What I like most about Peter Chan is he mixes traditional with innovative and the unconventional stressing that IF YOU like it then do what pleases you and ignore the criticism. I have learned so much from him and have done bonsai for almost 30 years, but was more traditional. I have changed my attitude and thinking considerably because of him. BRAVO!!!

I have half a dozen oak bonsai in training and your video has been very helpful in understanding how much root pruning they can handle. A couple are 28 years old now and I got them as seedlings from my fathers garden after he passed away suddenly at age 59. He was from Portsmouth in England and having these trees makes his memory stay alive.😊

You know you have a lot of bonsai when you can say “ i stumbled around this beautiful oak” in your own field

I just love oak trees. I live in Northern California and in the park behind my house there are 300 year old oaks. There are huge and the branches come down to the ground to give shade to their roots. With temperatures 100 degrees or 40 Celsius on summer they don’t die. They are nature’s cathedrals! They are spectaculars!

I love how you show us how to get big bonsai trees without waiting 50 years!

You have very hardworking assistant. He loves to work with a bonsai master like you i think :)

Thank you for including us Peter, I always love these seeing these mundane tasks

Please tell Padmapriya hi from me. My name's Jack and I used to work in the health food shop with him. I watch your videos and what a coincidence to suddenly recognise him!

I really love Englsih oaks ! As well as they two oak shoots that Peter dug out for me in November, I also took about 10 acorns from the massive tree in front of the nursery car park. Of those acorns, 8 are now growing beautifully. so I have ten English oaks well on their way to becoming future oak bonsai, thanks to Peter and Herons!

Thank you. Living in California I have wondered about making oak bonsai. This is perfect. We have about 300 species of oaks.

The guy doing the pruning has a killer gig I'm jealous! 🌱🌿🌲🌿🌱

nice to see your helper at work!

I just started bonsai you are the best teacher I've seen on here ive learning from you w every video Thanks so much

"can you do it single handed?" "yep" *uses head* 11:30

Thank you for showing us some of the more practical side. I would love to see more of this. Especially how you cut and develop the trunks of field stock like this.

I do enjoy your preference for big bonsai, I wont live long enough to see my potted oaks get that size! They are the size of the second one.

I've always loved this art. The Japanese are in a class of their own. So much respect for their discipline.

Don't clean your gutters for awhile, you'll have all the little trees you want👍 (Ps: I have a lot of respect for the talent this takes, before anyone thinks otherwise)

Again Thank You Master”P” You are the Man!!!🙏🏿

Loved that your doing a video on oaks. They're some of my favorites and don't get enough love in the bonsai world. Also the resolution looks much better in this video!

I’ve been waiting for a video on this since I saved a young oak from our local park. Thank you very much for this!

Wonderful. Just the inspiration I needed for my oak projects. Thank you

Oaks make lovely bonsai subjects. 😀

Fabulously informative Peter! My favourite tree is my oak!

Thank you so much for posting this I was just wondering how an oak would do as bonsai. Very good!

excellent. i studied with John Naka. this brings back memories. thank you

Thanks for this video! It always amazes me how rough you can be with these plants.

Strong and healthy specimen, a splendid future bonsai indeed Peter..thx for sharing and can't wait for the next one..cheers

Love the oaks. I would hope to see more videos on the oak tree bonsais as there aren't many videos out there on them.

The squirrels keep planting these trees, so maybe I’ll make a bonsai out of them.

I love it I am so grateful to learn from your experience - thank you!

That is one beautiful tree, you never know and I guess that is the excitement of Bonsai.

It's a year later now, have you got an update?! Would love to see another year's growth on this and what you've done this year.

I love this tree. Beautiful!

Brilliant tutorial video. Beautiful Oak. Mr Chan is so relaxing to watch and a great teacher. Thank you for sharing.

I’m still yet to add an Oak tree in my Bonsai collection. Such a beautiful and majestic tree... the Oak. Thanks for sharing

so many thanks from France for you videos !

These guys have an incredible eye for detail, amazing.

I'd love to work for Peter, the amount you could learn would be fantastic

I love oaks! Beautiful trees, please keep showing them. I’m growing a few red and English oaks for bonsai from seed

Peter a lovely Oak with the chop becoming a feature, looking forward to seeing this tree in two/three years time.

Thank you for showing this procedure. Many of us do this for our bonsai at home. First grow in the yard then to a pot. I enjoy seeing what they will do in 10 years if i take care. Happy Holidays!

im glad that a master gets help. love your channel :)

Wow thats a large tree, too good 👌👌👌

I really enjoyed that!!!! Thanks for sharing

Again, a very good demonstration and many tricks, thanks.

Thanks for sharing peter just beautiful

Your videos bring me so much joy.

Very nicely done, your like a johnny apple seed of miniature tree ART

Love this video. I found an oak 3 years ago in my garden as well. A squirrel brought it from the neighbours yard with massive several hundred years old oaks in it. Instead of wasting it for lawn I decided to put it in a pot and hope for a nice tree in 30 years as well.

I love your videos so much, I have been trying to do my own bonsai for the last few years, one is now getting long and sparse, so I will now be taking it out of its pot for the first time, it's 7yrs old. I'm going to cut it back, tease the roots and hopefully it will come back better than before. I don't find any of your videos boring, I'm now I'm my 40s but have loved gardening since my teens and adapting large plants and trees to pots as my gardens is small. My biggest problem has been the hot summers we've had here in the UK the last couple of years, our garden is fully south facing, the only shade coming from a hardy twisted willow but it doesn't give much shade. The last two summers hit my plants hard, especially my bonsai maples; burning the leaves and killing a lot of branches of my favourite one. I cut them back and 75% was saved but it's now lost its lovely shape. I've started watching your wonderful insightful videos and hope to make it into a better bonsai than previously. Many Thanks

Really inspiring. Thank you for showing that you can adapt and some rules can be amended. I'm planning to have 2 outdoor oak bonsai from the acorns of and ancient oak my late father loved. I plan to nurture these bonsai and have one for myself and one for my brother so we can bring new life in his memory

On the topic of recording everything even the mundane... this is a video I have been hoping to find for quite some time and I was searching your channel for oak bonsai. So thank you for recording this moment!

I have just re watched this , as I do love Oaks, Wonderful tree and one I will look out for on my visit

I admire the work of you and your colleague... hats off to you guys 🎩

I love your nursery. What a great place to work. If you love plants that is, and I do.

Thanks peter and friend for a lovely video on the oak godbless

I would love to have that tree from Mr. Peter it's another one of his famous beautiful works of art Jesse

Those are the best gloves ever!! Perfect all around uses👍👍

Would enjoy seeing this oak a couple years later. Thank you for this lesson. Texas

lovely, a real pleasure to watch an artist at work.

Thank you. Living in California we have many oaks and I found some seedlings by a water faucet drain, with lots of debris. Some still have their acorns attached. I am excited to see what you have done. I am most grateful to learn that one does not use akadama for all trees, as I have been having more success with our native soil and mixing it with peat in some cases. Yes, I really appreciate the dedicated boring maintenance "stuff".

Step one: chop the top off 5 years ago...

I love all your videos.I'm 66, just start this lovely world 2 months ago, thanks to your videos.Greetings from Capri, a small island in Italy.ps,a big thank you to your assistant.

got my first oak yamadori today love it. Thanks alot for your videos I appreciate it alot and learnt so much already. Please never stop :(

Amazing tree , I do love Oak . Thank you Peter for sharing 🙏✌️

Love this idea im going to use this for a southern live oak. Wishing you good health in 2020 with the corona virus epidemic.

Also: wonderful that their nursery is thriving despite so much flyover from Gatwick.

Bout a year ago I picked up an oak tree seed amongst hundreds of seeds. Thought it looked cool and figure why not throw it it some soil. I paid it no mind since I planted it in one of my mother’s pots (since she waters her plants everyday). To my surprise I noticed a little plant sprouting months later. I was shocked the seed sprouted given the unfavorable conditions. Just soil and water with no prep work whatsoever. Really made me think a lot about life and it’s will to persevere. So here I am to prepare it for a long winter and hopefully a healthy and prosperous life.

Peter Chang, you are the biggest bungler what I have seen in my life

What a pleasure to learn from such a joy to see the transition

Gorgeous tree!

Nice n a good assistant too

‘This pot looks a bit big, mmmm, but the tree will be more comfortable in this pot.’ That’s why i love this hobby. It can be seen to be brutal and harming, but experts down to the general hobbyist gain through this interest a greater respect for nature/trees.

Looks great 👍

Wow, that is incredible!!!

Thank you very much for sharing your knowledge. You make me more confident to grow my trees, from wild seebling found in garden or forest nearby.

Fabulous Mr. Peter!

Thank you for this video absolutely wonderful.

Everything about what you do is amazing

Thankyou for sharing this amazing tree. Love the videos

I have always loved bonsai, and this channel has pushed me to do my own, I have a ficus I got for 6 dollars and a red pine (which needs time to grow) for free. I’m also trying to propagate a Japanese maple from a cutting, which is proving to be quite difficult. I love the attitude of saving money and working with what you have 🙏

When I'm unsure if the tree likes this, he goes ahead and says "these beautiful, fine roots" "it's quite safe to do this".

Another great video packed with great info thank you!

Thank you Peter - I am planning on starting an Oak off for my first grandchild expected In March and you are and continue to be the inspiration I need

I like what you are doing, as you explain quite a bit about Bonsai trees and their needs. I also like that you are not so doing so much sculpting of the tree's, that involve carving and burning the trees like another KZfaqr I saw. As I started two silk fan tree's from seed, about 3 years ago and have been learning with them. So your video's are helping me to understand a little more about how to care for the tree's. So thank you for that. And I like that you are working with tree species, like Oak's which grow naturally around the area where I live as does Cedar, pine, Box Elm and a few others.

Can't wait to see more oak bonsai

Thank you for making these videos.

gorgeous!!

6:30 that "Oh is it" is such a perfect blend between your native accent and English

I've run across more than a few oaks that I now have a reason to dig up. Thanks!

It might be mundane for these guys, but this is teaching me how to do it better myself. Thank you for sharing.

I love it. I have a baby sapling oak and this makes me hopeful

Despite the surely often difficult work, it must be a very satisfying feeling to work with such beautiful creatures. Happy who is allowed to do such a job.

I have two x 200 year old oak trees in my garden, from them I have now got 1x 5 year old ,just starting its first year of shaping and 7 that are 3 year old ,thickening up , 1 acorn from last year and surprisingly 1 that looks like the small one Peter showed at the end. thank you Peter

Did anyone else's mind explode when he's like turn the tree ightly counter clockwise and boom its like 1000 times better and you have no clue how thats possible

I first watched this video way back in March when I developed an interest in bonsai,watching again now as I have successfully germinated 3 or 4 oaks

I just found your channel not too long ago and I find ALL of the videos very interesting. I have learned so much in such a short time! Wish I could visit the nursery. Unfortunately, I'm in California....... Thank you for making these videos!

Love your work sir 👏

BEAUTIFUL TREE. I've put 2 in the ground this year, now I wait. Thankyou.