You explain so well Jelle. Many people I assume including myself struggle more with understanding pines. Thankyou.

Thanks for addressing the Scots. I am in Kansas and have been field growing just under 500 for about 4 years from seedlings and they are very healthy. I have done some hard pruning with great luck and will be doing more small ramification the next two years. This video was very helpful for me.

Lovely clear, no frills or gimmicks explanation and demonstration Jelle, exactly what I signed up for, thanku. Unfortunately my yamadori Scots pine died, but I did have expert advice from experienced, trustworthy people, namely you and Magnus from Green Machine Sweden. God bless you 🙏✝️ ✌️🇺🇦🌻✌️

Thank you so much for sharing your amazing knowledge. You give such a strong rational vibe I'd bet you did programming at some time in life, and even if not that you'd be great at it

The explanation is very details,a little bit complicated for me who live in the tropics.but I enjoy it to increase my knowledge about plants. +. If there is a tree trunk that grows straight up ,just make it dead wood so that it looks like it was struck by lightning🌩🌩🌩😊

Thank you 😊

Thank you for the information.

Thanks for providing rare and very precious information. 🙏

Excellent explanation of back budding on two needle pines !

Well rounded and informative on trimming this pine species. Letting us know pro and con aspects, and showing drove it home for me.

Excellent informational video. One of the best I found on this subject. Thank you.

Really enjoying your videos Jelle. Keep em coming! 👍

A very good and needed video. I have a fair number of scots pines and many JBP. They are indeed very different. Scot pines can easily become leggy with long branches and little ramification. There are also many different species of Scots pines with grater number of characteristics within the same species. Based on the timing of the video I'm guessing you were doing this in conjunction with approximately the same time japanese black pine would have candle pruning. It would be nice to hear your thoughts on needle pulling as an adjuvant technique for inducing back budding for Scots Pines. Needle pulling seems much more applicable to JBP because they tend to keep the needles much longer. Scots pines also tend to back bud in areas on the tree that is inherently different than JBP. In the USA Scots pines are not nearly as common as bonsai. It may be different on the East Coast were they are grow wild though not native like in Europe. Scots pine seem to have more numbers of candles at node junctions. Any thoughts on how many candles to leave/pull. Some Scots pines will form seven or more candles leading to large unsightly nodes if not managed. I think European growers have much better insight to these trees. There is not enough information about Scots pine bonsai development available IMO. Thank you!!! Mats

I'm a big fan of Scott pines !! your video is very helpfull !!!tanks a lot from France ;)

The same with mugo pines! Thank you for the video

Top video, bedankt

Excellent and informative video as always Jelle! 👍🐦💙

Great video and advice 👍..

Thanks, Jelle! Finally I feel I understand why to do these operations on pines and how to do them! Another very clear video like the one on roots over rock. By the way, I’ve just made a roots over rock forest with 5 1-year-old Ulmus Parviflora cuttings following your instructions that turned out fantastic! Let’s see over the next year how it goes!

Good info thanks! Got my first scots pine a year ago. Random nursery stock that had 11 branches in a whorl. Chopped the trunk down and left one side branch. It set buds like crazy! Keen to see what it does in a couple weeks as spring hits new zealand

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Mantap hadir nyimak👍👍👍

I spend 15years on my pine bonsai but i am so bad at designing bonsai i just grow em compact and try to get shorter growth and nice roots and old bark

You have excellent videos! Would this go with mugo to then?

Great content Jelle, I've love how consise but informative your videos are. When developing a scots pine what sort of fertilizer do you use? Just organic rapeseed pellets?

Absolutely perfect explanation and should encourage others to get into those pines at the garden centres! I thought I better warn you that I have nominated you for the $50 bonsai challenge in my video this afternoon (5pm). I wasn't sure if you had been challenged yet but I would be very interested to see what you can do at this time of the season! Cheers

Hi, thanks for wonderfull explaination of pruning pine. I need little guidance. I am in India where the temperature is more than 40 degree Celsius during May June and July. I have to black pine plants in growing phase. Could you please guide me when to decandle the plant? I am really confused.

Does this technique work for 5 needle white pines too? I need to force some serious backbudding on my white pine

Fantastic Video again! Wann topfst du Sylvestris um, Im Frühjahr oder im Herbst?

Could you please explain the difference between buds and candles, and the way you treat those. I am still having hard time understanding if one evolves into another ? Thanks

What date did you do this work? Would this technique work with Mugo pines? We’re you just decandling the current year’s candles like you would do for JBP, or we’re you cutting back into the previous year’s growth? Thank you for the intriguing video.

By the way, in which category spruces belong to? Should I apply the same technique to it?

Thks for sharing at what time of the year you can do this Work Please?

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Thank you! That's very informative. But I wish you hadn't cut the sound that roughly in between shots :)

Sorry, i don't get WHEN (month?) have you done the pruning?

I have a mugo pine I picked up for $22 that had roots wrapped around the truck and it’s only 2” tall before it branches out. There’s a main apex with a purplish cone on it. I pruned it to get rid of whirls, and cut the tips out. Only 2 branches didn’t handle the pruning and my observation is (if you kill a branch on mugo it will brown and die quickly. Everything seems okay with the tree, but the trunk is probably 3” in diameter and super short! My question is: if your Scot’s pine backbuds, will a mugo backbud similarly? I read they do not and to leave needles where you want branches and they won’t backbud? Thanks

❤ hoeveel naalden laat u op de tak staan ? Na het inkorten van kaars?

Hi Does the same principle apply to Japanese white pine? Thank you

there's lots of information about what to do with black pine because the Japanese have been developing them as bonsai for decades. eventually with experimenting like this we will know what to do with our pines.

Ich werde mich an meine Kiefer setzen und entsprechend verfahren.

hallo Jelle, Er zijn ook drienaalden dennen

Greetings! I have a scots pine, who in fact is a lot like yours. It was collect 2 years ago, and has been sitting in a large fruit basket since then. At some point I am going to have to consider how I want to style it, but I have no clue where to begin. If I were to provice you with photos, is there any chance you could give me a few pointers? By the way, love your videos!

*Japanese White Pine - Pinus parviflora

Hoe gaat het nu met deze ?

Stone pine?

I think I need a bit more experience before I do anything like that to my pines...