How to prune Mugo Pines (from nursery-stock)to develop quality bonsai without inverse taper

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  • @Chris-oq6kn
    @Chris-oq6kn ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Mugo pines are a monster to tackle . I bought one this year and going to style it in the autumn. They really are a nightmare of spokes.

    • @TonysBonsai
      @TonysBonsai  ปีที่แล้ว +1

      They're definitely not easy, but they have generally great potential if we are patient enough with them

  • @jeffreyhutchings561
    @jeffreyhutchings561 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Thank you for the video. I picked up a similar sized Mugo pine last year. I left it in the 3 gallon nursery pot for a while. I can’t recall the exact month that I repotted it. But, it’s happy and in the Spring we got a bunch of new candles. I just haven’t decided on what style to go with for pruning. This video gave me a few ideas. Thanks again! 😎👍🪴

  • @oachkatzlsmum
    @oachkatzlsmum ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Hi Tony and Daddy, thanks for this upload. 🙏 My Mugo is still in recovery-mode - so no pruning this year. Yours ist just gorgeous ❤ Enjoy your day while I go to sleep after nightshift. 😘 Cheers, 🙋‍♀️ Martina

  • @Bonsaicrazy
    @Bonsaicrazy ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Nice Tony your dads really getting the hang of things mate. At least you’ll know they’ll be well looked after.
    Taught by the master 👍👍
    Pines are actually very difficult to bonsai I find
    But what do I know 😂😂😂

    • @TonysBonsai
      @TonysBonsai  ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Cheers buddy. Yeah with my dad and brother pretty much trained up now, I'm really confident that they've pretty much all got a good chance in the future both in terms of health and pruning etc.

  • @XaviersBonsaiRetreat
    @XaviersBonsaiRetreat ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Good morning Tony. My mugo's will get looked at in a few more weeks too. I much prefer pines to junipers but I think you know tha already. Great stuff and enjoy the rest of the day.

  • @markweaver3497
    @markweaver3497 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Very very well done. Your dad is a good man. You have to have courage. 😊

  • @patch1526
    @patch1526 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I'm working on my 5 footer trying to get it to back bud so I can trim back. Thanks for your video. Cheers.

    • @TonysBonsai
      @TonysBonsai  ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Good man. Sounds like you have a decent plan which is great to hear

  • @AndrewJohnson-el1of
    @AndrewJohnson-el1of ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Never had much luck with mugo. Yours is lovely. My fav Pine has got to be Scot’s pine in literati style. Thanks for another informative video mr bonsai master 👍

    • @TonysBonsai
      @TonysBonsai  ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Cheers Andrew. A man after my own heart, infact i might make a literati Scots pine this week

  • @joegarland4885
    @joegarland4885 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    You can't beat a bit cooperation between you and dad on the mugo trees, my first thought was far too many branches and. needles I still think the same after seeing the whole video, the old adage less is more especially on pines removing them on the little mugo so you can see on the more of the trunk plus doing that you should get some back budding. Great to see you gradually doing more your self Tony. Stay good my friend.

    • @TonysBonsai
      @TonysBonsai  ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Cheers Joe. Yeah I might go back in on the small Mugo mops and thin it out more as you suggest

  • @jasongannon7676
    @jasongannon7676 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    I'm hoping to pick up a couple of mugos later this week from a gardener that has been growing in containers. New bonsai

  • @bonsaisn
    @bonsaisn ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Xin chào bạn, cây bonsai đẹp tuyệt vời ❤❤❤❤❤, chúc bạn thành công

  • @raymondbirds2392
    @raymondbirds2392 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Lovely job Tony

  • @mattb538
    @mattb538 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I like the work on the pines but I would also like to see the colors of the trees that you have in the ground.

    • @TonysBonsai
      @TonysBonsai  ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Il be showing a few when they really come into colour in a week or two mate

  • @maryweber4176
    @maryweber4176 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Oh Tony, you have thrown a wrench into what I thought I knew about repotting pines in the spring. Now I am totally confused as to everything that keeps its needles on in the winter, and whenn to repot.

    • @TonysBonsai
      @TonysBonsai  ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Hi Mary. I would still repot all my other pines in the spring but my experience and research shows that here in the UK, Mugo pines act differently

    • @XaviersBonsaiRetreat
      @XaviersBonsaiRetreat ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Just to confuse everybody I am about to repot all of my pines, junipers and spruce. I have been doing this as a reuslt of some good experienced advice from Harry harrington and I have seen great reuslt. It is the optimum period for root growth before the winter. @@TonysBonsai

    • @TonysBonsai
      @TonysBonsai  ปีที่แล้ว +3

      I based a lot of my research on your experience Xav

    • @XaviersBonsaiRetreat
      @XaviersBonsaiRetreat ปีที่แล้ว +1

      We have tended to bounce off each other's results this past year :)@@TonysBonsai

    • @shuancook9005
      @shuancook9005 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      I think it is to cold in England to repot pines in autumn .
      Wait until spring 🌳🌳

  • @Steves_Backyard_Bonsai
    @Steves_Backyard_Bonsai ปีที่แล้ว +3

    I did one of those major branch prune/root prune/re-pot on a Mugo all at once, and it has sulked and looked dead through winter, spring, summer, and now into fall. I’ll protect it from severe freezing over winter. I will be shocked and amazed if it buds out in spring, but not at all surprised if it dies off. Nice job on your Mugo’s. Cheers to Dad. What’s his first name?

    • @TonysBonsai
      @TonysBonsai  ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Hi Steve. My dad's name is John.
      I've got a feeling that your pine will pull through in the spring. Green everywhere by June

    • @shuancook9005
      @shuancook9005 ปีที่แล้ว

      Yeah it’s all down to timing it’s critical 🌴🌴🌴
      Scots pine are the best in England to grow they don’t seem to require the same amount of sun light as the mugo’s to thrive here as for white pine don’t bother 🌳
      Leave ‘em in Japan 😀

    • @shuancook9005
      @shuancook9005 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@TonysBonsai if it has enough
      Green it should be ok 👍 🌳

  • @sagebonsai
    @sagebonsai ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I recently picked up a few mugo pines last week. Let me tell you too many branches that new branches were beginning to die off. Since the dramatic hard cut back it budding back quite nicely.

    • @TonysBonsai
      @TonysBonsai  ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Sounds good. I hope it has a really strong year

    • @sagebonsai
      @sagebonsai ปีที่แล้ว

      @TonysBonsai there doing great as the few weakest branches i purposely left behind would of surly been dead by now if I've done something horribly wrong. All I did was tease the outer roots and slip pot them. It gonna take a few years to reduce the root mass but im in no rush just let them do there own thing.

  • @brianbower5320
    @brianbower5320 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Is it best to repot all pines in autumn?

  • @sueb1317
    @sueb1317 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I've not tried Mugo before - good to know that it must be repotted in autumn. Do you know any other trees that must be handled like this? Really nice pruning choices for the future betterment of the two trees. I find pines more challenging - what you grow to develop the trunk is not always used in the final composition - my brain struggles with this mental gymnastics 😆. Will be quite interested to track the progress next year.

    • @TonysBonsai
      @TonysBonsai  ปีที่แล้ว +2

      You should try it with half a brain mate 🤣🤣 it's tricky!

    • @sueb1317
      @sueb1317 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@TonysBonsai LOL - your brain will always beat my brain - any day of the week, hands down 😄😄

  • @thenaturecreater8906
    @thenaturecreater8906 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Give the secret how you got life back in that "dead" mugo! I got 2 big ones. Like we talked about 6 months ago. Still brown needles. On one of them the other lost all its needles. I was ready to throw in the bin. When I saw white tips on the roots, I put I back. Is there really hope. I did a repot in the spring to. ...never again on a mugo

    • @TonysBonsai
      @TonysBonsai  ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Very free draining soil, lots of water and I dance around the garden naked when it's a full moon mate 🤣

    • @thenaturecreater8906
      @thenaturecreater8906 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@TonysBonsai hahahaha 😆

  • @digitaIgorilla
    @digitaIgorilla ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Mugo Pine: "Just a trim, please."

    • @TonysBonsai
      @TonysBonsai  ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Short back and sides!

    • @maryweber4176
      @maryweber4176 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@TonysBonsai I wonder what that says about me. I cut my husbands hair (a massive head of hair), and now I wonder, does he resemble my bonsai?? (He has been asked if he is in a rock band). Maybe I need to change the way I trim a tree???? You guys are hilarious.

  • @gariktv8756
    @gariktv8756 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    When in the spring Tony? Was it early spring like late winter or middle?

    • @TonysBonsai
      @TonysBonsai  ปีที่แล้ว +2

      I can't really remember but I'll guess at mid march

    • @gariktv8756
      @gariktv8756 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@TonysBonsai before I was always thinking that as long it’s warm you can repot and replant when you want but looks like not. I personally think that maybe late winter or very early spring is the best time . Thanks Tony

  • @andoionutdan9670
    @andoionutdan9670 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I have a mugo as well and is better to repot this is autumn?

  • @shahrafiq2165
    @shahrafiq2165 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    ❤😢

  • @brucedeacon28
    @brucedeacon28 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    👍👌🙂

  • @thelazybonsai
    @thelazybonsai ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Mugo Mugo Mugo!

    • @TonysBonsai
      @TonysBonsai  ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Blazing saddles? 🤣🤣