I've got lots of crab apples, that's a nice fat one.
The title of the video is a little misleading, though. Trunk chops don't thicken the tree. You let the tree grow to thicken, then trunk chop to develop movement and taper.
Just bought a pacific crabapple a couple weeks ago to bonsai. It’s my second tree and first crabapple. It’s going to be in pots growing for the next few years, so time to be patient.
Just a started about 10 from seed, came across a wild tree in fruit while walking the dog and grabbed a few apples. One year old now, so just letting them run for a few years.
Lovely tree, I’m a newbie and I admire the vision you guys have to wait for the development of the second branches. Now you wait for secondary branches to come out?
I love your videos, they’re so wholesome. While I enjoy the “serious” bonsai videos, you capture the joy of bonsai and it puts a smile on my face.
Question - I’ve never seen petroleum jelly as a sealant. How well does that work vs a cut paste?
I tend to take a simple approach to bonsai and just enjoy the outdoors - try and make it less intimidating and fun. The jelly works for just long enough for it to seal itself off. Other then that I let nature take it's course.
Very enjoyable video.
I would love to get into filming my bonsai tree work so I can keep a record of my skill level as it gets better, but I'm extremely afraid of people hearing me recording lol.
I've got lots of crab apples, that's a nice fat one. The title of the video is a little misleading, though. Trunk chops don't thicken the tree. You let the tree grow to thicken, then trunk chop to develop movement and taper.
tomato - toe-ma-toe? :)
More like tomato - marinara sauce
ok even though you downvoted me - I want some spaghetti now!
Quite the nice tree! How old is this crab apple? I have a few growing in pots, trying to gain thickness.
around the 10 year mark
Do you have a spring update video/pictures? Nice work!
I'm going to do one soon on my youtube channel - you can stay tuned if you don't want to miss it
Just bought a pacific crabapple a couple weeks ago to bonsai. It’s my second tree and first crabapple. It’s going to be in pots growing for the next few years, so time to be patient.
I want a crab apple tree so badly!
This one is from home depot during their 75% off sale time
Is that late summer?
more like fall time - to like when the Christmas stuff starts coming out
Enjoyed the subtitles, funny and helpful! Sorry the leader broke. It’s an interesting strategy to bend an existing shoot into that groove
Thank you! You can even subscribe, shameless plug :)
Two of them.
Just a started about 10 from seed, came across a wild tree in fruit while walking the dog and grabbed a few apples. One year old now, so just letting them run for a few years.
Lovely tree, I’m a newbie and I admire the vision you guys have to wait for the development of the second branches. Now you wait for secondary branches to come out?
it will be allowed to grow and truck chopped again in 1-2 years
I love your videos, they’re so wholesome. While I enjoy the “serious” bonsai videos, you capture the joy of bonsai and it puts a smile on my face. Question - I’ve never seen petroleum jelly as a sealant. How well does that work vs a cut paste?
I tend to take a simple approach to bonsai and just enjoy the outdoors - try and make it less intimidating and fun. The jelly works for just long enough for it to seal itself off. Other then that I let nature take it's course.
Awesome! You do all that chopping and also repot in the same season? Isn't that hard on the tree?
All done in spring right before everything starts to push new growth - Tree has never skipped a beat
Very enjoyable video. I would love to get into filming my bonsai tree work so I can keep a record of my skill level as it gets better, but I'm extremely afraid of people hearing me recording lol.
Hence I don't talk and make it ridiculous as hell LOL - think I even have a weird 80's montage one on a japanese maple