Restyling an Old White Pine That Lost Its Way

[@marksather9914]

Truly the highlight of my bonsai journey. Peter and his entire staff were so kind and welcoming. Can't wait to return again. I will treasure my signed Master Class book forever. I look forward to each of your new videos. Keep up the good work!

[@mutatedfetus66]

Lucky! I live in the US so I hope to someday visit their bonsai garden as well.

[@riperez1234]

So awesome that your family made it onto the video! I’m from Houston area too, southeast.

[@FlyingWombats]

Mark if you see the comments, I'm from near Baton Rouge and my family and I go to Houston once a year to spend a week or so in Chinatown, there is a guy in Rosenberg just SW of Houston named Hurley that has a nursery at his house called Timeless Trees. I get about 100 lbs of his soil mix to bring home everytime we go. Highly suggest the visit if you have the time!

[@johnmatejcik2379]

Been watching your videos for years, I'm finally keeping more trees alive than I kill.

[@Smokeywolf64]

This channel has something of a calm relaxed vibe, almost meditative😊 The video’s are very informative and easy to watch as a beginner. I do have a request, if we could get a side by side of the before and after? Greetings from The Netherlands

[@sangyenamdrol9392]

Its completely beautiful. I watched so many videos now that when the lopping began was rooting for him to cut that long branch right where he did. Its such a beautiful tree

[@Dontkissthedog]

Once again a beautiful piece of wisdom: “bonsai technician”. I struggle to take people seriously when they call themselves artists all the time. I carve sandstone and train bonsais, I’m not an artist. Nature is the artist, I frame her work to help people see her beauty.

[@leneecasteel2005]

Hi Peter!! It's a day early, but... HAPPY BIRTHDAY PETER!! The tree looks so much better, now. Thank you so much for your channel, I learn so much from you. It's always a pleasure to listen and watch the things you do. I know that you don't consider yourself as a Master, but you have to remember that to the majority of us (your viewers), what you do is beautiful. I'm sure that is something which we all strive for, a living piece of beauty. That is what we all want, thank you for showing us one of the many ways that we can achieve that. God bless Peter and have a great rest of your week!!

[@peterchan3100]

Thank you for remembering my birthday.

[@TrondHalvorsen]

Happy birthday from Norway!@@peterchan3100

[@leneecasteel2005]

@@peterchan3100 You are very welcome!

[@dirtpoorchris]

That looks nice! From 1 direction it looks like a cascade and the other direction it looks like a conical. 2 for 1!

[@Beekind799]

yes,its amazing wahta few cuts can achieve,i think it looks delightful

[@walterwjr947]

_THANK YOU_ ... 🙏 😔 🙏 Dr. Chan your humility is... gratifying. I will call you a _master._ Going from a tree that is beautiful and slightly over grown, to a tree that is masterful, in really, one chop, is the mark of a _Master Bonsai Artist._ 🙏 😔 🙏 I am glad you met a few of my neighbors. It is hot and humid here now, but we are in a major drought. Amazing times. It is water most things every day. 🙏 🖖 🙏 😔 🙏

[@peterchan3100]

Thank you Walter for your generous comments

[@walterwjr947]

@@peterchan3100 🙏🖖🙏😔🙏

[@paleprod]

Happy birthday Peter ! Thank you for all the knowledge🎉🎉🎉

[@keaneu4456]

Great video. I live next door to Texas in Louisiana. Reason I started watching you was the same, no rules, you make it simple and the art is in the eyes and hands of the Bonsai Tech. 🌳

[@TheUncleRuckus]

I think Karate Kid is where a lot of us 80s kids caught the Bonsai bug, I know that's where I got it. Great video as always! 👍👍

[@Beekind799]

cor ,what a delightful surprize,the lady owner will be thrilled,and peter chan the bonsai man pulls it off once again,its now a beautiful bonzai,how wonderful ,thanks for making these beautiful videos peter and the team

[@FlyingWombats]

Mark if you see the comments, I'm from near Baton Rouge and my family and I go to Houston once a year to spend a week or so in Chinatown, there is a guy in Rosenberg just SW of Houston named Hurley that has a nursery at his house called Timeless Trees. I get about 100 lbs of his soil mix to bring home everytime we go. Highly suggest the visit if you have the time!

[@DavidZhou-g3d]

Sometimes the solution to the problem is in problem. That’s what once my design professor once say to me. Once you saw the problem you make two cuts and that it. “Brilliant” Take Care and be safe. 🙏🙏🙏

[@peterchan3100]

That's a wonderful way of seeing the problem - I learn something new every day !!!

[@DavidZhou-g3d]

@@suesue983 “How very true.”

[@peterchan3100]

When I was in college in India, the 'topper' of our class spent 3 hrs writing a dissertation on why one of the questions was a nonsense and insoluble - He got a distinction for that !!

[@peterchan3100]

Thank you for sharing your experience. @@DavidZhou-g3d

[@JackFrost008]

those two long branches seem to have a style of their own ;)

[@shirleycirio6897]

"Just what the doctor ordered!" I'll take three! 😊🤗

[@terryc8674]

Excellent as always 🙂👍👍

[@zenstitch9972]

That tree looks great!

[@conspiraterry7393]

What an interesting tree to work with!

[@ChrisPuch]

Thanks Peter.

[@MidniteSan]

Thx for sharing Peter 👍

[@John-gt7vb]

I really liked the longest branch. It's very unusual but well developed. We see lots of semi cascades but few trees with old, long, straightish branches. I'd have liked to have heard Peter consider whether to retain that in full, and build a head near the trunk with the long branch horizontal or slightly downward.

[@ChristinePallascio]

Hello from Montreal. I dare ask you to make a video on grafting the branch of a tree on its main trunk in order to improve the general shape. You so inspire me. Manny thanks. Christine

[@jirawudhvanasup4530]

This is the funniest bonsai I have ever seen. But you did make it back to decent. Nice work.

[@noeraldinkabam]

2:26 yes! That’s it from my perpective.

[@anthonyqicuk8177]

I enjoy the videos of bonsai trees and I have learn a lot thank

[@sakubonsai]

Very nice Peter 👌

[@thetinyforest]

Great work as always! Totally transformed the tree.

[@ashwindannenburg6283]

More solutions than 1 👌🏼❤️

[@harrycockfield5114]

Hey.. I have grown the White Pine,, it's a beautiful species,, 🙂✋🙏❤️

[@josephearley9530]

I actually quite liked the tree from the angle during the interview with the Texans - kind of a one-sided informal upright? That back branch looks pretty unwieldy! Amazing tree though!

[@apriloasanuma9575]

wow thank you🙇 very❤ very❤ much❤ for the lesson❤

[@dbe2705]

🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹 thanks Peter, wonderfull again

[@BarderBetterFasterStronger]

I know this man is a professional and probably a master, but man my heart stops watching him manhandle bonsais that have been around almost as long as he has.

[@dariokrizman3117]

nice one master :)

[@Fliegenpilzkonsument]

I recently found this channel and I've been enjoying it rather a lot! Could you please give some examples of native tree species from western Europe that are usable for Bonsai growing?

[@peterchan3100]

Where do. you live?

[@Fliegenpilzkonsument]

@@peterchan3100 I live in Germany

[@Jesus-eg3yb]

Where is Herons Bonsai located?

[@Guron90]

would it not be possible to wire the longer branch down for a full cascade?

[@peterchan3100]

Would be difficult as the branch is very old and stiff.

[@LRSTUDIOCREATIONS]

So we can restyle pines in August?

[@Rilude]

I don't have the courage to chop branches like that. I'll just keep watching you do it lol

[@DavidZhou-g3d]

Courage coming from the heart. As Peter always said “Sometimes you just have to bite the bullet.” Snip, snip, and there you have it, a beautiful bonsai tree. Use the white paper trick, cover up the branch that you are thinking of taking it out and imagine how it looks. It’s just a matter of trusting in yourself to make the right decision and if it not the branch will grow back again. Don’t be afraid to try. Peter gave you the knowledge and the thinking process so it is up to you to have the courage to snip, snip and you are done. Being afraid stop you from doing things. You become stagnated out of fear of making a mistake. You just have to have the courage to make mistakes that how we all learned. That what I tell my students. So Take Care and Good luck 👍

[@Beekind799]

if you can draw you can sketch the tree and design the bonzai and then set about creating it,

[@bonsaisn]

❤❤❤❤❤

[@BlameshiftTheBest]

Hello, what's the reason you don't ship outside UK anymore?

[@peterchan3100]

Brexit

[@BlameshiftTheBest]

@@peterchan3100 It's a shame, lovely channel and great website. I'll have to recede to other European retailers, thank you anyway!

[@jakicatancabelic9436]

Once the bullet is bit, magic happens!

[@jimmyallein]

Pls finally check audio lane for high volume peaks so we stop getting scared xD love all your videos ❤ but would be better without the extremely loud moments sometimes

[@Stettafire]

That, sir, was not a pine, that was an umbrella 🤣🤣🤣

[@peterchan3100]

Walking stick is a better description

[@soberhippie]

As you say, give it to 100 bonsai enthusiasts, they'll give you 101 different ways to treat this tree. I'd probably cut all the long growth to the first few green branches and give it another year to flush back

[@carlossoares712]

wow, that fast

[@dalegribble1945]

When its illegal to grow weed where you're at!!! 😂😂😂🎉❤

[@Mister_Weasel]

That wasn't a bad Kozumikku style actually 😁

[@GabeCapozzi]

Peter,please,please help me I have white, black & red pines that are vey much alive but brown can you help me

[@GabeCapozzi]

Hi Peter my name is Gabe I have a problem with my pine trees they are brown, very much alive can you help me with this??

[@-Crataegus]

Shoutout to josh's forearm vascularity btw

[@brucedeacon28]

👍👌👌🙂

[@finbarrsaunders8688]

"Just having the courage to do that". Easy! With someone else's tree. 😁

[@peterchan3100]

You are absolutely right !

[@cold_hands]

I think it would take even more courage since with your own tree you don't have to answer to anyone about the design decisions or being too bold cutting too much. But what do I know 🤷‍♂️

[@finbarrsaunders8688]

@@cold_hands And I think someone completely missed the winking emoji.

[@cold_hands]

@@finbarrsaunders8688 ah.. my bad

[@stuartrogers2118]

ugh making it more compact destroyed the uniqueness of this tree, embrace the faults and turn them into feautures

[@OffyTheSwitch]

First!

[@dariuszjarosz752]

Tu golden cut🪵 the best.👍super.