Lime Sulphur is for the trees not the legs! Great video Tony, nice seeing the Oaks!

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Field growing trees is a great way to develop your trees quickly. Very informative video. When doing this I take a shovel and sever the roots in a circle around the trunk as if I we’re going to be collecting the tree but leave it in the ground. This encourages fine feeder roots to develop so that when you actually collect the tree it has an established root base to support the tree. I repeat this in early spring until the tree is collected. Then severing the tap root is not a dangerous operation. Good luck with yours. Thanks, keep growing

Great job Tony! Love to see pre bonsai growing in the ground! Makes me wish for a bigger garden… 😄

I was trying to think of a humorous comment about your white twin trunks your walking around on however i cant beat Nigels comment..😆 Great video Tony..thankyou.

To be fair Tony I wasn't thinking about the exposure levels on your video - but I did check if we were alright for milk! Another cracking video pal and I'm going to be looking at developing some field grown material myself.

It's really good that you show how easy it is to develop your future bonsai in the garden first. I think we need to be more proactive at developing our home grown trees in this changing world climate. The only suggestion i would make with oaks is to cut the tap root by using a shovel around and under the growing tree. i normally undercut by about one foot each year and that usually gives a decent spread of new roots ready for when you recover it in the early winter. Keep it going Tony, Cheers Xav.

Nice work Tony. Interesting how they will turn out in the future.

Enjoyed that for a Sunday morning matey 👍

Hi Tony. Very interesting post again. I allready was thinking about this, but you convinced me me plant and grow some small trees in my garden and let them grow and train them for a few years. I own a very big garden, so plenty of space for this. Also there are many seedlings growing on my land and a few interesting ones i allready potted up. There was this enormous Acer which the previous owners of our house cut and the roots developed new branches. This year in march i cut those branches and kept 3 to grow. They are more then 10 centimeters thick, the longest i kept at about 1 meter, 1 about 70 cm and 1 about 50 cm. They now gave a lot of small new branches and leave out very well. In february i want to try and dig this 3-trunk out and plant it in a very big pot and try to develop a big bonsai out of it. The digging it out will be a big challange, i know, but my best friend is willing to help me. Im very much looking forward to this. Keep on the good work, Michel.

Fantastic example of the benefits of allowing trees for bonsai to grow and develop in the ground to mature them. 👍 Growing them over a cheap paving slab buried perhaps about 5 inches below the soil level also helps the roots to spread radially, saving time on root work in the longer term for migrating the tree to a shallow pot. The Japanese refer to managed garden trees as Niwaki. I think once you get the bonsai mindset it is almost impossible not to then apply it to garden trees 😊 Ps. Zombie apocalypse around the 8:00 mark 🧟‍♀️🧟🧟‍♂️

I look forward to the next steps of your niwaki oak project 👍. Years ago I trimmed such size oak to form bonsay'ish or niwaki style and it went quite agreeably. Couple of weeks later my father-in-law made some adjustments on it to his taste finishing with something like bauble on a stick. Now on my own property I went back to my attempts hoping for more stable results.

I've had to pick and cover my new accorns this week. Squirrels nicked me other ones.

Nice work 👍

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My legs aren't allowed out to play - they frighten the kids!

Nice work but in nature not all trees have movement. Especially Oaks. They have a strong natural upright growth pattern.

Hi Tony another great video I assume you are in your parents garden, I don’t have an oak in my collection as in the passed for some reason I haven’t got on well with them after seeing your video it maybe time to look for a good one, the oak your working in looks like being a good bonsai in time with great taper. All the best Tony.

Wow had to turn the brightness down on them legs.lol

great video

Thanks for your video. One question: What are you going to do to reduce the size of the leaves?

Are these oaks Royal/English oaks (Quercus Robur?) If so, I need to get my hands on some acorns. I have dozens of 1 of our native oaks here in the Midwest U.S. White Oak (Quercus Alba.) They are in their second growing season in a deep seed tray but they're only 12 cm or so, they seem to only put out 1 flush of growth a year so far...so slow. I'm liking how vigorous your look. This whole time I thought I was subbed and wasn't, I'll fix that.

Hi, I have an cork oak tree that I dug up from my backyard and I am a bit hesitant in cutting the main tap root , is it safe?

How long will you keep the wire on