Beech Trees Revisited

[@yougottabekiddiing]

My daughter and I have an ongoing joke. When I am watching Peter in the living room, and she’s in her bedroom, I’ll call out, “Peter’s got his loppers out!” And, she’ll call back, “Run, little tree!” 😂

[@GodofHellFire1982]

Sounds hilarious

[@liseforget1687]

That is the sweetest running joke.

[@brianhenderson4223]

🤣

[@susanr9]

🤣🤣🤣

[@shahrafiq2165]

I remember those trees it means I am here for so long and pleasure is all mine

[@kittyiam2206]

Peter gives trees out of the goodness of his heart. Only a flake would ask for a free tree, just b/c Peter gave other people a free tree. Thank you for the video, Peter!

[@nordicson2835]

I was expecting a quiet post to enjoy my after church cup of tea and you were on fire ... l am tired watching what you did today. Great work , wish l had 1/2 your energy. Thank you.

[@HootMaRoot]

It's hard to believe it's been 3 years since you got these beech trees and they looked dead, now they are thriving and making some amazing bonsai projects

[@catibree1]

I love how he confidently takes off branches and roots. No second guessing himself.

[@ChrisPuch]

Thank you Peter.

[@mattbrennan647]

I definitely remember that original video. I’m amazed at how well they’re developing. I’m so envious that you have the facilities to perform this type of work in winter. Thanks, keep growing

[@joegarland4885]

That was hard work but you like this part of working with the roots it would appear. Thank you Peter for your time and enthusiasm.

[@maciejgronowski]

Wow! Amazing! Was just thinking of these trees, i saw the original videos couple of months ago!

[@adrianjones4812]

Those trees look good together. They would make a wonderful group planting.

[@Mrs.Karen_Walker]

So good to see these Beech trees again. And to think these would have been binned. As my old granddad always used to say: "No one ever got rich from throwing things away"

[@russpawis4055]

Another amazing video. One thing I would like to see is the maintenance of the tools, sharpening, oiling and whatnot.

[@pirata2120]

I love tree savers, a wonderful attitude and a wonderful project, thank you for sharing your knowledge with us.

[@daiviho6360]

I enjoy very much watching you repotting or setting the bonsai, while you are explaining the way of your own thinking or the technique to do the bonsai. This is one of your characteristic and personal way to demonstrate your art for handling bonsai. I love you.

[@scubadudefrommaine]

Thank you Peter Chan and friends of Herons for all you do..such wealth of information you share with us. Thank you.

[@greenhawk1592]

Thankyou , lovely again Master Chan. And relaxation is never boring, plus always verry nice and interesting these long videos, a case off less is NOT more 😉🙏 Greets from Belgium

[@Dave_0993_I]

Our native beech in the US is Fagus grandifolia. It's a more delicate tree, with very smooth silvery bark, and maybe not quite as tough when collected for bonsai, thou they are used, and I've seen some nice examples. European beech is also available, along with Japanese beech, of course, from nurseries. It's hard to believe I've been following your channel for over four years - I remember your acquisition of these.

[@cor3944]

So lovely that you are „saving“ every little plant. I remember my grandparents did that. Now we have so little time and space. Thank you, Peter and Team - Merry Christmas! ❤

[@rsa420]

Glad to see they made it so happy they did not end up at the dump. Always great to see these follow ups

[@steampunkvampyre]

I could watch this sort of thing all day!!!

[@bobbigbad1963]

Peter thank you for an informative video and that you don’t have to spend a lot of money, and some free saplings to boot. 👍

[@scratchpadski9094]

Thank you for the lesson and follow up :) what a nice surprise to see these trees again.

[@aaron_2980]

I’ve been waiting so patiently to see these Beech again! Thank you so much for sharing!!

[@MidniteSan]

Awesome.. Thx for sharing Peter 👍

[@cristianbranea5034]

Glad to see the beeches again! Man, is no hard to get nice radial nebari on beeches, with many roots at the same level..

[@davidhaughan3573]

Nice to see how far those trees have come. I was in my local bandq store looking for Junipers when I came across some trees in large pots they were Beech, Hornbeam and Hawthorn with fairly thick trunks on looking closer there seems to be 3 trees of each planted in the same pot so for 1 pot with 3 trees was £10.00 so I bought 3 pots and will wait till the spring and take a look. They were all just about 3 feet or so in height with good branch structure on the Beech and Hornbeam.

[@growclipbonsaiforseniors1951]

Great tutorial video with pruning and the raking of the roots.

[@growclipbonsaiforseniors1951]

Very wise theory of yours. Do what works for you. Excellent!

[@venturarealestate9918]

So many types of trees! Thanks for another wonderful video.

[@EB-qx1ef]

Thank you for your work on YT!! A fan from Italy 👋😄

[@lucyb15]

I love those trees.

[@rogerstrickland8922]

Master Peter. Thank you, Thank you Thank Thank you!!!!! So much to say. Please let me thank you so very much for sharing your insight and amazing knowledge. I must thank you one more time.

[@G32dwm]

I LOVE this real big videos!!!!!. They they contain so much knowledge that you want never to end !!!!

[@mick681]

Yet another instructional and inspirational video Peter. Thank you for your selfless dedication to imparting your knowledge to budding bonsai artists. Your videos never fail me to be inspired. A Merry Christmas to you and all of your team.

[@almac2598]

Thanks Peter, nice to see the trees survived.

[@davidurban8483]

Love your recycling, cause of you I started saving my old wires!

[@davemead4504]

These trees look amazing Peter! and considering where you sourced them from and how long it’s taken , I think they all look great 👏👏

[@murray821]

What a great material! I often see ancient beech hedges during walks and shudder with the thoughts of people just replacing them with some modern grey concrete fence or raised box.

[@timdady4660]

I checked the trees out on my visits to Herons this year, its still hard to believe people would throw away lovely trees , I got a pom pom tree reduced from £100 to £20 as B&Q did not water it , i have left it for 8 months in its pot, not every pom pom has come back into full vigour , but it starting to look good, I intend to leave it for another 6 months or so .

[@jameslangschied7900]

Thank you for the wonderful videos that have helped so many bonsai artists around the world. Happy Christmas from a very frigid Kokomo, Indiana.

[@manupbritain5232]

Seeing the progress with these Bin Birch gives me more hope for the sticks in pots I have accumulated over the past year. A few more years and hopefully they'll be strong like this and ready for Bonsay training. Thanks for the update and further inspiration growing little trees. I keep looking at your website and really want to get some trees that are further along the journey though I have learned a lot and have gathered some interesting seedlings and trees at different ages. I may have also gone a little crazy twisting a young oak like a heater skelter my first wiring attempts look quite tasteful. Looking forward to further updates and videos. A master and gentleman at work.

[@marioo007]

Great video as always. To be honest I wouldn't mind to watch other 28 trees. Never enough to get more and more usable knowledge from Peter.

[@SaiaRose]

Beautiful ! Thank You for sharing your passion and wisdom with the rest of us ! Merry Christmas ! Blessed New Year !

[@STP19]

Very Instructive. Many Thanks. STP

[@angieb6899]

Thanx for the follow up video. They have developed nicely. Merry Xmas Peter and Josh. 🌲🌳🪴👩🏻‍🌾

[@shintaro6132]

Another fantastic educational video Peter. Thank you and Merry Christmas to you and your team.

[@Greeny22]

Ow mate great tree like

[@grahamdavidson6819]

Thank you Peter for sharing your expertise. It really lifts my spirits to watch your regular videos, especially when its so unpleasant outside. Happy Christmas and best wishes for the New Year for health, wealth and happiness.

[@prayerroomkoch]

Interesting* glad I found your channel. Try to grow a Japanese Maple...been 3 years... Just a tiny baby🍃

[@steveanacorteswa3979]

I don't have many Deciduous trees but I do have a new found love for my Japanese Maples, I put a dozen sticks in some pumice fines and now they grew roots. Thanks for another video, I have a nursery that I put my JBP and JRP in, I have several trees they were going to throw away, so I am trying to repot them and keep them alive. We still need to visit the Bristlecones, maybe we will be lucky and California will open up. Would like to see Yosemite again too.

[@marnoster]

Thanks for sharing, Peter! I'd be keen to see these in leaf in the summer, if you feel like doing another update

[@kylerodamer3999]

Peter, I have been following very loyally for about a year now. I often see you use and talk about sphagnum moss. However, in my neck of the woods, none of the local nurseries supply this or know anything about it. Can you please make a video diving deeper into what makes a good moss, and/or good advice towards online suppliers? This would help myself and my trees out a great deal. Thank you

[@noratheblue5443]

You can find it at pet stores some times in the reptile section.

[@christophermauchline2586]

Here in my area I used to be able to get sphagnum moss. But last year I wasn't able to get any. I don't know if there was a supply problem.

[@theaustralianis]

Good to see you in your festive colours Mr. Chan. Have a merry Christmas and happy new year.

[@luisvega6770]

muy buenos todos esos ejemplos, desde Mar del Plata Argentina lo saludo.

[@rogerstrickland8922]

Josh is rad also !!!

[@jasongannon7676]

I'm removing a privet hedge out next week. I should get about 500 plants from it. The interesting plants will be developed for bonsai, the rest will be for hedge work. The challenge is its 10 degrees F with 12 inches of snow.

[@Stettafire]

Privets I find make excellent bonsai though I think you'll struggle of you don't have shelter for the plants (I think you'll struggle to dig up and repot with snow)

[@jakicatancabelic9436]

This is qualifying as one of my favorite videos. Thank you for the teaching and sharing your vision, but letting others have their vision, like the bit on nibari. Happy Christmas and the best in the coming New Year!

[@cassopsnoxdigger614]

Well done Peter...i was thinking all along that you could put a rock in there as this is quite common over here in the outdoors....i was so relieved when you did that, i think that root and a rock would "ADD to the balance of the tree" and also the soil fill is important too...i wish you and yours all the very best for the xmas season....take care regards Gordon.

[@jameshunt5316]

You’re such a kind soul. Don’t give away free trees

[@krishnendumondal8015]

Thanks a lot sir ☺️

[@AnakinLimbwalker269]

Hey! Love your videos, have been binge watching them over the past week or so. I am a practicing arborist and I had a question about your pruning practices, I noticed when you were shaping the second beech tree when you removed the co dominate leader at the top you cut well into the branch collar, in Arboriculture that is a big mistake on account of the surface area of the scar that needs to be healed, is this not taken into consideration in bonsai?

[@dbe2705]

🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹 thanks Peter

[@acheronexile]

I too understand your thoughts about throwing away plastic pots. I've got dozens and my grandmother has hundreds of extra plastic pots just because we refuse to ever throw away useful things. Edit: knowing that you are working the first day of December really helps. I was quite worried for my little pecan tree. I had brought it inside this year in the window box and repotted it to its own 4" clay pot. Really hoping that it will become more than just a sapling, but the start of a small tree. The taproot is equally long to the sapling and 4x thicker. Its like a long thumb attached to a match stick.

[@Chickentendaz]

Peter, I have not seen any episode of you doing bonsai fruit tree. Also, if you were to produce such a tree with the fruit on it be miniature as well?

[@Stettafire]

15:10 BTW in case you didn't know, that flickering is caused by an interesting effect. The electrical frequency in the US is 60Hz and in most of Europe it's at 50Hz. Most camera manufacturers set the defaults to be ok with US conditions so often cameras experience a desync between the FPS and the electric lights in Europe. So very often you get this issue when using European lightning. The solution as far as I'm aware is to change the FPS so it's in sync with the European power grid. I forget the exact figures needed to achieve this though. Edit: Actually nevermind I don't think that's the case here because otherwise I'd expect it through most of the video not a short snippet. I don't know what caused that case but it's interesting nonetheless :)

[@nanukvas]

I have a small grove of Beech trees on my property. I live in North Eastern Pennsylvania USA. What time of year do you think I should dig them out of the ground and place them in training pots?

[@peterchan3100]

Early Spring

[@lokdog257]

I have a question about the branches. These trees have been growing for 4 years, but the branches are only a year old. How often do you cut off all the branches from the trunk? How do you know when you need to do that? The tree needs to branches to grow and develop, but you don't want the branches to get too large

[@andrewogawa1029]

Along with your "compost/sand" soil, do you use any fertilizer ? Also do you ever use gloves when working on your bonsai?

[@nordicbonsaijourney]

I love the story how Peter acquired the trees. "Only got thirty of them" 😆

[@Onthedl81]

It always seems like the general consensus is to do repotting in the spring. At the start of your video you said it was December 4. Are you reporting to early or do you feel comfortable reporting deciduous trees in dormancy?

[@richarddetriquet9642]

Peter , do you find that these beech trees require repotting every year or every two years?

[@ZE308AC]

Anybody know the link of the video where he got does trees with dry leaves 🍃??

[@SoaPinCH]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/eJe8imyPn7Crd7s

[@WanderingBobAK]

[@mariapilarme]

Is already 3 years?

[@SoaPinCH]

The video he mentioned is called "Bonsai for free - beech trees", from july 2019.

[@timsavage7886]

What would I expect to pay for something like this from your nursery?

[@mikedan297]

How can we develop roots where the tree doesn't have?

[@rizmirza1829]

Watching a master craftman in action

[@robertbrandner]

Here is the original video: kzbin.info/www/bejne/eJe8imyPn7Crd7s

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[@zandragolparvar4479]

به قول ایرانیا دمت گرم بسیار بنیادی و زیبا بود

[@dirtpoorchris]

HEY PRESTO

[@tompeppi2635]

🥰

[@oneandonlyjaybee]

12:23 "huwweee"

[@arjensiemonsma3787]

You can take a man out of Asia. Cant take Asia out of a man.

[@xyzllii]

Open heart surgery...without anesthetic ...poor trees.

[@mattbrennan647]

Obviously just my personal taste but the root systems of those trees 😖

[@mattbrennan647]

Having said that any one of those trees look better than most of mine