lol, we’re both 41 🤪 But thanks for the vote of confidence 🤩

Neat! Glad we can help! We’re about to do a new video in the next few weeks of installing two new fixed windows in our cedar sided contemporary home 😎

Hey, glad you enjoyed it - thanks for watching! Our feelin’ sunnies get around ~9 hours of direct unfiltered sun during the day. This varies a little bit depending on the time of year, sometimes closer to 10 hours, sometimes 8 hours or so. During the winter, it gets more sun due to less overhead shade - winter time more like 12 hours, but it’s also dormant during that timeframe. Big note - feelin’ sunny and golden deodars get BIG!! Like, 40’ tall and 20’ wide or more. Be ready! Our plan is to limb up once they get larger 🙂

😬😬😬 I hope the hubbs comes in well! This time of year can be pretty dicey ordering online due to the extreme heat the plants encounter when being shipped during the heat of the summer. That said, I’m sure you’ll love it! I’ve heard Amber Ghost can be RED in your zone if in enough sun! Good luck! Thanks for watching!! Over the years, you’ll see us start to limb up & start planting understory plants as everything gets larger. 🤩

That’s great to hear!!! Yeah, everything goes green for us eventually due to our high heat & humidity. Glad to hear it stays looking nicer for longer elsewhere! 🤩

The most yellow-green hostas we have are orange marmalade. Others that can stay yellow are dancing queen and Paul’s glory (Paul’s glory changes throughout the year). I think that one was an orange marmalade 🙂

Thank you! Thanks for watching!

Thanks! Our garden is a pie-shaped 3/4 acre lot. 🙂

It gets roughly 10-12 hours of direct, unfiltered, full sun per day. 😁 (including during the hottest time of the day) We really didn't know purple ghost was so sun tolerant until we put it in a spot with this much sun. It's crazy! Other japanese maples (like the Jordan) burned to a crisp in this much sun. Meanwhile, the purple ghost is as happy as a clam. 🙂

@@buildingmodern awesomeness that makes me happy to know just got a 10 gal purple ghost this year waiting on a pastels

Thanks so much!! The limb from the purple ghost is definitely from the purple ghost, but good thought! If it was from the root stock, we'd definitely just prune it off. This particular branch will definitely make a great tree! 😀 Thanks for watching!! We'll have part two live next Saturday for the rest of the garden! 😎

For us, it’s holding up really well. We haven’t had any issues yet, but we also don’t use it daily. I’d say we use it maybe 2-3 days out of the month for most times (and then intensely for days in a row when we have a project). So far, it’s been great - no complaints!

@@buildingmodern oh cool. I probably end up using it around that time hauling limestone and dirt

@@bigcartoonyIIV it'll be great for that. We ended up putting raptor spray in bed liner on the inside of it, and it's held up great (we were spraying our truck bed and had extra left over). 😁

That’s really neat - thanks for sharing & we’re glad you enjoyed the video!

Thank you! Sure thing, we’ll be sure to show the Sango kaku’s & bihou in the next winter tours. It doesn’t get too cold where we are, so the red (or yellow for the bihou) isn’t as dramatic as colder environments. Still, happy to share. Thanks for watching! 🙂

lol, some people can see that 🤪

Thanks for watching!

Thanks!! I’m not sure we have the tools or are precise enough for that, but it certainly would be fun! We might make a koshikake at some point around where we’ll have our fire pit area. If we do this, it would be fun to try Japanese techniques! 🏯

You can watch our Fall tour in previous years to see the fall color. A lot of people like acontifolium (dancing peacock) for its multi-color fall coloring. Meigetsu has similar coloring as well. Sango Kaku can go all yellow, which is pretty outstanding. Seiryu can turn ~bright~ red all over the tree which is very impressive. They each have their own fall traits. Though, I should be sure to point out, our climate zone isn’t known for the best fall colors in general. They’re no where near what you’ll get in zones 5-6. And nope - no Osakazuki. We usually get our Japanese maples on sale or clearance, and haven’t come across one of those on sale/clearance yet. 🙂

Ha, yep! Happens every year! It’s why it’s so hard to get blue-colors in the south. Some people have hydrangeas just to get the blue. 😅

Thank you!

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Thanks! Glad it’s going strong! We have a new tour coming out this Saturday!! Including the new location of one of our summer golds and Jordan air layer and how they’re doing this year 🥳🥳🥳

Thank you!! Thanks for watching!! We’re about to dive into new projects in the next month 🤩

If we can, we normally buy directly from smaller growers. We knew a ‘back yard’ grower who we purchased many of our Japanese maples from. We also have a local nursery that used to have great prices of $35 on 2g 4-6’ tall Japanese maples - the varieties were typically different each season. Though, they’ve stopped with this pricing now. We’ll also try to stop by smaller growers we know when traveling. It’s always fun to pick up a tree somewhere and have an added story to go along with it. (Our price limit is usually $35 or less for a 2g size, fyi. We ~might~ go up to $50 for a really nice looking larger one that isn’t root bound. And, we refuse to buy anything you could call a twig - the caliper needs to be at least 1/2”) It sounds like you’ve tried a lot of the main ones. I’ve also heard great things about Whitman Farms - they tend to ship fairly large trees vs price. However, we don’t really mail order for our trees, preferring to buy in person. I should note - a *lot* of our Japanese maples also came from clearance bins at nurseries. They often were missing leaders, were nearly dead, etc. We got these in bargain bins knowing they might die. Luckily, for Japanese maples, this usually works out in our favor. I think we’ve maybe only lost one or two. And the prices are usually a steal ($10, $5, $50 for our largest Mikawa, etc). … I don’t recommend this for conifers, as the opposite is true for them - if they look like they’re dying, they’re likely already dead and just don’t know it yet. 😅

@@buildingmodern thanks for the response and info.

Glad it helped! Share a link when you finish your pottery studio - we’d love to see it!

We’re in zone 8a in the South USA. We don’t get too specific on location for our own safety (can’t be too safe). Blue Star can be found at most nurseries - I believe Georgia may have its own native variety as well. 🙂 Thanks for watching!

Thank you! We have the entire build for the shed on our KZfaq video if you want to see how it was built 🤓

Happy to share. Sango Kaku is prone to getting diseases - especially in more northern climates. In general, while it’s very vigorous, it’s prone to more diseases than most, especially when on its own roots. That said, several of our Sango Kaku air layers are doing just fine. Though, I’d still probably stick with a different cultivar in more northern climates. We’re in the south here, and they have mostly held up well. Our largest Sango Kaku, grafted, has had several branches die back lately though - and one air layer also was diseased. I’ve seen people having far worse experiences with them in zones 5a-6a though. Overall, they usually do very well (why they’re so common). Hope this helps!

Thanks for sharing! My trees are still small, will keep monitoring. I also have one airlayered before that branch completely dieback, still survives. Zone 5-6

lol, here’s hoping I get the expected lifespan! I’ll take it!

Definitely move it in either Spring or late Winter (before it leafs out). Straight green means it likely needs a little more sun (4-6 hours morning sun is pretty ideal for it). For the when - if your ground freezes, it’s better to wait until after the last major freeze (once the ground isn’t frozen). If your ground doesn’t freeze, any time when the leaves are off the tree is fine (try to hurt the roots as little as possible). Cheers 🙂

So far, they’ve been fine. No problems with carpenter bees yet or any other insect. There are some cobwebs, but not too much. Overall, it’s holding up extremely well. 🙂

I’m not sure I’d go for both at the same time, as neither have a 100% success rate, and both may add stress to the other. I’m not sure why you’d both graft and air layer at the same time. Usually, you air layer to get a copy of the specific cultivar. Sorry, I can’t give a better answer. Personally, I’d avoid doing both on the same branch at the same time, though, there’s a chance it could be just fine (there’s also a chance it won’t).

@@buildingmodern I did both because I am impatient, and didn't think it through. Fortunately, I checked it today and I am starting to see roots popping out, and the grafting plant has buds sprouting. Maybe the two are helping each other out. I just hope it don't suddenly die when I cut them apart. (both plants are still attached to their own rootstock)

@@buildingmodern The air layering is looking successful, but the graft failed when I checked it earlier today. This is unusual, because approach grafts rarely fail.

Thanks! Neither - we’re in the South in the US, zone 8a 🙂

Purple Ghost looks great in the sun

Thank you!

Thanks for watching!

Sounds like a great project to take on!

Ha, thanks! 🙂

Ours were fairly thin. I’d say around 1/8” if I remember correctly, could have been a bit thinner. Good luck with your window build!!

@@buildingmodern Thanks so much! You both inspired me to give acrylic a go as I wasnt sure!🙂

This is super neat and informative! We definitely didn’t know about the differences. It makes sense about kiln drying vs not. Super neat - enjoy your build! Thanks for watching! 😄

Thank you for the tip! That’s a great idea. Thank you!

Definitely!! We’ll probably do one in the next few weeks to show the new growth on the plants! It should be good - lots of big growers this year!

Thanks for asking! We have a full cost breakdown video here 🤓: m.kzfaq.info/get/bejne/hK-Tn5d10J2thnk.html

Thank you!

Thanks! We’re thinking about it - we have a few this year we’d like to set up. One on a purple ghost, a Seiryu, and maybe others 🙂

I've been thinking about a purple ghost. Yours is gorgeous . Let me know if you ever have extras that you might turn loose of.

Thanks! We have one in there actually! It keeps trying to die, but seems to have made it another year. Ginkgos leaf out later for us, so it hadn’t leafed out yet in this video. When we record the next showing the growth this year, it’ll definitely be in that video 🙂