Kojo No Mai flowering cherry bonsai - Styling and Root work
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- čas přidán 9. 04. 2023
- In this video I work on three fuji cherries, Kojo No Mai, Paena, and Oshidori, making some branch selections and doing some much-needed root work.
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continue enjoying watching and rewatching your videos.. you are so very much missed in the bonsai community
That last one was a surprise! More trunk than expected.
Yes. The flair at the base was a very nice surprise indeed.
Lovely flowers indeed.
Yes, they are very delicate and the pastel colours are lovely
We all screamed out "NOOOOO!!!" when you cut the branch off at 9:49
Saw a Kojo no Mai in Morrisons this weekend with a nice trunk, might go back and pick it up!
You owe it to yourself mate. Get it bought!
Those are gorgeous 😍 All the best Tony’s family 🙋♀️ You are in our hearts for ever as Tony’s videos ❤️ Martina
The classic thing of not stopping and taking a breath.
That bend was perfect before you did the last two bends. Snap. So hard when you’re doing a video you want to rush cos you know it’s going well and you speed up without realising 😂😂 been there Tony it’s hard bro
They look great mate good luck with them 👍👍👍
Yeah, you're right, although I would have snapped that even if the camera wasn't on 🤣
@@TonysBonsai 😂😂
Thanks again Tony! Another enjoyable bonsai fix 😎👍🏻
Always a pleasure. Glad you enjoyed it!
Was so happy when your upload popped up on my screen. And was a in for a treat one he'll off a video mate! Love how you just to he'll with a takes all the trees in one video! Respect for not pushing it to 3 videos. But in your case mate. I had watch everything as usual! Your absolutely killing it with every video. Small world repoted and mossed up my 2 kojo no mai today. Lost 2 kojo no mai this winter. Can wait to get the big green house this summer!
Cheers Chris. that's a coincidence! I hope your re-pots went well and they are set up for a good year.
@Tonys Bonsai they went as yours. The roots was very much alike. Much crawling roots but in the end it was something to work with in the years to come.
And made them pretty with moss on the top.
A nice bit of moss always makes them look better!
i love a low trunk chop. that'll grow back and create a lovely taper and some more natural movement.
Yeah, more and more I am looking at some of my trees thinking to myself 'I should chop that lower down'
@@TonysBonsai Well, i love to see it. I've seen some gnarly clip and grow hawthorn as well. theres something very satisfying about cutting them to just a stump then seeing the little nodes pop with life
I almost ruined my kojo no mai, repotted it at the wrong time. Before I knew to repot it after flowering. But... New buds are sprouting everywhere, so there is still hope. Let it recover for the rest of the year, maybe even 2... Lesson learned, I guess...😅 Nice work as always, tnx for the video!
I believe in terms of the health of the tree, it actually better to prune them earlier, but you run the risk of developing silver leaf which does kill them. However providing you dodge that, which is sounds lik you have, your trees should have a head start and grow really well.
@@TonysBonsai Hope you're right, I am a sucker for these.
I love that last example Tony. They make such good bonsai subjects. Cheers
Yeah, that one should be a bit of a beauty given another few years to thicken up. Cheers mate
Good luck with the cherries future will see where it goes then, I think it will heal with the tape and wire on, good root work can only improve the look of the base of the last tree Tony. All the best with them all.
Cheers Joe. Like you, I've got a feeling it will heal, but either way, the main job was the trunk, and that flare was a great find!
Those Japanese cherries are beautiful when they're in bloom but then they loose a lot of their beauty, it's then that the bonsai shape has to come through so the tree can keep its beauty all year round.
You have more power than you think Tony ! Ouch, that crack ! But you might be right that it will heal, if you put it back into the right angle the tissues can reconnect under the vet tape, be patient though, give it some time 😉
I bought last week a Fuji cherry, I wasn't lucky with the roots. All seemed fine when I had a look at it at the nursery but when I got home and dug deeper , to my surprise the trunk made a 90 degrees angle ! 😱 So one of the only things left to do for me , was making it into a semi-cascade (maybe in later years a true cascade).
Sounds like you made some good lemonade out of lemons there! I bet cherries can look amazing in the cascade form.
It will be interesting to se what happens to that branch. I'm not really bothered as I was always planning on removing it anyway. That being said, I've got a feeling it will heal up ok.
Great progres on these roots m8!
Grtq
Kennet
Thanks Kennet. Root work is the part of bonsai I enjoy the least. I tend to find it a bit of a grind compared to the other things, but it is always good when they turn out nice.
I’m looking forward to seeing the cherries mature.
I ate one last year although apparently they contain cyanide 🤣
great trees! that big one is sweet and i'm glad i watched. i hadn't known the differences between them before
Yeah it's really nice that big one, which is why I think it's worth developing into a bigger tree.
Lovely job
Thanks Raymond
Another wonderful video. Thanks for posting.
Thanks Michael. Glad you enjoyed it mate
Hi Tony, thanks for taking us on this journey through your cherry trees. Even if those trees do not belong to my favorites in bonsai, and actually I do not have any in my collection, this video again was enjoyable and relaxing, so I watched it until the last second. May your plans with these trees turn into success soon. Enjoy it. Dirk
Thanks Dirk. That's a very good sign for me that I'm making hopefully enjoyable content if you are watching it even if you're not a big cherry fan. I'm the same. I sometimes find myself watching Nigel Saunders working on a tree that Isn't my favourite. I just find it relaxing.
22:44 I think that makes you an enabler!!! I have a number of prunus species - mostly from trees found on road sides, or root stock form fruiting trees. Now I need to go and spend more money! For most of the year, JMs are my favourite, but in spring, the flowering trees take over and I can't get enough. All the more exciting when we are heading into winter here in Australia! Finger crossed for that break, there is the promise of a nice little tree in that air layer . . .
I've got 2 Fuji Cherries, and both desperately need sorting. Definitely got some tips, cheers Tony 👍
Excellent. Get stuck in and see what you can do Andy. Now should be a good time of year providing they have finished flowering.
I just picked up a Kojo no mai from M&S of all places, they also had some Japanese maples too. I can’t wait to do some work on it.
They're great fun. Just go easy on the Japanese maple it it is already in full leaf.
i would be too frightened to do all that cutting
I've been waiting for you to have a go at yours. I had a similar root structure with mine. Difficult. I've got one more that I'm waiting for the flowers to drop and to leaf up. Prevents the disease silver leaf, can kill the plant.
Yeah same here, I have four more kojo no mais to work on, but I'm waiting for them to drop the petals too.
I was going to leave mine for another year as the leaves are showing - but I know it's been in it's 'garden pot' far too long and it doesn't drain anymore. Having seen the work you've done at the stage the trees are regarding the leaves, I think I will repot mine now.
Yeah, my problem last year was I really struggled to get the water in when the weather became hot. It would sit on the top, then when it did start to penetrate, it just ran straight through. Go for it Roger!
Fingers crossed that branch heals 🤞
I have a couple of Kojos to work on just waiting for the last few flowers to drop 🌸
Yeah, I hope it survives, but I was always going to remove it anyway so it's no big deal if it doesn't. It will be interesting to see what happens. I've got a feeling that it will repair
Can't wait for my 'Kojo No Mai' to be delivered. I ordered from the online catalogue of "American Bonsai Master" Bill Valavanis, though it's not much more than a starter whip 😆. But gotta get one somehow since they aren't commonly available in the states (Or at least my state.)
I've been wondering about other types of dwarf cherry trees that are used for bonsai other than Kojo no mai. P. incisa 'Paean' and P. incisa 'Oshidori' Thanks.
Nice one Kevin. I'm glad you managed to get hold of one, and apparently, they are easy to air layer and grow from cuttings too. I have tried cuttings and not had much success.
I've had a mini disaster with my seeds mate.. I marked all the pots up with your numbering system so that I knew which each one was, but like an idiot, I used a non-permanent marker, so I have no idea which is which 🤣🤣
@@TonysBonsai Thanks for the tip Tony 👍
Peace be with you, brotherman. I miss you and I didn't even know you.
Hi Tony interesting tree what is in that soil look like a lot of perlite
Hi Fred, I use a roughly equal mix of perlite, fine pine bark, grano (very course sand), and coco coir.
I do tend to add a little extra perlite though to take the perlite up to perhaps 40%
It's a nice relatively affordable mix that my trees seem to really thrive in.
what soil mix do you use for your ficus?
Hi Daniel. I just use my normal bonsai soil, but I wouldn't use me as a reference when it comes to ficus. I'm a complete beginner with indoor trees.
Great video. You all must have a fair amount of over cast over there. I live in Colorado at an elevation of 5280 and it's actually a high desert but the sun here can get so scorching hot and intense we have to shade our vegetables so they don't get burned up. You showed 3 cool trees and I don't think one of them is of the species as mine. Mine gets white flowers that spread out like a Daisy. The one on the left is the poor fella I killed! I made this if you want to see if you can classify it. No biggie if not. Cheers! czcams.com/video/j7xEdQ6Q9jo/video.html
Hi Guy. Yes we get our fair share of rain, but we get even more overcast cloudy/windy days. Plants and trees generally grow really well but we tend to get a lot of problems with mould and mildew.