HOW TO MAKE AN OAK BONSAI (EASY)
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- čas přidán 11. 09. 2024
- Hey guys and girls 👋🏼 in this video I show you how I made a beginner bonsai from a beautiful oak sapling that I found in the garden.
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I’m growing a bur oak from an acorn collected locally. Very hardy tree. It’s already a few feet tall halfway through it’s second growing season. Oaks are the best!
Bur oak, how awesome! Truly one of the best species 💚 thanks for sharing James
I know i have watched this before but i haven't commented yet. Sending Gingy love 💚💚💚. digging up that oak next to them and what time puts us through...that is bonsai. At the end where you say " i am really not a busy person" well time has proven even that is bonsai 💚
Thank you for your support MD 💚
Nice video, but leaving all those weeds in seems crazy to me? Oak saplings are basically bombproof, so there's no real danger of harming the tree.
Thank you for your opinion
Tony, I have a confession. I actually did a repot on this tree later in the year because the weeds had strangled the baby oak. Thanks for sharing your criticism, after all that’s how we grow 🪴
No worries. I find most of our native trees are pretty tough. It's taken me a while to understand that when bonsai professionals are talking about helping old wild yamadori material to survive, what they are saying doesn't apply to most normal trees you find out and about. In fact, it's pretty hard to kill a young oak, elm, maple or beech tree. God knows I've given mine plenty of excuses to die, yet most of them are still battling on!
I've literally just put some acorns in the fridge as well as some horse chestnuts!! Fingers crossed
Awesome! Leaving them in the elements works well too don’t worry 😊
That pot is gorgeous
Thank you Chris I really appreciate that 🪴
Be sure to check out my newer videos!
Just started learning about bonsai, I want to bonsai a gary oak. They grew were I'm from :)
Please check out some of my newer videos for better content and information friend! Any questions, I would love to help another budding enthusiast 💚 I’ve not heard of a Gary Oak! I’ll have to Google that
Thank you for sharing sir
Great video and nice to see the Guinea pigs 😀🌴🌱🎋how is the oak doing. I’m off down to Cornwall with my wife for a few days love it down there and I have living there so it’ll be nice to see them. I have a few oaks grown from acorn and they grow really fast.
Thank you mate 💚 where abouts? Have a great time! Oaks are very tough 🪴
@@BonsaiCornwall my brother and sis live in Penzance I’m going down on the towens Hayle. Great to here your oak is doing well they are great to work with also I’ve got some horse chestnut trees they and interesting.
Sorry but just digging up an Oak seedling, planting into a Bonsai pot does not make it a Bonsai in any sense of the word.
If you ain’t got nothing nice to say? Thanks for the apology tho friend 💚
Any sense of the word? 😅 do you even know what bonsai translates to? Or are you to busy licking windows? 🤔
@@Rojin_Bonsai Bonsai translates into a tree or landscape in a pot. Any more stupid questions?
@@davidhaughan your not entirely wrong.. a landscape in a pot would be penjing. A tree in a pot would be bonsai. But bonsai is now more seen as a practice of discipline and patience.. many people have different methods on doing it. You can have bonsai from a 6 month old sapling to a tree that has countless years behind it I have seen bonsai that could fit onto my finger tip to ones of a size that would take 10+ men or a crane to lift it.
Your ignorance is hilarious
Thank you so much for the video, I was wondering if there is a specific reason that you germinated it outdoors. I am hoping to grow a bonsai from an Acorn but I live in a dorm.
Hey! Thanks for your comment 😊 so, acorns will need to under go a process called cold stratification which can be done naturally outside or mimicked in the fridge. This will cue the acorn to germinate 😁
I left mine outside because i could but in your dorm you could use the fridge method and grow it indoors until next spring 😎
Oaks are a great species for bonsai, they slow growing and predictable. They are easy to care for and rewarding too!
I’d love to help you more should you need it. Please feel free to DM on instagram or I can send you my email.
Many thanks, Jonas 😊
The guinea pig looked a bit upset that you had taken his dinner! Lovely little pot.
😆 little buggers! Thanks, the pot has 1987 on it which is the year my partner was born, so this is her tree 🪴
@@BonsaiCornwall i was in Helston then but we didnt meet🙈
@@XaviersBonsaiRetreat helston, not far! I wasn’t born until 1998 😂
do you have to cut the tap root to stop it growing 20ft tall 😅 or will the small pot limit the growth, also when do first start trimming the oak
It certainly helps yeah! 😆 mostly because the tap root is how the tree looks for water in the wild but when grown in a container it doesn’t need that.
Oaks are a relatively slow growing species so I tend to prune in the autumn after I know it won’t flush again. When pruning just make sure there are buds for it to push back to - oh and it helps your trees if you press subscribe 😉
No hay nada que hacer , al que le gusta el cultivo de plantas, lo hace con gusto , la naturaleza ,le gusta, le nace como a mí. Eso no se lo quita nadie.
Bien dicho, eso me gusta mucho. gracias mi amigo
Pretty sure there was a crotal bell in the soil and you potted it 😮 , if not it’s a very round stone but definitely looks like one 😅
5:47 you touched it 😅
That’s the acorn from which the tree grew mate 😊 but thank you! 💚
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Is there anything special about the water you immersed it in? Or is it just tap water??
Hey again Jonny! This was so long ago I can’t remember exactly however I would definitely recommend using rain water not tap water due to the chlorine but only if you have the choice of course. Thanks 💚
@@BonsaiCornwall much appreciated, thanks. I asked this before but maybe you missed it, do you have a fb page I can follow?? 😊
@@jonnyneal8189 no problem mate, yeah I replied back I don’t have a fb page but my Instagram I use daily
I am no expert on Bonsai but you put a oak sapling in a pot. The title should be "planting an oak sapling in a pot after digging it up and trimming off some grass".
Do you have to cut the tap root.
Hi Mark, no definitely not but it will help the tree to start its journey to bonsai. This is because when it loses the tap root the tree send more feeder roots which are the smaller finer roots, these gather nutrients where as the tap root is looking for water (in a pot it doesn’t need to worry about this)
I hope that helps :) 💚
What is the function of the wire?
Hi! The wire is used to tie the tree into the pot. This prevents it falling out, if it is ever tipped or knocked over (which happens!)
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Hmm ?! Not realy a bonsai... Liked the video tho. I have a 24 yr oak that my dad grew from an acorn ( duh, well he didnt grow it from an apple lol) he wanted it to grow natural and one day "release" it in to the woods. I havnt trained it in any way and its in a large garden pot. i think of him every time i water it or de-bug it. He passed 20 yrs ago this month. watched a few of your vids, keep it up.
We could get into this for a long time I know but personally I think any tree or shrub with a woody stem in a container or pot is a bonsai. It’s just a measure of how good said bonsai is (taper, ramification, form, texture ect) that you can judge if you wish :)
What a good chap for keeping his dream alive (literally and metaphorically!) blessings to your father 💚
Also, that oak is the same age as me 😂
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This was a very early video please check out my newer stuff
That is not a bonsai my friend.
Why not? Is it not the start of bonsai? A contained tree… a beginning of a journey, sparking one’s passion for trees and nature, carried out on this unusual internet platform to inspire others to also create art with living trees intern curing plant blindest and spreading aware of all things green and living.
Broaden your horizons my friend, a wise tutor once told me, everything is bonsai 💚
@@BonsaiCornwall 🐅 🌰🌰🌰 💚