Having a great time here, I jhave learnt more since joining than I had learnt in the last decade or so.Clear clean information Ryan you are a godsend .
As for the future I could really benefit with some advice on the species San Jose.I am really having a tough time with it as I am in the UK.I believe I am nearing full health after having it a year but it is still in a big container of ground soil and compost.Obviouslly I know I need to change that but as Ryan says “health first,work second”.
With yamadori season right around the corner, combined with the increased interest in collecting material, it would be nice to see a stream dedicated solely to aftercare techniques that run the spectrum of native pines and junipers.
The library is really helpfull to me. But theres one thingy, lately ive Heard and read that there where i live i cant maintain trees from japan. The biggest reason which i found out about was that humidity in north eastern Europe make it impossible in a long run. Can you guys actually adress some of those issues?
Thanks for all the great content!
Did you know that in southern japan it’s impossible to keep trees alive which are native in northern japan?
Did you know that in northern japan it’s not a sane thing to keep trees native to southern japan?
Did you know that humidity in japan is completely different depending on the location in japan?
What do you mean by trees from japan?
Sorry forgot to mention the species. Pinus thunbergii, parviflora and densiflora. Those all are north japan species i suppose and i live in middle eastern Europe.
Greatly enjoy having all this knowledge available; I’ve recommended Mirai Live to a number of friends.
I would particularly like to see more about yews (Taxus), both working with “AngloJap” hybrids and Taxus cuspidata. (T. baccata struggles in our winters.)
Thanks much!
My japanease black pine does not grow well if I de-candle as is recomended in july. Having listerned to the pod cast on the tyberial farms (sorry for mis spelling) I think I will be moving to just plucking needles to stimulate a second push of buds. I am in the uk. But not sure on the timing… i might put this to ryan on a Q & A.
Pinus densiflora and parviflora are both quite hardy, in East Europe I guess you can have some harsh winters, both these species are normally fine in your climate to just keep outside during winter.
Thunbergi on the other hand is not,
You still probably are ok to keep these too with some winter protection.
As for humidity, I don’t think in mid Eastern Europe this should be a reason why you can not keep these trees.
Summers in Mid to southern japan are very humid as well.
Hey guys! Hope this is in the right place. I’d love to see a stream about how to get into Suiseki. My wife’s grandparents literally wrote the books on American geology and stones are of interest in our home, our 6 year old just started tumbling and collecting precious stones and gems. I’d love to learn about Suiseki , but from an extremely basic level of where to start how to learn etc. Thanks !
Thanks for all the great work. Please could you do a piece on starting root over rock?
I would love to see that, too!
My main request is to bring more guest experts on – the diversity of knowledge and opinion is great.
Keegan
How about some streams on pitch pine or juniperus virginiana. I’m from Mid-Hudson area in New York and they are both in the area. I know the juniper is not a common tree for bonsai but there is quite a bit of stock. I have attached a photo of a pitch pine.
The pine is very hardy and buds back all over the trunk.
I’m always interested in learning whatever I can about yews (Taxus) - Japanese, European, and the “Anglojap” hybrids. I consider the yew the “everyman’s (and everywoman’s) bonsai.”
I haven’t went through every comment but the different species of Larch…I absolutely love Larch (deciduous conifers in particular)! I only really see the video pertaning to the larch pruning but what about more on their cultivation, design, and ways to get the most in a growing season from larch.
Also if you have trees in your collection that you have had for a long period of time…showing and explaining different techniques you have preformed over that period of time to get from where they were to where they are. You could use old pictures or video (if you have it lol) or just go through the said specimen and talk about and show where branches were that had been removed 5yrs ago (example) and where the old apex was before it was chopped and ‘this’ branch took over. I think it would help beginners especially to get an idea of what one could expect or help visualize what a piece of material could look like as time goes on. I think that is what most beginners have the biggest problem with is wanting a piece to be proud of at that moment not realizing what the potential could be if they could more easily visualize the end product. Seeing the steps (branch scars, trunk chop scars, etc) and having a professional discuss those steps in detail that helped shape the tree to its current state. Maybe 2 trees per stream…just a few ideas but seriously…more larch haha 
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After repotting 50+ (mostly small) trees over the past three weeks, I am painfully aware that my point of greatest technique limitation is in tree-pot tie-downs. I should have reviewed Q&A 34 (XXXIV; 23:15) prior to the start of repotting season.
I know there are other bits of tie-down knowledge sprinkled throughout repotting sessions, but my suggestion would be for the team to produce (perhaps Beginner Series) supplemental content focused on tie-down strategies.
Mahalo
This is a great idea–I’ll get that on our list of repotting season video ideas. Thank you!
In the deciduous structure stream Ryan showed us how to do big cuts leaving the shoulder of the branch. He said he will come back to the cuts after a few months. It would be very interesting to see how this second work on the cuts looks like!
Max
hey Mirai Team,
thanks for all what you have done so far.
I learned so much so far and it makes fun watching too.
Here are my topic i would like to see in the future:
keep up the good wirk
+1 on Mugo. I have a couple and would love some more species-specific direction.
