Pruning and Moving My Bonsai Indoors, The Bonsai Zone, Nov 2021

[@mattbrennan647]

My favorite way to start the day. Morning coffee with Nigel and the Zone. Thanks, keep growing

[@dabblingwithbonsai]

The trees have really grown this summer! Nice to see them huddled in the plant room, it's like walking into a magic forest!

[@NACHO_-LIBRE]

The most relaxing channel on yt

[@jessevdmeer]

Amazing to be, a bonsai tree. Creater and grower in life i see. Potential in nature's musical tone. Playing right here in The Bonsai Zone💚

[@LetsDoBonsai]

Great stuff Nigel - really do love waking up to the bonsai zone - sets me up for the day

[@janesauer1063]

Thanks! Great video, lots of pruning. Where Acasias grow the winters are mild but also dry. It is the wet and cold together that they don't like. That Natal ficus root was impressive.

[@MrFriskyWhiskey]

@21:37-22:26 I love the moss on your 'Two Little Leaf Ficus'. It's like green velvet! It looks a very healthy and happy tree.

[@MaybeBonsai]

The little leaf ficus is looking really good, all the leaves are opened up instead of curled up. I am transferring the files for the book as I type!

[@em_k]

I started several guavas from seed this past summer and have been so pleased to see your videos on making your Guava tree into a bonsai! Hopefully I can look forward to similar in the years to come

[@TheBonsaiZone]

Wonderful!

[@judahrex]

Hi Nigel. That's a lot of dead Acacias. Hope the rest will survive. They do like the heat. Too bad it's cold out there. Maybe New Zealand is a better place to grow them. It always makes me very happy to see them tho. Thanks as always for the updates. You're a legend.

[@JackC1961]

No, we don't want any to die, but non the less an Acacia from seed update 👍. They look great Nigel, I like your considered approach to pruning, I find my self having a chat with the tree also as I prune 🪴. You got to get those forking Guava branches to fork the right way 🧐. Great video, thanks Nigel.

[@pieterbosman6111]

When walking through the African bush, where (formerly) Acacias (now either Senegalias or Vachelias) grow, you will notice that their canopies do not intertwine. Each has its own space. It is more correct to refer to such an area as bushveld rather than a forest, as the canopies do not form a "roof".

[@TheBonsaiZone]

Thanks Pieter!!!

[@KleinBonsai]

I've been waiting for a video on the Acacias 😀 They've thicken up nicely. I would suggest that you plant some of them out in Spring, they don't like to be so tight together. Your basement might be too dark for them? They love light, even when they are dormant in winter they love light (and by winter I mean anything between 12 and 20° C 😅). As for the Burtt-Davyi/Natal Ficus, it could be any of the two, haha. According to a website: "It is distinguished by its faintly 3-veined leaf base from its closest species F. burkei and F. natalensis."

[@hyperionhelios190]

Sorry I couldn't stay up for this one last night Nigel. It was wonderful to meet you cam to cam last night at the society meeting and to compare 3D prints! I'll have to stop by the "Zone" some time when coming south.

[@natrjack965]

Great video again Nigel thank you

[@growclipbonsaiforseniors1951]

A lot of work to do to bring in the trees. Great pruning on them and cuttings galore. Great video. Greenhouse looks good in the dark.

[@TheBonsaiZone]

Thanks Tom, it sure is a jungle in the plant room now!

[@BlueJayBonsai]

Great updates Nigel! I think the acacia cuttings pile was as big as the forest. 🤣 You should put out an album.. the sounds of roots growing in The Bonsai Zone! 😜

[@PghFlip]

Dieback is just nature pruning for you. Adversity builds character!

[@Commander_Kev]

You have really beautiful bonsai trees!!!

[@benhagan.bennytheredneck6841]

I growing a maple tree in the ground outside and I'm training it to become an outside bonsai tree it looks amazing already

[@sophiaangelini4368]

Acacia's forest from seeds is an example of Bonsai strategy and delicacy-

[@marysoldeeley2218]

The weed looked like mimosa P.... I hard pruned my Ficus B. I did as you do and said... I cried, I was terrified. But now it's looking so perfect with it's cute little leaves. I love it's look more than ever! I just need to figure out how to get the aerial roots growing....

[@Bravybrown]

I've got two I'm trying to do the same thing with. Didn't know a flat pot was an option, nice to know.

[@davidmorgan3508]

Aussie Dave here Nigel, I like your gauva plant, but the trunk needs movement 🤔. A good 5 mm wire or a branch bender will make the gauva more pleasing 🤗. What do you think 🤔

[@dabblingwithbonsai]

As the trunk thickens I think the lack of movement doesn't bother that much. It's still a young tree after all. And as Nigel is more of a clip-and-grow kind a fellow, I'd personally find it disturbing for him to use wire on the trunk :D

[@michaelcowart6100]

That "weed" looked like an acacia tree

[@barbkrienke8400]

Hey Nigel! Just a thought about the acacia forest. If you will be finding room for it in the plant room midway through the winter, what about the idea of just skipping the basement altogether, and putting it directly into the plant room now? It had such a hard winter last year, and it might help it maintain some vigor to have those warmer temps all winter. I’m bet there is a reason they need that coolness in the basement first, but I thought I would at least mention my thought. Really enjoying your preparations for the winter. I love the idea you had to drill holes in the glass greenhouse tracks to allow condensation to drain out of the window spaces!

[@josephwatts2341]

You should look into mobile shelving. That’s what I’ve been using since I’ve received so many trees filling my garage.

[@KurisuBonsai]

Hi Nigel, that weed you pulled from the Acacia Forest looked to me a lot like Indigofera himalayensis, they have amazing pink flowers in spring and yes, the leaves move up and down with the sun! Not sure on its Bonsai potential though! Thanks for all the videos too ☺️

[@carolholt416]

Great video Nigel!

[@Ollieslife101]

Hey Nigel do you still have or see Dandelion the black squirrel?

[@connorcooper496]

Hi Nigel, I think this is the same ficus natalensis that I have. Looks like it is from the same batch of cutting we got from Jock in the KW club :)

[@yummyforadam7485]

Have you ever purchased a 'bonsai' or have you started all of yours yourself?

[@christopherbailey3016]

Hi Nigel. Looks like a natal fig. I have a couple down here in south africa. Let me know where I can send some coral tree seeds to for you.

[@GreenhornBonsai]

Would the Natal ficus grow new top growth from that long root?

[@patsfreund9164]

Always a pleasure to watch your videos. You're making progress in moving the plants indoors.

[@sonichedgehog8723]

It must be a pretty big trunk as you have one hell of a set of mits on you.

[@dubsydabster]

Foist

[@TheBonsaiZone]

Noice Dubsy!!!!! A grand Foist!

[@andrewspar436]

Was that weed maybe a Mimosa pudica?

[@Wiratama13]

Good

[@TheBonsaiGarden]

Secoind (to comment)

[@TheElderOne28]

what species of Acacia is that ?

[@victoriabrownfrank4328]

Would you mind oiling the bearings on your lazy Susan it does squeak

[@Ollieslife101]

Prolly a bar stool top that's why it's so loud lol can't fix a broken bar stool but it's way cheaper then a turn table or lazy susan

[@brucedeacon28]

👍🍎

[@ImNotAProfessional]

I think i just missed the permier

[@haraldisdead]

Isn't this the exact wrong time to be doing this? Godammit, everyone does everything differently, and they all swear it's the only way.

[@christopherbailey3016]

Hi Nigel. Looks like a natal fig. I have a couple down here in south africa. Let me know where I can send some coral tree seeds to for you.