Bonsaify | Jay's Towering Redwood Bonsai

[@adamloudon4585]

Thank you!!!! Coastal Redwood are the focus of my bonsai journey and I find content about them to be fairly rare, so this is enormously valuable to me.

[@josec.6017]

Hey I’m new to bonsai and like you I got drawn to the same focus! Do you have any other materials you’ve used to learn because like you it seems pretty rare to see this tree.

[@Tony6969.]

Have you found a coastal redwood yet?

[@adamloudon4585]

@@Tony6969. I did! I ordered a sapling in the spring. I had some great growth, hopefully I can get it to survive the winter.

[@Holla.Die.Waldfeee]

nearly nothing beats a well made formal upright corniferous bonsai. especially tall and slim ones. start shaping might be boring, but some day it will turn into a true beauty.

[@streeeetz6059]

Beautiful trees. I’ve managed to keep a seedling alive for 5ish years now, after losing many dawn and coastal redwoods. I agree w the other comment that content/guidance is hard to come by. Theyre nearly as needy as a child but it’s absolutely worth it.

[@MarkHudson-x4o]

Where do you live , I have Dawn Redwoods, coastal and giants that I've been raising for quite sometime, also bald cypress , might be willing to help you get a healthy one 🤙🏼😎 Mark

[@blueridgebonsai9155]

Wow, I look forward to your visits with Jay, he is a master for sure. Trouble is you don’t get put there enough! Thanks Eric

[@bwmalibu1]

Thanks!

[@robertpawlsoky2910]

Thank you for all the tips. Your trees look truly great. I have about fifty trees collected over 10-12 years, slowly as each takes care. I have five bald cypress started 8 years ago, not quit redwood, but your tips are valuable for training them. Thanks.

[@timjones7888]

Thank you Eric and Jay. Showing how to prune to arrest the elongation and create the ramification was super valuable for me. Beautiful trees.

[@smithysbonsai1479]

This guy sounds like the Bob Ross of bonsai. It’s great!

[@suer666]

This is great. I have a dawn redwood forest. It wasn't until after i purchased it I realised how different they are. I also recntly found a fantastic tree at a garden centre. It has a lovely trunk. Videos like this help so much.❤

[@Thomdoodle]

I live in Yorkshire, England and redwoods are my favourite tree. I have a redwood that I grew from seed, purchased in California over 30 years ago. Brilliant video

[@beersandbonsai1]

Excellent video! I love the collab videos with Jay.

[@bwmalibu1]

Hi and thank you for taking the time to share your experience very helpful and much appreciated I watched twice so far Much Respect Bill W.

[@jeffreyhutchings561]

I really enjoyed this video, watching you guys get the job done. Jay is an awesome guy. Hope to meet him some day. I’m working on a couple coastal redwoods in my garden. One is six feet tall and the other is about three feet tall (young seedling that has grown well since February). I am having trouble deciding which branches to prune on it to help promote growth in the weaker side of the tree. Hopefully by next Spring it will bounce back. 😎🌲

[@jyudy7dytcjux]

Seeing these makes me want to go back and visit the Redwoods.

[@rainproofjeans]

Greetings from Alabama. New subscriber recently, so this is the first I’ve seen Jay’s place. That little workshop building is awesome with the porch entryway and all of the styling details!! *edit, and obviously the redwood is pretty amazing too..

[@OjaiBonsai]

I’m with you-Redwoods I like the natural formal tall style. Thank you great stuff.

[@scottjania8007]

Badass Redwood. Jay's such a rad Tree Herder..

[@georgegilmour540]

Great video! On year three of growing my first redwood bonsai. Started from a cutting taken a few blocks from my house. Very inspiring!

[@lolpwndk]

Jay's a goldmine of knowledge

[@jbost8398]

Stunning tree...Nice worx

[@KurisuBonsai]

Great vibe to this video, looks like you both had a whole heap of fun!

[@lefthandluke8923]

I love this video for a hundred reasons. Thank you!

[@ConductorRyan]

Fantastic work. I love my redwood, I need to get more.

[@cb6778]

Thanks

[@marcobonsai9394]

you guys are the best! much love!

[@conspiraterry7393]

Awesome video! Dawn redwoods are my favorite tree and one that I seem to do OK with and not kill to rapidly, love to work on them love to seem them busting out in green and I pinch away with my fingers cuz I have nails lol

[@treewithsoul]

Thanks for this wonderful Video ! You guys just motivated me, to buy a redwood 😂❤️

[@Ramalito]

Great Video.

[@HarusaiBonsai]

Wonderful work

[@HunterHunter93]

Wow majestic

[@QuestionableCooking-n1w]

Nice vid, impressive tree... on the follow up pruning, Jay only cut back new growth tips only to 2/4 leaves ?

[@scottpiatanesi8834]

Nice moss. 7:15

[@rainproofjeans]

Agreed.

[@Gonecrazy666]

I need your advice, I’ve got three coastal redwoods I’m growing (for two years) in 2’x2’x1’ deep boxes and they’re in Miracle Grow potting soil, they put tons of new growth out but the trunks aren’t getting thick. I planted other coastal redwoods in the ground and BOOM! They’ve got massive trunks in about the same time, so, how shocking is it to dig and transplant these redwoods? Do they have a big taproot that doesn’t like to be severed? Do I need to put some kind of big air pot in the ground to contain the roots? Thanks! And great video 👍🏻

[@Bonsaify]

Ground growing is always faster! You should be able to dig up redwoods without much problem, but do it in early spring.

[@savio3101]

Hi Eric, eagerly waiting for Mass Market Ficus Part 5 ?

[@Bonsaify]

Lol. I think when part 5 comes out I'll title it parts 5-11 since I keep filming small bits of work on the tree and compiling them into the next video. I thought it might be time by now, but I'm going to give it another month or two. I wanted to wait to see if the new branching gets a bit bigger before doing more pruning....

[@MarkHudson-x4o]

Is that a coastal redwood or giant Sequoia? I watch y'all all the time and purchased mame from you, I have all the redwoods in Virginia, love em 🤙🏼😎

[@Bonsaify]

Coastal redwood. Thanks!

[@obryn]

Redwoods aren't that bad. The most finicky tree I've ever dealt with is a Ming Aralia forest. After caring for that, I've never complained about any tree again.

[@Akatsuki-En]

First, junipers and pines that I got are going strong

[@dshevack1]

I have been thinking about getting a small red wood I can’t tell if you convince me to get one or if you scared me off.

[@andreashein3044]

Super 😊👍

[@nat-xs2fs]

Do you "arrest the elongation" on spruce? Thanks

[@Bonsaify]

Yes, although given spruce normally only grow one spurt per year, concentrate on exterior pinching and thinning is more the formula.

[@Dylan-ok6ft]

Were those coastal redwoods or giant sequoias?

[@Bonsaify]

coastal - Sequoia sempervirens.

[@anthonyfenn748]

Can you prune dawn redwood in the same way, thanks

[@Bonsaify]

I don't think quite the same. TBH, I find them confusing but that's probably because I haven't worked with them much.

[@jessetimber1388]

really like the shape which miniature the nature tree in bonsai and still got the shape of real redwood tree

[@garyc880]

Ur my favorite character

[@jasonsnakearm8055]

I finally tried one after years of wanting one and it died a year later😢

[@Bonsaify]

One of the things that got left out in this video was Jay mentioning that they grow great in the right environment, but they're not super adaptable. Minimum temps are 28F, and prolonged temps below 40F can be problematic also. On top of that, consistently hot weather seems like it can be an issue - but Peter Tea grows them in Auburn, CA which is HOT all summer. Maybe not Phoenix hot, but it's hot.

[@DavidScheltema]

🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉

[@DavidScheltema]

Will there be an azalea episode soon? 11:35

[@brucedeacon28]

👍👌🙂

[@4officiel349]

What is the scientific name of this beautiful redwood? Maybe metasequoia?

[@Bonsaify]

Sequoia sempervirens.

[@bonsaisn]

hello

[@Foxtrot1967]

Great Tree Jay! Curious if its a Sequoia Gigantea

[@Bonsaify]

No, Sequoia sempervirens.

[@Foxtrot1967]

@@Bonsaify I have a 15 year old Sequoia Gigantea started from seed. It's been in a bonsai pot its entire life to keep it small. Its trunk is about 50% less wide than Jay's. It was my very first bonsai and has developed nicely. Do you happen to know how old Jay's is?

[@Bonsaify]

It was collected so hard to tell. Probably 50-70 years old. It's actually been a bonsai for 20+ years.

[@jasonbarker4439]

Can I buy that tree?

[@Bonsaify]

I think it was already sold after the first session but before the second. But, mcbonsai.com is a good source for redwoods - Bob Shimon.