PICEA SPRUCE BONSAI "HOW TO MAKE BONSAI FROM GARDEN CENTRE SHRUB"
Channel: Rōjin Bonsai
Date: 2023-09-29

Today we are doing the 1st styling of the Picea spruce glauca var. albertiana (or daisy white) that was bought from the local garden centre earlier on in there year. the tree was repotted a couple of weeks ago, taken out of its pond basket as birds was digging into the pot ripping out the roots so thought I may as well get on with it and do the moss/mesh trick (can be found in a previous video) now I wouldn't often do work so close after repotting so soon but the tree had shown signs of full recovery pushing new growth and as autumn is the ideal time to work on spruce trees I believe its the better option other than waiting a full year for the 1st styling. 


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Spruce which I put it up a couple of
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weeks ago due to the Berger's revision
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The Roots out of the pond basket
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unfortunately I lost a footage of that
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video but you can find it on my channel
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but I put it up in this lovely unglazed
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brown pot which I thought matched the
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tree quite well
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so just before we get started normally I
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wouldn't do it as work soon after a
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repot on a Pisces roof but because it is
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shown recovery pretty quick with fresh
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new growth and Autumn is the optimum
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time
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I've just thought let's crack on with it
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and see what happens
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so as we get started what we need to be
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doing is taking off all these fine
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needles within the branch as it helps
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with all the wiring and there's a lot of
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them
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it's also best to start from the bottom
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up and work your way up to the top and
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we're going to be removing some of these
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lower branches
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just to give a more of a clear image in
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what we're going to be doing here now we
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do have these two bottom branches here
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um I'm interested in making one kind of
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like a second chunk and this one here is
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the better looking one but the second
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one
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on the right it's the more ideal height
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so we're just gonna have to make a
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choice and I'm just going to snip it
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so let's get back on to removing more of
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these lower branches remove an elephant
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that gets in the way and doesn't go with
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the ideal design
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what we'll also be removing is all the
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smaller Grove to dead growth and
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innocent that's not ideal
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like this Branch here
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and now that's more cleared up we can
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start off with the gym pliers and make a
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lovely little Deadwood feature of his
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second branch
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gently crushing it just to make the bite
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nice and soft
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and what this does is just makes it
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really easy for it to just peel off
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so now we can get the first wire on and
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we're going to use this dead branches
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leverage for the other branch that we
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want to keep
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a bit of a tedious job at first with all
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the foliage on the top but we're going
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to work with it anyway
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just wrapping it all nice working Under
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and Over
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also removing anything that's going to
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get in the way that we have forgotten
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about previously
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and now we can bend it into place
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it won't be ideal at first but we can
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work on it later
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and remove some more branches around
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that second trunk that we have now built
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now the bottom is out of way we can now
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work on the mid section towards the top
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repeating the same process as previously
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foreign
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where to cut gently brushing down the
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branches can indicate a clear path to
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take
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now it's time to work on the top section
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which a lot of people actually struggle
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with and we're just going to do a basic
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prune back for the top for now and we
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can work on the rest of the top next
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year
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in the meantime trying to build the
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foundations for that Apex
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foreign
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[Music]
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of two branches together and it's just a
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plan of choosing one
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I'm going to choose the one at the top
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as it builds a better space in between
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now where has had vigorous growth at the
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top that's left all these horrible
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Knuckles we can try to cut them down as
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far as much today
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I can always be improved in time
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now that's all the tree prune back and
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removed or what we don't want we can now
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start wiring the branches I'm currently
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using one and


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