Thanks for the great video!! I use shade cloth the first few weeks of spring to get them acclimated (I use 40%). Also, in the hottest parts of Summer when it gets about 90. I attach mine like a hammock tarp (4 cords to each corner) or just throw it over the plants which also works. I like your more permanent solution as I also use a plastic tarp for rain in early spring and fall. Love the channel.
Thanks for watching, glad you're enjoying the channel. Shade cloth in the spring...I'd never thought about that, but it makes a lot of sense for transitioning trees from inside light to outside sun. Having to protect trees from rain, like you and so many do, used to astound me - we get so little rain here. I'm envious, I wish I had too much rain! But maybe I should just be grateful.
Great solution...Here in Sequim it has only got as high as 80 for a day and my tree's only get direct sun until about 1:30, so I'm lucky in that way...Will keep this idea in my back pocket though as we do occasionally have short heat waves and this temporary setup would be beneficial...Thanks for sharing...
Wow, that sounds really ideal for Japanese Maples (and many other species). I'm envious! I'd love it if our highs never topped 80 deg. We've had a warm July - most days highs have been well above 90 deg F, with a few 100 deg F days. And zero rain for several weeks now (until a thunderstorm last night). Thanks for watching and your comment.
Thank you. UK weather is a mystery to me, never having lived there. Usually when UKers comment on their weather, it seems like it's been cloudy for 3 months and they can't remember what the sun feels like. And if it does happen to be sunny, it's worth noting. Do UK bonsai folks use shade cloth? I hope the move goes well for you!
@@BonsaiNorthwest True on the weather front. Although is hot at the moment, 27degs and humid as balls. Shade cloth comes in handy as the trees tend to shit them shelves over the summer, gets hot for 6 weeks, lots of sun and not much rain then stays normal temps with plenty of showers here and there. you know U.K stuff haha
@@bonsaiexpression Ah, interesting, and different from what I had thought - I didn't realize the UK had a hot dry spell - shade cloth does make sense. That's similar to what I have - July and August are very hot and dry (including low humidity - I'm quite a ways inland with a desert between me and the ocean). My trees seem to be appreciating the shade cloth. I've had a few days over 100 deg F (38 deg C) where I moved some of the more sensitive trees into full shade for the day.
@@BonsaiNorthwest sounds nice were you are. The U.K is predictably unpredictable. Mostly wet with some sun. Summer we get about 6-8 weeks of sun but it's not always consecutive. Although that's not to say it's not hot. The U.K. isn't like normal heat. It's a horrible sticky, sweaty heat. You have to experience it to understand it. We go abroad and it will be way hotter and we will enjoy it. As it's normal hot. That probably doesn't make sense to you. But like I said. You Have to experience it. 😂
@bonsaiexpression Ha ha, yikes, you're really not selling the UK to me! (not that I was planning on moving any time soon). It must not be too bad of a climate for trees at least, because you UKers make some outstanding bonsai.
It seems to be working for me, although I haven't done much experimentation. There's so many changing variables every season, that it's hard to know exactly what the ideal amount of light is for each tree (until you get leaf scorch, I guess, and then it might be too much, but then maybe it's another issue?) Anyway, I think shading is likely the right thing in my climate - a good number of the trees around my town are looking pretty rough from our hot July - lots of scorched leaves everywhere.
Mikawa Yatsobusa loves sun in my experience. If u cut the dead crispy at ends of leaves it's from soil being too compacted...northern hemisphere can't repot till February. Hopefully I am wrong however I'm afraid not.
I've read Mikawa Yatsubusa does well in heat and sun as well, which puzzles me, because for me, it seems to be my most sensitive tree to summer heat (my standard JMs and Yuri Hime have minimal to no scorching). It's possibly a soil/root problem as you suspect, although I repotted the tree this spring, so I doubt it's a soil compaction problem. But maybe it would like an even more open soil mixture than what I use? My theory as to why I get scorching on this JM, which should be good in the heat, is that it does well in heat + humidity, but perhaps not heat + very dry air like I have here. I'm always on the lookout for Mikawa Yatsubusas in peoples landscapes around here, but I have yet to find one. I was checking out the JMs in my local arboretum just this week, and they had a fair amount scorching. I'm thinking it's our hot dry air here that is causing this, and that they'd be fine with hot, humid air? What kind of situation/climate are you growing your Mikawa Yatsubusa's in?
Thanks for the great video!! I use shade cloth the first few weeks of spring to get them acclimated (I use 40%). Also, in the hottest parts of Summer when it gets about 90.
I attach mine like a hammock tarp (4 cords to each corner) or just throw it over the plants which also works. I like your more permanent solution as I also use a plastic tarp for rain in early spring and fall.
Love the channel.
Thanks for watching, glad you're enjoying the channel. Shade cloth in the spring...I'd never thought about that, but it makes a lot of sense for transitioning trees from inside light to outside sun.
Having to protect trees from rain, like you and so many do, used to astound me - we get so little rain here. I'm envious, I wish I had too much rain! But maybe I should just be grateful.
Great solution...Here in Sequim it has only got as high as 80 for a day and my tree's only get direct sun until about 1:30, so I'm lucky in that way...Will keep this idea in my back pocket though as we do occasionally have short heat waves and this temporary setup would be beneficial...Thanks for sharing...
Wow, that sounds really ideal for Japanese Maples (and many other species). I'm envious! I'd love it if our highs never topped 80 deg. We've had a warm July - most days highs have been well above 90 deg F, with a few 100 deg F days. And zero rain for several weeks now (until a thunderstorm last night). Thanks for watching and your comment.
I might have to look into a shade cloth soon, all depends on how the sun positions in the new garden. Can't wait for the move now. Good video fella.
Thank you. UK weather is a mystery to me, never having lived there. Usually when UKers comment on their weather, it seems like it's been cloudy for 3 months and they can't remember what the sun feels like. And if it does happen to be sunny, it's worth noting. Do UK bonsai folks use shade cloth?
I hope the move goes well for you!
@@BonsaiNorthwest True on the weather front. Although is hot at the moment, 27degs and humid as balls.
Shade cloth comes in handy as the trees tend to shit them shelves over the summer, gets hot for 6 weeks, lots of sun and not much rain then stays normal temps with plenty of showers here and there. you know U.K stuff haha
@@bonsaiexpression Ah, interesting, and different from what I had thought - I didn't realize the UK had a hot dry spell - shade cloth does make sense.
That's similar to what I have - July and August are very hot and dry (including low humidity - I'm quite a ways inland with a desert between me and the ocean). My trees seem to be appreciating the shade cloth. I've had a few days over 100 deg F (38 deg C) where I moved some of the more sensitive trees into full shade for the day.
@@BonsaiNorthwest sounds nice were you are.
The U.K is predictably unpredictable. Mostly wet with some sun. Summer we get about 6-8 weeks of sun but it's not always consecutive. Although that's not to say it's not hot. The U.K. isn't like normal heat. It's a horrible sticky, sweaty heat. You have to experience it to understand it. We go abroad and it will be way hotter and we will enjoy it. As it's normal hot. That probably doesn't make sense to you. But like I said. You Have to experience it. 😂
@bonsaiexpression Ha ha, yikes, you're really not selling the UK to me! (not that I was planning on moving any time soon). It must not be too bad of a climate for trees at least, because you UKers make some outstanding bonsai.
Hopefully u will see positive results with that 👍
It seems to be working for me, although I haven't done much experimentation. There's so many changing variables every season, that it's hard to know exactly what the ideal amount of light is for each tree (until you get leaf scorch, I guess, and then it might be too much, but then maybe it's another issue?)
Anyway, I think shading is likely the right thing in my climate - a good number of the trees around my town are looking pretty rough from our hot July - lots of scorched leaves everywhere.
Mikawa Yatsobusa loves sun in my experience. If u cut the dead crispy at ends of leaves it's from soil being too compacted...northern hemisphere can't repot till February. Hopefully I am wrong however I'm afraid not.
I've read Mikawa Yatsubusa does well in heat and sun as well, which puzzles me, because for me, it seems to be my most sensitive tree to summer heat (my standard JMs and Yuri Hime have minimal to no scorching).
It's possibly a soil/root problem as you suspect, although I repotted the tree this spring, so I doubt it's a soil compaction problem. But maybe it would like an even more open soil mixture than what I use?
My theory as to why I get scorching on this JM, which should be good in the heat, is that it does well in heat + humidity, but perhaps not heat + very dry air like I have here. I'm always on the lookout for Mikawa Yatsubusas in peoples landscapes around here, but I have yet to find one. I was checking out the JMs in my local arboretum just this week, and they had a fair amount scorching. I'm thinking it's our hot dry air here that is causing this, and that they'd be fine with hot, humid air?
What kind of situation/climate are you growing your Mikawa Yatsubusa's in?