The official Bonsai Mirai RU-vid Channel. A curated collection of videos and educational live stream events covering all things relating to bonsai and Bonsai Mirai.
International Bonsai Mirai is the culmination of a dream for Bonsai Professional Ryan Neil. Mirai is located just outside of Portland, OR and serves as an educational center, creative incubator, and bonsai nursery.
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i want to share something to all bonsai fans: Whoever invented or taught repotting without bare rooting should be damned..... It drives me crazy. spaghetti is food^^ i mean.. 50% of the whole purpose of bonsai is bare rooting and trying to create a perfect/desired nebari.. you all just can't call it bonsai, when you ignore that step. it's like playing football without a ball and tell everyone hey i play football, this is football. not bare rooting (there are exceptions) is an abuse of the bonsai term philosophy! i know it sounds rude, but it's not an offense :D i want to spread that, because even when there's nearly nothing "right or wrong" about doing bonsai, that's definitely something practiced and taught very wrong by sooo many people and also self called masters.. it really annoys me. for example, you can buy tree that cost thousands of euros/dollars, but when you bare root it.. you just want to throw it away because in 99% the nebari and root care was pure sh*t... everyone, stop ignoring your roots! why you think root rakes were invented? just for fun? just to tease the outer roots? no.
Ryan "The Capacity" Neil is a tremendous bonsai communicator. He possesses a seemingly endless breadth of knowledge and a poetic, and at times esoteric, means of expressing it in his art as well his ability to communicate those ideas to others. Always a good time watching him pontificate and teach the art of bonsai.
Looks great! I live in the foothills of the Sierras and love the natural style. As a Mirai Live member, I sure would like to see Tuesday lessons again. I’d love to see updates and progression on the Coast Live Oaks and the Canyon Live oaks we’ve seen a few years back. Thank you sir!
Hi Ryan. Great job as always. Can Gibberilline hormone at low concentration be used as spray form on young & old Juniper and Conifers in both or either Junipers at development stage and several years after it is put has been successfully planted in Bonsai pot. In another words , has Giberrelline has any application in plants intended to be transformed to Bonsai. I already thank you for your kind reply. 🙏🙏🌲🌲
I am very, very new to the bonsai journey. The most beneficial thus about these videos for me is his continual and running commentary. I learn on the fly. I become empathetic with him. I feel anger still about his experience in Japan. I see because of this why he is making the choices he is. I marvel at his knowledge of trees and plants and growth! I have still not fully killed my first bonsai effort, but I hope that I learn enough to avoid it through this first season. I am tired of every bonsai I see wired with wild corkscrew twists without a reason why. Especially on trees that grow fairly straight in nature.
stupid question but from an evolutional pov why do most species grow more than 3 shoots at a junction, obviously nature is prepared to lose some branches but doesnt the inverse taper cause more problems?
