Cuttings strike easily with Rosemary. I killed a healthy tree this fall but the cuttings I took all made it! I started Pomegranates from seed three years ago. This past summer( growing season 2) some of them flowered! I am very pleased with how well they grow!
Hi Nigel! When I saw "rosemary" I got excited - a plant I actually know about! Your plant looks a little leggy/anemic to me - but as you said almost everything I was going to say and can't help day length or rainfall, my only other thought is it might be over-fertilized. I know people here (granted we get longer hotter days which makes it easier) who grow them in a combo of pea gravel and sand with almost no organic matter and fertilize lightly once a month once the growing season starts. As I know you have mentioned that you do dilute fertilizer every watering in growing season, maybe it's getting too much nitrogen? Despite the pH (6.5-7) suggested I find it grows best closer to 7 and even a little higher, than lower. Maybe try give it a nice boost in Spring then limit fertilizer - and yes, when a few days or rain in a row are coming, bring it in greenhouse. Good luck with it!
@@arkapadma i think Nigel's might have been a bit overfed as they looked leggy compared to my own - I feed mine (large pot) half-strsngth Miracle Gro once a month or so - but also my growing season is long and it gets very hot here.
@@arkapadma It makes sense when you realize their native home is the sand dunes on the shores of the Mediterranean. Rosmarinus is Latin for sea foam or sea dew.
I love your dwarf pomegranate! 😍 Very good that you kept the branch at the left. The view from the back I find dramatic because the leader is going backwards strongly. I have several dwarf variety trees indoors the whole year for more than 3 years now and they grow strongly constantly and never drop leafs. The standard variety needs a cool dormant period in order to survive.
Hi Nigel, Keep up the good work. I have struggled with Rosemary. Mine refuses to back bud and is very apically dominant. I tried grafting lower branches without success. I recently found a pendulous form and took some cuttings. Luckily Rosemary is very easy to propagate from cuttings. The pendulous version is called 'prostratus'. I think working with the pendulous variant is much easier for bonsai though it may initially be supported. I do think Rosemary has potential. While they do like lots of sun I find they are also sensitive to drying out. Mine thrive with daily water in draining soil. I live in San Francisco so we have cold summers and Rosemary grows well in the area in large 4' bushes. Be well, Mats
There’s enough healthy foliage on that Rosemary. I think it should bounce back with a little TLC. The Pomegranate and Oak are nicely set up for next year.
You're so brave when I saw the Pomegranate I was stunned how much you cut off. I couldn't do it lol. That's why you have beautiful Bonsai and I don't 😊 Hopefully I'll get brave with more experience
I have a qs Nigel.. In winter plants growth stops. Also generally speaking if v prune hard with no leaves then that becomes a tough time for plants to grow In ur case u r pruning hard leaving no leaves and that also in with. Both situations hamper growth. My qs is that isn't it dangerous situation for the plant. Isn't it high chances for it to die. I wanted to prune my trees but I afraid that they might die. Plz advice and explain with ur expert advice. Maybe u can do a video to explain about the right time to prune. Which trees to hard prune and in which season
Great video, was really diggin how good you are at getting the right angles to show your work. I reverse seasoned my rosemary. They go dormant/slow down all summer outside. First frost, through them in the grow tent and they grow small dense vigorous foliage…🤷🏼♂️
I have never luck with rosemarys in pots. They always creep and die at the end. I tried calcareous soil ingredients without success. In the ground in the garden they thrive really well even though we had a very wet summer. My next and last attempt is to use almost no fertilizer.
my rosemary hates dry soil. it tends to use quite a bit of water and does not like drying out. i'm finding this to be the case even in these colder months
Hello, Nigel! Never used that rubber cement packing material you mentioned, but have stuck to cyanoacryl superglue instead for cases when cut matured and overwintered wood. I have packed some plum-cherry (all ages)and citrus tree (2 and 3 seasons wood) in a course of past half year. In living room conditions it dryback little. Still use this method. Has you ever tested this way? Good if it would be useful. Thank for your videos!
Thank you for the video. What are your bonsai soil components? I grow my rosmaries bonsai in 100% akadama, not any organic component in soil, and I'm in the mediterranian area! They really don't like any soil keeping too much moist.
So today can be fish for dinner ]]] becouse Rosemary is very good with fish . Or steak 🥩 🥩 . If you are vegetarian then mash patetos are good with rosemary.
The problem with Rosemary as bonsai is that they doesn’t really like when you mess with their roots, resulting in weak growth and branches dying off or even killing the tree. Since you bare rooted it, pruned it and washed off all the old soil it may take several years before it gets healthy again. Just keep at it and I think it’ll bounce back!🪴
Hello Nigel! In nature, rosemary grows in calcareous soils. Adding a little bit of dolomitic limestone granules to the soil mix might help.
I think it will bounce back. First Year it sleeps, Second year it creeps & Third Year, it leaps! 😀
Sounds familiar 😊
Cute!!👍
Love it
Hi Nigel
I gave up on rosemary: it never buds back...
Your pomegranate looks fine!
Grts
Kennet
Cuttings strike easily with Rosemary. I killed a healthy tree this fall but the cuttings I took all made it! I started Pomegranates from seed three years ago. This past summer( growing season 2) some of them flowered! I am very pleased with how well they grow!
Hi Nigel!
When I saw "rosemary" I got excited - a plant I actually know about!
Your plant looks a little leggy/anemic to me - but as you said almost everything I was going to say and can't help day length or rainfall, my only other thought is it might be over-fertilized.
I know people here (granted we get longer hotter days which makes it easier) who grow them in a combo of pea gravel and sand with almost no organic matter and fertilize lightly once a month once the growing season starts.
As I know you have mentioned that you do dilute fertilizer every watering in growing season, maybe it's getting too much nitrogen?
Despite the pH (6.5-7) suggested I find it grows best closer to 7 and even a little higher, than lower.
Maybe try give it a nice boost in Spring then limit fertilizer - and yes, when a few days or rain in a row are coming, bring it in greenhouse.
Good luck with it!
You might try using highly diluted tomato food. Tomato foods usually have trace elements, calcium, and more phosphorus and Potassium than nitrogen.
so it is better to starve them a bit from organic matter?
@@arkapadma i think Nigel's might have been a bit overfed as they looked leggy compared to my own - I feed mine (large pot) half-strsngth Miracle Gro once a month or so - but also my growing season is long and it gets very hot here.
@@arkapadma It makes sense when you realize their native home is the sand dunes on the shores of the Mediterranean. Rosmarinus is Latin for sea foam or sea dew.
Interesting, did you place them on full sunlight 12h/day or shaded region 6h/day of light?@@TitanUranusOfficial
I love your dwarf pomegranate! 😍 Very good that you kept the branch at the left. The view from the back I find dramatic because the leader is going backwards strongly.
I have several dwarf variety trees indoors the whole year for more than 3 years now and they grow strongly constantly and never drop leafs. The standard variety needs a cool dormant period in order to survive.
I like the oak. Really a cool little tree.
Hi Nigel,
Keep up the good work. I have struggled with Rosemary. Mine refuses to back bud and is very apically dominant. I tried grafting lower branches without success. I recently found a pendulous form and took some cuttings. Luckily Rosemary is very easy to propagate from cuttings. The pendulous version is called 'prostratus'. I think working with the pendulous variant is much easier for bonsai though it may initially be supported. I do think Rosemary has potential. While they do like lots of sun I find they are also sensitive to drying out. Mine thrive with daily water in draining soil. I live in San Francisco so we have cold summers and Rosemary grows well in the area in large 4' bushes.
Be well,
Mats
Rosemary make good windowsill bonsai..you can trim bits off during cooking.
I had planted some rosemary in some red dirt it was so rocky and it did great good luck it wants to thrive
All that pruning and that Pom is ready for some spring growth. Now for its winter sleep.
You'll win that Rosemary over! I know it! Great show! Amazing what the pomegranates can handle!
Rosemary difficult for me to winter over in the basement. Yours is real cool. Nice trunks on it. With your skills, it will grow. Nice Pom from Xin.
There’s enough healthy foliage on that Rosemary. I think it should bounce back with a little TLC. The Pomegranate and Oak are nicely set up for next year.
Loving the pomegranate; I don't have one but I've got a Virginia Creeper styled virtually identical.
You're so brave when I saw the Pomegranate I was stunned how much you cut off. I couldn't do it lol. That's why you have beautiful Bonsai and I don't 😊
Hopefully I'll get brave with more experience
Thanks.
Im still waiting for another Blue Sky Bonsai video.. I love how the pomegranate is coming along, excellent 🙂
I have three rosemary plants, they all had muted growth this summer. So you aren't alone, I'm relatively near you in western NY.
Hi Nigel great trees I think I see a scale bug on that elevated root at 21:51
I have a qs Nigel..
In winter plants growth stops. Also generally speaking if v prune hard with no leaves then that becomes a tough time for plants to grow
In ur case u r pruning hard leaving no leaves and that also in with. Both situations hamper growth.
My qs is that isn't it dangerous situation for the plant. Isn't it high chances for it to die.
I wanted to prune my trees but I afraid that they might die.
Plz advice and explain with ur expert advice.
Maybe u can do a video to explain about the right time to prune. Which trees to hard prune and in which season
Great video, was really diggin how good you are at getting the right angles to show your work.
I reverse seasoned my rosemary. They go dormant/slow down all summer outside. First frost, through them in the grow tent and they grow small dense vigorous foliage…🤷🏼♂️
I have never luck with rosemarys in pots. They always creep and die at the end. I tried calcareous soil ingredients without success. In the ground in the garden they thrive really well even though we had a very wet summer. My next and last attempt is to use almost no fertilizer.
Nigel, try reducing your fertilizing on plants with aphids. See if it solves the problem.
Yes, sometimes I think he over fertilised a tad (I think most bonsai folk do actually!)
Hi Nigel. Rosemary might like a bit of limestone in the soil.
my rosemary hates dry soil. it tends to use quite a bit of water and does not like drying out. i'm finding this to be the case even in these colder months
Hello, Nigel! Never used that rubber cement packing material you mentioned, but have stuck to cyanoacryl superglue instead for cases when cut matured and overwintered wood.
I have packed some plum-cherry (all ages)and citrus tree (2 and 3 seasons wood) in a course of past half year. In living room conditions it dryback little. Still use this method.
Has you ever tested this way?
Good if it would be useful.
Thank for your videos!
Ready for spring myself as well!! 😂
Just need to hang in there for 6 months or so. ☀️
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I never keep my rosemary inside. I just put it in the unheated greenhouse when it freezes below -5°C
How are you making the leaves small on everything. ?
21:44 Somehwere around here could make a good front🌳
Thank you for the video. What are your bonsai soil components? I grow my rosmaries bonsai in 100% akadama, not any organic component in soil, and I'm in the mediterranian area! They really don't like any soil keeping too much moist.
So today can be fish for dinner ]]] becouse Rosemary is very good with fish . Or steak 🥩 🥩 . If you are vegetarian then mash patetos are good with rosemary.
Rosemary is nice with soups and stews
Rosemary are picky. It’s better to start with a young plant. Once they get old and woody it’s almost impossible to shape them.
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how many years rosemary can last? I try to find it online but people give different time.
It's highly variable, but it can live a long time.
Rosemarys dont heal very well you can leave the dead branches and make a little jin is the way they grow in nature
I think your hair need to be pruned
That's nothing! Mine is waist length 😂
The problem with Rosemary as bonsai is that they doesn’t really like when you mess with their roots, resulting in weak growth and branches dying off or even killing the tree. Since you bare rooted it, pruned it and washed off all the old soil it may take several years before it gets healthy again. Just keep at it and I think it’ll bounce back!🪴
It slowly, very slowly, got weaker and weaker and eventually died. I'll have to try again and adjust my techniques!!! Thanks!!