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Ultimate Guide to Bonsai Winter Protection: How to Survive an Arctic Blast
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- čas přidán 18. 08. 2024
- In this video Andrew shares tips he's learned from years of being a bonsai professional to keep bonsai safe in winter and to help them weather tough winter storms and arctic blasts. Do these few simple things and winter care is easy for bonsai!
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I don’t think I realized how big that winter hazel was until I saw it next to you. It’s a beast!
Yeah it's definitely not small ;)
Great video. A few other cold protection options that were not covered in this video
1) Building a cold frame, usually out of cinder blocks and ideally situated against the wall of a heated structure.
2) Mulching trees in; In addition to placing them on the ground, cover the sides and perhaps tops of the pots with mulch
3) Using an adjacent structure for extra warmth. Trees placed against a wall of your home will be several degrees warmer than otherwise
Another consideration is to place trees out of direct sun for extended cold periods. A tree freezing solid is not always harmful, but a series of freeze/thaw cycles can do a great deal of damage.
Great points, thanks for adding to the conversation!
The wool blanket idea is helpful and not something ive heard before😊
It's a good trick, I forgot to mention that seedling heat pads can be excellent as well underneath!
Thanks Andrew. Good luck with your weather this winter.
I’m in Connecticut and all my trees get tucked into mulch beds on the ground in late fall. I also provide a wind break. So far so good. Thanks, keep growing
Wind breaks can really help! Thanks and best of luck on your winter as well!
Well said and very helpful Andrew!
Thanks, Ron! Hope enough folks get to see it in time to move their bonsai!
Just finished moving all of my trees into the garage as we’re expecting single digits by the weekend!
The bonsai shuffle is no joke, but garages are great for these arctic blasts!
Thank you for this! I just moved to Charlotte from Charleston, SC. I'm not used to cold weather and neither are my trees.
You are very welcome! Good luck with your trees!
So grateful to live in San Jose where we don't have to worry about this at all
We thought we didn't need to worry about this either in Portland! It's going to be the coldest since I've been here in 2016!
Very useful. What about placing the plants under the display tables, and draping with plastic? This creates a temporary greenhouse.
I used to do that when I lived in Missouri and it would get colder. Here in Portland we can get away with just using the ground
Great info, good sir.
I’m in Alaska, my trees go in a wood box, up against the house, and buried under several feet of snow. And they stay there until Break-Up (when the hard snow pack and ice melts).
Thanks, you must be pretty familiar with the cold then! Most people seeing cold next week aren’t used to it so I hope the information is helpful!
Thank you for the video. Now what do you think is a safe temperature in a unheated green house this week with temps down in the mid teens. I’m debating on whether to try to heat the greenhouse or not
Depends what species you have in there, but if they’re pretty cold tolerant you might try to keep the greenhouse above 26°F
Hi, I recently found your channel, because I attempt to make my first ever bonsai. My son received a birch tree as a graduation gift from the preschool and I would like to nurture this tree and create a magnicifent bonsai. However I would like to ask you two things. Could you help me and share a few links and resources where I can learn this a bit properly, and second could you please recommend me a type of tree that resilient to hard cold winter but its beautyfull.
Thx a lot.
Birch is a great species for what you mentioned, and if you check out our channel we have a few videos about Birch bonsai. Wherever you are in the world, seek out a local bonsai club as local clubs and organizations are the best way to learn bonsai in the beginning!
you are in zone 8a right? thats not too bad usually. 6b for me so we get some winter. i just use the ground up next to a wall. and try not to getn non cold hardy species, i like local or naturalized stuff most of all
The ground against a wall is a great choice! Were actually 9a
Hi Andrew, one of your new subscribers here :) Which temperatures do you consider to be critical as a point of where more frost damage might occur? Usually I hear people talking about -4 degrees Celsius and lower, especially if those temperatures persist for more than just few days. Would you agree with that or do you have some different opinion? Best regards from Slovenia
Thanks for subscribing! Below 26 degrees F I like to have bonsai on the ground and not on a bench
@@rakuyobonsai Thanks for the answer and for your contribution to bonsai society. I appreciate the increased focus on deciduous trees :)
Hey Andrew! Do you have any Willows? (Salix)? If so an informative video would be much appreciated 😊
I’m collecting some willows this year, only have a few shohin ones but I’ll make a note to do a video on them!
@@rakuyobonsai nice! I’ve experimented quite a bit with the process of taking cuttings from willows, I noticed that if the branch im cutting off isn’t strong enough it tends to root and produce shoots but only has enough energy for one growth spurt… I also noticed that if the underside or foot of the cutting doesn’t calllous it starts to dieback upwards even if it had produced roots… tricky plant, tho i still try because the weeping willows are so spectacular and having it in a miniature form would be awesome…