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New bonsai related videos every Friday! Watch and learn with bonsai/penjing expert Robert Cho, who has over 40+ years experience with bonsai. His family operates a wholesale/retail nursery specializing in indoor and outdoor bonsai located in Kent, WA, USA since 1992. Asia Pacific Gardening ship bonsais to garden centers all across the Continental US, Canada, and Mexico.
Robert also teaches bonsai classes around the Puget sound area. Some of the techniques demonstrated by Robert are not found in books. These techniques are an accumulated wealth of knowledge over the span of 40 years.
Prior to establishing Asia Pacific Gardening in the US, Robert developed commercial bonsai in the European market while in Hong Kong. There were clients in Holland, Italy, Switzerland, Germany, and France.
We would love to share our experience on bonsai & penjing related content. Hit like and subscribe to be notified of new episodes every Friday!
Robert also teaches bonsai classes around the Puget sound area. Some of the techniques demonstrated by Robert are not found in books. These techniques are an accumulated wealth of knowledge over the span of 40 years.
Prior to establishing Asia Pacific Gardening in the US, Robert developed commercial bonsai in the European market while in Hong Kong. There were clients in Holland, Italy, Switzerland, Germany, and France.
We would love to share our experience on bonsai & penjing related content. Hit like and subscribe to be notified of new episodes every Friday!
How to make your own bonsai tree from ordinary nursery stock.
In this video, we want to show how you can create a bonsai tree from an ordinary looking plant at a garden center. Robert travels to a garden center in our area to shop for trees. He picks up several ordinary nursery stocks and explains how he would upgrade one into a bonsai tree. This is just ONE of many ways you can create a bonsai from nursery stock. Keep in mind, different trees, artists, climates, and cultures will have different techniques. Watch and find out tree what Robert chooses and what he does with it!
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Maple tree makeover, bonsai style! Watch and learn how we trim this maple.
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Robert and Nolan works on another Maple tree here in the Pacific Northwest. This tree is approximately 40 years old. It was planted in the early 90s and it was already 3 feet wide at the time. The structure of the tree has never been worked on until we showed up. There are several reasons why we prune trees this way. We open up the tree so light and air and go thru the tree. Over time, the tree...
How to enhance your bonsai tree with hand made mud figurines, penjing style.
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Robert shows how you can enhance your bonsai with these hand-made mud figurines that are often used in Chinese penjing. Every single piece is sculpted by hand by a specific artist. These figurines have incredible details despite their size. Finding the right size figurine to achieve balance and proportion with the tree will greatly elevate your bonsai. We showcase several examples of the variet...
Pruning 100 nursery stock juniper into pre-bonsai & meeting Yoyo. Watch and learn this process!
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We pruned ONE HUNDRED procumbens nana junipers in this video. Why? We wanted to show the prep work we do to prepare pre-bonsai material to ship off to nurseries or for retail sales. This type of work is done daily. We take pride in providing high-quality pre-bonsai material for the public. This video also shows how easily it is to upgrade a nursery stock to a pre-bonsai material. If you don't h...
Bonsai For Beginners 9: Procumbens Nana Juniper summer maintenance.
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Robert shows some of the routine summer maintenance that should be done for junipers. While it's not the best idea to do any root work, there are many things you can do to improve the look of your junipers during the summer growing months. We've seen many customers come in with overgrown junipers and without proper care, the needles will turn brown on the inside. This video also shows how the b...
Bonsai For Beginners 8: How to water your bonsai. AVOID THESE 3 MISTAKES!
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We get so many people coming to us with a dead tree and 90% of the time, they think it's because they "overwatered" it. We've done watering videos before, but we wanted to do an educational video that shows what happens to the soil if you water it wrong and when you water it properly. Some of this information can be found in our in-person Bonsai For Beginners class. We took clear deli meat boxe...
Designing a literati style penjing, inspired by the book "Chinese Bonsai Masterworks".
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A customer brought in a bonsai that they've had for many years and it has never been repotted. They asked for some help to upgrade this tree. At the current state, the tree is very much overgrown and the roots have tangled onto the drip tray. When trees are overgrown like this, they tend to shoot up vertically without much character or ramifications. There is a style of bonsai called Literati. ...
MASSIVE 16 feet wide maple tree styled as a bonsai! Watch what happens!
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MASSIVE 16 feet wide maple tree styled as a bonsai! Watch what happens!
Styling a HUGE landscape white pine into a beautiful bonsai tree.
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Styling a HUGE landscape white pine into a beautiful bonsai tree.
Starting a root over rock Chinese Elm bonsai with Tanner & Charity. Full training explanation!
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Starting a root over rock Chinese Elm bonsai with Tanner & Charity. Full training explanation!
Revealing the structure of a landscape maple tree, bonsai style!
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Revealing the structure of a landscape maple tree, bonsai style!
Can this Ficus bonsai tree be saved? Severely neglected and overgrown repotting.
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Can this Ficus bonsai tree be saved? Severely neglected and overgrown repotting.
THIS BLACK SPRUCE BONSAI WAS SO BAD! Rescuing and upgrading a severely neglected bonsai.
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THIS BLACK SPRUCE BONSAI WAS SO BAD! Rescuing and upgrading a severely neglected bonsai.
Bonsai For Beginners Ep VII: The Spruce Awakens. Update on the Alberta Spruce Bonsai!!
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Bonsai For Beginners Ep VII: The Spruce Awakens. Update on the Alberta Spruce Bonsai!!
How to create this root over rock Zelkova (Chinese Elm) bonsai. 25 years training!!!
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How to create this root over rock Zelkova (Chinese Elm) bonsai. 25 years training!!!
Pacific Bonsai Museum Bonsai Fest setup (2024)
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Pacific Bonsai Museum Bonsai Fest setup (2024)
Repotting our 100 YEAR OLD Ficus Retusa bonsai!
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Repotting our 100 YEAR OLD Ficus Retusa bonsai!
NEVER BEFORE SEEN!! Bonsai pot factory behind the scenes.
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NEVER BEFORE SEEN!! Bonsai pot factory behind the scenes.
Bonsai For Beginners 6: How to grow your bonsai tree. Six week transformation!
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Bonsai For Beginners 6: How to grow your bonsai tree. Six week transformation!
Bonsai For Beginners 5: Field study on natural tree structures
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Bonsai For Beginners 5: Field study on natural tree structures
Acer Garnet Maple bonsai design with customer.
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Acer Garnet Maple bonsai design with customer.
Styling a landscape maple tree as a bonsai!
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Styling a landscape maple tree as a bonsai!
Turning a Larch nursery stock into a beautiful bonsai.
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Turning a Larch nursery stock into a beautiful bonsai.
How to create a Chinese Elm (Zelkova Schneideriana) forest grove Bonsai, Penjing style!
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How to create a Chinese Elm (Zelkova Schneideriana) forest grove Bonsai, Penjing style!
How to repot the BIGGEST bonsai we've EVER repotted! Full explanation!
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How to repot the BIGGEST bonsai we've EVER repotted! Full explanation!
Ficus Retusa bonsai air roots explained. 25 years training!
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Ficus Retusa bonsai air roots explained. 25 years training!
Customer FOUND an overgrown Douglas Fir Bonsai on his new property. This is what Robert did.
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Customer FOUND an overgrown Douglas Fir Bonsai on his new property. This is what Robert did.
Repotting an Acer Garnet Maple nursery stock into a Maple Bonsai! Step by step demo.
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Repotting an Acer Garnet Maple nursery stock into a Maple Bonsai! Step by step demo.
2024 Northwest Flower & Garden Festival setup
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2024 Northwest Flower & Garden Festival setup
Repotting the MOST OVERGROWN Ficus bonsai EVER! Full work explanation.
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Repotting the MOST OVERGROWN Ficus bonsai EVER! Full work explanation.
Learning so much from these videos. Thank you so much!
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Amazing pruning technique. My parents have 2 super old trees like these in their yard (Mountlake Terrace) that could benefit from your pruning expertise. They look like the 'before' picture. I would love to tranform them into bonsai.
@@cookingwithsanjay that's not too far from us. Let's connect over email and we can take a look at those trees! Bonsai@asiapacificgarden.com
The tree was beautiful in the beginning. But the transformation is absolutely breathtaking! Thank you for sharing!
@@MsMama59 thank you!
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Does a tree need time to recover from such intense pruning, and if so how does the tree act during its recovery?
@@andreahazen9013 we didn't really remove many big branches, so the "recovery" is minimal. We thinned out the tree by removing old dead branches and thinning out a lot of the long skinny new shoots. This tree sprouted new leaves in just two weeks and has now filled in nicely.
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Beautiful work of art. ❤
@@janetroberts2262 thank you!
I've been having good success with coconut coir in PA. Maybe just my own preference but I have been using 77% perlite, pumice and 33% amount of lava and akadama and coconut coir.
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I dream of having a magnificent maple like this on my property. Beautiful tree, excellent job, well done.
Thank you! Maples are magnificent trees for sure.
If I would want the tree stump to grow thicker - would I plant it into a large training pot until happy with it to move into bonsai?
@@ADNZ5442 if you want a thicker trunk for a tree, plant it in the ground, provided that you're in the right climate.
What an ugly little tree.
You can skip to 4:14 were the actual trimming starts XD
Oh no it look so naked 😢
just loved watching you explain about trees. nice work!!!
@@lyonesskim thank you!
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What plants/bonsai do you use it for in the PNW?
@@ninjahutnik we use this soil for all our bonsai trees; tropical, sub-tropical, and temperate climate ones. Chinese elm, Ligustrum, ficus, carmona, juniper, ginkgo, larch, maple, pines, just to name a few.
@@AsiaPacificGarden thanks I appreciate it.
8/26/24..Trimming/re-shaping & branch support activity on neglected/mature Japanese Mapel...✅️👍💪 Ah yes, much enjoyed your video! Great transformation! After you finished i can see the mass of 'structure'/branches, in a 360° irregular presentation ...kinda like a lightening storm.. but its enginered directional growth patterns for an eye-catching display! Great job! A+👍👍🍷😊
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lovely tree. I have the opposite issue goal--I don't want my house visible at all from the road so I have a wall of plants protecting me. I also have a degree in computer science and decades working in the industry: the Ring cam is significantly more a security threat than trees blocking your view of the street will ever be. Never ever allow third parties back door access to your home network--ring is awufl.
love how the roots beautifully flow down the stone
Beautiful! I love pruning and people tell me I’m going too far until their tree is healthy and gorgeous again.
@@jamielandis4606 we get those comments as well and they're all over the comments in this video too.
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Lovely and hard job😊
But so rewarding!
I would be really pissed if someone did that to my lace leaf Maple. Horrible
Hi, my tree is looking like the “before” pic. Is there a preferred time of year to prune? I’m located between Seattle and Tacoma in WA, if that helps.
@@haoend we are also in between Seattle and Tacoma, out of Kent, WA. You can prune anytime of the year here in the PNW. The only time you have to be mindful of is during heat waves where temperatures exceed 100 degrees fahrenheit.
@@AsiaPacificGardenthat’s awesome! I’m in Auburn :-)
@@haoend come visit our nursery down in Kent. We're just a couple minutes away from IKEA.
@@AsiaPacificGardenjust googled map it. Very close! Will definitely visit!
I just discovered you guys on CZcams and was so excited to find out you are next door in Washington. I plan to visit the next time I’m in town. Love the videos! Thank you!
@@jennifermaire3330 thanks for watching our videos! Happy to have you come visit any time.
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Stunning!!
@@mrs.tweezers7546 thank you!
What I use is a product called Orange Glow for furniture. It dissolves the pitch instantly. I find it at Dollar General
How long do you leave the wires in place?
@@NoMindForNames for this tree, we are anticipating 6-8 months.
So cool love it
@@GrowTropicalMK thank you!
Very cool
@@chadashley1434 thank you!
Dont know why, but I dont like jin,....
@@seiadias7547 it's definitely not an art style that appeals to everyone. For this tree, the branch wasn't adding any character or value, so Robert thought creating a jin style would be better than removing the branch entirely.
@@AsiaPacificGarden ok, yes for sure 😉
Really looking forward to see what you do with the Spruce you chose at 1:20 in the video. I have many of these but lack the inspiration moving forward. Thanks for sharing your visit to the nursery. Can I ask where in the World you are please Robert?
@@mikeswain9085 we are located in the Seattle area. The spruce ones Robert picked out will need to be worked on in late fall. For forest pieces, we need a shallow container, which would require some root trimming. Stay tuned!
Brilliant, look forward to the video. Thanks for the reply.
It’s interesting to see the difference between how a certified arborist would prune this versus a bonsai specialist. This looks cool but I think this will stress the tree out quite a bit due to the amount of branches and foliage that was removed. Maybe not though
Arborists use different techniques than bonsai artists. We often get scolded by arborists and you can find them in these comments. We have been pruning big trees bonsai style (niwaki) for 40 years and we have damaged zero of them. We really don't remove a lot of the big branches. In fact, those are the ones we want to keep because it shows the structure. Defoliating a maple causes zero harm and we have removed up to 80% before.
@@AsiaPacificGarden that’s surprising to hear. We are taught to not remove more than 30% of the canopy at a time and return to prune the tree every 2 or 3 years to lessen the stress on the tree. And that’s based on a lot of research done since the 80’s up to now. Maybe ornamental trees can handle more but I know most trees react poorly to more than 30%. But arboriculture and tree sciences are almost a pseudoscience so I guess there will always be exceptions to rules. Also, I am from the tn. I am from Tennessee where we have harsh summers. If we remove too much of the outer canopy, the larger inner branches will not have protection from the sun and get scorched and permanently damaged. so there are many factors to consider when deciding how much to remove from a japanese maple
@@austinoliver7463 You're not wrong. It IS often taught to not remove more than 30%, but it's taught this way because 30% can be applied to EVERY tree. Would we apply the techniques shown in this video to a black pine or a red pine? Absolutely not. But for a maple? 100% safe. Certain trees can deviate outside of this 30% rule. We will continue to do updates on this tree to show that the tree is healthy and that our technique is safe. One of our more drastic pruning video where we trimmed back close to 80% of a maple has been done this way every year for 15 years now. Super healthy.
Gorgeous, it will look even better once the foliage grows in more
pretty tree from the start but I like the end result even more!
It reminds me of the maples in the Portland Japanese Garden.
@@therealhellkitty5388 100%. We were just in Portland and yes, the trees there are incredible. They also trim their trees in a bonsai technique. When applying this technique to garden trees, it's called Niwaki.
The house I moved into has an established Japanese maple that looks like it is never really been pruned. I have no idea how to start shaping up the beautiful tree. This is the first video of yours I have watched, and if I’m understanding you correctly, you started pruning at the ends of the branches, removing the middle of the three. Is that what you did for the whole of the tree?
@@robinmoore7202 yes, that is correct. But like Robert said in the video, clip back the three from further back and not a little bit at a time from the tip, because that'll take forever. Trimming a maple this big will take time. It took Robert and Nolan a total of 8 hours to finish this particular tree, so if it's just one person, 16 hours.
@@robinmoore7202 we also have several other maple trimming videos where we share different techniques. Putting all of that into one video would make the video too long with too much information to digest. You can find maple videos under the "out in the field" playlist on our channel.
@@AsiaPacificGarden Thank you so much!
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Wow, what a wonderful transformation!! I didn't know you could take that much off. ❤❤
It depends on your climate, but here in the PNW, we can remove quite a bit.
Is there a season or time of yr to do this, ? Thanks beautiful job
@@P-S-Kustoms we trim year round here in the Seattle area. It really depends on your climate though. We have mild and cooler summers so sun scalding isn't ever really an issue unless we get a massive heat wave.
I have a varigated Maple that's over 20 yr. Been trimming and shaping it periodically. What you didn't show is all the dead growth that accumulates under the canopy that I clean out. I also use a soft rake to rake the dead leaves each spring so it grows a lush new canopy each year. This also keeps the moss from overgrowing the under branches that affects the health of the tree.
@@roypublic3269 we didn't show those parts because we didn't want to put so much info into one video. In our most recent maple, we talked about removing all the dead growth.
Thank you for sharing such great insight with your videos. You are helping me understand how to approach creating a bonsai tree. Allowing the tree to let you see where it can go makes perfect sense. 🙏🙏🙏
@@jabodene1 thank you and happy to share! We want bonsai to be accessible to everyone.
Great video, I love your pin 😂
@@givetanks thanks! We forgot step two though. 2. Turn on notifications.
@@AsiaPacificGarden so doing this on my channel lol
@@givetanks it's so much fun! All our videos has a pin with a subscribe mention of some sort. Not all are silly, but we try to make a pun of some sort.
Nice tree.
@@hoplam9717 thank you!
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