You are the first person to comment on that - thank you. Allegedly the TH-cam Algorithm doesn't like it when we use such blessings? All the best for 2025 :)
Happy 2025 Xavier love the Scott pine the front for me would be with your choice good decision to remove the branch 👍the game looks fun anyway looking forward to future videos 🫶
Happy 2025 Xavier! Lovely Scots pine - I love the graceful branches and slender trunk - will make a fine literati. Both of your chosen fronts for the tree look nice - pretty movement and branch placement. Can't wait for the new candles to come out.
Thank you Sue. Definitely early days and my aim really is to establish that initial literati shape and then let it push out so i can get better backbuds for the apical styling next year (maybe)
Happy year to you and all your family Xavier, all the best for 2025. The Sots pine look great but the apex definitely needs work, it looks very symmetrical and upright. The game looks fun and you did well to beat your self, well done 👍
Happy New Year Xavier, the game looks like a bit of fun. I like what you did with the Scots pine. With the final front you showed us, i think the bottom of the tree looks very straight(difficult to tell in 2D) but the literati feel is the way to go in my opinion.
Happy new year . Have a great one... That game looks fun . Looking forward to more content and maybe more joint ventures with Jason / Jelle etc. Agreed with all your decisions on the pine. I assume this still lives out doors and and pruning/wiring still ok in January.
Happy New Year. It is sitting outside the backdoor but now we have started freezing overnight all real work has stopped. Time for me to have a break and my trees too :)
@@XaviersBonsaiRetreat nah it was a disaster here mate. my dad passed out in the bathroom and smashed his face open on the sink hes nearly 80 and not well at all.. oh well heres to the new year upward and onward my friend :)
Hi Xav the temperature while I am watching this, it is freezing literally soil hard as nails now, I love those two woman she could die. That game has lost me, my brain hurts my friend. The pine front is the one with the label, I liked the branch you took off ,it needed wiring then bringing in too shorten it, bad idea on the false cypress I liked it before you cut it off. 😅 As I keep saying your tees your decisions. All the best Xav for 2025.
Great video xav! Whats ur thought on the literati @ 20:33 removing the top branch and also the right branch and just leaving the left hand side as the tree? Perfect opportunity to use the phone object eraser 😂😂. I think it would give more emphasis to the movement in the trunk especially at the top. Ive yet to make a tree with such sparce foliage but think it would look great. Game seems fun and if u didnt know lego makes a whole bonsai series my bro is doing. Give it a look. Anyway nice tree happy new year and lets hope our trees do well this year.
I definitely have plans that may see the removal of that top entirely. This is early stages and I still want the tree to put on lots of growth and set the intial literatie structure. I do think you have the right idea though :)
Wondering if it's okay to bring in trees from the cold to work on them during their dormancy? Is it just a matter of temperature range or length of time warming up? Mine are currently in a deep freeze, and I'm anxiously awaiting warmer weather which won't be for another 2 months at least!
Freeze has started so i definitely don't touch anything now. The pine is quite young and we had some mild weather so I feel happy I could get it way with it. The tools are definitely in the shed till February :)
@TheBonsaiGarden Sorry, i know it's the TH-cam game you have to play to some extent, but as a viewer sometimes it saddens and annoys me that simply making good videos seems not to be enough for the algorithm.
I made it very clear in the first line of description and in the first 1 miute of the video. People who watch my channel know that I mix up my content occasionally. I'm just sorry you didn't appreciate the video. Lots of useful tips and the game was great fun too. Happy New year and all the best for 2025.
More sponsored products is totally fine with me. I’m not paying your bills. Just enjoying your free content
I think this is going to become a running joke from now on :)
@ ok I’ll no longer feel the need or defend 🤪
Happy 2025 to you and your family. Liked the decisions on the Scots Pine, the side you preferred was best. 🎉
Thank you Randy. Let's all hope for a thriving 2025 for our families and bonsai :)
Wishing you and your family a peaceful 2025 Zavier....looking forward to more Bonsai projects👍
Thak you for your support and I wish the same for you and your family.
A Bonsai game. Seems like the game of life for us Bonsai lifers! Scotts Pine looks great, as do you Xav!
A surprisingly interesting and fun game. Played it again yesterday with my kids.
Im not even religious but "Happy Bonsai and god bless", is my favorite greeting from all the Bonsai channels !
You are the first person to comment on that - thank you. Allegedly the TH-cam Algorithm doesn't like it when we use such blessings? All the best for 2025 :)
Nice! Brings back memories...😊
Happy 2025!
Happy New Year Kennet
Happy 2025 Xavier love the Scott pine the front for me would be with your choice good decision to remove the branch 👍the game looks fun anyway looking forward to future videos 🫶
Thanks Paul - We are now into our frosty weather for a few weeks so time to sit back and enjoy the break :)
That looks like a cool game Xavier mate very cool 👌
Love the tree 👊👊
Played twice last night with the kids and it is still good fun and producing different results
Happy 2025 Xavier! Lovely Scots pine - I love the graceful branches and slender trunk - will make a fine literati. Both of your chosen fronts for the tree look nice - pretty movement and branch placement. Can't wait for the new candles to come out.
Thank you Sue. Definitely early days and my aim really is to establish that initial literati shape and then let it push out so i can get better backbuds for the apical styling next year (maybe)
Ooh, love the clip from Hitchcock's awesome "Notorious" Xavier ❤xx
You spotted the film - bonus points for you!!! Happy New year :)
Thanks for another great video Xav! Really enjoyed the back and forth with the game and the tree
I'm not a big game person but this was a lot of fun and never seems to play the same way :)
Happy year to you and all your family Xavier, all the best for 2025.
The Sots pine look great but the apex definitely needs work, it looks very symmetrical and upright.
The game looks fun and you did well to beat your self, well done 👍
I want more backbudding in the apex first - just a very early styling for the trunk and main branch really :)
love the work on the pine! do you keep your scots pine outside after big cuts this time of the year?
Happily covered in snow right now - there never seems to be much problem.
Very good decicison for bending that branch down . Nice litle Literat. Good Job Xav. cheers
Cheers Tom - now I just need it to produce alot of growth and backbudding for the apical region :)
@ Yes but that will come. Sun and furtilizer . 💪🏼👍 let it 2 years grow and you have a lot of Green to work with . Cheers
Happy New Year Xavier, the game looks like a bit of fun. I like what you did with the Scots pine. With the final front you showed us, i think the bottom of the tree looks very straight(difficult to tell in 2D) but the literati feel is the way to go in my opinion.
Happy New year Andrew. It does have a bit more movement but that is an aspect that will need further attention later in the year :)
Liking your work on the literati pine. Definitely lose that first branch on the right. Not a lot to choose between either front option at the moment.
So true - this one now needs a few years of growth and back budding.
Happy new year . Have a great one... That game looks fun . Looking forward to more content and maybe more joint ventures with Jason / Jelle etc. Agreed with all your decisions on the pine. I assume this still lives out doors and and pruning/wiring still ok in January.
Happy New Year. It is sitting outside the backdoor but now we have started freezing overnight all real work has stopped. Time for me to have a break and my trees too :)
great vvideo mate.. hope you had a nice christmas and happy new year :)
We had a lovely Christmas and have just woken up to snow! I pray that your festive season has also gone well :)
@@XaviersBonsaiRetreat nah it was a disaster here mate. my dad passed out in the bathroom and smashed his face open on the sink hes nearly 80 and not well at all.. oh well heres to the new year upward and onward my friend :)
@@BenshobbyStuff Sorry to hear about that.
@@XaviersBonsaiRetreat no worries mate these things happen. hes recovering so fingers are crossed :)
Merry Christmas and all the best for the new year 😊
Thanks Ray. I hope you stay as healthy as your trees :)
Hi Xav the temperature while I am watching this, it is freezing literally soil hard as nails now, I love those two woman she could die. That game has lost me, my brain hurts my friend. The pine front is the one with the label, I liked the branch you took off ,it needed wiring then bringing in too shorten it, bad idea on the false cypress I liked it before you cut it off. 😅 As I keep saying your tees your decisions. All the best Xav for 2025.
This is what makes bonsai such fun - always different choices but in the end it keeps busy hands at work. Happy New Year JOe :)
Great video as always see you on the 10th January (Dave )
Looking forward to it D&L :)
Great video xav! Whats ur thought on the literati @ 20:33 removing the top branch and also the right branch and just leaving the left hand side as the tree? Perfect opportunity to use the phone object eraser 😂😂. I think it would give more emphasis to the movement in the trunk especially at the top. Ive yet to make a tree with such sparce foliage but think it would look great. Game seems fun and if u didnt know lego makes a whole bonsai series my bro is doing. Give it a look. Anyway nice tree happy new year and lets hope our trees do well this year.
I definitely have plans that may see the removal of that top entirely. This is early stages and I still want the tree to put on lots of growth and set the intial literatie structure. I do think you have the right idea though :)
Wondering if it's okay to bring in trees from the cold to work on them during their dormancy? Is it just a matter of temperature range or length of time warming up?
Mine are currently in a deep freeze, and I'm anxiously awaiting warmer weather which won't be for another 2 months at least!
Freeze has started so i definitely don't touch anything now. The pine is quite young and we had some mild weather so I feel happy I could get it way with it. The tools are definitely in the shed till February :)
Hi Xav. I think I will give the game a miss. Totally lost. I have a problem playing snap. I like the idea if a literati though. Happy New Year.
No worries - it was just a bit of fun to mix in with the Pine. Happy New year
Happy 2025
And to you as well :)
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God bless and thank you Martina.
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Thanks Bruce
Sometimes i JUST wished, you would use less CLICKBAIT in your videos. (This may SURPRISE you)! 😐
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@TheBonsaiGarden Sorry, i know it's the TH-cam game you have to play to some extent, but as a viewer sometimes it saddens and annoys me that simply making good videos seems not to be enough for the algorithm.
If the video had no title or thumbnail I'd still watch it because it is a Bonsai Retreat video and I have enjoyed every one.
I made it very clear in the first line of description and in the first 1 miute of the video. People who watch my channel know that I mix up my content occasionally. I'm just sorry you didn't appreciate the video. Lots of useful tips and the game was great fun too. Happy New year and all the best for 2025.
Morning Jason :)