Making Bonsai from Difficult Nursery Material

In this video I take conifer raw material and show you how to create a credible bonsai.

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[Kitty-tcoh]

"You can call it a monkey." Peter, you are a comic! Thank you for all the many things you have taught us. You don't have to help us, you could just sell trees. But no, you choose to help us out of the goodness of your heart. You are truly a 'teacher.'

[Leeschlosser]

3:50 Best joke in Bonsai history. Maybe my favorite quote from Peter. Perfect timing!

[falkhammermuller]

I love Peter!

He starts the video off with: "I'd call this a no hope'r"
Just to state the complete opposite at 2:38 : "There is no excuse to not make any tree into a bonsai."

:D

[AntEnr]

Finalllly, someone addresses the “bawnsai” pronunciation - I am from the US and hear this all the time. Thank you Peter

[TheCattwooduk]

I absolutely love working in my greenhouse when it's pouring down with rain outside. Very peaceful sound.

[rsa]

"Call it a monkey" 🤣😄 I was in stitches. Another great video showing what can be done thank you for sharing

[davidsurf]

There is beauty in every plant. There is beauty in everything. We have to be patient to find it.

[malkiha]

Creating bonsai from raw material are always my favorite videos. Thanks Peter 😊

[angryzombie]

I also have the bad habit of wrapping the branch to the wire. I did it to my first monkey & it died.
Learnt from the mistake & found out that using a plier will make the wrapping easier especially on thin branches.

[Brujobonsai]

It has always seemed to me that you did magic on trees with your hands. You turn simple plants into wonderful items, thank you

[digitaIgorilla]

The transformation never fails to amaze me.

[carolficorilli]

I really enjoyed this video. By wiring this tree you are letting it receive more light to the inner parts.

[acemanhomer]

You should totally do a 10-15 minute video of just trimming a tree. Outside or inside, either would work as long as you got them scissors and cutters in action. Inside probably while raining, or a fan running in the background, light shop noises..or outside with the birds singing and the leaves rustling in the wind. Hearing you trim the tree while the rain fluctuated in the background in this video was very nice. On days you don't feel like recording videos but would still like to do something for the channel, that FOR REAL would get a lot of traction, I believe that to be so. Can't wait to see it if you do that! It'll probably go in my favorites or stress relief playlist! haha peAce.

[bonsaigusto]

Excellent video Peter, your uploads are always a treat. Bless you, cheers from California

[TrickyMickTrucking]

After 2:54 seconds of barely cutting anything away, he's made something "impossible to work with" look better than 90% of the plants I've ever pruned!🐸

[AzulaisQueen]

Absolutely amazing change in character there! This might be one of my favorite bonsai training videos

[MAMLeers]

Nice and interesting video. For me, it's perhaps the most challenging aspect of bonsaï: to see and find the potential in little trees or shrubs to become possible future bonsaïs. For that, it is necessary to keep an open mind, as you told us so many times. I always think that, once you have chosen for an option, it's like a dynamic process. Which means, the possibilities develop and may change, during the seasons and during the years. I like to think of that process like my journey with that particular bonsaï... For years, you gave us many, many examples. That's helpful...
Keep up the good work, mr Chan!

[michaelcarpenter]

Mr. Chan, you are my number one bonsai senpai. Thank you for many years of patient instruction! Happy New Year!

[andreamundt]

Rain sinfonia ~ ~ ~ and a lovely Bonsai teacher 💛 !

[benjaminclegg]

It would be nice to see you revisit some of the young trees you made in videos in the past of what they look like after growing in for a year or two.