Not boring to watch a skilled craftsmen and artist work at all.

Peter , no need to rush or to not show what you term tedious as this is a wonderful learning process ....we are all willing to watch your videos long is not an issue ...its wonderful to spend time with you ...we can come back to any video to catch any sections when weve paused ,if it became a loooong video ! your time and these videos are so very valuable to us !

I live near an abandoned limestone quarry where there are thousands of cedars that have been growing for forty to fifty years and are only ~1m high due to the complete lack of nutrition in the soil (the "soil" is essentially limestone powder). The place is part of a protected wildlife area and I'm a law abiding fellow, but there are so many beautiful trees out there that would make amazing bonsai.

@edweidemann7454

2 жыл бұрын

Watch for landslides after heavy rains . . . A tree that has fallen, and would clearly die w/o intervention is legally salvageable.

@Mariah1st

2 жыл бұрын

Pas show some pictures

Oh Lord...I'm all wired up now...! Good work Peter.

The microphone is a great addition!

All metal becomes work hardened when worked, The industrial wire you are using has been drawn out to it's present shape and so is harder than the wire made for Bonsai. The difference between the two is that the Bonsai wire has been annealed which means the work hardening has been removed. It is a very simple process to soften or anneal the wire. You just use a propane plumbers torch to heat up each part of the wire to a dull red, when it cools down it will be annealed or soft for easy use. If you like you can cool it quickly in water. I hope this helps.

@Boru06

3 жыл бұрын

Ive done this a billion times with copper washers for diesel injectors....but never thought of doing it with wire for this purpose. Clever tip! Thank you 👏

@leesass3602

3 жыл бұрын

@@Boru06 I am A Bladesmith so after ruining a few drill bits I have learned to always anneal before drilling. I worked assembling motor cycles for a while and assembled the master cylinder to the brake lines and we used "special" copper washers I never thought they were just annealed. Always nice to learn something new, thanks

@Handless_handle

Жыл бұрын

@@leesass3602 special being heated up until glowing and left to cool down? Special sounds more exciting than annealed!

Fantastic video Mr. Chan

Treasure trove of important advice! Thank you for helping us all. 👏👍🙌🙏

Once again Peter you’ve inspired me. If there wasn’t 2 feet of snow out and a windchill of -20 I’d make one now😊🇨🇦

Thank you for today's class. It is worth millions.🙏

My favorite teacher, favorite tree, just a GREAT video!

I have always loved the Bonsai Trees. but have never been able to buy them. I now have a house 2 acres 1 acre with several different typs of tree. you have gave me so many iideas. I did not know how the Bonsai were produced. Thank You for taking the time to make these Video I am very excited to Start this Great Hobby. I live in South Carolina USA.

Very nice little forest.

Fan from Southern California here......... I've learned a LOT from your videos! Keep them coming!

Master Chan. Absolutely inspiring. Your energy is contagious....

@peterchan3100

3 жыл бұрын

Are you catching the bug of bonsai then ?

22:10 - 22:50 Thankyou Sir, its a new class for me. Namasthey

It's definitely not boring watching you create beautiful bonsai! I love evergreen trees!

Never bored with you. A good teacher like yourself is always presenting different challenges for the viewers to learn even more about bonsai.

Lovely composition Peter. Cedar make beautiful forests 🌳

I was just looking into bonsai forests today!

Fantastic better than TV. Learn everytime. Today the armpit cut to make the branch easier to bend. USA Michigan

@peterchan3100

3 жыл бұрын

That technique is only logical -

I’m living all that I’m learning from you! Thank you for sharing your work and knowledge with us! Love your work! Many blessings to you and your family! Your videos are never too long! Could watch you work all day! 🙏🏻👍

very much appreciated of your work. thank you for sharing your thoughts and knowledge Peter. love you

You are never boring!!!!

I know you say that things will take to much time a lot but honestly I would sit and watch you work on projects live. I have sat and watched someone livestream a video game or sculpt a statue for six hours before. I would certainly do it to watch these plain trees turned into works of art.

I enjoy watching your process in making bonsai, it helps me look at things differently, It helps me see more options. Thank you.

You are a great teacher.

I have watched many of your videos and I truly learn something new every video when you are just talking as you work

It looks fantastic. I bet you'll get a customer for that forest pretty quickly.

@YunaOnHome

3 жыл бұрын

It needs a year to get anything like the profit it deserves.

Looking good I also remember years ago people using the metal coat hangers as wire for some bonsai

Another lesson for FREE , like all your you tube ''s are, thank you Peter, 🌹🤗🌹🤗🌹🤗🌹

Thanks Peter !!!!!!!!

Thank you for showing the whole process..never boring Peter.

The forest is a crowd pleaser ! And so inviting to the eye . Tranquility 101 .

Thank you so much for your videos you helped me start my first three bonsai. Your videos are incredibly helpful.

I could n do watch you for hours. I wish I could come and help and learn in person. The longer the videos the better, in my opinion at least.

@peterchan3100

3 жыл бұрын

Come when lockdown is over.

another great video. i really like the look of the cedar forests. i am always drawn to them.

very impressive Peter

I can't wait to see this forest in a year Stunning I love the multiple trees

How majestic.

I don't think there are many fellas your age bending wire that thick with such ease Peter!

@peterchan3100

3 жыл бұрын

I used to lift 50kg trees with ease but now can only just manage a 20kg one !!

Thanks Peter. Lovely forest.

I have never heard of bonsai forests. I just love this!! Thank you so much for sharing.

I love this video. So intensive. Thank u Peter

Never a dull moment watching and learning from Peter. Turned out looking grand, well done 👍. Thx for sharing Peter, can't wait for the next one 👍.

Love your videos ! Huge respect for your work ! Thank you for sharing your knowledge and experience, your voice is calming !

The large trees and compositions like this one are very impressive.

Your work is just wonderful, however long it lasts. Thank you for sharing your knowledge, Peter.

Spectacular.

I look forward to seeing this one in the bark

Another great video Peter, enjoyed watching you working with the larger trees . It must of been rough on the hands, with the other wire . Looked beautiful when completed 🇬🇧😊❤️ jane

Lovely video, thank you Peter.

Vera Nice forest! Would like to see an update after 1 and 2 years👍🏻

Wonderful composition. I wish I had the room and strength to manage bonsai of that size. Thanks.

A true Bonsai Wizard!

This one was amazing Peter thank you 🙏🏾

This is a good idea, I have about 20 cedrus atlantica and deodora, both are glauca but have tight small foliage about the same size as these ones. Mine are faster growing than libani varieties so I keep trimming them back every year just to maintain the stock, so they have heavy foliage on top and not too much around the middle, so they’d be perfect for a grove

@neutronshiva2498

3 жыл бұрын

Go for it!

Looks amazing!

Excellent. Really fun to see the process start to finish.

Beautiful end product! Great post

thank you, i learned one wiring technique from you

you're an amazing man!

Great work...

I have a pine I dug up in the woods. It grows so fast I have to take the wire off after the summer. Spring til fall.

Thank you.... 🙏 😔 🙏 Dr. Chan, another forest from large trees and filled with knowledge and techniques. I thoroughly enjoyed seeing you think in this one. You didn't want to "paint yourself into a corner", you made it work though. I will enjoy seeing this in full leaf. What does "spent mulch" mean? I think I know, but the term is used too much for me to guess. I hope I am hearing it correctly. 🎄🙏 🖖 🙏 😔 🙏 🙏 🙏 🎄

Mr. Peter Chan, great job! :D

That ids Amazing ! scaling myself down to scale in to the Forest . . . surreal ... :-) xo

That's a really nice design. I think I preferred the first front more though. Great bit of work on a Saturday though.

Had to look up why your cedar looks so different to canadian cedars where im from. We have Eastern white cedar, and western red cedar. Where ours belong to cypress familiy and true cedars belong to the pine family.

@peterchan3100

3 жыл бұрын

In Canada, they call the Chamaecyparis obtusas "White cedar" if I am not mistaken ? What I am using here are Cedrus Libani or Cedar of Lebanon.

@Groglor

3 жыл бұрын

@@peterchan3100 I believe northern/eastern white cedar/arborvitae is called Thuja occidentalis. Its folliage looks very similar to Chamaecyparis obtusas from what I can see. But it grows wild in eastern canada. Very beautiful trees with fragrant leaves. id like to make some bonsai from them since they are local. West coast of canada has Thuja plicata(red cedar) and (yellow cedar)Cupressus nootkatensis, interesting.

When you are cutting those branches off of your cedar trees, do you get that wonderful cedar smell?

been wondering if I can use random bits of ally wire! Thank you once again Peter Chan the Bonsai Man!!! You are amazing!

Solid core copper household installation copper cable. 14 Gauge or thereabouts. Take a few feet and use the plastic covering as fuel to be 'burnt off'. The resultant copper wire, is annealed to a flexibility similar to anodized aluminium bonsai wire, and covers a range of colours from black through green, ages well, and can be found almost anywhere. Just one more option.

I'm going to start digging up my neighbors trees . . .

He always emphasizes how fast he works - he should have called his nursery "Hayabusa Bonsai" 😁

Mr. Chan, could you do a video for ponderosa pine? I recently started bonsai and that is my first tree

@Jude_Wilson

3 жыл бұрын

I also love your book, the bonsai beginners bible.

@peterchan3100

3 жыл бұрын

We dont get Ponderosa pine in UK so never tried that.

Wonderful setting. Peter, is there any chance of a followup on this video?

Hi Peter, loving the videos. Keep them coming! .... can you advise what type of cedar they are please? Thank you

@pansepot1490

3 жыл бұрын

Some people in the comments are saying it’s “cedrus deodara” the Himalayan cedar. But I am not sure. In the uk also the “cedrus libani” is commonly grown as ornamental tree, or even the “cedrus atlantica”. They all have those short needles and imo Peter’s trees could be either. Edit: posted before reaching the point where Peter mentions the name: Cedrus brevifolia, “the Cyprus cedar, is a species of conifer in the genus Cedrus. It is native to the Troödos Mountains of central Cyprus. It grows in the Cedar Valley in Pafos State Forest. It is often considered to be a synonym of Cedrus libani.”

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was the eight tree forest at the beginning a white pine, want to know the species, the bark it beautiful. I agree about the wire information. Hardware stores are perfect for buying wire, I got ten metres of 3ml copper wire for ten dollars CAD. Also for the northern hemisphere it is almost spring, one could easily forage new bonsai in a large park (not a city park), I find old mans beard moss is comparable to the spagnum, in a few weeks I'm going out to forage, hope some of you do too.

Is that Cedrus deodara or it is Cedrus libani

@gift_a_life..mrydaa

3 жыл бұрын

Deodar

@PolinaS-gq1te

3 жыл бұрын

Definitely Deodara. Lebanian cedar looks more like a Mediterranean pine, but has three needles in one shell, instead of two(as all the pines do)

@peterchan3100

3 жыл бұрын

Libani

@gift_a_life..mrydaa

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks Peter to correct me as I have Deodar so got confused.

@yogideshmukh

3 жыл бұрын

@@peterchan3100 thanks🙏

Question, do you use all of your cuttings to start new trees?

@christopherneelyakagoattmo6078

3 жыл бұрын

He uses a lot; but he only has so much room in the Greenhouse, etc. He did an entire video on cuttings 1 1/2 years ago, or so.

Hello sir, I have enjoyed many of your videos and you have reinvigorated my interest in this fascination hobby. You were talking about the use and history of copper and aluminum wire to shaping, what was used to shape a tree before copper and aluminum wire were invented?

@peterchan3100

3 жыл бұрын

Tying weights to branches and cut and grow methods

Cheddar.

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That was really cool. I lost sight of the scale of that arrangement until you stepped in front of it.....most impressive!

ooo the cute at 17:50 hurt me a bit lovely result though

When you make a nick under the branch, do you put any treatment onto the cut?

Does the cut under branch trick also work with juniper?

I see he uses AG's old "two branch principle". :)

Bom dia, Flor do dia!

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DEAR PETER , IHOPE YOU ARE WELL AND SAFE, YOU MAY OR MAY NOT KNOW, THERE IS A COMPANY CALLED KNIPEX THEY MAKE AMAZING HEAVY DUTY WIRE CUTTERS I HAVE ONE THEY GO THRU LIKE CUTTING A CAKE,

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Where do you get pots that size?

Well done Peter, What is the scientific name of this specie.. Not sure I have seen tis one in Canada.

@peterchan3100

3 жыл бұрын

Cedrus libani

Perhaps a bit of topic but is there any news about BBC programming regarding your appearance, demonstrating bonsaï mr Chan?

@peterchan3100

3 жыл бұрын

The latest I heard was that it could be broadcast some time in May on BBC-1

@MAMLeers

3 жыл бұрын

@@peterchan3100 Thank you. One surprise ahead...

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What type of Cedars are those? Here in the Pacific Northwest United States those look very much like larches and nothing like a native red cedar.

@toddbrittain1060

3 жыл бұрын

Hi Warren, the western redcedar - Thuja occidentalis - is not a true cedar, it's a Thuja. The name 'cedar' is just a colloquialism, as is 'fir' for the Douglas fir, which isn't a true fir. That's the thing with trees. They're often called what they ain't. To quote Shakespeare: 'tis perhaps "a custom more honored in the breach, than in the observance" :-)

just a question, the cut paste for bonsai is really expensive, can i use other product to seal my cut or the specific bonsai product is way more better? thanks for your help

@PolinaS-gq1te

3 жыл бұрын

Garden wax would do. Or even an oil paint, if you have some. Or original beeswax, mixed with a drop of liquid soap. Lots of stuff might bee used instead.

@bobhittle8017

3 жыл бұрын

Non hardening modeling clay and a drop or two of olive oil. You can't blend colors to match the bark works well

@bobhittle8017

3 жыл бұрын

" can mix colors to match bark"

@bobhittle8017

3 жыл бұрын

" can mix colors to match bark"

@peterchan3100

3 жыл бұрын

Try using metallic paint or tar paint.