@@TheBonsaiZone absolutely, there's oaks, hemlocks, spruce and more growing hundreds of feet above ground in these trees. I don't even know if you could replicate that in a bonsai but it sure would be legendary
Coastal redwoods are wonderfully social trees! They very readily connect their roots together to share nutrients and chemical "information", and older trees will help younger trees grow. Some of the oldest redwoods end up creating such dense mats of soil on their burls that they can support the growth of new redwood saplings many meters above he ground. But given that these trees grow in northern California, I'd give it maybe a month of "winter" before bringing into the plant room. They want to stay warm and wet, since they're from a temperate rainforest. The Doug firs will also enjoy similar treatment, though they can stand drier and colder conditions. But they'll really thrive if you can give them a temperate rainforest treatment.
Ive grown both the coastal redwoods and giant sequoias from seed. I found the germination rate much lower on the giants but the thing i like about them is that some start to take a mature tree shape even in the first year.
omg that redwood looks like 3 that i have...so I'm not the only one with ugly trees, haha, you give me a lot of hope because I'm always scared to ever mess with the roots of my trees
I took my dwarf Alberta Spruce pre-bonsai out of the regular large pot and potted in a training pot about a week ago and last night the wind blew it over, found it on the ground out of its pot this morning. I put it back together and put a rock on it so hopefully this wont happen again. Really excited about the three Japanese maples that sprouted this year and looking forward to continuing work on my boxwood, purle-leaf sand cherry and eastern white pine I started last year
It's mind-blowing for me how all the fruit trees where I live are already done blossoming and are growing tiny green fruit, and in Canada they are barely budding, but you will still get a harvest. I wonder how that works.
Being so far North gets more light longer in the summer than further south. Shorter growing season, but insane amount of daylight hours during the summer.
As that infographic indicated, propagation/spreading from suckers is very common for coast redwoods, stop the sucker on your seedling could become a realistic feature! Many mature redwoods will have a bush-like outgrowth of suckers at the base. There are many examples here in northern California of circular groves of redwoods that all started as suckers on the roots of a much older parent tree. When the parent tree was damaged and eventually rotted away, the suckers took advantage of their parent's root system to grow vigorously and form a ring of genetically identical trees, in a near perfect circle around the gap left by the fallen parent.
Dont worry about Tamarind seeds. They grow wild around my parts. You just put em in the ground and keep it moist. It does takes longer than others to germinate but each and every one will germinate. The key is temperature; dont let it go cold coz here they grow around monsoon season when the lowest we go on occasions is 20°C. but mostly above 20s. Keep the temperature consistently hot and you'll be one happy man.
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Thanks for another entertaining video. Hope the oaks will do well. Mine were planted a bit to early indoors.. or I took them outside to early. They had their first leafs but when I put them outside the leafs just turned yellow and fell off. There are still some buts on them so I hope they will get new leafs later. I have another oak I collected last year. The top died off and it was judt a stick in a pot but you can see the buts starting to come out now 👍🏻 I guess oaks are one of latest trees to develop their leafs.
Great to see new spring growth on the fruit trees in the orchard and on your bonsai. I'm looking forward to following your redwoods. Those were really nice illustrations, what incredible trees ! 😀👍
Hi Nigel! I love to watch your bonsai process throughout the year, it really gives me inspirations to start a few of my own. Regarding the tamarind seeds, from my own experience, I soaked them for almost 3 weeks I think. I didn't scratch them or anything, I rinse the water once a week and just let them soak until the seed coatings loosen by themselves revealing the white seed that plumed up inside. I then just plant them in soil and a lot of them have grown well. You can also leave the seeds a little longer covered in tissue paper and keeping it in a clear container until it germinates and then plants them in soil. Anyway good luck with the tamarind, I would love to see your process for the tree and learn along the way since I have quite a few of the trees now haha. All the best Nigel, greetings from Malaysia!
I've been watching you a few months, Nigel. It's to bad you are so far from Indiana I would enjoy meeting you in person. You have taught me so much about nature and what a tree wants. My bonsai collection is still quite small only having one refined tree (chinese elm) but I have been planting trees all spring. And I'm actually about to order a coastal redwood and grow oak from seeds. Very coincidental timing! Oh I wish I could help you around the yard and at the First Nations edible forest.
My Coast Redwood also turned kind of pale this spring, after staying nice and green all winter. Due to... circumstances, I had to keep it in pretty low light the last several months, so that was my guess as to why. I first got it last last spring, as a very small seedling, and I suspect it's filled up its coke-can sized pot by now, so maybe I'll repot it like you did, before it greens up!
Ahumm, dear Nigel, you have your oaks figured out the wrong way round. The point is the top! The seed splits in Two halves at the thick bottom and there comes a root that turn towards the soil and the two starter leaf direct themselves to the light. You can put them at best 2-4 cm under the soil surface
I don't think I'll take on something like those .... yet LOL The kids brought me a small cone. There were seeds, so we'll see if they come up. My youngest has been keeping some seeds from cherry pits she wants us to try... :)
Tamarind's in tropical Aus has a wet season from Nov-April and then very little rain... the bulk of the rain though comes in late January through to the end of March though. This may or may not help you...
A windy day at Nigel's !! Very stormy here in french britany ! no thunder yet..! hope the weather will be kind for all of our trees ! HAHA the ducks... still ! :)
Interesting that the bonsai grows stronger at 8:38 in the lower area than above. Perhaps a certain similarity to forsythia, which always strive to grow from below. The vagaries of nature always amaze me. Nice video.
Yes, I don't know why with this tree, it was always strong in the apex, then one year, it barely survived the winter. Maybe the root system is still a bit weak?
I'm so glad I have my little one, so much so that I'm building a bigger one too! Even re potting is so much nicer in spring with no wind, rain and warmer temperatures inside!
HELP Hi Nigel I have a small spruce 10 cm some of the new shoots have been looking a little sad. The end tips have went a bit dry. Could it be wind or maybe to much sun. I live in Ireland. Thank you.
The tamarind seeds are most probably too dry. Why don't you try soaking them in warm water instead, even hot water for few minutes won't harm the seeds. All they need is a good soaking.
I did have them soaking in hot water and then moved them to the warm plant room. After scratching the shells, they seem to be doing much better! Thanks Imelda!
I would feel guilty about mowing my lawn yesterday, but this is the time of the year when everything here on the west coast just explodes. I've been meaning to ask; were you a contributing part of the 'cast' on Canadian Gardener? There's something 'familiar' about you and I can't quite figure it out. Love the updates.
Where did you get the tamarind seeds? I grow tamarind in North Texas from seeds. I bought organic tamarind to eat and save the seeds to grow. I just plant the seeds in garden soil and got 100% germination in a few weeks. I kept them in my living room during the Winter and they look great.
Thanks for the great video! I’ve been wanting to plant a coastal redwood bonsai forest but I’m unsure how big the pot should be. Do you think 3 seedlings 12 inches tall could fit in a 11 inch pot?
Nigel - Have any of your tamarind seeds germinated? I've tried to germinate them several times at home with no luck. I'm curious to know what I can do to grow a tamarind tree!
It shows what a few latitude degrees can make. I live in th US in hardiness zone 8 min. winter temp 10 f I have a norway maple with about 7 cm of new growth aready.
That is a good idea for next year, I'll talk to everyone about that. Eventually the trees will fill in and provide a natural windbreak, but until then an excellent idea!
Hi nigel, could you show your Chinese elm in a future video when the buds come out? I guess it hasn't yet so you didnt include it. Haha I was trying to see it in this vid as you walked through the garden!
Unfortunately, the Chinese Elm didn't survive the winter, I should have brought it inside the basement for the colder months, but I couldn't that year. Our furnace broke and I had to clean out the basement, and chop firewood, I just didn't get time for the bonsai that year so everything stayed out on the benches. I lost a few nice ones, but luckily most survived!
I've been growing a Giant Sequoia in a large garden pot for the past four or five years. It's coming along nicely, but will need root pruning next year. I have heard that Sequoia can react very badly to root work though, so I'm concerned about potentially killing it. There seems to be very little information on Giant Sequoia bonsai, but the best information I've found says to treat them essentially like a Juniper. Do you have any insight on these? I'll be following your Redwood progress with interest anyway. Redwoods and Sequoia are fascinating trees.
I'll try and get some giant Sequoia's and do some experimenting on them. Root work can be tricky until you get them sorted out! A general rule with Juniper's is to take no more than a third of the roots away and keep more foliage on the top of the tree to generate energy to grow more roots.
Thanks for the tip Nigel. I'd love to see you try a Sequoia, they're such beautiful trees with amazing red bark. Very underrepresented in the bonsai world it seems.
How do you treat your trees when they get leaf-fungal diseases? I usually treat them applying soap and water on the leaves and even watering them a little with the same mixture, and it seems to work. I was wondering as none of your trees shows any sign of disease.
Hello! I've very recently become interested in bonsai, and have greatly enjoyed your videos the last several days. I have been consuming all I can.. Today I almost ran over a little live oak seedling with my lawnmower, and I would love to try to turn it into a bonsai one day. I would be greatly appreciative of any advice you could give me on care and bonsai prep of this little guy. Thanks so much, keep sharing awesome videos!
You can re use soil, I try not to, it can have weeds in it and I find that slowly over time the soil particles get algae on them and they loose their water absorbing ability. I use my old soil as a soil additive for soil used in the garden.
Hi Nigel I have a question maybe you could help me with I have 3 bald cypress trees that have been grown good but the front half of the branches are brown but the back half are still green could you tell me what possibly is causing this weird situation please help my Nigel 🙏🙏🙏
@@TheBonsaiZone Hi again Nigel I’m in Virginia almost October Is it to late to cut off all those branches since it’s starting to get cold especially at night should I remove them now or wait until spring when it starts to grow again thank you so much Nigel you have taught me so much on my favorite channel which is yours ❤️👍❤️👍❤️👍
@@TheBonsaiZone ok thank you so much it just seemed so weird it because it’s not just one side of the cypress it’s around the whole tree all the branches are alive but on every branch the front of the branches are brownish but the back of those branches have perfectly beautiful green I’ve clipped quite a few and everyone is alive with green inside of branches very puzzling. One more question if you don’t mind Nigel do you bring in Chinese elm and fuckien teas in the winter it usually goes no lower than 20/25 in Virginia and that never lasts more than 2/3 weeks please help me I don’t want to lose my babies by the way your the one who got me into bonsais so I guess you can say you are my mentor and I thank you for that thank you so much Nigel 🙏❤️🙏❤️🙏❤️
Always enjoy taking a tour of your benches, just beautiful.
I’ll keep your redwood in my prayers 😉. Thanks
Thanks Matt, I'm getting lots of snow here today, but between the flurries, the sun comes out!
Redwood forest are so much more amazing than I knew. I Recently found out there's an entire other forest growing in the canopies of those giants.
Old growth forest's are amazing, it's a shame humans are logging and burning them. We'll never get them back.
@@TheBonsaiZone absolutely, there's oaks, hemlocks, spruce and more growing hundreds of feet above ground in these trees.
I don't even know if you could replicate that in a bonsai but it sure would be legendary
Looking forward to an update. Especially the coast redwood.
Coastal redwoods are wonderfully social trees! They very readily connect their roots together to share nutrients and chemical "information", and older trees will help younger trees grow. Some of the oldest redwoods end up creating such dense mats of soil on their burls that they can support the growth of new redwood saplings many meters above he ground. But given that these trees grow in northern California, I'd give it maybe a month of "winter" before bringing into the plant room. They want to stay warm and wet, since they're from a temperate rainforest. The Doug firs will also enjoy similar treatment, though they can stand drier and colder conditions. But they'll really thrive if you can give them a temperate rainforest treatment.
Thanks Rachel, awesome tips and information for us all!
Ive grown both the coastal redwoods and giant sequoias from seed. I found the germination rate much lower on the giants but the thing i like about them is that some start to take a mature tree shape even in the first year.
omg that redwood looks like 3 that i have...so I'm not the only one with ugly trees, haha, you give me a lot of hope because I'm always scared to ever mess with the roots of my trees
the local squirrels are nice enough to make sure all my pots have an oak seedling growing.
They plant all the black Walnuts around here, they are quite good at it!
I took my dwarf Alberta Spruce pre-bonsai out of the regular large pot and potted in a training pot about a week ago and last night the wind blew it over, found it on the ground out of its pot this morning. I put it back together and put a rock on it so hopefully this wont happen again. Really excited about the three Japanese maples that sprouted this year and looking forward to continuing work on my boxwood, purle-leaf sand cherry and eastern white pine I started last year
It's mind-blowing for me how all the fruit trees where I live are already done blossoming and are growing tiny green fruit, and in Canada they are barely budding, but you will still get a harvest. I wonder how that works.
Some how it works! We get a great harvest in Sept and October!
Being so far North gets more light longer in the summer than further south. Shorter growing season, but insane amount of daylight hours during the summer.
@@michaelrudolph7003 thank you for the explanation! That makes sense
Coast redwoods are my favorite tree, a bonsai redwood an be trained so beautifully I imagine
As that infographic indicated, propagation/spreading from suckers is very common for coast redwoods, stop the sucker on your seedling could become a realistic feature! Many mature redwoods will have a bush-like outgrowth of suckers at the base.
There are many examples here in northern California of circular groves of redwoods that all started as suckers on the roots of a much older parent tree. When the parent tree was damaged and eventually rotted away, the suckers took advantage of their parent's root system to grow vigorously and form a ring of genetically identical trees, in a near perfect circle around the gap left by the fallen parent.
Dont worry about Tamarind seeds. They grow wild around my parts. You just put em in the ground and keep it moist. It does takes longer than others to germinate but each and every one will germinate. The key is temperature; dont let it go cold coz here they grow around monsoon season when the lowest we go on occasions is 20°C. but mostly above 20s. Keep the temperature consistently hot and you'll be one happy man.
Thanks for the content Nigel!
I always enjoy making the videos, more to come!
Nigel Saunders, The Bonsai Zone Nigel! I made the discord server. Will happily give you the reins. Let me know! I believe with the existence of it you won’t have as much repeat questions/comments and it is a great platform to nurture and grow the community!
discord.gg/mZvYGe
Thanks for another entertaining video. Hope the oaks will do well. Mine were planted a bit to early indoors.. or I took them outside to early. They had their first leafs but when I put them outside the leafs just turned yellow and fell off. There are still some buts on them so I hope they will get new leafs later. I have another oak I collected last year. The top died off and it was judt a stick in a pot but you can see the buts starting to come out now 👍🏻 I guess oaks are one of latest trees to develop their leafs.
Studying Trees growing in nature is a helpful guidance for Bonsai. Thank you.
I think it is one of the most important parts of growing bonsai, studying trees in nature!
That's a beautiful redwood, I hope it makes it, it'll look beautiful as it grows.
Great to see new spring growth on the fruit trees in the orchard and on your bonsai. I'm looking forward to following your redwoods. Those were really nice illustrations, what incredible trees ! 😀👍
Thanks J, I hope the Redwoods do well, I'm already dreaming of a forest!
Hi Nigel! I love to watch your bonsai process throughout the year, it really gives me inspirations to start a few of my own. Regarding the tamarind seeds, from my own experience, I soaked them for almost 3 weeks I think. I didn't scratch them or anything, I rinse the water once a week and just let them soak until the seed coatings loosen by themselves revealing the white seed that plumed up inside. I then just plant them in soil and a lot of them have grown well. You can also leave the seeds a little longer covered in tissue paper and keeping it in a clear container until it germinates and then plants them in soil. Anyway good luck with the tamarind, I would love to see your process for the tree and learn along the way since I have quite a few of the trees now haha. All the best Nigel, greetings from Malaysia!
I've been watching you a few months, Nigel. It's to bad you are so far from Indiana I would enjoy meeting you in person. You have taught me so much about nature and what a tree wants. My bonsai collection is still quite small only having one refined tree (chinese elm) but I have been planting trees all spring. And I'm actually about to order a coastal redwood and grow oak from seeds. Very coincidental timing! Oh I wish I could help you around the yard and at the First Nations edible forest.
Wow Nigel, you guys had this late frost much stronger than Montreal...
My Coast Redwood also turned kind of pale this spring, after staying nice and green all winter. Due to... circumstances, I had to keep it in pretty low light the last several months, so that was my guess as to why. I first got it last last spring, as a very small seedling, and I suspect it's filled up its coke-can sized pot by now, so maybe I'll repot it like you did, before it greens up!
Hey Nigel in Japan they use cheap rice straw mats to put on the baby cypress trees until they get established it will help a lot with the winter burn
Awesome idea! Thanks Juan!
Ahumm, dear Nigel, you have your oaks figured out the wrong way round. The point is the top! The seed splits in Two halves at the thick bottom and there comes a root that turn towards the soil and the two starter leaf direct themselves to the light. You can put them at best 2-4 cm under the soil surface
I don't think I'll take on something like those .... yet LOL The kids brought me a small cone. There were seeds, so we'll see if they come up. My youngest has been keeping some seeds from cherry pits she wants us to try... :)
Sounds like they are getting your bonsai needs in order! Scratching the seed coating worked really well, they seeds swelled up nice and plump!
Tamarind's in tropical Aus has a wet season from Nov-April and then very little rain... the bulk of the rain though comes in late January through to the end of March though. This may or may not help you...
A windy day at Nigel's !! Very stormy here in french britany ! no thunder yet..! hope the weather will be kind for all of our trees ! HAHA the ducks... still ! :)
Yes, we have a very windy cold day today, I mixed up some soil, but it's just not bonsai weather!
Interesting that the bonsai grows stronger at 8:38 in the lower area than above. Perhaps a certain similarity to forsythia, which always strive to grow from below. The vagaries of nature always amaze me. Nice video.
Yes, I don't know why with this tree, it was always strong in the apex, then one year, it barely survived the winter. Maybe the root system is still a bit weak?
10:07 mhhh Pines. I like pines. we need more Pines 😁😁😁😁
I'm sure there are more pines in my future!
@@TheBonsaiZone goooooood. very good. I'll control that!!!! 😂😂😂
great as always. wish i had a greenhouse .. the drop in temps to freezing is killing me. left a like
I'm so glad I have my little one, so much so that I'm building a bigger one too! Even re potting is so much nicer in spring with no wind, rain and warmer temperatures inside!
Man i love that little brass pot , you should do a semi cascade in it !! maybe a mugo pine
I'll be sure to plant it in the future! Thanks!
HELP Hi Nigel I have a small spruce 10 cm some of the new shoots have been looking a little sad. The end tips have went a bit dry. Could it be wind or maybe to much sun. I live in Ireland. Thank you.
Snowed today in Boston
Always expect the unexpected, as Monty Python would say!
Nobody expects the spanish inquisition!
Good luck with the tamarind!
The tamarind seeds are most probably too dry. Why don't you try soaking them in warm water instead, even hot water for few minutes won't harm the seeds. All they need is a good soaking.
I did have them soaking in hot water and then moved them to the warm plant room. After scratching the shells, they seem to be doing much better! Thanks Imelda!
Cute duck noises
Ducks are always fun to have around!
@@TheBonsaiZone , must keep the slugs away.
I would feel guilty about mowing my lawn yesterday, but this is the time of the year when everything here on the west coast just explodes.
I've been meaning to ask; were you a contributing part of the 'cast' on Canadian Gardener? There's something 'familiar' about you and I can't quite figure it out.
Love the updates.
I might have to shovel, we are getting more snow today! I've never been on much else than TH-cam. Thanks R man!
Where did you get the tamarind seeds? I grow tamarind in North Texas from seeds. I bought organic tamarind to eat and save the seeds to grow. I just plant the seeds in garden soil and got 100% germination in a few weeks. I kept them in my living room during the Winter and they look great.
Thanks for the great video! I’ve been wanting to plant a coastal redwood bonsai forest but I’m unsure how big the pot should be. Do you think 3 seedlings 12 inches tall could fit in a 11 inch pot?
Isn't that stagnant water potentially harmful for the ducks to drink and wash in?
When are we getting an update of both your redwoods?
Nigel - Have any of your tamarind seeds germinated? I've tried to germinate them several times at home with no luck. I'm curious to know what I can do to grow a tamarind tree!
Hallo Nigel tolles Video schöne Grüße aus Austria
Hallo, danke, dass du das Video kommentiert und angesehen hast. Weitere werden folgen!
Hi Nigel, when is a good time of the year to go for a walk and harvest some seeds from trees in Canada?
I find late September the best time, the leaves are in the fall colours and if you pick a nice sunny day it's just so beautiful!
@@TheBonsaiZone Thank you Nigel!
Hi Nigel ,nice greetings from Austria,25 degrees here
I haven't seen those temperatures since last summer!
Hi. Foist ?
Hello san5673, you have an offical Foist! Nice going!
Nice san
Nigel u did a show on some very small Bouginvella cuttings. How r they ?
Oh Nigel, don't use the premiere feature. It tends to render videos unwatchable for some reason.
Hi Nigel... geez.. so sad to lose a tree!! But it happens I’m sure!
Yes, when they are planted as small whips they are more vulnerable to damage.
I'm on my second Dawn redwood. Keep them away from cats. Lol.
I'll do that! I've heard it's a bad movie, it could kill any tree!
Nigel Saunders, The Bonsai Zone
They also go my Jacaranda tree I just got a few days ago. You should get one of those trees to Bonsai too.
I just seeded a pot with jacaranda seeds a couple days ago
I have a couple weeks to cat-proof my bonsai area now o.o
Hi Nigel. Love watching your videos. What do you use for your drainage screening and what diameter or width are the holes (in mm)?
It shows what a few latitude degrees can make. I live in th US in hardiness zone 8 min. winter temp 10 f I have a norway maple with about 7 cm of new growth aready.
You made a lil mistake while adressing the different tree specs. M3 is cubic not square. Love your content dude
What about a windbreak of snow fence to keep the windburn off the trees until they get established? Might just save the trees.
That is a good idea for next year, I'll talk to everyone about that. Eventually the trees will fill in and provide a natural windbreak, but until then an excellent idea!
Nigel, how is your Brazilian rain tree doing? Please give us an update, thank you!
Hi nigel, could you show your Chinese elm in a future video when the buds come out? I guess it hasn't yet so you didnt include it. Haha I was trying to see it in this vid as you walked through the garden!
Unfortunately, the Chinese Elm didn't survive the winter, I should have brought it inside the basement for the colder months, but I couldn't that year. Our furnace broke and I had to clean out the basement, and chop firewood, I just didn't get time for the bonsai that year so everything stayed out on the benches. I lost a few nice ones, but luckily most survived!
Ahh that's a bummer but all part of the bonsai journey I guess! Thanks for answering👍
Same with acacia seeds they've got to be scarified to germinate. And they're a royal pain to do because they're so small.
Thanks Todd, we need tiny hands!
@@TheBonsaiZone Right, and when kids grow up they become harder to bribe... 😁👍
we had a sunny Day today in Germany 25 °C but on Monday there should be a drop to 2 °C and Snow. Strange weather here.
That's a sudden change, it's going to feel mighty cold!
@@TheBonsaiZone and i have to bring all my trees back inside. Now i´m sitting in a litle forest :-)
you can soak tamarind seed for like a week, so plump that jar is too small.
I've been growing a Giant Sequoia in a large garden pot for the past four or five years. It's coming along nicely, but will need root pruning next year. I have heard that Sequoia can react very badly to root work though, so I'm concerned about potentially killing it. There seems to be very little information on Giant Sequoia bonsai, but the best information I've found says to treat them essentially like a Juniper. Do you have any insight on these? I'll be following your Redwood progress with interest anyway. Redwoods and Sequoia are fascinating trees.
I'll try and get some giant Sequoia's and do some experimenting on them. Root work can be tricky until you get them sorted out! A general rule with Juniper's is to take no more than a third of the roots away and keep more foliage on the top of the tree to generate energy to grow more roots.
Thanks for the tip Nigel. I'd love to see you try a Sequoia, they're such beautiful trees with amazing red bark. Very underrepresented in the bonsai world it seems.
Is it a good idea to touch all those trees in succession? Can't you spread disease that way? Just asking. :)
If they had an insect problem, you might carry them from one plant to another, but otherwise anything air born would be transmitted anyway.
How do you treat your trees when they get leaf-fungal diseases? I usually treat them applying soap and water on the leaves and even watering them a little with the same mixture, and it seems to work. I was wondering as none of your trees shows any sign of disease.
I rarely get leaf fungal disease, but your idea of soap and water sounds good!
Hey Nigel, do you have any Alberta Spruce bonsai!?
I was wondering in the first year of a trees life, is it necessary to have bonsai soil or can I just use regular soil?
Really just depends on your region, whether it's indoor or outdoor, and how much you can water it.
Hello! I've very recently become interested in bonsai, and have greatly enjoyed your videos the last several days. I have been consuming all I can..
Today I almost ran over a little live oak seedling with my lawnmower, and I would love to try to turn it into a bonsai one day.
I would be greatly appreciative of any advice you could give me on care and bonsai prep of this little guy.
Thanks so much, keep sharing awesome videos!
I have a video series on growing bonsai from seeds, hopefully you will like it!
th-cam.com/play/PLQouTWwmTQow-nd5uHUYQPGbo3bd4WPJl.html
Hi Nigel. Will you be able. Re-use the soil in the acorn tray?
You can re use soil, I try not to, it can have weeds in it and I find that slowly over time the soil particles get algae on them and they loose their water absorbing ability. I use my old soil as a soil additive for soil used in the garden.
Hi Nigel I have a question maybe you could help me with I have 3 bald cypress trees that have been grown good but the front half of the branches are brown but the back half are still green could you tell me what possibly is causing this weird situation please help my Nigel 🙏🙏🙏
It sounds like the tree got a bit dry and the sun scorched one side of the tree? A possibility.
@@TheBonsaiZone Hi again Nigel I’m in Virginia almost October Is it to late to cut off all those branches since it’s starting to get cold especially at night should I remove them now or wait until spring when it starts to grow again thank you so much Nigel you have taught me so much on my favorite channel which is yours ❤️👍❤️👍❤️👍
@@alexismincieli5177 I would wait until spring, you may get buds come out on the dry looking branches.
@@TheBonsaiZone ok thank you so much it just seemed so weird it because it’s not just one side of the cypress it’s around the whole tree all the branches are alive but on every branch the front of the branches are brownish but the back of those branches have perfectly beautiful green I’ve clipped quite a few and everyone is alive with green inside of branches very puzzling. One more question if you don’t mind Nigel do you bring in Chinese elm and fuckien teas in the winter it usually goes no lower than 20/25 in Virginia and that never lasts more than 2/3 weeks please help me I don’t want to lose my babies by the way your the one who got me into bonsais so I guess you can say you are my mentor and I thank you for that thank you so much Nigel 🙏❤️🙏❤️🙏❤️
That coastal redwood looks dead as it looks all dried up from being exposed to the sun too much so all you did there was repot a dead twig with roots.
May is supposed to be end of spring. Is it normal that it is still so cold?
Yes, it doesn't start to warm up here until mid June sometimes! You do get some really nice weather in May some years, but often it is cold.
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Also do you know of a decent place where you can buy training pots online ?
If you are in the United States, try "The Bonsai Supply"
www.amazon.com/shop/wearethebonsaisupply?listId=1EH2C0XFUH6ZO
@@TheBonsaiZone I'm in Alberta , I have looked on amazon they just seemed a bit small. But I will double check on there again. Thank you
How’s your yew bonsai doing ?
Not very well, it's brown and I'm not seeing any signs of life, too much root pruning this time.
Oh no hopefully it will come back in the spring
Idk how you do it nigel ! 28f? I'd freeze to death .
After a long cold winter, this is spring weather here!
Nigel Saunders, The Bonsai Zone . Our winters barely drop below 40F here . And I can barely handle it ! You and your trees are serious troopers
Do you use Lava Rock? I do, less repotting.
I don't use it, because it is very expensive, but some people in our club do and love it!
One question, will lava rock and pumice soil mixture do good? Thanks Nigel! It will help me start my bonsai journey 💚
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Thanks Quinn, loved your last video!
@@TheBonsaiZone thinking of shooting my whole garden today. Plants are looking great,but I wish I had a better garden setup
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After 2G internet has restore I am back you know where I live 😠 thank Nigel
Nigel abonniere dein Kanal lg. Josef