Pruning Bonsai In Early Summer

[@briangallagher3106]

I grew up near an airport so when I moved to the country it was nice to not hear planes constantly. But now on my days in the garden I watch Peter and hear Gatwick in the background. Haha. There’s no getting away from the airport. But it sounds like home so it’s not too bad.

[@PercyWarX]

To visit their Nursery will be my only reason to visit Britain. I will just spend hours to walk through their Nursery and admire all the trees.

[@briangallagher3106]

Coming from an Irishman there’s a lot to see in Britain.

[@PercyWarX]

True, Ireland and Scotland is on list to visit if I don't talk about trees. But Britain and Europe have these ancient forests/woods I just want to get lost in lol. I also admire the Northern American forests and woodlands.

[@briangallagher3106]

@@PercyWarX I went to forests near Munich a few years ago, it was incredible. Ireland only has 1 natural forest left. The foot of the tommies in Kerry, loads of Oak and Scot’s pine. Beautiful spot

[@PercyWarX]

@@briangallagher3106 Would love to see that one day.

[@ebenoid6643]

No doubt! I wonder if they’re willing to let go of some clearance stock!😆

[@andreamundt]

8:38 - 11:32 What a gorgeous tree. Very beautiful! 💚

[@Kyle-ur4mr]

This one looks like the great deku tree

[@creightonfreeman8059]

I have been tempted to try American Ash as a bonsai and your example of European Ash has encouraged me!

[@DominikGuzowski]

Listening to peter is just the best. The knowledge we get for free and the passion for the art is amazing. I cannot get enough of these videos. I just got a acer (not sure which exact species) cutting and hoping it will root.

[@DavidChow-n4x]

Hi Peter, I live close by SFO international airport. I have the view of the airport. It is nice at night. As you know you get used to the noise. I use to live in San Francisco where the Cable Car ran down the hill ringing their bells as they passed the house. Some of the Grip men will have their own beat went they ring their bell and you become aware of who was coming down the hill just by how they ring their bell. (Fun times.) Learn something new it may take a little longer but spend the time to take the wire out carefully instead of the easy way out and just cut the wire off. You can save money to buy new Bonsai supplies. Great show as usual. Learn more about pruning to give the tree energy and prune to shape. Thank you and have a blessed weekend and take care of your hand. 🙏🙏🙏

[@sakubonsai]

I do enjoy these videos . I look forward to the next one about feeding trees 👍

[@marievickbartucci134]

Love the ideas of Peter. HE LOVES BONSAI...He gives us this desire to be creative with plants.

[@gideonwackers7693]

Perfect timing Peter, just made my morning coffee!

[@davidsurf48]

Peter, I so appreciate your videos. They encourage me to do my interpretation of bonsai from pots to my yard. You make it fun but yet informative. Because of you I have done air laying, seedlings and cutting of Japanese Maples and Mugo pine’s.

[@mildsauce5019]

Bro!! Peter looking shredded af in the thumbnail! Get it uncle !

[@Yamanotefy]

You are such an inspiration and already a living legend (though you would never say so to yourself I guess). Your videos bringing me joy and confidence not only for Bonsai but for daily life to appreciate all the good things along the way. Hope you fully recover and thank you again for being such a humble person. ❤🌳🌲

[@aDurtyGamer]

Hello Peter. Love what you do to these trees and also like how you go into great detail in whatever tree your working on. I have recently got back into Bonsai and am enjoying the hobby along with my collection of Carnivorous Plants. Keep up the great work you and your team do and hope your hand is okay.

[@alfredomarotta6604]

Glad your hand healed up nicely, could of went south as they say. Thank you for another great video sir. 👍🙏

[@melissahand6485]

I love the old privet. You are so inspiring. I just dug an old azalea with a base of at least 16” diameter with several growth points and saw cuts.

[@shivangnisharma9448]

I pick useful tips from your videos, saw another pruning video of yours, pinched moringa & other trees in early stages & voila I have backbuds on the trunk. So happy it worked for me ❤ thank god your hand is much better, please take care

[@wbraine]

Glad your hand is healing up, Peter!

[@Carolyn2Short]

Wow Peter - Thank you for sharing all of your knowledge. You’re the premiere bonsai encyclopedia! Praying your hand injury heals quickly and completely. 🙌 🪴

[@abhijeetverma1868]

Glad you are recovering and healing your hand....🎉

[@MidniteSan]

Thx for sharing the vid Peter 👍

[@thebonsaiarea]

great video Peter, luckily you have recovered well from your accident

[@marksather9914]

Thanks for this great tutorial. I have a number of similar trees and was very confused on how to prune them this time of year.

[@angelaguileracollado4765]

Muy interesante el vídeo,una pregunta...repasamos los despuntes con pasta cicatrizante.gracias

[@Emtbtoday]

My wisterias are just starting to produce the flowers now I got 4 last year as pre bonsai put on up the trellis I'll use in the Japanese garden, the other's being trained but never flowered as of yet but started noticing the purple flower buds swelling last week I'm up in Scotland amazing how different they are only 6 hours up the road!

[@mick681]

An excellent tutorial video showing a wide variety of trees and how to deal with them. I'm sure that it will be a very useful video for beginners.

[@nancyfahey7518]

@ 5:20 that is the greatest trunk I have ever seen. 😊

[@harrietb2141]

Thank you so much Peter🤗🌳😍

[@Kriywan]

Superb all round tuition video Peter, many thanks❤

[@dba1222]

bloody love this channel

[@MrMirco003]

Love these videos, good recovery for your hand tho

[@mynskin]

I love to see how mature trees are pruned. Now I wish you would show how and when VERY young trees should be pruned, those that are about 2 to 3 years. I have many very young trees not air layered, that I am developing and not sure how to prune .

[@Makinen386]

As always a master making things simple

[@RichardDenRooyen1973]

Love your videos, love the sometimes bit chaotic undertone but thats ok... it make you human, and a great human you are. Take care,... continuing watching now

[@dougg1075]

Perfect timing. I needed this video

[@zaubergarden6900]

Ah, nice to see you Peter! Let me get my morning coffee. I just came from voting for the Europe parliament 😇

[@bonsaikitchen]

Fine 👌 Big greetings and respect from Bonsai Kitchen team. 🍴🔥🧑‍🍳

[@brucejeffcott1104]

Great video Peter.

[@J-Tactical]

Watching your videos makes me less worried about pruning my bonsai lol. Love the content, always informative.

[@rebelliousbrands3253]

Love this video. The tour of your facility is incredible. Thanks for all you do.

[@carmensantiago6711]

Love your shirt!!!

[@robertoluizdomanskidomansk196]

Poderia fazer um vídeo sobre quantidades de plantas ideal pra se cultivar, vendo seus vídeos é evidente que tem centenas de plantas. Poderia fazer um vídeo sobre esse assunto. Parabéns por compartilhar seus conhecimentos. Obrigado

[@Jen-w1i]

Very informative video, thank you Peter! I am glad you are healing well.

[@moonwatcher922]

So sorry to hear of your injury; definitely, have to take care of your magic hands. Speedy recovery, Peter.

[@southyoz]

Loving your shirt Peter.. Ozzie Ozzie Ozzie oi oi oi.

[@briangallagher3106]

Good morning all. Yesterday I bought Acer Aureum and acer Ukigumo. I never expected to have so many trees. Haha

[@snylilith]

Woooaaah! I'm sorry for your accident! But also... Good Sir, it's some powerful healing!!!

[@TheBugB]

Okay Peter 🎉

[@DKR-1881]

Just a constructive suggestion - you might want to think about using a lavalier mic for audio.

[@gerryvalle1841]

Get well soon ❤

[@MD-wk3gj]

The topic of reusing wire needs to be repeated so it becomes a standard part of wiring. Thanks for mentioning it. In a hobby/community where so many practice mindfulness it’s surprising to me attention isn’t paid more often to the reuse of a resource.

[@peterchan3100]

People used to laugh at me years ago for reusing wire and second - trip supermarket plastic bags - now it has become fashionable.

[@dariokrizman3117]

thx master

[@chaiwatpotichanid]

Just kupchak on inside heard doing tumblers and tres cutting tree ways doing time cutting out different things see beautiful like style they cutting out pieces 🌿....🥰🥰

[@Emtbtoday]

I sliced my hand in the same spot many years ago now very dangerous area but it goes numb alot nowadays with cutting through the nerves it gets sore on colder weather I keep a neoprene wrist warmer over my hand when start to feel the pain coming from like inside, it's like an itch you can't get to!

[@mattbrennan647]

My criticism of this channel is that I would guess the majority of subscribers are hobbyists and would prefer to see work on trees in development. Additionally I believe anyone with beautiful mature specimens would give each individual tree very special detailed pruning. Herons has literally thousands of trees and their approach to many tasks illustrates that. Thanks, keep growing

[@peterchan3100]

We must have more major specimens on our nursery than most other nurseries - I prefer not to frighten the ordinary bonsai enthusiasts by working on those trees which aren't relevant to their circumstances . Yes major specimens do need special treatment and we have customers who bring their specimens to us for that too. I dont show these because I respect the privacy of my customers.

[@mattbrennan647]

@@peterchan3100, please don’t misinterpret. I absolutely love this channel and have been a subscriber for many years. Thank you for your response and dedication to the hobby.

[@pansepot1490]

I fully agree with Peter. I am one of those hobbyist who 30+ years ago looked into bonsai and got scared by the amount of specialized knowledge and high maintenance work they required so I gave up even before starting. Then few years ago I happened to inherit a few bonsai (nothing special) and searching on KZbin on how to better care for them I found Peter and his laid back approach. That gave me confidence to start a collection knowing that I could manage those trees and enjoy the hobby even if I don’t have all the time and expertise that high level bonsai requires. 😊

[@stuartCcash]

@@pansepot1490 I used to feel like that when I first started with bonsia as a teenager but I was lucky to have a neighbour from Japan who was a pro who took me under his wing and realised that it's not as intimidating as I first thought.

[@rebelliousbrands3253]

You don’t watch the channel regularly do you?

[@chivalrouslee]

I've been to london several times, my next trip to UK will be Peter's.

[@gregoryh4601]

Sir Peter Very Awesome Nursery and thanks for all your help in teaching. Peter Could you Do thread Grafting at this time of year with the long shoots on a Japanese Maple Shohin? What to Design these two pre Shohin Maples

[@peterchan3100]

I will try and remember to find a situation where I can do this just for you.

[@stevegeddes2583]

Is it safe to use the same snips for maples and pines ? Will it not lead to die back ?

[@peterchan3100]

Plants are tougher than you think - Using the same snips for maples and pines is not a problem - certainly not for me.

[@houseofintent]

What is that formal upright tree at 1:51 on the left side of the screen?

[@peterchan3100]

Larch

[@tracymunro6161]

What are those baskets that you have the flowering trees in?

[@peterchan3100]

They are old supermarket carrying trays

[@NahcomenceCheyenne]

very good

[@headingnorth5701]

Peter, do you not like formal uprights?

[@peterchan3100]

Yes I do like them - in fact I have some beautiful FUs

[@incredible5587]

i wonder if you air layer and then cut it like 3 feet below the bottom air layer and i wonder if the bottom would grow still and give shoots. If it does i would imagine it will want to reach back around and up. That might be a good project to mess around with and might look interesting. but also the setup would have to be creative for watering. and the water not dripping along the bottom.

[@headingnorth5701]

Glad you are recovering from your accident. Sounded horrible.

[@z99ywiec]

Do you have to anneal the wire before you reuse it?

[@peterchan3100]

With Aluminium wire -you dont need to anneal but with copper -annealing is necessary

[@revoktorment440]

Do you have an update on those pine cuttings you tried to root 8 months ago?

[@peterchan3100]

The ones I took last year were not successful - I am going to give it another go. That is what experiments are about.

[@revoktorment440]

@@peterchan3100 Thanks for the reply. Good luck on the next batch!

[@Wisdoms_keep]

what would you reccomend for my first bonsai?

[@diveactive]

what about weeding ?

[@pauldickinson5316]

Summer begins on the solstice which is usually on June 21st.

[@pansepot1490]

That’s the astronomical summer but meteorologists actually consider June 1 the beginning of summer. It depends on the definition you pick.

[@peterchan3100]

@@pansepot1490 You are absolutely right

[@nancyfahey7518]

I noticed you're not wearing a protective glove on your left hand.

[@9daywonda]

Never knew that there was a pink variety of wisteria.

[@Typaradox_FPV]

I like that shirt

[@ricklambert8245]

How do you get thick trunks

[@tgward313]

I have trouble keeping up with sixty odd trees . A full nursery would be really freaky . kudos

[@joegarland4885]

Really useful video on pruning all types of tree, some prune so far back they lose the beauty of the foliage, which always seems a shame to me, the tree spends all winter getting ready in the spring to start producing foliage in the spring, so why cut back the the foliage to almost defoliate it, I use your method and cut back to shape and just cut out the branches that are growing in the wrong place, just cut back to shape is all that is needed, if you cut back so hard on an unhealthy tree it will most likely die as the amount of foliage left cannot sustain the tree. Thank you Peter I follow your methods as much as possible.

[@chivalrouslee]

Please, Peter, take care of those hands, they are beautiful and wise. Hope you heal soon.

[@RichardJackRobertson]

Thank you. Your collection is always a great watch. Vitamin D and C plus B complex will help with your healing.

[@briangallagher3106]

Oh no. Peter I’m happy your hand is healing. That’s rough. Sounds so nasty!

[@BrandoMoto]

Are there any trees that we should not prune in early summer?

[@brucedeacon28]

👍👌🙂

[@calbertkensill8435]

What's the best why to keep ants out of your bonsai pots without harming the tree

[@RABonsai]

The tips are not made for small growers that have 10-20 trees. These tips are for industrial growers and sellers. Peter tells you what he does not what you should do. When you have a small amount of trees, you can be a lot more carefull. Never unwind the wires. Always use wire cutters otherwise you can do a lot of damage to the tree. Great trees are made with a lot of care and attention to very small details.

[@jeffjernberg1810]

Call it the Privy Privet

[@gayefanner731]

Perfect 👌

[@diveactive]

I bet the pot on that trident maple is $1000

[@Lazien24]

PLEASE buy a wireless mic to cut down on the wind and plane noise.

[@melanatedone4894]

Peter get Kevin on the Pruners with Hundreds to go

[@RABonsai]

Just get a microphone. It's cheap but it makes a huge difference.