Repotting My French Lilac, The Bonsai Zone, March 2022
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- čas přidán 15. 03. 2022
- I'm repotting my French Hybrid Lilac from it's nursery pot into a smaller container and pruning the roots to create a nice radial root base.
To see previous videos of this tree, click on the playlist here...
• French Lilac Bonsai
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Oh la la, Nigel! Très bon-sai!
This is my favorite comment! So clever! Merci 😀
Wow! When you took that big root off there was hardly anything left!. That was fun.👍
It doesn't matter how long I have been working on my bonsai I am still nervous about the number of roots I remove. I've just finished all of my root-bound larches and some have very few roots left to grow from! That is why I always come back and watch one or two of your root pruning videos. It reassures me that there may still be hope...
Me too
Great surgical hands operating on the massive roots by the great, root surgeon, Dr. Saunders. Great little video!
Read this right after 11:19 when he accidentally broke off a root 😂
@@servandomoreno5884 I seen that, but, doctors sometimes make a mistake. I bet it was one of the little people messing with Dr. Saunders for a pre-St. Patrick's Day prank. Happy St. Patrick's Day!
Kudos for consistency. Always follow the same principles and the results are positive.
Thanks Elisabeth, hopefully the tree will do well, I did remove a lot of roots!
I needed a croissant and black coffee while watching this. That is already a lovely little tree. I am looking forward to seeing her develop.
Merci Diana!!
That was a first oopsie, if i remember correctly 🤔
Very nice flair in the nebari, hope it survives the root pruning. Lilacs have such beautiful leaves and flowers 🌸
Thanks 4sharing, I learned a lot about reporting my Bonsall plants.
Great video Nigel love French lilac. Thanks for sharing
Wow that is a lot of roots gone. Scared me!! Let us all pray.
Gives me hope for a few I majorly reduced, when that big curled root came off with that huge mass attached I was a bit worried 😂. Great work, thanks Nigel!
This French lilac for the Nigel Saunders treatment. I have two trees to work on this weekend and I am now feeling daring. Thanks for the video Nigel! o/
I’m actually surprised you left that one semi thick root after that “Edward Scissor Hands” root pruning. Nice flare at the bottom of the trunk. Looks like it’s off to a great start. Thanks, keep growing
I agree
I am from the tropics, India, to be very specific. Over here, it is 35 degree C and very hot and humid. Seeing the snow make me feel great.😅
Stay cool Sauptik!!
@@TheBonsaiZone Thanks Nigel, I am starting to learn about bonsai from seeing your videos.
Looking great, and very French somehow!
Oui, oui!
Pretty meager root system, indeed! Good luck in its recovery!
‘Terrible root’! 😂 O Nigel!! You must’ve known you were gonna take off all the roots when you chose the small pot! Still loving the accordion, God bless you 🙏✝️ ✌️🇺🇦🌻
It is nice to see the early stages of the bonsai journey .. AND great lesson about roots, Roots Matter! Start them young Start them early, and I will never regret those choices. Thank you Nigel.
When you work the Brazilian rain tree a bossanova should play in the background🎶😂✌
i could see a compact Parisian styled penjing/diorama in the future with this tree (maybe have a little person at a table sipping an espresso 😂☕). many different avenues to take, regardless am looking forward to seeing its development.
That would be cool!!!
Recently purchased my first bonsai. Looking forward to learning. Thank you for the very informative video.
Awesome, happy growing!!
Fun Video!
I actually did a lot of reporting my orchards.
I enjoy working with orchards and being able to watch them grow so beautifully.
Love the French theme and music
I love watching your repotting videos thank you Nigel for another great video!!
Thumbs up from western french britany Nigel ;) Started my little bonsai journey about 2 years ago at the age of 35 ; growing only ficus tiger barks.... indoors under artificial light :) (no garden but a passion so..) Today was a little pruning day for me :) Take care
Thanks for all the awesome vids Nigel. I really apprecciate your dedication to the root base. And clip and grow!This tree is already starting to look good, but without that root base, it wouldn't be so interesting.
Also, you might be interested to know if you don't already, that lilac is part of the oleoacaea (olive) family, like privet too. So no wonder the wood was tough to cut!
Thanks Jacob, good information!! Thanks!
@Nigel Saunders, The Bonsai Zone I just read my previous comment and I didn't mean to insult the tree either, it's great, especially for its first year. The trunk and branch structure looks really nice.
I thought this was going in a much different direction when it started with you quickly marching towards the greenhouse in your Food Security garb.
Your discipline to your process, brother, just fantastic to see it in progress. Roots/nebari, trunk, then branches…c’est la vie
Gorgeous tree Nigel! Can't wait to see it develop over the years.
Love Lilacs!! Hope is survives. Great video Nigel!
I think you and me both get carried away with our root work and then we pray our tree stays alive
Namaste Nigel sir, I just felt that when you cleaned the root base, you had like 100$(roots) cutting that thick one bought it down to 10$, yet still you cut down few and finally 3$ left over..! Not sure how many of us here, dare to do such severe root pruning. Hope this tree survives and we will it soon in your future update vedio, few weeks from now
You made me feel better. I just did this to a couple trees, left me sweating! That one root almost made up the whole base Eh!
Yes, I'm hoping the trees survive, a major pruning of the roots!
Thanks Nigel!
You got more nuts than me.. good God man that's almost all the roots.. I love my collected lilac tree.. I found it already dorfed in the woods behind my house.. it hasn't flowered yet and it took me 6 months to figure out what the hell I dug up because im new to this plant stuff lol..
The tree is still doing well!!
I look forward to seeing how this develops. Lilacs are among my favorite flowering trees, but I haven't considered them as bonsai, as the flowers are so big. Did you keep any of the roots to try some root cuttings?
You go French, I gave my mom Persian. Both are lovely and taste amazing.
I got myself a Japanese cherry from a garden center that revealed the worst root system when I repotted it. It was a curled mess, so I cut off probbaly 80%. After the rather severe root pruning it stayed dormant for quite a while but then some branches showed small leaves. I thought from here on it'll get better, but it seems that everytime new leaves came out some snails immediately ate those overnight. I think without the mean snails the tree would've recovered, but like that there's not much hope left...
I hope I can get my hands on a new Japanese cherry next year. If necessary I'll maybe try to groundlayer it rather than to prune it so severely next time. That's probably safer with all the snails around. Having a more decent root system from the start would be very helpful too though...
I hope your Lilac does better! Must look great when it's in bloom :)
Thanks Lukas, try putting your tree on top of a tray of water, the snails will be unable to cross the water to the tree!
@@TheBonsaiZone That's a great tip! Thanks, Nigel!
keep up the good work
Food security ♡
Have you ever seen Beau of the Fifth Column...super cool channel.
It really amazes me Nigel. How much roots you take off a plant and the plant comes back so healthy. I would be so scared of taking that amount of root off but there again I am only a beginner I have become a little more adventurous when it comes to root pruning and it does seem to work. I too have lilacs growing in my garden. I find that they send runners out which I cut off and pot up I have never thought of producing a bonsai from one as the English versions have quite large leaves. Perhaps if I put one in a small pot it may stunt the leaf growth. What do you think? Nigel
Definitely the leaves will reduce when in a pot!
@@TheBonsaiZone thank you Nigel..
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Racoons. Day time marauders for you.
Yes, we have a lot of them in our backyard, you can hear them in the summer!
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I have a question: If the energy is stored in the roots for first flush of spring and you hard prune the roots, where does the tree get it’s energy from? No leaves, yet to convert sunlight to sugar for energy.
Hello Derrick, the energy is stored in the trunk, the branches and the roots, but mostly in the roots . When the sap flows in spring, this energy is equally distributed to all parts of the tree. When you prune off the roots in spring, you are only losing a portion of the trees energy, not most of it. The tree will then leaf out and new energy from the leaves will help grow a new root system, getting the tree in balance once again.
For trees, do you usually wait till soil is dry to water. I have a dwarf scheflerra
Yes, I wait for the soil to just begin to dry out, always making sure it still has moisture in it!
Foist
What’s a the status of the community gardens?
They are making progress, but very slowly. I help out, but don't get involved much anymore. The project was going too slow with little enthusiasm from the people in charge. I had to step away in frustration.
@@TheBonsaiZone such a pity
@@percyacutt3110 I was just out there today working on the trees, it should be a good year for growing, the trees are starting to get established!
I don't think that was root pruning, it was more of a massacre ;)
nigel why don't you care your viewers comments?
I water my trees in the morning, then I have lunch. I then spend the afternoon making videos and the evening editing, by the time I publish videos it's late at night. I generally get about 50 comments per video and it's impossible to answer them all, I would have to not sleep and work through the night. I do read every comment and try and answer as many as I can. Many CZcamsrs get burned out trying to keep up with all their social media and comments, I'm trying to keep my time at the computer balanced with my life. I do also have a wife and 2 children at home that I also spend time with!
@@TheBonsaiZone sorry good luck you are so hardworking God bless you respect from iran