Nearly an hour of Peter. What a blessing!

My father would have absolutely loved Herons Bonsai, not for the trees, but for the planes flying over. He was an engineer for Delta for about 40 years. Absolutely loved his job, and he would have known what plane was going over head, and where it was going. I miss him everyday.

Yes! A little giggle from Josh on the video. Enjoyment is what it is all about! Almost got a candle overflow in this video. But I managed to candle, ehm handle that. Now going to chop some myself with confidence.

Don't worry about the 'camera work'. I appreciate you making this video as it is time for me to trim mine. Thank you!

Post church , Sunday Tea a biscuit, and reprive from chores enjoying this post. Thank you.

_THANK YOU_ ... 🙏 😔 🙏 Dr. Chan, this is one of your greater videos. You have taken a subject that many complicate to a vast degree and made it simple and direct to the point. You.are having a tremendous growth season, your preparation from the last years is spot on. Over a foot of growth in less than a month, that is tremendous. The northern hemisphere is getting a lot rain which is helping the growth, but fertilizer and root control is the key. The gentleman's ideas about "cone setting" is new to me too, actually I have observed just the opposite in pines. Now if we were talking about "field trees", I know where the idea came from, but neither is that idea particularly true of pines. 🙏 🖖 🙏 😔 🙏

The more videos meandering through your extraordinary garden the better, you really have your own garden of Eden going on. Peter is an inspiration and a sage.

Peter cracks me up. He sees a niwaki tree, walks up to it quietly to hear the birds, and then WHACK! Candles gone.

All of your videos are very much informative and have learned so much in my new hobby.

Home at 2am awake again at 7 and what a way to spend my Sunday morning. Thank you Peter.

Thank you for this extensive video. I continue to learn so much from you. You are so generous with your time and knowledge and I appreciate it so very much.

Excellent. Years ago I began pruning the new growth American Eastern white pines on my property which had very tall pines with needles only up very high where there is sun. I decided to manage new trees to share the available sunlight so as to maintain dense greenery up to about 20 feet tall. The greenery creates a more picturesque woodland in summer and winter when the deciduous are bare. It is a lot of work but the results are very satisfying.

Thank you Peter for the video I asked for. Perfect timing too. I feel much better about the situation, and was really over thinking it a bit. I have 2 Black pines and 1- 5 needle pine. Mine are so young though, ( only about 1 foot tall ) that watching you with your trees that have their silhouette shaped still leaves me with some decisions to make. Since mine are so young, I need to decide if I should let some candles go to let the pines grow out more, or to cut them back to try to get more bud back. Cant thank you enough for paying attention to your followers and giving us guidance on this path. Cheers !!!

I liked the way you were holding your camera and clipping at the same time; it gave us a close up of your work. Thank you🙏🏻

I love all of your beautiful trees...Very informative, thankyou...I find your videos very relaxing ❤

What a spectacular garden you have. Great post

Dr Pine will see you now 👍🏼

Absolutely educational video for all. Thanks Peter 👩🏻‍🌾🪴

Was just waiting for you to say 4 candles. Made my evening 😅

Excellent video on candle pruning Peter! So easy to understand! You are totally right... No need for it to be complicated!!

Japanese Maple one of my wish list 💚

I love your no-nonsense approach 😎

This was a great video. As peter says EVERY pine has diff techniques that need to be applied to all different pines. I have done alot of reading and will just throw a few extra tips out there. 1. Know ur pine , single flush or double flush pine a double flush like jbp u can induce a second flush of growth by decandling if the tree is healthy enough single flush like a mugo if u cut the candles well ur done for the year prob not the best idea depending on ur branch structure 2. On younger trees let the candles grow pines are apically dominant and to redistribute energy throught the tree u have to candle pinch the stronger candles try and keep them mostly even 3. Leave all the needles on ur branches greater odds of backbudding if the needles are left behind the branch try to save lateral needles and eliminate those growing up and down 4. Always bud select to 2 candles and use the laterals . Hope this helps anyone out there

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Thank you very much Peter. "Basic horticultural knowledge". Excellent.

Great video Mr Chan, I absolutely love seeing you walk around trimming trees 🌳 keep up the good work 👏🏼

From all the how to cut a tree and be careful or you'll kill it, Peters confidant words of "it's not rocket science" have given me at least a trust that cutting trees isn't that hard and you believe the tree can live though it. I mean it gets you to do, instead of just having fear of messing up.

Thx for sharing Peter 👍

I`ve learned so much from this video Peter. Thanks you so much for sharing your knowledge.

Good music and editing

I am looking forward to your June pruning of the large pines you show @ 25:00. I like to practice my technique on the planted trees I have in my garden and I am curious to see what you end up doing. P.s. Fork handle - I got it, great dad joke!

🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹 thanks Peter, i've learned so much again

Very good video Peter nice to put the pinching right thanks

What an amazing collection of bonzi

Super interesting, the two Ronnie's 😂 reminds my of my childhood.

Great video Peter.. thank you for sharing 🙏👍

Peter, great stuff. Thank you. Since I only have young trees I’m hoping you can you do a video showing the best way to develop young (2-3 yr old) JBP’s. Like cutting the few long shoots that grow in the spring to fork the branches vs. leaving them to grow long and then hoping to get bud back so you can shorten them and fork them at that time and using sacrificial branches, etc.

Commen sense really which Peter makes it look easy which it is. Thank you Peter.

Brilliant video

Thanks you ❤

Good morning 🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻

Very informative

I never see anyone talking about western white pine. I'm hoping the pruning will be similar.

Peter, I have a collected Scots Pine 3ft tall, 3" trunk with 3 layers of whorl branching how would I/you select the branches to keep to get a layered look like your older trees (a new video coming up)? Also why do you not put your floor water basins on your web site for sale, I would like one but cannot find any or prices? Greatly appreciate you advice re: the tree.

Please make a video all about cedar and hoe to make it bud back

A tree that is strong enough to produce fruit with seeds (in this case pine cones) is certainly not about to die. Cones mean the tree is producing seeds and getting ready to disperse them. It happens every 4 to 10 years in nature. A warm summer is beneficial for next year's seed production. As we know conifers in nature live well past 4-10 years. The cycle will look like this: In the first year of the pine cone cycle the beginnings of what will be cones start to form. The second year pollination of the pine blossoms will take place. In the spring of the third year of the cone cycle the cones will expand, open and disperse their seeds. That same fall the dry pine cones will fall off the tree. Now the tree will rest until another cycle starts. It will gather resources needed to sprout new cones and disperse seeds again. Pine cones forming means you have a tree that have been growing under good conditions. Not a dying tree. (Unless you lost it because the tree suffered wrong treatment during the three year process that naturally drains it of resources, of course, and the tree became frail, sick and died from that...) A tree that has dispersed its seeds and shed the dry cones will benefit from extra attention to become replenished. This is when repotting can happen.

I agree, it's totally ridiculous to say that producing cones is a sign the tree is dying. 🤦♂ It's the complete opposite, if the tree is dying it won't be able to produce cones bc the tree doesn't have the energy or nutrients to do so. I mean that's horticulture 101 type information right there, how do you get that wrong. 😂 Great video as always thank you uploading! 👍👍

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Can you show how to prune the top of a pine tree or any tree to keep shape but stop the leader growing too high?

My Pines have started to get small candles so I remove them using my fingers. Leaves behind that amazing Pine smell.

Hi Peter, simply love your videos and the inspiration you supply. Without the distraction’s of the birds singing and the magnificent sunsets I don’t think the days would be complete while working on our trees. Great information. I have tried my first attempt to air layering my Japanese Maples thanks to your videos last year and with great success all 7 new trees are doing great…Thank You. One question I have for you …in this video around 25:16 your cutting below the candle and down the branch…could you do an air layer there as long as there’s green below that? Thanks Peter

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I’m new to pines. I’ve been preached to about selecting buds on jbp so there’s no swelling at the junction. I do think this is an important issue?

im curious what your imput is on this issue as i cannot seems to find a consensus. On Scotts pine.. how does one induce back budding on old wood? Some say cut candles.. some say let them grow out huge and back budding will take place... that second method seem suspect to me. the candles on this scots pine are 6 inches or so.. mainly because i fertilize the heck out of it. But im curious how you do it.

All those delicious asparagus he keeps calling candles for some reason?

That is Ryan Neal. That dude make everything complicated and drama about something so simple. He loves to show how clever he is I keep telling everyone in the bonsai world lol

That pinecone story, about them dying?! Lol, surely that's a sign the trees healthy? This guy must have been drunk or high when he said it 🥴

I didn't know what they were. So those are candles. Question for the clever people here. Japanese Black Pine Seeds. Stratify or just soak and sow? So many different contradictory information on-line.

Totally ruined the bonsai...

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Hello and good morning Sunday Morning Bonsai Breakfast Clubbers, Peter and all at Herons. 🙏🏝️☕️🥣 I believe many people are unsure what to do with pine candles because they look so alien and totally unlike our conventional understanding of what new shoots look like, based on understanding and familiarity with deciduous trees. I also think that removing cones or flowers from pines is a shame. They use minimal energy and should be appreciated for their aesthetic beauty and the character they add to the tree.