Important Juniper Bonsai Styling Techniques: Pruning, Deadwood Creation, Wiring and Styling.

[@ChopsticksDIYGarden]

My pick is tree #3. It would be nice if the video shows the full view of the finished products a little longer.

[@TerryErasmusbonsai]

Thanks for adding your view. I appreciate the constructive comments and will definitely take into account for the next one.

[@freddierodriguez2608]

Thank you. Do more juniper videos like this one. Excellent. Thanks for sharing 👍

[@TerryErasmusbonsai]

Thanks so much Freddie! I hope to feature these same 4 trees in future videos so I can demonstrate the progression. 🙇🏼‍♂️

[@gerritdevos4707]

Thanks a lot Terry. Always a privilege watching the wizzard in action.

[@TerryErasmusbonsai]

Thanks Gerrit! Thanks for watching and commenting. 🙇🏼‍♂️

[@alfredomarotta6604]

All the little trees turned out quite nicely, but the 3rd one got my vote. Thank you for sharing these techniques 👍✌️

[@TerryErasmusbonsai]

Thanks so much Alfredo! Yes, I think I must agree with you although I think #4 has a lot of potential too. We shall see in the years to come.

[@ricbethsbonsai638]

very beautiful jobs is great ,congratulations and God bless all your work

[@TerryErasmusbonsai]

Thank you very much!

[@W9SL9Y]

Good memories hearing Stone Lantern given that's where my obsession kicked off with a single 9 year old Chinese Elm ❤ #4 in this video definitely my favourite, great movement, taper and almost elegant trunk line... only thing that bothered me was the long jin near the top, so glad I watched to the end to see you get it sorted haha. Amazing work as always Terry!

[@TerryErasmusbonsai]

Thanks so much Wesley! Yes I was in a rush, it was late and the moment I sat back and saw that Jin I knew it had to go. Thanks for watching to the end and not waiting for the short 😉😂

[@eggybreadplease]

Smashing video, informative and well created. I’m inspired to add a juniper or two to my collection.

[@TerryErasmusbonsai]

Thanks so much! They are an absolutely must any bonsai collection IMO. Just do it 😎

[@arnopienaar8111]

Bravo Terry

[@TerryErasmusbonsai]

Thanks Arno!

[@Mistyb118]

Thanks!

[@TerryErasmusbonsai]

Thanks so much Karen!

[@geraldrandall1566]

Great work Terry. Would you not consider to air layer some of the branches in the season before working on such material? Seems to me a few good branches sacrificed which in time could have made nice bonsai.

[@TerryErasmusbonsai]

Yes you most certainly can and in fact the Sargentii air layer very well Gerald, thanks for the comment. However that was not the purpose of this video.

[@GrowingBonsai]

Nice work again Terry! Looking forward to a day when we can run into eachother and possible work together!

[@TerryErasmusbonsai]

🙏🏻 that would be cool, perhaps a collaboration 😀

[@alyssalee7422]

Very creative ✨

[@TerryErasmusbonsai]

Thank you very much 😎

[@oakleysayer4815]

wonderful stuff!

[@TerryErasmusbonsai]

Thanks so much Oakley! 🙏🏻

[@MokumaBonsai]

I really like how you do the deadwood. Looks super natural. It's crazy that junipers can deal with such measures. Especially the trunk splitter... Are you ever afraid to kill a branch when you do that kind of work?

[@TerryErasmusbonsai]

Thank you so much. That’s a difficult question to answer because I would hate you to go nuts on a tree and then something bad happens. You must bear in mind that I’ve been doing this for a long time and there are many subtleties in bonsai which might be the difference between a dead or living branch. I would never knowingly do something which I felt would likely end in a dead branch but sometimes you can do something and it works and at other times it does not, for reasons you have no idea of. With experience those losses become less but what’s important is that you should always be pushing yourself and your technique or you will never progress as an artist.

[@sueb1317]

Really fascinating work. Looks like very hard work applying the bends to the thicker branches. Lovely resulting movement in each tree, with so much variety of styles. Especially interesting how you tease the fibres apart when creating jins and sharis. How long will the trees take to recover after this intensive work? I would love to see an update in the years to come!

[@TerryErasmusbonsai]

Thank you Sue, as always your comments are ever so detailed. Ideally when junipers are very young and still really flexible, bends and twists should be put into the trees. So now when they are much older it is very difficult or impossible to put very compact bends in but there are other avenues which can be explored. Depending on the tree I think recovery time could range from a few months to a year. In the tree #1 I did some rather drastic work during which some of the live vein might have been damaged, I’ll need to wait to see what happens over the next few months if anything weakens or dies on it. Another of the trees, I think #2, I didn’t do anything drastic really so that one should have no problems recovering quickly.

[@hs_kts_Business_KTS_HS]

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[@TerryErasmusbonsai]

本当にありがとうございます。あなたの意味に本当に感謝しています。

[@Mistyb118]

Hi Terry, thank you for the video. I see that you didn't put tape on the trunk before wiring it. Is tape mot necessary when wiring juniper trunks or should tape be used for certain juniper species?

[@TerryErasmusbonsai]

That’s a great question and to answer it properly is beyond the scope of my fingers on a mobile phone 😊. However yes, you’re correct. Usually I would use raffia, I don’t use tape. This is needed for several reasons including protecting the bark from being damaged when you apply wire (during active growth) and to help prevent breaks in the bend. It depends on the severity of the bends and also the timing, ideally big bends would be done during active growth and not during dormancy. I also believe that raffia will keep moisture on these split or broken areas and help prevent drying out of these damaged areas so they can heal. I opted to not use raffia as I wanted to see when splits are beginning and the bark is not loose as it would be during summer for instance and so I didn’t have a need to protect it. Thanks for asking and for watching.

[@chris996ss]

Great work again on all those tress !! . Do you also sell the Large Jin scraper your using ?… I noticed its a dark handle long tool.. I’d like to get one of these. Thanks again. 👍

[@TerryErasmusbonsai]

Thanks so much Chris. I do sell that tools yes, but the design has changed slightly. The handle is now wood and not metal. You can get it here. www.bonsaitree.co.za/products/jin-knife-circular-shape-large

[@bobbymalta73]

Thank You.

[@TerryErasmusbonsai]

You're welcome

[@DnHVid]

Great video, thank you! Really helpful tips for this delicate techniques. Is there a reason why you are not using raffia for bends like these? Also, could I bend a Taxus like tree nr 1 and 3? It has a straight trunk and I would like to make it into literati style. Cheers!

[@TerryErasmusbonsai]

I am sorry but I have never worked on a taxus but I believe that once the branches are a particular age it will be very difficult to bend them without them snapping. So raffia will be a big help for sure.

[@DnHVid]

@TerryErasmusbonsai I felt the taxus and it was quite firm indeed. Why did you not use raffia on your junipers?

[@TerryErasmusbonsai]

@DnHVid I didn’t think it was necessary.

[@Bonsaiplants.]

Thank you for the very useful informatin🎉

[@TerryErasmusbonsai]

Glad it was helpful!

[@acuariosvmg532]

hola muy buen trabajo,te queria preguntar por la broca que utilizastes con la dremel.donde comprarla y su nombre para buscarla.muchas felicitaciones por el canal me encanta aprendemos mucho

[@TerryErasmusbonsai]

¡Muchas gracias! La parte que usé para tallar se llama Nibbler. Los tenemos en stock, pero también puedes pedirlos desde el Reino Unido.

[@antoinekatanga2702]

Instructive

[@TerryErasmusbonsai]

Thanks so much!

[@billtippin7391]

Your close up filming is great but you leave the viewer short of what the effect of you work to the entire tree please show further out views along the way of you styling so we n see the overall effect

[@TerryErasmusbonsai]

Thank you for that, I will try to improve on that.

[@tompeppi2635]

❤

[@TerryErasmusbonsai]

Thanks so much 🙇🏼‍♂️

[@MultiZNB]

🔥🔥🔥

[@TerryErasmusbonsai]

🙏🏻👍🏻🙇🏼‍♂️

[@jerezindraj6723]

😎👌🏻🌲🌳🇯🇵🙏🏻😇

[@TerryErasmusbonsai]

👍🏻🙏🏻🙇🏼‍♂️