Hi Milton, What a beautiful tree! Yes, i agree that this is the best angle choice for "the front". Cant wait to see comparison follow-up videos at 6 mo, 1 yr, and 18 months with side by side video showing progress of growth from this work done today. Merry Christmas and Happy New Year 🎉
I like it! I love the fact that its a 1000 plus year old tree but whether its one of my older trees or not so old, it gives me the same amount of joy. love your videos!
Hi Milton, what a magnificent Juniper to work on, you have done the tree justice with the pruning. The tree will look so much better when it is repotted at the better angle and front.The cutters you sent to me are fantastic and well designed for the job required of them, I have used many different types in my time, non compare to the pruners you are using on this tree which are the same as mine you gifted to me. Thank you Milton.
I’m still taking a lot of these tips for my garden trees. Some branches are for privacy, some are meant to be unique. I appreciate all your help along the way
Loved the videos as always. In texas, everyone calls juniper "cedar." Even though they are not. Do you have any true cedars? Love to see something in comparison so I can understand why us texans call them cedar. Thanks!!
Flippant response! Sorry....There are more Cowboy than botanists in TX.. Ouch! Google AI: Ashe juniper, also known as mountain cedar, is a small, evergreen tree native to Texas and other parts of the United States and Mexico: In fact a friend of mine in Albuqueque NM has a lot of them on his property...but they do not have the interesting curves as CA juniper...They are also not that old. How are the ones in TX?
Hi Milton, What a lavish tree. I would have been so honored to have a tree like this in my collection. Thank you for sharing your collection and your expertise in pruning this tree. Take care and have a Marvelous Christmas. 🌟🙏🎉🎄🥂🍾☃️
You waited 25 years and then you chopped most of its foliage off in a matter of seconds. You could have used wires to create pads with all that foliage since you are using wires anyway. Please do not repot this magnificent old tree this year. Technically it is possible to heavily prune and repot juniper in the same year, it is not recommended as it can put too much stress on an old tree and potentially kill it. You might want to wait .
@@Jason-TheChad-Muska_circa1995 He doesn't. Junipers need strong, actively growing tips on the foliage to continue growing strongly, even after pruning. Most of those were removed here. This tree will likely respond by pushing weak, juvenile foliage and will only regain vigor if it's left alone for at least a few years... and that's assuming it hasn't been pushed too far.
@@MiltonChang-ee6rq Please post updates next spring so we all can see what this kind of pruning actually does to junipers in general but, in particular, older and less vigorous material like this one.
Thanks for another video but I just can’t get behind your ideas of styling a tree. You had enough foliage to make a beautiful tree after some pruning and wiring and you just cut back to nothing it makes no sense to me I’m sorry. Have a great Christmas
understad! There is no right way or wrong way...within reason, given due considerations...just do it! My justification is I lo show the structure of the overall tree, not hidden totally by foliage (wha a shame!).So I have to cut bqck and let regrow...to incorporate natural growth tendency, Please pass judgement in six month to a year...to five years! think long term, right? Thank you for sharing your honest opinion... That's how we all grow!
I agree… it seems the only concept he uses is cutting back to the earliest peice of foliage on every branch which ruins any taper / ramification that the tree had, and significantly weakens the tree. He never lets the trees grow branches beyond the primaries :(
100% agree. He cuts back everything and “lets it grow” all the time so none of his trees has any developed pads or structure. IMO it’s all raw stock material
Around 5min I’m pretty sure you were pointing out lenticels or adventitious buds, not “roots”. If lenticels, those aid in gaseous exchange. New roots form by the buildup of hormones from cambium being cut off that cause cells to develop. Maybe consider donating this tree to Mirai to help heal and visit it to do lessons? Where there’s opportunity for improvement: start bottom-up, not top-down; enhance the asymmetry of the tree more; don’t cut off a conifer’s branches, instead add to deadwood; wire it carefully to set pad development. It would also look 2x better if you cleaned it to show off live vein/deadwood. The rarity of material like this requires more technique.
Have to agree with the comments here. I think that tree could have done with some wiring and minimal pruning. Initial styling. I wouldn’t be repotting it anytime soon after that foliage reduction. In my opinion it’s going to need to regain a lot of strength/growth before any more major actions. Be good to see follow up and hopefully it’s regained strength and back budded.
STOP CUTTING OFF ALL THE LEAVES ON ALL YOUR TREES!!!! Dude I was just telling my wife when the video came up, "This is the guy who never understands why all the branches die on his old trees." Then we skipped to the end and we just bust up laughing. But it's not funny, this thing is so old you've likely made it very sick for a long time, if it survives. Just stop and please get someone who knows what they're doing to teach you.
Hi Milton, What a beautiful tree! Yes, i agree that this is the best angle choice for "the front". Cant wait to see comparison follow-up videos at 6 mo, 1 yr, and 18 months with side by side video showing progress of growth from this work done today.
Merry Christmas and Happy New Year 🎉
I like it! I love the fact that its a 1000 plus year old tree but whether its one of my older trees or not so old, it gives me the same amount of joy. love your videos!
Hi Milton, what a magnificent Juniper to work on, you have done the tree justice with the pruning. The tree will look so much better when it is repotted at the better angle and front.The cutters you sent to me are fantastic and well designed for the job required of them, I have used many different types in my time, non compare to the pruners you are using on this tree which are the same as mine you gifted to me. Thank you Milton.
Thank you Joe!
I can't wait to see this in six months.
I’m still taking a lot of these tips for my garden trees. Some branches are for privacy, some are meant to be unique.
I appreciate all your help along the way
Sonds like a plan!
Have fun!
That's some amazing tree, loved it thanks 👍
Cet arbre est impressionnant, un grand merci à vous pour le partage de votre expérience!
Merci!
🙂
Beautiful Ancient Tree, thank you for sharing Milton.
You are welocme...My job 🙂
Please tell a friend.
Wow. Thank you for sharing this magnificent tree. I would love to see some cutting from this tree someday on your website. ❤
Most of thm will work...
a truly beautiful tree
Thank you...tel a frioend.
What a tree, and the long natural history beneath its shape.
Yes! Venerable!
Please shar with a friend.
Loved the videos as always. In texas, everyone calls juniper "cedar." Even though they are not. Do you have any true cedars? Love to see something in comparison so I can understand why us texans call them cedar. Thanks!!
Flippant response! Sorry....There are more Cowboy than botanists in TX.. Ouch!
Google AI:
Ashe juniper, also known as mountain cedar, is a small, evergreen tree native to Texas and other parts of the United States and Mexico:
In fact a friend of mine in Albuqueque NM has a lot of them on his property...but they do not have the interesting curves as CA juniper...They are also not that old. How are the ones in TX?
Hi Milton,
What a lavish tree. I would have been so honored to have a tree like this in my collection.
Thank you for sharing your collection and your expertise in pruning this tree.
Take care and have a Marvelous Christmas. 🌟🙏🎉🎄🥂🍾☃️
Thanks David.
Merery Christmass and Happy New Year to you too!
love your videoa. what a beautiful tree.
It’s a beautiful tree and a wonderful heirloom!!
👍
🙂
A lot of clueless people second guessing this guy... Hilarious.
You waited 25 years and then you chopped most of its foliage off in a matter of seconds. You could have used wires to create pads with all that foliage since you are using wires anyway. Please do not repot this magnificent old tree this year. Technically it is possible to heavily prune and repot juniper in the same year, it is not recommended as it can put too much stress on an old tree and potentially kill it. You might want to wait .
My friend, this Man has been doing this for 30+ years now. This is his life. He knows exactly what he is doing.
Have to say I agree with @NamTran-gb1pc
I’d be waiting to repot.
Would be a shame to see that tree die.
@@Jason-TheChad-Muska_circa1995 He doesn't. Junipers need strong, actively growing tips on the foliage to continue growing strongly, even after pruning. Most of those were removed here. This tree will likely respond by pushing weak, juvenile foliage and will only regain vigor if it's left alone for at least a few years... and that's assuming it hasn't been pushed too far.
Severe treatment for such an old, collected tree. I'll pray that it survives, but won't expect it.
I am a retty conservative type....never mindless ...always based on risk assessment!
Watch it grow.
@@MiltonChang-ee6rq Please post updates next spring so we all can see what this kind of pruning actually does to junipers in general but, in particular, older and less vigorous material like this one.
Thanks for another video but I just can’t get behind your ideas of styling a tree. You had enough foliage to make a beautiful tree after some pruning and wiring and you just cut back to nothing it makes no sense to me I’m sorry. Have a great Christmas
understad!
There is no right way or wrong way...within reason, given due considerations...just do it!
My justification is I lo show the structure of the overall tree, not hidden totally by foliage (wha a shame!).So I have to cut bqck and let regrow...to incorporate natural growth tendency,
Please pass judgement in six month to a year...to five years!
think long term, right?
Thank you for sharing your honest opinion...
That's how we all grow!
I agree… it seems the only concept he uses is cutting back to the earliest peice of foliage on every branch which ruins any taper / ramification that the tree had, and significantly weakens the tree. He never lets the trees grow branches beyond the primaries :(
100% agree. He cuts back everything and “lets it grow” all the time so none of his trees has any developed pads or structure. IMO it’s all raw stock material
I'd be surprised if it survives losing 90 percent of its foliage.
@@y0nkL Agree
Around 5min I’m pretty sure you were pointing out lenticels or adventitious buds, not “roots”. If lenticels, those aid in gaseous exchange. New roots form by the buildup of hormones from cambium being cut off that cause cells to develop. Maybe consider donating this tree to Mirai to help heal and visit it to do lessons? Where there’s opportunity for improvement: start bottom-up, not top-down; enhance the asymmetry of the tree more; don’t cut off a conifer’s branches, instead add to deadwood; wire it carefully to set pad development. It would also look 2x better if you cleaned it to show off live vein/deadwood. The rarity of material like this requires more technique.
Have to agree with the comments here. I think that tree could have done with some wiring and minimal pruning. Initial styling.
I wouldn’t be repotting it anytime soon after that foliage reduction.
In my opinion it’s going to need to regain a lot of strength/growth before any more major actions.
Be good to see follow up and hopefully it’s regained strength and back budded.
STOP CUTTING OFF ALL THE LEAVES ON ALL YOUR TREES!!!! Dude I was just telling my wife when the video came up, "This is the guy who never understands why all the branches die on his old trees." Then we skipped to the end and we just bust up laughing. But it's not funny, this thing is so old you've likely made it very sick for a long time, if it survives. Just stop and please get someone who knows what they're doing to teach you.
Did it ever occur to you that this guy knows a helluva lot more than you?
You obviously know nothing of bonsai.