Deciduous Raft Design 

I'd love to see how this tree evolved

Thank you Bonsai Society of Portland! What a generous bestowal!

One I'll be coming back to!!

Wow! Just WOW!

I love that he asks what time it is- Ryan’s in flow state here

I admire the personal dedication to an idea exhibited by Ryan as he works on this design. He is the Master of Bonsai in the U.S.

Hadir kawan mantap

Can't comment on Mirai Live lol so have to on here...the 2 tiered box was an amazing feat of ingenuity. I can't wait to see this one evolve and if the roots grow with any kinda of vigor as Steve's hornbeam did, this raft sould be an impeccable piece of Mirai's history in just a few years. Can only wait to see it in just 1 decade from now...pushing the envelope and expanding on bonsai as we know it, I give you Bonsai Mirai everyone!!! Haha...thanks Ryan, Eve, Josh and others not spoken of in the Mirai team lol. Y'all couldn't do it without us but who would we be without y'all...(still learning the wrong way from outdated books and such 😂)

this was an excellent and entertaining educational experience! NOW i really want to become a member of Mirai LIVE! thank you thank you thank you i truly enjoy all your videos Ryan and all the humans at Bonsai Mirai!

this is one of the most in depth videos on deciduous bonsai EVER, Ryan deserves all the respect in the world for sitting down for 2,5 hours and giving an in depth outlook. Thanks to the crew at Mirai to for the amazing quality videos.

Best raft tutorial ever! Love Mirai.

Thanks heaps guys and can’t wait to see it in a few years. BSOP rocks.

The amazing amount of knowledge that you have given me is priceless. Thank you so much from a very fledgling artist.

Thank you Bonsai Society of Portland very very thoughtful and much appreciated!!!

Thank you BSOP!

What a lesson. Wonderful. Thanks

Thanks Team. Well appreciated.

I admire the way you keep talking and teaching and do such a complicated bonsai wiring. As always the highest level and perfectly understandable for a dutch bonsai lover. Loved every minute of it. This video makes it clear to me at what level I perform(lower) but looking at this film(movie)I learned so much. It feeds my knowledge. It feeds my curiosity. Thanks Ryan

Outstanding tutorial. Thank you!

Thank you BSOP and Mirai :)

i had to pause this video just to say, that in watching just a few of your videos you have 100% changed my overall outlook and my direction of how im going to further my journey in bonsai. i will have to admit i fell into this rabbit hole what i thought bonsai was. i said this in a comment on another one of your vids, i think, i think my fear or should i say apprehension is gone and im soo looking forward to next spring to start a project. Thanks Ryan

"The Old Master would drill into pine and juniper through the cambian and into the xylem. He packed the holes with spagnam dusted by rooting hormone." If I may be so brave as to add a bit of insight that I've gleaned from watching you, I think that when I try my hand at a raft, which I've liked the idea of for quite some while, I do believe I'll follow in your steps of placing the branches first, but perhaps grow it as a semi cascade till I'm able to take away the wires for good.

impressive work and ability to inspire me to try, thanks for sharing knowledge

Love it a great job!! Thanks

Thank you BSOP!!

Beautiful Raft, Thank for share

Thanks Mirai Bonsai for us to see the Finish Raft on RU-vid. Hope we have More Mirai on RU-vid.

I truly appreciate the closed captioning I see on this RU-vid channel. Not sure if its available yet on the Mirai website for exclusive instructions on there (which were just great) but to see it at least on here is wonderful and appreciated.

Thank you BSOP

Amazing content! Loved the video

Absolutely beautiful tree. I have not tried rafting anything yet, but this was truly an inspiration. Have you considered working with American Hornbeam? They are one of my favorites for sure. I live in upstate NY and no other species seems to buttress their trunks as easily or as often as them around here. I harvested one last year as an experiment and now I'm confident enough to go to the woods and dig up some far larger ones that I've picked out.

Thank you, BSOP!

Espectacular raft from almost nothing. Great job💪🤙Mahalo🙏

Amazing!

Truly amazing. I would love to see a current picture of this amazing work.

Not love,but see future merit.

Thanks for sharing

Wildness, YES

Whack ‘n’ hack… I’m going to steal that term… 😂

great education, your vedio is very entertaining

Mantap

Hi, love this video. Could you do an update, it would be great to see the development. Cheers.

Thank you for the great video and inspiring design. If I might have a small feedback for you from the regular viewer's perspective - you are obviously a very knowledgeable person in your profession and it shows. But when you're talking it's almost as if you're trying to prove that with every sentence. You come up with the most complicated ways to say things. You seem almost to actively try to use as many "smart" words as possible to get even a most simple point across. It gets very tiring and, in my opinion, counterproductive. That's also why I enjoy "Mondays at Mirai" the most out of your videos - it's a pleasure to just listen to you talk "normally". Thanks again for the fantastic content!

Nice trunk movement

Many thanks to Ryan and all the team envolved, including all the support of BSOP for the sharing of such ammount of knowledge. Loved it!

July 2022. Where is this project at now?

I understand and agree with what you said about 'roots will NOT grow unless the water/oxygen components are present'. So, I've always wondered, how do plants root in pure water, and how do bald cypress grow in water?

One of the coolest rafts and swept trees are along the river, usually on the inside of a bend, up in the floodplain. Where I grew up in West Virginia, I saw a lot of trees like this, shaped by the river. They also keep a record of flood events. When there's a once or twice a decade flood, the water submerges and pulls them. The debris in the water can sometimes just pile up to 15 feet high behind the tree, but some trees just get battered and scared by the debris. That heals over for a few years, and then those calluses get battered again. Some trees, on the upper side, will have near psychedelic scarification, a record of the floods. Sometimes you even see an old sycamore in a rock formations in the middle of the river; where the river bifurcates. There are also trees that were once big, but got totally broken off. It will be a big stump, very short, and innumerable suckeres forming a bush. This can also happen with beavers. They chop down a tree and then manage the suckers like an annual crop for food, stabbing them into the mud at the bottom of the pond, preserving food for winter.

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Did you change cameras? Video quality is insane. I just finished the video, insane work, high quality lesson

Your work is fantastic, hope to meet you sometime sir

The part about cutting off branches so you don't have to wire them, haha oh yeah, I'm glad I'm not the only one lol

beautiful 😜

❤👍

With it being on 2 different levels, what kinda pot would that go into? Or are you gonna ground layer the original rootball. I'm just curious. I did watch 90% of this video but it was a lot to take in and I missed it if you said what's next when it comes to repotting in the future?

My question is, what time of year did you collect the tree and how long between collection and this styling? Did you defoliate the Dead leaves and get right to work?

How much trimming of branches do you envision doing on this piece? As I look at what your trying to accomplish, my sight gets lost in the mass of sticks. Disregard. Question was just answered, and explained.

What did this look like potted?

Would love to see an update on how this looks a year later

I have successfully used `fishing bait elastic` to secure moss.

I dont mind inverse taper and I don't view it as a flaw, I see it in nature all-the-time.

What nursery did you pick the tree from?

Where can you find a field grown material developed with bonsai in mind?

Hope you saved those pomegranate roots! The make great root cuttings!!! Especially if it’s a nejikan variety!!!

Personally i have learned so much in the last year from Mirai about the process that I need to live at least another twenty years to see the benefit. Unfortunately I am beginning to callous; must be the hormones and not enough oxygen and water.

Have there ever been a raft ginkgo trees before?

Is rooting hormone dangerous?

Surely you could wire and style the tree for a year or two until the overall initial shape is there and set, then you could move on to burying the tree and letting the roots form without any issues of having the wire buried under the soil.

If Ryan ever wants to quit bonsai, there’s a career in politics waiting for him. He has a real gift for speech...😊

Subtitulado al español para todo los países latinoamericanos, por favor

Low high low. 🤏👆🤏

Bingo.

Update!

Just 👇 Aluminium

Please add subtitles in Russian

I can imagine little hobbits hiding under that tree-bridge from Dark-Riders. Also the rooting hormone causing callousing comment made me think of when my air-layer completely healed over, so why not put hormone and sphagnum on a large branch wound? Genius or idiotic? Lol

Open up video first like, then watch

Low, high, low.

I get it you know a lot about the trees anatomy BUT I feel that you over analyze every point you make. Bonsai should be simple and easy to explain. Been doing this for several years but if I listen to you I never would have gotten into bonsai lol.

Wait. 🤔 why is this guy showing the masked zombies again? I thought this is a bonsai channel unrelated to the reset propaganda.