Creating Bonsai from Seedlings - Greenwood Bonsai 

Using that drywall tape to cover the drainage holes is genius level 1000!

Having just bought some young trees from you this was an excellent video to get me started. You explain everything that you do which is most helpful and we are able to see what you are doing as well. Thank you Corin.

Excellent video Corin!! Thank you! Very helpful for my little Chinese Elm I just bought.

I’m not a real beginner but it’s has been a long time for me since I have done any bonsai work. I couldn’t do it anymore. But watching you do these little trees brings back enjoyment for me. Thanks for doing this video👍🏼

Ok, so you have eased my mind and dispersed my worries; you do know how to handle your power tool carver. I always break a nervous sweat when I see people maltreating their bonsai with power tools. I grew up in Japan in the late 1960‘s and all through the 1970’s. Shari and Jin were created with hand tools back then and to me, they contribute better to the therapeutic, meditating working on bonsai than power tools do. Just my own gusto. Of course, everybody is free to work with tools of their own preference. Love your work and the detailed explanations you provide in every tutorial video you make. Keep it up!

I think something not often talked about in these videos is that these seedlings are pre-bonsai, and I often see beginners applying bonsai techniques to material that needs to develop. Most people will watch a video of a near-finished or slightly out of shape tree being pruned, or decandled, and will think they need to do the same.

Love and appreciate this video! I really like you walking and talking us through your different decisions and processes for each tree! I wish more people did videos like this! Sometimes i don’t just want facts rattled off to me, i want to see it in action. So thank you.

Super little video for beginners. This is exactly the sort of thing that got me started in bonsai about 4-5 years ago - a couple of cheap nursery plants, some relatively inexpensive pots and a lot of hands on experimentation. Although the hobby can be expensive, it certainly does not have to be, and there is immense pleasure in starting out with young nursery plants and watching them develop over time through your own efforts. 🙏

It’s fantastic to see such an experienced bonsai artist go back to basics and beginners trees that shows it’s not all about the size of the wallet and trees can be sourced relatively cheap and it doesn’t have to cost a fortune 😜

Really do appreciate the time to demonstrate the beginnings of young trees and us beginners.

I enjoy watching all your videos. THank you

I’m just about to start bonsai and this and other videos you have done are simply inspiring and educational. Thank you.

Thanks Corin. A vg demo on an area of the hobby that's very often neglected.

Corin, You are by far my favorite Bonsai-tuber on YT.

Thank you Corin☺️

Another excellent video Corin I find your videos give confidence to a beginner, like myself, to try to develop a bonsai from a young tree of nursery stock with specimen trees the ultimate goal. Brilliant. 👍

Thank you for showing how to get started with bonsai, great seeing you all this morning.

Thank you, thisnis exactly what I've been looking for! I get freat enjoyment from watching plants and trees develop, and this gives me a bit of confidence to give it a good go.

I do like the cedar Corin I’ll have a look on your website thank you for a great video.🙏🏻🌲

Only just found you today, will definitely be visiting soon as only about 6 miles away!

GREAT VIDEO!! 🌳👍

I watch all the bonsai videos and you are the best I have learned how to cut bonsai and really understand it now thanks to you , you are a great teacher thank you so much

Great video, once again Corin.

Fantastic as usual!

Thank you, great stuff.

So glad you did this video, perfect for the beginners out there

Great Work Corin, great detail for everyone, Thanks as always for sharing.

Thank you for that one Corin, most interesting ,informative and enjoyable 👍

Great to watch thank you

I grew oaks from seed and This video is going to help!! Thanks!! Good info!

Thank you for this great video! :)

That was really helpful and clear Corin. Great video. Thanks

Simple and clear 👍

I love your videos and I want all those trees! Thanks for being there for us beginners as well as those more experienced :)

Good stuff.

Really enjoyed this one, such a variety

Muy interesante. Gracias.

Treasury! Thanks.

Very inspirational. Excellent for beginners.

Great!

This is the best video I have seen for beginner enthusiasts like me. I saved a hazel sapling s couple of years ago and am now ready to get started. Thank you 😊

As a very new bonsai enthusiast, thank you for a wonderful beginning basics video.

Very informative Corin! as always! Many field maple, silver birch and pine are waiting to be collected from the workplace (a quarry)this year! Perfect timing watching this!

Thanks Cory for sharing some of the basic and simple things of bonsai that I think is the true enjoyment of the art👍👍🇵🇷

Lovely job

Great beginners video packed with lots of ideas 👍🏻

Wow, a superb demo.

Great tutorial. Thanks for some tips from an expert. Thanks, keep growing

Reading the posts, they are exactly as I expected them to be. I posted you many months ago about this. Very nice video. It might be very, very useful and inspiring for many, many bonsaï hobbyïsts and/or possible starters. I consider this as quite motivating and down-to-earth bonsaï hobbying for everyone, regardless of financial possibilities. And after all: even the largest oak, once was a little acorn... Keep up the good work, mr. Corin!

I have been watching bonsai tutorials for many years, this is informative and inspiring, the best I’ve seen. Thank you.

You are amazing! I’ve watched half of your videos already in only several days.

just excellent,

Wow, it looks so easy. I will be on the lookout for trees I could use.

Thanks you. As a beginner this is very helpful. You are fast!

A stamp across your. Channel and I always wanted to do this as a kid but never got round to it. Thank you so much for sharing your skills you’ve inspired me I’ll take a trip down to your nursery

Very nice episode. Thank you.

Nice videos, thanks. 🌲🌿🌱☘️🌳

Very good. Peace from Indonesia

I enjoy working on bigger trees but small trees are still fun. A great video to encourage beginners to the hobby.

I do really love your videos. You explain everything so clearly which is a treat. I live in Shetland. Would you post a few young trees up here?

Great video 😊

Thank you so much for making this video. One of the few I have seen using seedlings. Most videos are mature trees. Reshaping, yamadori, 18” or more, tanuki and the like. I wanted to know how to go about starting bonsai with very young stock. Kudos

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OMG! How did I miss your channel for _so_ long?? So, glad I found ya. But, I must say your appearance _would_ also be greatly acceptable on a "big game hunting & cooking" channel. Come to think of it, I'd watch you there too! Lmaoo. Thank you for all tips & tricks. Have you ever tried to bonsai with an apple tree or fruit tree? Happy planting & hugs from Canada PS. I hear your echo you got there. Have you considered a clip on microphone? Amazon has a few at an okay price point. If that's not an option, fancy to try attaching a few thick blankets to your ceiling. Adjust them around your lights. In doing so, it will help to absorb that echo you have. I'm full of suggestion & ideas for these types of things. I worked on TV sets a few times in my youth. Feel free to ask me. Again thanks for EVERYTHING you teach here. Cheers!🍻

i used to have a load of bonsais and lost them all when i moved house, they hated their new room and died in no time :( i think this will be the best bet to get going again and maybe get my son interested. dont have the cash to replace similar to what i had any more sadly.

Great video. Would love to see you do it with pines thanks

Great video Corin, any chance of a video of basic tools needed and the difference in the price range of the makes !

Por favor me ?puedes decir qué tipo de tierra estás usando ? gracias 😁

Amazing video! I took home a pine sapling and some moss from the mountain trip i went to, i potted it in a bonsai pot, and needed to see what needs to be done further in order to develop it. Your video provided this and more! Keep up the good work. On a side note, the video is from over a year, can you post one to show how those developed (or other trees, as long as there is before/after footage)?

Great video hope you do more of these, is this the best time of the year to prune most trees ?

Hi Corin I live in South Africa,cool channel by the way,l am looking for the plastic or Mica bonsai pots,do you have any suppliers or leads for me? Thank you Regards Herman

Very nice video. You need however more than the 3 accessories you showed in the first minuted. Never mind, your store has it all so we can order online.

Nice little video. What size pea grit do you us ??

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Are these little seedling/beginner trees more resilient to repotting and working on throughout the year relative to more mature trees? I have a little nursery stock hinoki cypress and I have been waiting for spring to put it into a different pot and work on it for fear of harming the tree; however, I am in a part of the US where during winter it very rarely gets below freezing and never snows. Thus, I guess I am wondering if I am being overly cautious with my approach and can relatively safely repot/work on these types of smaller trees at this point in the year? Great videos! As a beginner I love these styles of videos aimed at folks just getting into the hobby as well as the other videos where you work on the more mature trees! Thanks!

Great video Corin, i have a question about Bonsai that would usually be out door trees. Ive had a few junipers that i had for a few years and wasn't very good at wintering them over for the next year. I'm in a very cold climate, US, north east part of Maine. We get lots of snow here. What would be the best way to winter over my our door bonsai ?

Very useful tutorial. I'm binge watching your videos as I'd like to get into bonsai. Do you stock this type of seedlings all year round etc?

Really helpful Corin - for sapling of an outdoor tree like an oak or beech that you are starting to train on a bonsai how do you keep them over winter? Should I bring them indoors, in the shed or leave outside with some frost protection?

What mixing of soil do you use? Thanks

Thanks Corin can you do this anytime of year I ask this because of the root trimming you have done

Can you pot a nursery tree anytime of the year?

Is it ok to repoting this time of the year?

Can you keep moss on a Bonsai or does it stop the roots from breathing properly. Great video

When is the best time to replant maple? autumn or spring?

Questions: if you cut the top it helps the tree to develop brunches but doesn’t affect the trunk thickness? And shouldn’t be the tree first potted in a bigger pot in order to allow the tree to grow bigger? At what age to move into a bonsai pot? Thanks

What are the strangest varieties of plant you've seen successfully made into a bonsai? Is it only trees, or can some more bush or vine like plants be made to work?

I've never heard you talk about aftercare. My experience so far if I've done this, is to set them out in the sun and they die, within a few days. I'm guessing they need a month or so in the shade to recover.

Is it better to cut back and shape a bonsai in the spring or in the fall after it has gone dormant?

I have a 5' eastern cedar, in ground, can this be done to it?

Do all species of bonsai need to be watered daily? And if you go away for a few days, can they be set in water?

Ok to repot on Nov?

Nice video, but I feel an important part has been left out: hey, i can rootprune, wire and pot many trees like that in a plastic bonsai pot, that's the easy part.. The challenge is to make them survive, for years!

Where do you get that sticky mesh from Corin?

Was ist das für ein Baum, den Du als erstes bearbeitest? Würde mich sehr über eine Antwort freuen. Viele Grüße aus Berlin.

Hi, Are any of these seedlings suitable for indoors, I am guessing not?

How do you create a giant sequoia tree bonsai

Do you ship to the United States?

Can I grow a dwarf weeping willow Bonsai indoors?

Brilliant video Corin! Really helpful and useful! 🪴 you’ve given me inspiration for future videos of my own 💚