My Jade, Acacia, Aloe, Russian Olive, and a VW Beetle, The Bonsai Zone, Aug 2023
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- čas přidán 5. 09. 2024
- I'm pruning my Jade (Crassula sarcocaulis), my Acacia (Vachellia karroo) bonsai, my Aloe (Aloe barbadensis miller), my Russian Olive (Elaeagnus angustifolia) and I'm beginning my bonsai landscape with an old abandoned VW Beetle!
To see previous videos of my Acacia bonsai, click on the playlist here...
• Sweet Thorn Acacia fro...
To see previous videos of my Aloe bonsai, click on the playlist here...
• Aloe vera bonsai
To see previous videos of my Boabab style Jade, click on the playlist here...
• Baobab Style Jade
To see previous videos of my Russian Olive, click on the playlist here...
• Russian Olive Bonsai
To see previous videos of my Beetle and the Siberian Elm forest, click on the playlist here...
• Siberian Elm Bonsai Fo...
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I love the wavy edges of the Russian olive tree. So beautiful.
The beetle looks great! Just like a car stranded out in the forest
Flambé Beetle....interesting! Looking forward to seeing the Penjing👍
As someone who has spent many years as a child running around the woods of Tennessee and Kentucky and played around abandoned rusted out cars (including a few beetles) I think that something similar to your Osage Orange forest is quite fitting. I know that they don't really have those trees near Chernobyl, but the tight grouped and straight growing nature of that planting reminds me of those trashed cars lost to the woods. I also agree that a mixed planting of trees is a better way to go. Maybe a mix of Thuja, Osage, and Elms? Really looking forward to how this planting turns out down the line!
My village was quite rough and as a child I'd often go up the mountainside into the farm to hang out. He had abandoned tractors and cars up there as well as car tyres etc all surrounded by think ash, birch and field maple trees (from memory). An abandoned farm trail is what this makes me think of
Field maples would look good with the car.
A tree growing out of the front trunk would be pretty cool
There trees are looking good. I love the work in the VW!!!
Just for interest sake: the Crassula sarcocaulis don't loose their leaves in winter where I live in South Africa .
Thanks, good to know, I'll keep trying to grow it better!!!
Quite the dramatic thumbnail and a dramatic video, too!
I'm looking forward to seeing the beetle in a forest soon, and I hope the SIberian Elms stay healthy.
I also hope you didn't breathe in too much of the burned plastic fumes..!
nice looking bug! i like the pot size for the VW too, but i could see the forest not fitting well into the smaller pot. Its always a balancing, and i love watching you create the relationships! thank you Nigel.☀️🤩☀️
Now that was great fun! Thanks, Nigel
Thanks!
Hello Margo, thank you very much, I really appreciate the super thanks!!!!!!!
Beautiful info ❤❤❤👍👍👍
at least with all those aloe cuttings, you'll have lots of aloe to water your plants with!
This was like an action-thriller movie. The long deliberation of a chess master, experimental beheadings, and arson!!!😍😍😍
Really hoping your baobab jade recovers. I’ve really enjoyed the videos you’ve made on that one. It’s good that you have a backup plan though. 👍🏻
The Beetle looks so much better. I’d hit those “rusty” areas with some super fine sandpaper so they are less sharp and look more natural.
Over the years, the rust stains will run down the side of the car and looks very convincing!!!
Torching the beetle was so fun to watch and the colours are mesmerizing, great thumbnail, made me click right away
I love the beetle planting idea. My first car was a 1969 beetle and I currently own a convertible 1975 super beetle. Love your creativity!
I hope the best for your Targa ..
That whole car sequence was so great haha
Mealy bugs get in the roots.
Oh no - not the baobab Jade! You spent a lot of time on that Nigel.... let's hope it comes back. Try no water...
Blowtorch casually appearing in the background: oh oh, this is the zombie apocalypse coming up. Easy as that. 😂
Morning breakfast and the bonsai zone…..brilliant 👩🏻🌾🪴
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Hey Nigel, I have had lots of experience with mealy bugs unfortunately. In my experience the soap and water trick works very limited. What I do is I take a cotton swab with rubbing alcohol and go in and dab each bug and or nests with the alcohol, then I spray with soap and water plus rinse
Agree, I spray the whole plant with 70% alcohol, wait 5 minutes, then rinse. Quite effective, especially in the winter.
Agree with the above. Similar for mites too. Though with mites taking a bucket of water and holding the entire plant (and pot) underwater for about ten seconds kills all of the mites. They drown. Have to cover the entire plant though or it doesn't work.
VV model wet with sugar water, sprinkle with iron filings from drilling and sawing and leave for a few days
Absolutely incredible weathering on that VW - my car looks like that right now...and I still drive it :)
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You are pioneering the Aloe bonsai techniques! Keep good notes for when you write your book! Your Jade has a bud on it. Looked like a bud from here. The branch between the one you squeezed and the smaller one you said dried up. I tried to tell you through the computer monitor, but you didn't hear me.😂😂 That is one burnt buggy. Going to be a cool planting! Great video Nigel!!
Fingers crossed for the jade!
And the Chernobyl landscape is going to be really cool! Really looking forward to seeing it coming together too!
Love the new look on the bug
The zombie apocalypse has finally arrived… at least for the beetle! 🪲
wow! imagine a succulent that gets fall colors and can naturally go in the winter silhouette shows! The second one you showed really scared me because it looked like a monster from my past nightmares lol!
Only thing I've found effective for mealy bug on my cacti is a systemic insecticide. As Susan said, they get under the soil level too. I've used Bug Clear Ultra vine weevil for a few years. 70% isopropyl alcohol (rubbing alcohol) works well too but not for root mealies.
I use cotton buds and straight alcohol to kill mealy bugs. I did lose 2/3rds of my succulents because I was not able to treat all of them, so I chose my favorite third of my plants and used the alcohol to save them. In the months since I have only found one more plant infested. You COULD cut the top 4/5ths off the ailing one to see if there is healthy trunk above where the mealy bugs were, and it may re-root for you. In future, I would treat the trunk immediately after scarring to avert any mealybugs being attracted to the fresh flesh. (yes, I equate mealy bugs with zombies)
Really looking forward to see the Beetle forest!
Great work on the beetle and making a nice forest around it will be a great project for you.
I cut a Gollum jade back hard earlier this summer and it seemed to take forever to get going again. 4 main branches were cut to the first ring off the main trunk. There were no leaves left below the cuts. The trunk became extremely shrunken from having all water withheld since it had been unpotted immediately following the chop (thanks doggy!)and I had given it up as a goner before I noticed the barest beginnings of new leaves at the cut points. It has finally regrown with smaller leaves and is doing well. I say this as it took far longer to bounce back from its rude treatment than I had expected. Hopefully your baobab jade will recover as well!
You have to be bold an give it a try on your aloe. We never know unless we experiment to see what works. I admire your positive approach and going for it. Remember to take notes.
I've heard recently that sprinkling cloves on the dirt will get rid of bugs. You might try that with the mealy bugs
It saddened me watching your jade baobab, hope it will survives.
Beatle steals the show, but fantastic tree work as well
This is great. Lunch with Nigel!!!
Take out 1 door of that little car and place it on the ground, i think that could look more realistic
Making so many cuts in the trunk has got to be stressful for the tree. Hopefully it will recover. The VW penjing will be awesome. I can't imagine the fumes in the bonsai zone that day. I hope you wore some type of protection.
The burnt out beetle bonsai is going to look great!
oh my god nigel! no safety equipment as you torch your VW? no safety glasses, gloves… and breathing in those terrible toxic fumes?! not good. but it looks awesome! 45:09
Yes agreed. Look after your lungs, dear Nigel. Mask up!!! 🫁
Looks fantastic! My thumbnail this morning was my actual thumb nail!
I'm hoping you'll consider growing some trees out of the windows.
I've found it easier to just stick the metal frame of a toy car in the fireplace or my copper fire pit
Cool project
Hello
You mean... FOIST!
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I’m wondering, could you force pups on the aloe by putting it into a smaller pot?
Nigel have you ever considered using dr bronners all purpose soap to spray? I like the peppermint soap because peppermint is a natural insecticide. Love the videos by the way!!!
Thanks, I'll look for it!!!
@@TheBonsaiZone no problem! Your videos inspired me to start attempting bonsai I live in Northern California and have collected dogwoods, manzanita, oak and a few other from the wild and a few different trees from box stores and am having a blast.
I would get some brown paint and some green paint like a moss green and make it look rusted and covered in mold and Moss all the cars I've ever found in the woods are covered in Brier bushes and little tiny saplings growing up between the bumpers if you open the hood you could put a tree in there
Thumbnail Apocalyps 🔥🔥🔥
Hi, love what you do. But plastic fumes are really nasty. You dont want to breathe that in, same with burning paint. Deffo need a respirator 🫁
Red Forest Nigel? Lol
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Burning the Beetle! How great is that!?!
Sometimes the Jade just wants to go into a dormant period. Some of my bonsai succulents do not wake up until June from a November sleep. I guess that is what they do up in the colder climates.
Poor baobab-jade. Some years ago I lost a cactus as i had not noticed them pesky mealy bugs hiding around the thorns, Quite camouflaged unfortunately.
Should have sent the VW to me Nigel, I’ve had 3 cars set on fire and totally burnt out since I’ve lived here.
I'd go harder with the flames.
I actually thought you were gonna put it in a bowl and cover it with petrol and set it aflame.
All those to toxic fumes should see off the mealy bugs, amongst many other things too I should think! 🤑🤢🤮 Hey ho, God bless your endeavours 🙏✝️. ✌️🇷🇺☮️🇺🇦✌️
how did you know I was in a blow torch 'anything' mode ? :D
life just happened and I got fired.... I bet I would look better than the VW beetle with a bonsai growing on me lol...
i'm way more burnt away...
Hang in there, that's tough times, but maybe there's something good and unexpected you will experience from this event. I noticed it often happens like this in my life
Everyone needs a hobby 😮
Or several 😁
Will he hit the bug with a wire brush?
Hmmmm
Do you have to rinse off the soap?
Very very excited for beetle forest... wohhh...!!! hope you will not drop this halfway like temple
The temple project is not dropped, I'm growing a new root system for the trees that will be planted on the temple. I'm also aging the concrete before planting the trees.
@@TheBonsaiZone Great to hear.. May be I missed follow up
my jades only suffer when they had too much water, and they look like yours then.
you should not breath this plastic smoke
54:40 The Bonsai Zone ffs