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Show and Tell in The Bonsai Zone, Dec 2019
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 1 ธ.ค. 2019
- I show an update to fifteen of my bonsai! Check out the results of some recent pruning and some trees have been growing well.
To check out Todd's Tropicals TH-cam channel...
/ @toddstropicals
For bonsai J's channel....
/ @bonsaijcan
OMG... !!!
For someone who lives in Brazil, it is absolutely SURREAL to see planets solid frozen in their vases like that... and think they will actually survive!! LOL...
What a miracle nature is! Just beautiful!!
Thanks for sharing!
Yes, it's quite a sight and hard to believe that trees can survive some of the harshest weather thrown at them!
That's what I don't miss about up north when I lived in Michigan... Winter looks beautiful, but I'll enjoy it without freezing temps from Florida. 😉👍
You've so many cool trees, thanks for sharing... The aloe is cool!
And you can bass fish year round!
Thanks Todd, winter does look much more appealing when watching it in a video!
Seeing ice and snow covered bonsai feel like a rare treat, since they are always in such nice conditions at the bonsai shows. Ice is far from ideal but its quite beautiful.
I'll agree, I like to see the bonsai under all kinds of different weather conditions, it makes the hobby very interesting!
My Christmas cactus is blooming! Yours should anytime now!
They have the best flowers ever!
Thx for sharing, I was already getting withdrawal symptoms.
can you give me some tips for my channel "KVR bonsai". i know we got off on the wrong foot the other day but i just want another persons opinion.
I know, a bit of delay between videos, sorry!
Gosh! This is Bonsai Zone Ice Age Nigel 😊 I'm sorry for you guy's that it's that brrrrrr there but boy,.......your trees are looking fantastical!! Absolutely beautiful all that shimmer 💖 and so happy to see the Crown of Thorns doing well, that was another shocking "haircut" to witness 😊 but that goes for all the tree updates, I'm amazed at how swiftly they have grown back in. great video yet again, Thank You Nigel, looking forward to the next one and please keep warm 😊🌹💖🍁
Thank you Karin, the Crown of Thorns is doing really well, it's starting to fill out and get a green canopy once again! Yeah! It's raining here today, so we are starting to lose most of the snow and I can re fill the rain barrel in the plant room!
Absolutely beautiful ice! However, Nigel, I’m glad I live in Texas!
Those frozen Bonsai really looked great. I would've taken pictures and probably upload them on Instagram
I don't have an Instagram account, but if I did, I would too!
@@TheBonsaiZone you totally need an instagram account 😭
Great update, all your bonsai are looking fabulous ! That was a really cool tour of the benches in the freezing rain, the trees looked awesome with the ice on them making them and the elephants like look like they're frozen in time. Great capture ! Your Bullhorn Acacia's and monkey ear seedlings are really growing well, Wow ! I think that one mystery plant beside the Bullhorn Acacia is a Privet Cassia.
Thanks, J, yes Todd confirmed that it is a Privet Cassia, I haven't really seen one as a bonsai, but I'll give it a whirl!
I can remember ice skating on the sidewalk around my neighborhood as a child after an ice storm like you had. ~ Great photo opportunity to capture another aspect of your trees beauty. ~ Neat to see the trees responding to the work you have been doing in recent months. The Carissa looks especially vibrant. Hopefully it will fair better than last winter. ~ Placing the holiday cactus in a spot where the nighttime temperatures are the coolest may help stimulate flowering.
Thanks, I'll have to make a video with all my Natal Plums soon!
As a noobie, thank you for sharing your experience 🙏💡
Sir... The way you see beauty in life, makes me happy.
Thank you!
Thanks for the introduction outdoors. Makes me appreciate the beautiful weather we have here in s. FL USA. Don't think I could ever live through a cold, snowy winter again. WOW! So happy to see that the Pomelo seeds are germinating. Seeing the serissa in flower made my day! You certainly have a green thumb as far as that plant is concerned. Your Ficus religiosa is one of my favorites. I can imagine Buddha seated beneath it. Thanks for an interesting update video. I enjoyed it early this morning with my coffee.
Coffee and Bonsai, go together like a horse and carriage! Thanks Pat, glad you enjoyed the video!
What a delight to just enjoy these trees with you for a bit! Thank you!
Thank you Erik, I love spending a sunny day in the plant room, especially on a cold winter day!
I was wondering if you were ill. Very glad you are well.
I did have a cold for a while, but back at it now!
Nigel - To force Christmas Cactus to bloom, reduce watering and sunlight exposure...you should see flower buds swell in a few weeks!! Thanks for all your vids :)
Thank you Shelton, good advice, I think it needs re potting also, I noticed the growth has slowed down this year.
Excited to see what you do with that coral tree, you're getting quite a collection of South African trees.
It's not on purpose, but the South African trees just seem to grow well in the plant room. One of our club members has a large collection of African plants and he's always giving me cuttings. I do think Africa has some of the greatest trees on Earth!!!!
I don’t know...sometimes it’s crazy.. good thing you have the master list Nigel!! Too cold for me... brrrr❄️❄️❄️❄️. Nice review of how your work progresses!! Thanks
Thanks Holly, the cold weather has just begun!
Love the update and having a look at trees that have become very familiar to me. Thanks, and good luck with your winter.
Thank you Matt, I hope that some day in the far future, we can look back and see the origins of some mature bonsai!
The video of videos! I love progress updates! Thanks again sir.
Thanks Quinn, it is nice seeing progress!
@@TheBonsaiZone so true! Your show and tell video was great, i hope you make that a regular thing.
Nice! I used to have an Easter Cactus like yours and a Christmas cactus. My cats ate one down to a stub and the other froze in one of the apartments I used to live. They flower ad different times of year, Twice a year. I'm thinking of putting my ficus in a larger pot to get it to thicken and grow better. I wish I had the pots you do! I'll make one with wood.
Wooden pots work well, you can make any size and style you want!
Your outside bonsais look magical with all that snow...love your work
Thank you Angie, winter can be very beautiful!
Hi Nigel, this is William Chong from Singapore who send you the pomelo seed, congratulation and looking forward on your future update on the pomelo seedlings.
They are growing really well, thanks very much for sending the seeds, I'll keep posting updates.
I've only recently discovered your channel, and have mainly been watching your ficus videos. Given how well they seem to do, I had assumed you were somewhere much warmer! The trees look fantastic in the ice, I especially love that larch group!
They're all beautiful and fascinating to look at
Thank you very much!
Beautiful and nice collection sir..
Thank you, all works in progress!
I really like your aloe!
I think it will become something really interesting in the future!
Your bonsais look amazing as always.
Thank you Joshua!
Amazing ice scenery!
Thanks Andi, I hope you like the new video!
@@TheBonsaiZone I do!!
Poor elephants! The Aloe bonsai looks great! And so does your 3D printed pots! I have some Flamboyant seeds. If you want to I can send them to you. Just let me know.
Thanks Marcel, i do have some Flamboyant seeds somewhere, i just don't have room to plant them yet! I'll have to wait until the new greenhouse is done.
Hi Nigel, great! I would love to see you grow them from seeds eventually. I planted some seeds yesterday. Curious to see how they develop.
Some crazy freezing rain! Nice to have such a big plant room!
Thanks Rafael, the plant room is my favorite room in the house!
Nigel Saunders, The Bonsai Zone for sure. I can imagine. I also really like the Canada arm
Lights! One day I might have the chance to visit your garden!
Wowwwww! Thank you again for showing us this marvelous world! Grettings from Brazil.
Thank you Pedro, nice to hear!
Very very Beautiful !
Thank you, the tree is growing really well!
By the way, those bullhorn acacias make the thorns to house ants to protect the plant. With that they also make protein packages on the end of the leaflets as food for the ants. On the internet there's a lot of cool pictures of that
Thanks Lynx, I'll have to check that out!
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vachellia_cornigera
A nice tour of your bonsai collection. Nice to see that they have coped well with your cutting measures.
Thank you, with some of those big cuts, you just never know what results you will get!
@@TheBonsaiZone That's the beautiful and exciting always to wait for what opportunities arise after such interventions.
So awesome looking. Like in a snow wonderland. Soo amazing. Thank u and Merry Christmas.
Thank you Renato, have a great Christmas too!
I’m also trying to turn a few pomelo plants I grew from seeds I picked from a fruit we ate! Mine are in their second year though... very fast growers!
Thank you, good to hear, mine are shooting up really well, I'm so excited!
Down in Massachusetts we got snow that is going straight for two days. Stay inside and nice and warm!
Edit: three days
It was bound to show up, like an uninvited house guest!
I have started growing citrus trees from seeds again. I have a lemon cutting that rooted in a very confined pot and it's leaves are quite small from the confinement. I thought that might be helpful to you in the future if you ever want to plan to show a lemon you might try allowing it to get root bound on the year you want to show it and defoliate a couple months before...
Thanks D K, I'll keep that in mind, hopefully some day it will be getting to this stage!
Ahhhh coffee beans and Bonsai
That's the way to enjoy a video!
New too bonsai.. Got given a 7years old chinese elm bonsai for my birthday
A very nice present Mike!
Yes I love her already.. Called her Tomoe Gozen.. After the 11th century women samari
I had no idea your lemon was 30 yrs old. Wow that's a long time to grow a trunk. It must mean a great deal to you.
It was passed down to me, it's getting old just like me!!!!
I've seen some other videos you have shown where you try to grow a pumello. Another Idea is hybrid throw-back. If you have the opportunity to grow a seed from a grapefruit it might be pumello or orange since the grapefruit is a hybrid of these two trees.
Very interesting! Thanks Paul, I didn't know this!
my christmas cactus is in full blossom since weeks :D it already lost the first flowers and start to show new buds
buds just opening on mine zone 7b
I hope mine blooms, we haven't had much light lately, it's been a dark winter so far!
Love your root over temple! My favourite please get someone to help move it with you or a trolley made up. Thx for the interesting video. It's so hot in south Africa you can't walk on the beach sand or concrete without shoes
I think we should send some of our heat to him and he can send us some cold. it's very hot here.
That's hot! I do like winter here, it can be very refreshing taking a long walk on a super cold day!
Nice winter walk, rarely see ice covered bonsai. Like the Australia pine and larch forest. Hope all trees doing well in the rest of winter. Just curious why you don’t put your bonsai under the benches? That way the bonsai may get some protection
I have to keep all my trees off the ground as we have a lot of mice and rabbits that love chewing on the trees!
thank you
You are most welcome, glad you enjoyed the video!
Olá ! Parabéns pelo seu trabalho ! Gosto muito dos seus vídeos . gostaria muito que colocasse legenda em português . grande abraço !
Obrigado, a maioria dos vídeos tem a opção de CC que você pode traduzir para o seu idioma nativo, ele não funciona perfeitamente, mas acho que entendo muito do que está sendo dito.
@@TheBonsaiZone obrigado ! Vou tentar , assim vou poder entender melhor . grande abraço !
Wow!!! Your bullhorn!! The one with pinnate leaves are a native cassia, I'll get you it's botanical name... It's privet cassia (Senna ligustrina)
We have a lot of them down.here in costa rica, ants live in it, the.horns are like little apartments, ants get a house, ants protect the plant
Thank you Todd, i'll try making a bonsai out of it! Yes the Bullhorn Acacia really surprised me with some fantastic growth! The Monkey Ear trees are also doing really well. It's nice to have some rare plants in the collection!
Thanks Francisco, I didn't know this, it's very interesting!
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vachellia_cornigera
Olá Nigel! Mais um Excelente vídeo, sempre vejo todos os seus vídeos, gostaria que colocasse legendas em português, seus seguidores do Brasil agradecem. Hi Nigel, one more excellent video, I always watch all of your videos, I would like to ask you to put portuguese subtitles on your videos, your Brasilian followers thank you .
You can activate auto translate, click CC on and then hit the gear icon and pick your language you want the subtitles to be translated into!
Hi there how are you doing?
Good to see the trees after a long time and hope that you are doing well and your trees . The trees are looking gorgeous because of the snow covered on them . And how is your first day of winter and I think Christmas Eve had started there.. good luck 👍... with your trees
Thank you, we are back to rain today and almost all the snow has melted away. I'll be cleaning out the basement this week and getting ready to bring the rest of the trees down for the winter when the colder weather hits in a couple of weeks. Time is passing by quickly as it always does in The bonsai Zone!
Fungus gnat at 20:08 on the willow leaf ficus? On the soil to the right of the base.
Yes, I have to get some yellow sticky papers for the room! Thanks!
I saw ur video on pruning of euphorbia millii. It was dated Oct 2019 if I m not mistaken. & now u r showing the new shoots growing in this video. But I wanna know how long will ur euphorbia millii take to be in sort of a canopy shape!?
🙏🏻 Mumbai India 🇮🇳
your cutting of a cutting looks really good, maybe try the back as the front it looks really really good hot damn
Thank you, it's coming along, lots more to sort out, but it will get there!
I would love to know how often you water your crown of thorns and the lighting situation its in, it looks very happy! My crown of thorns bonsai is looking very sad lately since I brought it inside for winter
I mist the Crown of Thorns twice a day and water it when the soil starts to look dry. It is placed near a sunny window, but we have been getting a lot of cloudy days lately. I do have some LED lights in the plant room that help brighten up the room in winter! The Crown of Thorns is really filling out nicely after it's last hard pruning!
Hi Nigel, do you plan on making your 3d model available ? They look very good and I would love to print some for myself !
I lost all the models of pots I had created when my hard drive crashed, but I'll be making more soon! I'll show each pot in a video, stay tuned!
I can never be first - anyway - no doubt another great video Nigel .
Keep trying, you will become one day, anyway just funny competition, Im 2 time foister...
Thank you Dave, may the foist be with you!
Not first!
But just as important!
the freezing rain doesn't mess with the heath of your trees? a few years ago we had a freezing rain where I live in the US and I had about 3 trees that where left out from under cover. they didn't make it come spring. blamed it on the freezing rain bc its was only those 3 that didn't make it out of all my trees. now seeing yours its got me thinking It was something else I did to kill the 3.
I don't think the freezing rain will kill your trees, the ice layer will even protect the tree from drying winter winds. I would suspect another factor caused there demise.
Love your work. I’m currently planning my first bonsai project - an oak. My best friend just passed away and we always hung out under an oak tree. I’m planning to collect seeds from it next year and attempt my first bonsai. Any tips?
Sounds like a nice project to remember your friend. I would collect the acorns in fall and then keep them cool over the winter. In spring, soak the acorns in rain water for a couple of days and then plant them in soil. They should germinate. Be sure to always protect the acorns from mice and squirrels, they will find them! Even when the seedlings are growing, you will need to protect them from animals until they loose the acorn shell completely, this usually happens in the first year.
Nigel Saunders, The Bonsai Zone thank you so much for the advice! I’ll do that and hopefully report back in a few years time!!
Or carve that bulbous root, like you did on that one tree. It's a ficus, so it should heal well.
Thanks Zack, that is a good possibility for future action!
👌👌👌...!!!
Thanks Sunit, glad you enjoyed the video!
Have you made vids on the last lemon tree?
When it comes to deciduous trees do you still keep them in full sun all winter? Do you still water them? I’m in Florida kinda close to the Bonsai supply and my elms and bald cypress haven’t even gone dormant yet. We just had a cold front and it got down to 40-45 a couple days ago. I brought all my tropicals inside and they exploded with growth it was insane!
I keep my tropical trees outside until a risk of frost is forecast. The trees then go inside and with the extra heat, they think it's spring and begin to grow wild! Inside I position them in my plant room that has south facing windows, so they get as much sun as possible. I do continue to water and fertilize them over the winter until they can go back outside in spring!
very scary, but very beautiful! Do you make some photos?)
I didn't, I haven't gone shooting stills for a long time, i'll have to get out and just do it!
Blz de plantas Nigel !!
Qual o tipo de lâmpada que vc usa para realizar a fotossíntese?
Um forte abraço
A maior parte da luz na minha sala de plantas vem da janela voltada para o sul, mas também tenho algumas luzes LED regulares que ajudam nos dias nublados. As luzes LED não são luzes de cultivo especiais, mas do tipo que você compraria para uma luz de garagem.
Nigel Saunders, The Bonsai Zone ok Nigel, essa iluminação no vídeo parece ser especial...
Um forte abraço amigo!
even good pomelo seeds look all shrinked and wrinkly sometimes i always thought it was pretty normal for them, they usually take their time... i just got an amazingly beautiful albino pomelo seedling from the worst looking seed i've ever seen... too bad albino trees never survive cuz they obviously need the green pigments to get nutritions from the sun... but they're really really pretty when they're smol
Wow, I've been reading up on albino trees, some can survive by drawing enough energy through the fungus attached to their roots, but as you say, most live a very short life! I have 4 Pomelo trees growing well now, I'm so excited!
@@TheBonsaiZone i will probably try to graft the seedling onto an older citrus tree... the bad part is that i dun have any pomelo trees that i could use so i'll have to graft it onto a clementine tree wich is basically the same thing... they're both citrus so i think it will live on fine... ifyou graft them onto a normal tree they can get the nutritions from the other parts but you'll still have a fully albino growing brench
I keep hearing ice will kill my plants...yet yours are out....what do I do sir?...its my first year....they are inside...but I feel they are staying too wet due to the unheated room they are in...they are not expelling water but they are not freezing either...worried about rot....should I be?...thanks Nige.
Hello Lee and Kevin, The trees have been outdoors and they get acclimatized to the cold weather as it goes from summer to winter. When the trees are dormant, they can take pretty much everything mother nature throws at them!
I keep my hardy trees outside on the benches until the night time temperature drops below -15 C (5 F). My more tender trees are already in the basement and the rest will go inside usually mid December.
This is a garden of Santa Claus. :))
Ha, yes it seems that way! Thanks!
Bout time for an upload haha. Just kidding...back to the video...
I hate going that long without an upload, but I couldn't get to my trees that week, just one of those weeks!
Do you not need to winterize the pine trees? Isn't frost bad for the roots?
The trees get used to the cold temperatures as winter approaches and most can survive down to -15 C without a problem. Pine sap remains a liquid even down to -25 C!
Hi, what fertilizer do you use with every watering? Thanks
I put a pinch of powdered 20-20-20 in my watering can.
Nigel, have you done something with the pine cone I brought you from Italy?
I have the seeds right in front of me, I'll plant them in spring and hopefully they will germinate! If you need a ride to this months meeting, let me know and I can pick you up. This month is a social pot luck dinner. You can email me if you need a ride...
thekwbonsaisociety@gmail.com
Hi , what’s soil and fertilizer you used for lemon tree , thanks
My soil is 1/2 perlite and 1/2 turface. I use a water soluable fertilizer 20-20-20 and add a small amount with each watering.
Hi Nigel,
I got one ficus microcarpa but it does not look good can I send you foto if you have some suggestion how to fix it?
Thank you Nigel
Sure, you can send the pictures to...
thekwbonsaisociety@gmail.com
Thanks!
Really liked this video, very inspiring !!! Quick question :how old is your Christmas cactus ? 'cause mine is 4 and still no sign of bark :-(
My daughter got a small stem from middle school and as of right now (it's over 10 years old now) the christmas cactus has a nice bark covered stem. I can't remember exactly when, but I would wager around 5 years of age it probably started getting slowly more and more brown and woody looking.
Yes, I think mine started to go woody after about 5 years of good growing!
the ice is amazing! so pretty ❄⛄
I have a question... I need to start buying bonsai tools soon, but I realised that I might have some problems because I'm left handed. Does anyone have any left-handed experience with bonsai tools? thank you!
Only tools that use a bypass style cutting motion, like standard scissors, would give you trouble. we lefties have to learn to use right-handed shears.
Jeff Nelson thank you for replying! do you find using normal bonsai tools left handed works ok then? I can buy left-handed shears, but considering the price I was wondering if it would be better to learn to cut right handed haha. As you would know, some right-handed scissors work fine in the left-hand, and others just won't cut anything. My biggest problem with this has been in a fabric cutting scissors for sewing. I just absolutely cannot use normal scissors - they won't cut. So I was worried I would end up with his problem for bonsai tools..
Hello Katy, I think most bonsai tools are symmetrical and can be used in either hand, I do have one tool that has a slight offset, for right handed people, but it can be used in either hand OK.
Hello Nigel,
is it not dangerous for the roots ? there are not so much soil level.
When the temperature gets colder it can be dangerous, I bring the trees into the basement for January and February. They are fine done to about -15 C.
I have a plant that is very similar to the one you called a monkey seed tree but mine came from a seed that looks like a Apple seed I am very confused on what I actually have
Inside the Monkey Ear pods are the individual seeds which are about the size of an Apple tree, the pod does need to be opened up and the small seeds planted!
You sound full of a cold mate hope your ok ..
Yes the whole family was sick for a while, but we are on the mend finally! I rarely get sick, but this one was a tough one!
Have you come to.costa rica
Maybe some day in my future travels! I haven't been there yet.
Nigel, are you leaving these trees outside all winter?
No, they usually come in mid December when it begins to get really cold!
Can u carve the large root
It is a possibility! i'll have to see how everything develops and then decide what to do.
Love larches ,too bad they die a horrible death once we hit triple digits in temperature here in Texas . Hell they start getting weaker once it hit the high 90s also .
Yes, they are definitely a cold weather tree, but you have the Texas Ebony, that I can't grow here!
@@TheBonsaiZone yes sir but you'll be able to grow them once you get your big greenhouse going .
And. The. Hair...goes wild!!!!!
A special winter cut!
What temperature is your plant room?
It varies with the outside temperature and the daytime high and night time lows, but generally it goes from 15 C to 25 C on a cloudy day, on a sunny day it will get to 34 C!
@@TheBonsaiZone thankyou!! 👌
Do you have a Jade plant, sir ! Show me !! :-D
Yes, I have a Jade forest and also a single large Jade from a cutting that I started last year. Here are the playlists for these trees....
th-cam.com/play/PLQouTWwmTQoyFxAwlVL8L1aXNl_fJavtx.html
th-cam.com/video/n71boEQHh1I/w-d-xo.html
What is the tree name at 2:50 ?
Those are North American Larch trees!
🌱🌳👍
Thank you Jan!
Might I suggest you put a sign on each of your plants with info about the type of plant and it's age?
I will be 3D printing some signs this year that I can place into the soil, should be fun!
What kind of 3D printer do you have?
I don't have one yet, I have been using the one at the library so far. I will be getting one this winter, stay tuned for the 3D printing videos to come!
Second
D K great job at second!!!
Thanks D K!
Foist
Congratulations Adam on a fine Foist!
I just may be a profoistsional foister. I think I'm going to retire my thumbs for awhile though so Mary doesn't hate me forever! Haha
Aloe DOES NOT make a good bonsai...at all.
p.s. Please cut your hair my man!, it's just too rediculous now... c'mon now Nigel.
Nigel is letting his hair grow rampant, the same as he lets his bonsai grow 👍👍.............when he's ready he'll 'prune' his hair 💜.
Thanks for your thoughts on Aloe bonsai, they can make fantastic trees in nature, why not for bonsai also? Nothing wrong with crazy hair either!
I definitely agree that there is nothing wrong with your hair 👍💜