Bald Cypress Bonsai Makeover at The Bonsai Supply

Jerome is doing a first styling and deadwood work on an old collected Bald Cypress. Enjoy
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[@TheBonsaiZone]

Nice, I was surprised to see one at a Canadian show this year, he over winters it outside under heavy mulch, amazing!

[@WeareTheBonsaiSupply]

Cypresses are great trees! I have to visit Canada soon and check all the great bonsai over there!

[@quinnrivers4710]

My two favourites

[@freedumbsquirts4809]

I'm in Iowa and was wondering what I would do with all my bald cypress trees that I sprouted this spring.

[@rockyorion1362]

instaBlaster...

[@getintothewildwithjeffruma8777]

My favorite type of tree 👍

[@chuckycheese1]

GREAT VIDEO 🌳👍

[@padmajaraju41]

Great video

[@MHarenArt]

I live on the Eastern Shore of the Delmarva Peninsula - Mid Atlantic. I found a a couple of small saplings of Bald Cypress growing in my yard in a flower garden. No idea how it got there as I don't see any growing around here. Nearest ones I know are about 15 miles away. Anyway, I dug them up and put them into a pot. I now have two growing about 15 - 18" tall. I'm going to try to bonsai them. They are beautiful just the way they are but too bushy. So yesterday I did a light trim by taking off all the tiny branches growing around the bottom to about three inches up the trunks, and also remover a lot of tiny branches throughout their canopy. When is time in the fall, I'll do a heavier branch trimming and a bit of wiring. I suppose that I'll need to nip the roots too??? Off to do some more homework. Thanks for the good information!

[@hoikychientranh2118]

Beautiful bonsai tree

[@soonzach4017]

Wonderful job, thank you.

[@ramu591]

Thanks a lot for uploading such a fantastic videos. Really addicted to your channel.

[@WeareTheBonsaiSupply]

Thank you!! really appreciate it

[@VanDamArtisan]

Good timing for me, first video of my day and I catch a video from Jerome 14 minutes after it posted. Maybe I'll get the first like?

[@WeareTheBonsaiSupply]

of course!! Thank you for watching :)

[@yoda12439]

you guys are sweet. Good job on the tree LOVING IT

[@WeareTheBonsaiSupply]

Thank you!!

[@2000woobie]

Love the theme music. It reminds me of Shawn of the Dead.

[@ThatGuy-cs3nb]

The hilarious thing is when you showed the difference between bald and pond foliage you showed bald foliage…. Nope it was a dawn redwood foliage. It has the cone buds and baldies don’t have that and it has large comb leaves and bald cypress have very compact leaves. The tree you are working on is definitely a bald cypress but oddly enough I had a tree labeled a bald cypress at Lowe’s but it was a dawn redwood. The buds are completely different just like the size of the foliage is too. Great tree there tho

[@lovelygreenbonsai]

Great work Mari and Jerome 😁 All best, Toni

[@WeareTheBonsaiSupply]

Great piece to work with! Thank you Toni

[@Andi_M.]

Nice!!!

[@nicholasxenides384]

Hi from Adelaide, South Australia. I have watched almost all of your videos and find them enjoyable, well presented and informative. However, as a relative newbie, seeing all of the advanced, show level trees that you work on is at the same time, both inspiring and intimidating. I wonder if you could do some lessons using material that we beginners can identify with, for example young trees sourced from a garden centre, that we can work on and derive some satisfaction from in the interim.

[@WeareTheBonsaiSupply]

Hi Nicholas, thank you for your feedback. Checkout some of our newer videos, there are some videos about garden center trees transformation

[@nicholasxenides384]

@@WeareTheBonsaiSupply Thanks so much Jerome.

[@elementalbonsai]

Mark here dam good video Jerome👍👌 always looking forward to your videos very informative! Keep up the excellent work.

[@WeareTheBonsaiSupply]

Carmie T hey Mark, thank you so much for your kind words 🙏

[@johnpereira9594]

Thanks for the great Video. Can swamp cypress be air-layered?

[@WeareTheBonsaiSupply]

Yes it can

[@faustorivas2174]

Awesome tree and video. How old is the tree?

[@bonsaicreaterandlotmore9403]

Nice

[@passportcs]

I'm in the Orlando, FL area and I'm confused by your comment that bald cypress goes dormant in Midsummer. Mine drops leaves in Winter, so that is when I think that it is dormant. Second, why do you defoliate a bald cypress, when it's leaves are already small? Plus why would you defoliate it when it is 'dormant"? Please comment.

[@WeareTheBonsaiSupply]

Hey! that is a very good question. I will explain it in my coming Q & A this month. Stay tuned!

[@saltySandworm1]

Great video. I liked the carving of the dead roots, nice to actually SEE this being appied. To thicken that lower branch, will you let that branch grow more vigourously than the others for the coming years?

[@WeareTheBonsaiSupply]

Hey Jules, Thank you for your feedback! Yes, I am going to let the lower branches grow until they are thick enough and then I will cut it back and start building the branch.

[@nat4190]

Can I cut the tops of two 3 year old bald cypress trees in my front yard to keep them shorter than my house, and in the process make "Large Bonsai" to keep it from getting too tall ?

[@bobmccarlie382]

Would the defoliating technique work on a Dawn Redwood as well? I live in Southern Ontario. The temps here now are in th 80s, 90s, 100s until the end of August (and maybe later). I have a 4 ft Dawn Redwood that I acquired last year. It's very healthy and growing well in a wooden box I built and put it in after I bought it. I just did some pruning back on it a couple of weeks ago, but I would like to get some back budding/growth lower down on the trunk. Virtually all of the growth in is in the upper 1/4 of the tree, with one long branch at about 1/3 of the way down the trunk that has all it's growth out on the tip of the branch. Thanks, and keep up the great videos. Bob

[@WeareTheBonsaiSupply]

Bob McCarlie hey Bob, my guess is yes on the defoliation, but I am not too sure since we can’t grow them down here in Florida

[@donnanelson9181]

I am pretty confused as to when to defoliate a tree? Every time I prune it? Every time I repot it? Every time I rewire it? It seems you defoliate every time you do any work on a tree.

[@username-kj1du]

I have the Same question

[@WeareTheBonsaiSupply]

Hey! great questions. I will clarify it in my coming Q & A this month. Stay tuned!

[@josephlevantino1972]

Where do y’all get the big sizes of bonsai pots. I can’t find the more shallow style of pots needed for bonsai at local places and online I swear I can only find up to 12inches.

[@milmex317th]

I jumped too thanks. Lol

[@WeareTheBonsaiSupply]

Santos Rivera 😄😄😄 The dangerous part of bonsai

[@iPheek]

I have a BC in water, do I live it in water during the winter or pull them out? We don’t freeze much maybe 5 times if anything. I’m in south Texas. Also the roots have started growing out of the drainage holes, is it ok for the roots to be exposed during the winter? Thanks!

[@WeareTheBonsaiSupply]

Hi, take the cypress out of the water, it should only be in the water during the summertime. watch our newly released youtube video on overwintering tips.

[@adrianobritodossantos4951]

👏👏👏👏👏👏

[@michaelmccarthy4077]

how do you correct that section at the top where the apex was cut? Will the new apex branch naturally grow over that or will it require shaping with a tool to make it look natural?

[@WeareTheBonsaiSupply]

Hey Michael, I will let the new apex grow tall to heal over the cut section. It is almost healed already, one more growing season and the cut won't be visible anymore.

[@victorkohnke1720]

Jerome, I am currently styling my Bald Cypress. When selecting the flat top branches, Do you try to not have more than two branches at the top because of future inverse taper? Your thoughts?

[@peterburns519]

do you leave in tub of water or just water them heavy. thanks

[@WeareTheBonsaiSupply]

The small ones i leave in tub of water over the Summer, the larger ones I just water them heavy in the morning.

[@peterburns519]

@@WeareTheBonsaiSupply thank you very much. love you KZbin clips to

[@donnanelson9181]

When I wire a branch do I want the wire on the outside when I make a bend or on the inside when I make a bend? Thank you.

[@WeareTheBonsaiSupply]

Donna Nelson hey Donna, you want the wire to be on the outside of the bend!

[@donnanelson9181]

That’s what I thought you mentioned in one of your videos. I had forgotten, put the wire on the inside of the bend and the branch broke. Ugh! I’m mad at myself! It was an important branch.

[@username-kj1du]

I Just wanna leave germany and go to cali to be a Bonsai Master and own a Business but how?! :D

[@WeareTheBonsaiSupply]

Plan, vision, hard work, perseverance :)

[@1reefluvr2]

Mari is hottttt!

[@boostspike]

Coño

[@ofthedawn]

The music needs to be killed.