Pruning My Needle Juniper, The Bonsai Zone, Jan 2023

[@Teckle_Biscuits]

Nigel "big cut" Saunders 🤣 congratulations for the 10th season 👍🌲🌳🌱

[@scheers100]

Thanks for all (280,,) your content last year, a very fun learning experience!

[@mattbrennan647]

Your use of wire is inspirational 😂

[@RyanFish825]

WOW, 280 videos this season, I knew you'd been busy but...🤯 Thanks for all the hard work and great footage Nigel! Can't wait for the future seasons of The Bonsai Zone.

[@NotAnotherBonsaiChannel]

Happy New Year Nigel and everyone watching. Wow, 10 seasons! To think, your channel began with your first video posted on 12/02/14 about KW Bonsai. Keep up the great work and all the best for 2023!

[@scotthogbin613]

Happy New Year Nigel, looking forward to season "10" in the zone. Thankyou for this past year and keeping me entertained and informed with your updates. The years highlight for me was your road trip to the botanical gardens, and your kitten family was nice to watch also. Thanks

[@dan-ig2ds]

Happy New Year!

[@raymondplodzien7459]

I definitely loved your videos Nigel and I am excited to see what 2023 has in store for The Bonsai Zone.

[@balanjayf9368]

Thank you for season 9 so much! all the trees look amazing!

[@RubyvuBonsai]

Happy new year! It's 5 years since I have follow The Bonsai Zone. Thank you for sharing the inspiration!

[@dk2614]

This is a cool little tree! I'm sure you are so aware of how difficult it will be to clip and grow a cascade. But also we both know that the tree might take you in a completely different direction anyway. Definitely a fun aspect of bonsai. Thanks again for a fun video!

[@QuadDerrick]

10 years of contribution ,, well done Mr Saunders. Thank you.

[@TheBonsaiZone]

Thank you Derrick and thank you too for all the comments and views over the many, many years!!

[@marysoldeeley2218]

Congratulations on the first video of year TEN! Great video it is! Here's to many more!💚💚

[@wshow11]

Congratulations Nigel! Hope you have many more years.

[@bwusstsein4023]

thank you nigel ♥🪴⭐

[@matshagstrom9839]

Hi Nigel, Thank you for another great video. One thought that came to mind was to trim 90% of the foliage off the distal two branches and wait. The tree should respond with back budding eliminating the long straight section. It's always good to hear your thoughts as you go. You clearly know your trees including physiological response. Happy New Year Mats H

[@nickfletcher4132]

What an achievement Nigel. 10 seasons. Well done and thanks for all your hard work and allowing us to share in your gifts and knowledge. 😊

[@bonsaitime621]

Happy season 10! Congratulations Nigel!!

[@sharonbuckley4591]

Great instruction . Looking forward to learning a lot this year.

[@lukasmihara]

Happy New Year, Nigel! 🎆 I'm looking forward to the Bonsai Zone in 2023!

[@mozkanair]

Great channel and quality content for learning. Thanks for the effort and happy new year.

[@wandaolausson6289]

Happy new year Nigel. I really enjoy all your videos, they are so calming and inspiring 🙏👌🥰 it’s also a big pleasure to see your enthusiasm for the nature and animals.

[@theageingadventurers4283]

Happy New Year man!

[@alvarolupinacci641]

Happy 2023 Nigel!

[@clintsheppard9699]

Nigel I LOVE the season 10 outro music!! Trees are lookin great. Have a happy new year!

[@uppergorple]

Interesting analyses. Think you got it right for all of them.

[@Gabriel-dm1du]

Happy new year 🎉

[@PSPMHaestros]

Happy new year Nigel! Hoping you good luck with the neverending fight against the temptation of getting (too many) new plants! Really liking the new ending tune!

[@aaronleslie1581]

Lol “see I do use wire” your awesome Nigel!!

[@TheBonsaiZone]

Hello Aaron!!

[@angelocelestino2286]

Happy New Year...... all the best for 2023

[@ferasi6944]

Happy New Year, Nigel! I enjoy watching your videos. They are inspirational and relaxing and I like the philosophy behind what you do. 👍 Have a good 2023 🍀🥳

[@santarific9x60]

280 videos in a year. That's why your the G.O.A.T.

[@gayefanner731]

Bring back the 🍍!

[@spacerider6168]

Happy new year Nigel . Loved the new punch to the outro music for season 10 🎶

[@leiwang3340]

Happy New Year

[@BonsaiMethod]

Great video. I’m always curious about sacrifice branches .. I can’t wait to see this tree heal/thicken .. it’s got a lot of character and I know you’ll make it stand out in the Forest of KZbin Bonsai trees! Great job. Happy New year and congrats on a Tenth Season. secretly, I am listening for the new jingle 🎉 no pressure

[@everythingbonsai3758]

Happy new year Nigel can’t wait to see what 2023 has in store

[@mikemohr1972]

You do a nice job on what you do

[@adsminibuild5791]

Thank you for continuing to create fantastic videos that are in depth but still very enjoyable to watch! I no first hand how long it takes to film edit and upload! Thanks again been a viewer for a good 3 years and many more to come 🤞happy new year 🎉

[@anniebananie444]

Learn so much watching your channel, happy new year Nigel! Appreciate your hard work and dedication creating quality content, I enjoy watching all of your videos!

[@bonsai_life_style]

Happy New Year Nigel all the best in 2023 😄

[@katifalcon]

🌴Congratulations on 10 years Nigel🌴

[@agungoyebonsai]

happy new years god bless you juniper bagus sekali

[@bathiikumblegeduchannel]

nice 👍

[@Alepoudiitsa]

happy new year!

[@betulaobscura]

Nice!

[@TitanUranusOfficial]

Thanks so much for doing these! I learn something every video! Happy New Year Nigel and all!

[@DavesBonsai]

Congrats on another great year! Season 10 will be wonderful!

[@bartstellink307]

Happy new year, Nigel and all the rest!

[@samdoesarts]

Happy New Year Nigel! Excited to follow along and see all the cool projects you'll be working on :)

[@TheBonsaiZone]

Happy new year, thanks Sam!!

[@JimmyPost]

Best wishes. Can't wait for the 2023 projects! Maybe nice to do something really really special to celebrate the 10th anniversary, like big bonsai trips, Porsche restoration, over-the-top greenhouse or a Nigel Saunders International Bonsai Show.

[@gayefanner731]

Dread specialist ! 🍍

[@Stettafire]

Happy 10th season anniversary and happy new year :) My alberta spruce is in need of pruning. Sad part of long-covid is that you can't just keep going and going with relentless energy, gotta take advantage of what energy you've got. Been enjoying watching your educational videos in the meantime. Here's to hopefully a better year :)

[@Stettafire]

Just me from the future coming to apologise for jinxing you, since I believe you also got ill this year 😨 In that case, for 2024 I wish you ill health and a dreadful year *wink wink nudge nudge*

[@TheBonsaiGarden]

Ten years!!! You’ve become a KZbin institution Nigel. Here’s to the next ten… 🎉🥂🍾😮

[@murray821]

Happy new year Nigel. A tip for making deadwood, crush the bark with pliers when it’s still fresh, then it will come off quite easy. When it’s dry you have to work for it. Be careful stripping it back as it will go too far rather quick. But that can create natural shari as it follows the fiber. Or you can ring the bark at the spot you want it to end, to keep some room for die-back. And clean it up later. Stripping a small portion of dry bark is less a hassle than the entire branch.

[@joannpounders5567]

Happy New Year Nigel! Love your videos! I think the back of your needle juniper would make a good front. But then again, it's hard to get a good visual from a video. Best wishes for you, your family, and trees in this new year! Cheers!

[@thelazybonsai]

Happy New Year! I enjoy the insights into these big CHOP CHOPS!

[@mattbrennan647]

I’m curious why the long cascading branches weren’t just pruned back at the end of the branches and hope for back budding on the long straight parts. Thanks, keep growing

[@jeffncompany]

why not just let the younger trees (example hemlock) grow unchecked for a thicker trunk faster? unless i'm mistaken? i would think the pruning and cutting back (less foliage) slows the trees down considerably

[@patsfreund9164]

What a nice transition of this tree from the time when you initially received it. Like the styling you did on it today. That hemlock tree appears to be a good candidate for a small bonsai. Nice little mulberry. Has it produced any fruit in the past? HOORAY for season 10!!

[@Vivy_same]

🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥

[@rhyanbrown3162]

Can we see the succulent bonsai. I’d love to see wat they look like after a year

[@Stettafire]

It's always lovely seeing projects revisited so I'd like to see it also. Indeed Rhyan :)

[@t3dwards13]

Hmmm Not sure if I'm going crazy or not, but it seems that every year you add a small piece to the closing song. If so, that's fun!

[@TheBonsaiZone]

I try and change it up each year!

[@StevesBackyardBonsai]

I neglected to mention the name of my channel. I thought it would show as my handle. It’s Steve’s Backyard Bonsai.

[@TRUMPBIGWIN]

👍👍💘

[@wshow11]

To me, you might as well go ahead and do the big chop and rebuild the tree. I know that it will set you way back, as far as time is concerned, but I just don’t see how you can utilize the upper canopy in the design. Trouble being the lack of taper in the trunk.

[@brucedeacon28]

👍👌

[@ryanbavery1247]

Happy new year Nigel. Is this a good time of year for structural pruning on Junipers? Do they need special aftercare? I'm in zone 5b and still a newbie but I had in my mind to do major work in about June after spring growth.

[@Stettafire]

Mine are under cover indoors and I did a few cuts today with quite a bit of sap bleeding. TBH I think it's probably better to wait until late Feb/March. I think now though is a good time to repot since the tree should be fairly dormant. So long as it isn't frosty where you are right now

[@ryanbavery1247]

@@Stettafire Wow ok, thanks! I have some initial styling work that I want to do on a sizable piece of juniper nursery stock so there will be some significant structural pruning. Even Feb/March is earlier than I had planned but I like it. It's definitely not frosty here (currently raining at the moment) but I'm not sure I have enough soil to repot at the moment. My focus has been just getting my trees properly though the winter - even though the weather has been incredibly mild here thus far this season. Fingers crossed. Anyway, thanks again!

[@growclipbonsaiforseniors1951]

Thoid!

[@nickybeingnicky]

Get some red cedar Nigel. They only stab you every time you handle them. You get used to it though They're amazing trees. I love my rescued ones.

[@murray821]

Prickly junipers are very spiteful on the hands. - Peter

[@mattbrennan647]

Those must be Eastern Reds

[@nickybeingnicky]

@@mattbrennan647 yes.

[@nickybeingnicky]

@@murray821 I like the trees, I couldn't let them stay where they were. Now they're on their 3rd year of training I have 4.

[@Stettafire]

I manage to get stabbed by every tree I own, just par of the course 🤣

[@nikolasgomas]

Happy New Year Nigel and everybody. I tried emailing you at your address mentioned here in the information section of your channel. Did you ever get it?

[@Liisa3139]

Here we go again ✂✂✂.

[@ConnectingwithNature]

//🌿// 🔴 Wonderful ✨/////// 🟢/////💯/// 🇨🇦 ///✅

[@nickybeingnicky]

Cut the mulberry all the way back to that first little branch.

[@billyp.1065]

Where is all the snow?!?!

[@percyacutt3110]

Are you sure that is a needle juniper? Looks like a procumbens nana

[@bonsai.]

Can you add Viet sub?

[@xxjohnxx1224]

You know Nigel there's no award for not using wires? Using clip and grow on a juniper will take many many years (especially with that tiny pot) to develop, it's not a deciduous or a tropical plant that you cut everything off and grow it again. You could've just used wires and made a really cool looking semi cascade/cascade bonsai with twists and turns (spaghetti like 🙄) but no you chose the inefficient way of doing bonsai. Always save time in bonsai never waste time.

[@TheBonsaiZone]

Bonsai is not about efficiency, it's about getting the best tree possible. The only way time becomes a factor is if you are selling trees for profit, getting the material looking good in the shortest possible time. There is no shortage of "OK" bonsai in the world, but to get an exceptional tree takes time and patience. I'll be long dead before many of my trees reach the stage of being a mature showable tree, but time isn't a factor with me, I do what is best for the tree in the long term, not what fits into my timeline for the tree or my lifespan. Growing branches from scratch is never a waste of time, in the end, you get a mature looking branch that is perfectly formed with taper, movement, scars and age. This is what we strive for in bonsai, not a quick wiring job to make the tree look average. Your comment reveals much about you, both your level of patience and acceptance.

[@gayefanner731]

OUCH !!

[@harinarayan3720]

@@TheBonsaiZone you are great, Nigel. You are real bonsai artist that practice a unique way of training the plants from scratch. I really appreciate your work. God bless you healthy and long life.

[@saalikreynolds3064]

Bonsai is a personal thing. Do it the way YOU want, Nigel😊

[@avalancheadenium]

🤩😍🥰