Professor Eric from Hogwarts school of Mame magic!
@sagebonsai Жыл бұрын
It's a little past midnight I'm off to great start and what better way to celebrate my bithday then to sit back and watch some bonsai videos. Nice work on them junipers, I currently made my own mame pot that looks like an old twisted up wooden stump.
@Bonsaify Жыл бұрын
Happy birthday!
@Christopher_Giustolisi Жыл бұрын
These pots remind me of the times when I started with ceramics. I still have a few of my crooked beginner pots and I cherish them a lot because they remind me of how I started a wonderful hobby.
@blueridgebonsai9155 Жыл бұрын
Eric-did you see the BonsaiQ video that was posted on Feb 4th? Magnificent tutorial on wiring and bending mame.
@BillyBobJoeSnr Жыл бұрын
Love it!!! It is hard to find good mame content online that's not Japanese. Please make more...
@TheUncleLem Жыл бұрын
I love that irregularity and the glaze drop on the first pot, but since it's the highest face, it feels a bit awkward to me as a front, to be honest. But otherwise these pots are just stunning as a representation of a cliff side where a cascading tree would grow.
@corysutton1383 Жыл бұрын
Love the addition of stop motion to the already excellent videos. A great help in grasping what is changing on such small trees.
@samyoel5384 Жыл бұрын
Nice little trees, like the way you filmed it too
@kwieting Жыл бұрын
I love what you did with the last third of the video, and the music was just apt. Your diabolical laugh after you “simplified” the first mame reminded me of when you trunk chopped your s-curved ficus (looking forward to another update). Really enjoyable video but I wonder that these mame require a lot of continued misting and maintenance in such a tiny pot. Thanks again.
@Bonsaify Жыл бұрын
We find that growing them in a tray of soil and allowing a bit of escape rooting makes things a lot easier, but yes, mame are a bit more labor intensive than larger trees. Misting is not so much as just staying on top of watering.
@PumpkinBecki Жыл бұрын
Stunningly beautiful 😍 The time lapse video was fascinating to watch, thank you xx
@bartstellink307 Жыл бұрын
Such a sucker for your trees, just love them!
@bobcatbonsai Жыл бұрын
I cannot wait to get my mame juniper repotted this spring! Thank you for the guidance and inspiration!
@judymagrath3771 Жыл бұрын
Fantastic!!! Love what you did with all 4 examples, and the video editing was SUPER !!
@waterlover Жыл бұрын
Gorgeous little works of art
@cbobgo1 Жыл бұрын
They look great! Thanks for the shout-out :)
@Bonsaify Жыл бұрын
Thanks Bob! I had fun with these four - and I had Nikii pot up trees into the rest of the batch. Gonna be great! She said she had a lot of fun with those little guys.
@snejinka_in Жыл бұрын
Love the mame videos lately! It inspires me so much with mines
@veluvolusobhagmailveluvolu84634 ай бұрын
First time i am watching these videos. Tq sir
@eduardopaganotto4633 Жыл бұрын
Amazing work!
@phillipwaterman5721 Жыл бұрын
Bonsai phill very good video nice shape tree s thanks
@fennhoppe1746 Жыл бұрын
Would love to see a video on what you would do with your Washington hawthorn starters. I bought 2!
@Bonsaify Жыл бұрын
We did do a couple of them: kzbin.info/www/bejne/o2Speadrm7VkqpY kzbin.info/www/bejne/Z52kmJ5vocSAnJo But, I might get to doing another sometime soon.
@deepanjanbanerjee3491 Жыл бұрын
Lovely work! Hope the plants survive. Have always had problems with repotting mames
@Bonsaify Жыл бұрын
Make sure you've got the right season down for repotting - otherwise, species selection and stepping down containers one year after another is the best. Note that I did not try to go from a gallon can into a thimble - the trees were already in tiny 2" containers.
@juandelpueblo4957 Жыл бұрын
Love your videos... keep up the great work
@Bonsaify Жыл бұрын
Thank you!
@questionablecooking7019 Жыл бұрын
Enjoyed the vid, spooky music ending was fun
@chaquatics9512 Жыл бұрын
Outstanding!
@estherlovesveges Жыл бұрын
Primo content. More Mame please.
@davidcadle6463 Жыл бұрын
First of all, thank you for sharing your hard earned knowledge with everyone through these videos, I enjoy and learn so much from them. Gets me excited for bonsai!!! :) It maybe unwanted but if I could suggest a few ideas for future videos? We have seen you do a lot with smaller shohin and mame development. I for one would love to see how you would develope young trees for medium to large bonsai. Black pines, wiring, shaping the trunks, I have a hard imaging, what the movement/bends should look like on a 2 to 3 year old seedling for a larger tree you plan on growing out to a 3" to 4" thick trunk, 20" to 30" tall, bonsai. As a example, maybe just a nice informal upright shape. A larger literati style trunk like would be nice also. This would probably be boring subjects to you but I feel it would be helpful to a lot of us that are growing trees that will hopefully become American's future bonsai material. :) Not that you need it, I just thought you might could use ideas for future content for your growing channel/ brand. Also just as a side question, is growing a pine from seed to become a high quality formal upright feasible? Or does that pretty much require growing it very slowly, in a container for 50 plus years? Thanks again, love your videos.
@Bonsaify Жыл бұрын
Thanks for the suggestions, I'll consider those. There are several reasons I do mostly small trees but diversity is the spice of life! Formal uprights are tricky, the best one I made was going reasonably well at age 16 when I sold it. But, they are very rigid in terms of your ability to adapt the trees growth. I would suggest that you aim for moderate growth rates, and yes, it's going to take a lot longer than an informal upright that you ground grow.
@GertsBonsaiLog Жыл бұрын
Bravo! Good show :)
@BONSAIenCORTO Жыл бұрын
Thanks for sharing.
@LTeppler Жыл бұрын
This was enormously helpful! Thank you so much. I'm just about to create a cherry seedling Mame in one of those .75 clay pots. (I dream of being able to afford something as beautiful as Bob's pots!) I'll be sure to mention you in my Bonsai Diaries! :D
@JustJane1972 Жыл бұрын
Absolutely love these! 🌳 Do you cover starting mame. Thanks
@Bonsaify Жыл бұрын
There are a bunch of mame videos in the back catalog - start with this one which perhaps covers creating once from a juniper: kzbin.info/www/bejne/b6eQfGWnrbSNg9E
@JustJane1972 Жыл бұрын
@Bonsaify thank you! 😊 I've been checking out some. I really like the idea of the tray you have too. Do you keep them indoors in winter?
@direpants46677 ай бұрын
love to hear of craftspeople whose name is the same as their craft, like Bob Potts the potter, or Robyn Wood the carpenter
@HommeTerre Жыл бұрын
✨ excellent 🙏
@S-series1977 Жыл бұрын
Nice 🙂👍👍 video
@ponderanceofagravedigger2564 Жыл бұрын
I've done bonsai for almost 20 years and never really cared for mame size. I absolutely love it now and it's 100 percent your fault. LOL.
@Bonsaify Жыл бұрын
Willing to accept full responsibility LOL!
@ponderanceofagravedigger2564 Жыл бұрын
@@Bonsaify LOL
@litsnombre63902 ай бұрын
Wow ❤️
@theduke7268 Жыл бұрын
11:04 Dramatic music starts to play *BONSAI-ING INTENSIFIES*
@AlfredoHernandezHernandez-y7s Жыл бұрын
Wooooo❤
@aaronleslie1581 Жыл бұрын
When do you do your repotting for junipers?
@Bonsaify Жыл бұрын
The best time, like many other trees is in early spring as the trees begin to grow and after danger of cold weather. You can do it in Fall - after Oct 1st for me - as long as you can provide cold protection for 4-6 weeks. For the record - this was filmed in late January - and because I live in a mild climate that is a perfectly fine time to do it here. But - one of the four did die. These pots are very tiny!
@jacobcarreno7408 Жыл бұрын
❤What sustrateb is perlite 😊
@Bonsaify Жыл бұрын
First check this: kzbin.info/www/bejne/oJK3i3uOgLV5m7c Perlite is a mined and processed mineral. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perlite
@jacobcarreno7408 Жыл бұрын
@@Bonsaify gracias doctor
@Bertkido Жыл бұрын
Can you share your soil component for these mame bonsai?
@Bonsaify Жыл бұрын
I use shohin Aoki mix. Then sift it in half to use the smaller particles for the mame. kzbin.info/www/bejne/oJK3i3uOgLV5m7c
@scheers100 Жыл бұрын
👍👍👍👍👊👏 nice
@vallvds Жыл бұрын
nice! Do you grow all your seedlings/cuttings in the same mix of perlite and coir?
@Bonsaify Жыл бұрын
Yes, pretty much everything. Sometimes mixing the coir at higher percentages.
@dudesjirbonsai Жыл бұрын
❤❤❤❤❤
@janstewart2041 Жыл бұрын
How do you get the bends in the trunk? I get weary and stop when I hear cracking sounds
@Bonsaify Жыл бұрын
Were you eating crackers? 😉. Thanks, I really enjoyed rewatching the stop-motion animation at the end on that one...actually forgot about that part. Do you mean the tool sounds? I didn't hear any cracking - e.g. wood....?
@janstewart2041 Жыл бұрын
@@Bonsaify the trunk line
@janstewart2041 Жыл бұрын
I meant when I first tried to bend a small juniper
@Bonsaify Жыл бұрын
Oh, you just have to start when they are still small and flexible. The ones in this video were wired once before, but they're still small enough to bend more. We actually sell pre-wired junipers on bonsaify.com also.
@kalpersaud913211 ай бұрын
Great video, i Will be attempting a few mames in another few weeks. I'm thinking to start a bonsai channel aswell. What camera do you use to record?
@Bonsaify11 ай бұрын
Sony A7iv in this video - and in most videos since. I also use a Insta360 Go3 on some shots, and my iPhone 13.
@jebsism9 ай бұрын
How old are these trees when they were potted up?
@Bonsaify9 ай бұрын
About 3 years old.
@vietpimp999 Жыл бұрын
Some one told me that you shouldn't repot and wire juniper at the same time, you have to wait for 6 months to to each action ..is this correct? Thanks
@Bonsaify Жыл бұрын
That type of advice is often something that people make up as a rule when they don't understand how plants react or are affected by different operations. At its core, it may be good advise simply because over-working plants is one of the top culprits in killing them. Keep in mind that age and size can have an effect on how well plants tolerate work. When the work is done in the right season I find that you can repot and wire junipers with no problem. (we work with thousands.) However, doing this type of repotting in July or August - mid-summer - would result in certain death - or at least a 90% fatality rate. (we've tried it, wiring alone is fine, repotting is not). I tend to encourage my students to do things empirically. Rather than shying away from something on the advise of another - ask yourself this question each time you work: "I wonder what would happen if I ... .... " Of course, it helps if you have a lot of trees to play with. Finally - one recommendation - Michael Hagedorn's book "Bonsai Heresy" is a great resource for addressing this type of statement. He doesn't cover all the bonsai myth-rules out there - but he does a good job of covering some major ones.
@vietpimp999 Жыл бұрын
@@Bonsaify awesome ! Thank you.
@DavidScheltema Жыл бұрын
🧙♂️🌲
@brucedeacon28 Жыл бұрын
👍👌🙂
@AlfredoHernandezHernandez-y7s Жыл бұрын
👍😍🇲🇽
@zenobibonsai Жыл бұрын
👌 Very nice.. Ive just started a Spring and Summer Mame challenge if your interested in having a go.. Using Heather 👍😀
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