How to Create a Shohin Bonsai 

A very good video David!! Thanks!

Good to see you back on the videos you are an awesome and charismatic teacher!!

Thank you very much for the demonstration, David. I've learned a lot, more than how to create a shohin bonsai, in fact. Your English is so neat and understandable it's a joy to listen to you.

I thought this was a hinoki cypress for sure.. such a beautiful tree! Thank you so much for these demonstrations, it’s one of the best ways to learn!

Thank you! So very helpful demonstration. Wonderful miniature bonsai you created there!

Beautiful, David. And that you for sharing a glimpse of your amazing pot selection!!

What a qute little tree. Thank you David.

I have just added primo to my wish list. Thank you.

Great video David!

Holy smokes! That's a lot of pots!

I’ve got 2 of these little Primo’s.. this gives me some ideas for the spring. 👍🙏

Very informative tutorial. Very interesting cultivar. I love all things Thuja. I’ll definitely be on the lookout for one of those. Thanks, keep growing

Really interesting video! Thanks for this demonstration David!

Absolutely stunning. Thank you David!

Grrat video! I learned so much

Love your videos. Love from India

@David Easterbrook: I loved the glimpse of your attic pot room. I noticed that you had some red tea cups on the shelf n other similarly sized pots n wondered what would you pot in those super tiny containers?? Thxz!!

Hi David, thank you very much for explaining the process of creating that bonsai. Very interesting. I just subscribed to your channel. He will be attentive to your videos. Greetings from Córdoba, Spain

You’re properly amazing !!! Some years ago I had 13 bonsais which I had done myself but they all froze during winter Now I watch your videos 😊

Great work David, enjoyed this video very much, hope you enjoyed your travels. Look forward to more videos.

Such a beautiful shohin bonsai sir

You are gifted ... and i love your programs .. Thank you

Hey David, it's Alvarim from Bonsai Winnipeg. I don't know if I'm happier because of your video or your comments about Winnipeg. My new Itoigawa is now protected from the lower temperatures here. I hope I can take care of it using all the knowledge I gained from you at the workshop, and I hope I can show you how beautiful it looks when you see it again. Thank you very much!

Very enjoyable and educative to watch .thank you !!! And a very nice cultivar il be on a hunt for it out on the otherside of the pond😉 I always visit Herman Geers In the Netherlands . He has a great collection of dwarf variaties.

Thank you for such an informative video

Amazing video. Love the tree and love the method.

Your pot room is what dreams are made of.

I’d love to learn more about the grafted ficus with bulbous roots. Thanks for sharing.

I did not know you needed special bonsai soil. I'm glad I learned something new again from your videos. I hope to find a little tree at my local nursery and give it a go :)

Wonderful 🙏🏻🌲

Nice little tree David -> Primo work (See what I did there, lol)

Nice video David! Thanks for the lesson

Love that tree!!! Thank you Sir!

Great video

Un grand merci à vous pour la démonstration !

Thank you very much.

Just bought my daughter a tree exactly like this but the cultivar was chamaecyparis obtusa gemstone. Looks just like that

Very nice litle tree, i like it 😍

Nice !

Thanks for education 🙏🙏🙏

Thanks much

That's a cedar, swear I thought it was a sekka. Awesome

Nice specimen However I would be afraid to repot at this time of year. Thanks for another very educational video.

Beauty 🥳🥳 😀🤘🏼

Thank you.... 🙏 😔 🙏 Very informative video.... Got introduced to Bonsai in 1965,,,, definitely know how to make pants strive(green thumbs😔).... are there hard and fast rules as to what soil materials can be used for Bonsai, especially Shohin... 🙏 🖖🙏

These look like some trees that Brussel's Bonsai sales at their nursery as Sekka Hinoki Cypress but some how even more compact growth than that. I thought it was a Dwarf but not sure after seeing this video thinking they might have them labeled wrong.

Good video David Which nursery in Quebec Did you find these at? I haven’t been able to find any in my area. Cheers thanks in advance

Any idea how old the two primos’ are? I also recently found and purchased a very tiny one because I saw the potential for making a bonsai from it.

Hi David, Thanks for this great video. At 17:35, you say "You can take a fat-trunked tree, and cut it to the first branch." Can you explain more? Do you mean that an older, larger nursery stock tree (which would normally make a suitable regular bonsai), can be cut down low to the first branch to keep it small enough to be considered a Shohin? If so, once cut low, do new branches easily grow out? Cheers!

What kind of tools are you using?

I buy the same dollarama screening.

What’s your recommendation on soil for poor bonsai rookies?

I find wiring small trees difficult but that might be due to inexperience and clumsiness. C'mon camera person, shoot it from the same level as the pot when comparing them to get a good view of what David sees.

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