Here is a brief translation of the video. I have only started learning Japanese and still make lots of mistakes, so please let me know if you find any error or emission :) [0:00] Greetings everyone, this is Matsusue from Bonsai Suishoen. Today we will look at how to maintain and touchup this Shimpaku juniper brought by an enthusiast. There tends to be many questions around how to shape the branches and what kind of maintenance is required. We thought we'd use this opportunity to explain some of these. Thank you very much for your support. [0:37] First let's start with some problems we can see in this tree. Notice sphagnum moss is being used here. [Slowly starting to pick if off...] For conifers, perhaps only during those dry seasons when water is need everyday may we consider using sphagnum moss. Usually it's better to take them off. Otherwise we cannot tell how dry the soil is. When there are sphagnum-covered and uncovered patches, moisture level between them differs. Same thing is true for live moss. This not good. We want to clean them off in order to be able to pay more attention the condition of the soil. Notice there is a big dent here. And over there is soil is higher. Water will tend to flow into the dented area while and avoid the higher ground. Things like this needs to be notices when taking care of the soil. [1:43] Let's now look at the leaves. Very noticeably, we can see these elongated branches. There are places we will have to cut back, and there are also places where we would like it to grow a bit longer. For example, on this lower branch here, the inner branches are not as full as we would like. Therefore, we will let it extend further. The inner branches will fill in faster if we let the whole thing extend and thicken. If we cut it off now the growth will be hindered, the leaves won't be as puffy and voluminous. So better let it grow for now. A good density of the foliage can be seen on this branch here. [Points to an upper branch. Rotate the tree.] When it reaches this kind of volume and density, we can cut off the tip. But the lower branch is still too weak. Now moving onto the shaping and thinning of the leaves ("hasuguri"葉すぐり), let's find a good patch to demonstrate this better... [2:44] Okay, now let's start the explanation. First look at this long shoot here. Behind it there is a nice and fluffy patch of shimpaku needles. Both Itoigawa(糸魚川) shimpaku and common shimpaku tends to send out a single long shoot like this where energy is most concentrated. In cases like this, we take off this single shoot with too much energy here. [Pinching the shoot off.] But we leave the bud behind it untouched. [3:18] Now when viewed from the side, we notice this little guy sticking out here. This shoot here. [grabs the tip of the shoot]. It is okay to take the tip off like this. [Pinch off the tip.] But again we shall leave the numerous bud inside behind, try not to take them off together with the tip. [3:48] Let's keep shaping the pad now. First notice that there are needles that comes from beneath. We will start by cleaning them off like this. [Pinching off...] This is how the pad above it looks like. [Still pinching...] We take off the uneven needles underneath here as well. Now we start to be able see the lower branch as a distinct pad. Since branches and branches are different, we will try to show you in an easy-to-understand way how to take extra stuff off. [4:46] Let's do this... [picking off leaves...] Take the needles off like this. We remove the buds deep inside, leaving the growing tips at the end behind, shaped like a particular type of paper lantern ("bonbori"雪洞). [They are really cute you should look them up :) ] Leave little lantern shaped lumps like this. We want to make it easy to understand, so it might looks a bit tedious... [Suddenly pulled off something big here (°ﾛ°;)] ... So like this. Hope this makes it a bit clearer. Each little branches are shaped like this, can you see? [6:22] Okay, now we can easily make apart five distinct bundles. One. Two. Three. And over here on the top, four, and five pieces. Five distinctive parts like this. We want to create distinct bundles like this with the growing tips we left behind. If there are random buds growing inside, the tips won't get enough energy. Had we left the branch as it was, the leaves will indeed become very tight, but it will also end up looking very loose, and will spread out in a rather feeble way. Once that happens it will take a lot of effort to re-gather everything again. Doing the jobs we have done today make sure the tips will stay compact. Then later we can wire these little bundles freely to where we want them. This is the basics of shimpaku needle care. Please keep this in mind. [7:29] So this time we talked about the needle thinning and shaping ("hasuguri"葉すぐり) and other issues on shimpaku junipers. In the next video we will keep working on it. Please make sure to check it out. Thank you very much for watching.
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Here is a brief translation of the video. I have only started learning Japanese and still make lots of mistakes, so please let me know if you find any error or emission :)
[0:00] Greetings everyone, this is Matsusue from Bonsai Suishoen. Today we will look at how to maintain and touchup this Shimpaku juniper brought by an enthusiast. There tends to be many questions around how to shape the branches and what kind of maintenance is required. We thought we'd use this opportunity to explain some of these. Thank you very much for your support.
[0:37] First let's start with some problems we can see in this tree. Notice sphagnum moss is being used here. [Slowly starting to pick if off...] For conifers, perhaps only during those dry seasons when water is need everyday may we consider using sphagnum moss. Usually it's better to take them off. Otherwise we cannot tell how dry the soil is. When there are sphagnum-covered and uncovered patches, moisture level between them differs. Same thing is true for live moss. This not good. We want to clean them off in order to be able to pay more attention the condition of the soil. Notice there is a big dent here. And over there is soil is higher. Water will tend to flow into the dented area while and avoid the higher ground. Things like this needs to be notices when taking care of the soil.
[1:43] Let's now look at the leaves. Very noticeably, we can see these elongated branches. There are places we will have to cut back, and there are also places where we would like it to grow a bit longer. For example, on this lower branch here, the inner branches are not as full as we would like. Therefore, we will let it extend further. The inner branches will fill in faster if we let the whole thing extend and thicken. If we cut it off now the growth will be hindered, the leaves won't be as puffy and voluminous. So better let it grow for now. A good density of the foliage can be seen on this branch here. [Points to an upper branch. Rotate the tree.] When it reaches this kind of volume and density, we can cut off the tip. But the lower branch is still too weak. Now moving onto the shaping and thinning of the leaves ("hasuguri"葉すぐり), let's find a good patch to demonstrate this better...
[2:44] Okay, now let's start the explanation. First look at this long shoot here. Behind it there is a nice and fluffy patch of shimpaku needles. Both Itoigawa(糸魚川) shimpaku and common shimpaku tends to send out a single long shoot like this where energy is most concentrated. In cases like this, we take off this single shoot with too much energy here. [Pinching the shoot off.] But we leave the bud behind it untouched.
[3:18] Now when viewed from the side, we notice this little guy sticking out here. This shoot here. [grabs the tip of the shoot]. It is okay to take the tip off like this. [Pinch off the tip.] But again we shall leave the numerous bud inside behind, try not to take them off together with the tip.
[3:48] Let's keep shaping the pad now. First notice that there are needles that comes from beneath. We will start by cleaning them off like this. [Pinching off...] This is how the pad above it looks like. [Still pinching...] We take off the uneven needles underneath here as well. Now we start to be able see the lower branch as a distinct pad. Since branches and branches are different, we will try to show you in an easy-to-understand way how to take extra stuff off.
[4:46] Let's do this... [picking off leaves...] Take the needles off like this. We remove the buds deep inside, leaving the growing tips at the end behind, shaped like a particular type of paper lantern ("bonbori"雪洞). [They are really cute you should look them up :) ] Leave little lantern shaped lumps like this. We want to make it easy to understand, so it might looks a bit
tedious... [Suddenly pulled off something big here (°ﾛ°;)] ... So like this. Hope this makes it a bit clearer. Each little branches are shaped like this, can you see?
[6:22] Okay, now we can easily make apart five distinct bundles. One. Two. Three. And over here on the top, four, and five pieces. Five distinctive parts like this. We want to create distinct bundles like this with the growing tips we left behind. If there are random buds growing inside, the tips won't get enough energy. Had we left the branch as it was, the leaves will indeed become very tight, but it will also end up looking very loose, and will spread out in a rather feeble way. Once that happens it will take a lot of effort to re-gather everything again. Doing the jobs we have done today make sure the tips will stay compact. Then later we can wire these little bundles freely to where we want them. This is the basics of shimpaku needle care. Please keep this in mind.
[7:29] So this time we talked about the needle thinning and shaping ("hasuguri"葉すぐり) and other issues on shimpaku junipers. In the next video we will keep working on it. Please make sure to check it out. Thank you very much for watching.
Koji a good explanation, thank you.
夏の暑さで樹勢が落ちてしまったときにどのようにすればいいのか教えて頂きたいです。
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