Creating compact Juniper Bonsai Foliage | Techniques for Garden Junipers

[@GigginBonsaiDude]

These are the kinds of detailed, but easy to apply tips that can help other practitioners step up their refinement game, especially the simple approach to pad pruning for density. Straight to the point with clear explanations, and I was just about to start pruning work on my junipers...👍 Love your contributions on bonsainut as well. Keep sharing knowledge and footage of your awesome trees, sir! Your YT channel easily deserves 6 digit subs and beyond. I noticed the mesh around the nebari of those trees, great idea to keep the substrate in place while watering or transporting. I'll be copying this technique! cheers!

[@johng3669]

Thank you for these great tips. Very impressive how you put these videos together over an extended period of time at different stages and edit the content into a seem less discussion. It really helps in understanding what is happening.

[@GrowingBonsai]

Glad you like them! I do at times struggle when editing starts, as I do not have the right bridging clips. That is what you see me swap clothes a lot in videos :)

[@notionbonsai]

Some really lovely trees you got there Jelle! Great video! Very instructional!! 😀😀

[@GrowingBonsai]

Hey Adam, thanks for stopping buy! I need to learn from you on the camera-work!

[@jaiprakashpathak8974]

Your elaboration on creating compact foliage was awesome. 👌

[@GrowingBonsai]

Glad you liked it!

[@mattbrennan647]

Great information as usual Jelle. I have a pacific blue juniper I’ve let run for two years and this spring it’s time to get down to business. I’ll be using these techniques. Thanks, keep growing

[@GrowingBonsai]

Good luck. Hope you can get it nice and compact

[@FrostBiteBonsai]

Very nice explanations! Very easy to understand! Thank you for this!

[@johnpereira9594]

I comment when something resonates with me. I like most of the bonsai videos I watch. But generally common when something stands out and resonates

[@GrowingBonsai]

Thanks for sharing!

[@Tore1972Wisdom]

I love your honesty, plus i learned something.

[@heidizwaenepoel7355]

Dankjewel Jelle. Heel goede, gedetailleerde uitleg zoals altijd ! Dit komt zeker van pas voor mijn stekjes, ooit 😅

[@GrowingBonsai]

Hahaham stekjes? Jij hebt inmiddels toch ook wat grotere bomen?

[@heidizwaenepoel7355]

@@GrowingBonsai ja hoor, maar niet van Juniperus. En ik blijf stekken en zaaien ook hoor. Vind ik leuk.

[@PF-64]

Great Video - as usual, Jelle! Lots of work left to do - thats why large Junipers scare me. 😂

[@GrowingBonsai]

Just a matter of getting started and getting the work done :)

[@cristianbranea5034]

Half way into the video I kept thinking "oh boy, that tree will never look right with that foliage'". I have been struggling with a few junies just like that, but this year I will just go ahead and graft kishu on them. It is pretty much the only way, and I see you went the same way in the end :)

[@GrowingBonsai]

Liked the final twist?

[@hernandotorres1234]

Very comprehensive J, well done.

[@GrowingBonsai]

Glad it came across that way!

[@dermo1981]

Thanks Jelle. Excellent tutorial. 👍

[@GrowingBonsai]

My pleasure!

[@andysbonsai]

This is a fabulous video. I've a tree ready for just this treatment !! :)

[@GrowingBonsai]

Great to hear! Looking forward to hearing your success!

[@nerinat8371]

Thanks for the very useful info, you explain it really well

[@GrowingBonsai]

My pleasure!

[@mcbabs7495]

La vidéo est très intéressante, merci à vous!

[@GrowingBonsai]

You're welcome

[@MIMMO4068]

Ottimi consigli, grazie

[@Bonsaicrazy]

Great video Jelle 👊👊👊👊

[@GrowingBonsai]

Thanks 😁

[@elitefitrea]

That is a really pretty tree. Super jealous

[@GrowingBonsai]

:) Came from a municipal bed they were clearing a few years back.

[@XaviersBonsaiRetreat]

A very useful video to watch. When exactly did you start that initial pruning in this video?

[@GrowingBonsai]

Hm.. Good question. Video sais early summer!

[@XaviersBonsaiRetreat]

@@GrowingBonsaiMy bad - sorry. I played it twice and missed that both time :)

[@phillipwaterman5721]

Great video keep it up mate thanks jelle

[@GrowingBonsai]

Thank you so much Glad to see you here!

[@TheBonsaiGarden]

Just don’t get enough direct intense sunlight for my junipers. Although they seem healthy they seldom extend very much each year. 😢 I do find that those cutting root very easily though 👍

[@GrowingBonsai]

Do you fertilize and water enough? Or what is not much extention for you?

[@TheBonsaiGarden]

@@GrowingBonsaiI think mine just don’t get enough direct sunlight for long enough each day. Extension is literally half a centimetre, maybe a centimetre, if I’m lucky over the growing season and they get plenty of water and feed. My garden is great for maples, not so much junipers.

[@BonsaikelapaBambuApusTangsel]

Keren kawan

[@GrowingBonsai]

You're welcome

[@kn0bch33s3]

I have just added a Grey Owl juniper to my collection. Very sparse but there’s something about it I really like. It will never form compact pads but that’s just the way it is.

[@GrowingBonsai]

WIth technique they can get more compact though!

[@kn0bch33s3]

@@GrowingBonsai Poor tree I have not had time to look at it as busy preparing for an important interview. Once that's don I'm going to sit down with it, rewatch what you are doing and see what can be done. Suspect it needs to do some growing first of all!

[@bartoszpianowski]

When is the best timer for this type of worki on junipers?

[@GrowingBonsai]

Grafting? Now. Extension pruning, late spring, as the branches has started to extend

[@rtregear]

Why is wiring stressful for a tree?

[@brucedeacon28]

👍👌🙂

[@GrowingBonsai]

Thaanks!

[@mattbrennan647]

Foisting 😊

[@GrowingBonsai]

hehehe