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That's awesome! I have so many seedlings from last year I don't know what I'm going to do with them all! I hope you have great luck growing yours

It's still alive as of today!

Just plain ugly is more like it! LOL It is SO bizarre that it does have a certain amount of charm. I was going to chop it up into separate trees but since you like it so much I'll keep it intact and style it from there. I'm thinking of calling the "The Creature II".

@ Maybe I have a liking for monsters. Will be excited to see what you do with it to make it to your liking but not change its true character. I watch every episode of your channel.

@@MamaJArk Yes, the bonsai that is clean and sleek and graceful and "perfect" stirs something inside of us but the one that is contorted, twisted, tortured and misshapen can have an even more profound effect at a completely different level. I think those trees evoke that sense of struggle that we all feel at some time or other. Thank you for you loyalty! I truly appreciate it!

Thanks Nigel! I'm still a little confused so I'm going to list the trees and then try to name them. No. 1 - Clean lines, fairly large leaves, white pot. Elemental Bonsai tells me it's a "Port Jackson" rubiginosa. Concur? No. 2 - Cut backs that died leaving the tree in almost two pieces. Lots of aerial roots. Natalensis? No. 3 - Crazy wild growth with huge number of roots growing out of the pot. Burt Davii? Thanks for helping!

@@WoodcrestBonsai That's sounds right to me!!!

@@TheBonsaiZone I'm going with it!

Thanks! I think you are absolutely correct. I was able to find a picture and it appears identical especially the way the new leaves unsheathe.

I use a number of different types but my main one is any good slow release pelleted fertilizer. I have three different brands and they all work equally well so pick up one that's available in your area and you should be good to go

Is there a tree you want me to turn around?

You are so right! I never even saw it until you pointed it out to me. It appears at about :50 and is visible until about 1:00 and then reappears at about 2:02. I will definitely use that as my front since I was leaning in that direction anyway.

I used to grow landscape plants for a living 30 years ago and I guess it's still in my blood! I love to propagate new plants and I feel like there's a certain connection with a bonsai that I have grown and nurtured from the very beginning versus one purchased somewhere else.

I'm very happy with them.

Hooray! Another milestone reached! I know this is probably reaching but I'm setting my sights on 500 by the end of the year!

Thank you so much Mama! I'm so glad you are enjoying my videos.

Stumps are good! I have me share of stumps too.

I appreciate the kind words!

Thank you so much! Only six more to go! I have the feeling that more and more people are discovering my channel and hopefully I'm providing something of value.

@@WoodcrestBonsai I think yours is one of the best.

@@kevinwilkes5969 Wow, thank you man. You really made my day!

If you haven't already please check out the earliest vids of this tree. It's quite the transformation.

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I saw that video and they looked like real thimbles. They must need to have drain holes drilled. I think in Japan this tiny size it called "finger tip" bonsai. Just as an FYI I got my pots from House of Bonsai in Cal.

@WoodcrestBonsai yeah just a diamond hole saw bit will cut through ceramic if you ever find something that could be used as a pot I do it all the time. I was looking at some thimble or fingertip pots on Amazon. Maybe in the spring I'll get some

I just posted another video on a tiny portulacaria. Please check it out!

They are fun even with the challenges they present.

I have some of the Lilliput ports and they grow so SLOW so I'm thinking of potting up some cuttings.

Thank you!

Of all the trees I got from my friend this is one of my favorites. The bald cypress I'll be working on this winter is just about neck and neck

Since I got this tree with the roots the way they are, there's no telling how they managed to create that form. I'm loving it though!

Yes, I think in time it can grow into a very interesting tree.

I really think this tree has great potential even though it's been through a pretty rough time.

Thank you!

Almost always on an angle, usually about 45 degrees with the highest part of the cut where you expect the new apex to form

It does have a gracefulness based on the movement of the trunk that the others do not possess.

No, premna are not cold hardy at all. If the plant tissues freeze that portion of the plant will die. I had two groups in the ground, one was protected by overhanging branches of an oak tree and the other was more exposed. Because we barely touch freezing the ones under the oak were fine, The one more exposed died basically to the ground. Amazingly, it actually resprouted and is now just one of the most funky premna I have, really not sure what do with it. I will feature it, along with the ones under the oak, in my next video

@@WoodcrestBonsai Thanks for the good information...I need to be careful in my acquisitions and stick to trees I can maintain outside year around...TFS...

I'm just playing with the premier thing. I have noticed that Nigel premiers all his videos and since he has over 200 thousand subs I figured it can't hurt! I'll just have to tell that Saunders guy to quit butting into my airtime! LOLOLOL

I had no idea I could chat live with people watching the premier. I am such a newbie to all this UA-cam stuff. I just thought it was to tell people it was a new video. As far as making the tree a cascade, that had not entered my mind at all and yet two other people agreed. Funny how input from others can change your whole perspective.

If you read my reply to the other two guys, that is a possibility I had never even considered! It's crazy how I can get myself into tunnel vision and not see things that others do.

Wow, I had never even considered that. Sometimes it takes the input of others for your mind to break out of the box!

Do you live in an area where premna will survive? They cannot withstand any freezing whatsoever.

@@WoodcrestBonsai I hadn’t considered that. No, sadly we do get some freezing. I am in zone 8. I will have to stick to a bonsai I can keep inside during the winter. This year has been crazy, no freeze so far. Appreciate you.

Premna make great mame but they grow massive so they make awesome larger bonsai too. If you search my site you'll see I have any number of other videos on premna. In fact my logo tree is a premna.

I live about an hour away but I don't get there much at all either. I really like to go when they have their fall festival that is usually the second weekend in October. There's just a whole lot more going on like multiple plant vendors and some extra bonsai programs. Hurricane Milton hit only about two days before so they had to reschedule.

@WoodcrestBonsai oh wow... Fall Colors😍 I may haveto go soon.. There was another 'Botanical Garden I went to back then that was like an hour from there..I forget the name of it, but there was a Huge Rainbow Eucalyptus Tree outside of it thst blew my Mind!!🤯🥰 The Rainbow-colored Bark was Amazing!!!😍 That began a Quest for a Raibow Euc. Bonsai... 😊 I got a cutting around 2years ago, that's growing, so.... We Wait!😊 I don't think the Rainbow color on the bark really gets going until the Tree has some Age on it.. Anyway, Appreciate the Tour, & all the info. Be well!

@@damonjones1291 You may be thinking of McKee Gardens in Vero Beach. They have a rainbow eucalyptus near the entrance.

Thank you!