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Yaupon is also a significant plant to the native peoples. They drank it ceremonially as tea and planted it intentionally all over. It’s caffeinated, so you can take your broken branches and dry them in the sun then brew them up to give you some pep to work on more trees. And after all those snap crackle pops you might need a pick-me-up. Great content as usual.
Hi Mark, yes we did a ton of research on the history of Yauppn, and have a blog post coming out soon! Also we ordered Yaupon Brothers green tea and it’s delicious. We’re going to carry it as a product!
Yaupon, grows super thick in central TX area. The female trees look amazing when they have the red berries in the fall/ winter. Cool tree . They don’t bend well for me. Like to split and crack. Great video , Thanks !
In my experience, the Walter Pall hedge pruning method and clip and grow work very well with this species. I've pruned them back to bare, thumb-sized branches and they budded out vigorously.
My yaupon is VERY forgiving, that split will keep growing ... you're right about having to wire when they are almost fresh shoots. Finding female hollys are toooough for some reason.
Have you tried splitting the trunk/branch before bending? I know its a technique usually used on thick trunks/branches, but may work on these if you can find a branch splitter small enough, or grind the ends of a pair of small pliers to do the job.
I am loving this! I just bought a Yaupon Holly in South Carolina as a souvenir from vacation. I love the Live Oake trees in Charleston SC and I will be creating my own "Live Oak Bonsai" or "Lowcountry Bonsai" from a Dwarf Yaupon Holly. What do you think? I live in Zone 6B and will be keeping this Yaupon with my tropicals. Fun, right? Any thought or opinions? Thanks.
Good project. I think they're great for small bonsai - a bit harder for large trees but still doable. As for oak style - I think you could do it, but they're slow to put on wood so it may take a long time to get the branches looking big enough and gnarly. One other thing - they reverse-taper more easily than a lot of other plants, so keep clusters from forming.
@@Bonsaify Thanks for that advice. I did not know about the reverse taper. As I saw in your two videos, I quickly realized how brittle the cambium is. What are your thoughts on, in the beginning, using a shrub pruning method? Just trimming the silhouette... Or is hard pruning the better method? I thinned it out to get all healthy branches and now it needs a lot more ramification I noticed. My problem is allowing too many unruly branches because I think the whole thing looks cool. I'm going to try your trimming method. Clip and grow... Hey thanks again for the advice.
interesting video. i was wondering about the splits, if maybe it might help to have the bends in a way that the pressure point on the bark pushes against the wire. in some cases i saw you create the bend in wire gaps.
A good technique for this is to apply two coils of wire spaced evenly apart to reduce the area that is not splinted by the wire. But, it takes twice as long and these are young starters. Confounding that is that they often will send a new shoot from just below the wired area. The interesting thing is that the breaks often dont cause the area above to die, so if you use sealant you can salvage it usually.
I like the idea of developing techniques on non-standard trees. I've been experimenting with Autumn Olive. They grow so fast almost anywhere and take to wiring easily with naturally small interesting leaves, so they are great for bonsai. They even flower and fruit. The problem is, they are such a horrid invasive species in the NE that in Connecticut (where I live), it's banned for "sale, distribution or cultivation" by state law. I can't quite figure out if it's "illegal" to make bonsai out of it. Does anyone know if bonsai counts as "cultivation?"
Yo Eric! You should check out eastern leafs youtube channel, another professional from cali. He lost some valuable trees in a robbery and is currently rebuilding his nursery with new trees… he has a playlist where he created a yaupon holly shohin in three years using clip n grow and a little bit of wiring. I recommend checking it out! Have a good day!
I have one! I just cut a airLayer lim off -in which, I just cut the airLayer off of a tree yr9-10 yr old Some- what Difficult to wire when they’re kinda of brittle The older the branches get…
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Yaupon is also a significant plant to the native peoples. They drank it ceremonially as tea and planted it intentionally all over. It’s caffeinated, so you can take your broken branches and dry them in the sun then brew them up to give you some pep to work on more trees. And after all those snap crackle pops you might need a pick-me-up. Great content as usual.
Hi Mark, yes we did a ton of research on the history of Yauppn, and have a blog post coming out soon! Also we ordered Yaupon Brothers green tea and it’s delicious. We’re going to carry it as a product!
@@Bonsaify awesome! I’ll look out for yaupon trees hitting the site. You guys are great
Yaupon, grows super thick in central TX area. The female trees look amazing when they have the red berries in the fall/ winter. Cool tree . They don’t bend well for me. Like to split and crack. Great video , Thanks !
In my experience, the Walter Pall hedge pruning method and clip and grow work very well with this species. I've pruned them back to bare, thumb-sized branches and they budded out vigorously.
I really like the red berries, might try to find one.
My yaupon is VERY forgiving, that split will keep growing ... you're right about having to wire when they are almost fresh shoots. Finding female hollys are toooough for some reason.
Have you tried splitting the trunk/branch before bending? I know its a technique usually used on thick trunks/branches, but may work on these if you can find a branch splitter small enough, or grind the ends of a pair of small pliers to do the job.
Nope, have not. But these are so small that I think it might prove fatal to the branch or even the whole tree....
I am loving this! I just bought a Yaupon Holly in South Carolina as a souvenir from vacation. I love the Live Oake trees in Charleston SC and I will be creating my own "Live Oak Bonsai" or "Lowcountry Bonsai" from a Dwarf Yaupon Holly. What do you think? I live in Zone 6B and will be keeping this Yaupon with my tropicals. Fun, right? Any thought or opinions? Thanks.
Good project. I think they're great for small bonsai - a bit harder for large trees but still doable. As for oak style - I think you could do it, but they're slow to put on wood so it may take a long time to get the branches looking big enough and gnarly. One other thing - they reverse-taper more easily than a lot of other plants, so keep clusters from forming.
@@Bonsaify Thanks for that advice. I did not know about the reverse taper. As I saw in your two videos, I quickly realized how brittle the cambium is. What are your thoughts on, in the beginning, using a shrub pruning method? Just trimming the silhouette... Or is hard pruning the better method? I thinned it out to get all healthy branches and now it needs a lot more ramification I noticed. My problem is allowing too many unruly branches because I think the whole thing looks cool. I'm going to try your trimming method. Clip and grow... Hey thanks again for the advice.
interesting video. i was wondering about the splits, if maybe it might help to have the bends in a way that the pressure point on the bark pushes against the wire. in some cases i saw you create the bend in wire gaps.
A good technique for this is to apply two coils of wire spaced evenly apart to reduce the area that is not splinted by the wire. But, it takes twice as long and these are young starters. Confounding that is that they often will send a new shoot from just below the wired area. The interesting thing is that the breaks often dont cause the area above to die, so if you use sealant you can salvage it usually.
I like the idea of developing techniques on non-standard trees. I've been experimenting with Autumn Olive. They grow so fast almost anywhere and take to wiring easily with naturally small interesting leaves, so they are great for bonsai. They even flower and fruit.
The problem is, they are such a horrid invasive species in the NE that in Connecticut (where I live), it's banned for "sale, distribution or cultivation" by state law. I can't quite figure out if it's "illegal" to make bonsai out of it. Does anyone know if bonsai counts as "cultivation?"
It does.
Yo Eric! You should check out eastern leafs youtube channel, another professional from cali. He lost some valuable trees in a robbery and is currently rebuilding his nursery with new trees… he has a playlist where he created a yaupon holly shohin in three years using clip n grow and a little bit of wiring. I recommend checking it out! Have a good day!
I wonder if raffia would help when wiring these?
Ooo, that would be really hard to pull off on tiny twigs. Dunno though, maybe.
Like working with glass trees
Great visualization!
I have one! I just cut a airLayer lim off -in which, I just cut the airLayer off of a tree yr9-10 yr old Some- what Difficult to wire when they’re kinda of brittle The older the branches get…
Reminds me of trying to wire and bend Japanese red pine branches! Painful and frustrating.
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A plant with a high casualtie rate
They didn't really come from Texas, they actually fell off the back of a pick up truck though hey.