Mr. kaminari

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Spectacular beautiful work -no doubt 😊Have thought about graphing Little growth limbs through the tree?

Awesome 🌲

I would like to see more videos of large bonsai work like this!!!

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Thanks Bruce. Good info. I just got 4 Bradford pears to grow. I love the fall colors of the species. Have you grown any. Do other pears have the maroon autumn colors of the Callery type? Can you share which trees can grow from ROOT CUTTINGS. I've been successful with elms thus far. Thanks again

Good job

I am currently growing and shaping an Eastern White Pine as Bonsai. My grandson and I got it from an Arbor day "Plant a Tree" event about 8 years ago. It isn't very big, only about 15 in tall. Slowly wiring and shaping and leaving the wire on until mid-summer after the Spring flush. I will post pics as it takes a more bonsai shape. Thanks for your video.

Nice. Great to see a Michigan white pine.

Great work and really impressive collection. Yew is one of my favorite trees to work with.

I love your Bonsai Trees 🌳 🌲 Sir 🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻🍀🇬🇧

Thanks Bruce ! I’ve got a bunch of them waiting to be styled

I have about eight eastern white pines that are in training. I purchased them through the Missouri Conservation, among other native species to MO. They’re about three years old. I pruned the tops after the first year, which caused back budding lower on the trunk! I’m excited to get them looking as good as yours!

Thank you Bruce

Awesome video. I loved your intimate story of finding the white pine, looking for it month after month in the forest. I live in Rome Italy and much envy the beautiful nature you are surrounded in America. Continue making videos!

Loved your video. I am always delighted to see people working with pinus strobus as bonsai. I have been at it for 25 years and still struggling. Thanks for inspiring others.

Thank you so much, very informative video.

Idk why people act like any of these trees are such delicate fragile things. Watching them thru a northern michigan winter let’s me know they’re the toughest things alive out here really. I’ll be looking for the perfect white pine for the next 12 years now 😂

i picked up a 70 year old American White pine today, absolutely beautiful tree, very compelling tree with its cracked fissured thick trunk

I have an Eastern white pine that was collected in Tennessee several years ago. Something had fallen on it so that it was pushed nearly horizontal and the trunk was snapped off just above the first whorl of branches. One side branch was left upright and formed the new trunk while two others were driven into the ground and killed. Much of the root system was above the soil and dead. I have been styling it as a semi-cascade / exposed root style. I like how it looks and enjoy working with it. I have bonsai that I enter in shows but I know this one will never be show quality. I just enjoy having it for what it is. Not every tree in a collection has to be a show tree. This tree will get a nice Sarah Rayner pot next spring. It has had a hard life and deserves a nice pot to live in.

I hate to be critical of the outcome of years of dedication and vision. I personally think the pot isn't quite right for the scale and style of the tree. I'm sure finding a pot in the more appropriate dimensions is nearly impossible and having one custom made might even be cost prohibitive. It also appears to me through what I'm able to see that the canopy isn't quite where it needs to be either but I understand the reason that being to gain strength before messing with it again. Very ambitious and fun tree. Great video and explanation!

Great video. I just dug up a nice eastern white pine yesterday. Im in Michigan as well.

Great video! I have a similar tree I can dig out! Can't wait❤

Great information. Thanks

Great video, that's a really nice tree. How do you manage EWP growth without pinching buds or cutting chutes?

I just collected my first eastern white pine today and was looking for some inspiration/information on keeping them as bonsai. Wow boy did I find it, this is one of the best bonsai videos I’ve seen in a long time, you’ve earned a sub! I love the approach to bonsai/your philosophy, the narration/stories, and info you provide. Thank you!

awesome

Beautiful tree just needs a few years to fill out.Well done

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I wish I could like this more than once.

I love your “against the grain” attitude towards bonsai. I’m the kind of person where if someone tells me something can’t be done I have to try it just to make sure. I’m a firm believer that most trees can be made into a bonsai with enough time and effort despite what most people say. Great video!

While I love the tree and your insight and that you made this video about it, there is also something to be said about your view of what 'bonsai' in the modern world is and can be. So, I get that you think a ot of KZfaq channels are made by amateurs who don#t know what they are talking about, or that lovers of the art should go for the best and biggest trees when getting into it, there needs to be something said about bonsai as a HOBBY. For a lot of people, myself included, it is not just about finding, growing, styling, and working with trees to get an esthetic result. But getting trees from seed, or small sticks in a pot, is not about the art, but the nurturing and witnessing of growth and development. And that includes all the mistakes on the way. There is no need for showroom quality when you are able to enjoy the process.

I have two Eastern White Pines in training and one in the ground I plan to dig up next Spring. The house I grew up in had a big P. strobus growing outside my bedroom window, and the fragrance of it, the sound of birds singing in it, and the look have stayed with me all these years. As a bonsai, if you move to a new house you don't have to lose your tree.

Nice work Bruce. Lovely styling

l love the transformation to a sight of beauty. The end result is spectacular. You have enlightened me to try this on some old shrubs laying around the house. would love to see a follow up video on its progress. Great work Bruce

This made me really excited about my club collected white pine in Ontario. Thank you for sharing! Now, stage 1 getting it to health.

Great intro, Bruce. I find myself with hours passing and forget to turn on music or e-book, just zoning out and working on my spring tree chores. Thanks for the great content.

Wow, those are some stunners. Well done, brilliant work!

Wowser, nice white pine. I don’t know anything and don’t feel like I have much to offer with my videos, other than showing: hey, it died.. or hey, it lived. :) so… i don’t talk. I don’t have anything worthwile to say… i do have 3 eastern white pines I’ve collected. All straight-ish. We’ll see how they go…

Hey Bruce, thank you for this video. Could you please elaborate on the technique of submerging the tree in water as an aftercare method for yamadori? Are we submerging the entire potted tree up to the soil line in a tub of water? For how long? Is root-rot an issue? In what situations would you choose to use this method? Or do you use it on everything? Thanks 🙏

I love how you're going against the established thinking and trying a species that people think can't be nurtured into a bonsai. Most sceptics probably believe it won't work because they heard it from someone else who never tried it either.

Hi Bruce, I've had good luck with two Eastern White Pines developed in semi cascade form. One is about 12 years old now and was collected as a sapling from central Maine. The other is a 5 year old dwarf cultivar named 'Macopin' purchased from a nursery in N.J. They are challenging yet enjoyable to work with.

With Japanese Black Pine being banned in many USA states [including Massachusetts] maybe this will become more popular. The needle length was always a concern for me.

hope one day i get half as good and as confident as you at yamadori and carving. great job sir

Amazing!

Che spettacolo..super..

very beautiful master....

Explanation and context are so helpful on this one - enjoyed the collecting footage here as well - thanks for sharing your knowledge. Still on the lookout for good old fruit trees around here!

Beautiful collection. Cheers from Ojai Ca