Pruning My European Buckthorn From Seed, The Bonsai Zone, Feb 2023

[@haryartbonsai7630]

Memanfaatkan bahan sederhana menjadi sebuah karya bonsai yang indah teman 👍🏻❤ suport penuh

[@XaviersBonsaiRetreat]

I have followed this tree on its journey and can only share your frustration. Its such a good thing we enjoy our hobby :)

[@lukasmihara]

Very interesting trunk. I hope it'll grow better in the bonsai pot than in the garden!

[@patsfreund9164]

Don't you just love Buckthorn bonsai? They just have to be one of the nicest. Enjoyed watching your video on this work. And....WOW.....so glad to see that ficus is budding out.

[@betulaobscura]

Is it Rhamnus cathartica? I love the look of the bark: very mysterious!

[@Candice.BonsaiScience]

Us Northerners; it’s been around freezing- Feels like SPRING 🤣 Very cool material if it will only comply with our care. The trunk is so amazing it’s worth the frustration of trying to nurture it to regain vigor. I JUST HOPE IT BEHAVES😂 No truer words have ever been spoken.

[@adamnorris8006]

I Love the intro Music!

[@ryannomorsatu8830]

Jos lek 👍

[@ferasi6944]

Great that you grow species that are rare in the bonsai community. I hope many of the buds of your fig turn into shoots!

[@growclipbonsaiforseniors1951]

I like the trunk and the movement in the trunk. This should be a nice looking tree with some nice spring growth to it. Plant room looks cool with a lot of green. Nice buds on the FLF, cool.

[@MaybeBonsai]

I bet the wood can burn longer in fireplaces too since it is so hard haha

[@TheBonsaiZone]

Maybe a solution if all goes wrong!!

[@marysoldeeley2218]

Some great trims! Great results from the near death experience your fiddle leaf had! Now we know you just have to freeze all the leaves off to get buds. Simple, right?! Hahaha!😉😄 I see you missed some of those alien shooting seed pods. Clovers in there. I have them popping up everywhere!

[@tacobonsai]

wow! i had a similar adventure with my fiddle leaf fig. i left it outside in error on a below freezing night. i only got root suckers however. I have never seen one do that. it must really be happy to be back-budding with such density! cheers. the hawthorns look great. i have had issues with trees dropping old limbs in the past and it took all my enamel to stay positive. good luck!

[@jenskarlsson4744]

The dreads are coming along well👍

[@JamieReilly-DarkBots]

Hi there, Nigel! Big fan from Long Island! I've started a few monkey ear trees from seeds this year! I've been planning a project: a 55 gallon terrarium housing a mixed tropical bonsai forest. My current plan is to plant each tree in a 3d printed pot and hide the rims with moss. That way I can remove trees from the tank for full pruning access. Does this seem like a good strategy to you? Your forests are planted together but are more mature trees. Keep up the awesome work, bonsai king.

[@JamieReilly-DarkBots]

@@johnmichaelrutherford3514 I appreciate the reply! So my plan is for the bonsai pots to have drainage holes covered by removable screens so hopefully the roots can't make it through. If the soil is too moist, I may use more perlite or something to dry the pots out more quickly. And great point about the pests, I hope to combat this by being careful about what foreign objects I add to the terrarium: sterilizing and quarantining as necessary.

[@robryan9841]

Love the cool gnarly trunk, very ancient looking 👍

[@LetsDoBonsai]

Missed a perfectly timed one!! Was eating tea - enjoying it now though

[@Jspec1983]

This is going to be a cool tree. I would lose all the branches and start again building a cool informal upright. Wiring the new branches of course......

[@TheBonsaiZone]

Then it wouldn't look like a Buckthorn, it would be another pine style bonsai, I think we have enough of these in the world!

[@murray821]

Looks like the rabbits did a future branch selection in advance 🐇

[@hyperionhelios190]

my twist cherry is the first to bud.

[@humaneevolution9793]

You should do a coconut bonsai that'd be great.

[@baum638]

Hey Nigel, you really should remove the part with the orange fungus. Its Nectria, it could infect the other wounds on this tree and potentially kill it in the long run. It could also infect some of your other trees!

[@baum638]

@@johnmichaelrutherford3514 I thought he left a stump. Even if you can‘t see any orange fungus left, the mycellium is in the deadwood.

[@baum638]

@@johnmichaelrutherford3514 You can see the infected branch at 7:13 und the moment he cuts it and leaves a stump is at 11:55

[@baum638]

@@johnmichaelrutherford3514 I know that he said that… but you can see that this stump is not completely healthy and the risk is not worth that one bud. Do you even understand what my point is? This fungus can infect other trees that were pruned recently. I know that might not happen but why take the risk. Even the ratcheting pruners should be desinfected

[@apostlewoody]

Mr. Saunders, do you ever do anything with the different species of Club Mosses? Growing and integrating them in with bonsai. It might make for an interesting video ..

[@mattbrennan647]

Those buckthorns are really finicky. The Frustration is similar to that of weeping willows. BUT, you’re Nigel Saunders damn it! If anyone can turn this into a master piece……. Thanks, keep growing

[@karjanvan]

Nigel, just for fun I asked ChatGPT to model an episode of the Bonsai Zone. I confirmed you have nothing to worry about. Your channel is a long way from being replaced by AI.

[@TheBonsaiZone]

Lol, good to hear!!

[@vishallagoo]

🤩🤩🤩

[@uppergorple]

Is the polyhouse tree the same genus as the one you're working on? I've been googling. Sea buckthorns are vigorous, beneficial and 'well hard' (if you have that expression in Canada). No relation to other buckthorns which are, errm, not so much. The one you're concerned about seems to be in survival mode.

[@vishallagoo]

Hi Nigel i saw there is a vertical crack like split on this tree's trunk... Why does this happen?

[@vishallagoo]

@@johnmichaelrutherford3514 i have same crack in my portulacaria afra and crape jasmine bonsai. But there were no branches near the crack. So that's why i asked why this crack occurs?

[@janisgriffith2919]

Was that you playing violin in the beginning?

[@mmjnice97]

I like you hair.. very hip.. bee's wax helps to lock up your btw

[@Minstera]

Foist

[@Jspec1983]

Have been watching for a few years now. Why do you exclusively do only cut and grow? I practice all sorts of techniques would get rather boring otherwise.

[@TheBonsaiZone]

I love the look of a clip and grow tree, they have a natural compact and beautiful look to them when done properly. Many people consider clip and grow trees the best! I love watching the trees develop, it's not the techniques that excite me, it the trees!!