Starting an Hibiscus Bonsai

[@karlbartholomew8971]

I liked your video! I have a hearty hibiscus that I have had in training for about six months. I look forward to your continuation of the series on your hardy hibiscus.

[@GrowingBonsai]

me too! How is yours doing?

[@sueb1317]

Lovely development - and those flowers - WOW!!!! The dead wood on these trees deteriorates very fast - also holds a lot of moisture close to the trunk. You may want to consider removing what you can when the leaves drop to prevent rot. Marvelous recovery this year!

[@GrowingBonsai]

Is it your experience that the trunk just keeps rotting? Normally a tree shields areas that are still alive.

[@sueb1317]

@@GrowingBonsai The wounds will heal up quite nicely. For me, however, large pieces of dead wood exposed to winter rains seems to get spongey after a year - seems to encourage diseases that can kill the main branches or trunks. Though cold tolerant, these trees don't like cold soggy roots. Protecting them under an eave seems to solve everything.

[@XaviersBonsaiRetreat]

This is defiitely what i like to see - stuff that is more challenging yet still gives you little flowering rewards. great stuff Jelle

[@gayefanner731]

Yep, what he said! Thanks Jelle 🙏✝️

[@gayefanner731]

Aha!, rumbled I think Xav! Thanx for the 👍

[@GrowingBonsai]

Glad you enjoyed it!

[@gayefanner731]

👌

[@jaiprakashpathak8974]

A bonsai with a thick trunk is always an eyeball catcher. Great work!!!

[@GrowingBonsai]

You got that right!

[@bonsaiexpression]

Impressive hibiscus. Really good trunk on her.

[@GrowingBonsai]

Thx! a follow-up is in the making, hopefully a fall release!

[@nerinat8371]

Its a beautiful looking tree, well done 👍

[@GrowingBonsai]

Thank you! Cheers!

[@TOMSAI]

Very nice Flowers and a great Tree . Lovley . Hope to see more of this tree. By Tom

[@GrowingBonsai]

Thank you, I will show it again

[@FrostBiteBonsai]

Purple flowers! I have tropical hibiscus. Some with leaves the same shape as fig leaves. I didn't realize there was a temperate hibiscus too!!

[@GrowingBonsai]

:) Great isn't it? I have several tropical ones too, but not grown as bonsai.

[@egoebonsai37]

I am seeing n looking from a far wiring hibiscus Bonsai. I hope the future grows well. Good job Sir.

[@GrowingBonsai]

So nice of you; I think it will!

[@karlbartholomew8971]

Bought it from a box store a year and a half ago. It was called “Hardy Hibiscus” lol. I gave it a first bonsai cut last fall. A second one late spring. It’s looking pretty good now.

[@GrowingBonsai]

They are lovely!

[@rigbreakers]

I have a lot of these trees that I'm working with

[@GrowingBonsai]

Any tips?

[@Johnblackbass]

Hi Jelle, nice video ! i was considering the idea of getting one , well your result has definitely decided me. Cheers !

[@GrowingBonsai]

Glad I could help!

[@TheBonsaiZone]

Nice!!

[@GrowingBonsai]

Thank you! Cheers!

[@PercyWarX]

There's tons of variety of Hibiscus. I have the common red Hibiscus and the Spider Hibiscus (Hibiscus schizopetalus)

[@GrowingBonsai]

yup

[@maryoverton7245]

will be really interested on how you will approach the carving on this tree. I also rescued a deciduous hibiscus and find the wood is really soft. It has been three years since I dug it up. In summer it is great cause the leaves and flowers. But in winter I cannot make mind up what to do with deadwood on it.

[@GrowingBonsai]

THinking still about letting it fall apart naturally.

[@mmjnice97]

my rose of sharon and my tropical hibiscis drops flowers if it gets watered too much.. but they are in crappie soil for now under the development stage

[@GrowingBonsai]

So, repot in spring and start develoipng?

[@mcbabs7495]

Très intéressant, merci pour la vidéo!

[@GrowingBonsai]

Happy you like it!

[@rsg9358]

Hey Jelle, dat is een mooie boom. Zou je ook een keer een tour willen doen van al je bonsai ?

[@GrowingBonsai]

Nah, dat is een beetje saai

[@bobbymalta73]

Does Prunning & Wiring is Recomended in Summer? Cheers Thanks For Sharing Mate. Keep it Up! 🙌 😉

[@GrowingBonsai]

I think spring is better than summer. I will wire now in fall again, if I get around to gdoing it.

[@brucedeacon28]

👍👌🙂

[@GrowingBonsai]

:)

[@scheers100]

👊👊👍

[@GrowingBonsai]

:)

[@sanjaykoganti3892]

Nice 👍

[@GrowingBonsai]

Thanks ✌

[@meadow-maker]

I think it's best to say 'feed' rather than fertilise, I know a lot of people say it but, it's a word used in biology to mean unite egg and spermatozoon. I'm pretty sure that everyone I've ever worked with in the Horticultural industry in the UK says 'feed' and 'pollinate' for 'fertilise plants' or add fertilser as a euphonism for 'add manure'. Mainly 'feed' is used for adding nutrients. As I say, I now hear it a lot on YT but, I suspect those people aren't from the Horticultural industry. I can't speak for America. That's a whole other thing.

[@gayefanner731]

You’re not wrong Meadowmaker n lovely to meet a fellow Hortic btw, but, sadly, many KZbinrs are just winging it n can barely tell one tree from another! Jelle is a professional, thank God! A real blessing 🙏✝️

[@meadow-maker]

@@gayefanner731 thanks. I heard it said three times this week and everytime it's shocked me a bit, it gives me a flash of an image in my head I didn't want especially on a video about 'Senecio - String of Pearls'

[@gayefanner731]

Hey ho, my bete noire is sPagnum moss but they won’t listen! 🙉

[@gayefanner731]

P.S. I’m now struggling with an image which I hope you weren’t alluding to?! ✌️

[@meadow-maker]

@@gayefanner731 ahah, oh, now I'm going to notice that too. 😂😂I suppose technically it would be right since the Greeks didn't turn 'ph' into an 'f', but, you're right, anyone who knows says 'sfagnum'. 😁