A sugar maple forest with all the spigots and galvanized buckets with their little roofs hanging there would be a nice composition. Specifically going for that syrup collection look would be fitting for a truly local planting. Thanks Nigel! Happy Easter!
Great start to the Sugar Maple forest. I love the initial root pruning. It gives me hope that my root work (which generally scares the crap out of me) will be successful!
We just celebrated Maple Week here in the middle of NY where the rest of the syrup comes from haha The dark syrup is also my favorite so I was sure to stock up from the local farms.
I watched one of your first video's last week, where you were raking the roots on a glass slab. How much you and you video's have changed over the years. Do you ever look back over them? I love your work ❤
Wearing gloves is also great while mixing new soil if you have a sensitive skin like me. It’s so dry my hands are so ruff when I mix new soil without gloves.
My family has a sugar shack in Quebec. I remember when I was very young, going with my father to bring in buckets from the trees that could not be piped to the shack. We would stoke the stoves and check the temperature and consistency of the syrup. For all my hard work, I would get some poured into the snow and use a stick to roll it up and eat it like candy. This year they had to tap the trees in February! They said the colour and consistency is different. Darker than normal. Then it stopped and started again. This year's syrup will be different! They used to also do Birch syrup. You can tap Birch trees the same as Maple. I'm not sure if they still do. Question, where do you get your Safe T sorb from Nigel? Walmart has it here, but it's $100 for a 40lbs bag. My boss uses a different stuff in the shop. It just turns to mush when wet.
@Nigel Saunders, The Bonsai Zone Thank you Nigel! We have Home Hardware in the city and the town I work, I'll look there. I've never heard of the other store. I'll check if there is one in the city. I appreciate the info.💚
Я использую 1/2 перлита и 1/2 частиц обожженной глины, затем добавляю немного коры! Я не уверен, что делает кора, если что, но я все равно добавляю ее!
I did think it was interesting that at the start of this show you gave us a little history of maple syrup. While it is true that collecting sap for their syrup is what made the sugar maple famous and is most likely why it's call a sugar maple, it is not the only species of maple that maple syrup can be made from nor is it the only species that is. most maples can be used and the time it is usually done is in the late winter juas as the days are getting longer and the trees don't yet show any signs of growth. it also takes about a barrel of sap to make enough syrup to fill a 4 liter jug.
Nice work Nigel! Always good to see a load of root work. I'm interested to know how much is maple syrup there? We can get Canadian maple syrup in Spain (Maple Joe) but it's expensive - approx €30 per kg - about 730ml - probably about $45 Canadian. I love it but at that price it's for special occasions only! 😊
We can get a 4 liter jug for about 50 dollars here, but you have to buy it from a producer. In the grocery store it is more than twice the price at 16 dollars for 500 ml.
Piggybacking on Nigel's reply, we're blessed to have a lot of Mennonite maple syrup producers in our part of Ontario, and the farmer's market is great for buying maple syrup. (We Canadians don't typically knock it back from a glass like Nigel's doing here, though. ;) )
@@TheBonsaiZone so we're looking at about 2X the price here compared to grocery stores in Canada, I suppose that's reasonable given the import duty and transport costs.
Hi Nigel, Love the Maple forest. I noticed that when you were mixing for bonsai soil, you were talking about “perlite”, but the big green bag next to you says ”vermiculite” on it. They are very different from one another according to some horticultural research that I have done. Which one do you really use for your deciduous trees?
@@Stettafire Perlite & Vermiculite are quite different substrates. Vermiculite will help to retain water. Perlite will add drainage and not hold much moisture.
Nice forest this Nigel. I'll enjoy watching you develop it. I must admit I've never tasted proper maple syrup, but my parents visited Canada and did and they said just like you, it tastes far better than the sickly syrup we get in the supermarket.
I grew up in California, with venerable brands like Mrs. Butterworth's and Aunt Jemima (yes, really!) and never got to have maple syrup until we moved to Ontario, Canada. Once you've tasted maple syrup, you'll never go back.
Not foist, but I have to start the video again; the thumbnail looked like you had a glass of red wine, but I know you don't drink. Real syrup is expensive here, so I won't share it with the kids - it is too nice!
A sugar maple forest with all the spigots and galvanized buckets with their little roofs hanging there would be a nice composition. Specifically going for that syrup collection look would be fitting for a truly local planting. Thanks Nigel! Happy Easter!
Cool idea!
Menikmati kopi sambil melihat bonsai di rumah
Kedengarannya bagus, secangkir kopi yang enak adalah cara yang bagus untuk memulai hari Anda!!
mantab hasil nya
Watching another cool video.
Saya selalu belajar bonsai lewat video anda
Hello Nigel. I am so happy to see a video. I'll save it for the afternoon, to relax and watch it.
Great start to the Sugar Maple forest. I love the initial root pruning. It gives me hope that my root work (which generally scares the crap out of me) will be successful!
We just celebrated Maple Week here in the middle of NY where the rest of the syrup comes from haha The dark syrup is also my favorite so I was sure to stock up from the local farms.
Cheers!
I watched one of your first video's last week, where you were raking the roots on a glass slab. How much you and you video's have changed over the years. Do you ever look back over them? I love your work ❤
I do look back, things have changed a lot!!! Me, the trees and the yard!! Lots more to learn still!!!
Wow! Like this idea. Reminds me of my visits to Quebec. Hope to see updates on these as the season progresses.
Always so fascinated how you got that special eye when arranging forests. Another forest to follow 😊
Thanks!
Thanks so much, wonderful!!!!!!!
They seel the light real maple syrup that has no flavor . . . I always wondered what the deal was and now you've answered my wonder. Thanx.
In time that forest should look spectacular come fall. IMO fall color is only second to the liquid amber. Thanks, keep growing
Fingers crossed!
I always find peanuts buried in my pots. Somebody in the neighbourhood must feed them to the squirrels.
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Wearing gloves is also great while mixing new soil if you have a sensitive skin like me. It’s so dry my hands are so ruff when I mix new soil without gloves.
Great tip!
My family has a sugar shack in Quebec. I remember when I was very young, going with my father to bring in buckets from the trees that could not be piped to the shack. We would stoke the stoves and check the temperature and consistency of the syrup. For all my hard work, I would get some poured into the snow and use a stick to roll it up and eat it like candy. This year they had to tap the trees in February! They said the colour and consistency is different. Darker than normal. Then it stopped and started again. This year's syrup will be different! They used to also do Birch syrup. You can tap Birch trees the same as Maple. I'm not sure if they still do.
Question, where do you get your Safe T sorb from Nigel? Walmart has it here, but it's $100 for a 40lbs bag. My boss uses a different stuff in the shop. It just turns to mush when wet.
A great story Marysol!! I get my Safety Sorb from Peavy Mart (formerly TSC), but you can also get it from Home Hardware here.
@Nigel Saunders, The Bonsai Zone Thank you Nigel! We have Home Hardware in the city and the town I work, I'll look there. I've never heard of the other store. I'll check if there is one in the city. I appreciate the info.💚
Looking forward to see to a update in ten years 😅
Всегда смотрю Ваши работы Найжелс. Вы молодец! Какую почву Вы делаете? (Перлит, кора и?) А кокосовый грунт не используете? Почему?
Я использую 1/2 перлита и 1/2 частиц обожженной глины, затем добавляю немного коры! Я не уверен, что делает кора, если что, но я все равно добавляю ее!
I miss u working on the tropical trees
Summer is on the way :)
Me too, soon they will be emerging from their winter prison!!
I did think it was interesting that at the start of this show you gave us a little history of maple syrup. While it is true that collecting sap for their syrup is what made the sugar maple famous and is most likely why it's call a sugar maple, it is not the only species of maple that maple syrup can be made from nor is it the only species that is. most maples can be used and the time it is usually done is in the late winter juas as the days are getting longer and the trees don't yet show any signs of growth. it also takes about a barrel of sap to make enough syrup to fill a 4 liter jug.
Waiting for green house tour part 2
It will be coming, maybe even today!!
Could you plant some of those big tap roots and regrow it as a clone or is that not a sugar maple quality?
Peach seed has a hard shell cover. take out the seed by Breaking it and then plant. It will shoot faster.
Looks very promissing! I know the Maple syrup is so great,and also very good for the resperarorytrack as well. Have nice Easter weekend!
Same for avacardo I believe
Crack the peach pit open, then it germinates faster.
Crack the hull of your peach pit to get the seed to grow sooner.......
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Nice work Nigel! Always good to see a load of root work. I'm interested to know how much is maple syrup there?
We can get Canadian maple syrup in Spain (Maple Joe) but it's expensive - approx €30 per kg - about 730ml - probably about $45 Canadian.
I love it but at that price it's for special occasions only! 😊
We can get a 4 liter jug for about 50 dollars here, but you have to buy it from a producer. In the grocery store it is more than twice the price at 16 dollars for 500 ml.
Piggybacking on Nigel's reply, we're blessed to have a lot of Mennonite maple syrup producers in our part of Ontario, and the farmer's market is great for buying maple syrup. (We Canadians don't typically knock it back from a glass like Nigel's doing here, though. ;) )
@@TheBonsaiZone so we're looking at about 2X the price here compared to grocery stores in Canada, I suppose that's reasonable given the import duty and transport costs.
@@beth7467 yes, drinking it in a glass is something I'm very unlikely to do!
The start of a nice forest!
By the way Nigel, do you know what variety your Thuja Occidentalis trees are?
Most are the native wild trees from Ontario, but a few are a cultivar, green emerald I think?
where do you manage to find safe t sorb with such large particles? Ive tried a few times to get 40 lb bags, and they're primarily dust!
I get mine from Peavy Mart, I do loose about a 1/4 of the bag to finer particles!
Hi Nigel, Love the Maple forest. I noticed that when you were mixing for bonsai soil, you were talking about “perlite”, but the big green bag next to you says ”vermiculite” on it. They are very different from one another according to some horticultural research that I have done. Which one do you really use for your deciduous trees?
Perlite is pure white while vermiculite I believe is more of a pale brown colour.
@@Stettafire Perlite & Vermiculite are quite different substrates. Vermiculite will help to retain water. Perlite will add drainage and not hold much moisture.
I think it also says perlite a bit lower on the bag, maybe they use the bag for both products?
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Nice forest this Nigel. I'll enjoy watching you develop it. I must admit I've never tasted proper maple syrup, but my parents visited Canada and did and they said just like you, it tastes far better than the sickly syrup we get in the supermarket.
I grew up in California, with venerable brands like Mrs. Butterworth's and Aunt Jemima (yes, really!) and never got to have maple syrup until we moved to Ontario, Canada. Once you've tasted maple syrup, you'll never go back.
That is so true Beth, it has a flavor and consistency like no other!!!
Hai Nigel doo yo have any idee whare i can buy sucarmaple's in Holland becource i can not find them.
I don't think they would allow any imports of this tree into another country where they are not native?
@@TheBonsaiZone oke thank you very mutch.
Que the Rooster!
Lol!!
Not foist, but I have to start the video again; the thumbnail looked like you had a glass of red wine, but I know you don't drink. Real syrup is expensive here, so I won't share it with the kids - it is too nice!
Lol, good thinking Rebecca, let them buy their own!!!
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