Creating a shohin bonsai forest

[@rafa1212]

This is the best guide for group planting that you will ever find. Very well explained and detailed. Thank you for this video, Morten.

[@TheBonsaiZone]

An excellent video with great looking forests! Very inspiring.

[@TheBonsaiGarden]

Fabulous little video. Suddenly I have another project to add to my list once I can get my hands on some appropriate seedlings.

[@amateurambience]

i love forest bonsai! and it is good to be small and easy to manage.

[@Richard_FitPku]

Wonderful video, thank you! I’m 1 year into my bonsai journey but i seem to be moving towards more shohin / smaller sized bonsai, just because of my interest. This is very inspiring and educational. Thank you! Rich from the UK.

[@Tore1972Wisdom]

Så inspirerende Morten. Jeg skal da klart lave mig en Shohin skov med nogen af de stiklinger jeg har taget fra. Tak for videoen.

[@rafa1212]

That's one of the powerful demonstration. Like this video very well. Thank you very much

[@Nick-wi5ot]

Would be great to get an update on these forests!!

[@alaindavid2419]

Tiny pot and yet exuding a panoramic view of a real forest. Pleasing to the eyes. Beautiful shohin forest!.

[@grobonsai]

Very inspiring. I like the idea of creating near or far impression of forests using different arrangements of the bigger and small trees. Thanks!

[@lancewilson9650]

Great video Morten. I love all your vidoes on shohin. Will have to do your shohin course. Thank you.

[@CarnivorousPlantsAndGardening]

Shohin are among my favorite bonsai

[@elmarmeurer4362]

Another excellent video! Very well made, as the techniques applied to the plants. I'm learning a loth. Thanks!

[@shmickyshmoe]

Really enjoyed that!!! Thank you. Appreciate your peaceful and basic approach ☺️

[@peggyhoward9861]

Thanks, enjoyed, have watched several times. I like forest, but they always wound up too heavy to move. Love Shohin and really Shohin forest. But I'm a clutz. When I try putting one together trees go in all directions. If making another can you show more on placing trees, and especially wiring the trees. I have major problems with wiring a forest. Thanks.

[@ShohinbonsaiEurope]

We better do that in spring then 😊👍

[@greco8686]

Good job and the video is very clean ....

[@PlantObsessed]

I love your channel. It is so beautifully produced. Would it be possible to have your text in a different area from where your hands are working? It is a shame to block your teaching with text. Thank you for all the education you provide.

[@ShohinbonsaiEurope]

Plant Obsessed Watch it at my website without text shohin-europe.com 😊

[@hdg9860]

Amazing video, great production and very helpful. Thanks!

[@DanielPírez2008]

So nice work , is a plesure see yours videos , thanks for sharing !!!

[@dibiodepaint]

really good ... even though it's small, but it looks old

[@kishorbobade9631]

Nice demonstration, thanks sir.

[@deploribusunum3894]

Love these! Thank you for the video.

[@teerex1011]

Excellent video. Could you perhaps give us an update when the new shoots appear on the trees? Than you.

[@ShohinbonsaiEurope]

Gerard Fennell Thank you 😌 It will be featured at shohin-europe.com during the spring/summer at our online courses.

[@picciafoobar]

Simply wonderful, thanks!

[@billalamrani1144]

فكرة رائعة شكرا على المجهود

[@aninditasarkar2614]

Your vedios are very inspiring. I am a beginner. Could you please upload some vedios from the very beginning of a shohin? Thank you

[@doublecream]

Dear Morten would you please update the video on April? I really want to see the leaves

[@ShohinbonsaiEurope]

It will happen - later in spring.

[@doublecream]

@@ShohinbonsaiEurope Good luck :)

[@BeTheCREATOR]

Fantastic

[@adamcaul]

Very good vid!!

[@JohnJames.]

great work, thanks for teaching

[@pela1100]

How are the forests today? Thanks.

[@ShohinbonsaiEurope]

They are doing just great :-)

[@pela1100]

@@ShohinbonsaiEurope Thank you so much

[@gilbertogoncalvesbaptista4781]

Fantástico 👏👏👏👏

[@benparkinson8314]

Very nice very appealing

[@rene485]

Very great!!!!!!....compliment!

[@T1taNo]

Hi Morten :) Great vid - you make it look so easy, although it definitely takes a lot of skill! In the first forest you make, what drainage soil did you use in the bottom and what soil mixture did you use in the top layer? Thanks!!

[@ShohinbonsaiEurope]

Hi Jacob. Thanks . The drainage soil is a course type of clay soil. Not Akadama, but with the same features. The top layer is a blend of organic hq soil mixed with a Akadama-like clay adding a lot of oxygen and coarser structure to the soil. In the transplanting series you will get a detailed explanation and samples at shohin-europe.com/bonsai-video-studio-2/

[@armingivili]

It was an inspiring and charming video !!! 2 questions..what soil mix did you use for them? after how many years will you do root pruning on these? and thanks again !

[@ShohinbonsaiEurope]

Thanks. The soil mixture is 30 percent Akadama-quality soil type mixed with 70 percent organic soil. Repotting will be in three years time I guess. Depending on the development of the trees.

[@armingivili]

@@ShohinbonsaiEurope thank you so much !🙏🙏

[@kennethstensrud669]

Wish I could go out during Christmas week and collect saplings, but here the ground is covered with snow and frozen solid.......

[@ShohinbonsaiEurope]

Kenneth Stensrud Spring comes sooner or later 😊🌿

[@GerardL]

Really nice! Is this video also shot in december?

[@ShohinbonsaiEurope]

It is. And trees are stored in a cold greenhouse, so they are ready for spring and protected for the winter.

[@raulsegura7010]

La foresta de ustedes es muy parecida a la del sur de Chile . Me refiero a los bosques Australes

[@jackrinderer6790]

I just followed this video today and it came out great but not as good at yours ! I hope it survives because I’ve only been doing it for a year

[@ShohinbonsaiEurope]

Glad it was a good inspiration. Just be patient and it will evolve. Good luck and have fun with it.

[@jackrinderer6790]

@@ShohinbonsaiEurope thanks so much !

[@raulalfredosegurainostroza7477]

Wats is contry?? ....master?

[@ShohinbonsaiEurope]

Raul Alfredo Segura Inostroza It is Denmark (Europe). 😊

[@ShohinbonsaiEurope]

Master? is Morten Albek. www.shohin-europe.com

[@raulsegura7010]

@@ShohinbonsaiEurope Aaaaaaaah.... Gracias Master😊

[@jonathanaristone2468]

Morten: In a truly natural setting we seldom see a forest of like species, but in the Bonsai world forest plantings are of like species. Why can you not make a forest of dissimilar tree species?

[@ShohinbonsaiEurope]

You can. Using same species makes a calm and peaceful feeling more easily. A bonsai forest planting also is a slice of a forest, and not aimed at presenting a full forest. Mixed forests are sometimes seen as bonsai too. But more difficult to control regarding different species demanding different conditions in the same container.

[@jonathanaristone2468]

@@ShohinbonsaiEurope Ahh Yes it is much less complex and calming to have like species for sure. I am inspired to tackle a shohin forest in the springtime here in Canada, but I will challenge myself to find complimentary and compatible different species for a mixed forest project for next year. Thanks

[@remadepukka]

just a bunch of sticks stuck in a small plate...whats the big deal ?!