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live q+a
apr. 10, 2017
Topics Discussed
:40 JBP yellowing needles
4:08 Spruce pruning / Disease
13:00 Repotting window / Timing / Sweet spot
16:60 Deciduous pinching / Japanese Maple
12:20 Top dressing benefits
24:30 First repot / Collected material
30:00 Little leaf linden
32:30 Deciduous stump development
37:00 Juniper design / Foliage pads
40:45 Elongating species / Strength source
44:00 Ramification / Eleagnus / Silverberry / Broadleaf evergreen
50:00 Top dressing / Southern U.S. Climate
52:30 Phomopsis
56:45 Pinyon pine / Collection
59:00 Deciduous pruning / Timing
1:02:15 Japanese Maple / Pruning / Timing
1:05:00 Kanuma soil discussion
1:09:00 Soil sifting / Screen sizes / Soil layers
1:12:17 JPB repotting / Timing
1:14:30 Dawn Redwood vs. Coastal Redwood / Pinching / Fertilizer
1:17:40 Moss collection
1:19:50 Fertilization / Pot size
1:22:22 Collected Juniper / Transitioning soil / Using sawdust
1:26:17 Conifers vs. Deciduous / Maintaining ramification
1:35:45 Collecting Ponderosa / Timing for work
1:34:45 Dothistroma / Redband needle cast / Treatment
1:38:38 Juniper / Big bending / Timing
1:39:18 Deciduous pruning / Beech
1:41:04 Dawn Redwood / Fertilization
1:42:00 Top dressing separation
1:42:50 Lime sulfur / Dilution
1:44:54 Pinyon Pine / Collection / Sawdust
1:46:45 Juniper live vein cleaning / Technique
live q+a ii
apr. 21, 2017
Topics Discussed
2:20 Collection / Heating pads
4:50 Multi-flush pines / Needle plucking
8:55 Repotting response / Decline in foliage (see 11:25)
9:32 Fertilization / Purpose / Season
11:25 Info from 8:55
12:05 Sabina juniper / Balancing deadwood
15:30 Hinoki cypress / Pruning
18:35 Further Hinoki discussion
21:20 Foliar misting / Yamadori
24:24 Sawdust / Yamadori (ref Live Q&A I)
25:40 Fertilizer amount / Bio-gold
27:40 White pine / Shoot management
29:45 Fertilizer amount / Bio-gold size “discussion”
31:00 Pitch pine / Single or multi-flush
34:50 Bio-gold discussion continued
37:30 Eastern White Pine / Reduce needle size / Backbudding
41:50 Heat and soil considerations
35:30 Ponderosa / Decandling
46:10 Collecting yamadori / Spring or Fall
48:10 Shimpaku repot / More info from 8:55 question
49:55 Water quality
51:16 Engelmann spruce / Health
53:25 Newly collected yamadori / Advice
54:50 Colorado spruce / Vascular vs root strength
57:09 Pine seedling strength variation
58:30 Hinoki summer maintenance / Pruning
1:00:13 Red pine / Percolation / Repotting
1:04:10 Pitch pine / Fertilization after collection
1:05:45 Mixed-forest composition / Horticulture
1:08:13 Multi-flush pine / Ramification
1:12:05 Pot selection / Radical approach
1:14:30 Single-flush pine / Energy distribution
1:16:18 Heat mat / Low temperatures
1:17:10 Coastal Redwood / Pinching
live q+a iii
may. 5, 2017
Topics Discussed
3:03 - JWP grafted JBP / Miyajima / Short or long needle
5:05 - Tree not growing / Japanese maple / Frost damage
8:42 - Spruce pruning / Pinching
10:00 - Larch / Refinement
13:16 - Water on foliage / Damage
16:54 - Ashe juniper / Collecting / Aftercare
18:55 - Elongating species / Development vs. refinement
23:43 - Deer in garden
25:08 - Spruce / Timing of work
26:45 - Common juniper / Refinement
29:40 - JBP / Development / Fertilization
31:17 - Shohin white pine / Fertilization
32:50 - Pinching / Long-needle single flush pines
35:25 - “Mallsai” / Opinion on beginner material
37:37 - Doug fir / Pinching / Pruning
40:15 - Mugo pine / Compact soil
43:00 - JWP / Repotting or pruning / Same year
44:47 - Alligator juniper / Seasonal development
46:50 - Oak / Hornbeam / Troubleshooting
49:48 - Pomegranate / Pruning / Wiring / Timing
51:20 - Japanese maple / Fertilization / Follow up from 5:05
52:40 - White pine / Branch selection
54:25 - Water / Function / Benefits
58:00 - Elongating species / Definition
1:01:11 - Yamadori / RMJ / Misting
1:03:31 - Itoigawa / Water preferences
1:04:49 - Mugo pine / Issues with candle
1:05:35 - Elongating species continued
1:06:42 - Jack pine / Needle cast / Rain
live q+a iv
may. 19, 2017
Topics Discussed
2:46 - Larch / Pinching
4:33 - JBP transplanting / Tropical climate
7:13 - Trident maple / Maximum development in a season
11:35 - Grubs / Treatment / Nematodes
13:50 - Compartmentalization of decay / Deciduous
17:20 - Colorado blue spruce / Weak bud elimination
18:55 - Yamadori soil removal / Root cutback
21:34 - Multi-flush pine / Refinement / Timing
23:47 - RMJ yamadori / Juvenile foliage (see 27:48)
24:14 - Dawn redwood / Care
24:58 - Elongating species list / Definition
27:48 - Follow-up from 23:47
28:50 - White pine / Yellowing / Shin issue
32:02 - Long-needle single flush pine / Pruning and pinching / Development and refinement
34:10 - Insecurity in container / Care / Shimpaku
36:00 - Snow / Dropping trees to ground
37:05 - Juniper deadwood colors
38:40 - Juniper deadwood / Aesthetic purpose
40:30 - Preventative insecticides
41:52 - Junipers / Aftercare with repotting
43:01 - Fertilizer clogging percolation
44:18 - Elongating species / Refinement / Pinching
46:34 - City water / Treatment
48:15 - Copper vs. daconil / Pines, hemlocks
50:02 - Rotating trees and chemicals (see 51:34)
50:35 - Cambium slippage / Structural wiring
51:34 - Follow-up from 50:02
52:00 - Leggy shimpaku / Interior growth
53:09 - Deciduous vs. broadleaf evergreens
54:45 - Air layer / Chalk line angles
57:42 - Heat wave / Soft growth care
live q+a v
jun. 5, 2017
Topics Discussed
1:25 - Juniper / Foliage management
4:13 - Pest management / Treatment
7:45 - Needle juniper / Foliage management
9:25 - Nematodes / Application
11:58 - Single-flush pines / Needle plucking / Development
15:43 - Brown foam / Troubleshooting (see 19:01)
16:16 - Pinus strobus / Pruning for refinement
16:48 - Top dressing mix / Process
19:01 - Follow-up from 15:43
19:51 - White pine / Pruning / Timing / Development
22:20 - Prostrata juniper / Techniques
24:08 - Common juniper / Branch development
26:14 - Ponderosa / Pineshoot tip moth / Prevention
29:18 - JBP initial styling / Fertilization (see 31: 38)
29:46 - Remembering work done / Planning for care and design
31:38 - Follow up from 29:18
32:25 - Multi-flush pine / Needle plucking / Timing
33:06 - Bio-gold substitute / Oregon
34:28 - Wire bite / Vascular effects
37:23 - When / How to remove wire
39:05 - Crane fly larvae / Damage / Solutions
40:50 - Identifying borers / Treatment
42:50 - RMJ / Refinement
45:05 - Proactive application of fungicides / Insecticides
47:07 - Pitch pine / Pros and cons
48:08 - Cherry development / Issues
49:47 - California live oak / Yellowing and die-off
50:58 - Engelmann spruce / Wiring / Timing
51:47 - Mirai tree care system
52:39 - Eastern white cedar / Foliage
53:48 - Alligator juniper / Growth habit
56:10 - Air layer / Aftercare / Japanese maple (see 58:47)
56:40 - Wiring / Timing / General guidelines
58:47 - Follow up 56:10
live q+a vi
jun. 11, 2017
Topics Discussed
1:38 - Phytophthora root rot / Junipers
3:39 - Deciduous defoliation / Aftercare / Shade
6:00 - Managing weeds / Liverwort
7:45 - Bald cypress / Pruning
10:20 - Dormant periods / Timeframe
13:28 - Root / Foliage reduction
15:09 - Myajima white pine / Classification / Care
17:52 - Bald cypress / Repotting time
18:30 - Air layering / Placement
20:41 - Multi-flush pine / Refinement / Development
22:55 - Tree rotation
25:25 - Root-feeding insects / Treatment
27:29 - Glucose movement / Response to needle-plucking
31:41 - Epoxy / Deadwood
33:34 - Scale / Citrus / Treatment
36:34 - Pinus strobus / Ramification techniques
39:58 - Tie down methods / Steel, copper, aluminum
42:00 - best working time periods for junipers
41:40 - Junipers / “No-touch” period
43:17 - Root rot / California juniper
45:30 - JBP / Heavy rainfall
47:34 - Akadama / Replacement soils
51:34 - Collection philosophy / Issues
54:39 - Ume / Flowering
58:51 - Multi-flush vs. single-flush pines / Timelines of work
1:00:06 - Shimpaku / Working in the tropics
1:02:56 - Redwood pruning
1:05:05 - Biofungicides
1:06:46 - Chamaecyparis / Fungicide
live q+a vii
jun. 16, 2017
Topics Discussed
2:18 - Backbudding / Single-flush pine / Development
6:29 - Hinoki cypress / Strength
7:25 - Removing flowers / Fruiting bodies / Affecting development
9:39 - Mountain Hemlock / Bonsai material
11:25 - Deadwood / Treating newly exposed
13:02 - Surface roots / Protection / Maple
14:53 - Pines / Development / Fertilization
16:20 - Olive / Timing of work
17:30 - Decandling / Dangers of cutting and repotting
20:32 - Lime sulphur application
22:51 - White pine / Development (see 25:08)
23:30 - Fresh yamadori / Fertilization
25:08 - Follow up from 22:51
26:35 - Ceramic size / Trunk width / Rubber band theory
29:00 - Root chemistry / Xylem, cambium, phloem
29:41 - Healing large wounds / Deciduous
34:17 - Hinoki cypress/ Timing of work
36:45 - Collected yew / Branch reduction timing (see 39:59)
37:05 - Collection philosophy
39:59 - Follow up from 36:45
42:33 - White pine / Classification
43:41 - Yamadori / Soil after collection
46:10 - Coastal redwood / Timing of work
47:56 - Orange tree / Bonsai material
49:43 - Yamadori soil alternative
52:45 - Mikawa JBP / Causes for weakness (see 57:45)
53:20 - JBP / Repotting and decandling in same year
55:20 - Securing the tree / No established roots
57:45 - Follow up from 52:45
1:00:35 - JBP / Low nitrogen feed
1:03:42 - Reading trunk fissures / Resource movement
1:05:22 - Rock pot / Ceramic opinion
live q+a viii
jun. 27, 2017
Topics Discussed
1:17 - Junipers / Pruning & wiring / Timing
3:53 - Collecting RMJ / Timing / Altitude
6:12 - Losing trees / Determining cause of death
8:40 - Summer dormancy / Fertilization
11:30 - JBP / Needle-pluck / Timing
12:31 - Ume / Development to refinement
15:30 - Summer fertilization / Pines vs. deciduous
16:55 - Japan / Growing climate
19:08 - Repotting / Shin development
22:10 - Grow lights vs. outdoor light / Bald Cypress
24:04 - Top dressing / Dust use
25:03 - Hemlock / Older needles yellowing
26:46 - Limber pine development
28:45 - RMJ / Phomopsis / Treatment
31:58 - Dormancy requirements / High-altitude trees
35:21 - Multi-flush pine / Leggy growth
37:19 - Managing flowers / Deciduous (see 40:05)
37:36 - Akadama alternative
40:05 - Flowering trees / Care (from 37:19)
41:47 - Chinese elm / Tropicals / Advice
42:28 - Top dressing / Aftercare
45:05 - JBP / Needleplucking / Decandling
46:23 - Juniper strength
49:49 - Juniper extraction
52:02 - Collecting yamadori / Timing
53:29 - Engelmann spruce / Pruning
55:14 - Concrete pots / Soil ph
56:58 - Heating pad / Best use
58:02 - Moss vs. pea pebbles / Heat loss
59:15 - Collecting Bald Cypress
1:00:55 - Juniper extraction follow-up (from 49:49)
1:02:06 - White pines / Greenish sap
1:03:40 - Multi-flush pine / Leggy branch follow up (from 35:21)
1:05:05 - Tree saver / Anti-transpirant / Opinion
1:06:14 - Collection / Pumice vs. bonsai soil
live q+a ix
jun. 30, 2017
Topics Discussed
0:45 - Ponderosa / Yellowing tips / Disease management
2:39 - Mountain Hemlock / Needle loss (see 16:14)
4:38 - Maple / Creating new roots
8:18 - Camelia / Care
9:48 - Archive suggestion
10:40 - Pedestals / Install
12:10 - Ponderosa / Stagnant buds
14:15 - Japanese culture / Business etiquette
16:14 - Mountain Hemlock follow-up (from 2:39)
17:45 - Shade cloth / Tips
19:55 - Rock plantings / Muck recipe
22:26 - Silver Maple / Air-layer removal
24:30 - JBP / Systemic fungicide
27:07 - Shimpaku / browning foliage
29:45 - Tosho / Needle juniper / Summer care
33:01 - Eastern red cedar / Juniper / Care
34:25 - Positive energy / Signs
35:29 - Sierra Juniper / Juvenile foliage
38:27 - White pine / Growth indicator
39:49 - Sub alpine fir / Development
42:05 - Akadama / Quality
44:18 - Bonsai / Finding quality
46:34 - Repotting / Root ball treatment
51:00 - Larch / Leafing out, browning
51:25 - Eastern pine / “Winter kill”
53:30 - Common juniper (see 56:25)
54:20 - Metal washer on pine root
56:25 - Common Juniper follow up from 53:30
live q+a x
jul. 7, 2017
Topics Discussed
2:17 - Field growing techniques
3:06 - Grafting native yamadori / Pines & Junipers
4:56 - Initial styling RMJ yamadori / Health
7:38 - Kishu Juniper / Pruning timing
8:40 - Erica arborea / Growth habit & ramification
11:25 - Gingko / Pruning for refinement
12:50 - Japanese maple / Airlayering / Timing
14:11 - Multiflush Pines / Candlepruning / Abnormal growth
15:57 - Artisan’s Cup in the future
17:07 - Larch / Leafing out, turning brown, defoliating
18:20 - Douglas fir / Bud-cutting / Nuances
21:03 - California Juniper / Older foliage turning brown, purple color (see 27:15, 29:51)
22:25 - San Jose Juniper / Maintaining mature growth
23:50 - Needle Juniper / Summer working
27:15 - Follow up from 21:03
27:50 - Spruce / Bending big branches
29:51 - Follow up from 21:03, 27:15 / Sunburn
30:48 - Akadama / Quality
31:48 - Cedar saplings / Trimming for ramification (see 36:42)
32:18 - Yew / Taxus / Seasonal work
36:42 - Follow up from 31:48 / Western Red Cedar / Pruning
38:55 - Mountain Hemlock / Timing of work
41:07 - Grub issues / Treatment
42:10 - Common Juniper / Dying foliage
43:50 - Black Hawthorne / Major branch reduction / Timing
45:30 - Phomopsis diagnosis / Treatment
46:45 - Slip-potting / Juniper
48:50 - Charcoal in soil / Purification
50:07 - Phytophthera / Proactive treatment
53:00 - Leafhoppers / June bugs / Problem
54:12 - Junipers / Airlayering
54:58 - Ants / Problem
56:03 - Rose of Sharon / Removing flowers
57:28 - Early root rot / Actions
59:48 - Giant Sequoia as bonsai
live q+a xi
jul. 21, 2017
​Topics Discussed
1:35 - Top dressing
3:29 - Fertilizer / Grubs
5:20 - Ashe / Alligator / Pruning
6:40 - Larch / Elongating Species / Pruning
9:25 - Chojubai quince / Growth
12:23 - Cotoneaster / Classification / Ramification
18:55 - Sunburn / Photosynthesis
19:37 - Coastal Redwood / Pinching
21:04 - Beginner styling resources
24:57 - Korean hornbeam / Rootbound
26:54 - Approach graft / Timing / Deciduous
30:31 - Watering / Soaking
32:37 - Fall repotting
34:45 - Raw material / Pot or style first
36:08 - Shohin White Pine / Redirect apical energy
38:13 - Hornbeam / Troubleshooting the shin
40:30 - Japanese Yew / Losing foliage
41:33 - Black Pine / Draining issue
43:45 - Elongating species / Development / Fertilization
45:18 - Hinoki / Backbudding
47:40 - Spruce / Repotting
50:25 - JBP / Juvenile growth
51:35 - High elevation trees / Warm climates
54:25 - Juniper / Bubbles on bark
55:55 - Juniper / Yellow foliage
57:35 - Douglas fir in the wild
59:52 - Podocarpus / Cutback timing
live q+a xii
jul. 27, 2017
​Topics Discussed
1:30 - Elongating species / Pruning / Timing
5:04 - Single-flush short needle pines / Pruning / Timing
6:45 - Approach graft / Juniper / Safely removing the whip (see 10:05)
7:29 - Juniperus chinensis / Phomopsis / Root bound
10:05 - Answer from 6:45
11:45 - Black pine / Big branch pruning / Timing
13:56 - Rate of energy production in soft foliage
15:19 - Single-flush pines / August work
16:51 - Airlayering Bald cypress / Technique
19:39 - Top dressing / Gauging water needs
23:09 - Scots pine / Pruning
25:23 - Expanded shale vs pumice / Soil composition
27:17 - Trident maple / Blackened leaves
29:18 - Larch / Pinching
31:18 - Root fusing / Species type
31:42 - Pinus bungeana / bonsai material
34:09 - Thuja focus
35:35 - White pines / Pruning
36:40 - HB101 / Mythbusting
38:24 - Grafting Junipers / Snaking
40:59 - JBP / Pine tip shoot moth
42:35 - Fertilization / What to use
46:57 - Organic fertilizer decomposition / Relative climate
49:30 - Pine fungicide / Application
51:59 - Mountain hemlock / Species info
53:50 - Trident maple forest creation / Timing
54:39 - Beginner species / Styling
57:09 - Japanese maple / Airlayer
59:06 - Azalea / Weak apex
live q+a xiii
aug. 4, 2017
​Topics Discussed
1:19 - Mugo pine / Multi-flush / Cutback
2:55 - Limber pine / Multi-flush
4:06 - Field grown / Design
6:05 - Pines / Fertilizer / Bud development
8:05 - Deodar cedar / Nursery stock / Ramification
11:13 - Tree development / Solar accumulation / Design
14:05 - Fertilizer / Cotton seed & kelp
15:35 - Crape myrtle / Leaf falling / Negative symptoms
17:28 - Engelmann spruce / Pinching / Energy transition
19:50 - Tools / Sterilization
20:47 - Shin / Repotting
23:07 - Thuja occidentalis / Pruning / Pinching
25:55 - Repotting / Fall
27:47 - Watering schedule
29:41 - Foliage hardening / Energy accumulation / Pruning
32:45 - Scots pine / Branch removal / Season
34:49 - Moss / Water content
36:12 - Limber pine / Candles drooping
38:22 - Limber pine / Back-budding / Swelling
39:20 - Trident maple / Branch chop / Inverse taper
41:29 - Pests / Ants / Diatomaceous earth
43:10 - Zelkova / Nebari / Air layer
45:05 - Junipers / U.K.
48:02 - Trident maple / Early fall syndrome (Answered at 51:14)
48:38 - Oaks / Field grown
54:05 - Japanese white pine / Eastern white pine / Pruning
55:46 - Potential exhibitions / NYC
57:21 - Pinus sylvestris / Field growing
1:00:00 - Hinoki cypress / Timing (Check Q +A XII)
1:01:52 - Juniper / Negative energy / Fertilization
1:03:25 - Stewartia / Inverse taper / Air layer
1:04:27 - Needles / Size ratio
1:06:01 - Potentilla / Root over rock
1:08:20 - Juniper / Carving deadwood
1:09:35 - Shimpaku / Branch removal
1:10:40 - Junipers / Mississippi
1:11:45 - JBP / Emergency repotting
1:14:16 - Pitch pine / Bending
1:16:36 - Single-flush pines / Timing
1:17:26 - Horticultural knowledge / Extended reading
1:18:48 - Ume / Zelkova / Leaf curl
1:20:20 - Shimpaku / Repotting / Timing
1:22:35 - Junipers / Characteristics
1:23:50 - Gingko / Ramification
1:24:42 - Root-over-rock / Shin
1:25:39 - Scots pine / Fertilization and watering / Timing
1:27:59 - Scots pine / Identification
1:29:26 - Fertilization / Timing
live q+a xiv
aug. 11, 2017
​Topics Discussed
2:50 - Deciduous / Branch removal / Healing
9:22 - Chinese elm / Air layer / Timing
11:32 - Valley oak / Iron deficiency
13:36 - Deciduous / Branch formation / Design
16:01 - Sequoia sempervirens / Winter dormancy
18:33 - Juniper / Air layer / Sun exposure
20:22 - Chlorophyll decomposition / Heat
24:40 - Korean hornbeam / Pruning / Design
27:05 - Black vine weevil / Treatment
31:20 - Apex / Informal upright style / Design
34:01 - JBP / Trunk size / Sacrificial growth
35:49 - JBP / Fertilizer / Development
37:33 - Silver maple / Scion grafting
40:48 - Ficus nerifolia / Tropicals / Soil mix
43:00 - Wiring
45:44 - Deadwood / Design
46:49 - Yew / Styling / Timing (Answered at 48:10)
47:19 - Wiring
49:45 - Black pine / Second flush / Fertilization
51:05 - JBP / Multi-flush / Pruning
54:18 - American hornbeam / Cleaning cuts / Timing
56:11 - JBP / Needle cast / Prevention
57:53 - Juniper / Tip blight / Prevention
59:40 - Sage / Bonsai cultivation
1:01:22 - Korean hornbeam / Browning leaves
1:02:31 - Group planting / Branch loss
1:04:53 - Juniper / Deadwood and live-vein / Timing
1:05:57 - Pinyon pine / Location / Characteristics
1:08:01 - Spiders
1:08:33 - Pines / Identification
1:09:24 - Deciduous / Liquid iron / Moss
1:10:51 - White pine / Needle removal
1:12:41 - Japanese maple / Sunburn
1:14:37 - Ponderosa pine / Pinyon pine / Winter dormancy
1:15:47 - Bristlecone pine / Cultivation needs
1:17:22 - Diatomaceous earth / Product selection
1:18:37 - Black pine / Seed growth / Shohin
1:21:01 - Privet / Defoliate
1:21:21 - Foliage growth / Shin development / Aeration
1:23:34 - RMJ / Growth pattern / Design
live q+a xv
aug. 18, 2017 Topics Discussed
1:24 - Hardened foliage / Sun exposure / Development
3:37 - Coast live oak / Air layering / Branch size
5:30 - Japanese maple / Pruning / Timing
9:03 - Bougainvillea / Repotting / Timing
11:39 - Conifer / Broadleaf / Death symptoms
14:11 - Nebari / Root spread / Tile method
16:36 - Honeysuckle / Bonsai material
17:50 - Juniper / Foliage / Timing
20:03 - Pine / Monterrey cypress / Asymmetrical design
21:56 - Pinus cembra / Decandling / Long needle single flush
24:47 - Bark formation / Design
27:20 - Yamadori / Pumice particle size / Screening
29:10 - Leyland cypress / Bonsai material
30:31 - Juniper scale / Treatment
33:46 - Yamadori pine / Sun exposure / Misting
35:53 - Styling / Timing
37:25 - Ponderosa pine / Pruning / Foliage reduction
38:29 - Pad formation / Masculine vs. feminine design / Development
42:05 - Japanese maple & taxus / Root pruning / Timing
43:57 - Juniper / Sun exposure / Area transition
45:38 - Japanese white pine / Needle reduction / Timing
48:17 - Japanese black pine / Needle removal / Potential buds
50:43 - Japanese white pine / Pruning / Timing
51:51 - Japanese black pine / Bud selection / Pruning
53:55 - Taxus / Pruning / Timing
55:08 - Limber pine / Shoot selection / Development
56:55 - New stock / Quarantine
58:41 - Scots pine / Terminal bud removal / Timing
1:00:38 - Single flush pine / Needle plucking / Sun exposure
1:03:16 - Root system / Microbiotic activity / Fertilization
1:04:56 - Neagari / Shin
live q+a xvi
aug. 25, 2017
​Topics Discussed
1:45 - Spraying / Fungus & insects / Timing
4:08 - Copper wire / Contamination / Fixing tree
5:20 - Single flush pines / Pruning / Timing
9:38 - Colorado blue spruce / Wet weather / Fungus (Answered at 12:10)
10:01 - Root management
13:06 - Larch / Forest building / Timing
14:22 - Engelmann spruce / Backbudding / Terminal bud removal
17:56 - Japanese maple / Air layer / Branch damage
19:57 - Needle juniper / Cleanup / Dead needles
20:43 - Procumbens juniper / Raft style / Air layer
22:28 - Rocky mountain juniper / Cutback & backbudding / Growth management
24:40 - Tool maintenance / Oils
26:44 - Soil cleanup / Weeds / Moss
29:00 - Jin / Callus / Timing
30:44 - Japanese maple / Leaf burn / Defoliation
32:59 - Semi-cascade shimpaku / Raft style / Root production
35:11 - Collected material / Fertilization / Development
38:11 - Shimpaku / Health deterioration / Color loss
40:25 - Horticultural literature
43:03 - Sick trees / Fertilization / Korean hornbeam
44:03 - Pinching / Cutting / Definition
46:32 - Shore & lodgepole pine / Identification
48:02 - Lodgepole pine / Approach graft / Timing
49:10 - Thuja / Air layer
50:26 - Gold juniper / Structure / Timing
51:45 - Deodar cedar / Similar species / Development
53:25 - Japanese maple / Air layer / Timing
54:31 - Lace leaf japanese maple / Bonsai material
55:44 - Herbicide / Irish moss
56:29 - Common juniper / Substrate selection / Repotting
58:04 - Juniper / Cleanup / Inner foliage
59:00 - Blue alps juniper / Root rot / Wet weather
59:44 - Mosquitoes / Garden
1:01:07 - Juniper / Identification / Prostrata
1:01:49 - Japanese white pine / Timing
1:02:10 - Elongating species / Root pruning / Timing
1:02:49 - Fertilizer selection
1:03:58 - Yellowing tips / Over-watering
1:04:59 - Ponderosa pine / Trunk bend / Needle direction
1:06:44 - Japanese black pine / Shoot selection
1:07:38 - Japanese white pine / Health deterioration / Growth management
1:08:42 - Larva / Watering foliage
live q+a xvii
sep. 1, 2017
​Topics Discussed
1:09 - Taxus / Foliage pad creation
3:40 - Fertilization / Fall season / Timing
6:47 - Hinoki cypress / Pruning / Timing
8:05 - Hinoki cypress / Root pruning / Soil
10:47 - Hinoki cypress / Cold temperatures / Timing
12:22 - Douglas fir / Sun exposure
13:40 - Colorado blue spruce / Development / Timing
16:08 - Fertilization / Timing / Decandled multiflush pine
17:05 - Flower production / Energy management
19:31 - Douglas fir / Backbudding / Growth management
21:30 - Ginkgo / Growth management
21:58 - Vascular tissue / Xylem & phloem
23:10 - Alberta spruce / Bonsai material
24:45 - Live oak / Air layering / Timing
26:35 - Styling / Foliage reduction
27:56 - Blue atlas cedar / Pruning / Backbudding
31:10 - California juniper / Mirai Live
32:15 - Needle juniper / Brown needles
33:19 - Garden arrangement / Sun exposure / Protection
35:21 - Japanese white pine / Wedge cut / Branch bending
37:38 - Hinoki cypress / Foliage reduction / Styling
40:06 - Engelmann spruce / Sun exposure / Protection
42:54 - Horticultural science / Protein production
44:40 - Air layer / Cold temperatures / Winter dormancy
47:58 - Fungicide / Mancozeb / Safe species
49:53 - Hinoki cypress / Graft scar removal (Extended answer at 51:45)
51:03 - Wood preserver / CPES
53:18 - Ume / Shohin / Fertilization
55:18 - Fertilization / Summer vs. fall / Slow-release
57:40 - Pomegranate / Leaf curl / New growth
59:20 - Elm / Small buds / Fertilization
1:00:57 - Scion grafting / Wild hinoki cypress / Thuja occidentalis
1:02:59 - Hinoki cypress / Yellow needles
live q+a xviii
sep. 14, 2017
​Topics Discussed
1:49 - Juniper / Yellowing foliage / Foliage removal (Follow up at 4:03)
2:51 - Raffia / Wire biting / Timing
4:34 - Dawn redwood / Pruning technique / Timing
6:15 - Juniperus chinensis / Budding & ramification / Development (Answered at 9:49)
6:44 - Japanese flowering quince / Repotting / Root gall
7:51 - Zelkova / Air layer / Timing
11:14 - Taxus media hicksii / Nursery stock / Development
13:16 - Thuja / Apex formation / Design
15:05 - John Naka’s juniper / Health issues / Regaining health
16:43 - Collecting pine yamadori / Vascular growth / Timing
18:05 - Dawn redwood forest / Repotting / Regaining health
20:00 - Swiss pine / Repotting / Timing
21:48 - Sabina juniper / Foliage swelling & yellowing / Disease
23:20 - Washing foliage / Transpiration depression
24:47 - Structural work / Fall / Timing
25:58 - Ume / Blooming / Species identification
27:05 - Bloodgood japanese maple / Branch reduction
29:51 - Multi-flush pine / Refinement / Candle pruning
32:13 - Crenata beech / Apex loss / Timing
33:35 - Deadwood reduction / Mr. Kimura / Technique
34:55 - Deciduous species / Callous formation / Filling voids
36:58 - Wisteria / Vine growth / Growth management
38:07 - Ficus / Defoliation / Growth management
40:38 - Lodgepole pine / Repotting / Timing
42:02 - Ficus forest / Growth management
42:41 - Stone vs. ceramic / Planting medium / Aftercare & horticulture
44:54 - Juniper / Nursery stock / Repotting / Pruning
45:55 - Holm oak / Spain / Timing
47:38 - Iris / Bonsai material
48:19 - Ponderosa pine / Repotting / Timing
49:31 - Redwood / Pruning / Growth management
50:15 - Mr. Kimura / Rock plantings / Real vs. fabricated
51:05 - Larch forest / Ant infestation / Treatment
53:32 - Thuja / Mirai Live
54:34 - Deciduous conifers / Transplant / Timing
55:19 - Winter protection
57:15 - Picea abies / Bending / Wedge-cutting
59:03 - Olives / Mirai Live
59:33 - Bonsai design / Nature
1:01:32 - Deadwood clump / Yamadori / Design
1:02:05 - Thuja / Taguchi bonsai show
1:02:57 - Thuja / Leyland cypress / Similarity
1:04:12 - Thuja / Arborvitae / Identification
1:05:33 - Thuja / Aerial roots / Removal
1:06:46 - Bhutan cypress / Bonsai material
live q+a xix
sep. 22, 2017
Topics Discussed
1:37 - Scots pine / Foliage reduction / Repotting
3:50 - Garden arrangement / Winter protection / Air circulation
5:21 - Japanese white pine / Branch dieback / Repotting
7:46 - Apex formation / Movement / Design
9:38 - Scots pine / Fungal issue / Post-treatment management
11:12 - Winter protection
13:02 - Ponderosa pine / Foliage reduction / Fertilization (Follow up at 15:06)
16:41 - Hinoki cypress / Development & refinement / Fertilization
19:18 - Lime sulfur application / Matching deadwood
20:59 - Japanese beech / Nebari / Root growth / Timing
22:50 - Spruce / Wedge cut
24:45 - Overwintering / Winter protection / Root insulation
26:41 - Ponderosa pine / Junipers / Backbud energy
28:47 - Japanese maple / Transplant / Vascular growth
29:54 - Loblolly pine / Single vs. multi-flush pine / Wedge cut
31:51 - Needle yellowing / 3rd year needles
32:32 - Juniperus chinensis / Traversal cuts / Root mass separation
33:44 - Deodar cedar / Pruning / Refinement stage
34:45 - Colorado spruce / Branch removal / Wound discoloration
36:57 - Mirai Live / Knowledge primer
39:01 - Ponderosa pine / Clay soil / Health deterioration
41:03 - Rocky mountain juniper / Health deterioration
42:29 - Black pine / Decandling / Underdeveloped needles
45:13 - Vine bonsai / Shin
46:36 - Repotted tree / Pinching & pruning / Development
47:59 - Japanese black pine / Single-flush pine / Structural branch pruning
50:12 - Ponderosa pine / Grafting / Backbudding
51:33 - Wiring theory / Wire application
54:17 - Japanese maple / Air layering / Timing
56:03 - Japanese maple / Fungal issue / Foliage death
57:53 - Japanese white pine / White spots / Branch dieback
59:32 - Korean hornbeam / Drought damage / Akadama substrate
1:01:14 - Azalea / Winter protection / Health deterioration
1:03:17 - Ponderosa pine / Apical bud removal / Backbudding
1:04:45 - Ponderosa pine / Needle scale / Timing
1:05:06 - Dakanyl / Fungicide selection
1:06:12 - Dormancy / Needle drop / Timing
1:07:07 - Ponderosa pine / Repotting / Timing
1:08:03 - Ponderosa pine / Gray & white crust / Eggs & worms