Creating Dawn Redwood Bonsai - Part 2 

Only Peter Chan can root prune AFTER potting up the tree...he’s just that good.

I know my husband thinks I am crazy but just as he can watch lots of videos on tools I can watch a lot on plants 🪴. I have a few that I want to play with when we get into spring as we are in CA in the US and it is cold right now. Anyway I watch your videos when I am crocheting, doing dishes, relaxing.... and my mom is staying with me right now after her arm broke because of her cancer, I started playing her your videos and she is hooked, she stayed up til 2:30am the other day watching them and she is usually in bed @9pm. So thank you for sharing your talent/hobby/passion with all of us.

I love your big trees the most. There is such a presence of a large tree. Much like a large painting or a large photograph.

7 in the morning and I’m watching Peter tease roots!

Week 40 of Sunday breakfast with Peter Yeah 40 weeks of waking up and having a great start to the day thanks again for the Sunday and mid week uploads you have been treating us all too, your a true hero to all your subscribers. Is there going to be a part 3 ? or can you just show us your final product on a future video please Stay well Stay safe

Wonderful tree Peter. Thanks for mentioning Louisiana and our Bald Cypress. We go out in the swamp and collect huge trees along with smaller ones also southern red maple. Easy forest planting in just a few years.

Bonsai has its own sense of time. "Really fast, not a lot of time" would ordinarily be anything from a few minutes to a few days, for us it is a year or so haha. Love it!

Woohoo..my second favorite tree after maples. What a specimen indeed Peter, bravo. Can't wait for the 3rd part of the video, and about bald Cypress too..Cheers.

love watching you work.

Beautiful bonsai

I think you do a great job with your big tree, I have a lot of Dawn Redwoods and Sequoias, learned a lot from you ❤️

Learning loads from Peter and next year sometime im going to have to take a trip down to him but long drive from Yorkshire but to come home with a Peter built tree we'll will be worth it

I love Dawn Redwood.... have one growing from seedling. It's already 2-3 feet

I absolutely love watching u work 💙

What a beautiful bonsai tree ! I love it .

Always something different up your sleeve to keep us entertained. Beautiful job Peter. I would love to see how to care for a dawn redwood forest.

I would never have the courage to cut the tap root as you did..amazing.

Beautiful tree! I hope my Dawn Redwood looks like that someday

It's really beautiful. I have 100% got to get me one of these!

stunning tree Peter .

Thanks Peter for part 2 :-)

Ouch!! That was painful to watch. I would LOVE to spend a week following you around! I could learn so much.

Greetings from South America I always enjoy your videos thank you very much .

So fresh

thank you Peter ! i have 15 dawn redwood seedlings ..i wanted to plant more for Bonsai but the giant sequoias nursery in California has burned down ...

Beautiful 👍

Looks like Mica pots? I thought I was the only one using them!!! I just used my first two Mica pots this year in my repotting this winter. Light weight. I made the mistake of repotting my two Dawn redwoods into pots that are a bit too large for the tree, since the roots grow so fast, I thought it would have been a good idea.. now.. I think it was a mistake... And yes, I have fallen into the trap of specialized soils... this year, I bought ALOT of substrate soils in varying granular sizes, that I tend to mix with pine bark based organic mix. I am hoping I didnt make a mistake. Seems like, I think my soil just isnt right, I repot, and loose a bunch of trees..so this year, I tried yet ANOTHER soil and am hoping for the best... Looks like, this year, is another year of mistakes....glad I found you here....

I've been able to do quite a bit of shaping to the branches of my bald Cypress without wire just by "cracking" the branches and they stay in place, easiest defoliating ever.

The coastal redwood is also very prolific/fast growing in my opinion because mine literally doubled in size in just 3-4 months and its as tall as that dawn redwood in the video.

Some people are so fussed about the perfect bonsai soil. I think if you planted a broomstick in a pot it would grow. Thanks

Nice one

Ótima aula

Could you make a video on how to maintain a dawn redwood forest? Mine is a bit wild and a bit too tall but I'm unsure how exactly to go about fixing that since I'm completely new to bonsai care.

Ill bet Jack and Tebo love their jobs... Im kinda jealous

Such a feast of information and a great learning curve - so very grateful. Is it ok to wire and prune Oct/winter time. I’m all inspired.

Looks like someone forgot there cup of tea this morning ☕️

Is fall a good time to do this work on dawn redwoods and bald cypress? Love your videos btw. Thank you for sharing everything

Hei Peter ! Could you take a few minutes video with the final resoult of the dawn redwood, this video doesn't show us your nice Job with it, take care! From Barcelona all my respect and affection!

watch every minutes and video of it..! 👍

Very beutiful❤️❤️❤️

Briliant Peter!👍 Love those trees... @PeterChan @Herons Bonsai Btw. How and when to make airlayering and cuttings the best way of these? Thanks in advanse ✌❤

Thank you, now I need to find me a matesequoia 😅

Master Chan; How will you handle the air layering scar?

I have material.of Cassia fistula nearly the same trunk figure of that tree, I will refine as you did. Tq for inspiring me

I always knew that pine bark was added but l had always wondered why. I was under the impression that materials that broke down in the mix would increase the possibility of root rot

I don't know what it is, but I think it's so satisfying to watch you tease out the roots to transform a potted plant into a bonsai. Do you have more projects where you can show us that? And also, I'm not forgetting the cleaved-trunk tree you made - how are the twins coming along?

I have a wolomi pine that is a baby from my father's two 20 yr old pines that he has let grow I got mine for Christmas this year and was trying to find something symalar that I could learn what to do and am I correct to think that the redwood would be the closest known plant that I can take examples of what I can do when I Bonsi my wolomi

will there be a part 3?

Think you forgot editing the end or uploaded the wrong file 😉

Wait a sec, was clip 2 and 3 switched around by accident? The same tree was suddenly back in the pot-shaped rootball again after you finished potting it up!

What time of the year did you make that major cut

I've just bought a small Chinese Elm Bonsai and have been trying to think of ideas for it but don't know how much pruning they can handle. The beginning of my bonsai journey after watching your channel you've inspired me. What advice do you have for Chinese Elm?

Por qué no se usa un sustrato muy drenante? Es por cultivo?

how expensive would the bonsai be ???

Hi Peter, do the pieces of cuttings from the dawn redwood root easily? Thanks for another amazing video 🙏

What I don't understand, why is the soil so dry? I keep mine wet.

Dear mr. Chan there is a specialized nursery here for redwood trees. I would really like to make ons as a bonsai (and a forest of redwoods). In your experience do you get taper with this kind of tree the same as with for instance an acer?

I've heard of people allowing weed growth in the pots of newly collected material to stabilise the soil. What do you think of that and can you explain why it may or may not be beneficial?

Also have U got a wolomi pine that U have begun to Bonsi if not I would be honoured to send U one of the saplings from my father's trees who lives in the blue mountains so have grown in the same area as the only known wild wolomi

Do dawn redwoods grow candles that need trimmed?

Can these be grown indoors? Or are they outdoor only?

Hey Peter, I received some dawn redwood seeds. It is now October 20th. When should I sow these seeds?

any body tell you the first 1/4 of the video was cut wrong. you have potting before you clean up the roots. left a like

I have a Dawn Redwood I'd like to work with. How big is to big? Thanks

did you say you air layered the Dawn redwood??

Buongiorno, in che mese hai fatto questa operazione di trapianto? Grazie

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