White Pine Bonsai + Larch Bonsai

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@rsdoconnor 4 ай бұрын

A someone else who is learning by doing, I really appreciate walking through your thought processes with you. Thanks for the videos, they are appreciated.

@kootenaybonsaicanada 4 ай бұрын

Good hear, sometimes I think people get bored with my commentary. I used to do a longer format videos in which I go in depth, ended up being a lot of video editing to get them watchable. I appreciate the positive feedback and encouragement it means a lot. I’ll try to add more commentary moving forward 😃👍

@rsdoconnor 4 ай бұрын

@@kootenaybonsaicanada Since I have very similar conversations in my own head when assessing a tree, it's somewhat reassuring to listen to someone else's.

@hmhmhm998 4 ай бұрын

nice styling,👍 the larch is also looking nice keep growing and thanks for showing🌲

@kootenaybonsaicanada 4 ай бұрын

Thank you for watching and commenting 😃👍.

@hmhmhm998 4 ай бұрын

@@kootenaybonsaicanada you're welcome

@imcoolboi-tq6zb 4 ай бұрын

Questions. Why do you not use large strainers and air pot style planters for your conifers in development? Air allows the fungal bloom to spread harder faster and gather faster Have you thought about literati style with the white pine… versus trying to fill out a tree and develop a rounded profile instead use the lower branches to provide sacrificial points going up. Over time you would end up with a dead wood Shari / jins feminine compact shape that is manageable for decades with the material mostly as it sits? In would require some trunk twisting but in the material in my perspective and my take on bonsai that’s my direction ( that isn’t saying you’re doing it wrong either at all. I love your garden)

@kootenaybonsaicanada 4 ай бұрын

I love the question and design idea. I find a don’t water enough for strainers and really I went hard my first couple of years and so put trees in whatever I had lying around. Ideally I think wood box designed to fit the existing roots and give lateral room for roots would have been a lot better. I do imagine that there are nice airated containers that would be ideal. For the design question I love the idea. In part the trunk has that scaring and swelling (reverse taper) at that mid section that I used foliage to hide, and the bark on the white pine are super delicate and don’t put on plate like bark that would hide any wire damage I might get from trying to bend the trunk. I mostly have a few of the white pine to add species diversity, because I think I could put this in the ground for 5 years and get a much larger trunk and maybe it could be a worthwhile project. I haven’t decided if I’ll put this in a bonsai container next spring or plant in the ground. I’ll relook at the trunk damage and potential for literati. Thanks for ideas and engagement with my trees and process 😃👍

@imcoolboi-tq6zb 4 ай бұрын

it’s a good tree as is. Has a delicate feel to it and I like that about it a lot. No rush to get there but I am wondering where you will be with it in the next decade!

@kootenaybonsaicanada 4 ай бұрын

Glad you are pushing my mind that far into the future. Yes, I’ll have to think about it. Do I really want a thicker trunk and what would it be then. Maybe keeping it subtle, literati and limited foliage might be my best design. I’ve been reading a Colin Lewis book and it’s making me lean in the direction you were suggesting. Thanks for the thoughtful and engaging design ideas with my trees it helps me think and build stronger relationship with my trees. 😃👍

@imcoolboi-tq6zb 4 ай бұрын

We get up to three flushes with latches here in mid Oregon. Do you get one or two flushes where you are at with the larch. Got a late flush with our hemlocks too this year…. What’s the weather been doing for you overall?

@kootenaybonsaicanada 4 ай бұрын

I think it could get three but I tend to just initial spring trim and one more post harden flush and I give it some time to regain strength. This year I put them out in the hot sun and so fried some needles and so it pushed out three this year. Weathers been great, so a few weeks of really hot weather and limited smoke this year. Ya, I got a second flush with my doulas firs this year. I also think I was under fertilizing previous years and so the extra fertilizer I think gave them a boost. I learned that full sun in my yard is too hot for most of my trees and did a lot better with some full sun and then partial shade.

@imcoolboi-tq6zb 4 ай бұрын

@@kootenaybonsaicanada there is a trick Ryan Neil has with them. There is something with a two year back budding thing and then they have this seven year cycle of renewing growth or something about them to watch out for. Can’t remember exactly but they have some strange thing going with the way they with shed and renew growth from time to time. Mirai bonsai has a tutorial on it you’ll find very useful. I remember something being explained about how to get buds to open and not self terminate. There is a two year thing with it and when to wire it. He definitely explains it in detail and has done a lot of work experimenting to figure the species out.