Love this story. I love the idea fo starting off trees that could potentially be cared for as bonsai for hundreds of years.

Lovely video Tony, nice to see you working on your mums table,joke. My latest from seed are still either cherry or plum or both, but have regularly done lemon. Also succeeded with almonds, germination is better than keeping them alive, from 14 I've got 3. Got some spruce and pine to have a go with so will try. Some maples and whitebeam I have outside haven't done anything neither have the acorns, still hoping with them. Keep growing.xx

You're growing more than me Mandy. good on you, and from the sounds of it you enjoy a challenge!

I just got off the phone to the Guinness book of records! 🤣🤣

Haha i wire maple seedlings all the time!

Yeah, I love having lots of trees to choose from, and I also like the idea of potentially planting some out in the wild too

Cheers for the shout out Steve. I'll check it out now! You make a good point about the success of these propagation techniques, it really is no big deal because as you say, there will always be more seeds.

Cheers mate. I suppose that's the beauty of seeds. If we fail it's no great loss. We just start again the following year.

Thanks Steve

Cheers mate

Thank you. Every day is a great day mate!

I'm hoping all this frost will help all the seeds I've got outside to germinate, but I'm definitely growing my pines indoors to start with.

Nice result on the big pine Andrew. It's great when we come across that kind of opportunity. 100 mini pines will keep you busy in the years to come!

Thanks Susan. it's crazy.

Nice one Dave. You'll enjoy looking after them all year. I aim to get mine outside in April

Sounds like you've got a nice little production line on the go there mate. I suspect a few of my pines will die with this wiring, but that's fine. I think it's worth it to get some interesting trunks.

Thanks Govinda. I love these little babies.

@@TonysBonsai learning so much from you Tony, I love your channel it's helped my bonsai journey.

Thank you. I hope your trees are growing very healthily mate.

Cheers mate. Not bad for a chancer!

@@TonysBonsai ,,, I know you’re joking but don’t sell yourself short. It’s your creativity that separates you from the pack. Additionally you’ve inspired your viewers to take chances and not just play it safe. The hundreds of trees you’ve got on the go will take you to bonsai superstardom.😀 The poly tunnel is really going to allow you to take it up a notch. Looking forward to purchasing my first tree from Tony’s Bonsai Nursery. Thanks, keep growing

🤣🤣I'll look forward to sending you one mate. I think 2023 is going to be a brilliant year updating and working on all my projects, not to mention the stuff I've got planned still to create.

Cheers Nikki. That yew video has done really well and has added quite a few subscribers which is always nice.

Hi Clyde. Yes I really enjoy Terry's channel too. He really knows his stuff especially around tridents, olives and pines.

Cheers Peter. Those Austrians are vigorous growers. Are they out performing the JBP?

@@TonysBonsai Yes, they are certainly more advanced. The problem is keeping the growth tight but I'm giving it a go.

Interesting, and I'm confident you will succeed.

Hi Mark. Hopefully you can get some seeds. I find them really easy to germinate

Yes, There is a joy in growing, and as you say you'll never see them as very mature bonsai, you could well see them as pretty nice trees. You better keep exercising and taking those vitamins mate!

Hi Chris. That sounds like a fantastic method. I am subscribed to his channel, but I've not watched one of his for a while. I'm off to take a look now mate

The more I get into bonsai, the more I am seeing the value in starting with young material. It's great working on a big old yamadori, but it is all about dealing with problems. With young trees we can design them to hopefully be fault free to a certain extent.

Yes I agree. It just feels great growing anything be it trees, food or flowers

Thanks Joe. It will be interesting seeing whether or not they appear with them being seeds that I collected myself

Nice one Chris, they sound good. I am thinking of buying some of that mycorrhizal additive to mine. Apparently, it really gives them a boost.

Gotta keep pushing the boundaries mate to see what works

I cut the odd tap root off, but I'm not sure if it was becasue I already disturbed the roots last year but many of them didn't really seem to have one strong tap root.

Cheers Xav. I think you'll enjoy it mate. Your trees went in the post with Parcelforce yesterday guaranteed delivery today 🙂

@@TonysBonsai Can't wait...

Hi PAwel. Yes I am going to try that technique in a furure video. I have plenty of little seedlings so I'm going to test it out. I know bonsiafy does well cutting off all the roots. My soil is pine bark, grit, perlite and compost in equal parts, but I have just this morning ordered a load of coco coir which I will be using going forward instead of the compost for certain trees, and pines are definitely in that group.

I don't know why I didn't even think of that. Great idea mate cheers

@@TonysBonsai don’t think I’ve ever seen anyone do it either. Apart from bonsify maybe 🤔 👍👍👍

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No, I'm not selling any trees. Perhaps I will in the future, but for now I just love producing material for the future and learning.

I don't think there is a right or wrong way. If I was you I would wire at least a few of them now just to compare the different techniques to see what works out best

@TonysBonsai to be honest I struggle getting them to live past 6" so I'm letting them grow as healthy as possible first as I had around 50 saplings last year and they all grew well and as soon as they all started to get to 6" they all started dying one by one 🤣

Hi Ian. Thanks mate. I tend to keep in touch with people on here in the comments, but if it is for something specific, you can email me on anthonyhigginsonphotography@gmail.com

🤣🤣I was thinking about you saying that when I was using it mate. I don't really like to say it, but I'm going to have to buy another roll soon.

@@TonysBonsai I’m sure I’ve got a tangled box of it going spare… 😂😂😂

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