I found a small maple tree growing by the side of a path in April and planted it in a pot on my balcony, expecting it to be my only „real“ project and not really thinking about bonsai at all. Then I found this channel. Since then I have „rescued“ houseplants by rooting cuttings, started two avocado trees from seed and today I found an acorn in the forest that had already started sprouting. And yes, I put that in a pot as well.. I guess that whole thing really is a bit more addictive than I thought.. in my defense: Your content is really motivating :)
Ahhh....Nigel is back and in good form! I love and enjoy your passion. It is contagious. I appreciate all of the thought and consideration that goes into each cut. You are truly the bonsai professor. Keep it up.
It's really fun to see you narrate the entire thought process when pruning. It's a great teaching tool. Haven't finished the video yet but I bet that little lower branch is coming off... The suspense!
Good to see you back working on the trees after all the labor you put in on the plant room. I loved that you started with one Hail Mary cut and ended up doing a novena! That first branch looked even more important after resigning in the whole tree.
I am a beginner bonsai enthusiast (thanks to Nigel!) and this is the most informative video I have ever seen! All of a sudden something "clicked" and I saw the tree as miniature. Nigel, thank you for explaining important basic concepts so effortlessly!
This tree is a beauty! Can't wait to see it developing years to come. My hibiscus (bought from nursery last spring) died probably due to lack of light or just because or the indoor dry air. Definitely will try again next year. I can see you're as glad as we are, that you're able to come back to the trees now they're safe and sound indoors :)
I love the lower branch on the Hibiscus. It adds interest and to me makes a more bonsai look rather than ordinary tree. Just my two cents. Love your work and look forward to the next video. Congrats on the plant room, it was fun seeing a job done right.
I think you should keep that lower branch. Though it distracts the flow line, It gives a new dimension to the tree. To me, the tree looks just "WOW" with that little branch.
last winter i took a thumb thick branch off a friends hibiscus. rooted it in a few 8 to 10inch cuttings. they root so easy. great trees all around. thanks for sharing nigel
Great to see you working on trees again Nigel! I was thinking maybe you'd chop that first branch that moves to the left like you pondered and I was in agreement of that cutting. Then after you Prunned the top, I changed my mind. Great lesson in waiting. Work on other parts of the tree and that branch can always come off last, or next month or next year. Great video. Love that you had a flower in December!
So nice to see an uptick in your uploads after the chaos of the fall (for you and me alike)! Looking forward to catching up on lots of bonsai videos over the holidays. As always Nigel, thanks for the lovely videos. Wishing happiness and health to you and yours!
thank you Nigel... so enjoyable watching you do your sculpting work. i think i am finally starting to better understand the guiding principles of ‘clip and grow’. i have applied it to my rainforest bonsai and jade bonsai. still trying to get a vision for each of my microcarpas!
Wow Nigel Sir! Work on Bonsai trees started again after a long time.M so happy to see you start working on your Bonsai trees again,but at the same time I enjoyed to see you work on the plant room.Great going 👍.Hope next year,by this time you’ll have your big Greenhouse ready so that you can keep working on your trees during the winter too 🙂
Here in the Philippines, the common name of the hibiscus plant is "Gumamela". When I was a kid, my friends and I used to pick the flowers and leaves and then grind them to a pulp. After which, we would mix in some liquid soap and water, and we will use the mixture for blowing soap bubbles. I think the slime from the pulp helps in making the bubbles last longer.
I would probably remove that low branch. It just doesn't flow well with an umbrella style. This branch would work on a conical shape, pad formed tree, I think. So, maybe next time...
I just finished today cleaning the pots on the outside and put christmas lights on my ficus tiger bark! Thank you so much for your awesome videos! Would be awesome to have a coffee with you one day, if I eventually get to fly to Canada again! Since I stopped flying out of La Guardia, and got Miami as my new base, I have not being able to grab any Canada trips!
Adding to that, today I saw my ficuses (I have 7) are giving me new leaves an specifically the tiger barks (ficus retusa), are going crazy. Again, I wouldn't repot them until Florida gives me more than 70°F steady.
That's quite an Australian pronunciation of mum! 😆 How special tho! I've been collecting seeds from meaningful people and places so my bonsai have nice memories attached with them. The only problem is if they die it'll be even sadder.. but I guess that's life!
Hi Nigel, I missed your bonsai videos. A nice one as usual. Nigel if you have not disposed all the cuttings, can you save one for me please. Thanks. I have two Hibiscus trees but they are a kind that they die back to root every autumn and come back in spring.
I like the way you described that lowest branch: so tender, with respect and understanding... In my opinion the lowest branch looks very good. It should stay. Definitely. What I don't like is branch above it (on the left side from my point of view) which is too straight, too long...
The 2 windows on the back wall, you can then get shades that are black, just for those 2 to help with the filming. I think that side wall would work for you and free up the middle space.
I suppose you could put in the water the pruned branches with flower buds. I think they will bloom and you will enjoy the flowers, even not on the tree itself.
Nice tree .... I would have reduced the vertical branch in the middel too; think it is too high. 😳😳🌳🇩🇰 Btw so nice to follow your decision making, thanks 👍
Dear Nigel, thank you for sharing your passion and teachings with us. Watching this, as you were speaking about growing moss, I wanted to ask you: how do you keep your plant room humid for such good growing conditions? Thank you.
My room doesn't have any heating ducts from the furnace so all the air mostly stays in the room. With the number of trees I have, the air is always humid! I have a heater and a fan running in the room, so it is a bit like a greenhouse.
Hi Nigel! Good choices, but honestly these cus should already have been made the last two times you pruned it. I still remember that I thought "cut it back harder, you will do it anyway in future". Now you had to cut away branch division and now it looks like raw material again. Nice to see you working on trees again. Enjoy!
Thought. The side wall behind the Hibiscus tree. You have an unfinished wall that is not complete yet. Between the 2 windows, why not make that your background for your videos. A nice dark wall that would give you a nice background and absorb the heat from the winter sun for you. This way there is no moving items around to do a video. Wall set. No reflections and your studio is set. Might just work.
Life is all about interesting scars. I only just realised that my two hibiscus could be bonsai, maybe. After a trip for some crafting wire? Yeah, yeah I think my grandson will really enjoy these trees... if they survive emigrating to Mars, that is.
Funny, I also started a hibiscus a couple years ago out of an old bush at my mother's house that she no longer wanted. I dug it up, potted it, trunked chopped it way back, and left it in my mother's back yard. It started to grow back beautifully! Then she threw it out because she had too many potted plant in her back yard 😭
That reminds me of a time I pruned up a Lilac bush at my parents house, I spent an afternoon pruning it up to get a nice structure to it and it looked really nice when I was done. The next time I went over to their house, my father (who was not a gardener at all) had cut the Lilac down to the ground. He said it was hard to mow around! It did grow back in, but I let him do the pruning in the future!
Hello, plz Don't remove that lower little branch Sir. In all of ur trees you take it out(just to have that nice flowing shape). Let this hybiscus trunk be little different than others. (In nature few trees have small branches at trunk)
I would wait until closer to Spring (1-2 weeks prior) when energy levels start to rise inside the tree! Right now, even tropicals (very forgiving plants) are on a low energy state, which might not help with scars, branching, and root development. Main concern with a repot during colder temperatures, even on the tropics (averages are on the 60°F/ 16°C in some areas), is root damage. You want to avoid root damage at all costs. But that's just my humble opinion. I had to do a slip in repot for an emergency, broken pot not long ago. That's fine as long as the root system is left for the most part intact. Nigel is my biggest inspiration since I started with bonsais, and I would trust his opinion over mine! Blue skies!
It might be heat stress? Mine like the warmth of the greenhouse, but they don't like it too warm, I have to be careful to open the door on warm summer days. I also ran a fan inside this year, that helped cool the trees a lot too.
Hey I would love to see an update on this tree as I’m growing a hibiscus bonsai as well. I haven’t taken the same approach as you but I do know not many people are trying to bonsai this species. It has large leaves and usually grows as a cluster trunk. Although I found one with a very beautiful and thick trunk line. It has deadwood all the way up the trunk to the top. It’s very beautiful and I’m trying my best to develop it with the best of my knowledge. I’m willing to share pictures, just shoot me your email or instagram!
You must be so happy to be able to attend to the trees again after such a busy and chaotic fall!
It's like a breath of fresh air, it's been so long since I've worked on the trees!
Nigel I think the branch on the bottom looks really well in my opinion
I found a small maple tree growing by the side of a path in April and planted it in a pot on my balcony, expecting it to be my only „real“ project and not really thinking about bonsai at all. Then I found this channel. Since then I have „rescued“ houseplants by rooting cuttings, started two avocado trees from seed and today I found an acorn in the forest that had already started sprouting. And yes, I put that in a pot as well.. I guess that whole thing really is a bit more addictive than I thought.. in my defense: Your content is really motivating :)
No matter how the day has been these videos allways brings a smile to my face. Thank you!
I love the look with lower branch .. It looks awesome
It's nice to hear the "here I go" again :)
Ahhh....Nigel is back and in good form! I love and enjoy your passion. It is contagious. I appreciate all of the thought and consideration that goes into each cut. You are truly the bonsai professor. Keep it up.
Glad you kept the lower branch. I love the look of this one.
It's really fun to see you narrate the entire thought process when pruning. It's a great teaching tool.
Haven't finished the video yet but I bet that little lower branch is coming off... The suspense!
Good to see you back working on the trees after all the labor you put in on the plant room.
I loved that you started with one Hail Mary cut and ended up doing a novena! That first branch looked even more important after resigning in the whole tree.
I think that's the most Hail Mary cuts I've ever seen you do in a single video!
I am a beginner bonsai enthusiast (thanks to Nigel!) and this is the most informative video I have ever seen! All of a sudden something "clicked" and I saw the tree as miniature. Nigel, thank you for explaining important basic concepts so effortlessly!
Thanks Erica, you entered the bonsai zone! That's when you see the tree as a giant tree.
This tree is a beauty! Can't wait to see it developing years to come.
My hibiscus (bought from nursery last spring) died probably due to lack of light or just because or the indoor dry air. Definitely will try again next year.
I can see you're as glad as we are, that you're able to come back to the trees now they're safe and sound indoors :)
Beautiful!!
Nigel - This tree grew and flowered all summer, it's so nice!
Queue alter ego
Nigel Scissor hands - Prune! Slice! Cut! TRIM! Here we go!!
Loving the daily uploads!! I know it would be asking too much... But it's great to have a Bonsai Zone fix every night :) Keep up the good content!
Thanks Olivier, I think you'll be seeing more of me in the future!
I love the lower branch on the Hibiscus. It adds interest and to me makes a more bonsai look rather than ordinary tree. Just my two cents. Love your work and look forward to the next video. Congrats on the plant room, it was fun seeing a job done right.
That Hibiscus is really taking off. I like the texture and the little nodules on the bark. Very good tree specie to try for bonsai. Thanks
I think you should keep that lower branch. Though it distracts the flow line, It gives a new dimension to the tree. To me, the tree looks just "WOW" with that little branch.
last winter i took a thumb thick branch off a friends hibiscus. rooted it in a few 8 to 10inch cuttings. they root so easy. great trees all around. thanks for sharing nigel
Great to see you working on trees again Nigel! I was thinking maybe you'd chop that first branch that moves to the left like you pondered and I was in agreement of that cutting. Then after you Prunned the top, I changed my mind. Great lesson in waiting. Work on other parts of the tree and that branch can always come off last, or next month or next year. Great video. Love that you had a flower in December!
So nice to see an uptick in your uploads after the chaos of the fall (for you and me alike)! Looking forward to catching up on lots of bonsai videos over the holidays. As always Nigel, thanks for the lovely videos. Wishing happiness and health to you and yours!
Hibiscus is not even my type of tree but I really enjoyed the video. This is how I have been missing your good old tree work :)
The Hibiscus flower is of a beautiful color. Helpful discussion of Bonsai aethetics vis a vis branches !
This is awesome - you’re the Bob Ross of bonsai.
Great instruction on how to choose the cuts you make!
Thanks Denise, I watch a lot of bonsai videos and most skip the styling intent part of bonsai.
Flowers on your hibiscus bonsai would look great in future when shape of tree is developed ! Thanks Nigel
thank you Nigel... so enjoyable watching you do your sculpting work. i think i am finally starting to better understand the guiding principles of ‘clip and grow’. i have applied it to my rainforest bonsai and jade bonsai. still trying to get a vision for each of my microcarpas!
Wow never thought one could make such an awesome bonsai from a hibiscus plant. You are awesome Sir 😀 I will now try one too. Thank you
Wow Nigel Sir! Work on Bonsai trees started again after a long time.M so happy to see you start working on your Bonsai trees again,but at the same time I enjoyed to see you work on the plant room.Great going 👍.Hope next year,by this time you’ll have your big Greenhouse ready so that you can keep working on your trees during the winter too 🙂
I like the small branch, without it the tree would look like an umbrella
Here in the Philippines, the common name of the hibiscus plant is "Gumamela".
When I was a kid, my friends and I used to pick the flowers and leaves and then grind them to a pulp. After which, we would mix in some liquid soap and water, and we will use the mixture for blowing soap bubbles. I think the slime from the pulp helps in making the bubbles last longer.
I would probably remove that low branch. It just doesn't flow well with an umbrella style. This branch would work on a conical shape, pad formed tree, I think. So, maybe next time...
This hibiscus is growing really healthy n beautiful trunk line, good to see u working on this bonsai
I just finished today cleaning the pots on the outside and put christmas lights on my ficus tiger bark! Thank you so much for your awesome videos! Would be awesome to have a coffee with you one day, if I eventually get to fly to Canada again! Since I stopped flying out of La Guardia, and got Miami as my new base, I have not being able to grab any Canada trips!
Adding to that, today I saw my ficuses (I have 7) are giving me new leaves an specifically the tiger barks (ficus retusa), are going crazy. Again, I wouldn't repot them until Florida gives me more than 70°F steady.
That's quite an Australian pronunciation of mum! 😆
How special tho! I've been collecting seeds from meaningful people and places so my bonsai have nice memories attached with them. The only problem is if they die it'll be even sadder.. but I guess that's life!
Hi Nigel, I missed your bonsai videos. A nice one as usual. Nigel if you have not disposed all the cuttings, can you save one for me please. Thanks. I have two Hibiscus trees but they are a kind that they die back to root every autumn and come back in spring.
Wow amazing. Very beautiful bonsai
I like the way you described that lowest branch: so tender, with respect and understanding...
In my opinion the lowest branch looks very good. It should stay. Definitely. What I don't like is branch above it (on the left side from my point of view) which is too straight, too long...
Please keep that lower branch. It is very beautiful and accentuates the overall character of the tree.
Cool tree. I don’t have a hibiscus (yet) but am inspired to find one now for sure. Thanks
So nice seeing more tree updates. I have to be honest, I was worried about your tropicals out there in the cold!
The 2 windows on the back wall, you can then get shades that are black, just for those 2 to help with the filming. I think that side wall would work for you and free up the middle space.
I'm also training/growing a hibiscus bonsai... I think it's one of the easier species for a rookie like myself. Lol
You are а very good bonsai teacher
I suppose you could put in the water the pruned branches with flower buds. I think they will bloom and you will enjoy the flowers, even not on the tree itself.
Nice tree .... I would have reduced the vertical branch in the middel too; think it is too high. 😳😳🌳🇩🇰 Btw so nice to follow your decision making, thanks 👍
Really nice, it sure done some growing this year.
Thanks J, I hope it fills in well over the winter!
Tree looks great. Strong trunk line.
Beautiful work. So informative. Thank you Nigel.
Dear Nigel, thank you for sharing your passion and teachings with us. Watching this, as you were speaking about growing moss, I wanted to ask you: how do you keep your plant room humid for such good growing conditions? Thank you.
My room doesn't have any heating ducts from the furnace so all the air mostly stays in the room. With the number of trees I have, the air is always humid! I have a heater and a fan running in the room, so it is a bit like a greenhouse.
When in doubt, leave the branch. Can always remove it but can’t put it back. Personally I like the look with the lower branch.
Your hibiscus tree is so beautiful. I also hope to grow a hibiscus plant.🌺🌺😊
Hi Nigel! Good choices, but honestly these cus should already have been made the last two times you pruned it. I still remember that I thought "cut it back harder, you will do it anyway in future". Now you had to cut away branch division and now it looks like raw material again. Nice to see you working on trees again. Enjoy!
Please keep the branch. It looks good.
Thought. The side wall behind the Hibiscus tree. You have an unfinished wall that is not complete yet. Between the 2 windows, why not make that your background for your videos. A nice dark wall that would give you a nice background and absorb the heat from the winter sun for you. This way there is no moving items around to do a video. Wall set. No reflections and your studio is set. Might just work.
Just wanted to say I got my new latter from the club and there was some real nice pics in it
I have a bougainvillea tree dividing in one place like this .I think it looks beautiful like a bouquet
Beautiful tree
Life is all about interesting scars. I only just realised that my two hibiscus could be bonsai, maybe. After a trip for some crafting wire? Yeah, yeah I think my grandson will really enjoy these trees... if they survive emigrating to Mars, that is.
Keep on coming thanks Nigel need a little bit lighting when you are working if you are going to do background please use white one ❤️
Hey
Great work 👏 👍
What is the age of this plant 🤔 ?
Ya plz tell us
That snip is so *crisp* in that room
Yes, it would make a nice music beat!
hey nigel, i really like the back of your hibiscus :)
I like the side branch
Hi, im from Chile, sorry mi english , to make a hibiscus yamadori ¿what is the Better season to make it? Thank and congrats four you video
Funny, I also started a hibiscus a couple years ago out of an old bush at my mother's house that she no longer wanted. I dug it up, potted it, trunked chopped it way back, and left it in my mother's back yard. It started to grow back beautifully! Then she threw it out because she had too many potted plant in her back yard 😭
That reminds me of a time I pruned up a Lilac bush at my parents house, I spent an afternoon pruning it up to get a nice structure to it and it looked really nice when I was done. The next time I went over to their house, my father (who was not a gardener at all) had cut the Lilac down to the ground. He said it was hard to mow around! It did grow back in, but I let him do the pruning in the future!
@@TheBonsaiZone Yikes!!!
Keep the small branch. It survived this long. Might as well keep it at this point 🤷🏻♂️
.....Your branch at the bow spring can be considered in harmony. jgd
Great for tea
Yes, I do like Hibiscus tea almost as much as my bonsai!
I kind of like the low branch but I can also see it being gone.
Me too, I'm torn between keeping it and removing it!
From where do you collect the plants to make it as a bonsai
Hello, plz Don't remove that lower little branch Sir. In all of ur trees you take it out(just to have that nice flowing shape). Let this hybiscus trunk be little different than others. (In nature few trees have small branches at trunk)
Do you make ice tea with the flowers?
Hey buddy. Eyes up here!
how do i bonsai my hibiscus plant
If you had to repot the tree, would you do it now, or wait until spring?
I would wait until closer to Spring (1-2 weeks prior) when energy levels start to rise inside the tree! Right now, even tropicals (very forgiving plants) are on a low energy state, which might not help with scars, branching, and root development. Main concern with a repot during colder temperatures, even on the tropics (averages are on the 60°F/ 16°C in some areas), is root damage. You want to avoid root damage at all costs.
But that's just my humble opinion. I had to do a slip in repot for an emergency, broken pot not long ago. That's fine as long as the root system is left for the most part intact. Nigel is my biggest inspiration since I started with bonsais, and I would trust his opinion over mine!
Blue skies!
The lightining of the plant room is sometimes too dark broo
I actually have no lights in it, just my one shop light. I'll be getting lots of grow lights soon!
Good job
Thanks G A L!
Nice ❤️
Mantap👍👍👍
It would be better viewing experience if you put a dark background behind your tree.
Cheers
It very nice...
Thank you very much, hopefully it will get more branches and then even more flowers next year!
I hope that too...
Hi @all! Is here anyone who could translate "hail mary cut" to german? bing and goolge fail, that I understand it! thx
Maybe augen zu und durch. You're praying to Mary it will be ok. In Dutch we say God zegene de greep
👌👌👌...!!!
My hibiscus looks no good. Chlorosis looking leaves. Yours looks great
It might be heat stress? Mine like the warmth of the greenhouse, but they don't like it too warm, I have to be careful to open the door on warm summer days. I also ran a fan inside this year, that helped cool the trees a lot too.
Don’t take out that lower branch is beautiful
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@@TheBonsaiZone I like what you did with the hibiscus this year! I have them all over my yard here in Florida...one has to be over ten feet tall.
Absolutely take it away from my point of view
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Awesome video. Thanks Nigel.
Hey I would love to see an update on this tree as I’m growing a hibiscus bonsai as well. I haven’t taken the same approach as you but I do know not many people are trying to bonsai this species. It has large leaves and usually grows as a cluster trunk. Although I found one with a very beautiful and thick trunk line. It has deadwood all the way up the trunk to the top. It’s very beautiful and I’m trying my best to develop it with the best of my knowledge. I’m willing to share pictures, just shoot me your email or instagram!