Indoor Bonsai Work, Part 1, The Bonsai Zone, Oct 2018
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- Today I'm inside working on my bonsai trees.
I update my Ficus microcarpa from seed. I work on my Ficus cutting of a cutting and also my Fusion trunk Ficus benjamina bonsai. I install a new LED light in the plant room to brighten up the bonsai bench.
If Bob Ross could talk with paintings, Nigel Saunders can talk with trees!
If you see me talking to my trees, start to worry!
haha.
nigel, that sounds like a great plot for a spooky Halloween special episode ^^
Hey it is "The Bonsai Zone"
Best comment I've seen in a while.
A while ago you planted a tree on a wooden board. Could you tell me how that tree is doing? I'm very curious if it is developing those special kind of roots.
Awesome updates. Greenhouse must keep you happy in the dreary winter weather!
Thank for showing me your beautiful tree. Awesome super cool, awesome i love it.
The Ficus are looking great ! Glad to see the lights are working so well, the trees look very healthy and vigorous. I really like the way you have the plant room set up this year, the shelves were a great idea.
The room has lost that open spacious look to it, but the trees are almost fitting inside. A little more pruning and things will be back to normal for making the videos! How are your Kapok cuttings doing?, I have more if you need them!
Most of them are doing good and have grown a little. I've had them in pots and inside now for over 2 weeks, I think they're still settling in. Thanks I might have to take you up on that offer if I put my other set of shelves up.
Such a large Ficus microcarpa, relative to its pot. Great work!
Great video Nigel. Can't wait for the next one!!
You don't have to wait long!
Ooh, that pan shot at 4:20.
Like a buffet table of trees!
Cool to see your Crown of Thorns doing well after you lost a few before!
Your demonstration of aerial roots wrapping around the trunk is one reason many fig species in the tropics are referred to as "stranglers". The roots that fuse onto the trunk thicken over time and can prevent the trunk from actually growing, suffocating it and leaving a mesh tube of aerial roots essentially.
Thank you Jacqueline, I really like watching the trees do their own thing as they grow old. It's very interesting to see the natural characteristics come out as they develop into bonsai trees!
Should be interesting to see how they develop into the future!
Great job . have a nice day!
Nigel been with you when you had 7k followers have never seen you work on a boxwood ever tried them? I can't get enough of them so forgiving
Hi, I have a 3 yr old growing in the ground. I need to pot it up and thin out the top. The little trunk looks really old and gnarley. But I'm afraid I'll kill it. Your saying it's easy to manipulate?
@@nancyfahey7518 yes so forgiving you can prune aggressively and it just causes more budding also you can remove about 50% of the root ball with no problem as long as you keep it on the north side out of direct sun for a couple of weeks. Wait until spring and all should go well
@@chinookwind8535 thanks so much
Nigel, you need to make a video on moss! You have so much nice moss in all of your plantings, I would love to gain some of your knowledge on how to grow it or what kinds you grow! Thanks
I'll be sure to make a video on moss, I get a lot of questions about it!
Hi Nigel can we use any normal led light or do we need special led for plants. Also what is min hrs of light requirements for tropical trees
This interests me also!
"So here I go again"
At this point, you're just screwing with us, are you?
How do you get your ficus trees to grow so fast?
26 years, wow
Is there a mango tree? On 17:52.
I audibly gasped at 14:20
It shocked me too, but it was definitely out of proportion to the pot and needed to be cut back.
Hi Nigel do run your lights on a timer great video once again thank you
I have a common ficus, nothing fancy, bought over 40 years ago. It’s been near death and back. Ten years ago I took 3 cuttings from it and planted them. I’ve been pruning and root- pruning. I suppose it’s a bonsai but I knew nothing about that. It has never grown aerial roots. Can I encourage that, or is it the wrong kind?
czcams.com/video/I2bwGRxzdgE/video.html heres one of nigels videos on aerial roots
It's not too much sunlight with the led light and natural light.? I'm actually thinking of having a setup similar so I'm curious.
Hi Nigel! Could you give us a link for the LED lights?
Thanks for all the great videos.
I got the lights at the surplus store "KW surplus" Here is a similar product....
www.princessauto.com/en/detail/4-ft-garage-series-led-shop-light/A-p8652414e
I can't find the Nortech light that I have on their website, it may be a discontinued item? I have the 4' Nortech LED shop light.
nortechinnovativeproducts.com/
Hi Nigel, I’m a big fun of bonsai and I want to join to bonsai society to improve my knowledge and get some new experiences. I moved to Toronto a few months ago and I have no information about Toronto bonsai clubs and how I can join them. Please give me advice what I can do. Thanks in advance.
Nice!! father Nigel bonsai father....
Thank you Ashini!
Hi Nigel, what's the LED light? Where did you find it?
I got the lights at the surplus store "KW surplus" Here is a similar product....
www.princessauto.com/en/detail/4-ft-garage-series-led-shop-light/A-p8652414e
I can't find the Nortech light that I have on their website, it may be a discontinued item? I have the 4' Nortech LED shop light.
nortechinnovativeproducts.com/
So any LED light works for plants? What sort of specs should I look for?
@@provaporfagotti291 ive been seeing alot of people saying lux is important like 80k-100k lux
How many hours do you have you're timer set to?
19:11 is this a special grow light or a normal LED light???
So any LED light works for plants? What sort of specs should I look for?
How meny bonsai's do you have
Hi Nigel! I bought a Ficus that was really a few trees tied together. Will the trunks of these tree merge into one or should I divid them?
They will fuse together, but you might have to wrap the trunks together to get good contact. The tops of the trees should be left to grow, this will thicken the trunks and speed up the fusion process. You can also separate the trees if you want a smaller style tree.
Nigel Saunders, The Bonsai Zone
Thank you!
you can grow trees from root cutting on 6.50 ,thick root with finer roots !
Great suggestion! I never thought of planting the root, good thing maybe, I don't think I have any more room! When I have the new greenhouse up, I'll be propagating everything!
Hi you use something like this (CoolGrows) for interior bonsai ? Thanks
How much does it cost you to operate these lights Nigel?
Hi Nigel
I am from India. Can you tell me what is the best time for re-potting ficus trees
So here I go ♥️
Indeed, there you go.
Do you need grow lights for those in the winter? Would a southern window still work?
A south facing window works well. I have grown my trees for 25 years without grow lights, but I have so many now that they actually block out the light from the window. I think the grow lights aren't necessary, but they do help get the plants through the dull dark days in winter.
R they a led grow light to get the same type of light for growth?
Hi Nigel - can you tell me what led lights you have installed in the plant room, just regular ones? I have an indoor plant that is dying away. I got one of the red/blue light that I see you have as well and also a grow bulb from home Depot for the fixture in the room. But it's still dying...the plant is Indian Basil.
The LED lights that I have are just regular white light ones. I do get sunlight in from my window too, I think that helps a lot.
Nice video. Altough the auto focus on your cam is quite confusing. But again very cool video
Hi Nigel, ficus trees a re looking good, well done, is that just standard cool white l.e.d ?
Thank you Steven, yes it's sold as a Premium LED shop light. It's made by Nortech. I'll know by spring how effective they are!
Hi Nigel, big fan here. A question about your ficus cutting of a cutting, why did not you go for that profile pruning to begin with?
I was hoping it would look good with the initial careful pruning, but it was too tall and the branches were to thin. It required a hard profile pruning to get the tree back in proportion. I'm hoping it explodes with new branches to give me lots of choices for branch selection in the future.
@@TheBonsaiZone Thank you sir. Inspired by your work.
Hello, will it be safe if you water the top trees with the led light under it won't it burn or something. Btw what do you do if you have Caterpillar's ? I have spoken many I keep picking them up bit the have done a lot of damage to my leafs. It is like spring here instead of winter so far. I was going to use poison( not sure if that translates right) but I read that if the leafs are wet or something along those lines, don't use it.
I have been very careful when watering the trees above the light. I'll be getting boot trays to go under the trees to catch any excess water. I don't get many caterpillars eating the leaves on my trees, I do get wasp's that cut out a section of the leaf to make their nest. It really makes the Maples look bad, but it doesn't hurt the tree. You might try to put screen around the trees to keep the insects away from the leaves as a natural solution. Be careful to protect yourself and the environment if you use pesticides!
Dada, can you please mention any grow light you are using ?
The lights were a generic LED shop style light, they didn't have a brand name on them. They are just regular LED lights. not meant for plants.
@@TheBonsaiZone thanks dada
The black background when you film outside is better. Its hard to see an individual tree with all the greenery around tree you are working on.
Doesn't it kind of negate the directional pruning if you come in a profile with the scissors afterward?
Yes, I had to switch from careful precise pruning to a more random hard pruning, just to get the height back in proportion with the trunk. It's a rough method, but it works. You get a lot of new branches form on the older wood and this gives you more choices for future pruning in a more careful manner!
Can someone timestamp the lemon tree?
18:52 lemon tree
The ficus, cutting of the cutting, I would have taken all the leaves first. They come back smaller and I can see what I want it to do. That's only me.
I probably could have leaf pruned it, but with winter coming, I thought I'd better keep some leaves.
i hear a cat in the house just off camera probably on the floor watch
this broadcast live
That's my two cats, always starving for attention!
Be carefull when you water on the bench over the new LED
Thank you, I'm going to put boot trays under the trees to catch any excess water and also be very careful!
Ive missed the bonsais!!
Me too, I had to take a day off from working on the greenhouse to get to the trees! So many of them need trimming!
two-FIR Tuesday ;)
Hi everyone
Hey!
foist
congratulations on 100K subscribers too.
I was wondering if it was possible to get a double foist, I don't think it is!
Thanks Ali, season six is approaching fast!
You need a bonsai haircut
Got one today! (It still looks wild)