Making an Olive Bonsai Tree - Wiring and Pruning

In this video, Jason works on an Olive bonsai that was cut back 2-3 years ago. All the branches were removed at that time. Since then new branches have grown and taken their place. The branches were wired and cut back over the last 2 years prior to this styling. Hosted by Jason Chan of Eastern Leaf.
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[@1niko3]

Great inspiring video. I really enjoy the weekly videos.

[@phili799]

Thanks Jason - Didn't understand an awful lot about wiring bonzai's until i studied your clips and I've learned quite a bit, there was far more to it than first realised but hopefully practice will get it right at some stage. Thanks again for your help / blessings/ Phil

[@williamwoody7607]

There are so many bonsai channels that have more subscribers than this guy and it’s really a shame. A lot of guys seem to post videos that go nowhere and have no real value and that’s just not the case here. I’m impressed that he’s HERE engaging with the subject and the audience, so far every time. I’m so tired of spending 20 or 30 mins. watching some guy mumble to himself while he performs menial maintenance AGAIN and uploading it as if it’s a worthwhile use of his audience’s time. It’s pretty disrespectful. Right now Eastern Leaf is the best return on my time.

[@Kurtlane]

Nice tree. But it seems to me that the trunk, though not thin, looks thin as it comes from the big thick root mass. It would be nice to thicken the trunk at the bottom, right under the first branches somehow. I love that messy mass. I wouldn't touch it at all. Is it possible? How would you do that?

[@bonsaiinjavalandtv5857]

I love black olive Bonsai and love this KZbin channel ! Awesome 👍

[@duskmoss]

Great video I wish I could do bonsais like that

[@pedroreyes5158]

Nice beautiful. Thanks for sharing your knowledge.

[@mapsri1341]

Nice tree & nice styling. Is the selected front, the best option?

[@uteman-101]

An olive is different for you -- well done like it

[@DNH17]

An olive tree was brokenb by the wind and lack of attention of ours, so it's some time I thinking to use the very short (shorter than this one) remaining trunk to rebuild life and build a bonsai, I got the vase (circular and short ot deep) I hope I can so something otherwise I will use another vase, but it got to be thick or the vase will break. The root and trunk is totally fresh new and in much worse shape and look than this one which is almost completed (yours). Let's see if I can put it into the bonsai vase tomorrow... U should have shown the top of the tree, to see it's apex even if it doesn't look nice, we should have watched it. I think I have an idea, since the trunk is harshly cut, I will create a 5 tips branched tree, like a hand., the old damaged trunk will just be hidden below the ramifcation of the main branches.

[@luisl.5304]

I purchased a home and there are 3 huge bonsai style olive trees in my backyard. Trying to learn to keep them up 😰

[@69kesh]

dear Jason i hope all is well , did you make this tree in a stump from a nursery stock ?

[@deploribusunum3894]

What type of olive is this? It looks great!

[@Jeddersfield]

It might be Olea europaea subsp. Africana. I have some seedlings that look like this. They have slightly smaller leaves than standard Europaea but larger than silvestris

[@deploribusunum3894]

jeddersfield Thank you!

[@archsilton]

Hello Jason ! Are you still offering classes?

[@nancyfahey7518]

I loooove olive trees. Your's has great personality. Or is it oliveality?

[@devbachu7072]

You know u work I am a beginner

[@calvin4897]

Please subtitel indonesia

[@duskmoss]

First

[@asea4409]

There’s no online class

[@judgetoogood1033]

This was not a good example for those of us who have never trimmed a olive tree. Their was no teaching.

[@paoloercu8316]

Hi Jason. Although I really appreciate your skilled tutorials, in this case I have to disagree with the way you're shaping this tree. Olive trees in Italy (where I write you from) are everywhere and none has ever looked as the one you are working. If the main scope of a bonsaist is to recreate a natural looking bonsai tree, in this case you failed big time. In the Puglia region especially we have very old trees with massive trunks but none of these have big roots out of the earth or the general looks of your tree. ciao Paolo

[@ahappyimago]

I mean he didn’t say that’s the only way to do it

[@DNH17]

It doesn't have to be like the real ones, it's a bonsai, "fail big time"? mmm...it has to look like you want not like we prune them "vaso policonico" or else... You will appreciate another shape I guess.

[@automotivespraypaintingtut504]

hater award goes to Paolo Ercu out to hurt you..lol . your muma failed bigtime

[@williamwoody7607]

Uh no. This is a quite good example of a “struggling “ bonsai. Not all bonsai are meant to look like (ordinary) tiny trees. Your observation failed BIG TIME.