How To Create Large Bonsai

we're going to show you how we deal with our field work please I have often taken you round the nursery to show you our growing fields but most of the plants that we have have been growing in pots but these are trees are actually growing in the ground and I have never shown you how we deal with the trees that are growing in the ground so all this debris again you may not believe it but this is all this year's growth and underneath here are the actual bonsai which are being developed so all this 8-foot stuff is going to be cut back to about here so we are cut it with a saw or with the loppers will cut all this off these are elves I think these are Chinese ants that we go in the ground but what I'm trying to show you ready is a bit of treasure in here you may not be able to see it but inside here there is a massive Glade bit see if you can look at the trunk there that trick is absolutely massive it must be about two foot or more in diameter and this has grown here for the last thirty years ever since I came to this nursery I plotted it as a young sapling no more than an inch thick and I have taken endless earrings from these trees and it has now gone to about 15 feet high and I'm going to make it into a bonsai about six or eight feet high so this is going to be one massive bonsai and we will also take it out with a digger come the spring but this is still in the middle of winter but we will still work on it so before we get to that we've got to get rid of all this stuff so with the low post we're going to cut all this off and this is going to take some time but I'm not going to show you or waste your time how to just cut this Debbie because this is just cutting all this off this will end up as firewood and then we will get to the real stuff in there so we are clearing all the debris from here all these norm new shoots that have grown during the year these are the arms and English filled maple and in there is the great big horn beam this is all the debris that we've cut off from the new shoots of the field maple and Elms and this will be composted or chipped or burnt and we removed all that so that we can get access to this massive massive tree and you can see the beautiful trunk in there show you on the screen is not quite the same as showing it in real life because what you see on the screen is only two-dimensional but with three-dimensional aspect that you get when you view the tree is quite quite different I still got to decide which is going to be the front so I'm looking at the tree from every angle we have made several cuts and I'll explain to you where we've made the cuts where I get someone else to hold the camera but this is the way we've got we're just clearing all the rubbish from around the tree so that we can get a better view of what we're doing so do when someone stands or sits near the tree you realize how big the subject s so this believe it or what is going to be the subject of online today this how we make the taper withdraw a piece about three to four feet off more high just to pull the SAP up and then we cut it and then we make the taper from there so if my friend Padma pair holds it up you can see that long piece that's the piece we cut off and that is used for making the taper so this is our we make the tape work gradually cutting away and I think the tree leans that way so I don't think we need that one we could either a layer that maybe we should be a bit frugal and make a tree from that bit but that bit will come off from there so this is going to be another nice tree but this will probably be dug up in the spring so that's another hornbeam we've got there and we will get back to this tree so what we can do now next if Jack you can clear all that debris from here all these little bits just to show the trunk we don't need those with the soap wraps and as for sauce we love our 30 Souls so this is the circus sauce that we use they're not cheap each store costs about 66 pounds in the UK but we go through them maybe four or five a year because we use them literally every day and when we use the soil we always make sure we have the gloves around all the bits around I can do all that even the one at the back and pull the IV off the tree okay all these can move these little bunches from that although stem [Music] did you take pictures promise yes just going to trim back some of these long shoots if you can't kindly do this for me so we can see what we're doing right this is a very interesting tree for many reasons I want to create a large bonfire but you are always tempted to keep these thick branches but from some of the other YouTube videos that you've seen I always explain that you should keep thin branches because they give a better contrast to the trunk and it makes the trunk look bigger if you have ten branches I haven't faced with a dilemma here because I've got this thick branch here and this big bond share if you come for your seasons now these thick branches may be tempting to keep but the trouble with keeping thick branches it makes that trunk swell here because we've got so many thick branches growing here it's made this swirl and i've therefore got almost an inverse taper so this part is thicker than this part which is bad so although it looks nice I think I'll have to get rid of this one I have to get rid of this one so we will I know we are tempted we can make a airing from this it'll make a beautiful bonsai but I've got so many so I'm not bothered so we'll get rid of this maybe keep this one now what the hell we'll get rid of all of them get rid all these so fabulous and so that's all we are getting rid of all these tick branches or not Patrice we've made all those cuts so again all those tick lumps of wood there that makes for an inverse taper it will swell the trunk so although it is tempting to keep it I still think we're gonna get rid of all of them and just create a beautiful trunk and then we let the branches grow again so those two big ones and the one [Music] so I've now removed all the tick branches and I've got down to the bare trunk so the question is do we make a large bonsai eight feet tall or do we earlier it and get two short bonsai about four feet tall we could make the bonsai tree from here to there and get one bonsai out of it from here to there so it's easier to handle and then this part would make another beautiful bonsai not letting you lead a girl or have a full-size tree which would be very unusual because we've got so many thick trunk horn beams about three to four feet high so let's see what the consensus of opinion is what do you think by my friend Jack shall we keep it as a big bonsai to be spectacular shall we have two small trees ideally written kikuchi yeah we go carry it around the nursery yeah but it's very tempting to have a great big eight-foot tree so I think we'll carry on cutting all this because we don't want these to create inverse taper so if they make a bonsai from say here it would make a very nice tree it's got beautiful movement so we can identify leader there not so possibility still I think that big lump in the back if you come round I think that can be taken off does it otherwise they're causing were stapled oh yeah so these are the decisions we have to keep making when we look at these field grown trees but because they grow so fast they grow at the rate of knots you don't have to worry about new growth they will make new growth in no time absolutely no time so we will proceed by cutting those off the base of it so we will proceed to cut while we are doing this video I just noticed that this air leaving has taken look at the beautiful roots and this was done one on one of our air layering classes berry berry has made this a layering so it's very successful so I'll take this off we will lop it off over here please better not pot it and then we'll remove some of the thin branches and show you what we have here so that's probably been lovely website lovely tree got lot of movement and we would shape that and we will show you some of these very thick trunk bonsais here we've got lots of them so we are continuing to cut off all these thick branches because these thick branches are only going to create inverse taper and if I count the Rings that thick branch which is at least four inches in diameter counting the rings it looks like one today only about seven or eight rings so this much has been produced in seven or eight years so it just shows how fast these trees grow so there are lumpy bits here that will have to come off there and we're going to take that lump off so my brother's gonna cut that off with the chainsaw I'm not advertising the chainsaw but these are battery-operated chainsaws much safer and as powerful as the petrol chainsaw so this is what we're using at the moment so we're cutting this tree back to the line so with horn beams the trick is always just to cut back to the trunk line and let the branches grow again so this lumpy but we're going to get off and all those other pictures will come off because they will only make inverse taper so all we want is a good good taper rising and at the top I think we can take this one off and keep that curly one yes that can cover all the stickers that take on that segment and that monthly kicking back there to make the table so in this area there are all these horn beams that have been growing on the ground for the last 30 years some of them we use for making earrings as an alien and the process of being named this is really three surgery more than anything else so from all that debris all we have extracted is the beautiful trunk of that tree so we've decided not to make a tree nine foot tall because although there are bonsai this size in China they make bonsai of enormous size what I can start keep my options open if I do want a bonsai this size I will grow at this size let's see when we dig it out we will take it out in the spring in February mid February perhaps and then we put it in a pot if we can get it in the pot I'm sure we can and then we will see how it grows and probably do hair layering but I'm still tempted to keep her does it for one side but we have our options open so just to recap what we've done we have taken all these thick branches off because they were causing a problem of inverse taper so however tempting it is to keep them we've decided to remove them so we will grow new branches from it and within a year we will get lots of new branches so all this cutting and chopping has created tapers so people who ask how do we create taper this is how we create safer we made the first chop down there then we get higher up to make a chop there and then we keep chopping it to get the taper so wherever we church up a new branch grows which is thinner and that's how paper is created and what we hear we've got about 20 large horn beams all with massive trunks that's got a massive trunk in there you can't see it because of the debris but they will all end up as beautiful beautiful bonfire so this is an exercise to show you how we create these large hornbeam bonsai and we're looking at creating tape and that map is just doing more cutting so that's the new leader which is growing and that will pull the SAP up and this creates the taper so we're going to cut these off so that the taper is more gradual with this tree you see there is a lot of inverse tape performing here because there lots of branches growing here so we can cut all these often make an earring so that the base will be from there yet so all these can come off and will earlier because we're in the countryside we are still allowed to burn our hedge trimmings and bonsai prunings so that bonfire is all the puddings that we have done today from that hornbeam and all the brush from the field maple and Chinese Elms so this is how we make our bonsai so that's how we make the taper see the new shoots is pulled up and where we had a lot of those twigs there that's forming a nice bulge so that's going to be a lovely base so we're going to a layer at that point so that lumpy bit there the tree would start from there so although it may be a fault on the main tree this becomes a nice pond sight from here so that will be the base tapering up there so we don't need the whole thing so we can cut it off over there about four or six inches above and then we grow a new shoot to form the type of connector and cut flow the not even all right we give a choice of several shoots to go from that so although it may look a bit ridiculous this our bonsai form you have to form the trunk the trunk is everything and the branch arrived creating the beautiful frontline and then starting again this is a very ring it came off from the top of the tree so I'm just going to give it some shape we don't want to take branches because they're easy to go so let's see which is the best shape that's going to be the bonfire and we're going to take the wrapping off and put it up in the greenhouse so let's see what there is in here so this gentleman Barry has been very successful on his air layering class and just to show you all these beautiful roots look at those roots absolutely fantastic mind you we had several people do this class some people were more successful than others so depends how much cambium they remove so there many factors which create good air layering and there you are look at that bound to be successful here ready-made bonsai in six months [Music]

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Id: FtiKu2HJkLw

Length: 26min 35sec (1595 seconds)

Published: Wed Jan 15 2020

Reddit Comments

[u/ghamm74]

New video from Heron's Bonsai. Good demonstration video on how growing large trunks. Great quote "The trunk is everything "!

[u/goddeszzilla]

That air layering tho So good

[u/DaManzNotHot]

I can sure use some of those thick branches

[u/Lawlcat]

Step 1) Have a giant tree in your yard

[u/clangerfan]

Interesting video. Thanks for sharing👍.