Collecting Yamadori Hawthorn For Bonsai
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 26 พ.ย. 2024
- In this video I return to The Hill, my favourite place for collecting old yamadori Crataegus monogyna/Common Hawthorn.
With the help of cameraman Paul Ladbrooke, I show more of the conditions on the Hill as we travel up on our collecting trip.
The video then shows the tools I use for collecting, and most importantly, the best methods for collecting wild deciduous trees.
Learning how to dig up a wild tree, ensures that you damage as little of the rootball as possible, and can collect quickly and cleanly.
The hand-chainsaw that I use in the video for cutting thick roots, particularly those growing underneath the trunk, can be found from many sources online and are surprisingly cheap. Well worth investing in!
PLEASE ALWAYS REMEMBER TO GET PERMISSION BEFORE COLLECTING WILD TREES. AND BE RESPONSIBLE.
Do not try to take trees from the wild unless you have good knowledge of bonsai horticulture, are using modern inorganic soils and know exactly what you are doing. Getting these trees to survive is not easy and removal from their natural environment is irresponsible if you are not able to revive them successfully.
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Harry this going to be a super Bonsai when the branches have grown.
Night again 🥲! As live use to teach us... it’s take longer you spect... great job again. Namaste 🙏 for sharing!
Looks like a good workout. That hand chain saw makes light work of that root. When all this covid stuff is over I'm going to go and have a hunt around my boss' small holding for yamadori.
Synplicity i was very surprised how well they work. Trunkchops of thick trunks can be done in no time at all
Wow what a tree love Hawthorn they are my favourite trees. Would love a big one to work on and style 😮
Great video! Super cool thank you.
Nice work Harry
It looks like very hard work, not everyone would be able to do that.
Looks like it’s going to be an amazing tree.
Margaret Sims it is, very hard!
can you make a video where you go into describing how you prepared the material before collecting please?
That’s a good idea
Amazing work! From Portland Oregon, love your stile. I wish I had one of your trees!!
elque thank you 🙏
Great material, I'd have a mini digger up there😁👍
Do madmen like us ever wonder what this looks like to a passing car in the dark of night. Some madman with a headtorch messing with black binliners and gaffer tape frantically digging a hole in the dead of the the night. LOL
Is there a update on how the one is doing now 1 year down the line?? Loved the video and specially the badas chain cutting haha. I even placed an order for one after watching this video
What is the rooting hormone do you use ?
Is it important to cut the cambium beforehand?
Thank you Harry, this is an excellent piece and helps encourage me to go collect our native Washington Hawthorne here in the Pacific NW. Keep up your great work, cheers!
Do you get permission from the Landowner first? How do you find the best way to approach them?
Ne parlant pas anglais ce n'est pas facile de comprendre ! Si j'ai bien compris vous arrachez en mars et le laissé dans le sac plastique plusieurs mois ? et si oui à quel endroit ? merci
How long do you keep the tree bagged up in the black bin liner? I've got one I collected a few weeks back which has sprouted a few shoots and more buds swelling on the bark. Checked today and it's really damp inside so going as planned. Unsure if I should be airing it at all to remove stale air, or whether to replace with a white bin bag to allow a little more light in now?
Any advice appreciated!
TheCattwooduk keep it in there, even after leaves emerge and shoots start to extend. It will keep the humidity up when we get the first really warm temps in May.
Just slowly tear open the bag over several weeks, if the leaves don’t start to brown off you can keep owning the ho bigger. I wouldn’t take it off completely until after midsummer to be certain.
@@bonsai4me2 brilliant thanks for the help!
May I ask what power the thermal cables you use are? I only got 20W cables and they're just about keeping soul temp between 8-13C. May get some more beefy ones next year.
If collecting hawthorn in the late autumn & winter months,would you still put the tree in a plastic bag and use the heat cables in the poly tunnel?
Love watching your videos by the way.
Absolutely, it’s still worth doing.
Thank you, appreciated. I will try to make some more this winter
I’m looking at getting into collecting. I’m wondering how people get the permission. I know some land/ farm owners are very nice people that don’t mind. I have so many fields with hawthorn, blackthorn, oaks and every year the farmers cut them down or back. I just don’t know how to ask
are you planning on an up date on this tree? just subbed and thumbs - up,, be strong, be safe, and be blessed
Yes, I’ll update here or on social media in the spring
Good luck master
For engraftment do you use any particular product or technique like bagging?
bonsai corner rhizotonic and cannazym, and all newly collected trees are bagged
Grazie Harry
Great video, just curious, why not power tools ?
Yingfu Zuo I guess mainly because of the weight and the relatively short time the battery would last. This dig took 90 mins, on average a tree takes around an hour
Glad I didn't need my night vision goggles for this one.
shepdi 🤣🤣
Hey im a new subscriber and i want to collect a hawthorn as well but im bot sure on what to plant it in can you give tips? The piece is absolutely stunning and it will be my first collection. Its about a meter tall and the trunk is as thick as yours or bigger.
I collected a hawthorn about three weeks ago and potted it to the mixture of akadama, potting gravel and compost 1/1/1. Last week a lot new buds started appearing so looks it will be growing well. It was my first collection as well.
Don’t use old skool organic soil components. You need plenty of drainage and aeration in the soil. I’ve seen trees ‘successfully’ revived in what amounts to mud (compost)....but they will be weaker and you’re greatly increasing the risk of failure.
How long did that take to dig it out?
Around 90 minutes
@@bonsai4me2 wow fairplay quite old tree
Excelente video,te queria preguntar,tienes problemas con tus crataegus monogina por el fuego bacteriano, erwinia amylovora.
You have alot of yamadori there...
Hello :) Merci thx bro ;)
Is this in England?
Yes
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Horns?! The deer eat bark in winter.
As well ;)
It’s definitely where you buried her yer lol 😂
Why are you digging wild trees it’s illegal
Says who? If you have permission to dig then it’s not illegal.