I have two Eastern White Pines in training and one in the ground I plan to dig up next Spring. The house I grew up in had a big P. strobus growing outside my bedroom window, and the fragrance of it, the sound of birds singing in it, and the look have stayed with me all these years. As a bonsai, if you move to a new house you don't have to lose your tree.

I have about eight eastern white pines that are in training. I purchased them through the Missouri Conservation, among other native species to MO. They’re about three years old. I pruned the tops after the first year, which caused back budding lower on the trunk! I’m excited to get them looking as good as yours!

I am currently growing and shaping an Eastern White Pine as Bonsai. My grandson and I got it from an Arbor day "Plant a Tree" event about 8 years ago. It isn't very big, only about 15 in tall. Slowly wiring and shaping and leaving the wire on until mid-summer after the Spring flush. I will post pics as it takes a more bonsai shape. Thanks for your video.

i picked up a 70 year old American White pine today, absolutely beautiful tree, very compelling tree with its cracked fissured thick trunk

I love your “against the grain” attitude towards bonsai. I’m the kind of person where if someone tells me something can’t be done I have to try it just to make sure. I’m a firm believer that most trees can be made into a bonsai with enough time and effort despite what most people say. Great video!

I just collected my first eastern white pine today and was looking for some inspiration/information on keeping them as bonsai. Wow boy did I find it, this is one of the best bonsai videos I’ve seen in a long time, you’ve earned a sub! I love the approach to bonsai/your philosophy, the narration/stories, and info you provide. Thank you!

Nice. Great to see a Michigan white pine.

Loved your video. I am always delighted to see people working with pinus strobus as bonsai. I have been at it for 25 years and still struggling. Thanks for inspiring others.

Nice work Bruce. Lovely styling

Great video. I just dug up a nice eastern white pine yesterday. Im in Michigan as well.

Awesome video. I loved your intimate story of finding the white pine, looking for it month after month in the forest. I live in Rome Italy and much envy the beautiful nature you are surrounded in America. Continue making videos!

This made me really excited about my club collected white pine in Ontario. Thank you for sharing! Now, stage 1 getting it to health.

I have an Eastern white pine that was collected in Tennessee several years ago. Something had fallen on it so that it was pushed nearly horizontal and the trunk was snapped off just above the first whorl of branches. One side branch was left upright and formed the new trunk while two others were driven into the ground and killed. Much of the root system was above the soil and dead. I have been styling it as a semi-cascade / exposed root style. I like how it looks and enjoy working with it. I have bonsai that I enter in shows but I know this one will never be show quality. I just enjoy having it for what it is. Not every tree in a collection has to be a show tree. This tree will get a nice Sarah Rayner pot next spring. It has had a hard life and deserves a nice pot to live in.

Hi Bruce, I've had good luck with two Eastern White Pines developed in semi cascade form. One is about 12 years old now and was collected as a sapling from central Maine. The other is a 5 year old dwarf cultivar named 'Macopin' purchased from a nursery in N.J. They are challenging yet enjoyable to work with.

With Japanese Black Pine being banned in many USA states [including Massachusetts] maybe this will become more popular. The needle length was always a concern for me.

Wowser, nice white pine. I don’t know anything and don’t feel like I have much to offer with my videos, other than showing: hey, it died.. or hey, it lived. :) so… i don’t talk. I don’t have anything worthwile to say… i do have 3 eastern white pines I’ve collected. All straight-ish. We’ll see how they go…

Great video, that's a really nice tree. How do you manage EWP growth without pinching buds or cutting chutes?

While I love the tree and your insight and that you made this video about it, there is also something to be said about your view of what 'bonsai' in the modern world is and can be. So, I get that you think a ot of KZfaq channels are made by amateurs who don#t know what they are talking about, or that lovers of the art should go for the best and biggest trees when getting into it, there needs to be something said about bonsai as a HOBBY. For a lot of people, myself included, it is not just about finding, growing, styling, and working with trees to get an esthetic result. But getting trees from seed, or small sticks in a pot, is not about the art, but the nurturing and witnessing of growth and development. And that includes all the mistakes on the way. There is no need for showroom quality when you are able to enjoy the process.

Idk why people act like any of these trees are such delicate fragile things. Watching them thru a northern michigan winter let’s me know they’re the toughest things alive out here really. I’ll be looking for the perfect white pine for the next 12 years now 😂

I love how you're going against the established thinking and trying a species that people think can't be nurtured into a bonsai. Most sceptics probably believe it won't work because they heard it from someone else who never tried it either.