Thicken trunks for bonsai. 3 Ways to grown trunks out.

Are the scar good to show? Many times it looks ugly even after years in u r specimens

Thank you for sharing your knowledge.

Great simple advice! Thank you for putting this together!

Sir is there anyway to send you a Email? I like you to look at a Yamadori tree and see if the Trunk can get fix with reverse Taper at the Soil level? Thanks so much

Nicely explained

I never thought agent Mulder would be hiding from the FBI as a humble bonsai farmer.

One of the bonsai instructors from Qbonsai chanel says if you rub the trunk up n down it will get bigger.
Then he laughed a lot 😅

I'm sorry, but every single tree you showed us is bowling shoe ugly, with barely any leaves and scarred into oblivion. Maybe it was just the time of year, and yes sometimes you have to make some plants look half dead, but these are not good trees. Well, aside from the very first one. So I'm not sure if you're responsible for the first and the rest are rescues, or if you just bought the first.

Good explanation of thicken trunk.

Hi @GrowingBonsai, when is the ideal time in the year to chop down/prune branches to stimulate taper? :) Early spring I assume?

People a really good video starts with good volume you don't have it sorry

I just started learning about bonsai and I was wondering what should the soil consist of typically?

Very helpful thanks bro

How to turn this into that.. goes for 3 minutes OMG! lol

Other people be like cut by ydgrgdgrg ing it. him cut the branch

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I’m having trouble understanding but will keep watching in hopes I can understand. I’ve always cut my trees in a bonsai type pattern but little did I know I was only touching the surface of the art.

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Thank u for making this video! So inspired!

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Very helpful video ! 👍

The maple is always the nicer bonsai... 🙂

Why have u covered the bonsai pot with net?

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hello my name is George and im from London, if you are from Uk i wood take a lessons from you, i'm just a beginner but i got addicted with Bonsai. let me know please if you are ok . thanks.

Thanks for making this video. Very well explained for us new bonsai gardeners.

Hoi Jelle
Heb je al je bonsai’s in potten of ook in de volle grond ?

That red map is amazing. Do you have a video about potting them and finding a good depth and size pot?

Very informative and well-presented. Thank You.

I can't make it passed the first 2 mins. The first question is nonsense. The answer is absolutely neither is better than the other. They are both fantastic trees. One is young has lots of potential. Why discriminate against your trees? Such a beautiful maple give it to me I'll take care of it and 30yrs from now it'll be show stopper!

I built a soil box 3 ft deep, wide and 10ft long and planted a few of my Pre Bonsai in there instead of in the ground for 5 year's to thicken the trunks while maintaining the apex. works out nice and fast within 5 to 7 years there ready for a pot and 8 to 9 year's ready for root reduction. Keeping in with what you do on top but keeping the roots free to explore and grow to there heats content keeping pre bonsai in pot's will take forever stunt it's growth maybe never get past what you want in a lifetime! Yes we want a dwarf tree but there is a fine line from stunting a tree's growth like foot binding! Once there at a certain stage there locked to this till they get repotted into a bigger pot if still training the bonsai and not just maintaining a show tree! What we look for is simply root growth and lots of it at a young age, keeping them pruned every 2 to 3 year's for best results before a tree takes on a stunted growth period and slows right down! You may have experience this at some time in your hobby? Elms are particularly prone for taking on this, pushing out lots of new growth before it stops and stays in a frozen state with half grown out foliage from new buds! I seen this exact thing happen on fb the other day on a syberian elm! The trainer was very confused till I suggested a slip pot into a bigger pot and nice soil! Loose the Akadama for a growing season or 2

Hi jelle, i trunk chopped a beech from the forest last winter.. inside is still green but still no buds.... maybe try grafting?

Very Informative. I am a Japanese Maple fan, but not yet experienced in Bonsai or growing seed, layering or trimmings.

Thank you so much major help

Is it possible to just trim the small branches, with leaves during the growth season and let them grow a few nodes and trim them again?

Concepts I’ve studied before, but your fine repetition of common ideas was such a huge help.

Hi. Thank you for the video. Can anyone give advice on how to stop the trunks getting very wide and keep them at a certain size? IM afraid of my bonsai trunk getting to large

Hey dude I like your voice, are you from holland like me? Hey I had an idea maybe you could do a expiriment with or a video if you are formiliar with this Idea!
Lets not cut the trees but to have some metal wire which u use, to do it around the trunck and tie it very tightly, So the trunck is knotted by a different manner!
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Well explain. Thanks.

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After watching this , I want to go stare at my mini jade plants bonsai , and the beautiful scars !🙃

A tree will grow a trunk as thick as required to support it. I run an arboretum, one of the most consistent failures I see when people plant trees is they stake them too high and for too long and they form a weak union with the soil. The stake should be no more than 1/3rd tree height and only until roots have taken. It has to flex at ground level to encourage thickening, especially if you want a proper buttress and flare to develop. They are like animals they will not develop muscle where it is not used. Tiny fractures and tears get repaired and made stronger and mass is slowly developed.

If you are starting with young trees like maple for bonsai a useful tactic would be to allow a single stem to develop, brace the rootball inside the pot but expose the tree to the windiest spot you have in Spring and early Sumer. You could also shake them or bend by hand, as far as you can without snapping in every direction. Watch what happens to saplings in a big storm, do that. Certain species respond very well to scarifying, simulating insect or browsing damage with a wire brush will cause them to produce more and thicker bark. I will usually plant a bed of a dozen in a windy patch and come back three years later and select the fat ones to turn into bonsai it saves a lot of work especially for slower growing species like oak.

Which one is a better bonsai? None of the above🤣🤣🤣

Thanks a lot! Bedankt!

Hey!
How do you pronounce Jelle??

Thanks for great video content!