Can you make a video showing how you get primary branches to grow where you want them? Maybe if you did a series that follows one or a few trees from the start would be dope.
Yeah that would be awesome! I struggle to put it all together in my head. Having a playlist for one tree from start to finish would give us an idea on how it progressed. Amazing trees...you got skills bro!
@@LittleJadeBonsai I have a young Portulacaria afra. I really would like to know how to train a young plant to develop into something that looks like a tree. We know that the Portulacaria is actually a bush and it grows naturally like a bush. It takes some kind of know how to turn a bush into a tree. Please help.
THANK YOU!!!!! This is so helpful!! I am so excited and this is my favorite plant because I rescued her from a Walmart trash can. She’s so big now and I have her babies all over my house. It’s so lovely.
Great video! I watch a lot of bonsai videos and yours are some of the very best. Simple, informative, they give me something I can USE. I live in Florida and have lots of ports in my landscaping, many growing down and over large boulders. I've never focussed on making them into bonsai but now I'm INSPIRED. THANK YOU!!!
Brand new to bonsai and just bought a little Jade pre-bonsai. Scouring the web for information and how to get started and this video is the best so far. Would love to learn your thought process on how you trim to establish your branching when you're starting from the pre-bonsai stage.
I love how you promote constant cutting while Nigel Saunders trims every year... I can see both of your results, which are both amazing, so I know I can experiment and do whatever my trees need! Thank youi so much for the information
Very awesome! I love what you are doing with ports. Very underutilized bonsai. I think you should do a video on a neglected port and teach us how to get it into “little jade bonsai” shape.
I just love your obsession for lil port! you are a proud owner of some very beautiful ports! I would love to see a demonstration on how to start Port RootOverRock. I guess ROR design is so in demand and many viewers will benefit from it. Waiting for it eagerly!.
I learned so much from this video! I have old (20 years+) jade plants have massive trunjks and are actually pretty wild looking, which I like. But thanks to you, I'm going to try my hand at turning in a newer plant into a bonsai. Thanks for the excellent videos.
I am new to Bonsai… just in the process of trying to educate myself before I spend money into something that I might lose interest later on…. I found your video, although an old video, to be of great Interest… and a subject of several of my questions: how and when to trim, how often and how much water … how often to fertilize, how to judge when to cut a branch that is growing the wrong way, or remove unwanted leaves.. etc etc…. Thank yiu for the information you provide in this video.. I just subscribed to your channel… I will go thru your videos and see IF I can find answers to my questions…
Have been following you this year on Instagram. Very instructional. Am learning and applying your concepts daily and since I am in my 70's am looking for some more established ones to add to my small underdeveloped collection so I can also do some maintenance work.
I would like to see a series of vids on starter trees also. from small cuttings. how to create primary branches etc. would be good as I'm guessing you have enough to use different trees at different stages to speed up the series , rather than filming over say, a 5 year period. great video, looking forward to seeing more 👍🏼😊
This is an awesome video very helpful. What I would like to see and others will agree im sure is how to develop a plant. Show us more of the process on a progressing plant rather than a maintenance plant.
awesome video. awesome tree. This was the info I needed. I just started with a dwarf jade and had no idea how to develop ramification. My suggestion for video idea is how to develop roots/nabari, I have a jade with a pretty thick truck that has roots only growing on one side.
I know this is a couple years old but it is new to me. Great video. I use a tomato clamp thingies, that is a Japanese word meaning duhicki, and string or wire. The clamp doesn't mark plant and easily comes off without cutting.
Great informative video! Can you make a video on turning nursery stock with really long branches into bonsai? I feel like I just have to completely prune the branches off from mine and start over in order to make it look nice.
Thanks for this! My spekbome (P. afra) are several months old and were grown from truncheons. They're looking very sparse, and I've realised it's because I've just let them grow basically untouched! Poor things are going to get the pruning of their lives today...
Really excellent looking trees...My question would be if you have a particular type of Portulacaria you want to propagate, how long should you let the branches grow to provide viable cuttings...
Looking forward to a repotting. I've gotten so much conflicting info! Seems I let mine get to dry during some portion of the process. Everything I hear or read implies they will rot if they even look at water, anytime near or after a report.
Can you do a video about starting a bonsai tree from an established elephant bush plant that has never been trimmed? My plants are falling over because the center trunk of the plant is very weak.
Kown as speckboom ( specckled/spotted tree in Afrikaans. Or elephant bush . The leaves are tasty added to pastas cut & diced adds a tinge of citrus. It's value is also that it's proven to extract more carbon dioxide than nything from the Amazon rainforest. So please grow them into hedges & do ur part for the environment. As a succulent it also doesn't need much watering.
Little Jade Bonsai. Nice video. I enjoyed the tree and your insights. There seems to be a lot of back and forth about sacrificial branches, and thickening up trunks and branches, but I've also thought that more division leads to more foliage thus everything lower than that gets thicker. Especially with fast-growing trees like the PA. I'm in MN, so my trees need to be inside for a long time, but my trees are loving my plant room environment right now. Are you trimming all year long where you are or do you back off for a while during winter season whatever that means where you are?
I just planted some dwarf jade cuttings into pots 😊 But I just read that I should just leave then to grow for a year before shaping and wiring. It's the opposite of what you just stated in the video though 😥😥... I want the trunk to be pretty thick and they say to leave them for a thicker trunk. Could you help clear up what the best approach is?
Hello Joseph I have some Dwarf jade too.i made my cuttings have thick trunk some of them I plant them in the ground and some of it are in let’s say 2 gallon Container I left them fertilize water them for 2 years and wow I got a thick trunk!!!Now I’m training them into bonsai but I’m not an expert I just love the Port Afra Bonsai
I have a new Dwarf Jade coming in the mail in a couple weeks and I have never had one before. It is coming in a 4 inch pot. So, what do I do when I receive it besides open the box and unpack. What do I need to do with it?
I have many jade plants in my yard and u guess they are over 40 years old , I remember my Dad planting the first cutting when I was a kid. If I wanted to take a cutting and train it as bonsai, am I better off taking a thick part or a fresh new growth cutting?
I just started learn growing portucalaria afra. I find your videos, and I thank you, 'couse its simply, and I love your style. I try make small bonsay as you. So thanks....I would like to ask. How offten trim the trees? Does it matter which season? Sorry, but my englihs is not perfect, and I dont understund exactly
Hi Gilbert, my question is if you prune back to the first two leaves on a branch each time I prune, then aren't i just cutting off the new ramification? I'm not following what you are saying. Thanks for any help. Love your videos.
Nice tree! I’m just getting into bonsai. I’m collecting bonsai material and I think dwarf jade might be a quick and easy way to go. Keep those videos coming. What type of soil can I get by with as I don’t have regular bonsai soil available
I bought a port afra from lowes in a huge 3 gallon it’s potted in coir should I remove it and repot with a 50/50 organic inorganic will they do ok in 70/30inorganic organic ?
How can I create ramification when I already have long branches? Can I hard prune it back to shorter branches and expect backbuding? Was thinking maybe to much energy would go into the few short branches i don't cut. Would really make my year if i found this out!
Yes, if your tree is established in its container, you can hard prune down the long branches. Then immediately after cutting, apply slow release fertilizer like Osmocote to the surface of the soil and water it in with liquid Miracle Gro. This will greatly help push out new growth.
Que buenos vídeos... A mi también me gustan mucho las Portulacarias Afra. Alguna vez has hecho injertos en ellas? Cómo lo hiciste y cómo te fue con eso?
Hi! I got some questions. i’m wondering if i should repot some trees.... to some wider web containers, to let the roots run wider. u think i should? they’re currently on plastic pots
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Can you make a video showing how you get primary branches to grow where you want them? Maybe if you did a series that follows one or a few trees from the start would be dope.
Thank you for the suggestion! It’s on my list to make for sure. 👍🏼
That would be awesome ! I’d love to see how to get a Portulacaria to grow from a cutting into credible bonsai tree 🌲
Yea me too, got a few I have started, really enjoy your videos! Thanks for all the work you are doing!
Yeah that would be awesome! I struggle to put it all together in my head. Having a playlist for one tree from start to finish would give us an idea on how it progressed. Amazing trees...you got skills bro!
@@LittleJadeBonsai I have a young Portulacaria afra. I really would like to know how to train a young plant to develop into something that looks like a tree. We know that the Portulacaria is actually a bush and it grows naturally like a bush. It takes some kind of know how to turn a bush into a tree. Please help.
I’m loving your channel and the fact you focus on baby jades, there is not much content on them on YT in English. Thank you :)
Thank you!
THANK YOU!!!!! This is so helpful!! I am so excited and this is my favorite plant because I rescued her from a Walmart trash can. She’s so big now and I have her babies all over my house. It’s so lovely.
Thanks for your video l! I learned more how and why to trim than anything I've seen today on utube.
That makes me happy! 💚🌳
This was one of the best bonsai videos I've seen! Thanks for the detailed information!
Great video! I watch a lot of bonsai videos and yours are some of the very best. Simple, informative, they give me something I can USE. I live in Florida and have lots of ports in my landscaping, many growing down and over large boulders. I've never focussed on making them into bonsai but now I'm INSPIRED. THANK YOU!!!
Brand new to bonsai and just bought a little Jade pre-bonsai. Scouring the web for information and how to get started and this video is the best so far. Would love to learn your thought process on how you trim to establish your branching when you're starting from the pre-bonsai stage.
I love how you promote constant cutting while Nigel Saunders trims every year... I can see both of your results, which are both amazing, so I know I can experiment and do whatever my trees need! Thank youi so much for the information
Love this! Yes you gotta do what works for you. I have done both but prefer to trim often. Thanks for watching!
Very awesome! I love what you are doing with ports. Very underutilized bonsai. I think you should do a video on a neglected port and teach us how to get it into “little jade bonsai” shape.
This is exactly how I prune my basil! Thank you so much. This view is absolutely gorgeous!
I just love your obsession for lil port! you are a proud owner of some very beautiful ports!
I would love to see a demonstration on how to start Port RootOverRock. I guess ROR design is so in demand and many viewers will benefit from it. Waiting for it eagerly!.
I learned so much from this video! I have old (20 years+) jade plants have massive trunjks and are actually pretty wild looking, which I like. But thanks to you, I'm going to try my hand at turning in a newer plant into a bonsai. Thanks for the excellent videos.
This is going to be helpful when I trim mine for the first time tomorrow. Thank you!
Absolutely beautiful. You are the king of dwarf jade. I hope you come back with more videos.
I am new to Bonsai… just in the process of trying to educate myself before I spend money into something that I might lose interest later on…. I found your video, although an old video, to be of great Interest… and a subject of several of my questions: how and when to trim, how often and how much water … how often to fertilize, how to judge when to cut a branch that is growing the wrong way, or remove unwanted leaves.. etc etc…. Thank yiu for the information you provide in this video.. I just subscribed to your channel… I will go thru your videos and see IF I can find answers to my questions…
Thanks for the wiring tip. I have been doing a lot of trial and error. It helps to know that there are other methods to wiring.
Hey that was my first time watching a tutorial about cutting branches and it was so heloful ✨
Awesome!
Have been following you this year on Instagram. Very instructional. Am learning and applying your concepts daily and since I am in my 70's am looking for some more established ones to add to my small underdeveloped collection so I can also do some maintenance work.
I would like to see a series of vids on starter trees also. from small cuttings. how to create primary branches etc.
would be good as I'm guessing you have enough to use different trees at different stages to speed up the series , rather than filming over say, a 5 year period.
great video, looking forward to seeing more 👍🏼😊
Still should.
Great video, great concise info about ports, I trimmed my tree while watching!
You've given this tree such a beautiful shape 😊 thank you for sharing your experience and knowledge 🙏
So glad I found your channel just got my first Jade from a nursery excited to take care of it.
Love the Jade bonsai! My mom has a Jade in the yard that has just grown wild and now I'm dying to work on it. Thank you so much!
Little jade bonsai are you not making videos anymore? I so enjoy your lessons and your beautiful trees
I love these, they respond so well to pruning - your tree is amazing!!! 👌👌👍
Thank you!
@@LittleJadeBonsai Your so welcome! 👍👍
What an amazing collection you have. So impressive!
Very educational and informative. Im looking to get my first Jade very soon. Keep the videos coming. Max here from Indonesia
I already learned so much from you in this video. Looking forward to learn more from you in your future videos
How to grow that thick roots? And do you repotted roots little above the soil so that they are thick?
Great vlog mate👍 I'm in the early stages with my mini jades so this is really useful information.
This is an awesome video very helpful. What I would like to see and others will agree im sure is how to develop a plant. Show us more of the process on a progressing plant rather than a maintenance plant.
awesome video. awesome tree. This was the info I needed. I just started with a dwarf jade and had no idea how to develop ramification. My suggestion for video idea is how to develop roots/nabari,
I have a jade with a pretty thick truck that has roots only growing on one side.
Which fertilizer do u use in Portulacaria afra.
I know this is a couple years old but it is new to me. Great video. I use a tomato clamp thingies, that is a Japanese word meaning duhicki, and string or wire. The clamp doesn't mark plant and easily comes off without cutting.
So beautiful
Just received a jade bonsai for Christmas and I love it so much already!! thank you for this video !!
Love your videos and learn so much every day ❤
I've been following you on Insta, just discovered your RUclips, it's amazing content! Thanks for doing this for spekboom
Thanks for your precious advices! Bravo!
Would love to see taking (with voice) a new plant you got from a fair and how to start training it to shape.
Thanks, i needed this video. Best explanation ive found on yt. Cheers
Nice work brother. Planning on having my learners create their on bonsais
I’d love to see, starting development of a bonsai jade. How you get it to the shape you like to then do this type of maintenance
You video was just what I needed. Thanks.
Great Info! Thank you! I'm a beginner and this was very helpful!
awesome man, this is the exact content i was asking for! thanks for your wisdom!
This video was really informative and inspiring. I'm literally starting tonight and it seems like such a fun hobby. Thanks so much!
Hi I'm new to bonsai. I would love to see a video on how to start with a cutting and what to do from that point. Love your videos.
This is great! Just the rightamount of advice.
Thanks
Love your trees , your videos are awesome thank you
Great. It will be interesting to know How to develop nice roots like this in next videos😃👍
Thanks for sharing your technics 👍👍🇵🇷I’m glad to find your channel
Thanks for all the info! Any tips on transferring a port out of a bonsai pot and into a larger pot to generate more growth?
Liked your video. The simple things were explained well.
Great informative video! Can you make a video on turning nursery stock with really long branches into bonsai? I feel like I just have to completely prune the branches off from mine and start over in order to make it look nice.
Love your videos, bro, but apparently you also have great taste in music!!
Thanks for this! My spekbome (P. afra) are several months old and were grown from truncheons. They're looking very sparse, and I've realised it's because I've just let them grow basically untouched! Poor things are going to get the pruning of their lives today...
I just started on jade trees. Trying to trim an old one to slanting position., & a few young one to straight positions.
Really excellent looking trees...My question would be if you have a particular type of Portulacaria you want to propagate, how long should you let the branches grow to provide viable cuttings...
Omg. Thanks for the explanation! Everything clear right now!!
Thank you!💚
Muy bueno tu video! Por fin entiendo cómo hacer para engrosar los troncos! Gracias! Saludos desde Tucumán, Argentina
Looking forward to a repotting. I've gotten so much conflicting info! Seems I let mine get to dry during some portion of the process. Everything I hear or read implies they will rot if they even look at water, anytime near or after a report.
Dont stop with youtube. Perfect trees
Can you do a video about starting a bonsai tree from an established elephant bush plant that has never been trimmed? My plants are falling over because the center trunk of the plant is very weak.
Kown as speckboom ( specckled/spotted tree in Afrikaans. Or elephant bush . The leaves are tasty added to pastas cut & diced adds a tinge of citrus. It's value is also that it's proven to extract more carbon dioxide than nything from the Amazon rainforest. So please grow them into hedges & do ur part for the environment. As a succulent it also doesn't need much watering.
Very nice! I loved how u brought down the branch! 👌🏼 I’d like to see more videos like this!
Dude I love your trees man.
Awesome video! Can I wire several trunks together on very young 4 inch tall elephant bush to create a thicker looking trunk?
just bougth a portulacaria afra today, fallen in love how they look
Can you make a video how to do Portulacaria afra from the start. Should I cut the leaves on the stems to get a trunk? thanks
Yes I plan on making a video from starting a bonsai from scratch from nursery stock material.
Beautiful tree!
Great channel! There is so little information on the web
That's why I made this channel, to help people.
:-)
Little Jade Bonsai. Nice video. I enjoyed the tree and your insights. There seems to be a lot of back and forth about sacrificial branches, and thickening up trunks and branches, but I've also thought that more division leads to more foliage thus everything lower than that gets thicker. Especially with fast-growing trees like the PA. I'm in MN, so my trees need to be inside for a long time, but my trees are loving my plant room environment right now. Are you trimming all year long where you are or do you back off for a while during winter season whatever that means where you are?
Bonjour je suis patio né aussi par cette plante j'aime beaucoup tes vidéos qui sont très inintéressante.
+1 Passe une bonne soirée.
Gorgeous bonsai 😍
Thank you!
Wow, Looks amazing, !!!!!
Thank you!!!
So pretty bonsai. 🪴
I just planted some dwarf jade cuttings into pots 😊
But I just read that I should just leave then to grow for a year before shaping and wiring. It's the opposite of what you just stated in the video though 😥😥... I want the trunk to be pretty thick and they say to leave them for a thicker trunk.
Could you help clear up what the best approach is?
Hello Joseph I have some Dwarf jade too.i made my cuttings have thick trunk some of them I plant them in the ground and some of it are in let’s say 2 gallon Container I left them fertilize water them for 2 years and wow I got a thick trunk!!!Now I’m training them into bonsai but I’m not an expert I just love the Port Afra Bonsai
I have a new Dwarf Jade coming in the mail in a couple weeks and I have never had one before. It is coming in a 4 inch pot. So, what do I do when I receive it besides open the box and unpack. What do I need to do with it?
I have many jade plants in my yard and u guess they are over 40 years old , I remember my Dad planting the first cutting when I was a kid. If I wanted to take a cutting and train it as bonsai, am I better off taking a thick part or a fresh new growth cutting?
I just started learn growing portucalaria afra. I find your videos, and I thank you, 'couse its simply, and I love your style. I try make small bonsay as you. So thanks....I would like to ask. How offten trim the trees? Does it matter which season? Sorry, but my englihs is not perfect, and I dont understund exactly
how do you get such a thick and established trunk? does it just require a much larger vessel?
Love your bonsai 🌳
Hi Gilbert, my question is if you prune back to the first two leaves on a branch each time I prune, then aren't i just cutting off the new ramification? I'm not following what you are saying. Thanks for any help. Love your videos.
Nice tree! I’m just getting into bonsai. I’m collecting bonsai material and I think dwarf jade might be a quick and easy way to go. Keep those videos coming. What type of soil can I get by with as I don’t have regular bonsai soil available
Do the same ramification rules apply to thick branches/the trunk
Could you show hard prunning of thick branches?
Question: for the tie down wouldn't raffia work better and safer than wire?
I bought a port afra from lowes in a huge 3 gallon it’s potted in coir should I remove it and repot with a 50/50 organic inorganic will they do ok in 70/30inorganic organic ?
Looks outstanding. How old was the plant at that point.
How do u save jades during rainy season?????
How can I create ramification when I already have long branches? Can I hard prune it back to shorter branches and expect backbuding? Was thinking maybe to much energy would go into the few short branches i don't cut.
Would really make my year if i found this out!
Yes, if your tree is established in its container, you can hard prune down the long branches. Then immediately after cutting, apply slow release fertilizer like Osmocote to the surface of the soil and water it in with liquid Miracle Gro. This will greatly help push out new growth.
Hi Bro, Do you need to do wiring to shape the plant?
I recently bought a leggy one from the nursery. Where on the branch would I cut to shorten branch? Thanks.
Gilbert help!!! I accidentally cut below the first pair of leaves on one branch, what's gonna happen?😱😱
It will grow new branches there anyways ..
Que buenos vídeos... A mi también me gustan mucho las Portulacarias Afra. Alguna vez has hecho injertos en ellas? Cómo lo hiciste y cómo te fue con eso?
Question about the pot….do you find they grow better in deeper pots vs shallow bonsai pots
Can we do trimming throughout the year or stop during winter.
Great video mate just got my first tree and it’s same as yours
What kind of soil/medium do you use for your plants ?
Hi! I got some questions. i’m wondering if i should repot some trees.... to some wider web containers, to let the roots run wider. u think i should? they’re currently on plastic pots