Grow Better Bonsai Faster || 4 Bonsai mistakes to avoid

[@rodschroeder1048]

Thank you for such a great video!! I love all your videos they all help us. But this one is a must see for all beginners and needs to be expanded on, and help everyone understand the how, when and why of growing a bonsai. For me I would watch all the videos I could, and all you see is great trunks, great trees and a small explanation of what it took to get the tree to what we see. This is a great starting point, please keep growing this video. Thank you.

[@Christopher_Giustolisi]

I started with this hobby last year. I have many trees, probably around 20 (I should count them) but only two in proper bonsai pots because I bought them that way. The rest grows in flower pots. I care for them, I let them grow, prune them to direct the growth, make cuttings and I´m enjoying that process. Luckily I´ve watched enough videos before I got started, managed my expectations and spent way too much money on tools. I enjoy seeing them grow and thinking about the way I want to develop them. I started out with the expectation that a bonsai in a nice pot is the product of years of development. I enjoy that process and I think if you can´t, then just buy one. Maybe next year I´ll have a few mame bonsai in proper pots because some of the trees I bought last year look promising. But the larger ones will take time. I´m looking forward to that. I think a painting is a great analogy. If you like paintings but don´t like to spend a lot of time painting, then just buy one from an artist. There´s nothing wrong with that. To make one yourself, you have to be able to enjoy the process from the first lines on the paper. And yes, you don´t put it into a frame while you´re still painting.

[@GrowingBonsai]

exactly. Enjoy the process or just buy a ticket to the end.

[@brianl1397]

I've watched a lot of bonsai videos and I can honestly say this is one of the best and a great help for a beginner. Must add it is great to be able to enjoy a garden tree as it is grown for bonsai 😬

[@GrowingBonsai]

:)

[@Oxertham]

15 years ago I was too impatient and made all of these mistakes and my plants fufered as a result, so I didn't continue. This last year I've been getting up to speed with a better mind set, taking my time and learning from my mistakes. Thanks Jelle for all your advise, with it I'm really enjoying seeing my plants grow.

[@carlmcclain6934]

Don’t give up! I’ve been doing bonsai for many years...on and off...and on again! I’d get frustrated and give up. But if you’re like me, and LOVE the art of bonsai, you just can’t keep away from it. I’ve made countless mistakes, but I’m learning everyday. Good luck to you and your bonsai journey. Just remember...BE PATIENT and DONT give up!

[@GrowingBonsai]

haha, I think most make these mistakes at some point.

[@TheBonsaiGarden]

Foist. Great video Jelle. A big issue with beginners is starting with poor material. Inappropriate trees with large leaves, tiny seedlings that will takes years, trees with long, featureless trunks, or needle thin, multiple spindly trunks with long internodes. Give yourself a fighting chance and start with better material.

[@GrowingBonsai]

Yes!

[@Bruno24-j3r]

This is literally the best video on bonsai trees I’ve ever watched🙌🏼 it’s so straight forward and the informations are really important for a beginner. That not many other people talk about in other beginner videos. Truly thank you for taking your time and making these type of videos❤️

[@notaclue7227]

Hi Jelle. I love your videos they're very informative. Only problem with this one is the music is too loud and distracting. Maybe its me but cant hear what you are saying. Keep up the excellent videos 👍

[@GrowingBonsai]

I have no clue what happens. But when I upload with music the balance is off afterwards!

[@XaviersBonsaiRetreat]

Very valid point and definitely the mistake I made for many years. The eagerness to put an 'unformed' tree into a bonsai pot has put a lot of my young material back a loing way - but the journey has still been fun. I do like the analogy to a painting and frame. Nice and relaxed :)

[@GrowingBonsai]

Glad you liked it!

[@Chuy007GDL]

I agree because I make all this mistakes my self. A being doing bonsai for the last two years and another mistake the new beginners make is buying too many trees. I make the mistake, I had at one point over 60 trees and now I have only 17 trees that in the future will be good bonsai.. Thank you Jelle and great videos by the way!..

[@GrowingBonsai]

:) Thank you!

[@Youkaikaze]

I've watched a bunch of your videos in no particular order. But this is an entirely different level of valuable. Thanks, homie. For real. This video is incredible and I hope that other newbies to bonsai stumble upon it as well

[@GrowingBonsai]

I appreciate that! Do share it around!?

[@deineath]

[Dramatic Music Playing] with some FACTS given. Thanks, Jelle.

[@GrowingBonsai]

hahaha

[@isaact8904]

Wow thanks for all the help

[@GrowingBonsai]

My pleasure. Hope there was something of use for you!

[@user-te7zz8mv3x]

I’m so glad that I only bought a plant from a bonsai garden centre this week… the cost of the ‘frame’ was a bit expensive so I shall save up for it 😉

[@GrowingBonsai]

Oh wow!So now only the tree?

[@thebrightsidepotteryandbonsai]

Very Helpful Jelle. Good advice!

[@GrowingBonsai]

Glad it was helpful!

[@voodoobunny13]

I can comfortably say I never made any of these mistakes thanks to watching a ton of your KZbin videos first. 😂 Thank you. 🙏

[@GrowingBonsai]

hahaha, geeat!

[@bobcatbonsai]

Wonderful advice Jelle. I actually pulled a lot of my trees last spring and ground planted them. Now I must wait!😊

[@GrowingBonsai]

Buy More Trees, and you will be so busy you do not have to wait :?

[@JohnThurlbeck-g2e]

Brilliant video, Jelle! I can now undo several mistakes in the spring! 😂

[@GrowingBonsai]

Go for it!

[@DavesBonsai]

Good video Jelle! You state a lot of great perspectives on this wonderful craft we call bonsai. I'm good at some of those ideas, and not so much on others.

[@GrowingBonsai]

So nice of you

[@kennethtaylor7288]

You make great content Jelle, I really look forward to your releases. I also enjoy your personality that you let shine through too… many thank yous…

[@GrowingBonsai]

That is so kind of you! Merry Christmas!

[@lilnoir4213]

Accepeting that your first impression of growing bonsai, were wrong and foolish is probably the moment that turns a beginner into a competent bonsai enthusiast.

[@GrowingBonsai]

Great vision!

[@FrostBiteBonsai]

That IS helpful! I made all those mistakes except the Bonsai pot, because they are not available here! Hahaha! I guess we all start out with the best intentions Eh! 😅

[@GrowingBonsai]

:) hahaha

[@TheAncientBiker]

Just getting interested in Bonsai so this was very helpful thank you.

[@GrowingBonsai]

great to hear. Do browse the channel, loads of info videos!

[@dreamingofbonsai]

Great tips! I appreciate the words of wisdom!

[@GrowingBonsai]

Thank you for your kind words!

[@bonsaiencdmx]

Muchas gracias por tus valiosos consejos 👍🏽👍🏽👍🏽

[@Bonsaicrazy]

Great video Jelle For a beginner like myself very helpful thanks 👊👍👍

[@GrowingBonsai]

You re welcome!

[@thenaturecreater8906]

Great video mr jelle! Very good information! Wish i saw this video 4 years ago😂. I put the Brazilian raintree cutting you sendt me in a large pondbasket in spring. I think it has dobbel in size. I had do cut it back before i took it. But i shot of again. In the indoor greenhouse

[@GrowingBonsai]

My apologies that I did not make this 4 years ago!

[@japanesemaplesbonsai7133]

Thanks for this Jelle. Very interesting…I made this mistake when I started and put it in a small pot. Then realised after reading it grows so much faster in the ground…stages, roots!, trunk!, branches!, ramification!….thanks again!

[@GrowingBonsai]

:) Yes!

[@gmccracken01]

Excellent advice!

[@GrowingBonsai]

Glad you agree! Thx

[@dhwrwmbasumatary2609]

I really enjoy watching your videos. Great help. Love from India.

[@GrowingBonsai]

Awesome! Thank you! Love India too!

[@carlmcclain6934]

So helpful! I wish I’d had the internet when I started doing bonsai 30 years ago. I’ve been doing bonsai on and off that long...and believe me! I’ve made every kind of mistake. Now that I’m 60yo I regret not learning all that I could have when I was younger. I’d start, and then get frustrated and stop...and then start again! Lol. Patients is my biggest problem. I’m constantly working on that!

[@GrowingBonsai]

So the last 40 years of your life you can do it all right!

[@ranjanty]

Thank you for giving us the facts, I started doing bonsai and know I probably will never have a good looking bonsai. I will enjoy the journey. I don't want to buy a good looking bonsai because it just wouldn't be the same as creating one. I didn't start till 70 years old and don't know why I didn't know about the world of bonsai in my teens. I guess my first time was seeing Mr. Miaki (Karate Kid) triming that little tree. It's funny how some of us as we get older we start appreciating the finer things of nature.

[@GrowingBonsai]

Just enjoy the creative process and the pleasure of a small tree thriving in a pot on your garden bench! :) Have fun.

[@chrisswales1174]

I wish I’d seen this video when I started, seems like I’ve been doing it wrong.Doh! Thanks Jelle

[@GrowingBonsai]

You'll get there?

[@HarusaiBonsai]

Wonderful Work

[@GrowingBonsai]

thx so much!👍

[@jaiprakashpathak8974]

Wonderful research work. Beginners will surely benefit from these invaluable findings. 👏

[@GrowingBonsai]

I do hope so!

[@jaherlar]

Thank you for this information. It really puts things into perspective. I like the process of growing a bonsai even though is slow, but I also would like to achive something in short time, so I'm thinking about a mix aproach by working with seedlings in growing pots, some others in the ground, and also I'll look for some plants from a nursery to get a tree with a thick trunk already. We will see how it goes. Thanks!

[@GrowingBonsai]

good luck and.. have fun!

[@nerinat8371]

Very helpful advice l need when l started, never too late ... thanks so much

[@GrowingBonsai]

:) The truth is out there!

[@keefe4484]

good tips and explanation of steps to take to develop your bonsai

[@GrowingBonsai]

thx

[@sueb1317]

Wonderful summary - wish I saw this vid when I started many years ago!! When I first started bonsai, all info in books was for developed trees - without any reference to how to get them there. Since I love growing from seeds and cutting, as well as observing plant behaviours close up, I still have many small trees - often in large clay pots, but I do this with intention rather than by mistake.

[@GrowingBonsai]

Merry christmas!

[@sueb1317]

@@GrowingBonsai Merry Christmas and very best wishes for 2024 Jelle. Thank you for a great year of fascinating and entertaining vids!!

[@johnkeagle2854]

Hi, Thanks for the video. I needed to head that.

[@GrowingBonsai]

Glad I could help

[@sbragaglia]

Very valuable advices. The only thing I don’t understand is why people wants the immediate gratification of a fully mature bonsai. No patience learning how to tend to plants, or to develop one into a bonsai, etc. I am a novice and I want to learn all these things: learning is a pleasant experience and cutting corners is not that advantageous to cut corners… this aside, I’m starstruck by Jelle and all the “dress changes”!during this performance (the t-shirts in this video)! 😉

[@GrowingBonsai]

hahaha, it was only 4 different shirts!

[@paulgeddert6125]

I think there is a nice balance. I have bought around 5-6 fully formed bonsai from nurseries in my first few years, several part trained trees, and dozens of garden centre material. Dug several yamadori and started numerous from cuttings, seed and air layers. It gives you a wide breadth of material to work on from the off, and a full range of horticulture to learn from simultaneously.

[@rutgerw.]

Very usefull, I certainly make these mistakes. Thanks. By the way the music in this video was a bit too loud in my opinion.

[@GrowingBonsai]

Agreed. Something goes wrong when uploading videos with music.

[@janvogt3725]

Thanks for the videos, appreciate it very much 🙏

[@GrowingBonsai]

Gladly

[@SteveAllotment]

Great video... Have taken advice before and now have some 10 year old field maples with nice trunks but now they are very tall ... When is the best time of year to make that big chop to cut down to size?

[@martinbrochristensen348]

Thanks Jelle🌞🌱

[@GrowingBonsai]

You're welcome!

[@zimmy1958]

Thank you.

[@GrowingBonsai]

Gladly!

[@Alfaro_Bonsai]

Very nice bonsai my brother👍👍

[@GrowingBonsai]

You're welcome!

[@HerbertDole]

Great tips :)

[@jonbasiloni4112]

With 20 years of experience growing Bonsai takes a lot patience, dedication, care and love and lets not forget pruning and when cutting your tree branches to the desired shape don't forget to use cut paste to help your tree heal and recover, from my experience for the best results let them grow in the ground with free range for the roots to grow big and healthy and also thickens the trunk over time I will be honest with you it takes many years to master Bonsai so don't give up have a great day everyone.

[@sergiovenditti4356]

Don't forget Murphy's Law

[@GrowingBonsai]

Thx. I am pretty sure i realize the time it takes. Been doing it for a bit now too ;)

[@SirPeacemaker]

Very good video. Thank you. The only thing what is a bit wrong here is the music too loud.

[@GrowingBonsai]

Sorry about that

[@buonleo]

I am an impatient beginner, I must admit. I have learnt a lot from your videos, thank you! Do you think that for a bonsai that will be ready to be potted up in, say, 5 years, it is possible to continue the development in an oversized bonsai pot instead of the plastic bowl? (Service note, the music level here is a bit too loud)

[@GrowingBonsai]

Absolutely. It is what I do with several of my trees when tired of plastic. As for the music,a bit annoying as during editing on my laptop all was good :(

[@Tcromb]

Jelle, why do you have drainage mesh over the top of your trees?

[@mkomakingu9073]

Stop birds from digging up the roots.

[@theoschmitt3037]

Wahre Worte, Jelle😊

[@atomartin]

Well... It depends on the specie. My edible figi trees are growing from the seeds in a approx. 3 L pots and they have aprox. 6 cm thick trunks after 6 yesrs. Root pruning, branch pruning, fresh potting mix every year and lots of fertilizers - the recipe of fast growth.

[@GrowingBonsai]

That is good growth. In the full ground however you might have had double the size pehaps?

[@Smile_Bonsai_Auction]

❤❤❤❤❤

[@vi_xen_plays]

Why is the background sound louder than the speaker's voice?

[@GrowingBonsai]

Because I am better at bonsai than at video editing.

[@charlesmaunder]

Good video. For me, the music was too loud and it made it difficult to understand what you were saying.

[@GrowingBonsai]

Sorry about that. I am unsure what went wrong in the processing.

[@rtweedtwee]

Wat een goeie aflevering man. Misschien wel je beste 😊

[@GrowingBonsai]

Ohw, dank je! Ooit ga ik uitvinden wat een video bijzonder maakt, en kan dan meer van dat type videos maken!

[@greenhawk1592]

Great video , the music is tooo much , leave it 😉

[@GrowingBonsai]

Yeah, something went wrong there. On the laptop during editing it was background :(

[@СуперХиро-с3б]

Great video. But what's with that sad music in the background. And also it is to loud. I can barely hear your voice. Anyways beside that thank's for all the tips!

[@GrowingBonsai]

yeah, sorry.

[@bonsaisn]

Beautiful bonsai tree, but I can't hear your language, it would be great to have Vietnamese running on the screen, wish you success.

[@GrowingBonsai]

I doubt I will ever manage to speak vietnamese. Have you tried the youtube subtitle? It does many languages automatically.

[@andriikoshurko6551]

I watched this video because I wanted to start a bonsai off my germinated oak seedlings, but after the video I've decided not to do anything with the tree😄

[@GrowingBonsai]

:) There is no reason to not grow from seed, as long as you are aware of the timeline involved!

[@brucedeacon28]

👍👌🙂

[@GrowingBonsai]

:)

[@allmetaliswelcome]

I think it's better if you don't put music in your videos

[@GrowingBonsai]

I am not sure what happened.

[@mcbean1]

I disagree in part with the objection to small trees, 1, making new trees from cuttings are a super cheap way to get more plants. 2. smaller trees are cheaper and therefore easier for those that can't afford older trees. 3. Bonsai is a life long hobby, sure you might want a few trees with big trunks, but waiting 10 years isn't so bad if you have plenty of trees to nurture along the way 4. sometimes smaller trunks are preferred. 5. smaller and cheaper trees allow you to make mistakes, that last thing you want it to kill an expensive tree because you didn't know a technique well enough No doubt we all want super old and matured trees but there can be a lot of fun found in smaller stock. not to mention if you can stick them in big enough pots or the ground, you'll get the trunk you want soon enough

[@GrowingBonsai]

I love smaller finer trees too. But it is the challenge that people start with a tiny tree and expect it to grow out into a big trunked specimen in a pot in a reasonable amount of time!

[@Matt6644]

Mistake number 1: Thinking you don't need any more trees

[@GrowingBonsai]

Hahahahaha

[@peterhochstrasser9817]

Made all 3 of the mistakes 😂 For your propagation videos, put out a warning "not for people over 50" as we will never see a decent result 😁😁😁

[@GrowingBonsai]

Really? You think these people will not live 10 years?

[@peterhochstrasser9817]

I really hope so 😂. I need to get to my old age pension lol

[@sunfresh79]

The whole point of a bonsai is to be small. Your trees are too large.

[@GrowingBonsai]

Hahaha, love this comment. I hope you will come to the Trophy in Genk in a few weeks. I would love to catch up and walk with you through the exhibition, and hear your view on the size of the trees there. Normal bonsai come in different size classes, with the regular sizes running up to about 1.10 m tall (Above which, a bonsai in a tokonoma will look too large). If anything, most of my trees are in the smaller category.

[@stanhill3980]

Lose the stupid music, it's to loud, not needed its annoying

[@GrowingBonsai]

Glad you enjoyed the video. Don't forget to subscribe so youtube can remind you top join in for another dose of weekend-music.