Hard Pruning Bonsai Updates and More, The Bonsai Zone, Sept 2021
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 2 ก.ย. 2021
- I did some hard pruning to many of my trees this year, let's have a look at the results and see how they are doing!
I'm also updating many of the bonsai that I started from seed and more!
To see previous videos of my Portulacaria afra forest, click on the playlist here....
• Portulacaria afra, Bao...
To see previous videos of my Baobab trees, click on the playlist here...
• Baobab trees from Seed
To see previous videos of my Fusion Ficus, click on the playlist here...
• Aerial root Ficus Prog...
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'Oh dear, what have I done?' should be the official bonsai catchphrase 🤣
😆 I couldn't help but think "Oh man, I know that feeling and the the exact situation I'm in right now, actually!" 😬
8:32 daaamn, that monk figurine looks so freaking real!
Very enjoyable walk around. Everything looks fantastic. Unfortunately summer is coming to an end. Now I’m looking forward to seeing you work in the plant room. Keep growing. Thanks
So nice to see the Frank Yee cuttings I sent you made it! Keep a lookout soon for more cousins of those in the mail, assuming they make it through customs...
loved that closing shot from the star or planet in the sky all the way down to the green house.
"It kind of looks like my hair!"
I laughed!
Nigel's hair is perfect, and no one can prove it is different.
Greenhouse at night with the lights on looks like a setting on Mars. Nice.
🍇Gorgeous Grapes Laura🍇
Yummy too!
Those grapes looks like wine grapes which taste 100 times better than the regular red/green grapes we usually see in supermarkets. I also just purchased some of those grapes at a Korean supermarket! Thanks for the update Nigel!
Wow! Grapes look great.
Always enjoy seeing your updates. Your plants are looking really FANTASTIC! I'm so happy when I see that you are also growing some tropicals in your collection. WOW! Loved seeing Laura's grape vine. What a nice harvest that will be. Sounds like you are headed to cooler weather. Thank goodness down here in southeast FL the temps have dropped just a tad, but enough to make it more comfortable. Thanks for your videos - they make my day!
Sometimes those Hail Mary cuts really pan out…forest looks great!
Nigel, I don't know where you are, but our temps here get a little extreme, as well as the weather too, it can be very unpredictable, But seems you have a amazing place there, I couldn't imagine having the opportunity of having my own place, or to have a area to truly grow, and call my own, several years ago, I got injured by two different employers, and now have issues with the after effects of the injuries, but as well as I have now been diagnosed with several health conditions, some with no cure, just managing the symptoms. but I truly enjoy plants, and the outdoors, and hope that one-day, I can enjoy this dream I have.
We seem to experience the same weather (roughly) here in Vermont. I used to love the summer weather cooling off and getting ready for the beautiful foliage on the trees. Since really diving into bonsai "full time", I now don't have the same type of feelings due to the growing season coming to a close. 😐
I have two lychee trees that I'm trying to grow into a bonsai, was good to see your lychee tree in progress.
3:07 that fear in his voice....every bonsai artist(even beginners) has experienced it!
Great updates. Like the tour of your bonsai trees. Port. Afra forest looking good to me and baobabs nice. All great.
good to see the afra forest doing well!
Great update video, I love the look of the "Purple house."
Thank you!
Everything looking good! Your wife did well! Those grapes looking yummy and her gardens looking lush!
You're bonsaï garden is amazing, there are so many tree species gathered in one place 😳
Thanks for visiting with me!
If you keep a desert rose in a south facing window Inside the house (to keep it dry) you'll have success. Just know you're going to lose all the leaves which is normal in the fall, in spring it'll grow everything back and make new branching
Wow the trees and screenhouse plants all look great! Thanks for sharing with us :)
So nice of you, thanks!!!
@14:51, I'm really looking at getting my hands on one of these amazing tress!! Everything There Truly Looks Amazing!!
i enjoy that garden walk great!
I'm glad you showed us an update on the portulacaria! And the bark on the Austrian pine is top notch!
Those mystery seeds might be the "Hibiscus tiliaceus"
It's a pretty close match
I can't believe it only came to me now
We have a lot of them where i live
They have beautiful yellow flowers!
It’s that time of year we have to start watching those night temps. Nothing in the forecast for Chicago below 59F (15c) for at least the next 14 days. They are calling for a warm September which is good. My ficuses will get some extra vigor before I bring them in.
Wonderful tour!
looks like ets tent.. cool.
thanks for beautifull start of day =)
The purple green house looks so cool and mysterious. It should make for some interesting night photography!
I would Love to grow a Mulberry Tree!! I miss and love those, as well as
Redbuds, and forsythia!
I love updates! :)
Awesome updates
Hey Nigel, your mysterious tree could be a Portia tree. I am not a big expert on lithops but I have always heard that they become taller when they have lack of light
Wow so incredible! I just found a beautiful mulberry growing at my mom's place, trunk chopped it to 2meters and it branch boomed, just gave it a profile prune and it's already taking great shape! You're an inspiration to all. I love your jade as well, always bring a smile to my face
Nigel! The mystery trees MUST be the blue mahoe seeds I sent you. Google blue mahoe seedlings and see if they match to you, I really think they’re the blue mahoe hibiscus tree seeds I sent - Andrew
That looks like it, thanks Andrew, I thought it was from Jamaica! Awesome, I'll enjoy growing them to see them flower and mature!!
The Lithops are doing really well this time!! I hope they multiply. Thanks Andrew!!!
Wonderful recovery on your Portulacaria forest Nigel!
You could try 'injuring' the spots on the trunk or branches by pricking them. Sometimes this will stimulate them to push out new shoots. Easy to try before cutting back flush, and nothing lost if it doesn't work. Best of luck!
Thanks for sharing
I was just watching your willow bonsai playlist. I havent seen an update on it in a while!
Beautiful evening that was ! I think the one tree from Todd was a monkey ear tree. The baobab's are looking really healthy and looking forward to future vids. Laura's doing a fantastic job of her trees and plants, those grapes look really good !
Scotts pine is definitely a short-needle single-flush pine...
The leaves on the mystery trees sort of look like sea hibiscus but it’s hard to tell because of the little leaflets.
Such a shame about the "Root over Temple" Ficus. I will pray for it. Hopefully it will survive. The other trees look very good.
A rocket stove mass heater for your greenhouse! Also, search "Rodney Hampton Death of the Rocket Stove" where he uses composting leaves against the back wall of his greenhouse to raise the temp!
My design is a sort of ditch with a wall against aluminum sheet (for a retainer) on the north side. Rake it out next Summer. Hopefully the bones hold out a little longer.
Greenhouse Heating with Rocket Stove: th-cam.com/video/FrWtlf_4ny4/w-d-xo.html
Heating with leaves: th-cam.com/video/lIzWgBWF3SQ/w-d-xo.html
You can identify those trees with a plant identification app.😄✌️
How crazy the ficus has grown. A nice tour through your bonsai park. Greetings to your wife too. Is the little duck still running after her?
your lithops seem a little overwatered. Even slightly misting them may be too much water already.
You can check this by touching the side of the lithops and gently sqeezing it just a little. It should be neither mushy nor too hard and just give in to your pressure a tiny bit.
Thanks Christian, I back off a the watering now as the temperatures are getting cooler!
@@TheBonsaiZone Christian is correct. I once had lithops. Basically if you start to see them getting wrinkles, even the slightest, then they can be watered. However, if the new leaves are pushing out, you do not need to water even if the older leaves are shriveled. If the new set are slightly shriveled as are the old ones you can water. Once the old leaves dry up and I mean DRY DRY DRY up you can remove them with tweezers. But if they don't come off with a gentle tug, leave them on. There is still moisture in the leaf base that the lithop is using. Hope this helps.
Lynn from Desert Plant of Avalon on TH-cam has videos on their care here are two links.
th-cam.com/video/P5KCepf-U7c/w-d-xo.html (When to water)
th-cam.com/video/c4n3eH1RSnk/w-d-xo.html (How to remove dead skins)
Hi, mystery tree is Tilia cordata
Hi. What will you use the glass house for? Can you keep it warm enough for the tropicals in the winter? I really hope you record your finishing work on the plant room build this fall. It amazed me how much you got done last year, and what an outstanding job you did on it.
That Ficus @ 20:00 is reorganizing. Maybe it wants to be a mame deep down.
That is a big little finger you got there
Nigel, watching all your videos, wondering, how do you keep track of all your plants????
maybe if you defoliate the ports later yo'll get shoots on those stumps, maybe you should keep them :D
It's my observation that if I align the desired bud as if it were a solar panel it'll pop.
Thanks, sounds like a good technique!
There's a plant that sort of just looks like a trunk with maybe some small leaves on it in the green house I keep seeing. I'm wondering what it is exactly? You pan past it a couple times at 12:20. It's nearby the aloe bonsai.
😱just in one month this much growth 😲, that's amazing. My portulacaria afra didn't grown this much aswell, in last One Year span. What could be the reason Nigel sir ??
I think cutting at the end of a segment stops growth.. Maybe cutting another 3mm off will wake it up again
At 1:00 you pruned it wrong portulacaria only start new grow at leaf node but on that branch no leaf node exist
You need to start a pepper bonsai, Naga peppers grow huge and develop woody trunks. I can send you seeds.
I took a screenshot of the mystery tree and the plant identification app I have on my phone says its a crimson eyed rosemallow.
How are the cashew seedlings coming along?
Has there been any new updates on the "root over temple"? I've searched the archives and I can seem to find anything.
Do you use rooting hormone for your cuttings?
Could your mystery plant with heart shaped leaves be a Philodendron? They are tropical to the Americas region.
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12:50 Do you reduce the height of tall tree by air layering?
Hey Nigel, I love your TH-cam channel. I have a question. When you make a big root pruning Is there a possibility, that the root cuttings can grow again? I have a typical Ikea Ficus bonsai, that i have made shorter (air layering). I will try to regrow these rootcuttings. Best wishes from Denmark.
Yes, a new tree can be grown from root cuttings, it's harder than top cuttings and I think you need high humidity for the root cutting to sprout new growth.
There are a lot of species that you can grow from root cuttings. I have a Chinese Elm that I grew from a root :)
Hello Nigel! 👋
I was wondering if you have a coffee tree? 🤔
What kind of soil do you recommend for baobabs? I have 4 seedlings from this year, but they dont grow that hard, maybe i should repot them, or should i wait? I live in the Netherlands so it is a temperate region
Hello Karst, the Baobab trees need a very free draining soil to avoid root rot, especially in the winter. I have mine in my bonsai soil, it's half perlite and 1/2 turface. I sift the soil to get a 3 to 4 mm particle size and to remove the fine dust.
I can water the trees daily in the summer, but once fall comes, I stop watering it, the tree loses it's leaves and then they sit dormant all winter. In spring the leaves begin to come out again and you can begin watering more.
I would re pot them late winter and if you do any root work, be sure to let the cuts dry out for a few weeks and then plant in dry soil. Wait for the leaves to come out and slowly increase the watering. I just mist the tree at first and then when it's growing strongly, I switch to the watering can. Full sun is recommended.
@@TheBonsaiZone Hi Nigel, thanks for your response! I will repot them late winter and keep an eye on them during until then :)
Good day, i am a bonsai enthusiast but I have no bonsai at home, I just want to ask, why are you not using wire to train your bonsai like the other ?
He is a clip and grow artist he will also never wire a specimen in to the pot
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Awesome Dubsy!!!!
My Schefflera leaves are bigger than you Dwarf Schefflera leaves, but smaller than your big leaves one. Don't know what it call.
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Gang gang
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