Thank you for your support MD 💚

Bur oak, how awesome! Truly one of the best species 💚 thanks for sharing James

Thank you Chris I really appreciate that 🪴 Be sure to check out my newer videos!

Please check out some of my newer videos for better content and information friend! Any questions, I would love to help another budding enthusiast 💚 I’ve not heard of a Gary Oak! I’ll have to Google that

Thank you mate 💚 where abouts? Have a great time! Oaks are very tough 🪴

@@BonsaiCornwall my brother and sis live in Penzance I’m going down on the towens Hayle. Great to here your oak is doing well they are great to work with also I’ve got some horse chestnut trees they and interesting.

Hey! Thanks for your comment 😊 so, acorns will need to under go a process called cold stratification which can be done naturally outside or mimicked in the fridge. This will cue the acorn to germinate 😁 I left mine outside because i could but in your dorm you could use the fridge method and grow it indoors until next spring 😎 Oaks are a great species for bonsai, they slow growing and predictable. They are easy to care for and rewarding too! I’d love to help you more should you need it. Please feel free to DM on instagram or I can send you my email. Many thanks, Jonas 😊

Awesome! Leaving them in the elements works well too don’t worry 😊

It certainly helps yeah! 😆 mostly because the tap root is how the tree looks for water in the wild but when grown in a container it doesn’t need that. Oaks are a relatively slow growing species so I tend to prune in the autumn after I know it won’t flush again. When pruning just make sure there are buds for it to push back to - oh and it helps your trees if you press subscribe 😉

Thank you for your opinion

Tony, I have a confession. I actually did a repot on this tree later in the year because the weeds had strangled the baby oak. Thanks for sharing your criticism, after all that’s how we grow 🪴

No worries. I find most of our native trees are pretty tough. It's taken me a while to understand that when bonsai professionals are talking about helping old wild yamadori material to survive, what they are saying doesn't apply to most normal trees you find out and about. In fact, it's pretty hard to kill a young oak, elm, maple or beech tree. God knows I've given mine plenty of excuses to die, yet most of them are still battling on!

Bien dicho, eso me gusta mucho. gracias mi amigo

😆 little buggers! Thanks, the pot has 1987 on it which is the year my partner was born, so this is her tree 🪴

@@BonsaiCornwall i was in Helston then but we didnt meet🙈

@@XaviersBonsaiRetreat helston, not far! I wasn’t born until 1998 😂

Hi Mark, no definitely not but it will help the tree to start its journey to bonsai. This is because when it loses the tap root the tree send more feeder roots which are the smaller finer roots, these gather nutrients where as the tap root is looking for water (in a pot it doesn’t need to worry about this) I hope that helps :) 💚

Hey again Jonny! This was so long ago I can’t remember exactly however I would definitely recommend using rain water not tap water due to the chlorine but only if you have the choice of course. Thanks 💚

@@BonsaiCornwall much appreciated, thanks. I asked this before but maybe you missed it, do you have a fb page I can follow?? 😊

@@jonnyneal8189 no problem mate, yeah I replied back I don’t have a fb page but my Instagram I use daily

5:47 you touched it 😅

That’s the acorn from which the tree grew mate 😊 but thank you! 💚

Hi! The wire is used to tie the tree into the pot. This prevents it falling out, if it is ever tipped or knocked over (which happens!)

We could get into this for a long time I know but personally I think any tree or shrub with a woody stem in a container or pot is a bonsai. It’s just a measure of how good said bonsai is (taper, ramification, form, texture ect) that you can judge if you wish :) What a good chap for keeping his dream alive (literally and metaphorically!) blessings to your father 💚 Also, that oak is the same age as me 😂

If you ain’t got nothing nice to say? Thanks for the apology tho friend 💚

Any sense of the word? 😅 do you even know what bonsai translates to? Or are you to busy licking windows? 🤔

@@Rojin_Bonsai Bonsai translates into a tree or landscape in a pot. Any more stupid questions?

@@user-dj1rk4sv5l your not entirely wrong.. a landscape in a pot would be penjing. A tree in a pot would be bonsai. But bonsai is now more seen as a practice of discipline and patience.. many people have different methods on doing it. You can have bonsai from a 6 month old sapling to a tree that has countless years behind it I have seen bonsai that could fit onto my finger tip to ones of a size that would take 10+ men or a crane to lift it. Your ignorance is hilarious

This was a very early video please check out my newer stuff

Why not? Is it not the start of bonsai? A contained tree… a beginning of a journey, sparking one’s passion for trees and nature, carried out on this unusual internet platform to inspire others to also create art with living trees intern curing plant blindest and spreading aware of all things green and living. Broaden your horizons my friend, a wise tutor once told me, everything is bonsai 💚

@@BonsaiCornwall 🐅 🌰🌰🌰 💚