Bonsai for Beginners: Shaping and Wiring a Juniper bonsai || Wazakura Japan

In today's bonsai for beginners lesson, our collaborator Yusuke Ogawa provides tips on how to shape and wire a bonsai tree.

Wazakura Japan's resident bonsai artist gives a practical explanation on shaping and wiring your bonsai. Using a juniper bonsai tree and Wazakura Japan tools, Mr. Ogawa discuss this basic bonsai technique for creating movement in your bonsai tree by applying wire to the trunk and branches.

TOOLS USED IN THIS VIDEO (Wazakura Japan):
※Copper Bonsai Training Wire 3.5mm
※Hand Forged Bonsai Wire Cutter
※Bonsai Wire and Jin Pliers

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[grzegorzrebialkowski]

Nice video.. I wonder what it looks like now after two years?

[michaelporter]

Thank you! I have my first juniper that is 3-5 years old and I don’t know which way the truck must go.

[thomastessier]

I just got a small Shimbaku with a trunk half that size and it feels very dry and stiff. I am afraid if I bend it that much it will snap. So, I am going to use wet raffia and two or three wires and just hope I don't break the trunk. Getting Shimbaku plants here where I live in Thailand are not easy to get and they get a bit expensive having to order them online and shipped to my house. Do you think using wet raffia and additional wires might do the trick?

[mrincredibox]

waoww.. nice wiring Bonsai tree master 😊👍

[AsteiosT]

I know that it takes 3 years until you can wire a bonsai from seed, but is the time the same as that of a bonsai propagated from a real tree branch cutting?

[Gaxbiez]

Can I email you a picture of my junipers with a question, there’s noway to leave a picture here

[raulaguilar]

Whats the mame of this style? I get a traer that grow in that way naturally but I do not know the name of the style.

[husnahjaunmahomed]

Hi.
Do u remove the wire after sm time??

[nalinattanayake]

Dear My name is Nalin Attanayake and I am a resident of Sri Lanka. I am very fond of bonsai art and currently maintain more than 20 plants. Due to the economic difficulties in a country like Sri Lanka, it is not possible to buy the tools required for the art of bonsai. Also cannot be obtained. So I would be extremely grateful if you could provide me with your decommissioned tools.

thank you

[ahappyimago]

When he says it’s important to first bend the tree and let’s go, he means that you put the wire on in the direction you are twisting the tree. So the wire should be getting tighter and not looser

[kittensittin]

Looks more like your victim than your tree. Yikes! 👵