I have taken a couple of bay trees ( Laurus nobilis) to grow as bonsai. I look forward to see them grow and if they are suitable. John Y. Naka thought me that the only thing that is an inhibitor in choice of material is your own imagination. Perhaps I try olives as well.
@GrowingBonsai maybe you could do it on some of the pines with extreme bends or the wedge removed, the junipers including the cuttings from a few years ago. I think the elm with a very fat base and the challenge trees (spruces I think cascade and upright) also the yew nursery material.
Hi Jelle, I see you ave repotting your olive bonsai in summer. I have a nice olive that has been growing in a nursery pot and is ready for its first root reduction. Do you think this work is okay to be done mid summer? We have and least 6 weeks of summer weather left here in Southern California.
Both would work. If you have the time, doing the work just before the growing season starts leaves the tree with more reserves to deal with winter and you reduce the risk of infections
Nice little tree! Jelle, I just bought a Brazilian Rain Tree and it came to me with small-ish centipede looking things in the soil. This tree will need to come inside in later fall, but not with those things!!! How can I get rid of them? What can I use? Any ideas?
I doubt there is a lot you can do against them. You could consider pacing the tree fully submerged for half a day? I just accept that a few animals come in with the plants when our plants move indoors in fall.
Just a thought (and this depends on your climate, vigor of the tree, conditions, etc.), but what about a repot? Especially if it is in need, but this could eliminate some of your critters. (Possibly earwigs?) I know that tropicals do better when repotted in the warm season, although I admit that I'm inexperienced with BRT.
@@bonsaimania5345 Thank you Jelle. I think I am going to try a repot. These things are not earwigs, we had those in our old carpet in our old house. (we had to rip all that carpet out). They look like centipedes or millipedes with many legs on both sides of their bodies. There is just so many of them. I will research doing a repot on this tree at this time of year. It is still pretty hot hear. But are trees better repotted in the heat of summer or as fall approaches.? Thanks again!!
@@lisawagner6076 I'm not Jelle, and I have FAR less experience than he does. I have done plenty of research, but none for Brazilian Rain Tree. A quick Google search says spring or midsummer. Where I am in the desert, we are past the halfway point of the season. Jelle is definitely more qualified than I am to advise you on this!
Something totally different.....How do you deal with birds that dig up the soil in the pots and pull out moss when they are looking for insects? they got the whole garden but no, they choose my bonsai trees 😡
Whoever invented or taught repotting without bare rooting should be damned..... It drives me crazy. spaghetti is food^^ i mean.. 50% of the whole purpose of bonsai is bare rooting and trying to create a perfect/desired nebari.. you all just can't call it bonsai, when you ignore that step. it's like playing football without a ball and tell everyone hey i play football, this is football. not bare rooting (there are exceptions) is an abuse of the bonsai term philosophy! i know it sounds rude, but it's not an offense :D i follow your channel nearly since the beginning and i like what you do (except when someone doesn't bare root xD) i want to spread that, because even when there's nearly nothing "right or wrong" about doing bonsai, that's definitely something practiced and taught very wrong by sooo many people and also self called masters.. it really annoys me. for example, you can buy tree that cost thousands of euros/dollars, but when you bare root it.. you just want to throw it away because in 99% the nebari and root care was pure sh*t... everyone, stop ignoring your roots! why you think root rakes were invented? just for fun? just to tease the outer roots? no.
@@pedantic_bonsai please don't be so pedantic 😉. If reporting in summer I think it is unwise to bare root the bonsai completely, even on evergreens. And the nebari can be worked on without complete bate rooting, as is shown here in the video. But I agree, nebari is an essential point to work on in bonsai!
Thank you for your constant viewership. I am sure you have seen a range of repotting videos pass by, where I explain the when, why and how of rootwork in order to develop a proper shin. I am not sure whether you mean to say I did not do proper rootwork here. If that is your intent, I would recommend watching the video again, particularly around the 7 and 8 minute mark. Most of the substrate was removed. However, for many trees, once you have the core of the rootball established, there comes a point that it is actually detrimental to open up the core very frequently. This olive is a tree where there are hardly any old roots left. Most of the rootball consists of fine roots, and cannot be opened up much further than I have done here. From 7:35 onwards you can clearly see there is very little substrate left.
Nice I just repotted my Olive for next weeks episode :)
I really like O-live this video - have to do an update on my little tree, Cheers!
:) Yes you do :)
Great work, looks happier already
So happy when you do this work and you see the tree start pushing again!
I have taken a couple of bay trees ( Laurus nobilis) to grow as bonsai. I look forward to see them grow and if they are suitable. John Y. Naka thought me that the only thing that is an inhibitor in choice of material is your own imagination. Perhaps I try olives as well.
Best of luck!
Great video! Keep up the good work
I'd call that tree "kabudachi" style (multi-trunk from a single nebari). Nice small leaf olive variety!
Yes, you are exactly right!
Hoping you can do some progress updates on some of your previous youtube trees.
The videos of 1 year on and 2 or 3 year progress are so good
Interesting idea. Any trees in particular you would like to see feature again?
@GrowingBonsai maybe you could do it on some of the pines with extreme bends or the wedge removed, the junipers including the cuttings from a few years ago. I think the elm with a very fat base and the challenge trees (spruces I think cascade and upright) also the yew nursery material.
Hi Jelle, I see you ave repotting your olive bonsai in summer. I have a nice olive that has been growing in a nursery pot and is ready for its first root reduction. Do you think this work is okay to be done mid summer? We have and least 6 weeks of summer weather left here in Southern California.
U grand merci pour la vidéo!
4:53 🫣
Woow so small leaves
Great isn't it!?
Great! Do you suggest me to design my Olea pre bonsai (and repotting) in october or Is Better in march? I live in Italy...
Both would work. If you have the time, doing the work just before the growing season starts leaves the tree with more reserves to deal with winter and you reduce the risk of infections
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Nice little tree! Jelle, I just bought a Brazilian Rain Tree and it came to me with small-ish centipede looking things in the soil. This tree will need to come inside in later fall, but not with those things!!! How can I get rid of them? What can I use? Any ideas?
I doubt there is a lot you can do against them. You could consider pacing the tree fully submerged for half a day? I just accept that a few animals come in with the plants when our plants move indoors in fall.
@@GrowingBonsai But these things are so creepy! I will try the submerge thing. Maybe they will drown. Thanks!
Just a thought (and this depends on your climate, vigor of the tree, conditions, etc.), but what about a repot? Especially if it is in need, but this could eliminate some of your critters. (Possibly earwigs?) I know that tropicals do better when repotted in the warm season, although I admit that I'm inexperienced with BRT.
@@bonsaimania5345 Thank you Jelle. I think I am going to try a repot. These things are not earwigs, we had those in our old carpet in our old house. (we had to rip all that carpet out). They look like centipedes or millipedes with many legs on both sides of their bodies. There is just so many of them. I will research doing a repot on this tree at this time of year. It is still pretty hot hear. But are trees better repotted in the heat of summer or as fall approaches.? Thanks again!!
@@lisawagner6076
I'm not Jelle, and I have FAR less experience than he does. I have done plenty of research, but none for Brazilian Rain Tree. A quick Google search says spring or midsummer. Where I am in the desert, we are past the halfway point of the season. Jelle is definitely more qualified than I am to advise you on this!
Nadat je die verpot hebt ,mag die dan terug in de volle middag zon?
Dat heb ik gedaan, ja
How are european olives for airlayering, how thick in diameter is maximum thickness to airlayer
Not sure. I have seen 20cm think cuttings root. I would presume one can layer pretty much any size you want.
@@GrowingBonsai thank you,
Something totally different.....How do you deal with birds that dig up the soil in the pots and pull out moss when they are looking for insects? they got the whole garden but no, they choose my bonsai trees 😡
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What substrate mix do you use?
I use loads of blend; Feel free to look at my substrate video. Right now I predominantly use a Pumice / Zeoliet / Lava blend with some bark mixed in.
Whoever invented or taught repotting without bare rooting should be damned..... It drives me crazy. spaghetti is food^^ i mean.. 50% of the whole purpose of bonsai is bare rooting and trying to create a perfect/desired nebari.. you all just can't call it bonsai, when you ignore that step. it's like playing football without a ball and tell everyone hey i play football, this is football. not bare rooting (there are exceptions) is an abuse of the bonsai term philosophy! i know it sounds rude, but it's not an offense :D i follow your channel nearly since the beginning and i like what you do (except when someone doesn't bare root xD) i want to spread that, because even when there's nearly nothing "right or wrong" about doing bonsai, that's definitely something practiced and taught very wrong by sooo many people and also self called masters.. it really annoys me. for example, you can buy tree that cost thousands of euros/dollars, but when you bare root it.. you just want to throw it away because in 99% the nebari and root care was pure sh*t... everyone, stop ignoring your roots! why you think root rakes were invented? just for fun? just to tease the outer roots? no.
@@pedantic_bonsai please don't be so pedantic 😉. If reporting in summer I think it is unwise to bare root the bonsai completely, even on evergreens. And the nebari can be worked on without complete bate rooting, as is shown here in the video. But I agree, nebari is an essential point to work on in bonsai!
Thank you for your constant viewership. I am sure you have seen a range of repotting videos pass by, where I explain the when, why and how of rootwork in order to develop a proper shin.
I am not sure whether you mean to say I did not do proper rootwork here. If that is your intent, I would recommend watching the video again, particularly around the 7 and 8 minute mark. Most of the substrate was removed. However, for many trees, once you have the core of the rootball established, there comes a point that it is actually detrimental to open up the core very frequently.
This olive is a tree where there are hardly any old roots left. Most of the rootball consists of fine roots, and cannot be opened up much further than I have done here. From 7:35 onwards you can clearly see there is very little substrate left.