I found your channel during a period of grieving for my dad and discovered Bonsai and got inspired to make some of my own Trees. The process was so therapeutic and helped with healing my shattered spirit. I just wanted to say a small thank you for your great videos without which I think KZfaq would be a poorer place. 👍

This isnt boring at all, I watch these videos to relax after a long day :)

Good morning everyone. Good health and happy bonsai-ing to you all. May your trees be flourishing, your internodes be short and your branches vigorous.

No doubt these videos keep us all in positive spirits Peter! I think it’s safe to say The Love we all share with nature is un-breakable ☯️

Love these videos Peter. I told my 14 year old daughter that you had released another video, as she loves watching your tutorials too but she already knew as she’s following you too on her own account. I don’t think you need to worry about younger generations of bonsai enthusiasts, two of my daughters love it. Another of my daughters did a project all about bonsai and its history for a school project. I’ve got you covered for fans going forward 😊

I hope every single person who watches your videos geta something from it, actually it would be hard NOT to with your wonderfull and informative commentary and amasing examples. I recently got into bonsai, ans you have been my greatest inspiration ❤

Invaluable tutorials, even if I’ll never get my hands on pines to work with, your words will guide me in improving my material, thank you

From north Carolina been waiting your videos for the past few years i am not the youngest 30 years old but you have got me out twisting up any tree I can its made me get out more i am out walking looking for my next tree almost every day it's like theripy to me

Beautiful results!!!! When there is so much nonsense programming on the TV, it’s just so wonderful to be able to turn to your excellent and enjoyable videos. Thanks so much for sharing your knowledge!!!

herons, your knowledge will live as long as most of the trees you care for. thank you again.

I've been studying bonsai since I was in high school, and I'd never till now heard of trunk-splitters. There are so many lanky but stiff pines I could have trained if I'd known. Very good vid, I enjoyed it.

Thanks Mr Chan for the awesome vid Got to get me a splitter. Big Fan

Thank you Peter, your videos are a real treat and I learn more and more each time I see them (I often watch them more than once). I do hope my order can be sent soon, can't wait to get practicing some more. You are a brilliant teacher! Speaking of which, I remember a saying that goes "when the student is ready, the teacher will appear... " I hope I will see many more videos along the way. Stay safe!

Hi Peter, I agree with your comment of finding young practitioners to be rare , I however am 34 yo and have been training Bonsai for over 20years, but believe you me I used to get strange looks by my peers when explaining my passion. thank you for your videos! the inspiration of others I believe to be very important in this field, kind regards from the land of sphagnum (NZ) - Dan

Out where I lived in Nevada we had Scots Pines . They always reminded me of Bonsai because they were very twisted and not very large, relative to pines around lake Tahoe

Throughout the pandemic I have watched many of your videos on KZfaq Master Chan, and you have kept me sane and I have learnt so many things from your bonsai videos, keep the videos coming they are really useful and always delightful to listen to your voice and watch your mastery skills in the Bonsai world! Lee

Loved watching the changing of difficult shapes into very respectable plants. Thx

@Peter Chan I just wanted to say thank you so much. I took your advice & my chinese elm went dormant. Our weather has been crazy and it broke its dormancy last week after a few weeks hitting 60 degrees f. But it's springing back to life .

Looking good Peter!

🌳🌴🐨 .I had to laugh at bit. as the video progressed . more cloths were put on. Keith Australia

I am so enjoying watching your KZfaq teachings. You are so inspiring and encouraging. I am definitely going to give it a good go

Like each design/shape you selected. Pots selected for this development stage are nice. We have a pine that is just over 5 feet tall. I inherited it. I estimate it is 10-15 years old. You’ve given me several excellent ideas how to reshape it into a better designed literate form. Thank you.

I love the perfect 90 degree turn in the trunkline. It's like a big f'ck you to the classic bonsai asthetics!

You have created things of beauty that will outlast yourself. That is surely a good use of a life.

You know what I think about the bonsai clubs, Peter? Us younger folks (as long as I can call myself that - I am thirty) don't tend to connect with others with the same interest in that way as much as we enjoy an international group online. That's how I experience it anyway - I don't talk to locals about bonsai, but I'm here. Same with my interest in poodles and dog training :)

Love the video Peter and your threads of wisdom. I suspect your thoughts align with a lot of your viewership hence the reason why we are here. Also - am very pleased you focused on Pine. Styling Pine has been my Achilles heel and now I feel a lot more wise. Also...also ... nice to see you wearing a Southern Hemisphere Christmas shirt. We might need to make you an honorary member Downunder

I learned an interesting trick about choosing wire gauge from Jason Chan at Eastern Leaf in California. If you take a length of wire and press it against the branch you want to wire and it doesn't move the branch but bends the wire, its too light. The right wire gauge should move the branch, obviously within reason. And I definitely reuse my wire!

Always excellent. The best teachers make the process easy to follow and explain the reason. Like bend the branch back to shorten

All turned out so lovely.

Thank you for using the new microphone. The Sound is so much better!

NOT boring. 👍

Yes,indeed,trees just adjust ,to what is accurring in their lives,and you are just supporting them, with a little twist here and there. With a fine and happy result for everyone,love it. Wish you a good and healthy 2021!

Thanks for explaining grafting in more detail in this video Peter!

Thanks Peter - yes these videos and bonsai have certainly helped this past year while stuck home all summer and have something both creative and not out of my control to wok on.

I liked the brown snowman ... hehe

I really like pines ✂️🍃🌲

Hello Peter, Thank you for your videos. I have a quick question. Does splitting the trunk potentially damages the tree? By letting pests in, etc. Can you please do a video or say a few words on aftercare of the tree which had split trunk and maybe specifically video on how to properly do this. Thank you so much for everything you do! It provides hope for the world, and specially helpful during these hard times...

Peter thnx 4 all ya video's Evryone be safe be healthy and take care for each othe. The netherlands 🌲🌳bonsai a way of life 🌳🌲

Thank you for this new video. Because of you I'm slowly venturing into pines and other conifers. I just got 3 little white pines and a few different obtusas.

As usual You give meaning to things that are thought to be inanimate Thank you for keeping my imagination alive

So grateful for the instruction - thank you.

Awesome..thx for sharing Peter. 👍👍 Beautiful trees 👍👍

Very, very nice. Love the pots!

A vid like this I love most, thank You Mr Peter ❤️

Thank you Mr Chan for your ongoing videos which I find so inspiring and soothing. I’ve been a gardener for many years but now I’m inspired to start Bonsai once the weather breaks on the shores of Lake Erie in Ohio, USA.

🌳🐨🌴 been watching your videos for 3 years now. always look forward to new ideas ..keep well all .Keith Australia

My dear mr Chan, you asked yourself whether you did "something useful in life". Reading the comments on your videos and looking at the number of followers, again and again, I'd consider that as a most satisfying answer to your question... Sp many bonsaï friends enjoy and enjoyed these videos, so many of us learned a lot and, I guess that should not be forgotton, will pass their knowledge thrue to other people... And so on... I guess mr Boris is not up to bonsaï, otherwise he might consider giving you a medal or something...? About this video/demonstration: again I think it's very interesting and inspiring. It shows quite clearly, what can be done and what is possible with material that doesn't look that promising at first sight. Furthermore, it's quite a to the point demo about how to use the splitter tool and its possibilities (and the angle of potting or repotting). It makes me see more and more opportunities for some of the material I have growing in my own garden at the moment, although I'm not really what one would call a "newbie". Thanks again.

Even the squirrels enjoy doing bonsai.... I also really like how he did not even hesitate to chop the top bit of the pine

I enjoyed this vid. Love pine bonsai. Great job, they get better with age. 😊 Been watching for years now, always waiting for the next vid. Thankyou. 👍

The way you use the camara as a monitor so you can see what the tree looks like from far is quite a lifehack 👌🏾👌🏾😉

Thank you!!

Wonderful. You perform magic with material like this. Very inspiring.

Yesssssssss💪🏾💪🏾💪🏾💪🏾💪🏾💪🏾💪🏾🌲🌲🌲thanks again ...

Thank you for sharing.

Better times will come sir. And it is not just the work with bonsai that have helped during covid. Your videos themselves have also been a great help with my sanity during covid. Powerful mixture of interesting, intellectually stimulating and soothing. Thank you so much for what you have chosen to do !

Good work...Peter👍👍😍

thank you for sharing vidio wiring pines...

Hey Peter!!! Hope you are well. My heart is giving me issues so I’m at the Hospital watching your videos.

🌳🐨🌴 this video helps me a lot. have junipers and pines ..started on these .thanks . Keith Australia

Bonsai magician👌👌

oh that mic has made so much difference well done

Thanks a lot for a nice , interesting video !

Great video 😊😊😊

I like ur mudman

Morning Peter and thank-you for this mornings Sunday breakfast upload, Great video for this cold a quite morning. I wonder if you staff come in each day and walk around trying to find your previous nights master pieces, live life for the day as tomorrow never comes.

Hi Peter, very useful video. Thank you for doing this awesome contribution to us and the society. I got some pine trees from nursery but scared rather confused to work on them. There are so many do's and don't on different pines all over Internet. You had mentioned that you are trying out workshop on zoom. It will be great to have a workshop on zoom as travelling to UK in your workshop is difficult during covid :)

Спасибо 👏👏👏👏👏👍👍👍👍👍👍

GOOD VIDEO,AND PASSED JASONS MEDICAL

I'm always curiously waiting for a new video 🙏

Bu işin birisin kral👑 👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏

Hello peter Sending my love n respect from India U look great in red Please upload a detailed vedio on fertilizing and feeding Bonsai

10:39 Is that a threat? 😉 Joking aside, this was a charming and informative video as always, thank you .

I hope i can make bonsai and video like you sir.. good sharing..

Thanks, great videos. 🌳🌿🌱🌲🌲🌲🌲🌲🌲🌲🌿🍀☘️🌱

Sir, I am a regular viewer of your KZfaq VIDEOs and very fond Of Bonsai making. I will be very grateful if you allow me to ask such stupid questions appears before me during enjoying your VIDEOs.

Wow amazing skill👆👍👍👍😍😍🤤🤤🤤

Super

Peter thank you as usual for shearing ideas and experience to all of us, since this pandemic is still not over will you do more zoom lessons or seminars? Regards from Verona Italy

I don't like the way pines tastes, but they are fun to bonsai.😉

Thanks Peter. Lots of good information and examples. Do you use wound sealer after splitting the trunks?

I’ve learned trunk splinting from you which I would never have done before. Also when you say heavy fertilize please explain. Thank you.

I love pine trees and you have made them so beautiful. How often should I cut the branches off to keep them small.

@heronsbonsai Hey Peter, I was wondering if you can make a video addressing sick black pines and how you treat them? I have a few myself and one of them recently got a fungal infection of what looks like needle blight. Lots of my needles are turning brown from the tips and working its way down. I was hoping you can do a video addressing diseased trees (black pines) and how you go about recovering them? thank you!

Hi Peter, when you are doing splitting the trunk, do you sometimes do a cross split or is it too dangerous to the tree. I mean to split it to quaters. (Grafted tree maybe 3/4 inch in diameter) and isn't it dangerous to split it through the graft?

Thank you Mr Chan for another fantastic video. May I ask a question? I'm growing trident maple from seed and they have just grown true leaves so I transplanted to a bigger pot, put in some fertilizer and put in a South facing window. Unfortunately it does not look it good shape how much should I water it and do you have any other tips? Thank you

are you going to do an update of the john naka forest bonsiai you were restoring back in august?

Love your videos! Could the second tree of been a raft style?

Bom dia, Flor do dia!

👍👍👍

lovely weather in england always means bad juju...

Great video as always. I have a question... At one point you said you cut off the leading shoot, what is the purpose of this? Wouldn't it inhibit the growth?

Great vid as always. How is this type of pine spelt? Never heard of one before.

This is a great video Peter. I've been debating whether to split trunks in my Alberta Spruce as they're pretty thick. I've seen that people cut wedges out to do it sometimes. What do you think about it? Good call by the way on the anodised copper wire on the third tree. It looked like it needed all the oomph you could muster to bend it. Would you not consider growing a few to harvest seeds, even just to sell them? I was wondering if, because you have so many, choosing a pot from all of them is almost like a kid in a sweet shop only bring allowed to buy a handful of one sweet.

What are the risks of using a truck splitter, especially for a novice? Any tips?

Sir can I split ficus species plant ? It won't rot and spoiled the tree . Which time of the year is best for trunk splitting. Ficus Benja , Rasemosa, Religiousa , ficus benghalensis , and neem tree ? Please help me sir .

Good Evening Sir I have another query , in Calcutta November, December, January and February are dry and rest of the year is wet, humidity level is very high. I m suffering from bonsai potting soil, I used Brick chips, fine sand and gravels and compost but due to fine sand roots are damaging. So I now decided to use Brick chips, gravels (1mm- 1 inch easily available) charcoal, vermicompost, bone meal , leaf compost , dead tree branches twigs and twine and neem dust ( for insects) . But I m dwindling about pumice stone ya brick chips, lava rock is recommended but bonsai roots won't grow between lava rock, so I am confused. Whether brick chips ( easily available) ya pumice stone ( costly) ya both . Gravels ( easily available) . Ya crushed brick chips ( easily available) with lava rock. Crushed brick chips , pumice stone, lava rock these three will make a mess with gravels and upper mentioned rest of the items charcoal, vermicompost, bone meal, neem dust , cow dung manure and leaf compost, dead branches of trees ( twigs ) musturd cake dust everything is easily available and I have in stock these things . Crushed brick chips ( easily available) pumice stone, lava rock these three are recommended with gravels ( gravels I have huge stock 1mm to 1 inch ) . Please recommend me to start a healthy long time result given bonsai tree. I m not focussing for short time results . Pumice stone , lava rock both can with brick chips. Akadema is beyond my reach Please suggest sir . Regards for you. Deb.🙏🙏🙏🙏

Respected Sir, The 1st branch of the plant is thinner then the 2nd branch as I am observing in the VIDEO. What is the procedure to make the 1st branch thicker then the 2nd one.

Can this trunk-splitting technique work on a Japanese White Pine? My nursery has large JWP in 5 gal pots.

May I ask for some help .Where can I get these Bonsai pots? Thanks

How long do you keep these wires on the tree?