You can start doing bonsai with seedlings, starter material from Home Depot, or even trees that you dig up from your backyard. Today, I'll use these three "ugly" Japanese Black Pine trees to demonstrate how easy it is to make the first cut in transforming them into bonsai.

0:00 Introduction
1:46 How to prune Japanese Black Pine 1
2:25 How to cut above the bud
2:58 How to design a bonsai
7:10 Before & after comparison
7:13 How to grow seedlings into bonsai
7:55 How to prune Japanese Black Pine 2
9:55 Before & after comparison
9:59 How to prune Japanese Black Pine 3
10:11 Leave some buds for new branches
11:05 What is the clip and grow method?
12:43 Before & after comparison

To learn more about which trees are the best material to start with, check out this video:    • The BEST Starter Material for Bonsai ...  

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