I would love to see an update on the 'new Peter Chan's split trunk maple' in 2021. You are an inspiration.

It’s obvious that Peter knows what he’s doing, but his confidence allows him to be so “rough” that I find myself wincing throughout these videos while listening to him rake through the roots and chop off bits and pieces.

I truly appreciate how you talk about your work and share your thoughts teaching the viewers the wisdom of your craft. I am impressed to see how much you know about each individual tree. May you be blessed with a joyful and long life.

The split trunk maple is pictured on the hard cover of the first bonsai book I was gifted when I was about 11 years old. I just found your youtube channel a few days ago and I'm so glad to be able to see your creations again. I will be 43 years old soon and you Sir are a childhood memory come to life! God bless you.

This is one of the best videos Peter chan has done. His opinion on all these different trees is Inspiring.

I can't get enough of these videos. They are immensely useful and helpful in illustrating the many different approaches to take for each unique specimen. Thank you for sharing your knowledge so generously.

Another wonderful video. Maples are so beautiful.

i love this variety pot video to see how to observe and created the impossible style of each! thnx Peter

Absolutely awesome! I can’t wait for more of your videos. You’ve taught me so much and given me the courage and ideas to do. Thank you very much

Thank you for explaining Maples weeping from cuts, not needing tending with sealant. Love seeing how you choose limbs and being told why

I very much enjoyed this video. I always enjoy your content & your plethora of knowledge in everything bonsai. Thank you for sharing your experiences with us.

Thank you Peter. I am about to do my first air layering of two Japanese Maples and your videos helped me immensely.

Excellent video. Thank you for share !

That split trunk maple is stunning. Thanks for showing it

Thanks for another great video. Maple and Oak is by far my favourite Bonsai trees. :)

Peter, I had to pause the video on the "split trunk maple", that photo is worth framing, it seems as iconic to me as Hokusai's "great wave". Also, that's what you should make a Tee Shirt print of.

Awesome! very informative and worth watching.

Wonderful video! Your voice is so soothing, while we learn the Art of Bonsai! You cannot ask for anything better! Great Teacher!

Fantastic. Excelent. Thanks you for the Video Sir.

This must rank as the best youtube videos I have ever seen; thank you for sharing so freely, of your immense knowledge and experience. I have always been attracted to the concept of Bonsai, but was entirely ignorant on the subject. I have already learned SO much from you and cannot wait to begin on my very own Bonsai journey. Thank you again and all the best!

Brilliant video. Was looking at starting a couple of bare roots this winter. But I think a visit for a raw specimen and a couple of pots will keep my collection keeping me busy. Even better your in the same shire as me. Great advice on air layering too.

2nd time watching this loved it as much as the first time ... thanks peter.

I love how you know each tree and with so many you still remember after a few years.

amazing work with maples. Really a master of if. Arigatō sensei.

Thanks for sharing yet another amazing, educational and entertaining presentation, Peter. Cheers, Dick from Vancouver.

You know you're knee deep in bonsai when you say "only 2 years ago" like it isn't a long time to wait.

Thank you mr Peter for more information about bonsai.

Thanks for this wonderful video!

I love these videos, I have only one request, Would it be possible to cover the “soil” you use for different trees? As example, what is in the containers you are opening in this video? Thank you Herons!

Fantastic video Peter.

Fantastic video, very informative. thankyou.

Man I am envious of this guy. It must be freeing to have so many bonsais of so many ages that you have no inhibitions of really getting in there and being aggressive. He has no fear. But the end results are no doubt better. I am admittedly afraid to do much to my bonsais as I only have two, but I know in the long run it is better to go for it.

Gorgeous trees.

Rather inspiring. I bought a young air-layered Japanese Maple recently, which has a rather skinny trunk. I put it into a plastic pot for now, on top of a piece of ceramic tile, hoping to encourage horizontal roots. After watching this, I think I might wire the trunk into some 'S' shape. Thanks!

Peter Chan is the Bob Ross of Bonsai!!!! A true legend

thank you so much for sharing your knowledge about bonsai.

Thank you ur teaching is Interested, learning skills slowly.

Absolutely magnificent. You are truly a masterful artist. Thankyou for so generously filming all your processes. I am so inspired by your work. God bless you.

unreal video iam hooked mr chan 2 years ago I seen one of your video,s and now have trees thank you …

17:22 I saw this tree in your book in the mid '90s when I was a teenager. I feel in love immediately. It is very similar to a Japanese mountain maple tree my grandparents on my mother's side planted from a cutting my grandmother got some odd 60 or 70 years ago, which was much later transplanted to my parent's new house. Unfortunately, after 20 years or so, it has not made it these past 2 years and was taken down. I miss it dearly. Such a beautiful tree with so much meaning to me. As a young and untamed rascal of a kid, I kicked it and split the trunk, but my grandfather wrapped it up and it healed. A part of my life that I learned from and cherished died with that tree, a tree I might have killed, but one that was saved and eventually died like any other tree might have. I wish I would have saved it, but I never thought it would be gone. That is the last lesson it had to teach me.

Lovely video, Master Chan

So inspiring and so Beautiful I want to try air layering one day.

I love the confidence he has from experience. I cringe at how rough he is with the trees--even while knowing that he's done this for longer than I've been alive and knows that the trees will be fine.

Thank you for sharing. Always good information and fun to watch.

Watched this again, learned so much more, takes a few views to really understand the decisions and now that I have so many baby maples it's a great review.

Very helpful. Thank you.

Thank you so much for the demonstration! It was extremely helpful.

Thanks Mr Chan that was very entertaining

Masters at work!

Great work sir. I admire your Bonsai knowledge.

Very, very good video. Thank you for consistently giving us good quality inspiration.

Great video!

Educational as always

I have learned a lot with this video, I suscribe to your channel to follow up all the projects and knowledges you share. Thanks.

Peter Chan rules. I love bonsai!

I very much appreciate it !!! Thanks Sensei !!!

Good afternoon. I'm from Québec in Canada. This province produces over 80% of the world's maple syrup, a delicious sweetener produced by boiling and reducing the collected sap of maple trees in early spring (March and April), before the leaf buds burst. The technique was taught to European explorers (settlers / colonists) by North American native peoples in the sixteenth century. Just thought you'd like to know!

Every tree is individual has its own characteristics... love watching you work on each of them

great video!

Thank you. I'd forgotten that, to take the dirt down a bit to expose more taper.

I got some v reasonable priced acer this week (i snapped up a load of them) and im in the middle of repotting - they need a lot of defoliation and pruning to get the leaf size down and more dense growth. Great tip on not pruning back flush to a node -v good to know.

Hello Peter, could you kindly make a video showing how to develop new trees from field maple root cuttings? It would be interesting to learn your method and try my hand at this. I realize this is an older video so I will repost this on your latest video too. Thank you and be well! -EJ in the San Jose, CA

Hello! Love watching your videos. Can you advise on the best soil for maple re potting please? Thank you

The explanation was really AMAZING Sir.

Absolutely enjoyed it! Thank you!

Have you seen any differences between plastic pots and geotextil pots with the tree grow ?

Really nice video, and A+ on the audio again

Great way to keep grandpa feeling in charge! Beautiful

I thoroughly enjoyed this video my friend. Your skill is much admired here in Winter Garden, Florida!

Brilliant.

Absolutely amazing! Just beautiful 👍

Thank you Steve

Thank you very much!

1:37 made me laugh, the branch shooting off was so dramatic xD

Interessante vidéo. Toujours l’obligation de faire des choix drastiques pour avoir par la suite de beaux arbres de qualité. Merci 👍

How do you encourage branch growth after you've achieved a good thick trunk? For example your new split trunk maple, how will you get the trucks to start making smaller branches?

Thank you so much for sharing your knowledge!

You are awesome!

Peter you rock ! Thanks for this video (and others too).

Peter:Where is the JUNIPER Maple: I’ll never say Peter:Nods, cut off another limb Maple: No,no,NOOOOOOOO

I just purchased 4 Japanese maples to bonsai. Should I grow them in large pots at first? Or plant them in the ground?

Love to watch the bare trunks it make you understand and appreciate the form more

When is the best time of year to create cuts like this?

Thank you for showing the decision process. I have a maple from the nursery which has two leading trunks and now I know I have to cut one as it is not aesthetically appealing on this particular tree!

As usual love this video. When can I airleyer this kind of plant. Thank you.

Useful video. 1. What happens with cuts? What do you do with them? 2. Can I make for a maple at the same time, replanting, cutting and air layering?

How long does it take for a bonsai tree to grow towards full-size

I'm still stuck on what soil to use for all types of bonsai I've got 8 different types of bonsai seeds do I just use multipurpose for a year or 2 then put them in bonsai soil? I emailed you're team and asked but I didn't get a answer I have tropicals and evergreens

Awesome

@peter @heronsbonsai I have a Japanese maple forest starting to grow now and wake up due to spring (I live in Southern California). However, I have noticed that the leaves are starting to curl at the tips and have small red spots on them. The tree is in the shade so I know it can’t be sun burn. It leads me to believe it is a fungus because it is slowly spreading. I have applied a copper fungicide. However I am at a lost about what to do next. Should I prune the infected leaves? Only half on the tree has broken it’s buds and sprouted leaves. The other half is slowly starting to swell. Any information you have will help me thank you. I know it is a bad idea to prune early spring. However I am afraid that all new grow will start to curl up and die. I also have a trident maple that has started to fill it’s leaves asp well. However this tree is showing black tar looking stains on them. Not sure what is happening. My other maples are doing fine. But these two trees are giving me issues now at the start of spring. The trident has black spots on it’s leaves The Japanese maple has red spots and the tips are curling, then the leaf dies. Hope to hear from the maple master. Not sure if you have seen tang of this on your trees before. If you have, what have you done too treat?

Hi I’ve got a Japanese maple about 6 years old last year 2023 the leaves got badly scorched I defoliated all the leaves but all the branches died the trunk was as thick as a thumb I cut it back to an inch above the soil repotted it and it’s in my mini green house I’ve noticed a new shoot 1/4 of an inch up from the soil on the trunk what should I do any help would be appreciated thanks Gary Snell

Great!

That's nice bonsais

Seems people don't give much attention to trees grown from seed. Do you think that it is because people are impatient. Of course use any method /s to create. But I think seed grown in pot is special. Thank you for your great videos.

Well...you are a great man for giving us tips etc. Thank you.

Where can I buy that rounded branch cutter that you are using? You said you don't sell tools so then where can one purchase it? Thanks

This may be a very stupid question but I have many american red maples of all sizes growing wild in the woods on my property. Would it be feasible to pick out several in the five to eight foot size and lope them off 12 to 18" and allow them to grow for a season and then dig them up while dormant and root prune and pot them for the next year.

sir this Japanese maple it can grow in tropical country like philippines?

thanks fore the insight

Please help with answer! Specifically What kind of maple trees are these?