Two thumbs up for me regarding the month of maples series. I initially hesitated getting a Live membership due to the lesser breadth of videos on maples/deciduous but the maples series has got me hooked! I am hoping the maples series extends to Spring and Summer work.
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How about a livestream (maybe just a mini-stream) on how to photograph bonsai for photography illiterate people at home using just a camera phone, a cloth backdrop or just a plain wall backdrop, with both outdoor and indoor lighting (that can be done with nothing more complicated than a workshop light or a desk lamp that can pivot and project light laterally).
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how about a ‘case studies’ with a review of your own progressions - trees that went ‘perfectly,’ trees that went wrong, trees that threw curveballs that you bounced back from, tree your most proud of … and maybe incorporate a discussion of the ‘life cycle’ of a bonsai from 1st styling/repot to show to 2nd iteration to next show …
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Would love to see more stuff you do around the garden on a daily basis, landscape and what you generally have planed to update/fix and why… also ‘toolbox’ type stuff like how you build things, your green house layout, your benches, workshop layouts, pot display, photography booth, how you maintain things that go alongside the bonsai trees in general maybe how you anneal wire for eg (if its a trade secret I will understand ha) and any handy tips you have come across… just more of the fly on the wall nuts and bolts of Mirai basically… nothing is boring when it comes to bonsai!
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@shohin_stig this will be coming out within the next two months!
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@Eve i think winter is a good season to make a stream on How To: cleaning the tools, sharpening tools and tools maintenance. Its not easy!
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Something for Juniperus Communis it’s growing like crazy in Europe but it isn’t utilized much.
Thanks in advance.
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@Eve I posted this elsewhere but would love to see updates on trees done previously over the last few years that have been recovering. Video stream idea: Tree updates
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The legendary Danny Use from Belgium is making video’s where he shows in one stream a tree species in various stages of development - this helps to understand better what type of pruning, kind of wiring, work … is to be done depending on the level of maturity of the tree, the evolution that the tree still needs to go through (whether it is still raw material, in development or in refinement…). Seeing different trees (of the same species) in various phases next to each other, helps to understand better what is needed at that moment … This way of teaching is very effective - would be nice to see this at Mirai too.
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Hi, I would love the pdf !! Could you send it to me ?
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Found them here.
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Thank you very much !!!
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Less of a stream specific and more of a feature. What if the stream library was setup where you could download a few streams at a time for offline viewing. Similar to what Netflix does where you can download for offline viewing, watch and then remove those episodes and download some more.
I know that’s probably thinking a little far out there but it was something I thought about yesterday.
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@Pellskin where can we find those Danny Use videos please?
You’ll find them on Facebook.
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Ah, that’s why I haven’t seen them!
You can find them on Facebook if you search for “Danny Gingko”. Please note that most of the videos are in Dutch. Short movies (5 to 10 minutes max), less quality camera-work 
but good tips overall. He gives good tips on how to grow bonsai trees out of basic material - cultivation techniques.
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Would love for a primer on suiseki including display like when to use a suiban or a pot or a daiza.To tie it back to bonsai when you could display your bonsai with a suiseki instead of a shitakusa or kusamono.
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How about a stream on how to make a siphon system to adjust the ph of the water coming from our garden hoses. Along with something that shows some of the different ways to check PH and some of the measuring nuances.
Danke erst mal dem ganzen mirai Team für eure exzellente Arbeit. Vielleicht ist es möglich den Videos Untertitel hinzufügen da es vielleicht leichter für die Übersetzung ist, für alle die englisch nicht so gut verstehen ich wär sehr froh darüber.
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