How to Prune Single-Flush Pine Bonsai | Bonsai-U 

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I nearly spat my breakfast out when I hard the intro 😂😂😂 I was like did he actually just say that.

I'm feeling some serious Pinus envy.

Your giant European Pinus!! lmao. we're off to a great start!

That's a good size Pinus Bjorn. You should be proud of yourself.

played this on the bus and the intro got everyone looking at me

Bro I’m dead I had to click back to make sure I heard you right 💀💀🤣🤣

Finally someone explained this process properly for the first time, well done Bjorn awesome video🥋😎

Textbook definition of "taxing". Incredible patience!

Sometimes I think that I can't learn more from your videos, then I watch something like this and am shocked yet again. The things that you know always amaze me.

Dude I was watching this through the car at the gas station and you said that people started starring lol ...

Hi bjorn, can you do a video series about how to prune different types of pines? I mean, black pine, sylvestris, mugo, white, etc. Because all the types are different between them and how to prune them and how they grow then it's very interesting. Nice videos !!

The channel that has the simplest way of teaching, simple and effective. Congratulations!

Your style of Bonsai is very elegant.

The bloke from Herons Bonsai just goes at it with the scissors!

I can't rate this video high enough. Superbly explained in great detail in a very short time with no fuss. Love it, more of those please.

Great video! Thanks. I'm just starting to get into the pines more and have both red, white and black pines. It's great to have videos like this that are clear, concise but also actually tells us when to do certain things to our trees. One of my biggest moans about bonsai videos is that they can show us all the things to do but not when we should do them. I've been a fan of your work on You Tube since the start.

And here I thought "I'll watch a calm Bonsai-U video before I go to sleep". Laughed for 5 minutes straight

great video. I have been doing this for years and have probably not let the candles grow long enough to determine the best length to reduce them too, so thanks for that Ryan

I've just bought a pre-bonsai white pine so this video is super-useful. I love the detail and clear explanations you give, Bjorn. Your content is always so engaging, useful, and well-produced. Nice one!

Now that I've finally got more time to invest into this hobby again, this was exactly the video that I needed! Thanks Bjorn!

perfect timing. i just bought my first pine 6 weeks ago and now it has a lot of huge candles :D lets see, what i can learn from this video :)

Thanks Bjorn, very succinct explanation/demonstration- and always appreciate the Japanese bonsai vocabulary.

So timely Bjorn just getting to perform this in Seattle. thank you

this video could not come at a better time. I have a small (near mame size) japanese white pine and I have been struggling to develop it/maintain it because I didn't know what to do with the candles. I have been studying what to do this past winter but a visual aid is always helpful. thanks!!

Very good details on a very good example (pinus sylvestris is my favorite pine, we have a lot of them in france), good job as usual 👍😉 In France, this is currently the good moment to practice this technic 👌 Personally, I only pinch candles with my fingers, it avoids cutting needles with scissors, I think it's cleaner.

This was exactly what I was looking for. Thanks for the precise and detailed information and entertainment. 😂

Straight to the point, good close ups and sound. Thank you!

If you have a long needle single flush pine though, preforming this at this time of year will cause the needles to get longer...like with jap white pine, limber pine and other 5 needle pines. On those, you wanna wait till the sheathes of the new candles on drying up and falling off.

Thanks a lot for sharing this knowledge. Very easy to understand.

This is a better presentation that Mirai Live

that's something I've heard a few times already. better not disappoint!

This is an amazing video. Excellent precise information with great visual demonstration. Extremely educational and worthwhile.

Well done Bjorn on showing/explaining the technique so succinctly however, could you please also clarify: 1. What the main objective is using this technique 2. How did you prepare the tree for this procedure in terms of feeding routine and 3. How you will feed the tree after the procedure. Many thanks.

By the way, great information on this video, I will apply the 4 or 5 candles to 2 technique right now. Congrats mister Bjorn!

Great video. I really like the _Bonsai-U_ format.

What an amazing demonstration. Thank you very much!

Thanks, I needed this one for future purposes. My pinus is only a small one and I don't know if I'm able to travel and collect it this spring, but hopefully next year the latest. It's only a young sapling of maybe 4-5 yrs, living at my parents' property up in Finnish Lapland, so I already have the permission to collect it. Long way ahead for that size!

What an AMAZING tree!

Very helpful and informative. Thank you.

Thanks mate I just found a 10 inch Scots pine I'm going to try to bonsai 👍🏻🇬🇧

BRAVO!!! Bonsai needs more joking. Sidenote: this stay a home, has kinda help me get closer to being caught up with re-pots, wiring, etc, etc...But that is probably an unattainable goal, as I will always being chasing the next tree, next nebari, rock planting, carving, ewtc, etc, hahaha

What? Giant what???

Thank You! BONSAI!

Just in time, wonderful

Wow... Buen trabajo.....Muchas gracias por ilustrarnos

Thank you very much!, This video comes on perfect timing to apply this technique on your Inspira demo's pinus!... you've got pinuses all over the world!, hahaha. Happy B-day by the way!

Precious advices. Thanks

Very nice! Thank you 🙂

That made my whole night!! Great joke and amazing work!!

Excellent video

Thank you.

Would love to see the work you are doing with prinus virginiana. One of my favorite trees!

I snap the candles with my fingers, this eliminates the problem with snipping the new needles!

thanks for such usefull video!

Really great video! It would also be great to see a video on needle pruning as well!

Thank You 🙏✌️

Thanks a lot.. Now i know why my pine branch going die.. 😂

Bjorn, I have been following your channel for a few weeks and all I can say is thanks for all the information you share here. I recently acquired a 2-3 year old Japanese black pine thunderhead that I want to turn into a niwaki for our new home being built right now. Do you think in the near future you could do a video just like this one, but with a black pine? All the into I have found on most websites suggest to de-candle everything, but I have not seen one like yours that explain the best way to balance the tree.

Very good 👍

Yes yes and yes😻

Great video! can you do one on pruning and maintenance for the Buddhist pine?

Good one thanks!!!

With this power in the candels (more than 3cm), you can make mekiri in may/june like with thunbergii(but without a second flush, of course) without problem. If you made It soon, the tree will make big buds for next season. If you made it late(sometimes, if the tree is extremely powerfull, you can make it in late august or soon september), the tree will make little buds even in the inside of the branches. Anyway, the tree should be very good fertilized and powerfull for make MEKIRI. I'm sorry for my poor english skills.

Me ncantoó el video, muy educativo y muy buena edición, cómo siempre👏💪

I would really love to hear why you cut off that dominant main branch.

If there is such as thing as bonsai jokes you win the century!

Você é o melhor, parabéns! 👏👏👏

Merci ✌️🙏

Great video. Now to get to work on my white pines. Can I apply the same techniques to Japanese Black Pine?

Thank you for making these videos Bjorn. I'm currently building up a scots pine that started as a whip a few years ago. I was wondering how I should perform this procedure with regards to the sacrifice branch as well as the small branches that I'm maintaining to be the branches of the tree as it enters a more mature stage. Can I prune the candles of those smaller branches while leaving the candles of the sacrifice branch untouched, or do I risk the tree shedding the small branches that I want to keep? My main goal is to keep the small branches from getting leggy...

0:21 omg I can't stop laughing this guy is so funny bro lmfao

For a young tree in development can you leave a candle without pinching or cutting that will then elongate the existing branch ? Nice tree.

Please consider some two-flush pine work someday soon!

Thanks for this video. I wish I hadn't already pinched back the buds on my Pinus virginiana. I hope I didn't kill it.

NIce tree! Amazing.

This is great!

Full length ASMR version please

How is it possible to achieve such a small amount of needles only at the tip ? Do you pull out all the needles from the lower section of the branch ?

Double flush JBP lessons too please 🙏

jajajajaja great intro

Your videos are amazing! Just waiting on some cash and I will definitely contribute to Bonsai U and get a T-shirt! 😊 In addition that lotus shaped pot from your previous video would work great with that pine or what do you think? 🤔

Do you remove all candles on a branch if you don't want additional growth?

You could talk about any Pinus you want!

That intro!!!! 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

That Start 😂😂😂

Perfect video thank you so much, can we have one for JBP too please?

Hi so I’m in the uk and found this cool yamadori common juniper but I’m not sure on it because it’s a needle juniper do they still make good bonsai ?

HAHAHA Bjorn took the chance.

Are mugo pines considered double flush pines? I had in early spring some candles on my mugo what I pinched a bit back to balkende, and now there are lots of buds on each branch tip.

Great video Bjorn! Super didactic, as usual. Have two questions for you: 1. would this same technique (in terms of approach and timing) work for Goyomatsu? 2. Does the technique apply identically over the entire tree or rather some modification is done in lower vs upper brunches? Thanks!

Its the end of may here in UK 2024 my scots is just putting its longated candles out now

Should I let the tree untouched if I repotted it 2 months ago? Or can I apply this technique without risk?

So on double flush pines would you do this process twice with both cycles of candles? I have a few black pines and live in Phoenix... it just hit 100 today 😑

Can explain this using season timing as I'm in Sydney Australia.

pro tutorial . . . thanks!

Selecting 2 candles to prevent swolling at the base can you explain/show this further more. Did you pinch the tree al at once in one day or in sections with a time interfall? This is a final developed tree you work on, what about trees who need to be developed, you still apply these techniques?

Munggu styling berikutnya..

Hi! Can you explain why the jin wasn't made from the stump of the cutted bottom branch? I see that it's covered with cut paste. Will you do a branch grafting?

How you have grown it pls.