Mondays at Mirai: Quit Bonsai to DJ?

In this episode of Mondays at Mirai, Ryan contemplates his alternate life as a DJ while he works to finish this grueling repotting season and prep the garden for a sporadically cold spring night to come after a sunny day. As good buddies, Ryan and Josh trek around the garden to bask in the glory of new spring buds beginning to push.
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[@gregoryh4601]

We are so happy that you chose to be a Master Bonsai Designer and Teacher. Without you helping America Bonsai we would be so far Behind and you are giving us the American style in Bonsai Trees. Thanks Ryan. Greg of Ohio

[@alessandromassimo5717]

I don’t see any sniper shaped juniper or in general the guns on the trees so where is this “American style”

[@ChezComics]

@@alessandromassimo5717 lol

[@Qvigg]

Noticed the overlapping wire in the outro, and felt so much better. It's like Bill Valavanis says, "Never cross wire, but if you do don't tell anyone"

[@Jojoie]

Bonsai is the song that never ends.

[@PNWBonsai]

Wow...that pot and the Ponderosa looks so dang good together!

[@ernsttencate6699]

Mondays at mirai. I love the series. The inside view in your life and work is so nice. No glamour. Just work. The trees are terific. Like from me.

[@pavelviglasky8105]

I want another mondays at Mirai :-)

[@sophiaangelini4368]

Continue as Bonsai Master!

[@FreeMan-wi7vi]

Keep working.. keep working..

[@arifgerrard]

I'm always amazed by the content of your videos sir. Your collections are amazing. And also I always try to understand what you do about bonsai. I wish I had memorized English without the help of a translator. Haha

[@chriskansky4471]

I have been a house Dj for 25 years..... love it....wish I had found bonsai earlier! You made the right choice Ryan! You're the best!

[@MitchellMasilun]

I swore out loud when I saw that tree in the pot, so perfect.

[@wadmadhushan4434]

Good job friend. So beautiful bonsai

[@BoyGorge]

I love Ryan!

[@wildboystv3013]

Boy. Dj mirai sure sounds catchy. Imagine watching dj tutorials in the same vein that his bonsai videos are.

this is better than any short movie! love you guys..

[@HansKaramottoBonsai]

Ah Ryan, choosing between DJing and Bonsai...been there and don that! But my Bonsai career, if you can call it that, never suffered from me being a DJ! For years I wired many of my trees with red eyes and a hangover after yet another D.J weekend in clubs in Rotterdam (Holland)! Even sacrificed the hearing in my left (headphone listening) ear for it! That life and running and owning a record store in the centre of Rotterdam made my Bonsai work sometimes hard ... but I never stopped doing it! But in the end, I god too old and too tired to recover from those long weekends and then it was time to devote my time completely to my beloved Bonsai and my Bonsai students! But after all and looking back I would have never wanted to miss it! Because God truly is a DJ! But I do completely understand your choice, Ryan! And looking at what you have created and accomplished for yourself and others...well you made the right decision, no doubt about it!!!! And I have the utmost respect for what you have created at MIRAI!!! BRAVO!!! 🙏👌👍 Cheers, Hans van Meer. Karamotto Bonsai.

[@paulagoller7893]

I watch your videos to unwind after an evening of dancing. I sing to my trees too .

[@TurboGo314]

When it gets tough at Mirai, just remember, there are many who would love to trade places with you and have to worry about the beautiful trees...

[@braxtonbrown1333]

"If you are going to die, die.." I felt this on a spiritual level..

[@Ddraculafactory]

“Wow, that feels precarious doesn’t it?” >leaves

[@Matt6644]

Bonsai is all about managed precariousness

[@mikegrayleeds]

DJ Ryan on the bonsai decks. Lovely work Mirai ☀️

[@frazerskinner1714]

My heart goes out to you

[@dalespringerwilson4233]

Glad you decided against that DJ thing ! Forwarding American bonsai, that is Mirai !

[@invertevision4757]

Before Ryan said he was gonna try the corner, I was like "the corner would look stellar!" And boom, he said it. Great minds think alike lol. Western red cedar looking magnificent and BC forest...um, still one of my favorites. Thankx Josh and Ryan and Eve and T-roy etc. One day y'all shall know the person behind the name is lol. Korey from west TN...yep, that's me! Love ya guys and gals. Y'all's work has done more for me than ya know!!! Oh and Josh, loving the video quality! Killin M@M!

[@StephenTurnerVlogs]

Yeah my glass house, garden tables, path, ALL a bit precarious to walk by these days.

[@NimrodTargaryen]

Funny & entertaining

[@knowfear100]

Another great episode- the big question- will the ponderosa pine fall over as it dries out!

[@SpiralOne92]

that pot 😍

[@davidjohnson7508]

Nothing like sidestepping through "Rodney Dangerfield Alley" in a full greenhouse. Act on your Spidey sense.

[@pnwgrown_360]

Do your thing

[@alfredgrechbonsailicious4827]

Making me anxious seeing you so stressful....but Spring elations are just around the corner.

[@TejaJaensch]

Does anyone else get in trouble by their partner for watching bonsai videos? It's almost like I have to hide away somewhere guiltily...

[@ArdArdArd123]

I do hear I watch too many bonsai video's...

[@Robert-jm9hz]

my girlfriend says yes

[@Jojoie]

I just say I'm "going to class"

[@AndyJayLark]

Get a partner that doesn’t control your hobbies.

[@TejaJaensch]

@@AndyJayLark funny thing is that she started it for me, buying me my first tree! Lucky she's gorgeous...

[@LessTalkMoreDelicious]

Very interesting...I love underground/black house music, disco and soul too, started Dj’ing 20 years ago (I still buy records occasionally). Then got into photography/videography 2006. Then music production, analog synths, etc. 2009. Then bonsai, niwaki, horticulture, I’m very new to it, in 2017ish. Though I’m not a pro/master at any of them, I still enjoy and do all of them. And though I don’t have any nice old developed trees, because I am so new to bonsai, I still have no regrets I started so late... because if I started it earlier like 20 years ago, I probably would’ve been engulfed/obsessed with bonsai and I wouldn’t have ever known the other hobbies (music, photo, etc.) Nevertheless.... bonsai and plants is the most gratifying imo.

[@rouvenkadgien8591]

@bonsaimirai I am wondering how you protect your fresh applied Sphagnum Moos from kicking of by birds? In my region I have to fight everytime for my moos 😂

[@Kumurajiva]

have some sake and karaoke! 🤣

[@9svm]

I repotted 2 shohin on saturday and i was exhausted. Ryan man, i dont even know how tired you must be

[@notravelerreturns7903]

Nice pot selection.

[@jeremiahshine]

I'm quitting back breaking sludge crawling work to take up Bonsai...and crawl in clean sludge for a change. I'm digging up my 8 year-old volunteer maples, mullberries, hackberries (my fave), pears, junipers, and crabs. I trained them from birth, mowing around them, guy wires, pruning. My neighbors think I'm crazy because I keep cutting trees shorter and shorter every year. I might ask them if I can harvest the trees in their house gutters!🤣

[@FATMAN_tactical]

With any luck that was the last freeze here in PNW

[@waterlover]

I would’ve never thought you spinning vinyl

[@cedarbogbonsai]

Nice....no closed captioning now. All the previous ones had it!!

[@cedarbogbonsai]

I enjoy all of your videos but mirai mondays in particular since it provides a unique perspective that I seem to truly enjoy. I do appreciate the captionings due to my hearing loss and the difficulties that go with it. Thank you for your response.

[@JuanLopez-tp7hj]

When he says he sold his turn tables and devoted his life to bonsai in a way to me it seems he found a path to enlightenment like the zen Buddhist monks that started bonsai in Japan

[@tobiaszdansky4544]

Hi. What exactly is the dangers with frost nights? Is it bc buds/candles are beginning to mature? Shouldnt at least indigenous trees be able to cope with that?

[@TheHanney123]

Greetings from Austria!

[@nazariojuarez3156]

Wow that’s having a great day at work. What part of the world are you in?

[@loveDRAGONCON]

being a dj vs being the best bonsai practitioner to ever do it... :)

[@konradc.9007]

I wondered if you have a bonsai shop or if you only sell Hardware

[@69kesh]

DEAR RYAN WE KNOW YOU ARE VERY BUSY WITH YOUR COLLECTED TREES ,, DO YOU HAVE ANY COLLECTED PRIVETS?

[@its_notta_cedar]

ryan should style a tree on stage at a rave. combine his two dreams.

[@user-hv2df7qw2e]

супер бонсай у тебя!

[@entyropy3262]

Are there any Russian Bonsai Channels on KZbin ?

[@monkichiboi4003]

hey mirai why dont you just make a "green house" thats modular instead of doing the bonsai shuffle you refer to and hating my backyard bonsai are capable of being completely exposed to all sun or I can swap out filter percentage layers or I can completely encase them because I made my display to also be a modular greenhouse

[@Ben-lo7cy]

I wish I could stay subscribed to his videos but it’s a little high for me

[@TheBonsaiGarden]

Thoird!

[@ryanfitzalan8634]

if you payed me 60,000 a year and i lived oregon instead of new york, i would gladly work my hands to the bone at mirai everyday. guess ill just build my own over here instead ;)

[@andrewhillerich4878]

Foist!

[@TheBonsaiGarden]

The foistness is spreading.

[@jeremiahshine]

Oh. I won't say this is promotion, as I have nothing to gain, but I'm spreading the word of a FB group for Bonsai tool Talk and trade/give/sell spares and such. If this impinges on the boundaries of politeness let me know.

[@Daniel-tj6mc]

Oh man you don't even know. House music is for old people according to my teenager. Actually she says the same thing about bonsai.

[@user-hv2df7qw2e]

приколист)

[@HuyPham-io4vu]

Thank God you didn’t become a house dj. 🤣