Making an Oak Bonsai
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 16 พ.ย. 2019
- In this video we take a field grown Oak tree and turn it into a bonsai.
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What I like most about Peter Chan is he mixes traditional with innovative and the unconventional stressing that IF YOU like it then do what pleases you and ignore the criticism. I have learned so much from him and have done bonsai for almost 30 years, but was more traditional. I have changed my attitude and thinking considerably because of him. BRAVO!!!
you would love the videos from Walter Pall
Yes, I knew absolutely nothing, but already feel confident to have a go
I really respect that you can adapt your ways even after 30 years of traditional bonsais. So many people become conservative and don't change because they think everything they've done before was wasted energy. Adapt, overcome and do exactly what feels right in the moment.
what a great comment! even after 30 years! you can still learn more... traditional bonsai methods have always been a little intimidating to me... but Peter Chan has inspired me to give it a go again! I love bonsai so much.
I have half a dozen oak bonsai in training and your video has been very helpful in understanding how much root pruning they can handle. A couple are 28 years old now and I got them as seedlings from my fathers garden after he passed away suddenly at age 59. He was from Portsmouth in England and having these trees makes his memory stay alive.😊
do you mind making a video? simply in the state they are now - i know many people with forrests and am thinking about salvaging one young tree to try and make something out of it - so i know what i should look for maybe?
That’s amazing!
You know you have a lot of bonsai when you can say “ i stumbled around this beautiful oak” in your own field
Come to Upstate South Carolina, I have 38 large trees in my 3/4 acre backyard. 3 types of oaks, poplar, cedar, holly, maple, sweetgum, crepe myrtle, pine. the amount of seedlings that come up every year are astonishing.
It's a tree nursery after all. It's like saying "you have a lot of cars" to a car dealer :D
@@greenvilleobserver9431 I have 1/3 acre in Minnesota and I can't keep up with all the babies of my large oaks and sugar maples, that are about 100 years old.
@@greenvilleobserver9431 should come see my 12foot garden!!
@@greenvilleobserver9431 Oh la la...
Please tell Padmapriya hi from me. My name's Jack and I used to work in the health food shop with him. I watch your videos and what a coincidence to suddenly recognise him!
Hello Jack, I will certainly pass on your greetings to Padmapriya, I remember you too from the health food shop. So nice to see you here.
Awesome! I love the coincidence!
You have very hardworking assistant. He loves to work with a bonsai master like you i think :)
2 bonzai 4 senpai?
I just love oak trees. I live in Northern California and in the park behind my house there are 300 year old oaks. There are huge and the branches come down to the ground to give shade to their roots. With temperatures 100 degrees or 40 Celsius on summer they don’t die. They are nature’s cathedrals! They are spectaculars!
I really love Englsih oaks ! As well as they two oak shoots that Peter dug out for me in November, I also took about 10 acorns from the massive tree in front of the nursery car park. Of those acorns, 8 are now growing beautifully. so I have ten English oaks well on their way to becoming future oak bonsai, thanks to Peter and Herons!
I gave it a shot with acorns:
th-cam.com/play/PLLfXUppdVxvxDIz5zp9cmIBEJq0jjObXS.html
grts
K
Thank you for including us Peter, I always love these seeing these mundane tasks
I love how you show us how to get big bonsai trees without waiting 50 years!
Thank you. Living in California I have wondered about making oak bonsai. This is perfect. We have about 300 species of oaks.
Thank you for showing us some of the more practical side. I would love to see more of this. Especially how you cut and develop the trunks of field stock like this.
I gave it a shot with acorns:
th-cam.com/play/PLLfXUppdVxvxDIz5zp9cmIBEJq0jjObXS.html
grts
K
The guy doing the pruning has a killer gig I'm jealous! 🌱🌿🌲🌿🌱
nice to see your helper at work!
I just started bonsai you are the best teacher I've seen on here ive learning from you w every video
Thanks so much
I do enjoy your preference for big bonsai, I wont live long enough to see my potted oaks get that size! They are the size of the second one.
Loved that your doing a video on oaks. They're some of my favorites and don't get enough love in the bonsai world. Also the resolution looks much better in this video!
Again Thank You Master”P”
You are the Man!!!🙏🏿
I’ve been waiting for a video on this since I saved a young oak from our local park. Thank you very much for this!
I've always loved this art. The Japanese are in a class of their own. So much respect for their discipline.
"can you do it single handed?"
"yep"
*uses head*
11:30
HAHAHAHAHAHA
Don't clean your gutters for awhile, you'll have all the little trees you want👍
(Ps: I have a lot of respect for the talent this takes, before anyone thinks otherwise)
Fabulously informative Peter! My favourite tree is my oak!
I start to develop oaks now that I have my two maples. I belive that Peter and me are connected because every time that I ask question to my self, Peter answer to it in a video fews days later... 😍
Love you little tree lovers 🇲🇫
Thanks for this video! It always amazes me how rough you can be with these plants.
Thank you so much for posting this I was just wondering how an oak would do as bonsai. Very good!
Love the oaks. I would hope to see more videos on the oak tree bonsais as there aren't many videos out there on them.
Brilliant tutorial video. Beautiful Oak. Mr Chan is so relaxing to watch and a great teacher. Thank you for sharing.
excellent. i studied with John Naka. this brings back memories. thank you
Strong and healthy specimen, a splendid future bonsai indeed Peter..thx for sharing and can't wait for the next one..cheers
I’m still yet to add an Oak tree in my Bonsai collection. Such a beautiful and majestic tree... the Oak. Thanks for sharing
It's a year later now, have you got an update?! Would love to see another year's growth on this and what you've done this year.
Yes 2 years later, I want to see it now too
Yes Peter let's see this tree today? Is it still alive?????
Thank you for showing this procedure. Many of us do this for our bonsai at home. First grow in the yard then to a pot. I enjoy seeing what they will do in 10 years if i take care. Happy Holidays!
Oaks make lovely bonsai subjects. 😀
Really inspiring. Thank you for showing that you can adapt and some rules can be amended.
I'm planning to have 2 outdoor oak bonsai from the acorns of and ancient oak my late father loved. I plan to nurture these bonsai and have one for myself and one for my brother so we can bring new life in his memory
Peter a lovely Oak with the chop becoming a feature, looking forward to seeing this tree in two/three years time.
BONKSAI?
I love oaks! Beautiful trees, please keep showing them. I’m growing a few red and English oaks for bonsai from seed
I love it I am so grateful to learn from your experience - thank you!
Love this video. I found an oak 3 years ago in my garden as well. A squirrel brought it from the neighbours yard with massive several hundred years old oaks in it. Instead of wasting it for lawn I decided to put it in a pot and hope for a nice tree in 30 years as well.
Step one: chop the top off 5 years ago...
This is stupid idea how to make bonsai.
@@Lordosvk Your comment is stupid. You should feel bad.
😂😂😂
American Boathead 😂🤣😂👍👍
Alright then don’t do bonsai I’d you have no patience
That is one beautiful tree, you never know and I guess that is the excitement of Bonsai.
Wonderful. Just the inspiration I needed for my oak projects. Thank you
I have just re watched this , as I do love Oaks, Wonderful tree and one I will look out for on my visit
The squirrels keep planting these trees, so maybe I’ll make a bonsai out of them.
In my country (The Netherlands), birds do this. At different spots they burry the nut in the ground, for a winter reserve i believe. The burying spots are being forgotten by the birds, because they made so much. And then in spring you see wild little oak sprouts comming up in your garden or balcony garden. There native to the Netherlands, latin name is Quercus robur (summer oak). There are more varieties. UK has old ones, also native and you have many squirrels, they can spread the nuts. Funny quick little animals. I got now 5 trees from the birds they are young and vigorous. Hope they make good bonsai. Good bye.
These guys have an incredible eye for detail, amazing.
I love your videos so much, I have been trying to do my own bonsai for the last few years, one is now getting long and sparse, so I will now be taking it out of its pot for the first time, it's 7yrs old. I'm going to cut it back, tease the roots and hopefully it will come back better than before. I don't find any of your videos boring, I'm now I'm my 40s but have loved gardening since my teens and adapting large plants and trees to pots as my gardens is small. My biggest problem has been the hot summers we've had here in the UK the last couple of years, our garden is fully south facing, the only shade coming from a hardy twisted willow but it doesn't give much shade. The last two summers hit my plants hard, especially my bonsai maples; burning the leaves and killing a lot of branches of my favourite one. I cut them back and 75% was saved but it's now lost its lovely shape. I've started watching your wonderful insightful videos and hope to make it into a better bonsai than previously. Many Thanks
Thank you. Living in California we have many oaks and I found some seedlings by a water faucet drain, with lots of debris. Some still have their acorns attached. I am excited to see what you have done. I am most grateful to learn that one does not use akadama for all trees, as I have been having more success with our native soil and mixing it with peat in some cases. Yes, I really appreciate the dedicated boring maintenance "stuff".
Bout a year ago I picked up an oak tree seed amongst hundreds of seeds. Thought it looked cool and figure why not throw it it some soil.
I paid it no mind since I planted it in one of my mother’s pots (since she waters her plants everyday). To my surprise I noticed a little plant sprouting months later.
I was shocked the seed sprouted given the unfavorable conditions. Just soil and water with no prep work whatsoever. Really made me think a lot about life and it’s will to persevere.
So here I am to prepare it for a long winter and hopefully a healthy and prosperous life.
My son had put some acorns in a plastic bag one day we visited a garden somewhere. The bag got thrown in a coat cupboard. A year later I tidied the cupboard and there were two oak saplings bursting their guts out in the bag! Life is strong.
Again, a very good demonstration and many tricks, thanks.
so many thanks from France for you videos !
I'd love to work for Peter, the amount you could learn would be fantastic
I love this tree. Beautiful!
I love all your videos.I'm 66, just start this lovely world 2 months ago, thanks to your videos.Greetings from Capri, a small island in Italy.ps,a big thank you to your assistant.
I'm 66, started 18 mths ago, now have over 30 trees, loving it, wish I'd started years ago🤔never had time
I have always loved bonsai, and this channel has pushed me to do my own, I have a ficus I got for 6 dollars and a red pine (which needs time to grow) for free. I’m also trying to propagate a Japanese maple from a cutting, which is proving to be quite difficult. I love the attitude of saving money and working with what you have 🙏
Would enjoy seeing this oak a couple years later. Thank you for this lesson. Texas
got my first oak yamadori today love it. Thanks alot for your videos I appreciate it alot and learnt so much already. Please never stop :(
im glad that a master gets help. love your channel :)
On the topic of recording everything even the mundane... this is a video I have been hoping to find for quite some time and I was searching your channel for oak bonsai. So thank you for recording this moment!
I like what you are doing, as you explain quite a bit about Bonsai trees and their needs. I also like that you are not so doing so much sculpting of the tree's, that involve carving and burning the trees like another TH-camr I saw. As I started two silk fan tree's from seed, about 3 years ago and have been learning with them. So your video's are helping me to understand a little more about how to care for the tree's. So thank you for that. And I like that you are working with tree species, like Oak's which grow naturally around the area where I live as does Cedar, pine, Box Elm and a few others.
I admire the work of you and your colleague... hats off to you guys 🎩
Thanks for sharing peter just beautiful
Thank you very much for sharing your knowledge. You make me more confident to grow my trees, from wild seebling found in garden or forest nearby.
Those are the best gloves ever!! Perfect all around uses👍👍
lovely, a real pleasure to watch an artist at work.
Your videos bring me so much joy.
I have two x 200 year old oak trees in my garden, from them I have now got 1x 5 year old ,just starting its first year of shaping and 7 that are 3 year old ,thickening up , 1 acorn from last year and surprisingly 1 that looks like the small one Peter showed at the end. thank you Peter
Very nicely done, your like a johnny apple seed of miniature tree ART
I would love to have that tree from Mr. Peter it's another one of his famous beautiful works of art Jesse
Thanks peter and friend for a lovely video on the oak godbless
Wow thats a large tree, too good 👌👌👌
I really enjoyed that!!!! Thanks for sharing
I love your nursery. What a great place to work. If you love plants that is, and I do.
Love this idea im going to use this for a southern live oak. Wishing you good health in 2020 with the corona virus epidemic.
I first watched this video way back in March when I developed an interest in bonsai,watching again now as I have successfully germinated 3 or 4 oaks
Despite the surely often difficult work, it must be a very satisfying feeling to work with such beautiful creatures. Happy who is allowed to do such a job.
Thank you Peter - I am planning on starting an Oak off for my first grandchild expected In March and you are and continue to be the inspiration I need
Start several. They're finicky in pots.
I just found your channel not too long ago and I find ALL of the videos very interesting. I have learned so much in such a short time! Wish I could visit the nursery. Unfortunately, I'm in California....... Thank you for making these videos!
What a pleasure to learn from such a joy to see the transition
‘This pot looks a bit big, mmmm, but the tree will be more comfortable in this pot.’ That’s why i love this hobby. It can be seen to be brutal and harming, but experts down to the general hobbyist gain through this interest a greater respect for nature/trees.
Amazing tree , I do love Oak . Thank you Peter for sharing 🙏✌️
Jij oak al
lekkere beonksai bonken ?
Good video. Makes me want to get back into the hobby once I get moves. Squirrels ruined a lot of what I had before but I was waiting for Heron's helper to say "Yes, master" like Igor in Young Frankenstein but Heron's helper sure looked like he knew what he was doing! I bought a house in Colorado that was attempting to flourish in the middle of the lawn. After a few years I noticed it, dug it up and it sprang to life. It was short and stout and interesting..
Excellent demonstration on how to work with a Bonsai. I am in the process of doing an oak Bonsai hence researched and you came about 👍🏽
Fabulous Mr. Peter!
Everything about what you do is amazing
Thank you for this video. Having a regular spot on a campsite in the dunes I was figuring how to make my surroundings a bit more interesting. So I planted a oak, and some other kinds, from the woods a bit from there planning to make a bonsai style tree with a similar hight shown in the video. Cheers, Onno
Thankyou for sharing this amazing tree. Love the videos
Hello from the Jersey Shore ! What a great project thanks for sharing your expertise and creativity with us ! I am always on the lookout for trees just like this oak, growing between fences, or mixed in with the brush !
Wow, that is incredible!!!
who is also just high AF at 2 in the morning watching an old Japanese guy talk and cut an oak tree.
caught me!
lolll
🙌🏾
Thought his last name was Chan. That would make him Chinese. Correct me if I'm wrong.
Down the TH-cam rabbit hole
BEAUTIFUL TREE. I've put 2 in the ground this year, now I wait. Thankyou.
Don't forget to chop off the top five years ago.
Also: wonderful that their nursery is thriving despite so much flyover from Gatwick.
I'd love to see more videos on your work with small oak trees! The birds have a habit of planting acorns in my tomato containers, so I have new saplings every year on my balcony
wOw !! Nice huge small oak tree😊👍and a nice video !!!
i have also an oak tree in a pot ..i found it in my garden 1 year ago .. and now there come new buds .. so it did survive the winter.. i do like it so much!!! ❤💚❤
The mundane and 'boring' work where all the details are to be found. Much appreciated in an instructional video! I was scared of bonsai roots my whole life until I see these videos. No more.
I've run across more than a few oaks that I now have a reason to dig up. Thanks!
the bandicoot and the bensai are well farned together in the behowers of banshast, rriight?
@@Digalog yep
It might be mundane for these guys, but this is teaching me how to do it better myself. Thank you for sharing.
Another great video packed with great info thank you!
Looks great 👍
Gorgeous tree!
Dera sir, hier vanuit België, willen wij u feliciteren met de prachtige bonsai s die u maakt, u heeft ons al veel geleerd, en we proberen zo goed mogelijk om zelf een bonsai te maken, dank je wel om zoveel kunst te tonen , wij maken een diepe buiging voor u, dank je wel, groetjes uit België, Conny
I always learn something new with each video thanks Peter👍👍🇵🇷
Nice n a good assistant too