I can imagine that Niwaki probably preceded bonsai. I enjoy pruning my garden trees as well as my bonsai.

@notionbonsai

Жыл бұрын

I'd Imagine that too! Nomatter what tree we work on I think there is always the same enjoyment from working on them and eventually seeing the results of our work 🙂

Different but amazing. Bet Granny will be happy. Hopefully you can give her a cutting that's rooted to replace that tree as it gets older. Nice job very informative.

@notionbonsai

Жыл бұрын

My Granny sure was happy with it Luigi! I really hope I do get a cutting this year. I'll be taking a few air layerings also!

It’s amazing how much care you provided for this tree and I’m sure that your granny is super proud of you. I have a 25 foot Scots pine which I planted 15 years ago in our front garden. It has only ever been topped once but never pruned. You’ve inspired me to turn it into a Niwaki! Cheers!

@notionbonsai

Жыл бұрын

Aw nice! Pines make such nice Niwaki! They also take a LOT of time to prune if they are big!

@julycottage

Жыл бұрын

@@notionbonsai I’m inspired by Peter Chan’s pruning of his three Niwaki Scots pine, which I believe you saw when you visited Herons. Must have been an amazing trip for you!

@notionbonsai

Жыл бұрын

@@julycottage Yes for sure! 😊 His famous 3 pines were beautiful!

Nice job Adam! I've been pruning friut trees since I was a boy. Love em, and I'm currently working on an oak which is a very similar size to this plum.

@notionbonsai

Жыл бұрын

Thanks Tony! Ohh nice! I look forward to your video on it. 🎥🌳 Got any tips on fruit trees for me? 😀

@TonysBonsai

Жыл бұрын

I only know the basics, but it is important to understand the different types of branch. This is a brilliant video kzread.info/dash/bejne/opNhyJhqYNWsdbg.html

@notionbonsai

Жыл бұрын

@@TonysBonsai Ohh thanks! I've watched him before! He's very informative

I cannot believe you used your bonsai saw - I nearly fell off my chair! I would imagine it also get a lot of shade on the areas where the moss is growing. What an interesting approach in this episode. I like that you showed the disinfecting of your tools. I took hardwood cuttings in Dec and I am about to take a second set now just to find out if their is a better success rate. Should be up for comparison at the end of the year or spring next year :)

@notionbonsai

Жыл бұрын

😂😂 It's the only saw I have so I'll have to get a better one haha Ah nice idea! Are you using any rooting hormone for the cuttings or just as is? I look forward to your video!

@XaviersBonsaiRetreat

Жыл бұрын

@@notionbonsai No hormone powder and see what happens

I really enjoy your videos, I’m new to bonsai but have done a lot of outdoor pruning and Niwaki (I didn’t know there was a word for it!) I always enjoyed pruning our apple and pear trees at our old house. Where we live now, we have a lot more yard space and older trees, that I’m looking forward to pruning once it gets warmer. I once read in an old book that a fruit tree’s branches should be pruned and uncrowded enough so a bird can fly through comfortably with its wings fully extended. I always found it an interesting thought. Looking forward to see how your plum tree looks when the leaves start growing!

@notionbonsai

Жыл бұрын

Ah nice! Welcome to the world of Bonsai! 😊 That's a nice old saying! Makes a lot of sense! The more light you can get to the inner branches of a tree, the more they will live and create new growth! You'll notice when you buy garden centre material, theres always dead branches inside where light cannot get.

Excellent subject matter, Adam! Bang on! My shoulders ache for you, though. Gotta get yourself a power saw, my friend. "Stihl Shohin" would make an awesome video title. You and I have a very similar outlook on cuttings, "if only one takes, I be happy." I currently have about 8 japanese maple cuttings taken from an untrained niwaki I started to shape last year. It started out as 60 or so cuttings but for any number of reasons -some didn't take, some did but died of exposure- I'm down to just a handful... AND THRILLED! Doesn't matter if they die off, they're prunings. Easy come, easy go. But to give new life to scrap wood? What could be cooler?

@notionbonsai

Жыл бұрын

Hey thanks mossbackbear! My shoulders weren't so bad haha! Def need to get a better saw for that kind of work though! I've seen Peter Chan use nice Japanese saws! That's great! If one cutting takes its free anyways! 😁

@mossbackbear

Жыл бұрын

@Notion Bonsai I can't recall if Peter uses Silkie saws, but they are fantastic for pruning work! They're a bit pricey but solid, lifelong tools. Buy once cry once as they say.

@notionbonsai

Жыл бұрын

@@mossbackbear I don't do large trees very oftern so im not sure its worth buying one. I may eventually though! Thanks for letting me know what its called!

Great video Adam. I’d love to have some room to put a few fruit trees but growing space is limited. Hopefully your granny’s tree makes a full recovery and thrives for you.

@notionbonsai

Жыл бұрын

Thank you Sam 😀 you might be able to squeeze in another tree! 😅 I'm sure it will recover and bud out in spring 😃

Fantastic job. Very original and you’ve produced a lovely tree for your Granny 😊

@notionbonsai

Жыл бұрын

Thanks 😊 This was my first time working on a larger one! I'm looking forward to seeing it's growth in spring!

You always have great useful content in your videos Adam!

@notionbonsai

Жыл бұрын

Hey thanks Raymond! 😀

Another fine video Adam. Although not bonsai, the concepts you used and the purpose for saving this tree is just another reason why my subscribing to your channel has been a real winner. Thanks again, and of course...I look forward to the next one (always).

@notionbonsai

Жыл бұрын

Thanks Wally 🙂 I cant wait till this tree buds out in spring and hopefully it bears fruit this year!

Nice to see you using your bonsai skills in another direction. Have just got some tiny seedlings grown from stones, maybe plums or cherries I can't remember lol. Keep growing.xx

@notionbonsai

Жыл бұрын

Ooh nice! I'm sure them seedlings will make great Bonsai someday! you could even wire a little one as it gets older 😊

Look so forward to the update!!!

@notionbonsai

Жыл бұрын

Hey Christina! I have an update posted on Instagram! The tree now has lots of flowers!

A lot of hard work will hopefully save the plum tree Adam I am sure your gran will be pleased you have saved it, you should get some plums when they arrive, I have a bonsai plum which is on the large side so the same principles apply no matter what size the tree is. Well done mate.

@notionbonsai

Жыл бұрын

I hope it survives! I hope it produces some this year or next! The plums it produces is so sweet!

Hi Adam, in fact, the cutting and shaping principles the we apply in bonsai can be identically used for almost any tree (or vice versa). And it is the same pleasure when you see the results in your garden. Quite a few of my garden trees can be considered a Niwaki. Thanks for sharing with us your journey through your plump tree, which was not less interesting than if you had worked on a bonsai. I have got a large red-leaf plump (prunus cerasifera) in my garden and you have motivated me to try some cuttings at next best occasion. Looking forward to your next video. Dirk

@notionbonsai

Жыл бұрын

Hey Dirk! Hope you are well! It definitely was a pleasure to work on this tree. I wish you lots of luck with getting your cuttings to strike!! Let me know how it goes for you 🤗

Perfect timing! I'm just about to do the same to a plum tree that's growing in an allotment I took over in October. Great video, thank you.

@notionbonsai

Жыл бұрын

Ah nice one James! 😄 have you ever taken cuttings from one?

@JamesWheatley

Жыл бұрын

@@notionbonsai nope but it is now on my list after watching your video 😉 and can add them to my growing list of Bonsai trees

Nice work.

I have plum tree's+ many fruit tree's. Also 300+ bonsai, although I am in s.w.florida, U.S.A. I believe procedure is same! Best I've learned at 68yrs. young that fruit tree's love to be cut back every 3-5 yrs. severely! Also for fungus in winter+very early spring I use Copper based fungicide to maintain from many fungi. Especially if it's cold+wet, but applied during a dry patch 3-7 day's! Also ringing the root system lightly by using one of those garden twist claw's work's great! Also a perfect time to add charcoal+phosphorus with some other trace element's! Although plum tree's like to run sorta like grape's! I've found that you can rapidly get some nice ramification and have a wonderful yield. More so the 2nd year after severe pruning. And great yield up to 5 yrs.with minimal pruning for ramification! There are some good natural type micro- nutritional hormone booster's that actually improve yield and bring natural sugar's in the wood to battle pest's! One I use is Atomic Grow. Hope this help's you a little, you are doing a fine job bringing your talent to other's! Keep up the fantastic work! 💪👍🤝

@notionbonsai

Жыл бұрын

Oh wow thats a lot of Bonsai!!! Thanks for the great advice Richard! 😊 You should have your own channel! 😲

I love that you are all about the plant/tree, and have knowledge that I can tap into while following you - how technique can be applied to larger trees, too. BTW,, I trimmed a tree and didn't have cut paste, so I used chewing gum... 🤗

@notionbonsai

Жыл бұрын

Oh wow I havent heard of chewing gum being used before! Not sure if it will prevent moisture loss or not 😅 I've heard some people use PVA glue with success and I know Nigel Saunders has been recently using rubber cement.

@susanbigler3014

Жыл бұрын

@Notion Bonsai It was all I had and didn't want to leave it open. I've ordered some cut paste,, I just didn't want to leave it exposed. Crazy...I know.

I have a 20ft acer in my garden that has beautiful red/pink leaves in spring. I have been pruning it a couple of years to ramify it .I aim to create smaller versions of it to be air layered. One was taken off in September with not many roots, but fingers crossed.

@notionbonsai

Жыл бұрын

Ah very nice! I love Maples! Is it a Deshojo?

Art is important big or small. Thsnk you for sharing.

@notionbonsai

Жыл бұрын

True that! Thanks for watching Matt!

Spa treatment for that almost 50 years old plum. Lime sulphur misting treatment. Face mask... ehm I mean cut putty on the pruning sites. And even the nails you've cut are becoming their own plants. Excellent video. Looking forward to updates.

@notionbonsai

Жыл бұрын

Havent heard what I do being like a spa treatment before haha! Thanks very much for watching 😊 There will be an uptate on the tree in spring/summer!

Good tree work Adam! I think I would have used a chain saw for those big chops but then I'm not as young and energetic as you!

@notionbonsai

Жыл бұрын

Thanks Dave! I wish I had a chansaw at the time 🤣 I don't work on many big trees haha

That’s a great way to get material(ie for propagating).

My ocd loved this video mate 💚

@notionbonsai

Жыл бұрын

Aw nice! 🤗

So so super cool 👍👍👍😊

@notionbonsai

8 күн бұрын

Thank you 🤗

My daughter need to see this video,she have the same problem with a plumtree.Thank you🌳👍

@notionbonsai

Жыл бұрын

Sorry to hear that. I hope this video can be of some help

@harrietb2141

Жыл бұрын

@@notionbonsai I am sure it will. I will help them☺️

Thank you for the video 🙏 Could you tell me where you get your putty from please?

Nice work! 👍 I try to root some kind of ficus in water but is not working i will look for rooting powder.

@notionbonsai

Жыл бұрын

Hey thanks! I'd say to just keep it in the water, it will root eventually! Just make sure to keep changing the water so it doesnt grow algae. 🙂

Hi, found your plum tree video interesting. I have much bigger plum which seems to suddenly run into problems. Autumn leaf fall began early and now one of the 4 big trunks is virtually devoid of leaves. Interestingly an 7 foot photinea died last year about &4 feet from the plum, nearby choisya also looks unhealthy. I'd be grateful for your thoughts. Regards John

I'd take some cuttings and do some air layering from the fruit trees I planted in my garden 5 years ago but they won't get the benefits of the rootstock

Timely video. I’ve got an apple tree to sort out that I’ve been putting off.

@notionbonsai

Жыл бұрын

Oh nice! With apples keep nice lateral branches for more fruit 😁

Foist!! Now I need to watch and keep an eye out on my plums...

@notionbonsai

Жыл бұрын

Hi Xavier!! 🏆 Enjoy! 😃

you need a pair of lopers and a chain saw on your xmas list, LOL!

@notionbonsai

Жыл бұрын

That would have been helpful haha! I don't normally do bigger trees so I used what I had 😂🤷‍♂️

Adam, where do you get hold of proper commercial hormone rooting compound? Tried all the normal retailers with no joy and the layering season is rapidly approaching. Thanks.

@notionbonsai

Жыл бұрын

I can pick some up on ebay from time to time - I get rhizopon

@judlpd

Жыл бұрын

@@notionbonsai Thanks, found some!

@notionbonsai

Жыл бұрын

@@judlpd Nice!

Sangat menginspirasi

@notionbonsai

Жыл бұрын

Terima kasih 🙂

Do you give the cuttings fertilizer? Where do you store them?

@notionbonsai

Жыл бұрын

No, Its important that you don't fertilise until it has a good root system. Fertiliser will burn newly developing roots. I have the cuttings just sitting in my garden as is. However I imaging that having them in a greenhouse would help them root 🙂 Hope this helps!

My mythl plum tree leaves have started drying as soon as i transplanted them in the ground soil where as my Santa Rosa plum tree is doing fine.. can you help me in this issue.?

@notionbonsai

Жыл бұрын

When a tree is transplanted, it can go through a period of stress that can cause the leaves to dry up. This may be what is happening with your Methley plum tree. The tree needs time to adjust to the new environment and re-establish its root system. Ensure that the tree is getting enough water, but not overwatering, as this can lead to root rot. 🤗

how much time did you spent in total on that tree?

@notionbonsai

Жыл бұрын

It took me around 3/4 days. I would have been faster but filming also takes time! 😃

@Vaasth

Жыл бұрын

i see, well you were quite thorough so it makes sense