Spruce and Pine

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Tora bonsai school

6 жыл бұрын

A tree for a customer and a tree from our collection were finished before the busy summer season.

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@robertobreglia2544 3 жыл бұрын

Your videos are always beautiful and very interesting! The spruce is just fantastic. You are a great artist very compliments! 👍👍👍👍😊

@Torabonsaischool 3 жыл бұрын

Thank you!

@EH18 3 жыл бұрын

Thank you for the tip about pruning the spruce!

@Torabonsaischool 3 жыл бұрын

You are welcome!

@Heisemberg000 3 жыл бұрын

I write from Sardinia ... your work is absolute amazing. I’ve started since 2 years ,trying to improve with yamadori plants, this videos are gold !!! Tnx again

@Torabonsaischool 3 жыл бұрын

Thanks for watching!

@prataelena4211 5 жыл бұрын

Thank you for the very helpful explanations and zooming images that show us your work in detail. After watching this video again I got the idea of cutting the spruce buds after they harden (as you mentioned on your video yesterday): it's about structuring the next years growth.

@isidrobartolomecarrillo9853 3 жыл бұрын

...!... gratificantes todos los vídeos *GRACIAS* ♡ ...!...

@Torabonsaischool 3 жыл бұрын

Thanks for watching!

@oaantonsen3275 5 жыл бұрын

A nice and helpful video. Beautiful tree as well.

@HansKaramottoBonsai 6 жыл бұрын

Again a well made video with clear and helpful advice and two beautiful finished Bonsai! Cheers and C U soon, Hans van Meer.

@Torabonsaischool 6 жыл бұрын

Hans Karamotto thanks, your opinion means a lot to me!

@glenwatcheston633 5 жыл бұрын

Awesome work on your trees. I appreciate the advice and information you provide. Good luck with everything.

@Torabonsaischool 5 жыл бұрын

Thanks!

@alfredgrechbonsailicious4827 3 жыл бұрын

Again very informative. Thanks from Malta for sharing.

@Grzegorz2109 2 жыл бұрын

Perfect !

@MoncoCarser 5 жыл бұрын

I am thinking of growing my own bonsai and spruce could look very nice :)

@banjopete 4 жыл бұрын

Beautiful work.

@Torabonsaischool 4 жыл бұрын

Thanks!

@icejunki 4 жыл бұрын

First time viewer. I really enjoyed the style of video editing and even the music.

@Torabonsaischool 4 жыл бұрын

Thanks! You are more than welcome to watch other videos too!

@icejunki 4 жыл бұрын

@@Torabonsaischool I most certainly will. Thank you.

@bonsaitherapy1468 5 жыл бұрын

Really nice! So prune it in early spring and wire it summer

@Torabonsaischool 5 жыл бұрын

Exactly!

@bonsaitherapy1468 5 жыл бұрын

@@Torabonsaischool Thank you. I am just starting and there is still a lot to figure put!

@danfernando8092 4 жыл бұрын

Thanks!

@ctk39 4 жыл бұрын

At 8:01 you say, "The tree is done growing for the year and the branches will not thicken any more." Yes it's true that the tree's foliage stops growing by the end of June, however, the tree's vascular growth (branch thickening) won't begin until the end of the summer and will continue through the Fall! So, the reason you can wire the tree in June is that the foliage has hardened off will be less easily damaged when applying wire. Great video, keep up the great work and beautiful trees!

@Torabonsaischool 4 жыл бұрын

Well, in theory you might be right. But in the real life the branches are thickening the most when the growth is in full swing. So, if you wire your tree in the April, then you'll be cuting the wire off already at the end of the June, because it will be biting in to the bark. But if you wire your tree after that first flush of growth, then you can leave the wire on the branch (in the most cases) for almost a year, which is of course more eficient. I am just talking from my 20+ yrs of experiences ... Thanks for watching!

@prataelena4211 5 жыл бұрын

That's a pleasure to watch Tora Bonsai School videos again and again. About spruces, I have a well established Dwarf Picea Spruce about 60 cm tall and 8 -10cm diameter at the base; I repotted it into a shallower pot this March and did pinching the buds as you showed us about two weeks ago. Now I think it's time for the first styling. The problem is that my spruce has two big nodes along the trunk, I mean 4 or 5 branches growing from the same point. I suppose I should cut off some of them and leave just a maximum of two on a node? Another question is to do pruning the branches and wiring at beginning of summer, when the tree will bleed lots of resin, or wait till late autumn or so to do it? Thank you

@Torabonsaischool 5 жыл бұрын

Thanks for watching my videos! It is always hard to give advice if you don't see the tree in person. Sometimes more branches from one point is only solutions you have, but in theory is better to cut them. Are the shoots hard already? Do they have the same color as the old ones? If so, then it is time for styling. I always tray to work on spruces in the beginning of the summer because then the wire can stay on the tree longer.

@prataelena4211 5 жыл бұрын

@@Torabonsaischool

@prataelena4211 5 жыл бұрын

thank you for your advice. I'll wait one or two weeks for the buds to have the same colour as the rest and then I'll try the first styling on my spruce which looks like a proper Christmas tree with a nice thick canopy of foliage at the top. It's a bit daunting for me as a beginner, as I already killed two junipers so far with my styling. So, the resin bleeding after cutting some branches won't do much harm to the tree, will it?

@Torabonsaischool 5 жыл бұрын

@@prataelena4211 no, no harm

@oussamachaachoui3727 3 жыл бұрын

Great beautiful video A question, what kind of camera do you use ? Image looks so great Thanks

@Torabonsaischool 3 жыл бұрын

My main camera is Sony fdr ax53

@oussamachaachoui3727 3 жыл бұрын

@@Torabonsaischool it makes a great images

@aurorazxgaming5842 4 жыл бұрын

Why is the spray bottle used? I’m very curious

@Torabonsaischool 4 жыл бұрын

As was explained in the video: with spraying we prevent needles to fall off. With Spruce this is very important.

@aurorazxgaming5842 4 жыл бұрын

Tora bonsai school ooooh! I didn’t know this and will make a good addition to my spruce knowledge! Thank you!

@EMATREMA 4 жыл бұрын

Interesting... but why the water prevent the needles to fall off? It would be cool if you could explain why.. thank you

@Torabonsaischool 4 жыл бұрын

Needles are covered with essential oil which prevents evaporation. With touching the needles with our dry hands we clear the oil and the needles dry out in matter od minutes.

@flipknuckle Жыл бұрын

is it true that in bonsai anatomy and aesthetics, the lowest branch should not be the back branch.

@Torabonsaischool Жыл бұрын

That would be the front one ...

@Caseydog3 5 жыл бұрын

How often do I water a juniper in cold climate winter indoors?

@Torabonsaischool 5 жыл бұрын

Indoors? Junipers (at least most od them) are hardy and I left them outside during winter..

@Caseydog3 5 жыл бұрын

8” pot in PA ?

@Torabonsaischool 5 жыл бұрын

Hardyness is not corelated with size ...

@Caseydog3 5 жыл бұрын

No but I thought the root ball would freeze and kill it

@Torabonsaischool 5 жыл бұрын

@@Caseydog3 hardyness means, that the plant is imune to cold. If the freezing of roots would be a problem, than we wouldn't have trees. First year after the plant grows out of the seed, the roots are very shalow and when winter comes they freez. And there is no problem. The problem is not cold, problem is winter drought, so we must water our plants and give them a shelter from the winds, not from the cold.