Tricks Growing Pyracantha Bonsai

[@normanblastock9576]

I never tire of learning from peter

[@raggedbreath]

I love how you focus so much time on accessible plants! Thanks

[@muttnjeff9030]

Nice. You should see the pyracantha bushes at my parents' house. They have been growing for more than 60 years and the trunks are massive!

[@selfmade6142]

Very nice to see a way that I myself look after. Even nicer that I have one that has a thicker trunk than the one shown here. He is my "age president" in my small collection and my whole pride. I have loved their work since the 80s, they were one of the reasons why I always stuck with this hobby. Give you long life and health. Warm greetings from Germany.

[@PatriciaAnnGriggs]

I just love watching you work 💚💚💚

[@PatriciaAnnGriggs]

Thank you for your comment (☝️)☺☺☺🌱💚💚

[@abonsaibritspain8200]

It’s been many years since I last visited Herons. Glad to see your still going.

[@peterchan3100]

Herons is 36 years old. I started with what was a derelict tumble down nursery to what it is today.

[@nickhopes8821]

peter chan I bought seven Amur maples and a blue glazed pot from you when I was 25. I’m now 55. I now live in Spain and I am still doing Bonsai

[@MidniteSan]

All trees are looking healthy and Strong, thick trunks too. Peter must have strong healthy back with all that work..admirable indeed. Thx for Sharing Peter, can't wait for the next one..cheers.

[@carloscruz6536]

Thanks for sharing your knowledge love your quality of materials that you have👍👍🇵🇷

[@bhanusbonsaipassion8424]

Every single word from him is so valuble for bonsai makers Great work sir ❤️❤️

[@danutashayler34]

Who knew. Pyracantha as a Bonsai. Sounds like I may try this. I have one growing in a pot. Many thanks

[@bernardok.7596]

Always learning with Mr, Chan. Thank you very much for your videos. You're THE master.

[@edvickers667]

IT'S ALWAYS NICE TO SEE YOU WORK YOUR MAGIC. LOVED THE SHOW, THANKS PETER.

[@MrAgentsmith555]

I love your work and your videos, and I love even more your tricks and tips approach 👍 thank you so much Sensei Peter 😎

[@paullill5604]

So week 36 of Sunday breakfast with Peter time to sit back and enjoy Stay well Stay safe

[@Raymond_Petit]

Pyracantha, one of my favorite species for bonsai!

[@GalumiN]

Thank you for your work !

[@jasongannon7676]

Thanks for the demo

[@LessTalkMoreDelicious]

Nice! 3/5 of my pyracantha cuttings rooted. I look fwd to growing them. Please do videos on chaenomeles 🙏. I recently got 5 diff cultivars of flowering quince, and don’t really know how to train/develop/prune/style them.

[@sagarmaharajan2692]

I enjoy watching your videos

[@the_peace_bear]

That was a very great demonstration on how to grow it on gravel. 👍😄

[@heshamelmesalmy5950]

Thank you mr Peter 🌹

[@pranavsaxena664]

Big thanks to you sir!

[@gordanastevanovic9905]

Hello, great video, I only recently got my pyracantha a week ago and have a question. The white flowers are in bloom, but now are going brown, doe's this mean the flowers are dying? how do I stop this? It's already in a bonsai pot, how can I thicken the trunk?

[@pervezahmed546]

One great thing about pyrcantha is that they flower and fruit in tropical climate too.

[@questionablecooking7019]

Sunday morning Peter video and coffee is life. If you have areas of wood chip mulch, would this work similar to putting potted trees on gravel? Seems it would.

[@amitavasarkar8360]

স্যার অসাধারণ একটি ভিডিও ফুটেজ দেখালেন।

[@saratv7417]

I love this videos

[@suemiller4897]

It was hard to tell in the video. Did the roots grow into the gravel through the holes in the pot or was the bottom cut out of the pot...? Thanks...love your videos!

[@OldIronShops]

How old were the trees before you placed them on the gravel?

[@grahamwatson4359]

Which number Felco Secateurs do you use for this and for general use Peter ?

[@ExmoorMist]

Love pyracantha, but oh those thorns.

[@PlantCraftDIY]

Woww..amazing Sir😍

[@sophiaangelini4368]

The gravel method (for trunk growing) is a shortcut to fine art. Many thanks to the 21st century Druid .

[@funkystuf23]

Short cut? He says these are 20 years old! Doesn’t mention it on the video tho, there is no fine art, he could just place the pots on soil and it will do the exact same thing.

[@everestbonsai5547]

Very beautiful 😍

[@pokemonempire3684]

Sir can you make a bonsai from starting 🙏

[@sanduraserrao2146]

Do you wire pyracantha or let it grow naturally ?

[@zimrianispresent8123]

I recommend you to my weed coworkers alllll the time

[@mikenco]

Another great video. Did these plants start from air-layered cuttings? How old are they?

[@funkystuf23]

Exactly what I was wondering, these couldn’t of started Off from seed, his videos are great but he doesn’t stay on track, or says he’s doing one thing and does something different

[@landreaeo]

Nice video, Peter. What about the state of the roots in the pot? Wouldn't a re-pot be necessary to check that the root system is balanced?

[@peterchan3100]

I will check the roots in the spring when they go into bonsai pots

[@noumine]

@@peterchan3100 Hello, Sir Peter. Any video updates if they went into bonsai pots already? :D Thank you in advance.

[@kencame4256]

Nice bonsai♪

[@galeribonsaicoffee8943]

what pirakantha like humid places sir?

[@raggedbreath]

11:12 "Thick and dumpy!!"

[@funkystuf23]

Grow up ya saddo

[@herve30able1]

« Heron’s Scissors Hands."

[@Freytraz]

Would you have any species recommendation for tropical bonsai?

[@peterchan3100]

Ficus, Bougainvillea depending on where you live.

[@jackpfannkuchen3224]

Can i planed a seed in a Little Bonsai Pot, or Should i planed it First 1 year into a normal pot?

[@arandompigeon1031]

I would personally put it in a regular pot so it could grow a strong root system and overall give the tree vigor. It also thickens the trunk faster. But it’s up to you!

[@bluelight947]

Can you make a video how to make formal upright with nursery sequoia : )

[@peterchan3100]

I have already done one or two

[@Gbhmagic]

Ahh yes i just remembered whatbi wanted to ask you.. its unrelated to this video...but i defoliateted my maple this year and when it came back..the leaves were still huge..not as big as initially but still too large. Any advice and no its not a silver maple :)

[@bonsaiforu]

Defoliation doesn’t reduce leaf size. The main purpose of defoliation is increase ramification. Smaller leaf size comes from controlled fertilization and correct soil condition and pot size. Ryan Neil at Bonsai Mirai talked about this misconception in several of his videos. Hope this helps.

[@LounoirRecords]

this takes some years to become smaller regardless. you could just put it in a smaller pot and decrease the feeding PS: don't defoliate every year, every 2 the most no matter how healthy it is. occasionally it might not come back when done too often

[@peterchan3100]

I have said it many times in some of my videos that defoliation often results in larger leaves - especially with Maples

[@Gbhmagic]

@@peterchan3100 i have not seen those. Lol you have so many videos 😆

[@cherylandrews3195]

Thank you for the video! How old are these trees?

[@peterchan3100]

About twenty I would say

[@shootingblind7728]

So the the thorns don't bother you?

[@Wedge53]

Thank you for all of these insights. Unrelated to pyracantha, I recently purchased several Japanese Maples notably Koto No Ito, Waterfalls Accontifolium/Fernleaf, and Beni Shi En. If you have used any of these varieties would you share some photos? Just to see what I might expect. Thank you for all you do.

[@Gbhmagic]

If you grow them in the gravel... would it shock the tree to remove such a large root mass at one time? Are there trees that you would not recomend this method for?

[@LounoirRecords]

nah not really, they have enough to sustain in the pot anyway, this is just bonus. probably wouldn't harm decdiduous ones at all except for most conifers, especially for pines never prune off more than 1/3 of the total root mass - so just check how much is in the gravel. if you want to be extra safe just do it in very early spring (around february-april)

[@moneoo88]

My pyracantha doesn't have berries. Am I doing something wrong? I keep it in a full afternoon sun outdoors, water it daily

[@peterchan3100]

Don't prune too hard - If you prune too hard you could be pruning off the flowering shoots.

[@Rorriux]

The only bad thing is, that pyracanthas that are grown with this tecnique has a lot of chances to die when a real nice and correct repoting occurs. Fat roots can't be cutted off so easily so they often die, they produce lots of ancorage roots in the base... so they will have to stay on a big pot maybe forever =(

[@jyothilavigne2263]

Can you grow larches in gravel beds too? Or any tree?

[@peterchan3100]

Yes - any type of tree

[@Princemart10]

Hey guys

[@neilhamilton2621]

Peters like Edward scissors hands of bonsai

[@dbe2705]

🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹

[@MuriloCRuy]

For a long time I have try to start pyracantha from seeds, but without success. The seeds just don't sprout 🌱 and I don't know why. There's any secrets to sprout the seeds ?

[@MuriloCRuy]

Just an observation, I'm from Brazil and we don't have a cold and Long Winter here. Another thing is that the seeds that I have collected don't looks like the seeds I have seeing in the internet. The ones I have collected looks like small black dots that stick together in the middle of the barry. The ones I have seeing in the internet looks like a single seed, big and massive. I wonder if the small blacks dots, are suppose to be inside of that massive "shell".

[@tayh3645]

@@MuriloCRuy Better off taking cuttings in winter. Found out by accident that they actually root very easily in water.

[@SorrowPolaris]

@@tayh3645 sorry for the question after 1 year but how thick can the branch be to root in water? Finger thick or more?

[@tayh3645]

@@SorrowPolaris The easiest ones to root were 6-10" cuttings, around the diameter of a chopstick. They grow fast so you might want to stick with the small ones, build good roots for a year, then wire the thin cuttings to give better movement. Unless you're trying to use a gnarled stem piece as is for a small, mame size bonsai, it's best not to use large diameter cuttings here. You also want to check on the cuttings. Once they get those tiny pre-roots at the bottom, you want to pot them up into perlite and treat them like normal cuttings. If you wait until they have root-roots it just wastes the plants energy, since most will dry up when you go to pot it.

[@SorrowPolaris]

@@tayh3645 thank you for the really well explained answer for now i have 3 cuttings in a pot if they fail i will pick others and some of them try in water :)

[@sorbethyena3828]

Do you have pieris bonsai?

[@peterchan3100]

I tried using Pieris years ago but they don't make nice bonsai as it is difficult to get them with thick trunks

[@shoetoe4311]

Less is more..... except for the trunk?

[@sparshshetty5001]

Hi

[@funkystuf23]

Noticed on another comment that peter says these plants are 20 years old, gravel or not, these obviously took many years to get the trunk that thick, I was wondering before seeing comment if these were taken from air layering? Great videos but never stays on track, says one thing but demonstrates another,

[@askgbk]

Has anyone else seen cobra Kai on Netflix ? They really disrespect bonsai. some kids distort mr miyagi garden and trees ..

[@TheBonsaiGarden]

Pyracantha is an evil tree. I can understand why you would wear gloves dealing with it, the thorns are like four inch needles.

[@emmabb2076]

No. Thank you, Peter.

[@kensanhan9059]

You cannot say centimeters and then 3 seconds later say inches. Make up your mind , good video though.