Dramatic styling of Taiwanese Celtis

[@bonsai4fun]

Hi Terry, another great example of how you explain your detailed approaches in a very plausible and reproducible way. Excellent and valuable guidelines indeed. Thanks and looking forward to your next project. Cheers Dirk

[@TerryErasmusbonsai]

Glad it was helpful!

[@paulcropper4568]

looks amazing but the thought of unwiring all that is daunting , great work

[@TerryErasmusbonsai]

Actually my customer usually takes the wire off and it is great learning for him, although in reverse you can still learn a lot about how to wire simply by removing it.

[@mikebeireis3990]

Loved the big payoff at the end of this video! What a Wonderful tree!

[@TerryErasmusbonsai]

Thanks Mike. Appreciate the nice compliment

[@peterfraser8111]

Greetings from NZ Terry, thanks great video!!

[@TerryErasmusbonsai]

Thanks Peter!

[@hermanvandervoort4807]

Lekker Terry ,l also have some Celtic’s sp. my favourite tree species,informative and good execution.Groete Herman 😊 Thanks

[@TerryErasmusbonsai]

Wonderful! Celtis are a great species to work on. Enjoy them. Thanks for watching and commenting Herman.

[@harrietb2141]

Very good work and Thank you for charing☺️

[@TerryErasmusbonsai]

My pleasure 😊

[@harrietb2141]

Beautiful tree 🥰

[@TerryErasmusbonsai]

Thank you! 🤗

[@holgermuller2262]

THIS is Bonsaiart.. thanks for showing us your incredible talent.. it looks amazing. greetings from germany. holger

[@TerryErasmusbonsai]

Wow, thank you Holger!

[@wesleyphillips3211]

Love how you explain your thinking in these videos Terry, it really is such great content that you're putting out and makes me proudly South African (or Republic of Cape Townian ;) to see these :)

[@TerryErasmusbonsai]

I appreciate that! Wow, what a compliment.

[@matthewwood4008]

Nice informative video,thanks

[@TerryErasmusbonsai]

So nice of you

[@jezfitzsimmons613]

Another great video with good closeups, thanks for passing on your knowledge 👍

[@TerryErasmusbonsai]

Glad you enjoyed it

[@gavinbuckner5659]

Wow, this video is absolutely fantastic. I have it saved for re-watching a few more times. As an intermediate hobbyist I have trouble finding information I can use (without "finished" trees) but that isn't completely basic. Thank you so much for taking the time to make this

[@TerryErasmusbonsai]

Glad you enjoyed it! I realize there is a need for this information and I will continue to do my best to address this shortfall. Thanks for your suggestion.

[@dk2614]

Hi Terry, I haven't watched the whole video so I may be speaking unnecessarily. I'm not just a bonsai gardener but horticulturist. I belong to a club that has a handful of people who are more advanced such that they don't need lessons on repotting and and the like. But as a college educated horticulturist I find myself trying to teach the importance of knowing the trees we are working on so we can anticipate how the trees might respond to our best efforts at cultivating them for bonsai. I'm not sure if you will cover it in your video or even if you find it helpful but your Hackberry is a member of the elm family. It branches in a dictaly alternate fashion that being alternating along a single plane along the branches. They are robust trees like most other elm family members. And the leaves are offset at the base where the leaf meets the petiole. All Elm family members grow in this way and most are over story trees meaning when their needs are met the grow with abundant vigor. I haven't seen you pruning yet but the Japanese do not prune to a single leaf on alternating leaf arrangement trees as the first leaf to sprout at the base of a new stem will not produce a bud. That fist leaf is called the susaba and that basically means it will not sprout in Japanese. I'm going to tune back in now. Cheers

[@TerryErasmusbonsai]

Thank you DK for your comment and sharing of information. Yes the Celtis is a vigorous grower providing you feed aggressively and water a lot. I am aware of all of that, but it is not covered in this video. I have never suggested pruning should be done to 1 leaf in any of my videos, its always to at least 2 or even 4. Hope you enjoyed watching the video though.

[@dk2614]

@@TerryErasmusbonsai I do! Your bonsai videos are inspirational. The material you work with are usually mature and your techniques are a joy to glean through. My apologies for being a bit rough around the edges. I find I gravitate towards plants a bit easier than dealing with people. Lol.

[@bradleyc9538]

Thanks for another great video Terry. This is a beautiful Celtis... the styling work you have done to it looks absolutely incredible.

[@TerryErasmusbonsai]

Many thanks!

[@sabikmercuriobravo5976]

Great video, all the process of styling is very well explained. Since i started to watch your videos, you really encouraged me to get a celtis tree. I can't find the species in my country but finally i got some celtis sinensis seeds, can you share some advises, specially with stratification, there's not too much info on the topic and you are the only one who really give away professional advises.

[@TerryErasmusbonsai]

Thats great Sabik! Usually the fruit is eaten by birds. Their digestive system acts as a stratification process for the seeds and then when the bird extretes them they usually germinate very easily where they fall. I would suggest you place your seeds in warm (no hotter than 35 deg C) water overnight and then sow in a good seedling mix and keep in a warm position (out of the sun) and always moist but not wet. All my celtis which I am field growing I grew from seed. It has taken 15 year so far and they are still in the field. So you will need to be patient if you want large trees.

[@johnawoest]

Jy mag maar. Dis baie mooi gedoen!

[@TerryErasmusbonsai]

Ha ha. Baie dankie Johan of is dit John? Waardeer die kompliment.

[@andersnrregren9087]

celtis sinensis bonsai on KZbin are mostly your videos. Not bad but as you told us to look for The Taiwan style i was amused to See your videos every where i look for celtis sinensis bonsai

[@TerryErasmusbonsai]

I am not sure how to respond to your comment but thanks for watching. There are few videos on KZbin relating to Taiwanese celtis, but there are some which are of the Hwa Fong. Bonsai Empire has one, aside from mine. You will find more on Google though, not on KZbin. This is partially why I am trying to generate more content on KZbin about the species. I find it very odd that it is such a popular species but almost nothing is published about them. Here is a Taiwanese website which has some great galleries and even books you can order: www.sidiao.com/index_e.htm

[@razor2ts]

Thank you Terry, amazing demo, amazing tree, also love the pot it's currently in. I've shared your name on a Bonsai group I'm in, there's a lot of people can learn from your fabulous channel :-)

[@TerryErasmusbonsai]

Awesome, thank you!

[@sjloftieeaton5097]

Hi loved the video! How about a tour of your own collection?

[@TerryErasmusbonsai]

It is never good to reveal all one's secrets in one go :) I will never show my entire collection in one video but over time if you watch all my videos you will see all of my trees. However I will say that I don't have a huge collection, I cannot afford to time wise as I don't have an assistant and am always working on customer's trees leaving little time to work on my own.

[@sjloftieeaton5097]

@@TerryErasmusbonsai thanks for the reply. really enjoyed the Acacia you styled in prev videos 👍🏻

[@TeamFishweights]

That's such a beautiful tree! Can I treat Celtis as I would a Chinese elm? Thanks! 😊

[@TerryErasmusbonsai]

Thanks! I’m sorry but I’m afraid you will need to be more specific when you say “treat”

[@TeamFishweights]

@@TerryErasmusbonsai I meant in terms of pruning, repotting, etc. I have elms and I'm comfortable with them, but recently planted a dozen Celtis sinensis seeds and want to make sure I use appropriate techniques for the species. Thanks for your time and response :)

[@TerryErasmusbonsai]

@TeamFishweights I guess so but to answer your question thoroughly is beyond the scope of this commenting system.

[@TeamFishweights]

@@TerryErasmusbonsai thanks Terry :) appreciate it

[@Raymond_Petit]

Stupendous!

[@TerryErasmusbonsai]

Thanks so much!

[@arnopienaar8111]

Pragtig T,geluk

[@TerryErasmusbonsai]

Dankie man Arno!

[@nicolaasoosthuizen8756]

dude legend!!@

[@TerryErasmusbonsai]

Ha ha ha, thanks!