@@Huipie81 Well, for me it works. I think that the colours look very good. Especially in the beginning of the video. And then at the end when he's behind the tree the focus is really great that you see the tree itself... I don't know for me it works! :)
I think the dead trees in the "acacia" forest adds a bit more natural looks to the whole arrangement. And the Pixie looks great even without foliage! Love the frankenmonster-ficus! Thanks for the video!
Your first tree is beautiful. I grew up in Pakistan, where ficus are native to and I absolutely love what you've done with the cutting grown on top of the original trunk. It reminds me of the stranger fig tree as they consume the tree they leach onto. In Pakistan, we have the banyan too which grows about the same way.
I am looking forward to seeing that. There are 3 giant banyan trees in my parents house in Islamabad, Pakistan and they’re all amazing with huge Ariel roots. They’re all atleast 40 years old, I’m in Islamabad right now and just yesterday I discovered a banyan growing in a crack between two stairs, soon I’ll dig it up and and find a pot for it before I return back to Canada. I’m so lucky to find it and at the right season
The sulking of your Serissa last winter illustrates the sometimes subtle differences between the culture of tropical and subtropical plants. In this case , the Serissa is a subtropical species that requires cool winter temperatures to thrive. While some other subtropicals will tolerate forgoing such seasonal variances. With tropicals, there are some that are fine with a period of less than tropical conditions but there are those which will loose vigor and possibly perish if exposed to prolonged cool / dry / poor light / etc. conditions. I would imagine that some of your tropicals responded well to the higher temperatures you provided this past winter in your plant room. Interestingly, there are subtropicals that when grown in their native area, will push out most of their growth in the cool winter months , especially if that is the wetter part of the year and then grow slowly or even go dormant during the hot , dryer summer season.
I just fed one in my plant room with a dying insect at the window, the insect was a crane fly and it was huge compared to the spider. The spider handled it like a champ and got it wrapped up for a long lasting meal!
Thanks LA, I have a lot of learning to do both with the camera and the post production! Fun stuff. I'm hoping to get my Ninja V in the next few months, then I'll be able to record 10 bit video, it will be interesting if I see any difference! I'll have to save my pennies for that one, as they are about a thousand dollars here in Canada.
I definitely see the difference between the two image processing! This one is smoother and I like it better. Some people may prefer the vivid colors and contract of the other one but I think this one really shows the capacity to reach professional grade of your new filming rig!
I am stuck removing spider mite eggs from the plants I grow at the office now, because I was a fooooool and brought a collected poplar indoors. I thought I had fully cleaned it but must have missed some, and I threw it out as soon as I saw a full grown red mite. Cannot see any more but the evidence of their meals is on most of my plants now, my cottonwood seedlings and my dracaenas. Now I am giving the plants I have been cultivating a good wipe down with rubbing alcohol every day, just to get rid of any eggs that might be ending up on them, and discarding the seedlings the mites have damaged. Picking up neem oil in a day or two just to do them in as best as I can. Rough stuff.
Yes, it can be a real challenge at times to get rid of pest problems. If you can take the plants outside, most problems seem to disappear. Natural predators and the weather seem to disperse any insects problems for me.
They died just a few days later - alas, my poison was too strong. Either that or they developed damping disease. Lesson learned! Fortunately, the cotton season was still strong so I was able to start a new gang of cottonwoods (120!?) that have been going strong and vigorous for a month. Even have a little mutant with three leaves instead of two.
I had a bad infestation of hard shelled black scale on a benjamina variegata leaves. My only solution was to fully defoliate the tree leaving onlya leaf on the tips on each branch. The tree was healthy prior to doing the work. I managed to get rid of the problem.
Wish I had all the area you have to work in. I just have my deck to work on, but since I am a beginner that is probably go slow and learn. Thanks for your work on videos. There are lady bugs everywhere here. Hope that is a good thing.
I've started my Oak bonsai. I grew it from the acorn and it's in it's first pot. It has a long tap root and very few small roots yet. My plan, please tell me if I'm right, is to allow the roots to get going then after a few months I will check out the roots, remove the big one and maintain a crown of smaller ones? It's all going well at the moment and looks good. I know I also need to build up the trunk over time.
Yes that is a good plan, I usually cut the tap root in half and then when you have enough radial roots to support the tree, remove the rest of the tap root.
HI Nigel I wondered if you saved the top to plant it as a cutting? Also wondering if you could recommend an indoor plant I could grow under a 400wat metal halide light. I tried to grow an ever-bearing mulberry tree but it accidentally got over fertilized and died just as it started bearing fruit. Currently I have a few pepper plants growing maybe they would be good for bonsai after it gets big.
Nigel i have a question. I have tall ficus benjamina, it's a rescue, and i wanted to cut it short when it will recover. It has really tall trunk, and just a few branches on top of it. Can I just cut it short, like 1/3 of original height, and be OK, or it will kill that tree. If i shouldn't, what can i do to safely reduce it's height?
Ficus are very resilient. I have trunk chopped ficus many times with great success. It should produce new shoots quite quickly. My suggestion is to air layer the trunk once the tree is healthy. This should be done in spring. Air layering will allow you to save the top of the tree in case the lower portion does not survive. And then you can have twice as many bonsai trees!
Hi Nigel, for summer re-pots on tropicals, where in the growth cycle would you suggest is best? For example on a ficus, would you re-pot when you see new buds developing, mid bloom, when the bloom has reached its end, or wait until a few weeks after the new growth has completed? Love the channel and really appreciate your dedication to the art. Thanks for your consideration and hard work!
Nigel have you considered a shohin size with a broad canopy for the benjamina? It's already got a stout trunk that'll appear even more stout if the tree was reduced in height. Looks good, either way, just asking.
Hi Nigel I have watched all your videos and liked them all I’m in Florida USA and would like to know we’re I can get a Vietnamese 8” pot are they expensive. Please reply if you can get a chance thank you ever so much. Mike G..........
Hello Michael, I 3D printed them from a model I made on the computer. Unfortunately my hard drive crashed and I lost all the files. I am in the process of modelling more pots and the files will be available for free. Stay tuned!
On the Ficus Trees, specific the willow leaf Ficus, if you had to, can you re-pot the tree, without killing the tree? Also when would you de leaf the tree? Thank you for any help.
You will find as the plant gets more and more branches, the new growth becomes less vigorous and the flowers will develop at the tips of the new growth. This new growth will be slightly out of the profile of the tree's canopy, but not as much as a younger, less developed bonsai.
I am enjoying watching your Bougainvillea progressions! Does yours have little twig-like thorns on it? I have one that has a few, and I'm wondering if I should prune them off.
Hi Nigel, thanks for sharing this great footage and taking the time to share your experiences! I was wondering though, given that your serissas had such a rough winter, and energyreserves are on the low side maybe(??), is this profile pruning too drastic or do they recover fine once they start growing again in the season?
Make sure to expose properly your videos Nigel, color and contrast can be kind of sorted out, but white-burnt images due to over-exposition can't. Keep using that image profile, it really gives you a lot of information to work on and correct whatever it needs to be corrected. Cheers.
I'll try and do better, i was out making a video today in full sun and I got a lot of good shots! It's tricky when the clouds keep rolling by, it changes the lighting so much. I tried several shots using F 1.8 up to F 16 using the 35mm RF lens. I did notice a bit of warping from the electronic stabilization in the camera body. I haven't noticed this before, but outside walking with the camera, it shows.
Dubsy ... nice foist!!! Nigel... I just love your new cameras videos!! It’s amazing how good it looks... but then we thought it was good before....I don’t think this setting is one of the best... I’m a naturalist at heart...I want to see it the way it is...I understand you getting the most out of your equipment... I’m really paying attention to what your doing.. and final outcomes!! Thanks Nigel
Nigel, you re-homed the spider, and that was it. Final proof that you're the nicest human.
I recently found your channel and I'm going through your video collection. Thanks so much for sharing your knowledge with us!
The colours are looking really dynamic with details of the trees clearly down. Loving the clog
This quality of the video is stunning!
Really? Both the tree and Nigel seem out of focus lots of the time. A bit too much bokeh for my taste .
@@Huipie81 Well, for me it works. I think that the colours look very good. Especially in the beginning of the video. And then at the end when he's behind the tree the focus is really great that you see the tree itself... I don't know for me it works! :)
It is nice to have the whole tree family back together.
I agree, I spend a lot of time outdoors now!
2:06 Very relatable terrified sigh before making a big cut :)
I think the dead trees in the "acacia" forest adds a bit more natural looks to the whole arrangement.
And the Pixie looks great even without foliage! Love the frankenmonster-ficus! Thanks for the video!
Thanks for the video, your the bonsai master of utube for sure, I have learned so much from you over the years, thank you
In this footage,
you look like a giant
next to your trees.
I love that.
Thanks, it was a nice calm day to work on trees, just me and the birds!
That Bougainvillea has an awesome look.
Thank you, it's come a long way from being a skinny stick in a pot!
Best Franklin Bonsai.. awesome. I"ll wait for this 2020 update.
Video quality was really good. Nice to see you working on your bougainvillea bonsai again, it's looking fabulous!
Always nice to wake up to a new video, but two? Quite a treat. Too bad about the forest but that’s bonsai Mr 😁. Thanks
Your first tree is beautiful. I grew up in Pakistan, where ficus are native to and I absolutely love what you've done with the cutting grown on top of the original trunk. It reminds me of the stranger fig tree as they consume the tree they leach onto. In Pakistan, we have the banyan too which grows about the same way.
Thank you Murtazza, I'm hoping to get a Ficus benghalensis for my collection in the future!
I am looking forward to seeing that. There are 3 giant banyan trees in my parents house in Islamabad, Pakistan and they’re all amazing with huge Ariel roots. They’re all atleast 40 years old, I’m in Islamabad right now and just yesterday I discovered a banyan growing in a crack between two stairs, soon I’ll dig it up and and find a pot for it before I return back to Canada. I’m so lucky to find it and at the right season
The dynamic range is much better
Definitely way to go!!!
Can't wait to see the finished green house. Be sure to make a space for filming. 🎥🌿
I'll be sure to leave room for making videos!
The sulking of your Serissa last winter illustrates the sometimes subtle differences between the culture of tropical and subtropical plants. In this case , the Serissa is a subtropical species that requires cool winter temperatures to thrive. While some other subtropicals will tolerate forgoing such seasonal variances. With tropicals, there are some that are fine with a period of less than tropical conditions but there are those which will loose vigor and possibly perish if exposed to prolonged cool / dry / poor light / etc. conditions. I would imagine that some of your tropicals responded well to the higher temperatures you provided this past winter in your plant room. Interestingly, there are subtropicals that when grown in their native area, will push out most of their growth in the cool winter months , especially if that is the wetter part of the year and then grow slowly or even go dormant during the hot , dryer summer season.
Excellent video quality Nigel! Stunning trees also!
Thank you Owen!
You're one of the few people I've seen that are kind to spiders and respect them
I just fed one in my plant room with a dying insect at the window, the insect was a crane fly and it was huge compared to the spider. The spider handled it like a champ and got it wrapped up for a long lasting meal!
Your best video so far Nigel! Great video quality and commentary
Thank you very much!
Love the profile without the leaves! Amazing
Thank you Hector!
C log worked well in my opinion. Thanks for the videos
loving the tight aperture on this vid Nigel!
Video quality is excellent. Content just as awesome. Remember if you learn one thing it isn't a complete failure. Cheers. Sid.
Great color grading! Nice strong greens and subtle skin tones.
Thanks LA, I have a lot of learning to do both with the camera and the post production! Fun stuff. I'm hoping to get my Ninja V in the next few months, then I'll be able to record 10 bit video, it will be interesting if I see any difference! I'll have to save my pennies for that one, as they are about a thousand dollars here in Canada.
Love the depth of focus in these videos. Great camera work!
Thank you Austin, I'm trying to get the most out of the camera and lens, some shots work well and others need a little work!
I definitely see the difference between the two image processing! This one is smoother and I like it better. Some people may prefer the vivid colors and contract of the other one but I think this one really shows the capacity to reach professional grade of your new filming rig!
I am stuck removing spider mite eggs from the plants I grow at the office now, because I was a fooooool and brought a collected poplar indoors. I thought I had fully cleaned it but must have missed some, and I threw it out as soon as I saw a full grown red mite. Cannot see any more but the evidence of their meals is on most of my plants now, my cottonwood seedlings and my dracaenas.
Now I am giving the plants I have been cultivating a good wipe down with rubbing alcohol every day, just to get rid of any eggs that might be ending up on them, and discarding the seedlings the mites have damaged.
Picking up neem oil in a day or two just to do them in as best as I can. Rough stuff.
Yes, it can be a real challenge at times to get rid of pest problems. If you can take the plants outside, most problems seem to disappear. Natural predators and the weather seem to disperse any insects problems for me.
They died just a few days later - alas, my poison was too strong. Either that or they developed damping disease. Lesson learned!
Fortunately, the cotton season was still strong so I was able to start a new gang of cottonwoods (120!?) that have been going strong and vigorous for a month. Even have a little mutant with three leaves instead of two.
The color in the video looks great to me. The bright sunlight helps!
aft chopping that big trunck tree is looking stunning sir...
I had a bad infestation of hard shelled black scale on a benjamina variegata leaves. My only solution was to fully defoliate the tree leaving onlya leaf on the tips on each branch. The tree was healthy prior to doing the work. I managed to get rid of the problem.
Whoa, I forgot about this ficus! That thing is awesome..
The C-log looks great. Its a shame about the forest, but I’m sure it will bounce back
Wish I had all the area you have to work in. I just have my deck to work on, but since I am a beginner that is probably go slow and learn. Thanks for your work on videos. There are lady bugs everywhere here. Hope that is a good thing.
Lady bugs are good for your bonsai, they eat aphids and other crawling insects! Have a great summer of growing Patricia!
I've started my Oak bonsai. I grew it from the acorn and it's in it's first pot. It has a long tap root and very few small roots yet. My plan, please tell me if I'm right, is to allow the roots to get going then after a few months I will check out the roots, remove the big one and maintain a crown of smaller ones? It's all going well at the moment and looks good. I know I also need to build up the trunk over time.
Yes that is a good plan, I usually cut the tap root in half and then when you have enough radial roots to support the tree, remove the rest of the tap root.
Nigel Saunders, The Bonsai Zone Thankyou for your advice.xxxx
Kudos from Arkansas! Thanks for the great videos!
Nigel says “so here I go”
Dynamic range is so much better but color could pop a litte more, at least on my uncalibrated monitor...
HI Nigel I wondered if you saved the top to plant it as a cutting? Also wondering if you could recommend an indoor plant I could grow under a 400wat metal halide light. I tried to grow an ever-bearing mulberry tree but it accidentally got over fertilized and died just as it started bearing fruit. Currently I have a few pepper plants growing maybe they would be good for bonsai after it gets big.
I must say, the rough worn look of the forest planting makes it look much more naturalistic.
It definitely gives the landscape a different look, I do like how the forest plantings change with the seasons and over the years!
Just Noticed you wear yellow. You look cool on this video.
Quality looks great!
Nigel i have a question. I have tall ficus benjamina, it's a rescue, and i wanted to cut it short when it will recover. It has really tall trunk, and just a few branches on top of it. Can I just cut it short, like 1/3 of original height, and be OK, or it will kill that tree. If i shouldn't, what can i do to safely reduce it's height?
Ficus are very resilient. I have trunk chopped ficus many times with great success. It should produce new shoots quite quickly. My suggestion is to air layer the trunk once the tree is healthy. This should be done in spring. Air layering will allow you to save the top of the tree in case the lower portion does not survive. And then you can have twice as many bonsai trees!
Amazing trees none the less!
Thank you Marysol, sometimes it seems hard just to keep the trees alive!
Can you make a playlist for every bonsai that has been shown in several videos? So we could See how it developed. :D
He mostly has made them :)
I have tried to develop Bougies without a lot of success. "Pink Pixie" Bougainvillea looks lovely, how do you get such a flush of growth?
I was fascinated to see the bokeh effect Achieved through the lens!!
Yes, that was my F1.8, 35mm Canon RF lens! I should use it a little more often, maybe not at F 1.8 all the time though!
That pause at 6:10 👌🏻👌🏻👌🏻👌🏻👌🏻 perfection!!! 😂
Thanks.....
Brad!
All "so here i go" time stamps:
2:09
6:09
7:43
24:13
Hi Nigel, for summer re-pots on tropicals, where in the growth cycle would you suggest is best? For example on a ficus, would you re-pot when you see new buds developing, mid bloom, when the bloom has reached its end, or wait until a few weeks after the new growth has completed? Love the channel and really appreciate your dedication to the art. Thanks for your consideration and hard work!
Spider mites do the worst damage to my plants Nigel. They're also the hardest to get rid of.
I like spiders, but not spider mites!
Nigel have you considered a shohin size with a broad canopy for the benjamina? It's already got a stout trunk that'll appear even more stout if the tree was reduced in height. Looks good, either way, just asking.
Hi Nigel I have watched all your videos and liked them all I’m in Florida USA and would like to know we’re I can get a Vietnamese 8” pot are they expensive. Please reply if you can get a chance thank you ever so much.
Mike G..........
Hello Michael, I 3D printed them from a model I made on the computer. Unfortunately my hard drive crashed and I lost all the files. I am in the process of modelling more pots and the files will be available for free. Stay tuned!
Nigel Saunders, The Bonsai Zone thanks Nigel I will stay tuned and thanks for all the videos I have learned a lot ..
Will you be able to grow roots from the large cutting?
I'm growing Mango tree from seed to make it a new bonsai tree. Is it possible or not for Mango ?
if you are in AUSTRALIA m8 you can i have 2 . But it will grow in to a big bonsai ;)
Any treecan be bonsai
On the Ficus Trees, specific the willow leaf Ficus, if you had to, can you re-pot the tree, without killing the tree? Also when would you de leaf the tree? Thank you for any help.
The saturation seems a bit low when you're working on the forest, but otherwise the C-log looks good! 👌
How to bring flowers without the branches length shooting very high .... because in bougainvillea flowers comes on long branches only
You will find as the plant gets more and more branches, the new growth becomes less vigorous and the flowers will develop at the tips of the new growth. This new growth will be slightly out of the profile of the tree's canopy, but not as much as a younger, less developed bonsai.
I am enjoying watching your Bougainvillea progressions! Does yours have little twig-like thorns on it? I have one that has a few, and I'm wondering if I should prune them off.
Hi Nigel, thanks for sharing this great footage and taking the time to share your experiences!
I was wondering though, given that your serissas had such a rough winter, and energyreserves are on the low side maybe(??), is this profile pruning too drastic or do they recover fine once they start growing again in the season?
It has been growing really well for the last month outside. I'm hoping it recovers well and has lots of energy to do this! We will see!
Do you use any sealer or fungicide when making those big topping cuts?
Its not necessary. Figs compartmentalize quickly if you cut back to a leaf and will back bud strongly. Their sap makes that possible
bonsai on the bonsai 😁
Thanks Arbas!
Eleven thousand, seven hundred and fourth fourth!
Excellent, anything under 12 thousand is a win!
did you prune your hair too?
Make sure to expose properly your videos Nigel, color and contrast can be kind of sorted out, but white-burnt images due to over-exposition can't. Keep using that image profile, it really gives you a lot of information to work on and correct whatever it needs to be corrected. Cheers.
I'll try and do better, i was out making a video today in full sun and I got a lot of good shots! It's tricky when the clouds keep rolling by, it changes the lighting so much. I tried several shots using F 1.8 up to F 16 using the 35mm RF lens. I did notice a bit of warping from the electronic stabilization in the camera body. I haven't noticed this before, but outside walking with the camera, it shows.
Looks unique this one! Could've tried grafting instead!
I also want to do ittttt
Good morning Nigel 7 question to ask do you do your hair like that for the videos because cuz they are hilarious
Something’s off about the color/warmth in you last few videos.
Good boy
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2nd
You are second Kaden!
Foist
Nice one Dubsy!
Almost fumbled that one but we stayed focused and got the FOIST
Dubsy ... nice foist!!!
Nigel... I just love your new cameras videos!! It’s amazing how good it looks... but then we thought it was good before....I don’t think this setting is one of the best... I’m a naturalist at heart...I want to see it the way it is...I understand you getting the most out of your equipment... I’m really paying attention to what your doing.. and final outcomes!! Thanks Nigel
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