I was unaware you could make cuttings of willows this way. I'll be speaking with a near by apartment manager for a cutting of their willow. Thank you for all the advice. I always look forward to your videos. Regards
Those willows root well! I'm experimenting now with willow-leaf ficus, hibiscus, and dwarf pomegranate. I've had no luck rooting in water alone, but I'm getting some new growth by rooting in bonsai soil (constantly watered). Thanks for your videos~
ak50gunit Exactly as shown in the video, the long branch was cut into four pieces and put in a container of water and never the water go below a few inches, the level to which you want the roots to develop. Its as simple as that.
Alles was wir machen ist um zu zeigen was wir machen:) Eine gute Idee um einen Bonsai auf den Weg zu bringen :) Weiden sind gut für Anfänger :) Alles Gute für dich mein Freund
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brilliant :) I did the same thing 3 years ago with a 6in willow cutting, it's now 4ft :) I'm going to do it again but Bonsai this time, thank you for the informative video :)
Branch was doing well in water started growing branches,roots, leaves…. Placed in soil and began to wilt and the roots dried out … I recently moved back into water and is growing back… Any advice you can give to safely transfer back to soil would be greatly appreciated??
The pot in which the branch is potted in should be kept in a shallow tray of water, that way the tree remains healthy and strong. Please so this and in a few weeks time let me know how its doing.
Brilliant :) Just what I needed Iqbal. Was looking for help and I found it. Your video's filled with knowledge and fun are a breath of fresh air, new subscriber from Holland....
Hello Karin, Its a pleasure to hear from you. Thanks for discovering my channel, visiting, subscribing and such a positive comment and I am looking for more viewers and subscribers just like you. I hope to see more visits, comments, likes shares and videos added to your play list. Do share when ever you can. Very warm greetings from London Iqbal
Nature amazes me. I mean, maybe it is not quite nature itself. To think, a man can cut a branch off a tree, and re-grow it in so many different forms, by simple putting that cutting into a bucket of water. That is awesome. Would it be to late to try something like this in Connecticut?
deadeyeski Thanks for watching and taking the time to comment. I took four weeks from the time the four cuttings were put into the watering can and to plant them in pots you see in this video. If you do it now and you know that it will be warm for at least six to eight weeks, you can pot them after four weeks and it will also give them time to settle down in their new pots before onset of winter. Let us know how you get on.
Your welcome, you have wonderful trees ! The roots on your Willow cuttings look very healthy .Could i ask you a few questions. Ik Did you aerate the water in the buckets? Is there a certain season for this type of propagation ,and what other trees will root with this method? Thank you
Jonathan Perez The Willow cuttings were placed in water, without aerating it, in July and it took four weeks to get the roots you saw in the video. For this type of propagation I would suggest its done in the summer months. I have done this with Previt, and jade. I think it may work with other deciduous trees. Try it out, thats the only way you will know. Good luck with your bonasi.
Thank you , Good thing I live in Florida ,we have long summers. I will give it a try with Willow and Privet, my Jades are too little .They dont compare to your Jade Trees lol. A quick update on your Jades would be great! Well , have a great weekend . And again thank you!
Hi Chelsea, If you are following my method, you are bound to succeed. Do let em know how you get on. Also I have videos on my channel showing how to start growing bonsai trees from cuttings, That is also very cost effective way to start a bonsai collection. I also have a video called how to start a bonsai tree collection, in it I show the little trees which were started from cuttings. Good luck and best wishes. Iqbal
Is this salix alba tristana or salix babylonia? The yellow bark has me wondering which one it is. Tristiana is a messy look alike called the golden weeping willow.
Hi Matt, Your guess is probably as good as mine. My gardener got the original big branch cutting for me to start of these trees, which are very easy to grow, but there is a lot of loss of branches during the winter. Best wishes Iqbal Khan
@@mikbonsai for a bonsai they probably are great candidates but as for lawn trees not so much. My poor ole golden weeping willow has leafed out and it has sooooooooo much dead in it i just need to cut it down or butcher it to have the same problem a few years from now. I'm ready to remove it its just over coming my fear of destroying everything around it. If i do it may not be a bonsai but i will make a couple potted mini trees for my deck. Also most any salix will root just like those you have!
I notice you placed the cutting with at least 4 in. of the trunk w/roots underground. Isn't that portion of the trunk going to be very visible in the root structure or a hindrance when you put it in a shallower pot?
My apologies for the late response, I was off YT for a year due to personal circumstances. Now am back and making videos, uploaded two new videos and working on the next on. The cutting had to be planted deep, The burried trunk will not develop any roots and there will be no after effects when it is planted in shallow bonsai pot.
hi! love the video. I scanned the comments looking for how long you left the clippings in the pot from the end of part 1 before you filmed part 2. was it one year? I have some willows that I want to clone and bonsai and your videos have been the most helpful. thanks!
There was a delay in the publishing of part 2, the actual gap between filming between part 1 and part 2 is one year. I hope to work these again shortly and an update will follow in the next couple of months. Willows are very easy to root as you saw in part on, from cuttings being put in water to rooting was just four weeks and they all had loads of roots. After you pot them up, keep the pots in a shallow tray of water, regularly toped up. Good luck and do let me know how your willows develop. Good luck Iqbal
So glad you found it useful. I was off YT for a few years, hence the delay in responding. I am back and making bonsai videos once again, I hope these are in improvement on my previous ones. Do watch and comment on my new videos. Please also subscribe and you will not miss any new videos. Best regards Iqbal
Yes it is a wonderful place to live. Romantic notion about the place? Very right you are. I love everything about my surroundings. And the graceful forests on the mountains.....you can very well imagine. I invite you Iqbal for a beautiful vacation.(sorry, i must talk about bonsai only?) Today i will try to get some cuttings of willow tree. Thank you very much. Love from India.
carianoff The weeping willow trees will be fine in Zone 10. Swamp like conditions are very suitable for these trees. Ideally keep the posts in which they are growing in a tray or similare container with fair amount of water.
Excellent video. Just starting a Jade bonsai but now I want try try a tree. Can a Pear tree be bonsai'd? Also, do you have any videos showing how to prune a Jade, or similar, from seedling to create the bushiness needed for a bonsai
graham287 Thank you for your feed back. You can bonsai a pear tree, I haven't done it, but have done it successfully with apple trees, pomegranates, working on mango and lychee trees. I have a number of videos on Jade on my channel, Jade is very easy to look after and also a quick grower and bushes out easily.
Very good instruction I just have question . Does any sort of tree can use this metods to grow up the roots on cutting branches or only Willows tree as in this video . Thanks for this video
This method works with Willow tree, Privet cuttings and afew other species. Most species you can take cuttings and grow from cuttings. I have videos on my channel showing how to grow from cuttings. Please consider subscribing and hit the bell and you will receive notifications of all my new videos. Last week I worked on these willow trees and an update video will be released in the next couple of weeks. If you are subscribed and hit the bell, you will not miss it. Thank you for watching and commenting.
Wow Amazing , well I am from Kashmir and willow tree only grows in Kashmir and UK ,do you know that ? I will definitely try it next year in spring time , I used to cut willow branches to grow more willow trees never thought I could grow bonsai of willow tree
Ubaid, thanks for watching and commenting. I have seen Willow trees growing by the river sides in China as well. Perhaps they grow where the climate is similar. I travel a fair amount and I have not seen them in other countries. I have facebook group, mikbonsai exclusively for subscribers who want to learn to bonsai and I teach in that group. Do join it. Look forward to seeing more of your comments and feedback. Best wishes Iqbal London
Thanks a lot for this. I've just started propagating some willow cuttings for bonsai, and this is really helpful. I've got two cuttings in a greenhouse thing I've set up, and two in a jar of water. Which pair do you think are the most likely to root? The potted ones have rooting hormone.
Sir. LouMON As long as the Willow cuttings are in water, they will root. The ones you have potted, place the pots in a tray of water, ensuring that the tray always has water and they too will root.
When repotting my willow cuttings after they have rooted well, can I leave some of the roots exposed at the base for astetic value without killing the tree?
Its too early to expose roots of a willow cuttings as they are too thin, also they would die. You can only do that once the roots have ticbkened and start exposing little at a time.
Margie Marsh Work on these willows was done in August last year. They are making good progress and I expect to do more work this season and video it and that will be Part 2. Thanks for watching and subscribing.
ak50gunit Two are doing well and the other two not so well. I will make a progression Video, hopefully later this year. You will receive notification when I upload videos as you have subscribed to my channel. Thanks for watching, subscribing and your comment.
Just plain tap water. Thanks for your visit and watching my videos. If you have not yet subscribed, please do and also click on the bell and tick the box and save. You will then receive notifications when I load new bonsai videos.
I didn't change the water, but for smaller cuttings I do change the water once a week to prevent algae from forming. Thanks for watching and you comment.
A lot of species will produce roots in plain water, but there are many that need to be propagated from new growth and then planted in mixture of compost and corse material such as grit, sand etc. In the UK best done around May/June when its warm.
I have some apple trees i started from seeds any tips you can give me on pruning shaping excetra i want to start a bonzai jungle also starting lemon seeds and orange when i find some that are not seedless
How old are these apple trees ? are the trunks pencil thick, win which case you can start a forest, other wise wait for the trunks to thicken more and when you are happy with the thickness of the trunks, you can then do the forest planting. You can do summer pruning to keep the branch structure compact and in scale with the bonsai trees, in other words don't let the branches get too long. While the trunks are thickening do not do trunk chops. You can do trunk chops When you are ready for the forest planting, and reduce the height of the trees. I am hoping to do a video of some maples which I have been growing for a group planting time has come to do the trunk chops. I do hope that I can video it in the next few weeks for you to see. Keep up dating me on your progress. Cheers Iqbal
Excellent question. It is to prevent the roots growing down wards. with the plastic the roots will grow horizontally in a radial fashion, just like the spokes of a bicycle wheel. By doing this i am controlling the root development and for the roots not to grow freely but grow where I want them.
Is this an appropriate tree to try for a beginner in bonsai or is it too difficult? I've ALWAYS loved weeping willow but having a tiny yard, there's no way I could have one other than doing bonsai.
Willow cut branches, even thick ones are very easy to root. They are easy to grow and are very forgiving if you take too much roots off when repotting or make a mistake with pruning as they back bud and you will have new branches in no time. A lot of viewers have started to grow bonsai from Willow branch cuttings. Just follow the process and steps I show in my bonsai willow progression videos and you will be growing them as well. An up date is due on my willow trees in the next few weeks. Please subscribe if you have not already done so and also hit the bell icon next to the subscribe button and you will not miss any of my new videos. Do let me know how you get on with your cuttings. Good luck and all the best IK
Thanks for the info.Yes, I subscribed as soon as I saw this :) This was the answer to years of dreaming of a weeping willow. I'm glad to hear they are forgiving. I will get some cuttings this week and start rooting them. I'm so bloody happy! I FINALLY may have my own weeping willow tree
Get as thick a cutting as you can get, that way you will have a thick trunk at the very start. Thanks for the sub. Look forward to your comments and also new of your willows.
Hi Iqbal. Great work indeed. Can i grow willow cuttings in this way, here in India too? I live in foothills of Himalayas. There are some trees in my colony.
Yes you can and they are very easy to grow, just follow what I did in the video. Wow was a wonder place you live in. I have very romantic notion of the area around the foot hills of the Himalayas, have never been there yet.
From any bonsai nursery near you. I too sell bonsai soil mix if your are any where near me. I was off YT for a few years, hence the delay in responding. I am back and making bonsai videos once again, I hope these are in improvement on my previous ones. Do watch and comment on my new videos. Please also subscribe and you will not miss any new videos. Best regards Iqbal
I bought 3 willow dragon cuttings from etsy. I placed them in water as instructed for 3 weeks and have roots. The seller shows videos to put it in organic dirt (not miracle grow). I went to a bonzai retailer for tips on soil and he acted like he had not seen this type of style for growing them. The only soil he had was dry like clay and stuff he uses which he said works for both indoor and outdoor, but he seemed short with his instruction, as if offended I bought cuttings online. He said the clay mixture is from japan which they mix together. None of it has dirt in it. Is that too dry for my bonzai?
This method is particularly relevant for Weeping Willow trees. It can also be used for some other trees, difficult for me to give a full list. I tend to stick the cuttings in a glass of water and if they root, this method works. However if the cuttings rot, this method is not suitable and then I propagate the cuttings in mixture of grit, compost and sand, water thoroughly and place in a plastic bag tie the top and place in full sun. Use any supermarket plastic bag, but never black. when the cutting sprout new leaves, your cuttings have rooted and need to be taken out of the plastic bag. Regularly check that the soil is moist and if necessary add more water.
There are no willow trees where I live now... I wonder if I'd be allowed to take a cutting back from the UK next time I visit? Will a willow survive in a Mediterranean climate? Or is it too hot for them? I'm starting a bonsai pomegranet but I want a willow too now... :)
Provided you are with the EU area, you should be able to take back a cutting with you. Willow will survive in the Med, keep the pot in a shallow tray filled with water. keep the water in the shallow tray topped up. Willows tend to grow near water, places such as river banks, canals, lakes etc. Pomegranate bonsai should be very easy tor you to grow as the climate would be perfect. I have two my self. Please subscribe to my channel and click on the bell next to the subscribe button and tick the box, then save. You will receive notifications of new videos and also progression videos. When to come to England and if you are coming to London, do let me know a little bit in advance and I will be happy to meet up and show you my collection od bonsai trees.
mikbonsai Oh good, hopefully I won't be stopped when bringing my cutting back. I will keep it well watered, especially in summer - can it live outdoors in summer or will the sun burn the leaves? summer temperatures are about 25 - 35 C here and the solar radiation is very strong. The pomegranet I bought as a little twig from a garden centre a few years ago, and it just never grew bigger than about 1ft - it's kept outdoors all year round in a pot on my roof terrace and already looks like a miniature tree so I decided why not make it a proper bonsai? I will be staying in SW London when I visit. It would be lovely to see your trees, what a kind offer :)
The willow tree cuttings will have to be kept outdoors. If you take them indoors, they will die. If you think it needs protection from the sun, you can keep the newly planted cuttings in location where it gets shade from the sun when its hottest, but does get the weak early morning or late evening sun. Let the pomegranate trunk thicken before you reduce the height, these do make very good bonsai trees. Which country do you live in ? As I said before if you are in EU country, then there is free movement of plants. I have had customers buy bonsai trees and take them as hand luggage on the plane to Spain and another one went to the Eire (the Irish Republic). I live in West London so not far from South West London, max half hour. Be a pleasure to show you my trees.
***** I currently live in Gibraltar; almost as far south as you can go in Europe - the climate is sub-tropical here; very hot in summer (and humid in late summer / early autumn), and the summer lasts for almost half of the year, with 2 - 3 months with no rain whatsoever (so it's quite harsh on plants that aren't native here without a very good watering regime). Now that it's autumn all my wilted dried up plants are regrowing their leaves again. The trunk of the pomegranet is about 1 inch in diameter at the base now, I could repot it to a larger pot and let it grow out a bit more first... it might be a good idea to let it get a bit stronger while I read up more on bonsai anyway :)
I have been to Gibraltar many times, its a great place. You already know that you have to have a good watering regime. As for the Pomegranate do not repot now if you do want to repot, do it in February/March when the trees are coming out of dormancy.
I live in Buffalo Ny and it is the beginning of February. there are weeping willow trees everywhere here. Can I take a cutting and root it now or should I wait until spring?
Hi James, These trees are dormant now. It would be best to wait until they start to bud and then you can take cuttings. In fact you can take branches as thick as you see in my video or even thicker and follow the process shown. They root very easily, and are easy to grow. Go for as thick a branch as you can get and it will make an amazing bonsai in a few years time. Also do let me know what you would like to see in my future videos. I am trying to gather information on what my viewers would like to see. I am also getting back on track to release one video a week. Let me know how you get on with your bonsai willow tree project in the summer months, your should have rooted by then and would be ready for first potting. Best wishes Iqbal London
Great video! I like the idea with the bag to help develop a radial root system. I'm going to remember this for future. The cuttings look really healthy and the roots look very different and interesting. I'm definitely going to start one next year :) Thanks for sharing your advise and taking us on an adventure!
Hi! Great video , When cutting the tree , did you literally cut the branch and place it in the watering can or did you cut into the bark and use a powder on the cut before hand ? I've been trying to get cuttings of a European larch I have but so far no luck on cuttings and I'm curious to see if I'm doing something wrong here .
Hi Dan, Nothing was done before hand and no rooting powder was used. Every thing I did is on video. Weeping Willow are very easy to root this way. Larch are very different from Willows and what worked for Willows, will not work for larch. You need to take Cutting of the new growth, young shoots and propagate them. Remove all excess green foliage except the tip. Scratch the bark with a grafting knife to expose the green of of the shoot, cover in rooting powder and plant in compost for saplings and seeds. Water and place in a plastic supermarket bag and tie up the top will take a few weeks to root. I have used this method many times and there are videos on my channel showing this. I see you are not yet a subscriber, consider subscribing, and also ring the bell that way you will not miss any thing. There is still time for you to have another go using the method I described, I have not propagated larch as its quicker and cheaper for me to get five to seven year old larch for a very reasonable price, but this method should work as it does even on junipers. Do let me know in six weeks time how you got on. You can also join our fb group The Bonsai Masterminds and post your pics there. Good luck Cheers Iqbal
mikbonsai thanks for the reply I have now subscribed I thought I had . I shall find you on Facebook now thanks again for the advice I will give that a go
mikbonsai Hi Iqbal. Will this work on older cutting a off willow trees? Pls let me know. A massive willow tree collapsed by me and wanted to air layer. But if I can do it this way even better. Just need to know if this method will only work on fresh/New shoots or old established? Thanks a lot. Heath from South Africa
***** yes please do - i am very interested in having a go at growing a bonsai willow (because they are my favourite tree but i do not have the use of a garden in which i could plant a full size tree, nor time left on earth in which to watch a large tree grow to maturity), but i have never grown any bonsai before, so i'm very interested to see how yours from cuttings look when they get going - it seems to my untutored mind that a cutting removes an awful lot of waiting before much happens which a seedling would require.
The cuttings are coming along very nicely, there is a lot of growth and I hope to do an up date soon. with cuttings you get a larger plant then you would from seeds. You are right that growing from seed would take a long time to get to the stage where the plant grown from cutting is.
You didn’t put anything in the water... just plain ole rain water... let set for 4 weeks or so or until desired root system is achieved and bam, willow tree...?!
Hi Linda, Thank you for your visit to my channel. Am delighted to hear of your experience and you are finding my videos useful. If you have not yet subscribed, then please do so and also leave comments if you need any specific advice. Best wishes Iqbal
Thank you for visiting and taking the time to leave your comment. Glad you like the trees, I had a good nose and was in a fight when I was in my teens and the other two got as good as i got. Hope to see more of your comments in the future.
I was unaware you could make cuttings of willows this way. I'll be speaking with a near by apartment manager for a cutting of their willow. Thank you for all the advice. I always look forward to your videos. Regards
Thanks for your subscription, watching and your feedback all very much appreciated and good luck with your willow tree cutting, it really is very easy, just follow the steps in the video.
I just bought some E.B. Stone organics bonsai soil for my willow cutting. I assumed because it is made specifically for bonsai I wouldn't need to add anything more to the soil. The bag says it contains bark, rock, peat moss, & sand.
I was unaware you could make cuttings of willows this way. I'll be speaking with a near by apartment manager for a cutting of their willow. Thank you for all the advice. I always look forward to your videos.
Regards
Those willows root well! I'm experimenting now with willow-leaf ficus, hibiscus, and dwarf pomegranate. I've had no luck rooting in water alone, but I'm getting some new growth by rooting in bonsai soil (constantly watered). Thanks for your videos~
Hi Bruce , good to hear from you after a quiet spell. Am please to hear the cuttings are rooting.
Keep watching and commenting.
Cheers
Iqbal
How they made those beautiful roots? Simply putting the Weeping Willow branches in water?
ak50gunit Exactly as shown in the video, the long branch was cut into four pieces and put in a container of water and never the water go below a few inches, the level to which you want the roots to develop. Its as simple as that.
Alles was wir machen ist um zu zeigen was wir machen:) Eine gute Idee um einen Bonsai auf den Weg zu bringen :) Weiden sind gut für Anfänger :) Alles Gute für dich mein Freund
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5:38 beautiful cat stole the show. Your plants are beautiful thanks this is very helpful
That is my min, you will see her in many videos, likes to hang out with me.
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brilliant :) I did the same thing 3 years ago with a 6in willow cutting, it's now 4ft :) I'm going to do it again but Bonsai this time, thank you for the informative video :)
Noah Thanks for watching. these are very easy to grow. Good luck with your new project. ?Great to have you here.
Branch was doing well in water started growing branches,roots, leaves…. Placed in soil and began to wilt and the roots dried out … I recently moved back into water and is growing back… Any advice you can give to safely transfer back to soil would be greatly appreciated??
The pot in which the branch is potted in should be kept in a shallow tray of water, that way the tree remains healthy and strong. Please so this and in a few weeks time let me know how its doing.
Another inspirational video Iqbal thank you
fluke730 Thank you for your feed back. These weeping willow trees are coming on great and I hope to do an update video soon.
Brilliant :) Just what I needed Iqbal. Was looking for help and I found it. Your video's filled with knowledge and fun are a breath of fresh air, new subscriber from Holland....
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very good. i look forward to part 2 teal over the next year or two. cheers
Craig
Thanks Craig, will do an update as soon as these willows are ready for further work.
Excited for mine to root
I hope they have by now.
Nature amazes me. I mean, maybe it is not quite nature itself. To think, a man can cut a branch off a tree, and re-grow it in so many different forms, by simple putting that cutting into a bucket of water. That is awesome. Would it be to late to try something like this in Connecticut?
deadeyeski Thanks for watching and taking the time to comment. I took four weeks from the time the four cuttings were put into the watering can and to plant them in pots you see in this video. If you do it now and you know that it will be warm for at least six to eight weeks, you can pot them after four weeks and it will also give them time to settle down in their new pots before onset of winter. Let us know how you get on.
During the willows 4 week of immersion in water do you change out the water
No change of water at all, just top up the water if it gets low.
You make great videos ! I am learning a lot watching them . Thank you keep em coming!
Jonathan, Thanks for watching and your feed back, will keep up with making and posting of bonsai videos.
IK
Your welcome, you have wonderful trees ! The roots on your Willow cuttings look very healthy .Could i ask you a few questions. Ik Did you aerate the water in the buckets? Is there a certain season for this type of propagation ,and what other trees will root with this method? Thank you
Jonathan Perez The Willow cuttings were placed in water, without aerating it, in July and it took four weeks to get the roots you saw in the video. For this type of propagation I would suggest its done in the summer months. I have done this with Previt, and jade. I think it may work with other deciduous trees. Try it out, thats the only way you will know.
Good luck with your bonasi.
Thank you , Good thing I live in Florida ,we have long summers. I will give it a try with Willow and Privet, my Jades are too little .They dont compare to your Jade Trees lol. A quick update on your Jades would be great! Well , have a great weekend . And again thank you!
Jonathan Perez Have been working on a jade which was dying, have turned it round, will post this video soon.
I'm currently growing a willow branch from a cutting! Once it grows some more branches, I'll start to bonsai it. This is my first ever attempt.
Hi Chelsea, If you are following my method, you are bound to succeed. Do let em know how you get on. Also I have videos on my channel showing how to start growing bonsai trees from cuttings, That is also very cost effective way to start a bonsai collection. I also have a video called how to start a bonsai tree collection, in it I show the little trees which were started from cuttings. Good luck and best wishes.
Iqbal
Is this salix alba tristana or salix babylonia? The yellow bark has me wondering which one it is. Tristiana is a messy look alike called the golden weeping willow.
Hi Matt, Your guess is probably as good as mine. My gardener got the original big branch cutting for me to start of these trees, which are very easy to grow, but there is a lot of loss of branches during the winter.
Best wishes
Iqbal Khan
@@mikbonsai for a bonsai they probably are great candidates but as for lawn trees not so much. My poor ole golden weeping willow has leafed out and it has sooooooooo much dead in it i just need to cut it down or butcher it to have the same problem a few years from now. I'm ready to remove it its just over coming my fear of destroying everything around it. If i do it may not be a bonsai but i will make a couple potted mini trees for my deck. Also most any salix will root just like those you have!
Will they grow in tropical weather...,
Yes they should do...
Looking good some roots
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Iv got a Facebook page Scottish bonsai im gonna make my g plus page up in that name to and I'll add you on that profile for bonsai
Thank you again for another instructional video , as always i learned just what to do thank you so much ,
Linda Samsig Thanks for watching, your feed back and support, all very much appreciated.regards
Iqbal
I notice you placed the cutting with at least 4 in. of the trunk w/roots underground. Isn't that portion of the trunk going to be very visible in the root structure or a hindrance when you put it in a shallower pot?
My apologies for the late response, I was off YT for a year due to personal circumstances. Now am back and making videos, uploaded two new videos and working on the next on.
The cutting had to be planted deep, The burried trunk will not develop any roots and there will be no after effects when it is planted in shallow bonsai pot.
hi! love the video. I scanned the comments looking for how long you left the clippings in the pot from the end of part 1 before you filmed part 2. was it one year? I have some willows that I want to clone and bonsai and your videos have been the most helpful. thanks!
There was a delay in the publishing of part 2, the actual gap between filming between part 1 and part 2 is one year. I hope to work these again shortly and an update will follow in the next couple of months. Willows are very easy to root as you saw in part on, from cuttings being put in water to rooting was just four weeks and they all had loads of roots. After you pot them up, keep the pots in a shallow tray of water, regularly toped up. Good luck and do let me know how your willows develop.
Good luck
Iqbal
Thank you! I really needed this
So glad you found it useful. I was off YT for a few years, hence the delay in responding. I am back and making bonsai videos once again, I hope these are in improvement on my previous ones. Do watch and comment on my new videos. Please also subscribe and you will not miss any new videos.
Best regards
Iqbal
May I ask why you put a layer of stone to make it shallow instead of just using a shallow pot
The layer ot stomes was to cover the large holes at the bottom of the pot. I explained it in the video.
More handy knowledge. Thanks.
Great, thanks for watching and your the feed back.
Yes it is a wonderful place to live. Romantic notion about the place? Very right you are. I love everything about my surroundings. And the graceful forests on the mountains.....you can very well imagine. I invite you Iqbal for a beautiful vacation.(sorry, i must talk about bonsai only?)
Today i will try to get some cuttings of willow tree. Thank you very much. Love from India.
I really want to try one of these, I wonder how they would do in zone 10? Would it be more or less watering than say a bald cypress?
carianoff The weeping willow trees will be fine in Zone 10. Swamp like conditions are very suitable for these trees. Ideally keep the posts in which they are growing in a tray or similare container with fair amount of water.
Excellent video. Just starting a Jade bonsai but now I want try try a tree. Can a Pear tree be bonsai'd? Also, do you have any videos showing how to prune a Jade, or similar, from seedling to create the bushiness needed for a bonsai
graham287 Thank you for your feed back.
You can bonsai a pear tree, I haven't done it, but have done it successfully with apple trees, pomegranates, working on mango and lychee trees. I have a number of videos on Jade on my channel, Jade is very easy to look after and also a quick grower and bushes out easily.
How long do you leave in water
Few weeks in the summmer months, you can check them regularly to see how they are doing.
Very good instruction
I just have question . Does any sort of tree can use this metods to grow up the roots on cutting branches or only Willows tree as in this video .
Thanks for this video
This method works with Willow tree, Privet cuttings and afew other species. Most species you can take cuttings and grow from cuttings. I have videos on my channel showing how to grow from cuttings. Please consider subscribing and hit the bell and you will receive notifications of all my new videos. Last week I worked on these willow trees and an update video will be released in the next couple of weeks. If you are subscribed and hit the bell, you will not miss it. Thank you for watching and commenting.
Thank you watch d Oct 4,2022.
Thanks for watching.😄
Wow Amazing , well I am from Kashmir and willow tree only grows in Kashmir and UK ,do you know that ? I will definitely try it next year in spring time , I used to cut willow branches to grow more willow trees never thought I could grow bonsai of willow tree
Ubaid, thanks for watching and commenting. I have seen Willow trees growing by the river sides in China as well. Perhaps they grow where the climate is similar. I travel a fair amount and I have not seen them in other countries. I have facebook group, mikbonsai exclusively for subscribers who want to learn to bonsai and I teach in that group. Do join it.
Look forward to seeing more of your comments and feedback.
Best wishes
Iqbal
London
Thanks a lot for this. I've just started propagating some willow cuttings for bonsai, and this is really helpful. I've got two cuttings in a greenhouse thing I've set up, and two in a jar of water. Which pair do you think are the most likely to root? The potted ones have rooting hormone.
Sir. LouMON As long as the Willow cuttings are in water, they will root. The ones you have potted, place the pots in a tray of water, ensuring that the tray always has water and they too will root.
***** Okay, thanks.
Fantastic! thank you
So you just take cuttings and place in a pail of water no rooting compounds needed?
Yes, not all root, but some do with no effort on my part so worth doing it.
Regards
Iqbal
When repotting my willow cuttings after they have rooted well, can I leave some of the roots exposed at the base for astetic value without killing the tree?
Its too early to expose roots of a willow cuttings as they are too thin, also they would die. You can only do that once the roots have ticbkened and start exposing little at a time.
I didn't realize I could do this with my willow. But I cannot find a part 2..where is it please help.
Margie Marsh Work on these willows was done in August last year. They are making good progress and I expect to do more work this season and video it and that will be Part 2. Thanks for watching and subscribing.
How are doing these Weeping willoow pre-bonsai? There are another video with progress of these trees?
ak50gunit Two are doing well and the other two not so well. I will make a progression Video, hopefully later this year. You will receive notification when I upload videos as you have subscribed to my channel. Thanks for watching, subscribing and your comment.
What kind of soil did u use.
Initially its compost no1
hi, did you put anything in the water or is it just tap water?
Just plain tap water. Thanks for your visit and watching my videos. If you have not yet subscribed, please do and also click on the bell and tick the box and save. You will then receive notifications when I load new bonsai videos.
Have japanese weeping willow bonsai cuttings arriving today, is root hormone necessary?
No need.
does it need to change water for cuttings after few hours or days? did you mix something in water to develop the roots?
I didn't change the water, but for smaller cuttings I do change the water once a week to prevent algae from forming. Thanks for watching and you comment.
I'm thankful to you for your quick response and useful tips.
Any time, just ask, its my pleasure.
thanks mik! does every kind of cutting can grow and produce root system in plain water and which season is best for this?
A lot of species will produce roots in plain water, but there are many that need to be propagated from new growth and then planted in mixture of compost and corse material such as grit, sand etc. In the UK best done around May/June when its warm.
I have some apple trees i started from seeds any tips you can give me on pruning shaping excetra i want to start a bonzai jungle also starting lemon seeds and orange when i find some that are not seedless
How old are these apple trees ? are the trunks pencil thick, win which case you can start a forest, other wise wait for the trunks to thicken more and when you are happy with the thickness of the trunks, you can then do the forest planting. You can do summer pruning to keep the branch structure compact and in scale with the bonsai trees, in other words don't let the branches get too long. While the trunks are thickening do not do trunk chops. You can do trunk chops When you are ready for the forest planting, and reduce the height of the trees. I am hoping to do a video of some maples which I have been growing for a group planting time has come to do the trunk chops. I do hope that I can video it in the next few weeks for you to see.
Keep up dating me on your progress.
Cheers
Iqbal
Can you make a video of your bonsai collection? Thank you
This one slipped through the notifications, Apologies for that. Will try and get a video and how as many trees as I can.
Great video, my next project
Willows are easy to grow from cuttings, are quick growers and you will get plenty of practice.
Why the plastic bag in there? I haven't seen anything like that.
Excellent question. It is to prevent the roots growing down wards. with the plastic the roots will grow horizontally in a radial fashion, just like the spokes of a bicycle wheel. By doing this i am controlling the root development and for the roots not to grow freely but grow where I want them.
Is this an appropriate tree to try for a beginner in bonsai or is it too difficult? I've ALWAYS loved weeping willow but having a tiny yard, there's no way I could have one other than doing bonsai.
Willow cut branches, even thick ones are very easy to root. They are easy to grow and are very forgiving if you take too much roots off when repotting or make a mistake with pruning as they back bud and you will have new branches in no time. A lot of viewers have started to grow bonsai from Willow branch cuttings.
Just follow the process and steps I show in my bonsai willow progression videos and you will be growing them as well. An up date is due on my willow trees in the next few weeks.
Please subscribe if you have not already done so and also hit the bell icon next to the subscribe button and you will not miss any of my new videos.
Do let me know how you get on with your cuttings.
Good luck and all the best
IK
Thanks for the info.Yes, I subscribed as soon as I saw this :) This was the answer to years of dreaming of a weeping willow. I'm glad to hear they are forgiving. I will get some cuttings this week and start rooting them. I'm so bloody happy! I FINALLY may have my own weeping willow tree
Get as thick a cutting as you can get, that way you will have a thick trunk at the very start. Thanks for the sub. Look forward to your comments and also new of your willows.
Hi Iqbal. Great work indeed. Can i grow willow cuttings in this way, here in India too? I live in foothills of Himalayas. There are some trees in my colony.
Yes you can and they are very easy to grow, just follow what I did in the video. Wow was a wonder place you live in. I have very romantic notion of the area around the foot hills of the Himalayas, have never been there yet.
Did you use tap water? Or rain water to root...?
Plain old tap water.
Where would I be able to acquire the correct bonsai soul?
From any bonsai nursery near you.
I too sell bonsai soil mix if your are any where near me.
I was off YT for a few years, hence the delay in responding. I am back and making bonsai videos once again, I hope these are in improvement on my previous ones. Do watch and comment on my new videos. Please also subscribe and you will not miss any new videos.
Best regards
Iqbal
I bought 3 willow dragon cuttings from etsy. I placed them in water as instructed for 3 weeks and have roots. The seller shows videos to put it in organic dirt (not miracle grow). I went to a bonzai retailer for tips on soil and he acted like he had not seen this type of style for growing them. The only soil he had was dry like clay and stuff he uses which he said works for both indoor and outdoor, but he seemed short with his instruction, as if offended I bought cuttings online. He said the clay mixture is from japan which they mix together. None of it has dirt in it. Is that too dry for my bonzai?
did you figure out the soil needed?
Apologies for the late response. I hope you manaaged to sort out the soil. For planting the cuttings which have rooted, I used compots .
Hi sir..Will this method be applicable to all tree species?
This method is particularly relevant for Weeping Willow trees. It can also be used for some other trees, difficult for me to give a full list. I tend to stick the cuttings in a glass of water and if they root, this method works. However if the cuttings rot, this method is not suitable and then I propagate the cuttings in mixture of grit, compost and sand, water thoroughly and place in a plastic bag tie the top and place in full sun. Use any supermarket plastic bag, but never black. when the cutting sprout new leaves, your cuttings have rooted and need to be taken out of the plastic bag. Regularly check that the soil is moist and if necessary add more water.
There are no willow trees where I live now... I wonder if I'd be allowed to take a cutting back from the UK next time I visit?
Will a willow survive in a Mediterranean climate? Or is it too hot for them? I'm starting a bonsai pomegranet but I want a willow too now... :)
Provided you are with the EU area, you should be able to take back a cutting with you. Willow will survive in the Med, keep the pot in a shallow tray filled with water. keep the water in the shallow tray topped up. Willows tend to grow near water, places such as river banks, canals, lakes etc. Pomegranate bonsai should be very easy tor you to grow as the climate would be perfect. I have two my self. Please subscribe to my channel and click on the bell next to the subscribe button and tick the box, then save. You will receive notifications of new videos and also progression videos. When to come to England and if you are coming to London, do let me know a little bit in advance and I will be happy to meet up and show you my collection od bonsai trees.
mikbonsai Oh good, hopefully I won't be stopped when bringing my cutting back. I will keep it well watered, especially in summer - can it live outdoors in summer or will the sun burn the leaves? summer temperatures are about 25 - 35 C here and the solar radiation is very strong.
The pomegranet I bought as a little twig from a garden centre a few years ago, and it just never grew bigger than about 1ft - it's kept outdoors all year round in a pot on my roof terrace and already looks like a miniature tree so I decided why not make it a proper bonsai?
I will be staying in SW London when I visit. It would be lovely to see your trees, what a kind offer :)
The willow tree cuttings will have to be kept outdoors. If you take them indoors, they will die. If you think it needs protection from the sun, you can keep the newly planted cuttings in location where it gets shade from the sun when its hottest, but does get the weak early morning or late evening sun.
Let the pomegranate trunk thicken before you reduce the height, these do make very good bonsai trees.
Which country do you live in ?
As I said before if you are in EU country, then there is free movement of plants. I have had customers buy bonsai trees and take them as hand luggage on the plane to Spain and another one went to the Eire (the Irish Republic).
I live in West London so not far from South West London, max half hour. Be a pleasure to
show you my trees.
*****
I currently live in Gibraltar; almost as far south as you can go in Europe - the climate is sub-tropical here; very hot in summer (and humid in late summer / early autumn), and the summer lasts for almost half of the year, with 2 - 3 months with no rain whatsoever (so it's quite harsh on plants that aren't native here without a very good watering regime). Now that it's autumn all my wilted dried up plants are regrowing their leaves again.
The trunk of the pomegranet is about 1 inch in diameter at the base now, I could repot it to a larger pot and let it grow out a bit more first... it might be a good idea to let it get a bit stronger while I read up more on bonsai anyway :)
I have been to Gibraltar many times, its a great place. You already know that you have to have a good watering regime.
As for the Pomegranate do not repot now if you do want to repot, do it in February/March when the trees are coming out of dormancy.
I live in Buffalo Ny and it is the beginning of February. there are weeping willow trees everywhere here. Can I take a cutting and root it now or should I wait until spring?
Hi James, These trees are dormant now. It would be best to wait until they start to bud and then you can take cuttings. In fact you can take branches as thick as you see in my video or even thicker and follow the process shown. They root very easily, and are easy to grow. Go for as thick a branch as you can get and it will make an amazing bonsai in a few years time.
Also do let me know what you would like to see in my future videos. I am trying to gather information on what my viewers would like to see. I am also getting back on track to release one video a week.
Let me know how you get on with your bonsai willow tree project in the summer months, your should have rooted by then and would be ready for first potting.
Best wishes
Iqbal
London
Great video! I like the idea with the bag to help develop a radial root system. I'm going to remember this for future. The cuttings look really healthy and the roots look very different and interesting. I'm definitely going to start one next year :) Thanks for sharing your advise and taking us on an adventure!
Thanks Bonsai J, do share my videos if you can, spread the word and also help others start these beautiful bonsai from cuttings.
Aww! Poor kitty. WATER!!
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That is my min. she saw the water coming and moved away. She loves to spend time with me when I am working on my trees and appears in many vidoes. 💓
Hi! Great video ,
When cutting the tree , did you literally cut the branch and place it in the watering can or did you cut into the bark and use a powder on the cut before hand ? I've been trying to get cuttings of a European larch I have but so far no luck on cuttings and I'm curious to see if I'm doing something wrong here .
Hi Dan, Nothing was done before hand and no rooting powder was used. Every thing I did is on video. Weeping Willow are very easy to root this way. Larch are very different from Willows and what worked for Willows, will not work for larch. You need to take Cutting of the new growth, young shoots and propagate them. Remove all excess green foliage except the tip. Scratch the bark with a grafting knife to expose the green of of the shoot, cover in rooting powder and plant in compost for saplings and seeds. Water and place in a plastic supermarket bag and tie up the top will take a few weeks to root. I have used this method many times and there are videos on my channel showing this.
I see you are not yet a subscriber, consider subscribing, and also ring the bell that way you will not miss any thing.
There is still time for you to have another go using the method I described, I have not propagated larch as its quicker and cheaper for me to get five to seven year old larch for a very reasonable price, but this method should work as it does even on junipers.
Do let me know in six weeks time how you got on. You can also join our fb group The Bonsai Masterminds and post your pics there.
Good luck
Cheers
Iqbal
mikbonsai thanks for the reply I have now subscribed I thought I had . I shall find you on Facebook now thanks again for the advice I will give that a go
mikbonsai Hi Iqbal. Will this work on older cutting a off willow trees? Pls let me know. A massive willow tree collapsed by me and wanted to air layer. But if I can do it this way even better. Just need to know if this method will only work on fresh/New shoots or old established? Thanks a lot. Heath from South Africa
Nice. Any updates?
Greetings.
Kennet
Kennet De Bondt Hope to do an update later in the summer. Thanks for watching and your feed back Kennet.
***** yes please do - i am very interested in having a go at growing a bonsai willow (because they are my favourite tree but i do not have the use of a garden in which i could plant a full size tree, nor time left on earth in which to watch a large tree grow to maturity), but i have never grown any bonsai before, so i'm very interested to see how yours from cuttings look when they get going - it seems to my untutored mind that a cutting removes an awful lot of waiting before much happens which a seedling would require.
The cuttings are coming along very nicely, there is a lot of growth and I hope to do an up date soon. with cuttings you get a larger plant then you would from seeds. You are right that growing from seed would take a long time to get to the stage where the plant grown from cutting is.
You didn’t put anything in the water... just plain ole rain water... let set for 4 weeks or so or until desired root system is achieved and bam, willow tree...?!
Hohmies Mcfly - Yeap you got it ! 💓
Gm edagdwg thanks for sharing I'm learning new things to do and help me to be happy linda j ☮️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️💯💯💯💯💯💯
Hi Linda, Thank you for your visit to my channel. Am delighted to hear of your experience and you are finding my videos useful.
If you have not yet subscribed, then please do so and also leave comments if you need any specific advice.
Best wishes
Iqbal
god help you with that bloody noise...................beautiful trees
Thank you for visiting and taking the time to leave your comment. Glad you like the trees, I had a good nose and was in a fight when I was in my teens and the other two got as good as i got.
Hope to see more of your comments in the future.
I woulda sprayed that cat.
That would have been cruelity ! and I love my min.
TOO MUCH NOISE BAD VIDEO
Thanks for taking the time to watch and your feed back. Have been working on improving to cut out the noise and improve sound quality.
I was unaware you could make cuttings of willows this way. I'll be speaking with a near by apartment manager for a cutting of their willow. Thank you for all the advice. I always look forward to your videos.
Regards
Thanks for your subscription, watching and your feedback all very much appreciated and good luck with your willow tree cutting, it really is very easy, just follow the steps in the video.
Will do, your lessons are priceless. Thank you
which bonsai soil do you use?
Akadama, pumice, crushed lava rock and no3 compost. For seeds and saplings I also use compost no1.
I just bought some E.B. Stone organics bonsai soil for my willow cutting. I assumed because it is made specifically for bonsai I wouldn't need to add anything more to the soil. The bag says it contains bark, rock, peat moss, & sand.