Your apron shirt is awesome! Where'd you get it?

Wonderfull Dan! More literati please 😉🌟

This is much better than simply ‘leafing’ them alone

So much sense and reason to this method as opposed to others, even if the roots don’t grow the tree won’t suffer and you could always try again

This was so enjoyable to watch. Someone having fun with bonsai and loving what they are doing. Simple isn't it?

U will live enough longer to see every improvement on your plants ❤

Hi Dan this procedure is very interesting in promoting roots exactly where you would love without the need to innest new ones with other little trees. If one would just be ok to have a major mass of roots usually the best technique for getting a response from the plant would be to partially decorticate a larger reagion close to where we would love roots to appear like we do with air layering but I appreciate so much this technique u have shown cause it lead to a very precise intervention on where you want to form new roots ❤ I'm also wondering the reason you put the sticks inside the holes is it to prevent cambium just to close the hole quickly without actually form any roots eventually? Just in case of an hugely nebari the air layering technique applied with the grid just above the bad nebari as you also are showing in this process may be applied to the whole trunk of a tree with problems of equal distribution of roots and usually gives a great amount of newly formed roots in a round so the nebari will slowly form out of the tiny new roots once they start to age this works great with japanese maples for instance and can lead to that wonderful great merged and plan nebari we may observe in old bonsai maples expecially if we use a wood table underneath the roots to encourage them to fuse all together 🌹❤

Dan, In 40 yrs I have never seen this technique. I guess you can teach and old dog new tricks. Thanks so much I look forward to seeing how this develops, but will try it myself as well.

Interesting technique, what is the success rate of the number holes drilled to them developing roots? Were u left with any empty holes? Also is there a best time of year to do this? Was thinking of trying this instead of root grafting

Nice tip

I have had Deborah's book on my bedside table for many years - it is great to revisit. I have an airlayer that is a bit sparse on roots on one side, so thank you for reminding me of this tip - roll on Spring (Australia here; dead of winter and cold!!)

Loved the video and thought that maybe, just maybe as an absolute beginner, I might be able to do this too. I know zero about clay pot making. Can you use your home oven as a kiln? If not, what options can novices use?

Nice bonsai♥️♥️🙏

Nica bonsai👍🙏♥️❤️

What a great teacher you are, thanks so much

Hi Dan, I am from Australia and the first book I read about Bonsai was yours when I was 16. I loved the photos of you in your flares and Afro hair. But it was all for the northern hemisphere so I looked for books by Australian bonsai artists and found Dorothy Koreshoff's book (I have Debora's book too)and she taught Debora everything she knew about bonsai, and literally wrote the book on Australian native plant bonsai, I was taught by Dorothy and worked at Korreshoff Bonsai nursery when it still was around. I have a few things I do differently that you may or may not be interested in, it seems to be working for you. 1 I use a hard wood rooting hormone gel and a brush I don't have access to syringes. 2 I use a turned upside down plastic plant pot with the bottom cut off and cut to height, and with a cut down one side, and wire wrapped around the outside of the pot to secure it instead of mesh and plastic wrap, the black plastic plant pot is harder for our Australia wildlife to destroy and it encourages roots to grow thicker and faster because of the darkness it the gives the roots. 3 I cut a little vertical cut in the cambium above the hole. Hope this helps and thanks for starting me on my bonsai adventure.

Amazing video Dan! And we look forward you showing us the progress in a year or two! Who knew this was possible never seen anyone do this. So the cocktail was fertilizer and rooting hormone's in simple terms. Really useful technique to see. Huge thank you Dan sharing your knowledge

Really nice,,Love from Indonesian.

Fantastic video Dan really enjoyed it, but can't work out you're use of matchsticks

Amazing technique! I imagine that the rooting hormone and the match sticks stay moist due the the matchsticks wicking up the moisture. very interesting indeed. Thank you for the video, always appreciate it!

So helpful Dan! I have been thinking about how to address the lack of roots on a couple of trees. Do you know if this technique works also for conifers?

Such a sweet little tree! Pot choice is so important, but I guess the advantage of being a potter is that you can commission the perfect pot with the right glaze or colours!

What a great technique Dan I will use this method myself thanks for sharing 👊

Always enjoy your videos---how about a garden tour video next? Saw lots of interesting things as you were working on this project. Thanks!

Hi, interesting! could you 'tell' how long ago you applied this technique to the example tree? I'm gonna try on a failed approach root graft. Thank you.

Clever technique…….. I thought u might have tried “thread grafting” some seedlings instead. Has this technique worked for u in the past??

Thanks Dan, how interesting! Lovely to watch you at work as always . Row xx

Thanks for sharing.

Really interesting method to encourage roots to form on the areas you want them to grow, never seen that done before but it does make sense as every thing you do from your vast experience. Thank you Dan, a lovely garden on a lovely day.

Dan ! Me encanta su hulmildad al reconocer técnicas de otros bonsaístas después de escribir el libro que usted escribió, 🙇‍♂️ . Por otra parte, quisiera que sea usted el que muestre el resultado de la técnica en ésta Zelcova. Deseo que su vida se muy larga, maestro, 🙏. Siempre agradezco sus videos. SALUD !

Nice job Dan very helpful thanks

Love new techniques to try. Please could you share the authors name (spelling) really interested to read up on this'd what purpose the match sticks have, great video Dan!

Dan, just curious. Would you use such a mix for air layering also?

I have a trident maple with lopsided roots and was thinking of a drill hole/root hormone approach… This really helps thank you Dan 👍

Always a great pleasure to watch, thanks so much for sharing this with us 👍👍

Very nice show Dan! I wondered if this would work for my Maple about the time you displayed the work done to your Trident Maple.

I just bought a new house...So I'm cheap and only use cinnamon as a rooting hormone for now.

Go Dan , nice work!

Lovely stuff! Thanks as always Dan 😊

Never seen that technique before . You learn something new every day. Thanks Dan.

Hi Dan. I see this technique for the first time. I have a tree where I probably try it. Very interesting, indeed. Are roots supposed to grow directly at the places of drilled holes? Thanks for sharing.

This is a fantastic video, thanks. I presume the heat bending isn’t likely to be specific to something in the juniper sap and would like to applicable to certainly pines and likely many evergreens?

Wonderful thank you for sharing

Great video Dan look forward to the next one

Gracias, Dan. Ese ligustro era apenas una mata de verde y, después de algo más de un año, se volvió un proyecto creíble y natural. Salud. 🙇‍♂️

Thanks Dan. 😊❤Row x

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Interesting to watch your methods of glazing pots Dan thank yo

Nice to see the continuation of the privit Dan it’s looking really good and healthy in the new pot, look forward to more videos.

Very pleasurable to watch your videos, a big thank you for sharing this 👍👍