@@TheBonsaiZone They are doing well thanks mate but next week will test them. 40 to 47 Celsius for 5 days straight next week with dry winds 🙄🙄🙄. Keep the vids coming mate I watch them all even if I don't comment on them all. Great stuff😁
@@SamDoeckeAussiebonsaibloke Ouch, that's the temperature in my greenhouse on a hot day with the door closed. Trees start to die at those temperatures, no matter how much you water them, people too! Thanks Sam, I watch all your videos too, stay cool and I hope all goes well! We are at -10 C here at the moment, I'll try and send some cool air your way!
so far my favorite moment in my bonsai journey was watering my black oak and the tiny baby lizard hanging out in the tree came down for a drink off the pebbles and then ran back up to the top ^^
Hi Nigel, Love spiders, love your Pixie and love that F250 😊💖Well and love you and your channel too of course 😊 Thanks again for a great video,...made my day! 👍😊💖🌹
Hi Nigel, it's always so nice to watch your videos. I really liked to see your work on your 1972 Ford F250. I'm pretty anxious to follow the continuation of this story. Greetings.
Thank you, we are ordering a lot of sheet metal parts that will be welded into the existing body work. The aim is to keep as much original paint and patina as possible and just make it a good solid truck!
Spiders aren't considered insects. They are arthropods like insects, but are part of the class arachnida, which contains mites, spiders, and scorpions!
I get so excited when you work a tropical bonsai! That is such a fine-looking bougainvillea. Hope it flowers next year. Nice update on the truck. Enjoyed another 'Nigel' video - thanks!
You’re Pink Pixie Bougainvillea is developing quite well. I’m loving how the base, the branch placement and the overall silhouette has been developed so far. Thanks for sharing
Great to see your bougainvillea bonsai again, it's looking great ! This tree was in the first bonsai video I watched over 4 years ago that you made and that sparked my interest in bonsai. This year I have an addition of little black " jumping" spiders and they are doing a wonderful job of going around and getting the very small insects, really cool to watch them. I think that truck is really cool, I'm looking forward to an update when it's done !
very nice tree, must be something when it blooms. The 1972 Ford, wow... reminded me of my father’s - I remember the eight-track and the smell of the truck.
Yes it looks really nice with flowers, hopefully it will flower well this summer. The old trucks have a certain smell and feel to them, even a distinct sound when you close the door!
Thank you Mark, I'm excited about both the truck and the Bougainvillea! I am going to try and get the tree to flower this year, last year I tried to get it to flower for the bonsai show so i cut all the early spring flower buds off, but it didn't work. This year I'll just let it flower whenever it wants to! My plan for the truck is to keep as much original paint and patina on it as possible, but make it solid. All the replacement panels that will be welded in will be painted to match the existing paint. I will be polishing the truck up when the work is complete, but all the scratches and dents will remain.
Thank you, it is starting to get more horizontal branches coming off the more vertical ones now, I think the tree will continue to improve as it gets older!
Spiders are not insects, they are arachnids. As a tip: Insects always have 6 legs (spiders have eight). Cheers and keep up the good work with bonsais and your videos Nigel.
Man.. I wish my soil would grow moss like yours do.. So lush. I believe it just gets too hot and sunny for it here in the Florida panhandle. Plus I think the 50\50 perlite\turface mix you use must be ideal for moss growth. It gets too hot to use that mix here.. dries out too quick. I have to use a perlite, pine bark, and peat moss mix to hold the mostuire.
In the middle of summer, it's hard here to keep the moss green! I have to water several times a day, mist the moss in the afternoon several times and on a really hot dry day, I move the moss into a shadier spot for the afternoon. Luckily most hot days in Ontario are also humid and very little water evaporates!
As a tarantula keeper, spiders arent considered insects but arachnids lol. I love insects/bugs/arachnids and so on along with my plants/bonsai. My problem is i also keep ants as pets and as well all know they can move and farm aphids on our trees so its weird for me having to deal with certain ant species during spring and summer but we all coexist and i try to just take care of the aphids and white-flies. I love the pink pixie though. Its one of my favorite bonsai you have. The scar on the front really has closed up over the years. A beautiful lil tree for sure. Hope to get a pink pixie someday.
A good solution for ants is to keep a tray of water underneath your tree and place the pot on blocks to keep it out of the water. The ants can't get across the moat of water. I use a boot tray under the pots.
@@TheBonsaiZone ya know...i never thought of that haha. I just always manually moved the ants off and killed off the aphids. I like ants. They are very smart and intriguing insects. I have i think 10 colonies i keep as pets. So killing then off outside just isnt something i could do like a lot of bonsai practitioners. I appreciate the tidbit of info though.
Nigel Saunders, The Bonsai Zone the most interesting thing is that it is on the 3rd generation. At first it is small and brown. Then it grows and get green. After that it disappears for 3-4 weeks. And then, a new small brown appears.... I searched for eggs... for mates.... for siblings... but nothing. Just the cycle goes on!
Hi Nigel Happy Holidays! You mentioned in one of your videos that you use a very small amount of fertilizer in The water each time you water. Do you do that with your trees that you bring in to the plant room in the winter? Thanks for all the great videos.
Yes, I continue to fertilize all winter. The amount of watering drops dramatically once the trees are indoors, little watering is required on cloudy days, so both the watering and the fertilizer amount is reduced in winter. Once the days start to get longer in late January, the trees grow a lot indoors due to the increased sunshine.
I thought I'd seen you do this as well, but I was watching a Peter Chan (Herons Bonsai) video earlier and he used a white bag to cover over branches he considers removing to get an idea of what a tree could look like. You should try that with the bottom branch of the Pink Pixie and tell us your reaction. My guess is that removing that branch would open the bottom of the tree and make the trunk look more slender and tree like. It looks short and chunky to me with that branch attached. That's my 2 cents. Thanks for showing us what you do!
Thank you, I will do that! I think the bottom branches will stay for now, I do keep covering them to see what it would look like and so far I haven't like the look without those lower branches. This could change as the tree develops in the future.
Yes, they can be leaf pruned before a show and the new leaves will grow in smaller. Leaves grown in full sun will also make the tree more compact and the leaf size will reduce. As the tree gets more branches, the leaf size can be also reduced if you don't over water or fertilize. The Pink Pixie variety has much smaller leaves than the Bougainvillea glabra. The size you see in this video is about normal for this species with no effort to reduce the leaf size.
Gracias, muchos de los videos se pueden traducir automáticamente, active la opción CC, luego haga clic en el ícono de ajustes, haga clic en Autotranslate y en el idioma español. Debería poder obtener la mayor parte de lo que estoy diciendo, ¡espero! Gracias, ¡muchos más videos por venir!
@@TheBonsaiZone , thank you nigel. I was thinking the same , just hard to judge watering in a big pot, it's dropped leafs , but growing buds. Take care nigel
Those spiders, i have plenty of them in my pots, i used to clean them on weekends manually, hope i need not to do that. Thaks for one more informative vedio.
Thank you Brian, the aim is to keep as much original paint and patina as possible. The new parts welded in will be painted to match the existing truck as much as possible. When done I will be polishing the paint, but keeping all the original scratches and dents.
When I bring them inside for the winter, they loose almost all their leaves due to the light and temperature change. They quickly grow back in within a week or two.
Yes, this fine misting bottle is great to spray succulents, it doesn't over water them, it just gives the plants a nice fine misting without wetting the soil! Just type in fine mist hand sprayer in Google and you will find a wide selection to choose from!
@@TheBonsaiZone lol he's tiny and stays to the trees, they are very common here were i live so it's really no biggy to me. It's this ones mom or dad you got to watch lol.
@@TheBonsaiZone thank you so much for the response. I'll see what i can figure out. I have nearly 100 indoor plants in my one bedroom apt with my daughter and her mother. Thankfully theyre all tiny babies.
As the trees mature, there will be more emphasis on defining individual branches. All my trees are still in development and need time and work to get the basic structure intact. I hope I can get them looking good in my life time, but if not, someone else can take over the task!
@@TheBonsaiZone No problem Nigel! You do a wonderful job! Many of your trees have been the inspiration for my own trees. The most recent is a serissa foetida I got because I absolutely love your acacia styled serissa. Keep up the fantastic work!
Definitely one of my favorite single tree Bonsai's of yours and all with clip and grow.
Nigel is the Man 😁😁
Thank you Sam, I hope your trees are doing well, both your bonsai and your planted ones! It must be getting hot in Oz!
@@TheBonsaiZone
They are doing well thanks mate but next week will test them. 40 to 47 Celsius for 5 days straight next week with dry winds 🙄🙄🙄.
Keep the vids coming mate I watch them all even if I don't comment on them all. Great stuff😁
@@SamDoeckeAussiebonsaibloke Ouch, that's the temperature in my greenhouse on a hot day with the door closed. Trees start to die at those temperatures, no matter how much you water them, people too! Thanks Sam, I watch all your videos too, stay cool and I hope all goes well! We are at -10 C here at the moment, I'll try and send some cool air your way!
The style on that ford is so nice. I love that truck
I can't believe it's 48 years old! I hope it makes it to 100!
@Peter Lanza It's nice when things last, so much is made disposable these days! Toyota makes them right!
so far my favorite moment in my bonsai journey was watering my black oak and the tiny baby lizard hanging out in the tree came down for a drink off the pebbles and then ran back up to the top ^^
That is so nice, just like a full size tree, it provided a home!
the babys love the morning glory ^^
Hi Nigel, Love spiders, love your Pixie and love that F250 😊💖Well and love you and your channel too of course 😊 Thanks again for a great video,...made my day! 👍😊💖🌹
Thank you Karin, see you in 2020, lots of fun stuff coming up!
your pink pixie is looking great!
and the truck really cool old school Ford plus now you can transport your bonsai easily 🕸️🌳👍
Thank you Eric, the truck will be mainly used in the orchard, but it will be also pampered! Glad you like both the tree and the truck!
I love this tree, happy to see the update Mr. Saunders.
Thank you, lots more to come!
Hi Nigel, it's always so nice to watch your videos. I really liked to see your work on your 1972 Ford F250. I'm pretty anxious to follow the continuation of this story. Greetings.
Thank you, we are ordering a lot of sheet metal parts that will be welded into the existing body work. The aim is to keep as much original paint and patina as possible and just make it a good solid truck!
@@TheBonsaiZone It sounds great. Good luck and keep it gooing!
Spiders aren't considered insects. They are arthropods like insects, but are part of the class arachnida, which contains mites, spiders, and scorpions!
I thought so, thanks Collin!
I get so excited when you work a tropical bonsai! That is such a fine-looking bougainvillea. Hope it flowers next year. Nice update on the truck. Enjoyed another 'Nigel' video - thanks!
Thank you Pat, one of these years, I'll get it to flower nicely, I hope!
Is the flowering challenge due to your climate?
You’re Pink Pixie Bougainvillea is developing quite well. I’m loving how the base, the branch placement and the overall silhouette has been developed so far. Thanks for sharing
Thank you, I hope I can get it to flower this year, it would look really nice!
Great to see your bougainvillea bonsai again, it's looking great ! This tree was in the first bonsai video I watched over 4 years ago that you made and that sparked my interest in bonsai. This year I have an addition of little black " jumping" spiders and they are doing a wonderful job of going around and getting the very small insects, really cool to watch them. I think that truck is really cool, I'm looking forward to an update when it's done !
Thanks J, we'll have to go for a cruise in it come spring time! That's a cool origin story, it's nice to hear!
Sounds good, I'd really like that !
I love that youre keeping that old truck on the road
It's made it to 48 so far, I have to keep going for another 48 years at least!
@@TheBonsaiZone cheers to that!
Hi Nigel Nice bonsai, your videos are very didactic, with some excellent shots that make the explanations clear and precise. Thanks for sharing.
Thank you Joshhhua, that's a lot of h's!
very nice tree, must be something when it blooms. The 1972 Ford, wow... reminded me of my father’s - I remember the eight-track and the smell of the truck.
Yes it looks really nice with flowers, hopefully it will flower well this summer. The old trucks have a certain smell and feel to them, even a distinct sound when you close the door!
Mark here nice video Nigel digging that Bougainvillea really nice and your Ford 250 good truck! 👍👌
Thank you Mark, I'm excited about both the truck and the Bougainvillea! I am going to try and get the tree to flower this year, last year I tried to get it to flower for the bonsai show so i cut all the early spring flower buds off, but it didn't work. This year I'll just let it flower whenever it wants to! My plan for the truck is to keep as much original paint and patina on it as possible, but make it solid. All the replacement panels that will be welded in will be painted to match the existing paint. I will be polishing the truck up when the work is complete, but all the scratches and dents will remain.
@@TheBonsaiZone
Sounds like a plan Nigel keep up the excellent work always looking forward to watching your videos 👍 👌
Trimmed my only indoor leaf tree today the English Privet.. Thanks to you I am much more confident doing a clip and grow on it.
The shortest day of the year is coming up fast, spring will be coming and the Birch forest will come alive!
@@TheBonsaiZone I absolutely can't wait. I keep peeking on them and all seems well.
Always liked the flow of your Bougainvillea
Thank you, it is starting to get more horizontal branches coming off the more vertical ones now, I think the tree will continue to improve as it gets older!
Spiders are not insects, they are arachnids. As a tip: Insects always have 6 legs (spiders have eight). Cheers and keep up the good work with bonsais and your videos Nigel.
Thanks, I didn't think they were insects!
@@TheBonsaiZone Your intuition was correct!
Her lil red wagon ,, damn boy , she's a bute ! Cheers man🇨🇦
Thanks Dieno, it's making good progress, an exciting project!
looking great cant wait to post my first bonsai video with the pot u make.. so exciting
It will be coming soon, both the design and the video.
@@TheBonsaiZone thanks so much again..
That is funny, I just saw what I thought was spider mites. It turned out to be a tiny little spider spider. Cute little black and white stripes.
It's easy to mistake a regular spider web for spider mites, if you can see the spider all is well!
I just simply love this tree
Thank you, I hope to see it flower this year!
Man.. I wish my soil would grow moss like yours do.. So lush. I believe it just gets too hot and sunny for it here in the Florida panhandle. Plus I think the 50\50 perlite\turface mix you use must be ideal for moss growth. It gets too hot to use that mix here.. dries out too quick. I have to use a perlite, pine bark, and peat moss mix to hold the mostuire.
I think it has a lot to do with the little bit of fertilizers every watering, and a plant room doesn't hurt
In the middle of summer, it's hard here to keep the moss green! I have to water several times a day, mist the moss in the afternoon several times and on a really hot dry day, I move the moss into a shadier spot for the afternoon. Luckily most hot days in Ontario are also humid and very little water evaporates!
@@TheBonsaiZone Thanks for the advice, I've always wondered about the moss.
As a tarantula keeper, spiders arent considered insects but arachnids lol. I love insects/bugs/arachnids and so on along with my plants/bonsai. My problem is i also keep ants as pets and as well all know they can move and farm aphids on our trees so its weird for me having to deal with certain ant species during spring and summer but we all coexist and i try to just take care of the aphids and white-flies. I love the pink pixie though. Its one of my favorite bonsai you have. The scar on the front really has closed up over the years. A beautiful lil tree for sure. Hope to get a pink pixie someday.
A good solution for ants is to keep a tray of water underneath your tree and place the pot on blocks to keep it out of the water. The ants can't get across the moat of water. I use a boot tray under the pots.
@@TheBonsaiZone ya know...i never thought of that haha. I just always manually moved the ants off and killed off the aphids. I like ants. They are very smart and intriguing insects. I have i think 10 colonies i keep as pets. So killing then off outside just isnt something i could do like a lot of bonsai practitioners. I appreciate the tidbit of info though.
Beatifull plant Nigel .. good video ... !!!!!
Thank you very much!!!!
Very nice! Both! Is a cool truck :)
Thank you Marysol, I hope to keep both to the very end! (of me!)
I like this little beauty!
Thank you Andi, I hope it will flower this year!
Hi Nigel ,Happy new Year to yo too. I would like to know.., were did you get that nice Spray bottle
Very nice. I have a praying mantis living in my Sakura that helps me a lot 😉
I did that with my quince
Nice, the ultimate killer!
Nigel Saunders, The Bonsai Zone the most interesting thing is that it is on the 3rd generation. At first it is small and brown. Then it grows and get green. After that it disappears for 3-4 weeks. And then, a new small brown appears.... I searched for eggs... for mates.... for siblings... but nothing. Just the cycle goes on!
Hi Nigel Happy Holidays! You mentioned in one of your videos that you use a very small amount of fertilizer in The water each time you water. Do you do that with your trees that you bring in to the plant room in the winter?
Thanks for all the great videos.
Yes, I continue to fertilize all winter. The amount of watering drops dramatically once the trees are indoors, little watering is required on cloudy days, so both the watering and the fertilizer amount is reduced in winter. Once the days start to get longer in late January, the trees grow a lot indoors due to the increased sunshine.
I thought I'd seen you do this as well, but I was watching a Peter Chan (Herons Bonsai) video earlier and he used a white bag to cover over branches he considers removing to get an idea of what a tree could look like. You should try that with the bottom branch of the Pink Pixie and tell us your reaction. My guess is that removing that branch would open the bottom of the tree and make the trunk look more slender and tree like. It looks short and chunky to me with that branch attached. That's my 2 cents. Thanks for showing us what you do!
Thank you, I will do that! I think the bottom branches will stay for now, I do keep covering them to see what it would look like and so far I haven't like the look without those lower branches. This could change as the tree develops in the future.
This is my favourit bonsai 👌👌👌...!!!
Thank you Sunit, it's been with me for about twenty years from a small cutting!
@@TheBonsaiZone ohh... very nice...!!!
Very nice trunk..Can baugainvillea leaf be small?
Yes, they can be leaf pruned before a show and the new leaves will grow in smaller. Leaves grown in full sun will also make the tree more compact and the leaf size will reduce. As the tree gets more branches, the leaf size can be also reduced if you don't over water or fertilize. The Pink Pixie variety has much smaller leaves than the Bougainvillea glabra. The size you see in this video is about normal for this species with no effort to reduce the leaf size.
Me gusta mucho tu manera de trabajar el bonsai.Como tú, tampoco uso alambre .Me encantaría entender todo lo que dices.Te sigo hace años.FELICIDADES
Gracias, muchos de los videos se pueden traducir automáticamente, active la opción CC, luego haga clic en el ícono de ajustes, haga clic en Autotranslate y en el idioma español. Debería poder obtener la mayor parte de lo que estoy diciendo, ¡espero!
Gracias, ¡muchos más videos por venir!
I have a varigated bougainvillea, still in a nursery pot, I want to repot it, but don't know how it will handle it in winter
It would be best to repot mid summer when it is hot and humid outside. The tree will recover very quickly in this type of weather!
@@TheBonsaiZone , thank you nigel. I was thinking the same , just hard to judge watering in a big pot, it's dropped leafs , but growing buds. Take care nigel
"Another radial spider web" must be the best kind for a bonsai with radial roots!
Radial roots, radial spider webs and radial tires, a theme for the video!
Those spiders, i have plenty of them in my pots, i used to clean them on weekends manually, hope i need not to do that.
Thaks for one more informative vedio.
Any bit of free insect control helps! Thanks Vaman.
Are you coming to Australia???
Maybe some day when I give all my trees away!
As always big thumbs up
Thanks A B!
that truck is amazinggg
Thank you Brian, the aim is to keep as much original paint and patina as possible. The new parts welded in will be painted to match the existing truck as much as possible. When done I will be polishing the paint, but keeping all the original scratches and dents.
Very very nice video sir
Thank you Chandrakant, I hope it flowers well this year!
Nice truck Nigel
Thank you, it has survived 48 years, so I'll try and get it to survive another 48!
@@TheBonsaiZone with you it will survive indeed
How can I keep worms out of the moss of my elephant bush bonsai ?
It would probably look a lot better without the first branch on the left I realised today. Thx for sharing.
It may have to change as it grows, but I hate to have to remove the lower branches, it will leave a large scar.
Nigel I'm expecting Indian Jones to make an appearance with all those webs.🕵️♀️🐍
Lucky I don't have any snakes in the plant room!
Does the Bougainville lose its leaves in the winter?
When I bring them inside for the winter, they loose almost all their leaves due to the light and temperature change. They quickly grow back in within a week or two.
I've noticed that you have a money plant (Pachira aquatica). Have you tried to make a bonsai from it? Is it possible?
Thanks.
Yes, it is difficult to get branching, but it is possible. It won't be a normal looking tree!
Check out Dung's video on Bougainvilleas, it really awesome! ruclips.net/video/Ffpv-fUZ5RA/видео.html
what soil are you using? and also what do you use to feed them???????????
He uses a mix that's 50/50 turface and perlite. I believe for ferts he just uses a generic fertilizer and feeds a tiny amount every watering.
@@Death2unicorns thanks a lot...cant wait to show off something I do
Good to hear Aussie Bigbudz, I love looking at bonsai in development!
@@TheBonsaiZone yea iv been watching all ur updates to learn right
carnivorous plants help too.
Good idea! Thanks!
Do you have a link to that awesome spray bottle? I'd like one :)
Yes, this fine misting bottle is great to spray succulents, it doesn't over water them, it just gives the plants a nice fine misting without wetting the soil!
Just type in fine mist hand sprayer in Google and you will find a wide selection to choose from!
Its a cute little bonsai 👌👌, how old is it
Thanks, it is getting old, about 20 years from a small cutting!
@@TheBonsaiZone 20 years, so amazing👌👌
I have a small brown recluse that eats the bugs on my trees, been in my house since fall doing his job.
He'll get big ! Have you ever seen a brown recluse bite? Looks like an infected shark bite !
@@itmaslanka yeah i keep an eye on him for sure, for now he is doing his job but i will let him go this spring.
Living on the edge for sure!
@@TheBonsaiZone lol he's tiny and stays to the trees, they are very common here were i live so it's really no biggy to me. It's this ones mom or dad you got to watch lol.
👍👍
Thank you!
FYI: spider is Arachnid not insect, insects only have six legs , while spider have eight
Thank you, I though so!
Like the video didn’t need to see the Friendly’s of your plant room.
Thanks Warren, it'sort of like Charlotte's web in the plant room!
Was that tree air layered?
No, it was started from a cutting that I bought at a nursery. It was very small 20 years ago!
who is playing the piano?
It is actually a piece from the RUclips library called "Dream of the Ancestor", they don't say much about it.
asher fulero - dream of the ancestor
Thanks ,its short but a very nice song !
do you know Adreas Vollenweider?
is that the left side? haha classic
At least up and down doesn't change!
👍
Thank you D K!
Thank you. I allow spiders to live in with my plants. Last year my sister said it was gross and she killed them.
As long as they stay on their webs, I'm good with them!
I heard that adultswim is searching for new artists rn. Maybe try to contact them, they pay pretty well.
I'm happy with my bonsai trees, thanks B A!
✂️🌳👍
Thank you Jan!
I can't get excited about spider webs. Any spiders in my house get squashed
Fair enough, they can be effective catching insects that get in the house during summer!
Hi Nigel, I’d like to send you a turntable. Please let me know if you are interested?
Cheers Adrian(Spinning Tree Bonsai Turntables Australia 🇦🇺)
I'd love to have an Aussie turntable! Can you send me an email to...
thekwbonsaisociety@gmail.com
I'll send you my address! Thanks Adrian!
Those are some rusty and roached scissors, my good sir. A spot of oil is order, I think.
I'm hoping to find time to get my tools all back in shape over the winter, they all need some love!
My boogervillas just wont be happy seemingly no matter my care, or the season.
The closer you can get them in a greenhouse environment the better they will grow, they like it hot and humid as they are native to Brazil!
@@TheBonsaiZone thank you so much for the response. I'll see what i can figure out. I have nearly 100 indoor plants in my one bedroom apt with my daughter and her mother. Thankfully theyre all tiny babies.
Foist
Mary is in the Foist Zone today!
Thanks Nigel!!! It’s not an easy feat, either!!!
All trees you have are canopis dont have stile
your opinion of "style" isn't gonna be the same as the next persons. I actually like Nigel's natural clip and grow style.
As the trees mature, there will be more emphasis on defining individual branches. All my trees are still in development and need time and work to get the basic structure intact. I hope I can get them looking good in my life time, but if not, someone else can take over the task!
Thanks Ryan, my aim is to keep improving the trees over my lifetime, we'll have to see how it goes!
@@TheBonsaiZone No problem Nigel! You do a wonderful job! Many of your trees have been the inspiration for my own trees. The most recent is a serissa foetida I got because I absolutely love your acacia styled serissa. Keep up the fantastic work!