Over 33 yrs. in Bonsai. Great job! Working on some Super JBP cuttings. Grown using the Brexit hydroponic propagation ideology and given CO2 at night. At 11 weeks I put them in Bonsai pots and wire them. These are amazing and will stay under the radar until the 2024 Florida Bonsai Convention. I will have about 30 for sale then and just blow peoples minds with these. These cutting have 1000 times the sugar content of normal JBP's and needles are almost black. Some even excrete a crystal like substance. Some have at least 10 branches at 10 weeks old.
Don't apologise for a long video, 40 mins isn't long anyway. Especially when full of good info. An attention span of 40 mins is nothing to ask. Thanks for the time and effort you put into it.
I started a Japanese black pine from seed in 2020. 2 years later I have 3 sproutlings. I am so proud as I have never successfully grown anything this long. However after 2 years they are only about 4 inches tall and don't seem to have stop growing. They are just continuing to live.
What I found on my JBP as long as you leave the needles on the old wood you can cut back to them and they will bud back but if you pluck all the needles from the old wood your chances are next to none of getting it to bud back . I have been growing mine JBP from seed for the past 10 years .
Thank you for this video! I'm also near Seattle and so glad to hear something about our area and pines. I'm new to pines and your videos are incredible helpful!
A relation bought me a Bonsai tree grow kit, when I looked on a few videos how to get them started I thought ‘What’ lol, It looked so hard I put everything back in the box and threw it on the side. Today I thought I’d have another look and I found you thank goodness. You have explained and shown everything in such detail I can now understand and am looking forward to starting. Thank you Ben
one of the best video and explaination on JBP anyone has ever done on RU-vid or even in paid premium courses Thank you for sharing your knowledge, I always wanted to make bonsai of JBP, Now I have enough confidence in myself that I can do it
Thank you Ben. I'm more interested in creating niwaki Japanese black pines rather than bonsai, but because the principles and aesthetic are the same, I learnt a lot from your video that I can apply to the development of my niwaki Japanese black pines.
Most useful approach to cover a one full year cycle. The dates & times, sequencing, and techniques became very clear. After watching so many others, my question was always related to the 'whens'. Great job.
Solid information! Thank you for sharing the timing of what/how you do for jpb’s. This is especially helpful because I’m just south of you, down in Tacoma. Go PSBA!! Take care and HAPPY BONSAI
Thanks heaps, Ben. This is very educational. I liked the fact that you took the effort to do a full 4 season cycle video. I learned a lot. My first black pine was a disaster (and I am scared for my current one) so I actually took notes! Thank you also for the added feature of development of your pond. Good stuff, mate.
Great video. Would love an update on the 2 main Pines here Ben. Even if just a static picture. Although fully anticipate you may well have a 'conversion to Bonsai' video in the pipelinee.
thank you for the video it is very well done and clear to understand. I have approx 150 pines seedling between 1-4 years old that i started from seeds and always love to learn more about Bonsai...KAIZEN! Continuous improvement....always learning!
Found it extremely informative...growing pine bonsai can be a bit complicated... In india , pine is rarely used as bonsai... I have a doubt which I hope u would clarify... I'm growing a pine since 5-6 years and while developing bonsai we first aim at growing a fat trunk..so, if I keep cutting candles every years, won't the trunk thickness get reduced...?? Or, should we apply these techniques only after the desirable trunk thickness has been achieved....???? Thanks in advance
This was an excellent video! As a beginner I really admire Japanese pines trees but they do scare me off! I'm going to take this amazing knowledge from your video and invest in some small JBP. Thank you Ben.
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Great video. Really informative. I need more pines in my collection!! I was scared of Pines initially but videos like this are brilliant about showing the way to go. They are wonderful trees. Many thanks
Hey @ben thanks for literally taking us through a whole year of care for the Japanese Black Pine. Really helpful information, I’ve probably watched this like 100 times. I have a couple of Japanese black pines, 1 is a small sho -shin and another one is a big field grown pre bonsai However, over the last few months my big tree started getting brown needles and yellow/black band spots on all the needles. After some research I believe it got a fungal disease and I’m pretty sure it’s Dothistroma needle blight. I had a bunch of my lower branches and even some of my bit my maid branches have their needles turn brown. I sprayed it with copper fungicide and cut off all the brown infected needles. And repotted it. I also think I was watering it too much. There was root rot when I put it into a pot.(I bought it at a nursery as a pre bonsai) it was in a 16’ mica pot. It’s been almost a month since I worked on it and it is still alive but needs. Lot of TLC There’s. Ton of green long old needles and it’s pushing out candles now but I’m stressed about how to approach it next. How often are r you watering your pines? Do you wet the needles and trunk when watering? Do you have any advice about how to treat it?
Ben great video. I have a few JBP that I would love to apply your fall fertilizer . Can you state the ratios of the ingredients and can you also put a link in the description to the fertilizer holders you are using. I would highly appreciate it. keep the high quality videos coming.
Can you keep making videos like this it was so helpful to me I have a few white pines a few red pines and like 8 black pines I didn’t know I could cut the candle li,e that
Thanks Ben, fantastic video. Just some feedback from my end. Instead of following a timeline on months, I think it's better to do it by seasons. Easier to understand for people living at the bottom half of the planet like in Australia. Cheers mate
Nice pond landscaping Ben! I think you will get a lot of trunk thickening at the top of your tree leaving so much apical growth, which isn't ideal if you are trying to create taper, but perhaps you are planning to grow them out into much taller trees, in which case a thick trunk at the current top is not such an issue since it will be the middle of the tree later. It may still decrease taper though. I generally leave sacrificial branches towards the bottom of my trees so as to get thickening near the base.
thank you, that's not necessarily true. If you refer to bonsaitonight or bonsai heresy they favor the sacrificial leader over the the sacrificial branch. The lower branch causes swelling where it grows and not an even growth of girth on the trunk, and most sacrificial branches are grown in the back to hide the future scar so the swelling is not always where you can appreciate it. A sacrificial leader will not cause the lost of taper because a true leader will grow beneath it. bonsaitonight.com/2017/02/28/replacing-sacrifice-branch/
Hi!I learn a lot from video , I wanna start my bonsai particularly Japanese black pine seeds , could you tell where I could buy seeds? I did buy on line like Amazon , and eBay but it’s all fake , my told me Dallas bonsai used to sell seeds from Japan but the store closed, could you help me where I could buy , I’m from Southern California Thank you
Great video. I just planted my japanese black pine seeds and I'm hopeful that they are successful. Only time will tell but if they do germinate I will definitely follow your advice in this video. I'm new to the bonsai world and I'm already figuring it out that we don't train the bonsai but the bonsai trains us. It's teaching me patience.
This is a great video, informative yet concise. It’s the best JBP video I’ve seen and watched it several times. Now if you could donate 17 months of your life to producing a JWP video that would be awesome 😂 Good work awesome 👏
Great video, nice to bring it all together, I am in Anacortes so same weather, I have a couple hundred JBP & JRP I am growing and growing from cuttings, oldest is about a year old, assume just let them grow till they are bigger.
@@johngonzales7317 Yes I do, I am setting up a bench at AZUZA Nursery off Highway 20 near Farm to Market road, will let you know when it's setup 4", 1 gal and #3 sizes
Hi Ben, watching again this vídeo 2 years later (I think), reviewing concepts. Could you make a video showing those pines actualy? Thanks in advance. Greetings from Costa Rica. Pura vida!
Thanks Ben ! I started training a black pine i had since fey years in the yards the kind « what can i do with such a horrid one « And made a Bujing .. i made a report until today mid sept 2020 .. u confirmed we made same steps and had same results .. so i was right ! Regards Theo Geneva Switzerland
Hey Ben, great video! I am from Germany and currently starting a project. I want a Black pine as a Tree next to an architecture. Problem is: local tree nurserys only sell bonsai cultivars of black pines. These cultivars are limited in hight to about 150-300cm. Goal is to have a n actual tree of about 15-30meteres. Do you have any experience of how bonsai or a special cultivar of black pines (banshoho, sayonara, kotobaki) can be used to become a tree if not treated as bonsai? Edit: I am thinking about finding someone in Japan or Korea to send me some seeeds, which are found in the forest.
Great video and it's not too long at all. I will apply the work schedule and check the results. Do you shorten the candles from the second flush and when? Regards from Poland.
Hello from Perth Western Australia , first I'd just like to say I love ur work and love even more the way you pass ur knowledge on, it's awesome and muchly appreciated. I have a question about jbp here in Perth or the lack of them and then when I finally get one they are really sensitive and will die if watering is done an hour late. My question is are there equivalent pines around perth obviously not native that offer some similarities as the jbp? We have massive pine plantations used for the building industry usually monetary pines. I think possibly there are two other species commonly used in plantations around Perth and also an allepo pine I have a sapling from. Is there any point in pursuing bonsai from these sources? Thank you
This video was soo helpfull . I dont have a black pine yet they are too hard to find online but i did find some japanese white pine. They are pretty expensive online but one day i hope to get a jwp. Does this same technique apply to a jwp? Great video this was soo worth it and doesnt matter how long . It takes alot of research and u summed it up well! Thanks
yes that certainly happens, the fat knuckles form when the base of the branch collars begin to swell into each other. so it's better to choose the finer branches as the apex
hello what happens when you pinch the candle in half with unopened needles below do you get new shoots from were you pinched sorry i am just a novice but learning cheers
Very informative video. I live in Indonesia and have my first jbp that's about 2 years old. I have no idea on the seasons for jbp here. Any suggestions for Asia?
Thanks for simplifying this process man, I listened to Ryan Neil but he just glosses over Red and White pines . But I think Red Pines are similar except less needle plucking. What do you think. Also, your music is chill,I’m digging your videos.
Ben B. Seattle Yeah I left more than those 10-12 pairs for black pine except weak ones didn’t touch those. Just gotta find pots and that is another story !
when I see new back buds in that area. So after decandling the new buds will flush on every where on the branches. I decandle the 1st week of June and so by early July the new buds will break. So early July
I recently got to purchase a JBP, im currently residing in the Philippines. From your jbp care timeline, we only have two seasons here wet and dry. Im wondering how do i map them here?
