In principle, I would agree with your view. But - if you watch the video again carefully, you will notice the following: 1. I always show the trees months after styling/repotting. So - I haven't had a bonsai die for a very long time. 2. in the last 30 years I have repotted and shaped / pruned about 50000 bonsai. About 30 different species. I think there is enough experience to show something like this here. So - relax a little. Maybe I will make a video in summer to show you the trees from all the video's again.

@@DotPotCeramics Good point 👍. I guessed that. I also know that a greenhouse can work wonders but not everyone knows about it and not everyone has a greenhouse.

Hallo Markus - auch dir alles Gute in 2025.

It depends of the temperature. For glaze firing at 1200°C I need approx. 1-1.2 cbm of wood. Similiar to the volume of the firing chamber.

Thanks for the compliment. If it has helped you a little then I am very pleased.

Thanks for the compliment.

Die Frage kann man so nicht beantworten weil es keine "Deutschlandpreise" gibt. Es schwankt auch sehr stark im Einkauf und (manchmal) auch im Verkauf. Bei solchem Rohmaterial ist man schnell im 4 stelligem Bereich.

Geb dir Recht. Dieser Garten ist wirklich sehenswert. Und ich wahr überrascht wieviel sich in 20 Jahren geändert hat. Beeindruckend für mich.

Dear Markus - I hope I have enought time to make more pots. At the moment we have enought for the next bisque firing. I hope they will be ready until Xmas. Kind regards - Detlef

Dear Markus - I'm glad you like the videos. I hope my English is reasonably understandable.Kind regards,Detlef

Up to 80cm you can buy such pots in our shop: www.bonsai-shop.com/en/bonsaipots Bigger pots - maybe you must import it by yourself. Or ask an importer in your neighborhood to help you with import. In normal shop such big pots are rare to find.

This dragon pot had small imperfections. That's why I decided to throw it in the trash. But I will try to make a new dragon pot every year. Where can you get it ? Right now at: www.bonsai-shop.com/en/bonsaipots/premium

It is a Kittec kiln. Here is the link: kittec.eu/en/produkt/?ProduktID=CB-520-S

thanks again for your positive feedback

Many thanks for your positive feedback

You are wellcome

Hallo Thomas - die meisten Werkzeuge bekommst du in jedem Töpferbedarf-Onlineshop (ich kaufe z.B. bei Keramik Kraft, Carl Jäger, Wolbring). Kleinzeug gibts günstig bei Temu. Video übers Werkzeug: Vielleicht mal später. z.B. über die Blechwinkel zum Glätten von Kanten. Im September bin ich wieder in China. Da werde ich mal ein paar Töpferein in Yixing filmen, über die Herstellungsabläufe der verschiedenen Techniken. Hi Thomas - you can get most of the tools in any online pottery shop (I buy from Keramik Kraft, Carl Jäger, Wolbring, for example). You can get small items cheaply from Temu. Video about tools: Maybe later, e.g. about the sheet metal angles for smoothing edges. I'll be back in China in September. I'll be filming some potteries in Yixing, about the production processes of the various techniques.

@@DotPotCeramics Danke für die ausführliche Antwort und deine Mühe die Filme zu machen, ich erspare mir dadurch glaube ich die ersten 20 Anfängerfehler, die weiteren werde ich wohl selber machen müssen 🤣. Viele Grüße, Thomas

I will make another video on how to make the templates and a master template. It will be ready in 1 week.

I am glad to hear that it is useful

War mir ein Vergnügen

Sorry - du hast natürlich Recht. Ich werd langsam alt ;-)

Regarding your question: We have been selling bonsai to all EU countries for almost 25 years. And we have been importing all our bonsai from Japan and China directly from the countries of origin for many years. In most years 1 container from Japan, 1-2 from China. As I select the bonsai in these countries myself before importing them, I have a very good overview of both the quality of the bonsai in Japan and China and the customers' opinion of the quality. I can see that our customers usually rate bonsai from Japan higher than bonsai from China. This is probably because most customers have no idea about the reality in Japan and China. They only see the trees in Europe. And here in Europe, the cheap trees are mostly from China and the high-quality, expensive trees are mostly from Japan. This is partly due to the fact that many bonsai from China (e.g. pines, junipers) are not allowed to be imported into Europe. Of course there are also low-quality bonsai in Japan. And there are also very high-quality bonsai in China. For example, you can see very good bonsai in the Shanghai Botanical Garden. And you can also see many very high-quality bonsai in China in the video. I will keep it short: I made the video to show that there are also good bonsai in China. And - mid of september 2024 I visit China again and after that trip I will upload a video about the bonsai in the Botanical garden in Shanghai. So - relax a little, watch the video again and next time think a little before you criticise someone so harshly.

No - this makes no sense in my opinion. An example from the car maker business: If a luxury car maker like Ferrari sell cars with little problems it will loose all other customer in a short period of time. Because nobody will trust the brand if they are doing such things. But don't worry: I think in the next years the rate of mistakes will drop down. We are beginners.

You really are a German! Quality over quantity ​@@DotPotCeramics

Yes - we have an online shop (bonsai-shop.com). But - I am sorry - after brexit we do not ship to Uk.

I have done both and never regretted it. If it is your dream then I would like to encourage you to take the first step today towards making it a reality.

It is very difficult to give you an exact answer. When I choose bonsai in nurseries in Japan, they have already been cultivated in many other nurseries before. Usually no one can tell me how old the trees are. This means that the stated age of most bonsai that you can buy outside of Japan are rough estimates.

At the moment I use clay which is frost resistant after firing at 1200-1220°C. As far as I know it is cone 5.5 to 6. The glaze melt at the same temperature. I fire the pots in an electic kiln or wood fired kiln.

The soil layer on the surface we add only for the color. We don't like the color of kanuma. The surface soil is a mixture of peat and expanded slate. Another advantage is that this layer hardens better than Kanuma. This makes it easier to pack and ship the bonsai in a parcel without the soil falling out of the pot.

If the video was useful for you, I am very happy

Dear Paolo - thanks for the compliment. But I am making pots for 1.5 years. To become a master I need 30 more years. To long for me - I am 61 ;-)

Heike normally don't measure how much clay she want to use. My estimation for such pots is 500-600g per pot.

Yes - if you live inside EU you can buy it in our shop (for english the URL is www.bonsai-shop.com/en/bonsaipots/premium). For outside EU we will launch a second shop end of 2024 with only the pots.

I am sorry - but the trees are sold out. I need for this video more than 1 year to show the results. Before I had time to upload the video customers bought the trees.

@@DotPotCeramics Good job, I'll wait the new import then 🙂

Na loja de sua preferência ;-)