Hello @Sam, it would be great if the “Forum Q&A, week xxxx” post in the forum mentions the number of the Forum Q&A as it appears in the live streams library. It will help the use to directly make the link between the post where it puts his/her questions, and the live stream number where the answer is given.
What’s your thoughts about this?
Thanks
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Hey @Diabolo! That’s a great idea - I will start that this week. Thank you!
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Just watched the spring wrap-up stream again. Amazing! Only comment I have is that it would have been dope to have this before the season as a primer and as a reference during the season. Definitely down for more lecture style streams where Ryan can just let the info flow.
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Hi @Sam,
I would like to see the next stages of pruning in nursery stock. ie the initial design and styling has taken place… what do you do next.
Thank you 
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Ryan mentioned streaming about his river birch in Forum Q&A 58. PLEASE MAKE THIS HAPPEN! I recently bought one to field grow despite hearing that “they’re not good for bonsai.” 
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I just got a hornbeam after being inspired by the one from the air layering streams. It would be awesome to see a whole stream about hornbeam.
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First I want to say that I love the lecture format of the Spring wrap up! One of the reasons I love Mirai as a resource is that Ryan goes into the “why” of the techniques and treatments, not just the “how.” I have only one complaint, and it’s certainly not Ryan’s fault; there is TOO much information for me to absorb! Don’t get me wrong. I want it all, just as he provides. I need it all. I just can’t retain all if it! This is particularly true of facts that pertain to trees that are not the ones that are not my focus at that moment.
So my idea probably needs to go somewhere else since it’s not a live-stream idea, although it relates to using the live-streams for specific reference. I know that I can use the search function, and it is a wonderful tool, but I would like to see a chart of some kind, that at a quick glance would tell me; mid spring- junipers - do not touch foliage. This would have links to the streams that tell me the specifics.
I know that there is the fear that some would go by this sort of information and not look into what makes this so, how it may be different in their region, how their tree will tell them what it needs. However, working full time and keeping a variety of very young trees, I may not have the time in that moment on a Saturday morning, to watch a full stream on air-layering to refresh my poor memory on whether I want to do this now on my broadleaf, or whether that juniper that has finally presented me with a concept for design, needs to wait. Then, I would see at a glance - ok, it’s this time of year, or this is the species, or this is the technique - that I really don’t want to pursue today. This is a good day to… and if I retain enough knowledge to do that, always with the caveat that by proceeding on this information alone, without a full understand and use of the in-depth resources available, I am responsible for the outcome.
I totally understand why Ryan does not like to give information in a way that can be interpreted as a hard and fast ‘rule.’ I would just like a quick way to remind me that this few hours of daylight that I can spend with my trees is a good time to… not… and if I want to do that… then tonight, I should refresh myself with this stream, or watch that one.
I hope that this makes sense, and that the brilliant members of your team can find some way to provide this cross-reference. I have just enough knowledge to be dangerous - and my ADHD approach to Bonsai needs all the help it can get!
Thanks for all of your hard work, and your dedication. You are all so much appreciated!
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Over-root method anchoring strategy
I was re-watching the different live streams on repotting and would like to submit the request to have a mini-stream focusing on anchoring strategy using the over-root method in a very loose root ball where bamboo sticks can not be used. This is the type of root ball that we often encounter when starting with bonsai (in development, not established trees). And I personnally find it extremely difficult to tight up the tree correctly in such context.
Thank you!
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Something like this? Just to be completely transparent, I found this online the first time I was checking out Mirai in 2018. I cannot completely recall if it was FROM Ryan/Mirai but much of the wording and discussion rings true with his instruction over the past few years I have been a member. I use it as a reminder and then check the specific videos. There is another 3 page version for more specifics. I will upload picture of that shortly, and could send pdf version to anyone interested. Please vet this - I would hate to claim something from Ryan/Mirai that is not, but it is in my Mirai notes folder and hooked me into the Mirai community. What a great source we have from Mirai and each other. Best of luck in your bonsai pursuits!
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I would love the pdf!
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Actually I just found it online. It looks like it originally came from BSOP, but that particular one doesn’t appear to be on their website anymore. There is a similar one though if you look on their website under Services, then Resources, then Bonsai Care Calendar. Other good stuff on their website as well - just go poke around. The calendars shown in zmadamz’s post above can be found by googling the titles.
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So glad you found it! Thanks for sharing - and sorry I couldn’t remember where I got it.
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Thank YOU for sharing the original!
I would definitely love a PDF!
I was just belatedly catching up on the Spring Wrap-Up live stream (white board, lecture format). Loved the consolidation aspect and density of information, while still giving some nuanced specialty information for certain species or classes of trees.
HOWEVER, there is a blatant contradiction in this stream regarding early spring treatment of junipers (43:45 - 49:05). [See screenshot] The “no touch” period from late winter to post-harden contrasts with the Spring Juniper Pruning livestream (posted April 10) where he does prune in early spring. Now, I suspect that in Ryan’s mind this was just delayed late fall pruning and not really “spring”, but there was no asterisk or heads-up given in the Spring Wrap-up.
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Thanks for the heads up on this Brian! I will forward this on to Ryan and see what he says.
any possibilities to have a follow-up on thuja plicata? this tree intrests me a lot.
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hi, Ryan many times mentioned trees collectors, harvesting them from the wild. A few times he said that he also had collecting trips. any chance to have a stream about basics of trees collection, how to dig them, how to care for them afterwards etc?
Check out the Randy Knight streams (and podcasts). One of the streams covers aftercare.
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