How To Make A Tanuki Bonsai🪴*EASY*

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Hi! I'd like to give you some advice on performing the tanuki technique. First of all, try to match the species of the deadwood with that of the young plant, otherwise, you’ll never be able to 'trick' the observer, as each species has distinctive characteristics, even in deadwood. This is particularly important if you plan to create jin in the future, as the difference in texture between the jin and the deadwood would be noticeable. Secondly, as someone has already suggested, you should carve a niche for the plant within the deadwood, following the grain direction, which is the natural path the veins would take. Lastly, I’ve seen many people screw or nail the young plant to the deadwood to secure it. In a short time, the plant will fill all the small spaces between itself and the carved niche in the wood. Also, the heads of the screws or nails will be completely covered by callus tissue, thus hidden from the observer. Greetings form Italy!

Great video the trees look good and as they grow will look great
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Great video Adam. I cannot wait to see future updates on your tanuki.

Great video Adam. Good luck with those tanuki’s mate 👊👊👊

I’m one of the beginners and had no clue what Tanuki was. Thank you for the great video!

outstanding red on the japanese maple :O outstanding beauty shots! outstanding video as always! Those tanuki are inspiring :)

great vid as always but love the product placement hahah !

Adam I think you are turning into a very capable bonsai teacher, people will learn a lot from watching your channel. The tanuki process you have demonstrated using the bog wood should encourage people to try it with their odd pieces of drift wood etc, I will be trying the process you have shown with my bits of wood. I hope you can keep us up to date with their progress over time. All the best Adam.

I saw lots of tanuki: if you don´t carve a channel into the natural groves to put the trees in, it will always look fake, I´m afraid...

Another excellent informative video Adam, look forward to seeing the piece develop over the next year.
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You can also use hydrogen peroxyd to clear the wood

Interesting choice of tree! Liked it. I have had fair success with wisteria tanuki as well.

Amazing as always 👌👏👏👏

Very clear video. Thanks. I have messed around with a crab apple tanuki for several years. Trunk died back with interesting shape and a sucker came up so I carved a channel up to the top, used zip ties to hold the sucker to the trunk and it has come right along. I plan on sending some pics to your email as they cannot be uploaded here. Thanks again. What a great way to use all those spare pieces of interesting wood that otherwise clutter up the yard...

Why did you decide not to create grooves in the deadwood, for the trunks to set into?

Is Autumn the best time for creating Tanuki? Great vid. Thanks

Gracias por compartir tus trabajos, me encanta el entusiasmo y la dedicación que pones en todos ellos.
Sin embargo no entiendo cómo vas a conseguir en un futuro que los plantones se mantengan pegados a la madera muerta, simulando las venas de un árbol.
Los trabajos de tanuki que he visto hasta ahora consisten en tallar con una máquina rotativa un canal a la madera con sección en forma de C, e introducir el tronco del plantón dentro del canal, sujetándolo en un primer momento con bridas. Si el canal está bien hecho y la madera muerta es resistente, cuando engorda el plantón se queda encajado en el canal, ya no puede salirse y ahí se queda por siempre, sin necesitar usar más bridas. Con el tiempo el plantón engorda todavía más y se crea una vena que abulta por fuera del canal, adquiriendo el aspecto de una vena natural.
Si las técnicas empleadas son buenas, en un futuro resultará imposible distinguir el tanuki de un bonsái normal, con su verdadera madera muerta. Pero en tu caso no creo que eso llegue a suceder nunca, los plantones siempre se van a separar de la madera muerta si no están sujetos con alambres o bridas...
Me gustaría conocer tus planes de futuro con esos tanukis para poder comprender mejor los trabajos que nos estás mostrando.
De nuevo, muchas GRACIAS por compartir ❤
¡Un saludo!

Great video. Think this is one of your best so far. Very informative and professional.

Aussie Dave here, nice work 😊. I have 4 tanuki styles, 2 have interesting wood. So you are correct the more interesting wood the better 😊. I have also bought the Blue Sky Bonsai book

nice one. Working on a tanuki video myself too.

Great video Adam. I've a couple tanuki done and you just reminded me I should maybe do 1st styling on them. Love the red tool wrap .😅

the detail you go into everything is amazing! your videos bring so much inspiration to me and my new bonsai journey!

Great video as always, Ive never tried tanuki myself, but this video gave me tons of inspiration, going looking for some driftwood at the beach tomorrow! Also is there anything that you could potentially use instead of lime sulfur? Since lime sulfur is not really available in my part of the world, and making it is quite complicated, Thanks ahead!

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Such a great video Adam, really inspiring! I also have some deadwood sitting outside for over two years, in my case a dead juni that dried up in summer '22. I will definitely do a tanuki sometime.
Ps. Thanks again for showing the book!!

Great Video Adam m8, nice and informative. That reminds me i need to get my Tanuki out of the ground this year and into a pot cheers buddy ;)

As always - a great instruction!

Great video. I did one this year where took a dead dwarf honeysuckle and added 3 cuttings that were taken from the plant before it died . Looking forward to seeing how this develops. It already fooled a couple of people think it was 1 old tree. Have another one to do but this time will treat the trunk with Lime sulphur so thanks for the tip.

you make very good videos how old are you👌👌🙏🌷

Love your content it's almost therapeutic I'm all the way from South Africa and you've inspired me to start a journey of bonsai

Really enjoy your videos Adam...Great narration and information with your natural enthusiasm...Great combination...Thanks for sharing...Sequim, WA...