The First Pruning of My Royal Oaks, The Bonsai Zone, July 2021

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  • Опубликовано: 24 июл 2024
  • I'm doing the first pruning to the top of my Royal Oak seedlings! I discuss my thoughts on developing the tree for the future and we go back in time to look at the history of these trees.
    The Royal Oaks are English Oaks or Quercus robur trees.
    To see previous videos of the Royal Oak trees, click on the playlist here....
    • Royal Oak Bonsai
    To see previous videos on the Cashew seedlings, click on the playlist here...
    • Cashew Bonsai from Seeds
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  • @ericnorrington3014
    @ericnorrington3014 3 года назад +29

    Just started bonsai took a month for me to find your channel. I have to say you are my favorite out of the bunch! Cheers sir for your years of videos for me to catch up on. Thanks

    • @twodogsyyc6729
      @twodogsyyc6729 3 года назад +5

      Welcome to the community. You've done well finding Nigel I'm sure you'll enjoy every video.

    • @nolesfan8900
      @nolesfan8900 3 года назад +2

      Absolutely the best. Been watching from the very beginning. You picked a winner Eric.

    • @LetsDoBonsai
      @LetsDoBonsai 3 года назад +3

      Couldn't agree with you more!! NIgel is the Best!!

    • @bethsabath
      @bethsabath 2 года назад

      His name origin is "Black Sand".

  • @SamDoeckeAussiebonsaibloke
    @SamDoeckeAussiebonsaibloke 3 года назад +7

    Thanks for the update Nigel. Things are really growing well. Lots of work for 1 man 😀😀

  • @-ChrisD
    @-ChrisD 3 года назад +7

    Wow, cool story! I love it👍🏻
    I'm so glad you do updates and a walk through periodically too!
    Another great video!!

  • @craft-o-matic2377
    @craft-o-matic2377 3 года назад

    I think you are having a banner year with your trees Nigel! They all look so beautiful!
    Exciting new trees! Just amazing content!
    Thank you!
    Lisa

  • @mattaustralian6584
    @mattaustralian6584 3 года назад +1

    The Penjing is awesome. Thanks Nigel for showing us what you do. love it

  • @3apa3a4eva
    @3apa3a4eva 3 года назад

    Hi Nigel! Than penjing is looking amazing! Looking forward the video on that. Have a nice day!

  • @urouroniwa
    @urouroniwa 3 года назад

    I keep thinking your trees are looking better and better. From when I first started watching your channel many years ago, my uneducated opinion is that you've really improved a lot. But then I also realise that I've started to really enjoy the "sticks" :-) I finally have a yard again after many, many years and my wife and I have been growing many plants. I just love looking at the buds and leaves and tiny branches poking out. I love looking at how it's growing and imagining how I'm going to prune it. So many joyous things that you've brought to my life! Thanks!

  • @fredgrech1498
    @fredgrech1498 3 года назад +1

    Great video your bougainvillea plant is looking gorgeous with all the flowers

  • @twodogsyyc6729
    @twodogsyyc6729 3 года назад

    Thanks again for a great video. Royal Oaks are something special.

  • @rodneyclifford2505
    @rodneyclifford2505 3 года назад

    awesome video Nigel best thing about the bonsai zone you learn some history but best of all you learn more about bonsai

  • @natrjack965
    @natrjack965 3 года назад

    Love it Nigel you picked a tree that I love .. nice to be growing your piece of the commonwealth 🇬🇧🇨🇦...

  • @rebeccahunter725
    @rebeccahunter725 3 года назад +1

    It is a good reminder to prune for future benefit. I have some oaks that need the hard decisions to be taken - both with the roots and the branches!

  • @danutashayler34
    @danutashayler34 2 года назад

    Your great Nigel. Thanks for the video.

  • @SequoiaElisabeth
    @SequoiaElisabeth 3 года назад +6

    Love the Penjing, it is looking so good.

    • @romino23
      @romino23 3 года назад

      yep, can't wait to see some "work" on it soon..

  • @rainbowstar4360
    @rainbowstar4360 Год назад

    You have such a beautiful garden

  • @jballenger9240
    @jballenger9240 3 года назад +1

    Phenomenal growth!!!!

  • @hyperionhelios190
    @hyperionhelios190 3 года назад

    Love seeing the 3D printed pots!

  • @johnpereira9594
    @johnpereira9594 3 года назад

    I really enjoyed that

  • @alvarolupinacci641
    @alvarolupinacci641 3 года назад

    Nice to see that the mini pencil cactus made its way from Brazil to Canada and it is thriving nicely!! Eventually it will put nice yellow flowers!!

  • @ebenoid6643
    @ebenoid6643 9 месяцев назад

    It’s really cool that we can take seeds from trees that may be significant in history to be able to grow a clone of the same tree.👍 another reason to love the hobby

  • @DakotaDS
    @DakotaDS 2 года назад

    Thanks, Nigel!

  • @catherinerigaux6825
    @catherinerigaux6825 3 года назад

    Hello Nigel its wonderfull the bonsaï garden 👏👏👏👍👋from 🇫🇷

  • @patsfreund9164
    @patsfreund9164 3 года назад +2

    Always a pleasure to watch your videos as you give clear explanations of your decisions in styling. So nice of you to get the gooseberries for the two ducks. Do you have a video in which you show how you made the penjing with the houses/trees? I'd love to see that. You have accomplished in that work what many of us in this hobby are seeking to do. Stay safe and healthy.

  • @Rblock777
    @Rblock777 3 года назад +1

    This was very interesting

  • @EverythingPlants
    @EverythingPlants 3 года назад

    What an extremely interesting video. Hello from Regina, Saskatchewan!

  • @denisemac118
    @denisemac118 3 года назад +2

    Love your videos!

  • @TobyJin
    @TobyJin 3 года назад +2

    Your oaks are doing really well, I have 2 similar sized English oaks to yours and one is in the ground so I can get it to thicken up, interested to see what shape you'll develop yours into the future.

  • @sophiaangelini4368
    @sophiaangelini4368 2 года назад

    Good to see the Sequoia seedlings slumbering betwixt Ficus Fancy and the Gooseberry Twins

  • @rman8028
    @rman8028 3 года назад +1

    Am I missing the premieres? I know that the last 2 or 3 I caught just as they ended, and those were about 3 weeks ago.
    Now, love what you're doing with the oaks! Cashews doing good! Baobabs are coming along. Looks like you have the feather blight under control. I just started having antler blight to deal with on my plum seedling. Our 40°+ heat hasn't helped except for my prairie prickly pear.
    Overall, great bonsai collection there, Nigel!

  • @nickgillespie8234
    @nickgillespie8234 2 года назад

    I'm trying an experiment, I took 5 acorn sprouts and used grafting tape and wire to bind them together as a fuzing bonsai so far it is fuzing together and doing very well

  • @jameschicken7482
    @jameschicken7482 2 года назад

    would love another update on these oaks.

  • @marysoldeeley2218
    @marysoldeeley2218 3 года назад

    I loved it all! Even the abominable soil beasts!!

  • @BlueSkyBonsai
    @BlueSkyBonsai 3 года назад

    Love English oaks! I had to bring acorns back from England, they don't grow in the wilderness here in Spain. They're similar to the Pyrenean oaks (the ones that I promised to send you some seedlings... waiting til autumn when they won't die in the post) But the English oaks definitely grow faster and bigger. OTOH you can get smaller leaves on the Pyreneans, so you can make smaller bonsai with them.

  • @RainyDayz
    @RainyDayz Год назад

    Thanks for sharing this! I’m really curious as to how those Oaks are looking now…

  • @matthewcampbell5877
    @matthewcampbell5877 3 года назад +1

    I can't see your hairdressing business taking off if "Just a little off the top" results in a single branch! :-D
    Love the video as always. Thank you Nigel.

    • @TheBonsaiZone
      @TheBonsaiZone  3 года назад +1

      Yes, they are sending out new branches now, exciting to see!

  • @uncleted1963
    @uncleted1963 3 года назад

    We have a number of Royal Oak’s in Australia too. Planted in commemoration of the same event. Great idea to grow acorns from them…

    • @TheBonsaiZone
      @TheBonsaiZone  3 года назад

      Cool Andrew, amazing how they sent trees out all over the Commonwealth!

  • @leneecasteel2005
    @leneecasteel2005 3 года назад

    Hi Nigel!! I actually winced when you did those lower cuts on the first oak. I went back to watch the cuts again and I noticed that they would have made some good starts all on their own.
    Have you ever done air layering? You are so good that I have no doubt that they would all have struck. I haven't tried layering with oaks, but I don't see why it wouldn't work on them. I think you could get root development quick enough that it wouldn't have created any noticeably larger pruning scars by the time you cut them off. I don't remember seeing you do an air layer, so I had to ask.
    Thank you so much for your videos!! I love your personality and all the info you share, and I really appreciate all the updates. Some bonsai artists show the work they are doing for the video, and then you rarely see any follow-up.
    Have a great week, Nigel!!

  • @peterw2845
    @peterw2845 3 года назад

    Hi Nigel , I oaks are my favourite tree by far , my first lot of bonsai oaks I tried , I cut the tap roots off and they all died , ( whether that was the cause of death one will never know ) so that why I was interested in what you were going to do with them , I never knew abou king George oak, I have 3 King Charles ( Boscobel) oaks I’m growing ( about the size of yours 3-4 years old ) and I really don’t want to loose them , I have a few forests of oaks of unknown species which I can probably experiment with . Anyways as soon as spring gets going down here in oz I will be off on an oak tree journey . Thanks as always for the great video and advise … Peter , Tasmania

  • @ashleybonner5423
    @ashleybonner5423 3 года назад

    Lovely work, Nige! I will email you after I finished putting the cleaning laundry away (the missus is putting me to work!)

  • @sigitkamboja6078
    @sigitkamboja6078 3 года назад

    Verry nice

  • @martifish
    @martifish 3 года назад +1

    It’s a shame the original Royal Oak got destroyed glad your keeping it relatives alive Nigel.

    • @ashleybonner5423
      @ashleybonner5423 3 года назад

      Wait, the original was destroyed?? What blasphemy us this??

    • @martifish
      @martifish 3 года назад

      @@ashleybonner5423 since the 1700s to many people took souvenirs

  • @mattbrennan647
    @mattbrennan647 3 года назад +3

    Everything is looking great. Did your ginkgo survive? Keep growing. Thanks

    • @3apa3a4eva
      @3apa3a4eva 3 года назад +2

      Yep, I wonder about the ginkgo as well, poor thing. :(

  • @growgardening
    @growgardening 3 года назад

    I have a delonix regia pre-bonsai tree which is about 3 or 4 years old. Used to be 2, one died because of the summer heat. Really interested to see how you shape yours.

  • @ThrillerBonsai
    @ThrillerBonsai 3 года назад

    Loved this video.. The Royal oak is one of my favorite trees.. But it's just not growing in my climate.. it's been almost 2 years but still looks like a seedling.. is there anything that I can do about it?

  • @deMANvannederland
    @deMANvannederland 3 года назад

    Nice video Nigel! My oaks are developing quite some mildew, do you have any advice on that?

  • @shvshvhkv8608
    @shvshvhkv8608 3 года назад

    👌👌👌...!!!

  • @goo757
    @goo757 3 года назад

    i like the brown buck ....... BUT i love that roster he makes me giggle every time i hear him xD

  • @michaelduncan6287
    @michaelduncan6287 Год назад

    Love your channel, been following for several yrs. I'm torn between clip and grow vs wiring,,,, got @ half and half. Question / request ¿?¿ Any chance one could get some acorns from the Royal oak you featured ?

  • @aaryansetia9093
    @aaryansetia9093 3 года назад

    Has your Delonix Regia ever flowered?It gets amazing flowers!

  • @MrJcalvino
    @MrJcalvino 3 года назад

    I agree on showing more trunk and display the future amazing bark but as it in 11:10 your trunk is straight, little taper and with no movement. I think is better to prune to a one of those low branches that you pruned to achieve movement and taper. In 5 years doing this you end up with a nice trunk. Prune in winter, let grow for the rest of year and repeat.

  • @RosarioCostanzo
    @RosarioCostanzo 3 года назад

    Hi Nigel, it's pretty common to see ruined or deformed leaves in almond seedlings. Actually, it's very common in all almond trees! Leaves are very delicate and they usually become damaged, deformed or yellow. Sometimes, especially in hot days, almond trees can even partially defoliate themselves. That's what they usually do here in nature and pots too

    • @TheBonsaiZone
      @TheBonsaiZone  3 года назад +2

      Thanks so much, very good to know, I won't worry so much now!!

    • @RosarioCostanzo
      @RosarioCostanzo 3 года назад

      @@TheBonsaiZone you're welcome, dear Nigel. Almond trees are strong ones with very delicate foliage

  • @henrylobos434
    @henrylobos434 2 года назад

    Henry
    Hi Nigel. I like watching you trim your bonsai. The results you achieve are beautiful and they look like they are second nature to you. I have an issue with a large bonsai that I am bringing back from near death. It is a very large ficus. The trunk is thicker than a can of sofa. Is there anyway of getting some suggestions from you on how to trim it. I have been nursing it fir a couple of years and the leaves are finally growing back in with some vigour. I’m afraid to cut any branches off and remove any of the growth that has finally come back. It does need a trim, I just don’t want to ruin it! I have pictures I could send to you if I knew where to send them.

    • @TheBonsaiZone
      @TheBonsaiZone  2 года назад

      My email is...
      thekwbonsaisociety@gmail.com
      I'll try and help!

  • @jakubwodarczyk6500
    @jakubwodarczyk6500 3 года назад

    @Nigel Saunders in some online shops serrisa is been sold as a indoor ? Whats your opinion on that ?

  • @mangeshthawre416
    @mangeshthawre416 3 года назад +1

    Cityscape penjig is coming out so well, i m eager to see planting on Ta Pohrm temple🌳

  • @kestane123chesmo
    @kestane123chesmo Год назад

    whats the potting medium nigil ? it looks very lean how could those trees flourish in it ?

  • @paulschaefer5241
    @paulschaefer5241 3 года назад

    As a general rule the Japanese like to try and have a trunk size that is such that the finished height of the tree is about 6 times the thickness of the trunk. Of course like just about everything else in this art, this is only a guideline and not a steadfast rule.

  • @stevenlowe8089
    @stevenlowe8089 Год назад

    I'm currently growing a royal oak in a very very small pot. Is it recommended I use a large pot, tree is about 3 months old.

  • @martinmcdonald3937
    @martinmcdonald3937 2 года назад

    how are the royal oaks doing since the pruning

  • @michaelhrouda1466
    @michaelhrouda1466 Месяц назад

    I'm in zone 7, can I hard prune now on my oak? It's about 3 years old and it's too high for my liking of development.

  • @TenHayoutube
    @TenHayoutube 3 года назад

    đẹp quá

  • @brucedeacon28
    @brucedeacon28 3 года назад

    👌

  • @thome4229
    @thome4229 3 года назад

    What 3-D-Printer do you own?

  • @jmmvangoor
    @jmmvangoor 3 года назад +1

    Dear Nigel, I like your video's, I only see you never wire trees?

    • @cor3944
      @cor3944 3 года назад

      He’s not fond of wireing

  • @waterlover
    @waterlover 3 года назад

    I should try to send you some California valley oak seeds and blue oak seeds

  • @rRobertSmith
    @rRobertSmith 2 года назад

    Seems like you could have potted those root cuttings and started another tree?!
    That is what I would have done, the worse thing that can happen is they don't grow and fail.
    The best thing is that in two years you have another tree!

  • @candimilliard2056
    @candimilliard2056 2 года назад +1

    My father is 80 this year! And he's a long time bonsai artist - and the traditional 80 gift is OAK! I'm not quite versed so not sure at what stage to get the oak? Can you help? I'm located in CT, USA.
    Thanks
    Candi

    • @TheBonsaiZone
      @TheBonsaiZone  2 года назад

      Hello Candi, try looking for a bonsai club in your area, they should be able to steer you in the right direction!!

    • @candimilliard2056
      @candimilliard2056 2 года назад

      @@TheBonsaiZone Thank you

  • @louiswilke7440
    @louiswilke7440 2 года назад

    Genuine question. How do you keep the trees alive after washing off all the soil from the roots? Love your bonsai collection ❤️❤️

    • @TheBonsaiZone
      @TheBonsaiZone  2 года назад +1

      The soil is replaced and the roots continue to grow into the new bonsai soil.

    • @louiswilke7440
      @louiswilke7440 2 года назад

      @@TheBonsaiZone thank you for sharing. And thank you for the fast reply sir.

  • @katyb2793
    @katyb2793 3 года назад

    I don't know how those ducks survive... Their life is so tough! 😂
    Will you eventually end up pruning the top of the second one down to create taper? Or is that only necessary on certain species?

    • @TheBonsaiZone
      @TheBonsaiZone  3 года назад +3

      Funny Katy, I think I'll just leave the trunks on the oaks as they are and see how it goes.

  • @nn843
    @nn843 Год назад

    Hi, Nigel! Any updates on the oaks?

    • @TheBonsaiZone
      @TheBonsaiZone  Год назад

      They are doing well, check the playlist in the description for the latest updates!!

  • @notbonsai671
    @notbonsai671 3 года назад +5

    👍👍👍

  • @taylorlieb
    @taylorlieb 3 года назад

    Have you ever grown a bonsai into a full size tree?

    • @TheBonsaiZone
      @TheBonsaiZone  3 года назад +1

      Yes, I put some in the ground and now they are as tall as a house!

  • @G3ZAAHS
    @G3ZAAHS 3 года назад

    The Bonsai hair still? Nice hair Nigel

  • @SorrowPolaris
    @SorrowPolaris 3 года назад

    Why don’t you wire your trees?

    • @labrinth999
      @labrinth999 3 года назад

      He explained in another video that he prefers the natural look and that he prefers working with the tree

    • @SorrowPolaris
      @SorrowPolaris 3 года назад

      @@labrinth999 didn’t knew this thanks

  • @gajendran01
    @gajendran01 3 года назад

    Hey Nigel don't prune the lowest branches they r called sacrificing branches they give u large trunk in the tree that u can notice below the trunk of the tree so don't prune them until the size of the trunk u need ... This is my tip for u thoungh I am following this ! 👍

  • @mftrezza
    @mftrezza 3 года назад

    Does this dude's hair not deserve its own show?

  • @jeffw8218
    @jeffw8218 2 года назад +2

    This guy has a Bonsai on his head 😂🙄

    • @John_Jim
      @John_Jim Год назад +1

      It sure needs a trim

  • @bunthymarak1990
    @bunthymarak1990 3 года назад

    Longest video maker about bonsai you are just try to short ur lecture

    • @TheBonsaiZone
      @TheBonsaiZone  3 года назад +1

      It takes patience to learn the art of bonsai, those who rush through life miss the best parts!

  • @austinmead5754
    @austinmead5754 3 года назад

    Foist

    • @jamestropicals8262
      @jamestropicals8262 3 года назад +1

      Austin aims foist, Bullseye!!!!

    • @TheBonsaiZone
      @TheBonsaiZone  3 года назад

      Austin Mead, with a Foist indeed, posts a comment worth a read!