Pruning My Bald Cypress and More, The Bonsai Zone, Aug 2023
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- čas přidán 21. 07. 2024
- I'm pruning my Bald Cypress (Taxodium distichum), my Kapok (Ceiba pentandra) tree, my Royal Oaks (Quercus robur), my Silk (Albizia julibrissin) Tree, my Black Locust (Robinia pseudoacacia) tree, my Trident Maple (Acer buergerianum) and my Elm (Ulmus americana).
I also put up a new bonsai bench (table).
To see previous videos of my Bald Cypress bonsai, click on the playlist here...
• Bald Cypress Bonsai
To see previous videos of my Royal Oak trees, click on the playlist here...
• Royal Oak Bonsai
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You mentioned how much water the plant needs. In the Southeast United States Louisiana and Missippi the literally grow in swamps.
Ive got 3 standing in a tray, even when the soil in the pot is wet, the tray always gets used up. I see that nigel has it in a clay or ceramic pot, that dries out pretty quick. Nigel should put it in a plastic pot.
I grew up fishing with my dad around the bases of these trees and the cypress knees. That's one thing I miss about the swampy rivers of Louisiana. I'd never try to bonsai one of them though, watching Nigel's progress with great interest.
You can bonsai them, they're gorgeous, and I always water a ton
The silk tree grows outside my apartment building in Croatia. They‘re over 10 years old and are pretty skinny. When I park beneath them I always have to clean my windshield. Beautiful, but messy. Let them flower, they‘re wonderfully fragrant.
Wonderful video on the bald cypress. I live in eastern North Carolina, USA. Cypress swamps are very common in this part of the state. They are beautiful trees.
That lawnmower is quite soothing.
So are the birds when it's not running, lol!!!
8:47 My goodness that's like a beanpole!
Looking forward to following the Bald Cypress progress...
Great video. Lots of big cuts today. It went down to 49F here last night. A reminder that I need to start getting ready for cold weather.
I love that little ficus religiosa :)
So happy you have a fresh tube of rubber cement for the wounds from your next, “Big cut (or chop) coming up!” ✂️✂️✂️ Didn’t know whether there was another cut’s worth left. Felt a little like driving on fumes. Whew! ✂️ 🌿🌿🌿✂️😊
It's so satisfying though using up the last little smidge of something. 😂
Hello uncle Nigel,i am watching from south Africa and have learned a lot from you, would love it if I could show you my 4 year old fever tree.
Great batch of updates! Lots of big cuts today! Thanks Nigel!
What about a water sealer for the wooden table top benches? Might help the table last longer than the 10 years. Just a thought.
Thanks Nigel ! In my 5th year of bonsai now and keen for the spring , thanks especially for showing the oak pruning 👍
It worked! Good for you! Due to my experience with Bald Cypress (3 of them) I was quite skeptical about your potting method. But it worked.
In my experience I put two of my Bald cypress in 3L pots standing in trays of water. I used peat and sand. The 3rd tree was planted in a 1.5 sq meter bog that is only 12 cm deep. One of the potted trees died, the other did not thrive. After 7 years the potted tree has a trunk pencil thick, 7.5 mm, while the Bog tree is 6.3 cm thick and over 3 meters tall.
I figured the Bonsai Soil that you used was inappropriate for Bald Cypress due to their high water demand and natural growth in standing water. But you proved me wrong.
Even my Bald Cypress in the bog had foliage damage from 35C+ weather. I think the humidity was much lower than what it's natural environment presents. So I added a layer of water on top of the bog to increase humidity and just plain water availability.
I plan to shorten the bog tree to about 70 cm in a year or two to resemble a hurricane damaged tree.
Excellent video as always.
Theres a nice write up on Bald Cpress forests in this months Nat. GEO....
Thanks Nigel.
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Nice prune updates. Love the oaks especially. I recently did a video on my oak, I did a big cut on it to remove a big swelling. Well I removed most of the tree. 😅 it's doing great now there a great species that love to bud out and recover quickly. Love the channel 👍🏻
This subject matter was just what I needed ....Thank you
Nice work on the pruning. Plant room, work in progress. A lot to do before winter sets in. Nice thought getting the heavy duty table.
29:35 I took a bonsai in to show my Joey Scouts (5-8 year olds, I think you call them Beavers), and I had a stick insect on one of them. The kids wanted to "adopt it" and take it home. I had to guard it to make sure it stayed in the tree it had chosen for it's OWN home!
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Yaaaaaay!
Project time!
great job i think the Bald cypress will look realy great in a few years nice summerpruning thanks for showing👍👍
Oooooooooo!
Great idea for the shelves!!!
I don't think they will ever break!!!
The Bald Cypress is really exciting to follow.👍
Nice to see some of the less developed trees and how they are doing!
The plant room will be great with those new scaffolding benches!
. I thought the plant was gonna go for another full circle. You gave a friend the cutting they grew it and gave it back then you could have gave them the cutting from the cutting you once gave them lol.
love seeing all the trees on the go!☀️
Nice to get caught up on the little ones! Like a game of Trim, Trim, Trunk Chop! Great video Nigel! Those table are really hard to find used. When you do, they are often broken. Safer to buy new, if something is wrong with it can return. Get max life out of the table. Get some used oil or like a triple lube spray. coat all the moving parts on the table so they don't seize up if it will be outside year round. Galvanized metal will oxidize too. Go all white.
The Bald Cypress is a cool species. I'd love to have one, too, but it seems it's hard to keep up with the water... In my local park there are the similar looking Dawn Redwoods, and also some Giant Redwoods. I hope I can get some seeds or cuttings from them to try making Bonsai out of them.
The Kapok tree got quite the chop. I hope this one will have a long healthy life. Very interesting species!
The new table for the Bonsai Zone looks good! It's slightly sad to see the outdoor studio gone, but it makes sense, and we have the glass greenhouse now, which is just fantastic.
I noticed the Trident Maple you have has leaves that are more pointy than the one on mine. It looks quite elegent though, I think. Mine had great fall colors last year, so I hope yours will look very colorful, too!
Hopefully the Nightshade Vine will keep staying strong in the future!
Thanks Lukas, the Kapok has come back nicely, it got lots of branches now!
Very nice ,and beautiful this video! 🕉🕉 Dear Master 😆.
Major changes to your Bald Cypress. I’ll be pruning mine in a few days. Just want to mention that Shoe Goo is thicker than rubber cement and is not stringy at all. I’m really happy with the results I’m getting. Thank you for the suggestion that a rubberized paste might work better. I happily abandoned my Lac Balsam cut paste.
Great content as always Nigel. How do you overwinter you oaks? I had a great specimen I acquired last year and it died back to the soil over the winter (lows got down to 8°F here in Virginia) so I’m thinking of overwintering it in my woodshop to keep it out of the frost…
Oh I watched you lop the roots off this tree last night lol
They grow in swamps here in GA.
A bald cypress forest would be sick. With a ‘pot’ that you could flood at show time
I've been considering doing something like that with a willow
@@WoollenMaple that would be cool too. I feel like the cypress are a little more showy if you can get the buttressed roots. I'm sure something awesome could be produced with willows though. I have some willows so ... maybe that's the direction they'll go. We will see - they're a long way off.
A beautiful specimen!
Cool 😎 till the next time
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I'm looking forward to seeing how you get that base going. I've got a bigger one. I've repotted 4 or 5 times now, but I'm still not butrusing base.
I’ve read, and watched several videos, which make a strong case for doing this type of work on deciduous trees in n late fall to increase a stronger vigorous spring push. Supposedly in early to late fall the tree is supercharging it’s vascular system to increase branch and trunk girth and support its root system for the winter ahead. Anyone have any thoughts?? Thanks, keep growing
I've also read this and am curious. A little afraid of trying new things on my nice oak but maybe some sapling experimenting is in order 😂
I've heard this a lot too. Mostly in horticultural circles rather then bonsai circles. Either way, I think for a lot of trees there is a much bigger window to prune then a lot of people think. Also there may be a number 1 optimal time but doesn't mean the tree will die if you fall slightly out of that. Also I think it does vary based on weather and temperature
@@RyanFish825Maybe a maple, I hear they're quite forgiving 😂
I am always so worried of cutting it back too much. But here I see you just removed like 70% of the tree like it was nothing. Am I too worried or does it differ on the species?
HOW?! How do you get branches that separate and distinct on your bald cypress? Mine tries to shoot out 9 branches every cut I make. I take off maybe 20-30 buds a week, and it's still a bushy mess lol. Its about 2 feet tall, next year I think I'll reduce it to get some taper going, and make it so it's easier to manage.
I thought those were all individual oaks coming up, I honestly didn't know oaks could have root suckers. Shame oaks don't propagate well, you could have had a royal forest!
Cut paste in a tube does a better job than the rubber cement. Not stringy, and has healing compounds that protect and heal the tree.
Slugs like eating away the cut paste I use 😕
Even outside of bonsai (I'm beginner in bonsai but my family are mostly gardeners) cut paste or cut sealer is kinda controversial. Some would argue blind that it deals in bacteria and fungas and is worse for the tree. Others will say it helps prevent due back.
I think it's fascinating and I kinda want to run some experiments on some trees to non-scientifically (too small a sample size) work out which is more effective.
I imagine climate also plays a role. Maybe it reacts differently in a hotter climate? I'm in a temperate oceanic climate in zone 7, so think experimenting will be fun
@@ferasi6944 I've never had or heard of that issue.
@@WoollenMaple Experiments are good. Good cut paste is tried and true. The good stuff has a healing action on the wounds. There is a "non toxic" version of rubber cement however, i don't see any real benefit in using it as the cut paste is relatively inexpensive to use on small cuts such as these and is effectively used for this purpose.
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I think your hair needs pruning too!
Ever thought about pruning the bonsai that’s growing on your head?
Swamp Cypress rolls off the tongue better...