A Late Summer Pruning of My Ficus Bonsai, The Bonsai Zone, Aug 2020
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- I'm pruning one of my Ficus microcarpa bonsai after letting it grow freely for the summer.
This tree is the one called "Fancy" and it is one of the Ficus Sisters, two trees that looked almost identical when I bought them as small trees in a 4" pot. One is getting a more plain styling treatment, the other a bit more fancy.
We are getting more fruit trees planted in the orchard with just 7 more to go for this year!
Lots of tree updates today and a quick update of the plant room.
To see the previous videos of my Ficus microcarpa "Fancy", click on the playlist here...
• The Ficus Sisters, two...
To see previous videos of the community gardens, click on the playlist here...
• Community Orchard, Com...
To see previous videos of Osage Orange tree forest from seeds, click on the playlist here...
• Osage Orange Bonsai
#TheBonsaiZone
i love seeing nigel interacting with other people he’s just such a wonderful person and always makes others happy
Totally agree. He's such a decent chap.
Just love this type of person... :) Simple; happy; just enjoying nice moments :) Wish He was my neighboor next door ^^
Thanks Ben, we have a good group of people working on the site!
A role model for bonsai AND being a good human :)
@@mattdemoraes couldnt have said it better!
Awesome community project! Great to see how u guys come together and pull this off!
It takes a team of dedicated people and slowly we are reaching the goal!
I didn’t realise the plant room needed so much work done to it. Hopefully you get it all sorted soon 😁
It's coming along well, I'll keep at it!
I've just done a small ficus forest, I used your idea of putting a small sandy path through it. It still looks a bit juvenile, but it's getting there. This channel has helped me a lot, keeping my patience and styling ideas! Thank you
Sounds like a really cool forest, it will mature in no time!
Hello from NYC Nigel!!! Love all your bonsai trees. I have learned so much from you, thank you!
Thanks, good to hear!
The orchard is such a beautiful project! I'm sure your community will greatly benefit from it. Also the blooper reel at the end was a funny ending. Great video as always!
Thanks Guille, I'll be spending lots of time in the orchard as it develops, there will be so much work to do!
Old bikes and bonsai!! My two favorite hobbies!
I love the old bikes, I have been collecting a few and I'll have to get them out in a future video!
Yes please!! 😁
This bonsai has an amazing trunk , looks so old n matured , nice work there on d canopy 👍
Thanks Mangesh, it's getting better each year!
Fantastic! The community garden sure is looking great!
Love all your camera angles. Thank you for sharing your knowledge.
Man, that field of the orchard/garden is looking a lot smaller now that it's getting planted! There's been great progress on it, and the fancy ficus.
Thanks, yes, I can't wait to see the orchard in the future, I think I'll be spending a lot of my senior years out there!
this guy is full of positive thoughts
Thanks, have a great day Patrick!
Jove's thunderstorm was refreshing. The Community Garden is reassuring and close-up of Fancy instructive as to pruning philosophy. The Elephant is happy in the Acacia forest. Super late summer in the Zone.
Thanks Sophia, I got my rain barrels filled too! Water was very scarce this summer so it always feels good to have rainwater on hand! More to come from the Zone!
So much work, so little time (during the short summers)....
Hope the Kapok trees will survive this autumn.
Fancy is such a beauty!
Thanks Aija and Varg, yes summers are short, but it gives me lots of motivation to keep working hard!
One good thing about summer thunder storms is that they tend to be brief.
Yes, it was an exciting one, but it was good to see the sun again!
Your an big blessing I really enjoy ur vids
Thank you Pieter!
Nigel My friend you got me into Bonsai and you are the most helpful at least in my opinion, and you are for sure my favorite to watch please keep it up!
Love the mass of roots on that ficus microcarpa. Also reall liked seeing the Brazilian raintree cuttings, looks like you will have a tropical rainforest there some day! And the acacias... I love all those tiny compound leaves. Good luck finishing the plant room!
Thanks, I made good progress on the room yesterday! I wake up every morning very sore, but I sleep well at night!
@@TheBonsaiZone It's always good to have a project on the go.. as long as you *can* get up the next morning!
looking good on your ride to orchard
I should have had my helmet on!
There is a lot of nice branches to propagate. Fancy is beautiful. Actually all the trees look great. Waiting to see the Dracena prune. That is such a shame about your plant room. That is so much work. You are a busy man. Have a nice day. Thanks Nigel
It will be nice when the room is finished, I'd rather be making videos, but the construction work is challenging also!
Canada is nice , i would move there. I am from Europe.
Thanks!
always bring a smile and a laugh to our house. love your passion.
Nice ! Your Ficus fancy is looking great after the work you did 👍 The Kapok trees look really good and have really grown, I always enjoy the updates.
Thanks J, looking forward to your visit next week!
Such an inspirational tree Nigel. Ficus are treated like second class Bonsai in the UK; no idea why when you can make something this beautiful in a (relatively) short time (for bonsai!).
Yes, they are an easy tree to keep alive, but a difficult tree to make really beautiful and miniature.
That bike is cool looking!
Whenever I see your collection with massive bonsai structure in your every plant and find the playlist for the same plant till 2014 I astonished and awkward to comment because your passion about bonsai and creative effort has already build a Temple, Church and Mosque all over the TH-cam channel.
Nigel what about the humidity rate now and all over the year in your place. Please let me know the humidity level of your place all round the year and now. Because you water your bonsai tree 2 to 3 times and also you water in heavy volume .
Thanks Deb, time flies by at an incredible rate these days! We live in between the Great Lakes so the summers are humid in Southwestern Ontario!
The normal humidity levels throughout the year at Canada's largest cities are listed below.
The tables give the daily relative humidity, averaged for the year. The morning humidity readings are taken at 6:00 am local standard time. The afternoon humidity is for 3:00 pm local standard time.
Relative humidity measures the actual amount of moisture in the air as a percentage of the maximum amount of moisture the air can hold. All the numbers here are based on weather data collected from 1981 to 2010.
Kitchener - Waterloo, Ontario 88 74.................(88 morning and 74 afternoon)
Bike is really cool
Thanks, it's fun to cruise on!
I wish I could be half as happy as Nigel one day he's just so calm, would love a question and answer at some point. 🌱🌿🌳
Thanks Cameron, ask away!
hey, I’m currently growing a jacaranda mimosifolia bonsai got any tips?
Oh wow, that is amazing!!
Thanks Harlee!
That’s feeling when we see new video is indescribable 😊 Dankeschön
Chef Nigel
Freundlichen Grüßen von Deutschland 🇩🇪
Thanks M.B. a very nice comment!
That base looks like the throne, from the game of thrones. Lice work Nigel! 👏
Thanks Paulo, it does look that tree!
the truck looks good in the rain it makes it look shiny
Yes, it looks very red too!
@@TheBonsaiZone it does
Awesome video Nigel I love the technique you’re using the trees look great
Thanks Fred, I can't wait for them to fill in again, they should look good with the new smaller leaves!
That community garden is looking FANTASTIC! It is so nice to see the progress that is being made there. What happens to the produce that is grown there? And, what will happen with the fruit from the trees when they are mature? Community food bank? The ficus looks GOOD after the trim. Will you bring those Kapok trees indoors this winter? Great updates on the trees.
The fruit is free for anyone to pick, we'll always leave some fruit on the lower branches and the rest will go to the food bank and given out for free.
Yes, I'm going to keep the Kapok trees above 15 C (59 F) this fall and then they will go inside for winter. Thanks Pat, more coming soon!
YIKES! Tick Tock on that plant room Nigel. I think you should recruit Bonsai J, Connor, and the rest of your club to get that done before winter. Hate to see any of your tropicals get the “Big Chill”. Best of luck with that project.
I made good progress yesterday, it's coming along nicely so far! I'm sleeping very well at night and waking up good and sore every morning!
All your trees are looking great Nigel! Such an inspiration! 😁
You have some lovely focused!! I was just wondering if now was an okay time to root prune focused, or is it too late?
It should be OK now and hopefully we'll have a warm September! I find that when I bring the trees inside for the winter, they suddenly get warmer nights and they grow like crazy!
Nigel, big fan, i watch all of your videos when they come out, they are really relaxing. You might remember me from other comments.
I really love the way since you started making videos, you have never failed to cover the basics of the techniques you are employing without assuming that people have watched all of your previous videos. A great example is the way you always briefly explain directional pruning. When styling my own trees, i always feel inspired by your way of doing things, for landscaping in penjing with a sense of scale with paths for example, and ground cover with tiny broken branches, root pruning scrupulously.
Please tell me this; where can i get a soft little bonsai rake like yours? i have a Japanese one and its great for collected rough material, however it scratches the roots of my small trees, and i end up using a wooden skewer. I have loved your rake since i first seen it. i've looked at zen garden kits etc, to no avail.
Thanks for putting out the videos Nigel, they truly make my day!
Thanks Jacob, I bought the root rake at a second hand store over 25 years ago. I've never seen another like it. I'm hoping to get it 3D modeled this winter so people can 3D print one for themselves.
I'll make a video about this soon!
Nigel Saunders, The Bonsai Zone
I eagerly await! Hopefully I will be able to contact the guy in charge of 3D printing in university. Finishing my masters now, but I can still use facilities for 5 years.
By the way! I 3D printed a pot here in the U.K. it is white but it’s looking really nice with a wild willow penjing (Tiny leaves, beautiful trees). I think you’d like it if I could show you, it’s actually really nice. I’d love to send you some cuttings of this willow next year too, I’d propagate them and send you them, they’re vigorous but great little trees. They make really nice little penjing landscaping trees.
Let me know if your interested in seeing my planting and/or having some little trees sent over?
hello,very nice tree i love it! its looking closer to finished bonsai than ever ;) could you do a video update for your hibiscus tree?
Sensei Sanders, should I put my ficus plant to grow big first before I do the root over rock or it's the other way around?
It's the same we got the big rain here, I thought it is good for plants?^^ You did a lot of works done today, nice job!!
Yes the rain is really good for the trees! Thanks Cherie!
@@TheBonsaiZone It's the best season in a year now^^
Thankyou Nigel, if you prune an inward facing leaf won't that encourage a new branch to grow inwardly from that point? or do you just prune that again later?
Usually the new growth comes closer to the tip of the branch and the directional pruning keeps the new growth coming in the right direction. and as you say, any unwanted shoots are removed when young.
Great videos Nigel! High five from Venezuela....
Thanks Willmar, I bet a Ficus would grow well in Venezuela!
Sure, I live in a little city not far from the capital and here grows Ficus Benjamina everywhere! Also Eucaliptus platformis We have a lot of beautiful Trees: Albizia Lebbeck, Leucaena, Caesalpinia pulcherrima, Prosopis juliflora, Jacaranda
wooooowwww,,,
I like your channel very much! Thanks!
Awesome work all around! Winter is coming before we know it. Is the plant room going to be finished in time? I know where I’m at, I have another 3 to 5 weeks left with my ficus plants outside.
Hello Nigel, I'm big fun of your chanel,and I need some advice regarding the maintenance of ficus in winter. I have two options: keep it in a room with temperatures of 5-10C, or at room temperature around 20C..Which option is better for ficus during winter? ficus benjamina is in question..Thank you, Elvis from Croatia
Hi Nigel. Another really good video and an excellent educational piece. I have a question about my ficus - hope thats OK? My tree is one of those ficus ginsengs (with the big bulbous roots) and I wonder if I should be defoliating it now and cutting the branches back? Thinking its beginning of autumn here in the UK and as the tree is indoors will it produce new growth? Or should I wait until spring? Thanks Nigel. Andy.
Nice one
Amit, you are Foist today! Nice going and thanks!
@@TheBonsaiZone most welcome
hello nigel, I still dont get whats the difference between retusa and microcarpa.
Here's an article to add to the confusion!
borneoficus.info/2018/10/04/ficus-retusa-ficus-microcarpa-confusion/#:~:text=Ficus%20retusa%20is%20a%20completely,a%20wild%20species%20of%20Ficus.
Did that start as one tree or was it several bundled together?
It is a single tree, it looks like a fusion project, but it is just the aerial roots that have covered the trunk!
Sensei Nigel do you have a video for your beautiful pots?
I don't have a video on pots, but a good idea for a future video!
How often do you get thunderstorms up there?
Not too often, 5 or 6 times each summer usually!
How do I decide when to add fertilizer to a recently purchased ficus?
I add a very small amount of fertilizer to my water every time I water the tree. This small amount won't hurt newly developing roots and it provides the tree all the elements it needs for growth, other than sun and air! If you notice a tree is growing weakly and the leaves are looking pale and not the normal green colour, it usually needs fertilizer. Too much heat and sun can cause a similar look.
I'm still waiting for the Nigel Ficus bonsai hair prune video.
So is my wife!
super
Thank you!
Interesting that I just planted around 100 apple seeds (40+ already sprouted while in the apples) and 6 lemon seeds and you work on the community garden the same day.
You got more work done, and you got a bicycle ride/ workout in also.
Sounds like you will have lots of new trees coming, very exciting! I love watching them grow each year! Thanks R man!
Hey mate, keep em coming, would luv to see a vid on the natal plum, they must be quite salt hardy as the council plant them as hedges on the beach here, im pretty sure its a natal plum anyway, they are quite spikey yeah? I just started some cuttings. Also, i have a tree that looks just like ur serissa but it has purple flowers, any ideas what that would be? Cheers brother.
Hello Michael, it could be a Serissa, they can have very fancy flowers on some varieties! I gave my Natal plum cuttings to Connor, but I have many others. I'll have to do a video on them soon!
www.gardensonline.com.au/gardenshed/plantfinder/show_1938.aspx
Hi Nigel. I'am live in Europe ( In Poland) We have a acacia tree in park and forest... Where i should breed it? At home or backyard?
Hello ElWojtaSsOoo, if the tree gets seed pods on it, it would be best to plant the seeds in pots and develop the trees slowly and carefully! Work on the roots at first and just let the top of the tree grow for a few years.
@@TheBonsaiZone Okay :) But where should it grow? At home or on a bench all year? The tree is from warm places and I have winters between 0 degress to -10 and I don't know where to have it...
It's always nice to be able to watch you. Pretty bonsai, good explanations. What more do you want?
hey nigel you should look up tanuki bonsai i saw a video on them today and they are pretty cool
Hi everyone, I'm new to Bonsai. I have some questions about winter and my bonsai trees. Can anyone help me out?
Nigel, you never cease to amaze me at what you accomplish! By the way, has Robin finally abandoned you?
Hello Dori, yes, sadly Robin has flown off and is a wild bird now! I'll miss feeding time, but I'm happy for Robin.
Bitter sweet, I know, Nigel but you did a big, wonderful thing for a tiny, precious being. Thank you.
Have you ever get any cuttings That you have too many of let me know thanks Keep making You're Shows
Thanks Jesse, more to come!
Hi Nigel ! :) is this ficus tree coming from multiple cuttings? seeds? Thanks ! Take care
It is a single tree the aerial roots have grown down alongside the trunk and it now looks like a fusion project, but it's just a single tree covered in aerial roots that have fused together over time.
@@TheBonsaiZone This specimen is really amazing ! ! :) :) Very good work for the pruning ! it takes quite some time on vigourous trees like that :) but it's such a pleasure actually
Hi Nigel. Am I able to get a Japanese maple seedlings or the seeds from you? I can’t find them anywhere in New Brunswick
Here is a good place!
www.rarexoticseeds.com/en/catalogsearch/result/?q=maple
They don't have a lot of types of Maple, but I've had good luck with the company.
Thanks Nigel
Hi again Nigel😊 is it normal for the trees I’ve potted to get some brown on them? Should I be worried they’ll die?
Don't forget to prune back your hair as well 🤣. 👍👍👍
Some day, some day!
Did you say you're in KW? I'm in Cambridge
Yes, Tri-cities now!
Can you tell me what kind of ficus that is? Was it grown from multiple seedlings tied together? It's amazing. My ficuses ive had for years look not a slight bit as good.
It is a single tree, it started out as a Ginseng style Ficus, but it didn't have the grafted foliage on the top. I have a video that shows the tree in the early stages...
th-cam.com/video/E_N7XtDPn_U/w-d-xo.html
@@TheBonsaiZone thanks. How old would it be now?
@@1Mutton1 I have had it for almost twenty years!
Great job sir
Thanks Rai!
Isn't that ficus benjamina?
It's a Ficus microcarpa or Taiwanese Ficus.
Is there this kind of community gardening in Montréal?
Yes!
eap.mcgill.ca/MagRack/COG/COG_A_93_04.htm#:~:text=by%20Alain%20Blondin,among%2073%20different%20community%20gardens.
it could be like that yes kimeng bonsai put together.
Thanks Dipati!
Amazing how you give out the details of pruning, how to and what to prune. Really love to watch your updates.
Had this question about your ficus leaves looking a bit bigger, is it because you haven't done defoliation or it is something else?
The large leaves are mainly from allowing the tree to grow unrestricted for the summer. The new leaves are small and then as the branch gains vigor the leaves get larger the more the branch extends. With more pinching and pruning, the tree can get very small leaves, this will weaken the tree and it should be done mainly for bonsai shows.
Totally get it now. Thank you for the explanation.
Hi there Nigel, I’m also living here in Canada. I’m just wondering how do you make cherry seeds sprout.
We ordered a lot of tree seeds that year, the Plum Cherries were the only ones that germinated. We planted them in spring in the large greenhouse on sight at the Local community food center. We just placed the seeds in soil and the came up!
Nigel Saunders, The Bonsai Zone wow thanks a lot!!
Too big leaves to be id as microcarpa. Looks like benjamina or retusa
I think we have to sacrifice whole life on the tree isn't Sir?
It takes a lot of dedication to grow a bonsai tree, it has to be a labor of love!
Your work s gud, your bonsai s gud, and your bicycle too s gud but what's happen to your hair?
Hair's good too!
@@TheBonsaiZone oh! hahaha...
I wonder... your vintage bicycle has no brakes ! 😬
It has a coaster brake, you have to pedal backwards to stop!
Hello Nigel, any chance of showing us pruning your hair? 🤣
A clip and grow project!
😍😍😍don't participate in the live..thanks Nigel 😊
Why?
@@TheBonsaiZone I mean .. I missed the live, couldn't keep up from the start. because of an event at the office🙏🙏😁
busy bee you been. Kim is HOTTT!
Busy as a bonsai bee! Thanks Water Lover!
Sir you should wear face mask when you go out for Heath purposes
NO HELMET!? how heroes fall...
I always wear one, but my son borrowed it that morning. No one expects an accident so you should always wear a helmet!
I think you prune your bonsai more fastidileasly than your hair. It needs a prune.
Thanks 1Mutton1!