This has been the most helpful video I've seen on leaf size!! Also packed with so many tips on development and refinement techniques. Absolutely love your real time demonstration between species, environment and development stage. Many many thanks!!

Since you asked for comments, here's mine: I grew a bonsai bur oak (unfortunately, it died when we had some severe weather and I couldn't protect it). Here's one thing I noticed about it. When pushing out leaves, it typically put out 5 to 7 leaves on a twig. The one closest to the tip was normally the largest one, and the smallest ones were on the other end. So the thing to do was to prune off the end leaves. But here's the thing: timing is important. If you do the pruning while the leaves still have some red because they're growing, the little leaves turn into big leaves. So wait do do the pruning until the leaves have finished growing. With my bur oak, the timing was obvious, because the red disappeared and the leaves were just green. Pruning when the leaves are green, the leaves remained small. On my tree: about and inch or two vs. the 10"+ for the large leaves.

I have watched a lot of videos before starting my first bonsai projects. A LOT of videos. This was the best one. Simple words, short sentences, nice pace, pauses, good explanation. Subbed.

Thank you. I think I learned a lot and I got inspired and motivated. You have a good sense of being thorough without it getting overwhelming and boring. The whole video was full of information, yet remained interesting. Can't wait my sticks in pots to get to more mature stage where I can get ramifying them!

A perfect explantion covering everything we really need to know. A great way to start my Sunday morning :)

So much good logical advice. I have to take notes! I learn more from you than all the other bonsai videos put together!! 😁

Vivid example of leaf size reduction. Thank you

Thanks Jelle. Really enjoy all your content. 👍

So informative and the live examples were just perfect

Thanks for the high quality instruction! I really enjoy your teaching.

Thanks for the info. I enjoy your videos. They help alot to explain different things keep up the good work 👏

Great video! Lots of information to digest here.

That was the question I everytime asked myself. Thanks for the great video!

Every video of yours is so very educational. Thanks a lot. Great job!

Great video jelle keep up the good work mate thanks

Excellent video!! So much information in a well presented way. I’m sure I’ll be going back to watch again in case I missed some important information. Thank you!!

Thanks for this! I have an air layered cherry with giant leaves and this gives me hope for the future.

Just getting started with bonsai, I’m doing all from seeds.. so far I have a white oak, and a silver maple.. I’m loving your videos! Thanks for sharing your knowledge!

I did not know zelkova leaves could be reduced that much. Impressive!

Excellent presentation, I learned a lot.

Great tips, thanks !

Bedankt voor de content, Jelle!

Un grand merci pour la vidéo!

Great video! Your detailed explanation on reducing leaf size in bonsai is incredibly helpful. The step-by-step guidance makes the process easy to understand and follow. Thanks for sharing such valuable tips!

Thanks super demo for smaller leaves.

Great video, thank you Jelle from Ontario Canada! 😊

Thank you, very informative and inspiring... Subscribed to your channel, keen to learn more from you 😊

great video! well done!

Content along with visual demonstration, very good video. Most of the info except maybe the internodes getting longer as the growing season progresses I’ve heard, but I do like the way you’ve structured the lesson including the branch and have saved this video to watch again at some point in the future. Thank you.

Thank you for your time and effort making these videos. Really helpful information for a beginner like me. I love watching your videos, they are always informative and easy to follow. 👍 I also love listening to your accent!!

great explanation of pruning habits!

Perfect. My second bonzai video ever so I'm a beginning beginner. This was simple and easy to follow but I know I will have to watch it again. And maybe again.

Great information Jelle!! That was an amazing example of leaf size reduction! Smaller pot and restricted roots results in smaller leaves. Unrestricted roots and unchecked growth equals large leaves! I believe my husband's root might be too restricted! I should have him wear a kilt!

Very helpful video, Jelle! Thank you very much!

Thanks for sharing URE knowledge

Hey Jelle, mooie video! Goeie info en prettig gepresenteerd. Dankjewel man!

Hi from Midwest USA. I enjoy your channel, and learn a lot.

Another great video, I've so far found all of your videos very helpful and easy to follow / understand. You explain more technical aspects in an easy to digest manner compared to other popular channels which sets you apart nicely. I particularly appreciate when you switch the camera to be focussed just on cuttings for example, to give a clear visual of what you're talking about as if it were still on the tree, you do this in other videos as well and its extremely helpful. You've helped me learn quite solid basics and some important key points in a very quick time just as I'm getting hooked into Bonsai, thank you for that! Inspired me to get a Japanese Maple, Japanese Juniper and Ficus at very young age to train almost from the start, rather than going for something pre-shaped and already mostly developed. Will enjoy keeping up with your updates on different projects.

Excellent info!

Great video, thanks a lot for your effort and your explanations, seems to have a lot of post production in the background with so many different video cuts

jelle you always have great content and info thank you! got any tips for fruit or flowering trees?

Very well explained👍👍

very very helpful. thank you

Great video Jelle. Please can you do a video on how to prune Edible fig for bonsai 🇿🇦

Great explanations! Thanks for using elm as the example. I don't know what species mine are, but I have good success reducing leaf size

What a incredible video awesome job hands down the best example ever well done keep up the great work

❤. Great effort

What a great no-nonsense video!

Outstanding!!!!! Thank you!

Great video Jelle. I very much like this part of Bonsaicare and getting ramification. I'm wondering what is the best time to do this? With my beeches I pinch the buds to 2 - 4 leaves as soon as they open. Same with maples. I see other artists letting the branches grow till summer and then prune. Can you tell me what's best or why I should wait till summer?

I was amazed when they dissuaded me from making oak or hazel bonsai, they told me that the leaves are too big but it's false. The more time passes and the branching and root mass increases, the greater the quantity of foliage and is reduced because it has less need of large "solar panels". interesting lesson Jelle, thanks

Thankyou. Fascinating

Fantastic thank you!

Great job

Yes. We train the leaves smaller

Very interesting. I have a pair of 🍁 s it's taken 2 years but I have tiny leaves now.

Thank You.

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I definitely like this content!! I have a few bonsai that I am working on reducing the leaf size. I have an unrelated question about air layers……… I have an air layer on a Japanese maple started in spring of 2023, that I somehow forgot to separate last fall……. It is now early spring……. Can I separate it now or would it be wiser to wait until further into spring or summer? The air layer looks healthy enough, every bud has just started to push its first set of leaves.

Brilliant actually learnt LOADS

Hi, good video thank you. When is the perfect time to do this on your tree if you cant do this when just started with the bonsai? Thank you for your answer

Thanks.

A master delivering an idiot’s guide. I for one am very grateful. Thanks.

Having fun experimenting with a couple of Douglas maples and NZ Lancewood. ✌️❤️🇳🇿

A most excellent video... thank you. How many times, or how often,on a healthy bonsai, can you de-leaf it, in say a 5 year period..??? Thanks

Hi, do you use organic or synthetic fertiliser for your bonsai? I have 5 little pine tree seedlings I germinated from a pinecone I picked up, they are in 2nd year of growth. Thinking maybe to try my first bonsai practice with them in a year or so. My main interest is my ornamental flower and shrub garden, and I mainly use organic mulch and fertiliser. Is this system ok for bonsai? I have seen people use mainly synthetic slow release beads in some videos, but I have no experience using these and I worry I will overstress the plants if I use them badly.

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Great stuff, even leaves people say it doesn't work does, just have to put in the work.

Hello. Thank you for the lesson. Question: Whar is the wire mesh on top of the soil for?

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Wondering if there's any value in a video on pruning a juniper to encourage branching. I'm thinking firstly that it's hard to know where a juniper will bud as the nodes aren't so obvious and secondly that if you over-prune some types of juniper that they have a tendency to push out juvenile needle growth - so there's a limit on how much you can prune and that's entirely down to experience (which unfortunately I don't have)

quick question, I want a horse chestnut bonsai but can I get those leafes reduced aswel? since you said it depens on the species. thanks for the awesome video's by the way!

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i live in canada and maple trees grow like weeds here so i picked 2 and im trying to bomsi them any suggestions ?

Hello , can you kindly let me know about your mix soil ? Friendly Regards Salam

why let the branch extend and cut back instead of pinching out the tip?

Do you have Pigeons’s as well ?! Always hear them in the background

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"how to keep a tree alive thru the bonsai transformation"

What u can do to reduce size. What i do is bring the plant indoors during the grow season. And put it under a UV grow light. The leaf and size of the bonsai will stay pretty small

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what a tree is that?

Actually, my Rainier Cherry grows fruit the size of peas!

We need to see a bug spray video because all my ficus attracts too much white bugs😂😂

Are you Dutch, sir?

Every plant I've potted in a bonsai pot died. I gave up on my dream

Sir you use too many words to say very little, and you repeat yourself.

15 mintes to say if you want small leaves cut out large leave branches keep small leaves.

You’re always a good source of information, pleasant presentations as well.