Maple Bonsai Pruning 

Out of all the bonsai tutorials or "How-to-care" videos I've seen this is by far the BEST! Not only are you informative but you are real! Some of the people doing videos like this one are so sterile and boring and robotic... you are very entertaining, sir! Thank you! I've subscribed

It's a video about maples, but I can't take my eyes off that beautiful juniper. It's a very art-deco shape. Now I want one like that.

"this would take most people about a week, but I can do it in 20 minutes." Made me laugh so hard for some reason, but he backed up his claim!

Does anyone else (Mr Chan excepted) feel some deep elemental love for Japanese Maples? They are just stunning, delicate, beautiful trees.

Thanks again Mr. Chan. I too love large bonsai. And when I started I thought all Bonsai were small.

Great video again peter not everyone can get to bonsai classes and your videos help so much thank you

I must thank you for these videos! I have learned so much from you. I only have one ficus bonsai, which I bought for $1 because it was almost dead, and I brought it back to life, and got a cutting that is slowly growing!! Today I actually worked on a pine! Love your videos, love you!!

Simply fantastic every time I think I got it your videos pop up and I learn more Peter we all know who the real master is your second to none!

Hurray for a personal mic with wind protection!! It vastly improves your wonderful, informative videos all the more so. Thank you for your continuing efforts to keep improving these so we aren't distracted by loud planes, variations in audio when you turn away, windy days, etc. Your bright shirts are far more acceptable as easy visual intrusions than what we've had to 'put up with', especially for those with hard of hearing issues. ;) :D :D

Thank you for the inspiration, I have a large maple to prune tomorrow : ) It is so cool watching you work in your element and explain everything so clearly Peter.

I do the leaf plucking to a mature maple growing in my garden, it isn’t a bonsai but I like to thin it out a bit just to give it a nicer shape and expose some of the branching, I never knew that anybody used that method for bonsai, now I won’t feel like I’m doing something I shouldn’t next time I’m plucking my maple, thank you Peter for all your valuable lessons.

Dear Master Chan, I love how you are one with your trees. Thank You for your videos 🙏

I've just potted a bunch of Japanese maple seedlings from my landlords garden. This is very helpful. Thank you

My word.....you do work fast. Thank you for your videos. They are inspiring.

Me too, I love Japanese Maples! Can't wait to see more videos from you! Thank you, Mr Chan, it is a very informative video!

I find your tutorials absolutely fascinating. Thank you for sharing your knowledge.

Thank you Peter, I love your videos and put them on when when I need hope and a soothing voice.

Most excellent Mr. Chan it would be something to apprentice under you. Keep the great material coming 👍

Hello, I live in Oregon and have a multitude of maple varieties. This is exactly what I have been looking for. Thank you.

I love these massive bonsai's, they look absolutely outstanding!!!

love the before and after photos!

Thank you Peter, you have ignited a passion for Maples, I can't wait to buy some & put what I've learnt into action. Southampton UK

Interesting guide to pruning maples, thanks.

Thank you Peter, I am off to examine my Bonsai Maple which was a gift last month. Now I feel I can approach pruning with a bit of excitement rather than the trepidation I was feeling. I loved the shirt!

I love your tinning. You are the best tinner I know. All the best, Anthony

I don’t own bonsai but I really wish I did. I’ve been using your channel in particular to do as much research as I could before I go and buy one. Love your videos

Can you please introduce us to different variety of maples. I really love the red leaf maples in the background

Thank you Peter, great video very informative. You are not kidding when you say you work fast. I suppose looking after as many trees as you do you can't hang about!

Large maple bonsai are also my favourite. Brilliant video

Gorgeous work to the maple tree,just love the way u work on trees

What a magnificent Bonsai. maples are so beautifull

I truly love the way you take care of your Bonsai and I to love maples, and you are giving me Ideas for my own our maples have to do their first flush I live on top of the mountain! where it is 10 degrees colder than in the valley.

Amazing tutorial on maples...thank you, Peter! :)

Just started reading one of your books! The art of growing and keeping miniature trees! Got it off amazon. Really excited. Thanks for all your info

Beautifully explained and envisioned.

Master Chan...thank you for you last fall tip on the Acer Palmatun winter care. I kept it outside all winter and did a big trunk chop on it and its sprouting everywhere.

I really love this carm man and his amazing videos. Of course i also love bonsai trees, big and small.

I love you work. Peter... And also the t shirt...is spring after all

I love your work and your shirt!

I visited your nursery & it's amazing, many thanks for the video, I shall get plucking.

Looking very fruity Peter, fantastic end result on that beautiful Maple ,thank you for another lesson from The Master...

Thank you so much for your video, also I really appreciate you naming the maples and letting us know what they called.

You are so confident in working with those trees.

i transplanted a 30 year old green japanese maple from a yard into a 80Liter pot in early May, and after like 2 months it started growing new shoots and i couldnt be happier! i'm sure you would love it

Just watched this video again Peter, I have 2 medium size maples, one is the broken one I got for 1/2 price, it's very thick with growth now so I think I nursed it back to health, think I am ready to shape and this video gave me the inspiration I needed.

Thank you for another very interesting vid love the taller bonsai

Hello Peter. I love your channel, I have learned so much from you videos. I just got my first maple 😁 it's a Japanese butterfly maple sooooo exciting

Very enjoyable love your videos please keep them coming

Thanks for the video , the trees are looking amazing 🙏✌🌲

Maples are my favourite too!

Sophisticated topiary 🌳 "bah humbug" Peter you have a masters eye to create a tree like this, if I tried this I'm sure it would still be a trunk and some branches. Hope to see you this Saturday at your workshop👍

Thank you for your videos, the best information I found, and realistic ❤️

A million thanks for this. I love the shirt!

Another great job. Thank you.

I'm very happy to hear that Maples are feminine! They are my favourite too 🧡

Peter the Bonsaibarber :-) and he always pet his trees. He can Bonasi!

Dear Sir, you got me hooked. I also like large bonsai trees, but I've made a mistake and started with common yew and beech. Hard start, but hey, I plan to have kids, so who cares! Thank you for inspiring us all!

Happy to see your videos. Anilkumar From India

Very informative video & nice sense of humour!

I like the shirts! Thank for this wonderful video

love the shirt and the maple

Cool shirt, awesome trees and information, great work, thank you

Another great video and shirt!

That Sir is a beautiful tree. Thank you for sharing your knowledge.

Those maple trees are so pretty and now I want one. I'm a gardener but I've never had a maple. On another note I like your brite shirt, some people will complain about everything.

Is the best show ever you are so cool thanks again for showing me how to go on the trip and I hope you have a good year by

Great video!

My idea of a pretty lady is delicate, yet full figured. Same with my preference on plants. Excellent video!

Love your shirt! Lol. I also love your videos. Thank you.

very eloquent. pleasure to watch. thank you for an interesting video

Great tree... I’m sure your known for more than your delightful shirts... and endless love for trees!!!

A stunning maple that big boy! 😁

Bonsai is like fine art. Your mind must work out why it is beautiful before you can attempt it yourself.

Wonderful, thank you so much.

Great shirt.....I love it.

Nice trees!!!

Peter you're the man!!!

Very helpful. Great video. Thank you

Another great video Peter, didn't know about the leaf plucking as I am starting to look at something other than the 30 pines I have done so far. It would have been nice to get more closeups of the cross branches and verticals before you cut them a couple times to reinforce what they look like. The maples I have seen here so far are about $75 4' tall with long trunks, probably trimmed that way, do they back bud down the trunk, it's expensive so I will have to see how to develop lower branches before chopping one in 1/2.

Thank you from Roseville California, I did exactly as you instructed and my beauty is 100% lovlier just like a lady 😉 I truly enjoy hearing you talk about your life’s experiences and by the way, that theif, the one who stole your material, may I have his channel name? I enjoy holding people like that accountable. Keep up the enjoyable videos

Thank yu! Those are our favorite tree ! Info we need !!

My bob ross of plants thank you sir

You are a Super Master of Bonsai, I like your videos.

Very beautiful bonsai

Question and comment: First, your videos are amazing for novice bonsai enthusiasts like myself! Going to watch the majority of your videos so I can continue to learn and grow. Second is my question; Would you mind doing a mediation type video in the future (since you have mentioned this subject in other videos) and just touch on the basics that help you with meditating? Love your personality and style. Thanks for all your help!

love this video ...thank you

In Florida, the maples go dormant in July and August. I like to move them to a shadiest area.

Your just so passionate its amazing

What an amazing tree

OMG! that tree is gloriuos!

Excelent Sir. Grettings from Buenos Aires. n_n

I watched new shoots form on my willow oak there are now multiple new leaves unfurled from those shoots in just 3 days. Incredible.

This man is a perfect human.

Thank you for your wonderful videos. Sometimes I just play them in the background while I work, because I find your voice relaxing. You may be the Bob Ross of bonsai! Can you recommend a quality model of cutters that won't break the bank? I am trying to start small and working on a few junipers from the home center to see how I enjoy bonsai. I do enjoy quality tools!

Thank you for another informative and pleasurable video, Mr Chan. Your trees look amazing, not only the maples but also the juniper on the left; couldn't stop myself from admiring it all the time. I like the big maples, but being a beginner, I focus more on the little ones. I wonder which are the stages of development for a maple like the little ones you show here. I mean did you allow them to grow in the field, or bigger pot and how tall they had to grow to get that thickness?

Monster bonsai..so beautiful

Great information sir thanks

its so beautiful im going to cry

Can you please do a video on how to develop and train a black pine (and juniper too) from a very young stage, pencil-thick sapling? Almost all YT videos are only about maintenance, pruning, etc. an already old developed tree. 🙏

Can you do this also to a airlayering branch? Keep up the goodwork, love your videos! Hans NL