Mid Summer Bonsai Pruning, Part 3, The Bonsai Zone, Aug 2019

[@VIQAN]

Just pruned my blueberry bonsai today....after eating the fruit. 😎

[@TTime685]

Updates are my favorite!

[@TheBonsaiZone]

I'll keep them coming!

[@patsfreund9164]

What a nice variety of plants you selected to prune in this video! Enjoyed every moment of watching.

[@TheBonsaiZone]

Thank you Pat!

[@BonsaiJCan]

Everything's looking great! Another month of summer would be nice.

[@lakeelsinorebonsai1203]

Great job Nigel! Cheers! 😀😀

[@TheNatrjack965]

Great video nigel 👍👍👍👍

[@charlieleelee]

I was just about to go to sleep when I saw this posted. Great timing since I don't have work tomorrow morning

[@DanielMoustache95]

i really wanna see an update about that dragon treee

[@TheBonsaiZone]

I moved it to the greenhouse yesterday, it hasn't really grown strongly yet, but it is on it's way!

[@conradjames2745]

@@TheBonsaiZone Hows the dragon tree doing now?

[@olliesargent6174]

I like the way the Bougainvillea have splayed out! Nice work

[@TheBonsaiZone]

Thank you Ollie!

[@BeTheCREATOR]

The white ceder is going to be a great bonsai in future. I've also started Akasia with some collected seeds but they are without thrones. Happy gardening Nigel, Love from India.

[@TheBonsaiZone]

Thanks very much, keep making your great videos!

[@BeTheCREATOR]

@@TheBonsaiZone Thank you my Master.

[@entyropy3262]

I can recommend all 3 types of Sequoias for the smell. Also they do grow pretty well and react very positive to trimming, means they ramify easily. Thx for sharing.

[@SyriusStarMultimedia]

Great show!!!!!!

[@TheBonsaiZone]

Thank you very much!

[@ramu591]

Sir, Really Hats off to your patience in making such a beautiful videos.

[@TheBonsaiZone]

Thank you Kolli!

[@Nhoj31neirbo47]

That cedar clump is a most fortuitous gift from nature. ~ I was recently gifted a 5 foot tall potted ‘dragon tree’, aka, Dracena marginata with a nice slanting structure to its muti-headed trunk. What’s most interesting about it is it’s bizarrely convoluted above ground nabari. I’m planing to plant it in the ground but I will need to devise a setting, probably with rocks, that will help emphasize the uniqueness of the roots.

[@maryshoemaker1437]

Put them in a vase and give them to the wife!!! Good use of materials!! So pretty!!

[@christiansanchez1486]

Well its been sometime since I've seen you in my feed Mr.Saunders glad to see KZbin finally sent me a video.

[@TheBonsaiZone]

I'm working on another today!

[@christiansanchez1486]

@@TheBonsaiZone nice can't wait to watch

[@ashwarirai]

ver interesting episode . i got more to learn frm so many plants sir. thank u😊

[@TheBonsaiZone]

Thank you Asgar!

[@ashwarirai]

most vel kum sir.😍

[@brand0n1620]

I have 3 of the same hibiscus! Mine are blooming like crazy too. I had one that that was as big as my fist!

[@TheBonsaiZone]

Nice, I can't wait to get this planted and pruned as a bonsai.

[@MS-jz2pq]

Is there an update to this tree? I am copying this after watching the first video you did on this tree. Mine has a similar size trunk. Just pruned it for the first time a month ago, but I think I pruned my branches way shorter than you did. If only I had seen this video before.

[@tylerjanus7923]

Can you please do an update video on your citrus and the ficus sisters!! :)

[@mayormaynot2873]

Nigel! How about an update on this dragon tree chop....any new growth? Inspired me to try this but lost my nerve!

[@TheBonsaiZone]

The pruning went well and the tree is growing nice and strong again! I think I would do the pruning more towards the middle of July next time, it took quite a while before the new branches came in!

[@mayormaynot2873]

@@TheBonsaiZone would now be a good time? Late Feb, early March?

[@ddsh1618]

Have there been any updates on the dragon tree? I scrolled through almost 2 years of videos but I didn’t see anything. I may have missed it but if there is one can you link me to it? If not can you do an update? I’d love to see how the dragonblood style turned out.

[@Nivram92]

My guess... it died off, I was also searching for an update. :D I think that ONE sick branch was an sign for rootrotting... My five headed hydra was looking all good, one morning ALL five branches snapped off and were hanging down... :( I did cut off the five heads and some more of it and sealed it. The heads did all good into new plants... but any other part of the plant as well as the thick trunk did just rot away... The moment I noticed something was wrong the rotting was already on the level the branches snapped off without looking rotten.

[@matthewkizziahcuzia...gott9632]

Do you worry about trunk size getting thicker on your seed grown trees? Prune early or trunk chop later.

[@mattbrennan647]

Nigel, is there an advantage to hard pruning that spruce mid summer rather than during dormancy? Thanks

[@Minstera]

Matt Brennan Nigel tell it in the video @14:35 😉

[@TheBonsaiZone]

I'm not sure how well this pruning will go! I can hopefully answer this question next year, time will tell.

[@quistplay7370]

How many ml of nutrients should I have in my water when feeding daily? I'm using an NPK 3,0-1,0-4,4 right now. Its in a 1l liquid container, I know it a hard question but approximately I mostly have tropical trees like figs:)

[@benhagan.bennytheredneck6841]

I ordered dragon blood tree seeds to try to grow them

[@TheBonsaiZone]

They are getting quite rare in nature, I'll have to order some seeds too and hopefully we can get some trees growing!

[@steampunkvampyre]

Nigel, I have a 30 year old field maple with extensive Nebari, I have a sucker I think you would call it growing from one of these surface roots, is there any way of keeping it and keeping it as a separate tree.Or should I just pull it off?

[@TheBonsaiZone]

You could develop it into a connected root style planting, you might have to trim the main tree to give the sucker room to grow and to get enough light.

[@advaitkulkarni2513]

hello where is the acacia bonsai update august 2019

[@eddylo1994]

You think it would be possible to grow a bonsai out of a rainbow eucalyptus? 🤔

How often do you water your Euphorbia milii?

[@TheBonsaiZone]

It usually gets watered every day in the summer, if the sun is shining. It seems to be able to handle the daily watering and fertilizer without a problem. In the winter I water it maybe once a week, but this depends on how much sun we get too.

[@benbishop1131]

Random question to an expert.....I have some small white oaks I wanted to make into a forest but i'm not seeing very many images of white oaks as bonsai forest. Are Oaks unpopular for a forest because they grow so fast or some other reason i'm not foreseeing?

[@tayh3645]

I think it's mostly just the leaves. Most oaks (save for a few exceptions like Q. phellos) have huge leaves that don't miniaturize easily/well. So they tend to be used for much larger bonsai. I've seen a sparing few oak forest plantings, but honestly during the summer they just look like a shrub. In winter the intricacies of the branch structure can be appreciated, but over the summer they tend to just look like a big oak bush. I don't want to dissuade you though. If it ends up not working out you can always still split them up and train them individually.

[@benbishop1131]

@@tayh3645 Thank you for that reply. Makes sense. I'll probably go for it and divide them up down the road if it's looking funny.

[@TheBonsaiZone]

Thanks you, great answer!

[@briankavanagh7191]

Nigel nice trees but I don't like the way the video colours are too saturated it does not give clarity when viewing, otherwise good video 😏

[@luxizimmi6425]

Hi :) whtas the botanical name of the "Brazilian Rain tree"? enjoy your vids a lot!!!

[@TheBonsaiZone]

Chloroleucon tortum!

[@luxizimmi6425]

@@TheBonsaiZone Thanks Nigel!! I enjoy your channel since years and began to enjoy bonsai! My favorite is your Ficus Bonsai (with the two different ficus attached together). A tip for a bonsai species from mysepf is defenitely this one: Anadenanthera peregrina Wish you and your family and trees a wonderful christmas ;)

[@louisecolombi6630]

What a coincidence, just yesterday at Walmart I bought what I didn’t know was a “dragon tree”, but thanks to your video I now know I have a “Dracaena Marginata Colorama” in a 4'' pot. Yeah! I just bought it because of the cool colours 🎉🎊🎈💚💚💚. I’m going to try and bonsai it like yours ... when it grows a trunk, that is. How old is your tree? 5 or 6 years old?

[@TheBonsaiZone]

I think it is only 3 years old from a big box store. I hope yours grows well!

[@bloobeeblah]

Nigel if you're going to have the camera positioned so you're back lit, please invest in a simple reflector so you can fill the shadow and light the scene better, its getting hard to see.

[@TheBonsaiZone]

Good suggestion!

[@j.d.8075]

Your "dragon tree" looks to be one of the Cordylines, so structurally, I am not sure if the shape of a Dragon's Blood Tree is achievable

[@tylertravis3985]

Am I foist?

[@TheBonsaiZone]

Hello Tyler, you are Foist! Congratulations!

[@tylertravis3985]

@@TheBonsaiZone Thanks Nigel! I've learned a lot from your videos!

[@dinudavis4230]

Just missed,...

[@240Sil]

@@tylertravis3985 Nice!!

[@thealimirjalili]

Welcome to the foist zone, you are now officially a foist fellow.

[@marlontumpang1754]

Love this trimming thing. Just thinking, why he didn't trim his hair too??? 😁

[@TheBonsaiZone]

It will be time soon!

[@Minstera]

It,s my Birthday !!

[@TheBonsaiZone]

Happy birthday and have a fantastic day!

[@Minstera]

Thank You Nigel •°⊙●□ 41□●⊙°•

[@tylerrichards7560]

The contrast of you videos is to high. The bright full sun makes everything dark. I can't see anything but a shape. It was nice when you made videos in front of the black back drop.

[@TheBonsaiZone]

Thanks Tyler, good feedback!

[@janandersen6001]

🇩🇰👍

[@Tony-ys3yo]

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