Pruning My Arakawa and Field Maples, The Bonsai Zone, Dec 2024

[@baldyeti]

The hazard of a “growing” hobby is always running outta space! 🥁🥁 🛎️ Lovin the discipline, one to two, skip one, sacrifice pair, snip.

[@CoffeeandBonsaiwithTom]

I always love the first snow - it's bittersweet to know that Winter has finally arrived, but that also means that Spring is that much closer!! Thanks for sharing - so beautiful everything blanketed in white.

[@growclipbonsaiforseniors1951]

Great pruning done by the great Bonsai Master, Dr. Nigel. Superb!

[@dkstott29]

Stay safe and warm while doing your late season bonsai shuffle....

[@DeciduousSnurb]

Great decisions one the 'Arakawa' Nigel, as well as the Field maple. When you repot the Field maple next, weather it be this spring or next, maybe consider saving the root clippings, I heard field maples grow from root cuttings that would be wild. One could make a forest easily that way.

[@growclipbonsaiforseniors1951]

Like the old Christmas song: Let it snow, let it snow. Trees well protected under the snow. Good insulation.

[@mattbrennan647]

Winter is coming Jon Snow. Thanks, keep growing

[@Steves_Backyard_Bonsai]

Small steps, great progress. Nice work as always.

[@trybonsai]

You got me on the intro music🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉 Lovely combination of music and scenery ❤❤❤🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉

[@n8tyler]

Its a Winter wonderland...

[@shuancook9005]

Don’t eat yellow snow 🍁

[@timmorel79]

i fill you had a gardon tree vibe~from 0/17:30min. today(something you don't have room for). i've not missed a avlog for 3+years humbly sorry~i bow my head___PS love you'r narrative skills❤

[@peacecosmonaut176]

Looks like korean maple by the trunk

[@bonsai_life_style]

You could do air layer on Arakawa on that tick branch and put that rooted air layer together with that two and make nice clump style .

[@dahlmasen3084]

I don’t think we’ll ever see Nigel doing an air layer though

[@brucedeacon28]

👍👌👌

[@pennyduncan5980]

❤❤❤❤😊😊😊😊

[@54114142]

Isn't now a strange time to cut deciduous trees? Why not wait till end of winter?

[@christophe5740]

Hi Nigel, this thing of keeping an extra set of bud and letting first grow a sacrificial bud sets in spring, do you do this on all species or specifically on maples? Thanks!

[@benparsons7197]

Hi Nigel, what soil composition do you use in your developing bonsai pots? Cheers

[@mattbrennan647]

45% safty sorb (premium calcined clay all-purpose absorbents designed for the quick clean up of water, oil and grease and made from Montmorillonite Clay, a naturally occurring mineral with superior absorptive ability.) 45% perlite 10 % fine bark (repti bark) Good luck 👍🏻🍀

[@benparsons7197]

@mattbrennan647 thank you very much

[@schlomofewhairs4120]

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