Prunus Mume or Japanese Apricot Bonsai

[@nofear8984]

"It's never to late to try... never give up! " That's a nice thing to say, Peter.

[@m6th6r6]

I’m 14 and in online school, these videos really help me relax, love your content and your personality is so caring! ❤️❤️

[@gracepeterson7483]

Lucky you!! I wish I could have watched Peter when I was 14 but there was no internet back then. :)

[@evanever]

@@gracepeterson7483 It's a blessing and a curse. On one hand, you have endless information and can control what you consume. On the other hand, it's near impossible to 'unplug' when you've grown up on constant high speed internet.

[@gracepeterson7483]

@@evanever I am sure it is a challenge. Growing plants is a great diversion, as I'm sure you're aware.

[@evanever]

@@gracepeterson7483 For sure.

[@martineseeyave747]

Love the contrast between the gnarly trunk and the delicate beautiful flowers 💖

[@bestbestbestist]

You have changed the way i act about being interest on having and growing trees. As if you ask the famous tree lovers question "WHEN IS THE BEST TIME TO PLANT A TREE"? and the answer is "20 YEARS AGO"! it is obvious that starting today dealing with bonsai as a tree lover is a way to be there in 20 years time on your own home comfort and space, or either by visit your garden and buy some your trees is a perfect solution, but i am unfortunately to far away, i wish i was in the UK .! Thank you so much for sharing all those videos. Greetings from Rhodes In Greece.

[@cremdilly7176]

I'm sorry I haven't been watching your videos lately, Peter. I just can't bear to look at your beautiful trees while mine are sound asleep in my freezing garage.

[@grahamlister214]

I live in Portugal and from plums to almonds the contrast of the old gnarled tree to the perfection of their blossom is absolutely stunning!

[@kernowjago1999]

Just received my delivery very impressed yet again thank you

[@briannelson3830]

Best tree adviser thanks so much

[@shivangnisharma9448]

I wish I lived next to your nursery 😀 beautiful collection, hope they continue responding to your love & care

[@LessTalkMoreDelicious]

Finally... Ume content!! 🎉 Please do Chaenomeles, Persimmon and Pomegranate too! 🙏

[@KimCarmenWalsh]

Lovely video and beautiful inspiration Peter! Thank you 🙏💜

[@waruiboya2575]

1:15 梅花 - mei-hua (mandarin), mui-fa (cantonese), moi-fa (hakka), bai-ka (japanese). Literally more than two millennia of painting, poetry and artistic sentiments on these two lovely words.

[@peterchan3100]

You are so right - For Two millenia the Chinese and Japanese have admired this flower.

[@missmarple3234]

What a wonderful way to start my day, with these beautiful flowers and your unwavering optimism Peter! I would love to show you my experiments as I am dabbing with cuttings and seedlings of all sorts! Can’t wait to order from your website again. Thank you teacher Chan 🙏

[@bohlonzo]

Hi Peter! Thank you very much for your video! I JUST got a prunus mume last week and have been growing it in a flower pot to strengthen it. I suppose this tree is as beautiful as it is difficult to keep. Always a balance in life. Regards, Nick

[@FangsBlossom]

Thank you for sharing your precious knowlege about the mume trees

[@240Sil]

Was just about to go to a workshop this weekend. Thankyou for the honest info!

[@dylandaulay]

You’re the best teacher peter thanks😊

[@StephenTurnerVlogs]

Lovely video Peter. They're such a contrasting tree. Rugged but dainty.

[@flederfox]

i have a huge apricot tree in my yard, that when i moved into this house a year ago it was a near-dead ancient looking trunk with two sad branches. i guess where it is, it doesn't stand up long to the strong westerly we get and how easily those branches break! well this year, it has six branches, and i have just pruned it after it gave me a good 25 DELICIOUS sweet most amazing apricots i've ever eaten (compared to maybe 4 edible fruit last year). i'm attempting to build in shelter to protect it from future breakage and have formed a new leading trunk for it. in after it flowers, i want to take cuttings from it to turn into pre-bonsai to give to all my family

[@lilwilliams7277]

Beautiful, never give up 👍

[@jokesterk5302]

I really admire the love and care you have for all of your trees. In have been trying ,in a modest way,to start experiencing with small offspring from oaks in my garden,and it is too esrly to say weather they are going going to mske it. Love it dough!

[@MidniteSan]

😘 thx for sharing Peter.. beautiful 👍.. can't wait to see the next one 👍.

[@camerondouglas3936]

Awesome video of these trees and so inspirational 🌸

[@lavarela8]

Absolutwly beautiful!!! Thanks for sharing Peter.

[@davidmurray9844]

Thank You, so enjoyable and educational

[@theTemplar08]

Thanks for the video I would have never heard of that tree before.

[@IzonHow]

Fantastic trees! They sure seem like they are one of the more difficult trees to grow here. Good job for working on them for so long! Looking forward to how they develop as they get stronger.

[@たや-t2y]

Here is a famous poem in Japan. Remember when the east wind blows, let it send your fragrance. Do not forget the spring.

[@josefragateiro9595]

Beautiful

[@peterchan3100]

Is there a Haiku for this ? Very beautiful thought. Maybe something like this - "Cold east wind sends fragrance of Ume to remind that Spring is not far away"

[@たや-t2y]

Thank you for your comments. Michizane, a competent scholar was demoted and transferred to Kyushu which is in the west far from Kyoto. He tells beloved Ume in his garden not to forget spring even if your master won’t be in Kyoto.

[@almac2598]

Thanks Peter.

[@octoberblaze8554]

Wonderful topic for this video

[@prestonnguyen2122]

Such beautiful flowers, I can't wait till I've started a truly amazing collection as well. Great video!

[@uniotter2662]

That's a lovely tree -- thanks for taking the time to show us this species....I'd never seen it before!

[@Anoiabonsai]

beautiful flowers!😍🌸🌳

[@ziriyab]

Beautiful!

[@robdegoyim4023]

My Fuji cherries and prunus accolade are about to pop, can't wait!

[@Chrissyxx2XD]

Love this channel, I just started growing Bonsais, these videos are so helpful. And I love how nice your commentsections are. This is so nice!

[@muklisfauzan650]

Fantastic

[@peterjohnson3654]

Glad to know it's not just me that has problems. My last one died and I will try growing some from seed.

[@franknagel7564]

Thanks a lot for this introduction to Prunus mume! I really would appreciate if you could keep us informed about this species. Have one on the shelf - it has been doing well for the last two years as the winters have been very moderate in our area. Just about to open the flowers

[@selfmade6142]

You're never too old to try something (new). And if you don't experience the result yourself anymore, the experiment can be a stimulus for someone to continue it.

[@thegreenmanalishiyamadori371]

Thank you Sir Peter...🤘🏻🤘🏻🤘🏻

[@rubyfkat]

R🌹..sweet little flowers..🌺🌺🌺

[@arnulfoesguerra4795]

Ume/Mei Hua likes very cold weather. In fact, in Northern China it blooms while there is still snow.

[@Kalithrasis]

I can verify that they grow well in California. One of our local farms was started by a Japanese-American farmer who planted them as windscreens for his strawberry fields.

[@yoopermann7942]

PETER, thank you for the tips! prunus are easy to root from cuttings, i am trying this also with malus "flowering crab apple " i took cuttings in fall, and this week i took some more cuttings, they are easy to grow from seed, but i`m trying to see if i ca get them to root from cuttings also

[@henzobonsai]

Thank for sharing...

[@lukasmihara]

Beautiful. Surely one of my favourite species. The fruit make great wine, too. I wonder if you also know _Chimonanthus preacox?_ It has yellow flowers, blooms even earlier than the Ume and also has a very nice fragrance. In Japanese it's called _roubai_ (蝋梅) which literally means _wax plum/apricot._ The flowers look a bit like waxed, yellow Ume flowers.

[@peterchan3100]

Chimomanthus makes nice bonsai too.

[@waruiboya2575]

The yellow wax plum are ethereally beautiful, and so different from the other blossoms.

[@wonnang3926]

Peter do you speak Cantonese? You pronounced 梅花 perfectly. I enjoy your video very much. I live in Los Angeles and hope I will have a chance to visit your nursery. Thank you.

[@peterchan3100]

Thank you very much - I still speak a smattering of Cantonese but cant read or write Chinese. Please come and visit us when you can. I have some cousins in LA - they are Chinese from Burma. My mother's sister's children. I have never visited LA but hope to do so one day.

[@martineseeyave747]

I wonder if they would grow in tropical climate? 🤔

[@josefragateiro9595]

Hello, I have a funny story with prunus mume A few years ago, I sowed an apricot kernel from a bonsai. without really knowing what it was, I sowed the seed and it was forgotten in a pot with other plants. One day a small plant was born, which meanwhile had already forgotten. I was taking care of her and still little began to blossom. meanwhile I started looking for information about this oriental tree being fascinated by its history. Two years ago I planted in a very large cement pot and it grew very quickly. This year, in December and January, it bloomed in a spectacular and abundant way and full of aroma. . Some small birds and bees also appeared as if it were spring. I wish that some fruit. It is a very important event in my life and I hope to celebrate this great wealth every year.

[@peterchan3100]

Where do you live?

[@josefragateiro9595]

@@peterchan3100 Hi Peter, I live in Portugal. I was surprised to know that it is easy to maintain and grow this beautiful Prunus. Actually, I never saw any here in Portugal. Even though I consider myself lucky

[@pauloteixeira5528]

Wonderful, like always 👏👏👏🇵🇹

[@dylandaulay]

I just started to do bonsai and you have been really helpful I was wondering if you can make a video on Asian bell 👍

[@peterchan3100]

What is the botanical name ?

[@h.b.1421]

@@peterchan3100 i searched a bit and found Radermachera sinica as the botanical name, but it could be something else entirely, as you yourself know that some use a common name for quite different plants :)

[@dylandaulay]

Radermachera sinica Sorry for replying late

[@funnyanimalvideos79]

Love it..

[@steamjo]

Dear Mr Chan, what happenend to the Hornbeam and the beech trees you showed in earlier Videos? Thanks

[@peterchan3100]

Yes - I will revisit them later this year.

[@gracepeterson7483]

Peter, we can grow Prunus mume successfully here in the Pacific Northwest. I've got P. m. 'Kobai' in my garden, not a bonsai. It's almost ready to bloom. We'd love it if you decided to move to Oregon!

[@Imperator_0131]

中国古代有一首称赞梅花的诗句，广为流传：墙角数枝梅凌寒独自开，遥知不是雪为有暗香来。 There is a poem in ancient China that praises plum blossoms, which is widely circulated: A few plum blossoms bloom alone in the corner of the wall, and you know from afar that it is not snow because there is a faint fragrance.（google translate）

[@lucyb15]

i've heard and read that now and then, the seed inside an umeboshi pit will sprout a rootlet...I have two in a moist paper towel right now. hoping!

[@peterchan3100]

Oh !!

[@gitmoholliday5764]

but if you keep it at the correct temperature, would it be difficult to maintain also ?

[@Stigmaru]

I was hoping to grow a prunus mume in california because i heard they are more heat tolerant than prunus serrulata cherry blossoms... I'm hoping in a 9B hardiness zone, Prunus Mume can tolerate the hot summers and also that it doesn't get close to 0 deg C often here.

[@Cranbob]

I would love for a sageretia video

[@HaniyaRae]

this is so lovely. so sad it's so hard to grow

[@juliettenash8120]

I wonder if they could be grown indoors? I have a windowsill where Ginko and Musanga trees, and also a weak pine bonsai, are thriving (I am in Ireland).

[@gyulazarka730]

Dear Mr Chan! I'd like to know which soil mix do You find the best for these and the Fuji cherry trees. Thank you ☺️

[@peterchan3100]

They like a loamy (ie mud ) soil with lots of organice matter in it. Dont use gritty soil - that is too dry for them.

[@gyulazarka730]

@@peterchan3100 Thank you very much!

[@marekvagner5789]

are from this amazing pink flowers also a fruits?

[@boriszastavnoy9257]

Actually fruits are quite good

[@drummerlovesbookworm9738]

Is this the tree you can make pickled umeboshi plums from? I want to try to grow the ume plum (apricot) tree in zone 8b. Thank you.

[@robdegoyim4023]

How did the cuttings do in the end?

[@frauleintrude6347]

You could grow them rather safely in what we call in Germany vineyard area, regions were grapes, apricots, peaches and almonds thrive. Sadly not my region.

[@jessicabuynak5077]

i love flowering bonsai. they are so pretty. im wondering though if you have any lilacs? i am in the US but im sure they have lilacs in the UK as well. i dont see many bonsai made from lilac. is it possible?

[@cameronhewitt3791]

I’m in Sydney Australia, I haven’t been able to find any of these locally yet but I will continue to search. I wonder, do you think these would suit the climate here? We definitely don’t get cold days below 0 degrees. But the 40 degree days In summer might be an issue?

[@peterchan3100]

Provide shade in Summer

[@Bonsaiandknives]

Hello Peter, thanks for this video. I also have a Mume and fully agree that this is a very difficult tree. When is best time to prune Mume. Thanks. Best regards Andreas

[@Lu._.alienn]

You mentioned that if it’s growing in a cold country that have winter season, it will do better in a greenhouse. If I grow it at home in my apartment in Stockholm, Sweden, will it survive if I put a plastic bag over it, or put it in a terrarium? I read somewhere that other people who live in cold countries have managed with this plant by putting a plastic bag over it like a small greenhouse. Anyway great and very informative video!!😊👍🏻

[@stevesegovia9391]

Do Ume's bud back on old wood when cut back?

[@asdqwe4468]

Well, I wonder how difficult they really are. I think I'm going to buy a small one because they are not that expensive. Will see how it goes. I don't have a green house but I have unheated rooms. Actually there's a nursery in northern Germany that sells them, even quite big ones.

[@francescorizzi7939]

Dear teacher, I live in Italy in the north in the province of Milan. Could a Prunus mume grow it in my climate? Thank you

[@bohlonzo]

Buongiorno Francesco, io abito a Milano (MI) e ho un prunus mume che sta crescendo molto bene!

[@francescorizzi7939]

@@bohlonzo l hai da molto tempo?

[@bohlonzo]

@@francescorizzi7939 ce l’ho da 2 settimane, Cresce molto meglio da noi come dice lui nel video.(Southern Europe) Se non ti senti sicuro di coltivare i prunus, ti consiglio di parlare con Crespi Bonsai che ti spiegheranno come devi fare ! ✌🏼

[@francescorizzi7939]

Ok grazie mille

[@williamscott791]

In this video can anybody tell me the variety that has those large pink blooms

[@zacharybordas]

I wonder how “extremely difficult” this tree will be to grow in Louisiana? Perhaps too hot? I’d love trying it out, thanks Peter!

[@nadiabac2755]

I just found one in a park in Austin, TX. So I’ll try mine 🌸🌸🌸 Good luck! 🍀🍀🍀

[@KushSudra]

Do they not grow too well in the UK due to the fact that they’ve been imported? For example, if I were to buy a grafted prunus mume that was grown in the UK would it be better acclimatised?

[@sama-uk4wg]

But I thought Japan has snowy winters what's the difference?

[@coronnation8854]

Snow is only 0 degrees Celsius. That's not bad at all for those kinds of fruit trees. Snow can actually keep the plant from getting colder.

[@bettie7941]

Japan has different climate zones. The south is much warmer/milder. I love these flowers 😍 it's a shame they are difficult to grow...

[@andreasweber1533]

Hokkaido is a lot different from Kyushu (not to mention Okinawa).

[@CaptainPupu]

I've been searching the stores all over for mume seeds, they are all sold out! Cuttings are very expensive here and pretty rare. Mr Chan, would you mind sending me a few pits? Not for free of course, I'll pay for it. Shipping and all.

[@peterchan3100]

Depends where you live because some countries do not allow seeds to be imported. We sell mainly Maple and Crab apple seeds. We have sold out for this year. Next will be in Dec.

[@CaptainPupu]

@@peterchan3100 WOW! I can't believe I've got a reply from the sensei himself. It's an honor, sir. Also, i live in USA - New York. I know Herons Bonsai doesnt sell in the Americas, but if you would be kind enough, i would pay for it. Double even. Prunus Mume is not banned in the US, in fact, botanical gardens have them on display here, and they are also planted along the capitol. There are a few places that sell them, however, they are all sold out. Thank you so much for your reply, sensei. This cheered me up. :)

[@juliettevharris]

Could you do them inside?

[@manishyt3433]

Where and how can i get maple tree in india?? It's not avalable here.. Kindly reply

[@luiscaldera5754]

Do you all ship to USA

[@markus_selloi]

Great video! Am i the only one, who thinks he sounds like Bernie Sanders? :D

[@peterchan3100]

I wish I was Bernie Sanders - I think he is a great guy. Adore his principles! But I dont think my voice is like his?

[@lizlapre1512]

@@peterchan3100 please refrain from inserting politics in your site. Not all of your fans share the same views. I come here to get away from it as I’m sure most do as well

[@dragaumchineis5070]

Bom dia, Flor do dia!

[@timcastle1844]

Not easy to grow as Bonsai in Eastern Australia either.

[@luongden242]

👍

[@tsandrey1978]

Класс

[@bonsaiinjavalandtv5857]

🥰🥰

[@coronnation8854]

Doesn't ume mean rain in Japanese?y Japanese is very rusty

[@bohlonzo]

Ame (雨) is rain in Japanese. Ume (梅) is Japanese apricot. :)

[@acheronexile]

I thought Ume was an eel. Even eels dont like eels.

[@bohlonzo]

@@acheronexile haha it’s sounds similar, but “Unagi” is Eel in Japanese ;)

[@smack09]

Do a video all about Prunus as bonsai. There's not alota info..

[@makewithmegma]

😲🔥👍❤

[@trenseni]

Like...

[@beaskelly]

January 14 is my birthday

[@apank21]

wwesteern hemisphere not include most of europe do

[@maimaiti]

Good luck :) i think global warming will help you to see those flowers more healthy 😊

[@peterchan3100]

Perhaps