Aussie Native Bonsai, Double the trouble

[@growclipbonsaiforseniors1951]

Cool trunks on these trees. Pruning by one of the great Masters of the Bonsai World: Professor Sam.

[@MrNosajwhitey]

Learnt a lot about red pruning hopefully other gums will be similar in pruning methods

[@SamDoeckeAussiebonsaibloke]

I feel they will

[@growclipbonsaiforseniors1951]

Double Gum trees reminds me of the commercial: Double your pleasure Double your fun With Wrigley's Juicy Fruit Gum. Cool title.

[@hyperionhelios190]

love the clump.

[@jackwadd2390]

He's the... Aussie Bonsai Bloke, he loves a bloody beer, he loves a bloody joke. Aussie Bonsai Bloke, gives the trees a "how ya goin'", while drinkin rum'n'coke. yeah the, Aussie Bonsai Bloke, when it comes to Aussie natives, he's the Bonsai Fucken Pope.

[@SamDoeckeAussiebonsaibloke]

🤣🤣🤣 cheers mate and thanks for the laugh bloke

[@jamessteele313]

I defoliated my red gum a couple of days ago, thinking of this tree of yours! It's looking very good. Such good ramification. Thanks for the videos.

[@SamDoeckeAussiebonsaibloke]

Well done mate. 👏 They really respond well to it 😀

[@PeterJames468]

Can you put a small fan blowing air across your phone (away from the tree you are working on) to help cool it down? The spitfire caterpillars I normally see in South Aussie are Sawfly larvae. They are mainly black and bunch together and can spit eucalyptus oil type stuff if you hassle them. Anyway whatever caterpillars you have there need to go as they will strip the tree (or you could leave them there and let them do the defoliation work for you !)

[@andrewgibbons4549]

Hi Sam great video. That gum tree is a great looking tree it works defoliating. Great information again thanks mate.

[@SamDoeckeAussiebonsaibloke]

Cheers mate

[@tinjoesstation]

Trees look great Sam!! Bummer bout the caterpillars. Hope they don’t cause much damage.

[@SamDoeckeAussiebonsaibloke]

Guess they have to eat 😉

[@rodneyvillis9665]

Another great job Sam. Thanks for the session last weekend - I had a blast!

[@SamDoeckeAussiebonsaibloke]

Fun day mate. Many more to come 😀😀

[@bobcatbonsai]

Very nice work on this tree and the advice to defoliate once a year is something I will have to give a try. Thank you for sharing!

[@angry9901]

Exfoliate or defoliate? Exfoliating is good for your skin...😎

[@bobcatbonsai]

@@angry9901 I definitely in my head was typing defoliate🤣🤣🤣.

[@SamDoeckeAussiebonsaibloke]

No worries mate

[@mattbrennan647]

Looking great Sam. Nice work as usual. Thanks, keep growing

[@planterbanter]

Looks like my red gum is developing strongly, and yours of course is looking bloody beautiful. Thanks a bunch Sam!

[@SamDoeckeAussiebonsaibloke]

Yours is going great guns 🔫 💪

[@ToadlyCool91]

I was wondering why you were so afraid of the spitfires, because ‘spitfires’ to me are a type of harmless sawfly larvae. What you have are caterpillars of Limacodidae (cup moths), which also go by the same common name as ‘spitfire,’ but are unrelated to sawflies and quite painful if you brush against them. They have little clusters of stinging hairs that they evert when they’re disturbed which have a venom in them so they hurt! You might see their pupal cases on your trees which look like little gumnuts.

[@SamDoeckeAussiebonsaibloke]

Geeze now I am scares 😱 cheers for the info

[@jameswalker3416]

I can't believe how fast your trees grow. My bottle brush trees are about pencil sized trunks and i there like 4 year old now.

[@steveparnham8761]

tree looks great, did you do much wire to get the shape, or just cut and grow, cheers

[@SamDoeckeAussiebonsaibloke]

Clip and grow for this little guy 😀

[@jasongannon7676]

👍

[@hyperionhelios190]

Is Lori doing any bonsai here in Canada?

[@SamDoeckeAussiebonsaibloke]

Not sure. Go over to his Planter banter channel and shoot a message 😀😀

[@brucedeacon28]

👍👌👌🙂🙂

[@MattQrillz]

I want a gummy so bad.

[@MattQrillz]

....Tree* lol

[@mattbrennan647]

@@MattQrillz 😂

[@mattbrennan647]

Foist