Pruning for Basic Structure, The Bonsai Zone, July 2022
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- Опубликовано: 10 сен 2024
- Today I'm pruning my Natal Ficus, my Mulberry. my Nightshade and my Royal Oak.
Our pregnant stray cat is now a Mother!!
To see previous videos of my Natal Ficus bonsai, click on the playlist here...
• Natal Ficus Bonsai
To see previous videos of my Mulberry bonsai, click on the playlist here...
• Mulberry Bonsai
To see previous videos of my Nightshade bonsai, click on the playlist here...
• Nightshade Vine Bonsai
To see previous videos of my Royal Oak bonsai, click on the playlist here...
• Royal Oak Bonsai
To see previous videos with animals, click on the playlist here...
• Critters
#TheBonsaiZone
Good to see everyone is healthy and doing well - the plants as well as the kittens!
What a fun video with bonsai friends on the premiere! Pruning was great.. but the kittens stole the show! 😍🐦💙
Thank you so much Jay!!😀
After collecting oaks I am convinced the best way to get a oak bonsai is definitely by seed! When collecting I am convinced their root balls all come from near middle earth 🤣.
Love the structural set on that first tree Nigel!
Yes, the younger you start your trees, the more input you have on their eventual style and quality!!
As always I enjoy your videos in which you talk us through the trimming of your bonsai. I especially enjoyed seeing your work on the Royal Oaks. Thanks for sharing.
Thanks Pat!!
The new feline friends are precious, Nige, I've midwifed (midhusbanded?) a large number of litters myself. Mama cats are usually at their sweetest at this stage. Of course the trees are looking good too! Keep it up!
- Ashley Bonner
Thanks Ashley, the kittens are doing well, I'll post an update today!
You make my bad days good thank you
Aw, thanks!!
The pot your excellent nightshade vine is in, is gorgeous! It just shimmered when you rotated the tree...it really fits.
That's a handmade pot by David of the Toronto club! I'm hoping the berries will contrast nicely with the glaze!
Emily:
NIGEL EEEEKKKS THEY ARE SO CUTE!!!
I have now a nightshade vine that volunteered itself in a plastic container pot that a tree died in. So. Taking your, "why not let's give it a try" theory, I am going for it. Being different and not sticking to just standard trees is a unique theory.
Cool Tom, I hope your Vine does well!!
The oaks are looking GREAT! Mine took a tumble in May and dried out, which tricked it into dormancy. Now it's put out 2 new flushes of growth from old buds!! Great material.
Nice Clint, a bad thing turned out to be good!!!
Your surgical skills in pruning make great bonsai trees that develop in such a cool way. Super!
Thanks Tom, I'm excited about this Natal Ficus!!!
The nightshade is looking better and better. I am glad the cat and her babies are doing well 👍
Yes, it's a nice looking weed!! The cat is going to the vet today, and the kittens. The mother has a problem with her mouth, we'll get her checked out!
@@TheBonsaiZone oh is that why her tongue is always out haha
Very nostalgic going back to the plastic green house, where the legend on The Bonsai Zone was born. Seems so long ago that it was the main green house.
I giggled when you said you're enjoying the silence... Yet all I could hear were wind chimes.
Great video as always! Love the advice on the Natal Ficus. I've recently hard-pruned my microcarpa and you gave me some great ideas for branch selection. Best of luck with the kittens! (that last comment was mainly directed at Momma)
Thanks Nigel
Thanks so much!!
Momma and her kittens. Cool
I hope all goes well Tom, I'm like a nervous father!!
@@TheBonsaiZone Understandable. We are all like that. I know all will go good for you.
I totally agree that the green patches of moss will balance out the red colour dominance (pot+top layer) and your natal ficus will be even more awesome.
Thanks Tybold, I think so too!!
such a special thing is life and kindness
Indeed!!
Loved seeing the oaks! would you recommend removing an oak from a bonsai pot and placing in a large pot or the ground to help thicken out the trunk? The main part of the oak died (so left a dead part) and grew a new shoot from the trunk which is about a year (just over) old… that’s the part I need to thicken out. Thanks 😊
Nice chop for this tree
Thank you! Cheers!
Thank you for including Mulberry Trees! I just dug up a few seedlings
They are fast growers!! Thanks!
Excited to see that ficus at the end of summer!
Yes me too, they tend to grow a lot in the summer, exciting!!
I have a bunch of mulberry. Can't wait to compare ours in a few years.
Awesome Nicky!! They grow so fast!!
Aww poor little kittens 😸
So cute!!
So cute!
Thanks!!
Known as the Natal Fig in South Africa. Many a Natal Fig in my region KwaZulu Natal.
Bonsai and Kittens. What else would one need?
Just downloaded ur pot - THANKS!
Hope you like it!
Good job
Thanks!!
Really liking the progression on the Oaks, how old were the Oaks again? I don't think you've had them for too long yet.
I think this is year four for the Oaks!! Time flies!
@@TheBonsaiZone Oh I see, I think mine are around the same age as yours, maybe 1 year younger, but they are much less developed, probably because I root pruned one of them twice already and the other's in the ground.
Great vid
Thanks Harry!!
Hi Nigel , great ficus work :) can you work on ficus during the winter months , I have a couple of Benjaminas a green island and a rubiginosa ? Have you been to the community garden this season , would be interesting to see how it’s progressing , thanks always for great videos , information and entertainment
Hello Peter, yes you can, if the tree is growing well and you have good conditions for the tree! I have been out in the community garden, I'll post an update soon!!
@@TheBonsaiZone thanks Nigel 👍
Bellissimi complimenti
Thanks so much!!!
Beautiful kittens
Thanks Harriet, I hope they all do well!
@@TheBonsaiZone I am sure they will. I have kittens too.stray Cats that occupied my house. I love them ,they have red hair, look like mini lions.☺️
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Great video! Cute kittens!🥰 Which one are you keeping?😄 You are awesome with animals, tell a lot about you and your family. I learned few things this video. Structure is difficult. I don't always get it right. I think I'm good at root pruning, I have to work on branch selection. Thanks Nigel, and Congratulations!
Foist
Noice!!
Love getting back to basics. Another great tutorial. Thanks, keep growing
I enjoy getting a young tree off to a good start!!
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Great video ! Question : why do you do this now, instead of in late winter, when you see the branch structure better ? Does it accelerate the development of the structure of the tree ? I pruned my young trees as well, but no big chopping.
At about 10:05, in the case where that part of the tree is already weak and you're smoothing out the bumpiness by nibbling away at it, would that be a case for applying some sort of cut paste to protect it? I'm learning.
By the way, I thought of you a few days ago when we were experiencing the Rogers outage and was wondering if you'd experienced internet withdrawal symptoms!
We have a different provider, so our internet was running!
@@TheBonsaiZone You lucky, lucky duck!
Have to watch it again now as I missed the start and most of it due to the chat, I cant multitask
Me too, I'm useless at it!!
Hi Nigel do you know about the False Ashoka? Deon - South Africa
33:22 -what happend?
Easter eggs. Two uncut cut points
A glitch in the Matrix!!
@@TheBonsaiZone haha nice! great video by the way :)
👍👌🍎🙂
I wonder if there are different types of Natal Ficus?
You got me wondering Alan, and I had to look it up: "Within Ficus natalensis, 3 subspecies are recognized: subsp. natalensis (‘coastal strangler fig’), distributed in East tropical Africa and coastal South Africa; subsp. graniticola J.E.Burrows (‘granite-boulder fig’, ‘natal fig’), growing inland in Zimbabwe, probably also in western Mozambique and northern South Africa, differing from subsp. natalensis in its leathery, often grey-green leaves, the often truncate leaf apex and the larger figs which are yellow when ripe; and subsp. leprieurii (Miq.) C.C.Berg, distributed from Senegal to southern Sudan and southwards to eastern DR Congo, Zambia and to northern Angola, differing from subsp. natalensis in its often shrubby, scandent habit, obovate to obtriangular leaves and small figs."
Thanks Jay, this is awesome!!!
Nigel where did you get that great new copper watering can? I would love to get one.
It was a birthday gift, you would have to ask Jay, from Blue Jay Bonsai!
Hi Dawn. You can find it on Gardenheir dot com. Or directly from Negishi in Japan. 🐦💙
@@TheBonsaiZone Thank you for the info.
@@BlueJayBonsai Thank you for the info
How is your ficus rumphi? Can you give an update.
It's growing like a weed!!! An update will be coming!!
Forgot to mention that it is so kind of you and your wife to give that stray cat a home while she has the kittens. Any names for them yet?
No names yet, but the kids are excited to name them all!!
Nigel, I am curious what your rationale is in not using wire. I have never seen you use it - I may be wrong. Lots of other channels use it extensively. Just curious about your thoughts on the subject. Could you commnet on a future video?
In some of his earliest videos he used it a bit. From what he's said, it's mostly because he feels that he gets more natural results from clip-and-grow than wiring, and he prefers the idea of having every branch grow where it grows, rather than twisting them to obey his will.
In a wild tree, natural forces like wind and heavy snow tend to break off less structurally stable branches, encouraging trees into a healthy form. Clip and grow does largely the same thing, only instead of a hurricane, it's the bonsai artist.
Here is a video I have on the subject!!
ruclips.net/video/YGhQjOma8gQ/видео.html
Mama cat's name shall be Pepper. It even says so at 35:20
I see that! I'm not sure what her name will be, the kids want to name her and all the kittens!
I'm sorry - there's one thing I can't wrap my brain around. It's your hair. What is that about?!
You dare defy the bonsai gods! who have blessed you with aerial roots in the northern hemisphere and you cut them off to spite the almighty?!
how dare you to speak to master nigel like that, filthy peasant
Lol, I'm sure the gods will bring me Japanese beetles in spite!!!