Ahah everyone is different, I struggle with conifers, but i find maple much easier to keep, and to form

@@nicolasgoarnigou8046 pines are far more forgiving and use their own sap to heal any cuts you make which reduces the risk of infection. I generally find them far easier!!

I’m an Australian “Covid beginner” too. Don’t have any maples yet but I am experimenting with some natives, Banksias, eucalypts and she oak. I find Peters channel very informative and accessible.

Belgium COVID beginner here. We are in the middle of summer. You both must be looking foreward to spring, Repotting and some pruning sessions will be there soon. Enjoy the spring and the beauty it brings. coming winter is my first as tree/bonsai keeper, so I hope I get al of them true the cold. Most are winter hard, my most difficult will be my bougainvillea.

@@pgp72 maples need winter dormancy of -10c or lower

@@scheers100 be carefull with that bougenvillea . Im in nyc and had one that was at least 35 yrs old and it died. I put it in the shed from the cold . I would say best keep it inside ur house so it gets heat. And thats why i dont mess with tropicals anymore . No room in my house. If u get winters that are say below 40 degrees fareheight it has to go in a warm place. Dont take a chance. I thought mine would be ok in a shed and didnt work out. I had a really nice one too

Hey ann if ur in australia u should join the show this week on the channel bonsai-en. He doing a tree critique where people send in pics of their trees and he analyzes them.good to learn and its a great channel

As someone who got into bonsai this last year, I say jump in! You start learning more by applying what Peter teaches here, and it is one of the most rewarding hobbies I've ever encountered!

@@JankTank Thank you for your words of encouragement my friend. May God bless your path 🙏🏼♥️🙏🏾

Let me know before you come so that I make a point of being around to meet you.

@@peterchan3100 ofcourse i will PM you via Email :D but dunno if it is possible to visit you this year (Covid 19 situation and restriction in England to EU)

Id hope so .this guy is the og bonsai enthusiast/artist

To each his own. 🙂

@@mchlbk its not like its a bad thing :)

i don't think the owner wants to create a shohin out of his tree. The maple shown is about 3 feet or so in height, to cut 2 feet of would totally destroy the tree. Remember that bonsai can be up to 25 feet high, even potted. Not all bonsai are tiny little trees that fit into your hand. And what Peter has shown here is not to keep focus on the faults but how to get the best out of a tree that has faults, but can be grown out over time (ok, maybe not in the current owners lifetime, but in future generations times)

Most "expensive" bonsai (to me) look like wooden poodles.

I don’t like the ball on a stick trees you see everywhere either 😅 what is it with people they all have the same bland taste

@@murray821 and the grafting branchs....with those ugly 90 degree turns where they connect to the trunk. Or the trunk chop ladder. All of this mind you makes it worth thousands. This is why my love for bonsai is centered around yamadori.

I'm with you. I can't stand shrubs made into boxes or "green meatballs" as the Central Pennsylvania Patriot-News calls it. Prune with hand pruners not shears and certainly not those awful reciprocating hedge trimmers. Yuck!

@@AmraphelofShinar hedge trimmers should be called hedge murderers.

No I wouldn't do that.

Checkout bonsainut.com where you can post pictures and get appropriate collective feedback l

I thought you were going to say it turned our BAD.

@@peterchan3100 Once in a while some commenters say they liked it better before the pruning. Often I think it's because they look at the leaves instead of the branch structure. New leaves will form in no time and the improved branch structure will make the tree look better than before the pruning.

Bonsai are like sculpture & should be interesting from all sides, but there's always a preferred viewing angle.

@@katman734 That moment at your local bonsai club when one of the other guys walks in... turns your tree round 180 degrees and tilts it at another angle and covers on of the foliage pads, and says..there's ya tree pal ! 5 mins later... another guy with another idea..and so fourth and so on.

Just from watering

I do go to customers sometimes but check what I charge first.

@@peterchan3100 thank you, will do. Just watched today’s video on the Deshojo in complete awe. I will persevere but, then again …❤️

I did ! I was looking for this comment 🤣

Use in Spring

Hello sir, Thank you for your answare. I had buy this fertilizer but now in preperation for the dormant season i cannot find your other reccomandation for low nitrogen fertilizer (4/7/10 or 4/10/10). I got an offer on low nitrogen fertilizer 9/14/19 for strong stems, but i dont have the knowledge to know whether it is too high for bonsai trees for the dormant season?

Yay man - But we have to live in the real world - with all its faults.

Be the change, my friend. 🙂

Maples are normally put in more colorful glaze pot. The mica pot is a training pot in that sense.

Put ant powder - that will get them moving away.

I may have an idea, and I'm an extreme beginner, I've only watched a few hours of KZfaq, read a few books on Portuguese of all languages and tended to a bonsai for a bit. As I understand it, having a 50 year old tree grow on a tiny pot is artificial enough, so they try to make it as "immersive" as possible by making it look natural, by making it seem molded by nature instead of human hands, and a clean cut is too artificial. In nature, branches break kind of rough, either by animals, weight or wind, and the elements erode the then dead wood or it simply rots. So to make it more natural, either you embrace the beautiful dead wood (interesting topic in the bonsai world, look it up) or you make it seem like it never happened, by helping the tree cover the scars. However, I agree with you, scars are beautiful and can tell a story.

@@taiyoqun ur right! Theres a saying make ur bonsai look like a tree not ur tree look like a bonsai

@@taiyoqun yes i think though you are a self proclaimed beginner, you have the right mindset. I think what you said made sense. Its not about whether its a scar or not its about whether or not it looks like you did it.

We are experiencing an Indian Heat wave at the moment 32 C !!