well theyll work out, but i want my last one of 3 to be this kind of plant....
Mulberry is a good one for starters
@@drjones8176 Dont like that one. Not as a fruit, not as a plant. No interesting colors. Id get a red plum, but its not sold in stores...
Wow beautiful maple 🌳🌱🌲🍁👍👏
Thank you Peter for helping me with my trees.
Merci Mr Chan pour cette vidéo, sur un arbre magnifique , j' adore les érables 👍🏻
Great video as usual thank-you Sir.
Very nice
Very good music choice at the end !
Credit to my video maker - she is very good.
I love your work sir
you make it look so easy and fun. As it should be I guess. Thank you for the demonstration!
Learned something new today. Thank you Peter
I very much enjoy your videos Peter, thank you for taking the time to make them and for all the thought you put into them. I avidly watch them all from here in Paris.
In contrast to large maples, I'm wondering whether you have any smaller Acer Palmatum Dissectum at the nursery that you shape and keep as Bonsai? I have a lovely young one that I picked up in Giverny and she naturally looks like a Bonsai - if you do have some in the nursery, may I start a petition for a video on laced-leaf maple shaping and care?
All the best.
Hey Jack! I also recently got an acer palmatum dissectum and I also live in Paris! I would love to see more bonsai shapes for it too, and I was also thinking of going to some bonsai nurseries around Paris. Do you know if there are any? Here's a picture of mine: instagram.com/p/BxNude1nWWS/ I pruned it, grafted some bent branches, shaped some of them, and also got rid of the useless leaves so that more sun gets into the tree. It's definitely not a bonsai yet because the trunk is too thin still, but it has wonderful curves and I think it will turn into a beautiful tree in time.
You can order on line from our nursery - we have lots of small ones.
@@peterchan3100 Thanks Peter - not sure you saw the whole post, but in any case I am hoping to pass by Heron's on my next trip back to Blighty so will peruse everything you have in then!
Keep cultivating!
@@oanafl Hey Oana, I don't know of any proper ones no, nothing like Heron's in any case! Let me know if you find one - checked out your laced-leaf, she's a beauty!
Thank you@@jackdadswell9089 :) Then I definitely need to book my visit to Heron's as well, I'd love to see Peter's awesome trees
Very nice, I appreciate the the detailed work.
So stunning, wish i could visit and see you work, visit the fields... 😞 anyhow amazing work love it!
Very relaxing and heartwarming mr, thank u sir
Amazing tree, but why conical for deciduous species as it’s not their natural shape? I think I would reduce those lower branches a lot more to create more of a natural dome shape. I do understand that the conical shape allows light to all the branches though.
More a Dome shape than a sharp cone shape. Look at Beech and OaK trees and you will know what I mean.
Great maple bonsai sir... i love your vid bonsai.
Hello from GA USA! Question ❓ can I do a late February winter structural shape pruning on both upright and mounding maples and again in April first flush and yet again in July after second flush as you recommend? Thanks for your fantastic videos that have played a significant role in my maple collection and the development of their natural beauty. You helped me save a few already that I thought had died on me and they can back even stronger after taking your advice and guidance. Cheers my friend!
It's so beautiful!
Very very beautiful ❣️ bonsai
Nice work
I love maple tree 😍👍
Gorgeous tree.
Thanks Peter that's awesome
I love Maples trees
Another master class thank you Peter ,we have a beautiful maple growing in our front garden that my wife planted about 15 years ago I keep saying to my wife it would be great as a bonsai, she said if I as much as touch it she will chop my man hood off 😂😂😂 I love seeing you work on your trees you are very gifted I at what you do thank you again....
Lol. I just dug my maple up after 10 years. My husband didn't notice he thought it was " another" pre bonsai.
@@PlantObsessed she would go mad if I did that she watches me like a hawk when I am mowing the grass around it .lol
Let me work on it!!
@@peterchan3100 I would if I lived near you Peter but I promise I am going to take a trip and see your bonsai nursery and hopefully see you ...
Hey Mr Chan. We have a japanese maple in our garden and I am considering to make a bonsai from a cutting out of it. I am not sure how i schould do this. Do you have any tips regarding this idea?
Greetings from Germany
Yes - cuttings also work but air layering is faster.
Blimey its more vigorous than an ash! Thanks for the video
Always good explications and good vidéo .thanks
Can you make a video about a lilac bonsai?
I have a few lilac saplings and would like to turn them into bonsai.
Than you in advance.
Beautiful tree.
Lovely 🧡💚💗 thank you!
Mr. Chan can you do a video on how to prune a weeping Japanese maple.
Beautiful tree, regards from México city!!
I am wondering if you grow your own shirts at the heron's, and can we take cuttings LOL, thank you for all your inspiring video's!
Very nice video! I'd love to have a spring-color maple tree like that in my yard.
The video would have been nicer if the maple could have been moved to our left just a bit so that the other tree wouldn't interfere with the view, since we only have 2-dimensional vision on the computer. I imagine it's very heavy, though.
Thank You
Many thanks peter for another great video .
I remember pruning a palmatum in mid summer a fw yrs ago and every branch died back and the tree died.
Not sure what i did wrong so any advice would be great.
I did notice in video you are only pruning new growth and perhaps i had been cutting old wood.
I don't think pruning old wood was the issue. Did it have any other symptoms?
Maybe it got a disease? Pests?
I remember in one of your videos you talked about nebari and said that "turtleback" nebari is deemed to be most desired. It is a matter of taste, I suppose. To me it does not look natural. But is there any reason for turtleback nebari to be valued so highly?
... Hola para cuando
The Japanese value the Turtle back - I guess because they revere the turtles very much.
Beautifull sir
Hello Peter,
Bloodgood maples - what colours do they change to throughout the seasons. Thanks
Regards from South Africa.
as always learned a lot. Thank you!
amazing bonzai !!!!
love it
Very nice thank you.
Peter how long did you leave your maple in the ground to get a trunk that big?
Yeah, that things a beast
He likely imported it rather than growing it in the ground himself.
@@peterboneg he usually grows his own maples from seeds and air layers
@@peterboneg These are field grown - Have you ever visited our growing fields? I will show you the one I did with the Axe and crowbar. It looks just like this one. Look out for a video I am going to show as a follow up to that video. Its almost looking like a specimen maple like this big one here.
@@peterchan3100 Sorry Peter. I knew you had growing fields but wasn't sure you grew all your maples there.
Topiary is living art, thus bonsai is also living art :)
What mix do you use for your maples when in training pot like that one?
My mix for large maples is Peat/Pine Bark/Akadama/ volcanic grit - Those 4 in equal portions
For small maples as well in big pot for growing
Precioso!!!
Lové it
I appreciate the imperial terms.
Once again thank you.
From California, U.S.A.
Wow,want this kinna tree
just a simple question... if i want a big bonsai, should i rather buy a big tree and cut it down or can i also buy a young small tree and but it in a huge pot, so it has more space for roots and nutrients? or is the bakery boxes ( this is how they are called in germany, these euro boyes with mesh design that u use for other trees) and put a root barrier on the bottom but the roots can extend to the sides? and when it is big enough to cut off the roots around the box? or would that be too invasive to the roots?
Buy a big tree and air layer or plant a tree into the ground. It'll take forever for a tree to get this big in a pot.
Hey Peter! What’s the measurements of the pot?
Love your maples sir!!.. have a question..do you pluck out the new centre bud when they just start to grow for the season?..I've seen this in other videos...or do you only prune twice a year..
Yes
Sir what do you mean by if you grow a maple by seed it will never come out true to form. Will they just not be as full and vibrant? Thank you. Anyone please help
I love all your craziness sir! Cheers from Utah! Almost done with your book! Do you still most of the trees from your first book?
I have a few although most have been sold
"Its just a small tree" he says about a tree bigger than every tree in my collection combined 😅😂
just *wow* i like it :)
Hi... could you clarify something for me. Were the leaves that you were plucking hardened off when you did that, or were they still pre-hardened?
Thanks,
Bob
The leaves have already hardened - This trees was left out in its position all winter with no protection whatsoever
What a shirt!
What a beautiful tree! Holy shit.
Nice shirt btw
What time of year to fertilize?
My favorite trees (maples) as well sir! Just curious, how much would a tree of that caliber cost? 😁
I would say $7K+
Hello Mr. Chan,
I have a question, can we work, as you do on this maple palmatum, on a maple palmatum recently won?
Sorry for my approximate English, I speak very little English (thank you Google) but I can understand your explanations in your videos.
thanks a lot for your help
Work on maples like I am doing only if the tree is growing strongly.
@@peterchan3100 Thank you so much, I will follow your advice and wait until my maples have resumed their growth.
I understand that the key lies in the patience
thank you, Mr. Chan
How old is this tree?
What would you recommend for someone’s first bonsai?
Maple, Larch, Juniper - they are all easy. Avoid the Indoor ones if you are a beginner and don't have green fingers
Such a shame to remove that beautiful colour but the end result is needed and worth it.
Call the rake crew now
I need a maple tree ,im from india,it,s not avalable here
Check out that THICC nebari...
Was sat under an old oak yesturday, eventhough the rain had stopped, the oak tree had retained a shower for itself
The best thing to do with bonsai is buy a few hundred young maples ,plant them in a field ,then go and get a job any profession will do.retire after thirty years and then dig your maples up put them in a little pot,do a bit of pruning and sell them.then retire to the south of France.
That is a beaut shoowee
Hello sir
What is the good time to plant Japanese red and green maple tree seed .
🥰🥰
As an American who wishes we were in the metric system it is so hard to change.
it is sad cus I really wanna have maple but living in tropic won't suit for maple