This is one of the best videos I have seen not only on a Chinese Elm, but any bonsai. I truly appreciate the common sense approach using terms that are easily understood by someone just starting with their Elm. I have bookmarked this and will refer to it often. Thank you so much,

Thanks for explaining the zigzag movement aim for ramification. Really makes sense now.

Of course I see this video just hours after I pruned my Chinese Elm without really knowing what I was doing, lol.

Great video and explanation. I kno i requested this a while ago and this is great . I bought the grand elm from you and its one of my favorites. The trees primary branches have most of the secondary branches growing upwards so i wire most of them down but now i have a better understanding of what i wanna do to create pads on this tree. Thanks for the video. ! Now we need a video on satsuki azalea on how to shape them from scratch.cant find one video on them. Their branch structure is alot to work with.again u teach some great stuff on here and cause of u i actually started this journey! Thanks

dude youre a g thank you for doing this, everybody else on youtube about bonsai are no where near your talent for teaching, much appreciated

Gorgeous trunk. Great artistry.

Super informative hands-on video, thanks Jason.

Very informative and instructional. I wonder if you could do a video on Chinese elm in the broom style, how to develop a broom style bonsai.

@jason good to see you here!

Hi Jason, great to see a video on clip and grow as i think there is an over use in wire used in Bonsai that you see.You do not have the problem with scarring which you get with wire. I know it does not work with all trees therefore wire has to be used.

Sooo, I got a tree from yous, and I feel I sort of ballzed it up. Good to know the trunk itself has the capacity to regenerate.

Let's see an update! Love this tree, great video

Thks For Sharing Jason You'r An Amazing Teacher! 🙌

fantastic video, i love the detail in your explanations, please keep it up. thanks

Great instruction, thanks for sharing your wisdom.

I just got two of these beauty's, can't wait for them to grow so I can trim them

Nice work. Well presented.

Thanks Jason, great information.

Thank you Jason

Just ordered an elm from you. Can't wait to have it and start the waiting process. Lol

I inherited a Chinese Elm starter kit from a daughter who received it as a gift February, 2022. It came home from college in May over watered, then went three weeks with no water, and I stepped in. It is coming back well after a few weeks of TLC. I’ve never had a bonsai but always wanted to. Would love to see a video of when to start pruning a small tree such as this. Should I let it just grow for several months (or more) before thinking about pruning, etc.

I’m planning on getting one soon .

Hi, would you have any tips on growing Chinese elm from seed. Love the channel.

Great instruction, thanks!

Sangat menginspirai untuk saya Terima kasih sudah membuat vidio tentang ini

This video will help me so much thank you!!

Love it! And I've said before in my videos that blue pots are sometimes overlooked but often the best for these small and pretty trees.

Same techniques apply with most deciduous? I clip and grow most of my Japanese maples this way. I’m still learning how to use sacrifice branches. When the inside leaves and branches begin to get shaded out I go in a clean it out. (Typically in late May and late August.)

Great information 👍👍

Thanks, very helpful

Sure missing "how to" videos like this. Hope that you get the desire to do these again.

Great tutorial! How long does the chinese elm take to grow ?

Thank you 🌳💪❤️

Hey Jason, I love that elm!! I bought one from you but I'd like that one because of the trunk 😍 can I buy it please?? Is there a way to order that specific one off the website?

Nice beautiful plant

Excellent

What season did you do this? Judging by the growth it’s either late spring or late summer? A lot of videos say “I did this in late May” but that leaves me guessing. We bonsai enthusiasts around the world need to talk in terms of seasons. “During early spring budding” or “In late winter after the last frost” or “In late autumn after all leaves have fallen”.

your leaves are so beautiful and large! Is this a particular type of Chinese elm? thank you!

I wish the Bonsai experts would talk more about what to do in the seasons. Should I allow my indoor tree to live as it pleases during winter and then wait to spring to trim?

Do you think that huge inverse taper will grow out? How about that intense wire scar?

Great video, but I feel like it would be much easier to understand while in person. Some of the camera angles made it difficult to see in which direction some of the clips you were trying to show us. Thank you for all your informative videos you guys post!

Nice. Can see a definite good looking bonsai in the future. Informative.

Hi I was wondering if you could do a Ficus Golden Gate clip and grow tutorial.

If I want my elm to thicken its trunk do I just let it grow in all directions and maybe put it in a bigger pot?

Is there going to be an update to this video this year?!?

How do you locate branch one and two on the Chinese elm? Mine has several at the same height. Thank you

how often throughout a growing season to you prune like this? as often as it gets this leggy?

Thanks dude

I have two beautiful chinese elm bonsai trees that I purchased from your store. I ordered one last year but my beloved died during the winter. I don't want the same thing to happen to the two that I have now. I live in Wisconsin and we are in the fall season. The temperatures are in the 40's to 60's and winter is approaching. I keep my trees indoors with a grow light. Since I keep them mostly indoors, do I need to fertilize the trees during the winter months? If there are anymore helpful tips, I'm all ears. Thank you!

Do you bring them inside in the winter? People seem to have different opinions on chinese elm

Hi, not sure if u will see this, i have a lavender star bonsai, and im trying very hard to find content on maintaining it, bought it recently and it has been growing pretty ok. but with this clip and grow technique, when would be a good time to do it?.do i leave the bottom brunches like yours to grow long before clipping?i have a single long brunch below growing and its about 6"..plant is about 12" tall including the long apex branch that will prolly be clipped off as well, main stem is about 1/4" thick.

Maybe dumb question (new guy). Could you graft one of the cut branches in that large curve?

If you wire a branch, how long does the wire have to stay on?

I would like to ask what time period of the year could I trim drasticly and when could I repot them. Which is the pest time period in the year?

When do you trim? Spring? Or whenever it needs?

Cool video you look a bit like tiger woods

So when I’m pruning I shouldn’t cut where it’s still green? What would happen if I did cut where it was green branch vs woody?

What time of year can i do a trunk chop?

Good

I just got mine from you guys

Is there a difference between Chinese Elm and Seiju Elm?

I am very new to Bonsai. I bought a 4 year old Chinese Elm. The grower has cut all the lower branches off and only a crown exists. How would I get this tree to grow branches lower on the trunk? I have ordered products from easterleaf and really find your videos very informative. Thank you for all the great tutorials.

Isn’t that first branch on inside of curve?

My Chinese Elm has relatively darker leaves, does that indicate insufficient sunlight?

How do you get branches to grow on a stretch of bare trunk?

How old is this tree? The trunk is beautiful.

Привет Джейсон,не мог бы ты помочь советом,мой китайский вяз,после пересадки и промывки корней от первого грунта остановился в росте и не дает почки 4 месяца.на всем дереве имеется штук 20 листьев. Пересажен в грунт акадама.заранее благодарю.

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when you cut a branch that's shooting straight out, why will it grow in a zig-zag -- why doesn't it just grow straight out again?

It doesn't seem like a great place for a first branch on the inside of a curve.

I have a seedling Chinese Elm. I was wondering if you wired that trunk as a seedling to get all that movement?