During this video, I reveal five secrets of successful winter pruning, and it's taken me nearly 20 years to learn these.

Over the years I've wasted too many hours experimenting with various techniques, methods and timings. I've encountered a lot of challenges and many bonsai deaths. And as time progresses I've gradually uncovered these five underlying truths that have subtly changed my approach to pruning bonsai trees.

To be honest, probably noone can say they fully get it, because there are thousands of species and each has its own foibles. I'm still learning. Over the years I've wasted many days experimenting with various techniques, methods and timings. I've encountered a lot of challenges and many bonsai deaths. But as time progresses I've gradually uncovered these five underlying truths that have subtly changed my approach to winter pruning bonsai trees.

As I go from tree to tree, I explain why I'm doing specific pruning tasks, and see if you can figure out each secret that I'm going to share before I finally reveal it.

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00:00 Why I'm telling you this
00:32 Secret 1 with a Trident Maple
01:50 Secret 2 with a Zelkova Serrata
03:24 Secret 3 with a Dwarf Pomegranate
04:43 Secret 4 with a tripletrunk English Elm
07:32 Secret 5 with a Crab Apple
09:00 What to do next

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