A Bold Bonsai Move That Changed This Ficus Tree FOREVER
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 16 ก.ย. 2024
- In this bonsai masterclass, David Easterbrook transforms a towering ficus tree into the foundation of a future bonsai. The end result might just be a repotted stump, but every masterpiece starts somewhere-and this one holds great promise.
Welcome back Mr Easterbrook ! so nice to hear you again!
@@septo7572 We'll try to make more of these in the upcoming weeks!
Great to see another video released David. I look forward to see how this tree recovers. A heavy operation indeed!
@@dermo1981 we will do our best to keep you updated on this one!
Great work. Love seeing ficus getting big chops. Please post a follow up. Thanks again mate
Great video and production quality. Love the candid conversation in the beginning!
@@robawarren thank you for the constructive comment Rob🙏🏼
We need more of you David ❤
Wow!! I broke out in a sweat just watching you saw through all those thick roots!!
We missed you ❤
Nice to see you again David creating and educating lovely video to watch i am always amazed Dennis the butcher
I lOOoooOove the videography here 😮
Happy to have you back "on line" David As usuall very educative video Keep up good work
Great lesson David 👊👊
looks great, great job 🙂
Thanks for this video David! I really like what you did to wire the tree in the pot with the bamboo sticks. I'm always scared to let ugly wire marks on roots that I may want to expose some day. I'm definitely going to try this on my trees!
Welcome back David 🎉
Amazing video mr Easterbrook hope to see more
Awesome I have 5 ficus , tiger bark and ginseng
Hello David, wonderful quality and informational video. As always, you are a great teacher on the art of bonsai.
Thanks for doing a tropical and sharing your knowledge. Miss seeing you in person.
@@frankpucino2116 Thanks for the encouragement Frank. Btw I am going to see Peter Halm this weekend in Montreal. -David
Very nice video.
I’m encouraged to try my hand at drastic cutting!
Un grand merci pour le partage!
Also production is amazing
I had a Ficus in my room but the artificial sun lighting wasn't strong enough, and the leaves started to fall out. It was also in Akadama Bonsai Soil but it would dry too quickly and would have to water every day. I then repotted it in a bigger pot with Organic Sphagnum Peat Moss, placed it outside It is now doing well, filling up with leaves!
Thank YOU, David so informative and helpful.
This looks so harsh for the tree but I am sure its going to grow and live a long life looking beautiful..
Hermoso video.. saludos desde Argentina 🇦🇷🇦🇷🎉..
Bonssai cái ghiền kỳ lạ , nhưng đó cũng là sự gắn kết tuyệt vời giữa cây và người, chúng trở thành món đồ chơi độc đáo , giải trí
I’m just starting but already so advanced
Very informative video today. Thank you very much for the content.
David, how will you get this big heavy pot and tree out to the yard?
David: don't worry, i got a guy for that
Thank you for showing us the anchoring trick!
Thật tuyệt vời
Subscribed so I might get to see this tree maybe in the future
You are so amazing!!! I wish I could be one of your students. I’m a beginner. I mean head start!! lol. I’m from Cincinnati Ohio. Keep up the good work God Bless!!!
That’s quite true 🤙
You're very gentle on the roots but maybe more radical sorting comes later. Looks there was some potential to thin out more to make way for more feeder roots? Still, it looks very promising.
Great to see u back. Always need some more education. Hey dave anyone ever win that signed dan robinson book u were giving away at one point?
Bonjour et merci pour ce vidéo, petite question: en combien de temps le ficus aura-t-il des feuilles à nouveau. Merci encore!
@@RobertBiard-jb4rc ça peut prendre jusqu'à 1 mois!
@@BonsaiSociety merci!
Helo David , my name is Dan I'm from Romania and a like to ask you when is the best time to repot an Benjamin Ficus should I wait till spring?
Это осенняя обрезка . Или снимали весной. Я думаю сейчас солнца не хватит для листьев.
hi david, does chlorinated tap/mains water kill myccorhizae? cheers for the vid
The lighting needs some work for the video as the root ball seems all dark in the video. A light placed in right place to cover from below might do the work ❤
Where do you source the mycorrhizae? Do you match it to the tree species?
@@dougbrad You can buy it in almost every garden centre. Usually they sell a package both for deciduous and conifers.
Too big to fit, no?
Good video but need more close up on the tree roots when he talks about it in the beginning.
Noted!
Show the new tall trees , " in your face root". Couldn't see it . Too far away. Needs more. Light.
I can add light to my picture and can even pan out with the two finger touch.
You need a more bigger pot
That guy is a butcher
if you want a bonsai, that fits all your desires perfectly, you are doomed with thick and old material. and ficus won't take half of your life to create a trunk like this, but creating a decent nebari from an old tree usually takes half of your life time :D and big trees also leave big ugly cut wounds. so you win nothing by buying big trees.. with one exception: you already like the root base quite much. and: not bare rooting is lazy and unprofessional :P the remaining old soil keeps rotting and decomposing and holding all the moisture, while the quality bonsai soil drys out much faster... the nebari is muuuch too fat and high still. why not make it flat? i just don't know where all this weird bonsai philosophies origin from.. it's sloppy and far away from perfection. sorry for not simping and being honest
Based on the quality of the trees on your channel, it's clear to us that your 'expertise' isn't something we can seriously consider.
I wouldn't say sloppy, lazy or unprofessional... especially since everything that was done is exactly how majority of bonsai artists who have been doing this for decades would also have done it. My only issue was that there could have been at least 4 bonsai from the one tree, but I am very frugal.
You don't need to know anything about bonsai philosophy, traditions, guidelines or principles to enjoy the hobby but I find it interesting and helpful to know all that.
Sometimes I completely agree with someone's styling decisions and other times not at all, but I'm always glad to see other people's work especially when it is something I personally wouldn't have done myself BECAUSE it is a different approach.
Their methods speak for themselves when you see the amount of stunning material they have produced over the years.
@@TalkingLoon David is also pretty frugal around his material but we needed to create this masterclass so we were not going to wait a full year to complete air layers of ficus branches. Our space for tropicals is limited since we are based in Canada and winter is coming fast.