Thanks for the thoughtful comment. I too think it’s good to show failure as it’s part of learning and bonsai for that matter. Ya, I’ll have to think about a unique design once it gains some strength back👍. Thanks again

Thanks you for watching and commenting. I agree.

Thanks it means a lot coming from you.

Thanks 🙏

So great to hear. Yes, this happens we get a little inspiration and then go crazy, get too many, and then have a lot of work ahead of us. Sorry to hear about the death and yet I think to make better bonsai you sometimes have to go right up to the line and sometimes accidentally cross over and kill a tree. Probably my biggest mistake is not going far enough and being too hesitant. Another is working on crappy trees, and third mistake is what I’m learning now is getting rid of my low quality trees (too much time watering, moving, and caring for trees that will never amount to much). I guess this is a bit of confession time, hahaha. Thanks for your post. Korean type? I’ll have to look into that. If you ever want me to post your work in my videos I’d love that. Anyways, send pictures to my email [email protected]

@kootenaybonsaicanada so nice of you. Yes I need to stop working on trees with zero future. But when they survive the big jobs. I got a weak heart and i need to keep them . Haha Abies koreana., got 4 big one of those. Korean type of thjua. Got a silver green blue colour. No need to post any pictures of my thjuas haha. Not something people would like to see. Years and years of work they need . But if you are on Instagram. I can send you photos in the chat? #thenaturecreather

Glad to hear you are getting ideas from the videos. Warms my heart that some of my videos is helping inspire others. Such a nice species. I have a few smaller, thumb sized trunk, yamadori thuja that I’m hoping to work on over the next week. Thanks for the encouragement to post more 😃👍

Ya, I was a bit disappointed but I knew I was rolling the dice with that much work on them. Thanks for the thoughtful comment and ya on the bright side this may make a unique design. Thanks again for the comment

Thanks for the tip. Any rational as to why September? Even in my colder climate? Not selling any but if you are in the area email me and maybe we can make something happen. [email protected].

@@kootenaybonsaicanada end of summer/beginning of fall is when the tree begins to transfer its energy into expanding its roots system. Pulling just before this happens ensures, due to new roots growth, the tree has a higher chance of survivabilitu, also okay to do in the very beginning of spring. Pumice with the native soil and some root stimulator combined with organic fertilizer application, right away, helps a lot. Aftercare is much easier if these metrics are met.

@CaptainFuzzzy thanks for the tips. I appreciate the rational.

Thanks 🙏

Thanks Nigel 😃👍

Yes, it’s so great how they progress with decent technique 😃👍. Thanks for the comment it means a lot

Thanks, the tree makes all the difference. Particularly for those really hot weeks I can get. For the most part my juniper have been able to stay out on the benches but everything else is under shade for the main part of the heat. Thanks for the positive comment

Yes, so great and so fun

Thanks for giving me the correct name for the spinach “orach” and for the comment and the encouragement. Ya I really do like the hupertufa for making pots, like I said in the video maybe not as sleek and smooth but much more functional and works well with older quieter trees that align with a more aged looking pot.

Ya no problem, I mostly wanted to focus on the trees I worked on this year. In total I have 5 Norway maple I’m working on, it’s hard to get them to behave and slow down growth. I’m going to have to really restrict there roots and reduce some of the fertilizer I give them. Thanks for the comment and watching 😃👍

Thanks for the comment 👍😃

Thanks, I hope to do an update on the thuja I’ve been working on over the past few years.

I hear you. I feel so privileged to be where I am. Thanks for the comment.

Thanks for the comment. I hear you. I’m so privileged to be where I am and into bonsai. I find myself with bonsai location jealousy too, particularly of southern location where tropicals can be growth. It’s the multiple flush and continual growth.

Where ish are you located?

Warms my heart to think your family loves the videos and you watch as a family. Great question. If you have a 90% success rate. Well done 👍 congrats to you. I wouldn’t change your timing or process. If you are in a more mild climate, longer fall not as cold winter I think the chances of success for fall collect goes up. Due to snow and roads being too snowy to drive it can be hard to get to the subalpine in the spring, to get to the trees before the Goldilocks period. I have not come any definitive answers to the great question we all should be asking. If you are keen to get your kids out there, I would say try a couple in the fall. The great collector Anton (on the island) does a lot of collecting in the fall. I’ll find his website and put a link in this thread for you to take his more experienced opinion. Hope this helps😃. From what I understand there is two periods in which trees grow new roots one in the spring and a smaller root growth in the fall.

Ok, the link doesn’t seem to work. Search Anton bonsai island and his word press site should come up👍

@@kootenaybonsaicanada the trick I found is building the box out of untreated raw Doug fir and using decomposed doug fir that has strong rhyzomorphic bands formed through the beaks in the year to year growth. It symbiosis with hemlock readily and will colonize any wood. Essentially you’re creating a nursery environment for the tree like a baby hemlock would prefer to recover the adult tree. You’ll have new roots by the end of the year if you dig them as the bud swell but hasn’t broken . I hope this increases your success. Be careful not to get wood with black molds and such in it. It will be a bright white and very fuzzy and always between the layers of growth rings. The wood should be a bright orange color and and pretty broken down but shouldn’t crumble to dust. Should be like fine bark dust type of feel to it when you crush it. You’ll water much much less and make sure to put air vents in the box. I found air flow always moist never wet or dry feed the fungal bed and do not remove foliage first year. Leave it as they are very dependent on that new growth to set new root. Leaving it and not letting it get over 80 degrees will grow you out better. Pretty much shared years of work but it’s the method I have been using.

@imcoolboi-tq6zb great tips, thanks so much. Getting the right post collect conditions seems to be the thing people struggle with the most including myself. I like how you are approaching this, sounds like you have a lot of experience. If you want send me some pictures of trees you have collected to me email [email protected] and I’ll put them in an upcoming video👍. No pressure, be cool to see your trees and for your kids to see the trees and their dad on KZfaq. Like I said no pressure and you can always send me pic and ask me not to show them on KZfaq 😃👍. Thanks again for the thoughtful response and sharing your technique.

Thanks, I wasn’t sure about showing the giddy semi over excited part of myself in the video. I bit exposing but hearing you comment gives me more courage. Thanks 👍

Thanks Jay, me too. I did an initial styling on it and it’s looking good I can’t wait to get it into a new container and continue it’s journey.

Love it. Thanks for the comment. It is so amazing to get up and see a unique tree to the subalpine. The smell of subalpine fir is unique and connected for me to the high mountains and high that goes with being out there. Glad you liked the video thanks for watching and commenting it keeps me motivated.

Thanks so much, I’ve been enjoying watching your journey as well. Thanks for making video and posting from your side of the country

Thanks Maureen, I appreciate the comment. I’m sure you know all too well being surrounded by the majestic BC forests.

Great and thanks I wasn’t sure if I should put it in the video or not. It’s kinda rambling and stream of consciousness. Thanks again for the comment it gives me hope and motivation.

@@kootenaybonsaicanada The content is great, but I think your delivery could be improved by taking some time to gather your thoughts and then pick a nicer spot to film once you park. The dirt road audio is pretty harsh.

@@kliether33 thanks for the tips and love coming my way. I appreciate you taking the time to comment.

You think the audience would like and respond well to me talking about the ideas of bonsai? Let’s say compared to specific tree design etc.

Thank you so much for your support and continued watching. You are great 👍. What country are you watching from. It’s so good and inspiring to have people watch from a longways away

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I’m glad you liked it. I was a little hesitant, well actually a lot hesitant putting in the car ramblings. Thanks for the support. You rock 👍

Glad you liked the update. I’m going to do another update with both the hedge trees I worked on. I’ve done two so far. And there is a third that is barely alive and I want to show that tree as well to give a realistic picture of what can happen with that kind of work and only decent aftercare. Thanks for subscribing it means a lot

I had this in the nursery pot since last summer and so had a lot of thinking time before I started. I would guess a couple hours to debark, wire, style then repot. It was a dense root ball so the root work was limited and I didn’t want to disturb the roots too much, thus the deeper pot. And I broke/slide the bark one of the branches I wired thus the branch died. But it’s doing great, have to keep it out of too much direct sun so the root mass can keep the foliage alive. It’s growing lots of new growth. 👍. Thanks for the question. Why you ask?

@@kootenaybonsaicanada a friend and I want to experiment with some nursery material like this and figured it'd take us double as long as it took you haha

Awesome 👏 - have fun.

Yes, I’ll put some lime sulfur on it which will turn it white. I may shorten it to make it look more realistic, after looking at this video I may even bend it bunch more if possible to get more interest out of it. Thanks for watching and commenting. It means a lot to me. 😃👍

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Thanks 🙏

Thanks for the comment. Where are you posting from?

Thanks 😃👍

Didn’t repot. Wrong time of year. I’ll do it in spring before push of new growth next year. Smaller container too. It’ll probably be my usual these days. Perlite, peat, and a little bit of worm castings.

Thanks so much, I’ll check my email tomorrow morning and reply. 😃👍

I just checked my email. Didn’t see one form you. My email is [email protected]

Agreed 👍 and I think particularly relevant to this tree😃 - thanks for comment.

Nice to hear from you. What’s nice about lilac is that they can push new growth from the main trunk and lower down on the tree and of course you can get the to flower, eventually. A difficulty is the size of the leaves and it’s hard to get the leaves to shrink 👍

Ya thanks 😊 it’s growing really well now.

Hemlocks are my current favorite species. I keep falling more and more in love with them. Thanks for the comment and watching

Great question. This work was done earlier in the year but as you can see still a little too late as the growth had already started to push for both the larch and juniper. It’s because I have two kids and was hard pressed to do all the repotting and styling in the spring window before they started to grow. 😃👍. Great to push back on this as its not the ideal time

@@kootenaybonsaicanada I totally get it! Lol Family and a full-time job makes taking care of the trees that much harder!

Thanks to you sir for watching and commenting. I appreciate how much you comment and thus must be watching. it keeps me motivated to keep posting when I know there are people like you who follow along as I progress on my bonsai journey 😃👍

Yup 👍

Well spotted

Ya, particularly since I’m hoping for some back budding. 👍

Ya I was happy to see it put on that much growth. 👍 thanks for the comment

Thanks Dave 😃. You are rocking it, spreading the art, I can’t wait till you get a growing field. Keep up the momentum and you will go far. 👍

Thanks 😊

Hahahaha, ya an A for effort. Had to try something

@@kootenaybonsaicanada I like the casual naturalism it provokes.

I couldn’t tell if you were serious or not. I’m glad you appreciate it. It’s been growing on me as it’s filled out.

Ya thanks, I can’t remember the species. I appreciate the comments and feedback.

Thanks, ya I agree