Collecting Bonsai Trees - Yamadori 

Thanks Jay, me too. I did an initial styling on it and it’s looking good I can’t wait to get it into a new container and continue it’s journey.

Thanks Maureen, I appreciate the comment. I’m sure you know all too well being surrounded by the majestic BC forests.

I know I feel super privileged to be growing in the area I am. The trees are all doing great. Thanks for commenting, it makes all the difference to me.

Yes, so great and so fun

Thanks, I wasn’t sure about showing the giddy semi over excited part of myself in the video. I bit exposing but hearing you comment gives me more courage. Thanks 👍

Love it. Thanks for the comment. It is so amazing to get up and see a unique tree to the subalpine. The smell of subalpine fir is unique and connected for me to the high mountains and high that goes with being out there. Glad you liked the video thanks for watching and commenting it keeps me motivated.

I hear you. I feel so privileged to be where I am. Thanks for the comment.

Thanks for the comment. I hear you. I’m so privileged to be where I am and into bonsai. I find myself with bonsai location jealousy too, particularly of southern location where tropicals can be growth. It’s the multiple flush and continual growth.

Where ish are you located?

I’m glad you liked it. I was a little hesitant, well actually a lot hesitant putting in the car ramblings. Thanks for the support. You rock 👍

Thanks so much, I’ve been enjoying watching your journey as well. Thanks for making video and posting from your side of the country

Thank you so much for your support and continued watching. You are great 👍. What country are you watching from. It’s so good and inspiring to have people watch from a longways away

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Warms my heart to think your family loves the videos and you watch as a family. Great question. If you have a 90% success rate. Well done 👍 congrats to you. I wouldn’t change your timing or process. If you are in a more mild climate, longer fall not as cold winter I think the chances of success for fall collect goes up. Due to snow and roads being too snowy to drive it can be hard to get to the subalpine in the spring, to get to the trees before the Goldilocks period. I have not come any definitive answers to the great question we all should be asking. If you are keen to get your kids out there, I would say try a couple in the fall. The great collector Anton (on the island) does a lot of collecting in the fall. I’ll find his website and put a link in this thread for you to take his more experienced opinion. Hope this helps😃. From what I understand there is two periods in which trees grow new roots one in the spring and a smaller root growth in the fall.

Ok, the link doesn’t seem to work. Search Anton bonsai island and his word press site should come up👍

@@kootenaybonsaicanada the trick I found is building the box out of untreated raw Doug fir and using decomposed doug fir that has strong rhyzomorphic bands formed through the beaks in the year to year growth. It symbiosis with hemlock readily and will colonize any wood. Essentially you’re creating a nursery environment for the tree like a baby hemlock would prefer to recover the adult tree. You’ll have new roots by the end of the year if you dig them as the bud swell but hasn’t broken . I hope this increases your success. Be careful not to get wood with black molds and such in it. It will be a bright white and very fuzzy and always between the layers of growth rings. The wood should be a bright orange color and and pretty broken down but shouldn’t crumble to dust. Should be like fine bark dust type of feel to it when you crush it. You’ll water much much less and make sure to put air vents in the box. I found air flow always moist never wet or dry feed the fungal bed and do not remove foliage first year. Leave it as they are very dependent on that new growth to set new root. Leaving it and not letting it get over 80 degrees will grow you out better. Pretty much shared years of work but it’s the method I have been using.

@imcoolboi-tq6zb great tips, thanks so much. Getting the right post collect conditions seems to be the thing people struggle with the most including myself. I like how you are approaching this, sounds like you have a lot of experience. If you want send me some pictures of trees you have collected to me email kootenaybonsai@gamil.com and I’ll put them in an upcoming video👍. No pressure, be cool to see your trees and for your kids to see the trees and their dad on RU-vid. Like I said no pressure and you can always send me pic and ask me not to show them on RU-vid 😃👍. Thanks again for the thoughtful response and sharing your technique.

Great and thanks I wasn’t sure if I should put it in the video or not. It’s kinda rambling and stream of consciousness. Thanks again for the comment it gives me hope and motivation.

@@kootenaybonsaicanada The content is great, but I think your delivery could be improved by taking some time to gather your thoughts and then pick a nicer spot to film once you park. The dirt road audio is pretty harsh.

@@kliether33 thanks for the tips and love coming my way. I appreciate you taking the time to comment.

You think the audience would like and respond well to me talking about the ideas of bonsai? Let’s say compared to specific tree design etc.

The link didn’t work. So try searching - anton nijhuis bonsai. It’ll come up. Not sure which post in his Wordpress speaks to collecting so it might take a bit of searching and reading. Hope this helps

Thanks for the tip. Any rational as to why September? Even in my colder climate? Not selling any but if you are in the area email me and maybe we can make something happen. Kootenaybonsai@gmail.com.

@@kootenaybonsaicanada end of summer/beginning of fall is when the tree begins to transfer its energy into expanding its roots system. Pulling just before this happens ensures, due to new roots growth, the tree has a higher chance of survivabilitu, also okay to do in the very beginning of spring. Pumice with the native soil and some root stimulator combined with organic fertilizer application, right away, helps a lot. Aftercare is much easier if these metrics are met.

@CaptainFuzzzy thanks for the tips. I appreciate the rational.