@@TheBonsaiZone Yes Nigel, and this hobbit jades are especially good for bonsai. I like them more than the regulars with oval leaves. What about you? Which one do you prefer?
Both you and I looked like "Wind Swept Jades" today, very windy in Rolling Meadows, IL. So happy you made a follow up video on your previous years creations / forests 💚 Watched a few times, including commercials!!
Merry Christmas Nigel! Years ago I also bought a GoPro for my research. I wanted to measure the speed of running lizards (yep!) and GoPro was the cheapest camera that was able to record at high speeds.
Older large Jades will always have a special place with me!! If you can pair that gopro with the app, you can change from wide angle to standard and change other settings like resolution etc.
It’s not a Nigel video without the rooster 🐓letting us know. “So there he goes” !! Merry Christmas 🎁 🎄 from the far wet left coast. We’ll be budding out here soon enough. 🤣
Merry Christmas to you and the family. I hope you have a really good Christmas and a safe New Years. All the best Nigel and thankyou for all you do for the love of Bonsai.
I'm excited to see what you come up with using the GoPro. It should provide us with some great views of your work. I'll be staying tuned to see what's next.
About a year ago, I was looking around in a local nursery when I found a very overgrown jade in the back of the jade section. I ended buying it for $10, and after repotting the largest growth, it began thriving! I gave it to my mom.
I've been wanting one of those jade trees for a few years now. Very cool. I could picture US walking among the desert and getting in the shade under your jade forest😃. Hope you have a great Christmas. As always keep up the great work and can't wait till the next one.👍
Hi Nigel! Your jade bonsaï are my favorite, even though some people don’t think they are real bonsaï. I was wondering what was the best way to help jade getting bigger. Big or small pot? And how about the pruning? I sometimes read that the leaves gives strength to the three. I also read that the branches gives strength to the trees. On the other hand, I read that pruning gives strength to the trees and that removing unwanted branches helps the jade tree grow. What is real among what I’ve read? Thanks for helping me!
The more leaves the plant has the faster it will grow. If you want a tree to thicken up the quickest, just leave it grow, however you may be sacrificing the shape of the tree while you do this. Most trees that are grown to be a bonsai are allowed to grow about 6 sets of leaves and then they are pruned back to the first or second set, depending on the direction of them. Pruning will create more branching that will eventually give you a nice crown on the tree. When you get a good dense crown the tree will have lots of leaves for photosynthesis and your tree will grow healthy and with vigor.
I'm a bit late, but I hope you and your family had a great Christmas! Among other presents, I got my first Bonsai scissors. Now I just need more trees to work on. I also wish you and all the other Bonsai enthusiasts here all the best for 2020!
Hi Nigel, made them look all beautiful and "together" again...great job! Wishing you and yours a Wonder-full Christmas and if not seen before the end of 2019, a Great Green 2020!! 🌛🌕🌜👍🎄💖🎉
that's a great bit of content really appreciate the effort u take to teach us the craft, as always excited for next update BIG THUMBS UP AND SHARE UR CONTENT
Enjoyed the "tour" with the GoPro camera. It provides a nice, different perspective. Like the work that you have done on the jades. They look as though they could be found in the desert. Happy Holidays to you and your family.
Hi Nigel...I use gopro's all the time....you can get add on lenses to bring you closer as the focal length is around 11 inches....there are many lenses if you are not getting close enough....go pro's are perfect to get the whole pic in though :)..I have the 5
Thanks Lee, I really liked using the Go Pro and I think you'll see more of them in the future of the channel! I'll keep playing around with it and I think there is another add on lens in the kit.
I love the gollum jade. I hope to see mine in an advanced planting someday. I saw a documentary of African foot hills that had this type of plant. The rocks in the area were very angular and almost black.
Thanks, I'm always looking for shots of Jades in the wild, I have a collection of pictures and many are located near rocky cliff faces. It would be fun making a miniature landscape with them.
Very merry Christmas! Thanks for what you do, youre solely responsible for my renewed passion for flora. I used to landscaping, but once i moved to apartments i thought my fun was done. Now i just do mini ones!
@@TheBonsaiZone ua-cam.com/video/bXLheiv0dEY/v-deo.html My first video! Giant echeveria. I have you to thank, youve inspired most of what i do in this hobby.
I have a 17yr old variegated jade, ive been afraid to trim. It has a grow light, i wouldnt have thought now would be a good time to trim it though. Just bought a fancy camera, to show off some of my fun stuff. Like my echeveria bonsai!
Be sure the soil is almost dry before you prune the Jade bonsai. If you prune off the leaves with wet soil, it could lead to root rot. I hope you start a UA-cam channel, I'd love to see your plants!
@@TheBonsaiZone i did it. Certainly much to learn, but feeling good about it. Pretty much have you to thank for all of it. The plants i love, and showing me you can find a community online that might enjoy what i have. ua-cam.com/video/bXLheiv0dEY/v-deo.html
hi nigel merry christmas and a happy new year to all the family and the cockrells in the background. the gopro you have used is a very old one, still does a great job, but i just bought my daughter a gopro 7 plus black and its fantastic. all the add ons and accs you can buy are endless, the software is brilliant to. you can buy these cameras off ebay or even better amazon which you can return within 31 days of purchase if for any reason your not happy. just a small word of warning, gopro have a gopro 8 plus out, but what they dont tell you is if you scratch or break the cameras lens-window you cannot replace it as you can with all there previous models which just come of with a small turn. they do not repair them, so you are left with a very expensive paper weight. hope this helps you, all the best for 2020 and keep your vids coming.
Hey Nigel, Merry Christmas! Two questions. Are those Crassula Ovata or portulicaria afra? Also, did you modify your soil mix for these? I've had some portulicaria that have struggled without some organics mixed in to the medium. Thanks for what you do! Happy holidays to you and your family as well as everyone else in the bonsai zone! Edit: Just realized it's a Gollum. I was watching on my phone while on lunch earlier today.
If the trees are in too crumbly a soil mix, there is always a danger that they could tip over until the roots fill the pot. You may have to water or mist the trees more often in this type of soil as it is very free draining and will dry out faster.You can always add a little organics to the soil until you find the perfect mix. It all depends on the conditions the plant is in, the humidity levels and the light and temperature. Happy holidays!
When I purchased one of these a couple of years ago they were labeled as "Hobbit Succulent" Didn't realize it was a jade for a while but it ended up just about tripling in size over last summer. Haven't tried to prune it yet, I kind of like the natural look.
Thanks for the courage booster Nigel, my jade looks great again. Been practicing the Lingnan school on my privet and it is just going nuts with new ramification. Happy New year to you and Miss L.
To be honest, I personally think the Canon does a better job 95% of the time, but I guess this GoPro isn't the newest model. On some "inside the forest" close-up scenes the GoPro might be fun to use, but other than that, I think the Canon does it's job very well.
@@TheBonsaiZone how can I send you a picture of them nigel... Christmas was great ,but back to work tomorrow I am a bus driver before that I was a baker for 16 years ..hope you and your family had a nice Christmas .will you be starting to build your greenhouse in spring .....
Hey Nigel, I’m a big fan of your videos I have the same go pro you used in this video I’ve had it for a long time and have no need for it anymore, I know you would put it to good use (all it does right now is collect dust) , if you want it let me know and I could send it to you, I would love for you to have it !
Hello Jai, that would be fantastic! A really nice addition to the Bonsai Zone! Here is my email and I'll send you my address. thekwbonsaisociety@gmail.com Thank you so much!!! Nigel
Hi Nigel!. Ive been. Into bonsai for 5 mnths now n loving every second of it! Any possibility you would consider making a video about fertilising bonsai. I noticed your bonsai soil looks like perlite and it shouldnt have much nutrients... What type of fertiliser do you use on evergreens, conifers, deciduous, outdoor, indoor, flower blossom, fruit, succulent, bonsai and seedlings and why we should use fertiliser in non nutrient rich potting mediums. Homemade or purchased fertilisers. How to make and how to use the fertilisers (Liquid or solid, slow release or instant fertilisers.) When to use fertiliser for different tree species, 1-3 year seedlings and repotted bonsai... Schedule fertilising? or fertilise whenever?, Seasonal fertilising?... You would also need to be working on one or more of your beautiful bonsai in the video as you explain your fertilising techniques, reasons... Thanks for another great video!
Hello TCTO, I have a video on watering and fertilizing here and also one for indoor watering.... ua-cam.com/video/gXIIpxUqxdY/v-deo.html ua-cam.com/video/UagmuAwhYWE/v-deo.html
Interesting test shots with the Go-pro. The overhead views were particularly good. Seems like it would be a useful and fun video making tool to have. ~ One possible way to create a subtle, non-distracting landscape for the forest would be to have a wash. A wash is a ribbon of exposed gravel cut into the surface of a desert floor by run off from a cloud burst. A minimal amount of pumice and / or very fine gravel placed into a slight indentation in the soil could be used to create the barest suggestion of a wash. ~ Happy Holidays to you and yours - from the land of Giant Jades ! - John
Hello Sir, I actually grow a variety of things from seeds... wisteria, apple, lemon etc I know they may not be good for fruiting trees for some years but I was thinking as bonsai material they might do good. Would you have any advice on how I might be able to possibly sell my growings off to bonsai makers maybe? Or if it would benefit me to maybe try and contact some bonsai groups locally? I'm not asking how to sell so much as if it would be a good idea to try and contact some of these groups locally to me? I don't want to unduly harass any group of people with a solicitation if it would just be bothersome and unneeded....I don't really know if Bonsai creators would welcome or be irritated by my "offer" to them if there's no real need to the service I would be suggesting. Thank you! Edit: Merry Christmas Eve~
There is always a market for pre bonsai material. If the seedlings are well cared for and the roots are nice and radial and the tree is developed to the point of looking like a tree, you can get good money for them. I have found that very few people are willing to pay for something that looks like an ordinary plant,.It would be best to join a bonsai club and see what members are buying and what they are willing to pay for them. Try and build a relationship with the club, supplying them with trees for demos and work shops.
@@TheBonsaiZone Thank you so much! I don't even really care about a "sale" per sey. I grow stuff because it's fun and I enjoy doing so but became worried when I realised one day i'm going to have 20 non fruiting apple *trees*....I wanted a plan I guess. I don't want to deliberately kill something I grew, granted for no reason, but if there was a need for them I'd rather see them live than die. A profit of some form would be cool but I'd donate them rather than see them die first. If nothing else it's comforting to know I can call a Bonsai training course or something and know they would probably welcome free martial. I'm a weird emohippypagan who thinks it's sacrilege to kill a tree if it could live otherwise.
I got a jade at my nearby nursery and I keep it on my windowsill someone closed the shade and one of the main branches on jade is barely hanging on and a lot of soil fell out 😬
I really like this planting and remember when you created it. I really like to work on crassula ovata. As I saw your video last year, I knew i had to get some crassula ovata gollum, too. And guess what... I got one at our vacation last summer. This winter it's time make some cuttings and flood the house with gollum just like it's alreadfy full of the regular crassula ovata. By the way. The name you use "Jade" always irritates me, cause in our country "Jade" stands for Portulacaria afra. We call crassula ovata translated "Moneytree" or "Pennytree" but I know you use the name "Moneytree" for another species. Luckily we have the latin names! Merry Christmas Nigel! .... playful as you are, I am really astounded that you didn't hang some Christmas baubles into your trees....
Here in Canada crassula ovata is jade and portulacaria afra is elephant bush. It doesnt really matter though, common names are silly and often create confusion with all their overlap.
Merry Christmas and Happy New Year. Hope you have a good and safe holiday. Could you share what soil mix your jades are in. I have several and would like to improve them and maybe make a forest like that. Stay well.
Hello Scott, i am using a 50/50 mix of perlite and turface, the perlite is Miracle grow and the turface is sold as Safetysorb. I sift the ingredients to remove the dust and fine particles to get a final size of 3 to 4mm (1/8") I mist the jades twice a day and am careful not to wet the soil too much. I keep the Jades outside in the summer, but they go under cover when it rains as to not mess up the watering cycle of watering thoroughly and then letting the soil dry out. I add a small pinch of fertilizer in the water every time I water, even in the winter. In the summer I can water almost every second day, but in the winter I just mist the trees and water very lightly. If you soak the soil in winter and you get a week of cloudy weather, the soil will stay wet and your roots may rot.
hey nigel, I dont know what software u use to edit, but if its premiere pro or after effects theres an effect called warp stabilize. when used right this can remove alot if shake from the footage!
@@TheBonsaiZone make sure to fiddle with the setting, as often a lower % leads to better outcomes, when footage is extremely shakey trying to salvage it trough this method just wont work. hope youll get it to be usefull sometimes :)
If you give your jade a spacious pot and water only when the leaves start to feel a bit floppy, it can grow surprisingly fast. I have one I statted about two years ago from a leaf. it is now about 2 feet or aprroximately 50 cebtuineters high. with a stem at the soil level as big as my ring finger.
I water the Jades only once the soil goes dry, this can be every day or two in the summer, but in the winter I water very little and usually just mist the tree ans soil. If you soak the soil in winter, it may not dry out for a month and the roots could rot. I put a little bit of fertilizer in the water when I am misting or watering. Just a pinch of 20-20-20 powdered fertilizer.
Merry Christmas Nigel and fans!
Thank you very much and have a merry Christmas too!
Thank you for the advice and lesson.. your hairstyle is exactly how i want the my bonsai to be
I've been growing jades since the mid-70s, always from single leaves with great success. They really are the best idiot-proof plant there is!
They are really awesome plants and great for bonsai! You must have some really nice ones by now!
@@TheBonsaiZone Yes Nigel, and this hobbit jades are especially good for bonsai. I like them more than the regulars with oval leaves. What about you? Which one do you prefer?
Both you and I looked like "Wind Swept Jades" today, very windy in Rolling Meadows, IL. So happy you made a follow up video on your previous years creations / forests 💚 Watched a few times, including commercials!!
Thank you Veronica, I'm really happy with the Jade bonsai forest, I wonder what it will look like years from now?
@@TheBonsaiZone With your Vision & Creativity I beleive Amazing and Thriving.
Merry Christmas Nigel (and all Bonsai lovers). As always, a nice and interesting video.
Thank you, it was a long one, but hopefully people have time to watch it over the holidays!
@@TheBonsaiZone Good videos cannot be long enough ;)
The Jade forests are fantastic. Have a lovely Christmas. Looking forward to all your 2020 projects!
Thank you Margaret, I have a good project for this winter, I'm finally going to make my miniature benches to hold a collection of micro bonsai!
Hey Nigel, please don't un-wind-sweep your amazingly unique windswept jade
It's awesome
Thanks, it does look very unique, I'll have to think about it!
Good video friend!!! a merry christmas from Rome
Thank you and merry Christmas!
Merry Christmas Nigel! Years ago I also bought a GoPro for my research. I wanted to measure the speed of running lizards (yep!) and GoPro was the cheapest camera that was able to record at high speeds.
Very interesting and a good choice of a camera!
Older large Jades will always have a special place with me!! If you can pair that gopro with the app, you can change from wide angle to standard and change other settings like resolution etc.
Thanks H & R, I'll give it a try!
It’s not a Nigel video without the rooster 🐓letting us know.
“So there he goes” !!
Merry Christmas 🎁 🎄 from the far wet left coast. We’ll be budding out here soon enough. 🤣
Not fair, just not fair! Merry Christmas and happy growing Neil!
Love the a GoPro. Thanks and Merry Christmas.🎄
Thank you Matt, the Go Pro is a great little camera, and you can buy the older ones for a really good price now!
That go pro footage of the ficus microcarpa (correct if I butchered it.) made it look like a huge ancient tree from the heart of a rainforest.
Thank you Joshua, it's a great camera for getting up close to your trees!
I was just wondering about the jade forest too funny. Thanks and Merry Christmas to you and your family
Thanks you Trevor, you too, have a great new year also!
Love your plantroom... thank you for showing us around. I can see it really is your pride and joy. Fantastic way to live.
Merry Christmas to you and the family. I hope you have a really good Christmas and a safe New Years. All the best Nigel and thankyou for all you do for the love of Bonsai.
Thank you Bob, all the best to you too! 2020 will be a fun and busy year ahead!
Merry Christmas Nigel. Another good video. I know now, I can prune my Jade now in Dec.
Yes, just keep it on the dry side and in a bright window.
Just here to wish you a merry christmas from the Netherlands. Thank you for all the awsome videos.
Thank you Bart, merry Christmas!
Beautiful tree and forest👍👍👍
Go pro are neat! I kind of like that wind swept look actually LOL Merry Christmas to you and your family, cats and ducks and chickens and everyone :)
Thank you Marysol, have a great Christmas and a happy new year too!
a minature roadrunner would look great in that Jade forest :-)
Yes, that would be perfect!
I'm excited to see what you come up with using the GoPro. It should provide us with some great views of your work. I'll be staying tuned to see what's next.
Thank you Dave, I returned the borrowed Go Pro, but I'll hopefully be getting one in the future for more cool shots!
I love the windswept trees...tbe two of them follow the same graceful line, giving the perfect weighted triangle. Definately classic.
Thank you, I'll keep this technique in mind for future development and maybe some day a show!
About a year ago, I was looking around in a local nursery when I found a very overgrown jade in the back of the jade section. I ended buying it for $10, and after repotting the largest growth, it began thriving! I gave it to my mom.
It's good it found a good home!
Also, the gopro view was great! It really felt like I was walking through a giant jade forest.
Merry Christmas 🎄 Nigel and bonsai enthusiasts
Thank you Brian, have a great holiday season!
I like the go pro idea. It's almost like you are there looking up at it.
Thanks Shawn, more GoPro stuff to come!
Nice plantings in that jade forest , n yes single jade plant is also very nice 👌👌
Thank you Mangesh, it will be interesting to see the trees develop!
@@TheBonsaiZone certainly, looking forward for more videos as these plants develop 👍👍
I've been wanting one of those jade trees for a few years now. Very cool. I could picture US walking among the desert and getting in the shade under your jade forest😃. Hope you have a great Christmas. As always keep up the great work and can't wait till the next one.👍
Thank you, the forest gives me that feeling every time I look at it!
Hi Nigel! Your jade bonsaï are my favorite, even though some people don’t think they are real bonsaï. I was wondering what was the best way to help jade getting bigger. Big or small pot? And how about the pruning? I sometimes read that the leaves gives strength to the three. I also read that the branches gives strength to the trees. On the other hand, I read that pruning gives strength to the trees and that removing unwanted branches helps the jade tree grow. What is real among what I’ve read? Thanks for helping me!
The more leaves the plant has the faster it will grow. If you want a tree to thicken up the quickest, just leave it grow, however you may be sacrificing the shape of the tree while you do this. Most trees that are grown to be a bonsai are allowed to grow about 6 sets of leaves and then they are pruned back to the first or second set, depending on the direction of them. Pruning will create more branching that will eventually give you a nice crown on the tree. When you get a good dense crown the tree will have lots of leaves for photosynthesis and your tree will grow healthy and with vigor.
I love these long videos; can finally get stuck in now the house has quietened down after a wonderful family gathering... So Here I Go!
I hope you enjoyed my long holiday video in peace! It can get very hectic during the holidays and it's nice to have some quiet time!
That view up into the serissa is reeeeaaaally nice!
Thank you, it's a shot that would be hard to get unless you use a small camera!
It's my favorite! And the Guava.. I'm going to try to plant seeds myself.
I'm a bit late, but I hope you and your family had a great Christmas!
Among other presents, I got my first Bonsai scissors. Now I just need more trees to work on.
I also wish you and all the other Bonsai enthusiasts here all the best for 2020!
Thank you Lukas, I hope you had a great holiday season and I wish you a happy new year!
Thank you very much, Nigel. Happy new year!
I'm looking forward to your 2020 Bonsai Zone!
Hi Nigel, made them look all beautiful and "together" again...great job! Wishing you and yours a Wonder-full Christmas and if not seen before the end of 2019, a Great Green 2020!! 🌛🌕🌜👍🎄💖🎉
Thank you Karin, hopefully it will be a white Christmas and a green year ahead, both for the trees and the world!
Wow, Im so early! These days I have been looking for jade bonsai and my fav bonsai youtuber just uploaded un update
A nice long video for the holidays!
that's a great bit of content really appreciate the effort u take to teach us the craft, as always excited for next update BIG THUMBS UP AND SHARE UR CONTENT
Thank you very much, I'm glad you liked it!
Merry Christmas dada
Thank you, merry Christmas and a happy new year! See you in 2020!
I like them 👍 have a nice Christmas tomorrow
Thank you very much, I hope you have a wonderful Christmas too!
Awesome idea with the GoPro! Though the newer ones have a much better stabilization mode. I recommend getting at least a Hero 5 or higher
Thanks, I'll look around for one!
Enjoyed the "tour" with the GoPro camera. It provides a nice, different perspective. Like the work that you have done on the jades. They look as though they could be found in the desert. Happy Holidays to you and your family.
Thank you Pat, happy holidays to you also! Lots more fun stuff coming up in the new year!
Hi Nigel. I like the windswept jade. It looks unique. Hope you had a great Xmas. Looking forward to more videos soon.
Thanks Angie, it does look very nice! Have a great new year!
Merry Christmas to everybody and Nigel love your families like you love your bonsai ... haven't seen that scary-face 11:37 in a long time ... ",)
The scary face is still there, amazing, have a great Christmas and a happy new year!
Love those big jades, they look very robust with those chunky leaves and the thick trunks!
They do look good and healthy!
Hi Nigel...I use gopro's all the time....you can get add on lenses to bring you closer as the focal length is around 11 inches....there are many lenses if you are not getting close enough....go pro's are perfect to get the whole pic in though :)..I have the 5
Thanks Lee, I really liked using the Go Pro and I think you'll see more of them in the future of the channel! I'll keep playing around with it and I think there is another add on lens in the kit.
Merry Christmas Nigel!!!!
Thank you Chris, I hope you do too!
Yes Merry Christmas!! You are Awesome!
Everything looks amazing! Merry Christmas
Thank you, merry Christmas MO!
Amazing view it gave me the wow effect! I want to say thank you for taking time to show us .... love & enjoy your videos .
Thank you Sherry, I'll have to do some more Go Pro videos in the future!
This Hair:D Einstein of Bonsai :)
Watching from down under (NZ). Enjoyed your videos. I have now two small Jade bonsai/s.. thanks to you!👍
Nice to hear, Jade bonsai can be awesome!
I love the gollum jade. I hope to see mine in an advanced planting someday.
I saw a documentary of African foot hills that had this type of plant. The rocks in the area were very angular and almost black.
Thanks, I'm always looking for shots of Jades in the wild, I have a collection of pictures and many are located near rocky cliff faces. It would be fun making a miniature landscape with them.
Happy christmas Nigel...
Thank you Dinu, I hope you have a wonderful New Year!
Love the go-pro, it makes me feel like I'm in a giant forest in another part of the world or something.
Thanks, I'll work on making them even better!
Very merry Christmas! Thanks for what you do, youre solely responsible for my renewed passion for flora. I used to landscaping, but once i moved to apartments i thought my fun was done. Now i just do mini ones!
Thanks Quinn, I will be doing a lot of super miniature bonsai this winter in a whole series on them with 3D printed pots.
@@TheBonsaiZone oooooo i really like the smallest of things! I have so many tiny pots just waiting for some tiny flora.
Really nice jade.. and you have beautiful bonsai collection
Thank you, I really enjoy working on the trees and watching them grow!
The GoPro lens give a sort of “walleye effect “ not sure if it’s a brand thing or because it is quite an older model. I have never filmed with gopros.
As a last resort....I'll have to read the manual
Merry Christmas from sunny Greece
Thank you, merry Christmas from all of us Saunders!
👍 I've got to find me a little jade tree but so far I've not found any no where. Not even a tiny cutting. Hopefully one day I will find one.
I hope you do, I'm really liking my Jade forest!
Nice vids, next time try with one of the newer go pros like the 8 and the 7 and the stabilisation will be better
Thanks, i'll do that, I do like the GoPro!
Yes It does great close ups it was the first time I saw videos with this angle but the only problem was a bit of the shakiness
Love it
Thanks Quinn!
@@TheBonsaiZone
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My first video! Giant echeveria. I have you to thank, youve inspired most of what i do in this hobby.
I have a 17yr old variegated jade, ive been afraid to trim. It has a grow light, i wouldnt have thought now would be a good time to trim it though. Just bought a fancy camera, to show off some of my fun stuff. Like my echeveria bonsai!
Be sure the soil is almost dry before you prune the Jade bonsai. If you prune off the leaves with wet soil, it could lead to root rot. I hope you start a UA-cam channel, I'd love to see your plants!
@@TheBonsaiZone could i hard prune it at this time?
@@TheBonsaiZone i did it. Certainly much to learn, but feeling good about it. Pretty much have you to thank for all of it. The plants i love, and showing me you can find a community online that might enjoy what i have.
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hi nigel merry christmas and a happy new year to all the family and the cockrells in the background. the gopro you have used is a very old one, still does a great job, but i just bought my daughter a gopro 7 plus black and its fantastic. all the add ons and accs you can buy are endless, the software is brilliant to. you can buy these cameras off ebay or even better amazon which you can return within 31 days of purchase if for any reason your not happy. just a small word of warning, gopro have a gopro 8 plus out, but what they dont tell you is if you scratch or break the cameras lens-window you cannot replace it as you can with all there previous models which just come of with a small turn. they do not repair them, so you are left with a very expensive paper weight. hope this helps you, all the best for 2020 and keep your vids coming.
Thank you Keith, good head up on the 8 plus! More fun stuff coming in 2020.
happy holidays i have had a crassula gollum looking like yours. same issue growing to the window
Many people have commented that they like the windswept look! Have a great new year!
My cup of tea
Mine too, I really like my succulent bonsai, I can't wait to see them develop over the upcoming years!
Love the frog!
Thanks, I saw that at a thrift store and just had to take it home!
Hey Nigel, Merry Christmas! Two questions. Are those Crassula Ovata or portulicaria afra? Also, did you modify your soil mix for these? I've had some portulicaria that have struggled without some organics mixed in to the medium. Thanks for what you do! Happy holidays to you and your family as well as everyone else in the bonsai zone!
Edit: Just realized it's a Gollum. I was watching on my phone while on lunch earlier today.
If the trees are in too crumbly a soil mix, there is always a danger that they could tip over until the roots fill the pot. You may have to water or mist the trees more often in this type of soil as it is very free draining and will dry out faster.You can always add a little organics to the soil until you find the perfect mix. It all depends on the conditions the plant is in, the humidity levels and the light and temperature. Happy holidays!
Merry Christmas Nigel, I hope you and your family (and trees) have a great Christmas.
Thank you, merry Christmas and a happy new year!
When I purchased one of these a couple of years ago they were labeled as "Hobbit Succulent" Didn't realize it was a jade for a while but it ended up just about tripling in size over last summer. Haven't tried to prune it yet, I kind of like the natural look.
Yes, the Hobbit Jades look great even without any pruning!
Go pro looks like life from inside a fish bowl 😂
Yes, it's quite a fish eye lens, I guess there is software to correct this.
Happy holiday season Nigel and good continuity,
I can't wait to see the new greenhouse ...
Thank you, I'll be hard at work on it this spring, it will be so nice having it!
Merry Christmas, Nigel!
Thank you Durand, cool stuff coming, merry Christmas and a happy new year!
Thanks for the courage booster Nigel, my jade looks great again. Been practicing the Lingnan school on my privet and it is just going nuts with new ramification. Happy New year to you and Miss L.
Thanks Jonathan, good to hear your Jade and Privet are doing well! Have a great new year!
Fijne kerst Nigel en Familie !
Bedankt, prettige kerstdagen en een gelukkig nieuwjaar voor iedereen!
I periodically rotate my jades to prevent the windswept look
Good idea, mine is rather bizarre looking!
wow thats cool
Merry Christmas Nigel!
Thank you Owen, have a happy new year!
Nice Christmas Nigel !
Thank you, merry Christmas!
Can you see if you can do a multi stem jade bonsai I am about to get a sunset jade plant
To be honest, I personally think the Canon does a better job 95% of the time, but I guess this GoPro isn't the newest model. On some "inside the forest" close-up scenes the GoPro might be fun to use, but other than that, I think the Canon does it's job very well.
Thanks, Lukas, yes the Canon will be my main camera, but I might use the Go Pro as an additional camera for special uses.
The GoPro has such a distortion in the image, especially near the borders, that it makes viewing quite uncomfortable.
Thanks Scott!
Merry Christmas nigel great video, I also have jades they are my favourite bonsai...
Merry Christmas Mike, I can't wait to see them develop over the upcoming years! I hope they get that nice silver bark!
@@TheBonsaiZone how can I send you a picture of them nigel...
Christmas was great ,but back to work tomorrow I am a bus driver before that I was a baker for 16 years ..hope you and your family had a nice Christmas .will you be starting to build your greenhouse in spring .....
Hey you could do a windswept bonsai nice idea and easy to do
Hi 👋 love your Jades!!! What is the potting mixture that you use, please, thank you!
Hey Nigel, I’m a big fan of your videos I have the same go pro you used in this video I’ve had it for a long time and have no need for it anymore, I know you would put it to good use (all it does right now is collect dust) , if you want it let me know and I could send it to you, I would love for you to have it !
Hello Jai, that would be fantastic! A really nice addition to the Bonsai Zone! Here is my email and I'll send you my address.
thekwbonsaisociety@gmail.com
Thank you so much!!!
Nigel
Noooooo!!!
Windswept Jade! Windswept Jade Please!
#WorldsFirst
*Edit* nice camera angles. .. nice camera.
Thank you Trevor, I'll try and balance the design and then go for the windswept look, it does look very cool!
@@TheBonsaiZone you the man!
Hi Nigel!. Ive been. Into bonsai for 5 mnths now n loving every second of it! Any possibility you would consider making a video about fertilising bonsai. I noticed your bonsai soil looks like perlite and it shouldnt have much nutrients... What type of fertiliser do you use on evergreens, conifers, deciduous, outdoor, indoor, flower blossom, fruit, succulent, bonsai and seedlings and why we should use fertiliser in non nutrient rich potting mediums. Homemade or purchased fertilisers. How to make and how to use the fertilisers (Liquid or solid, slow release or instant fertilisers.) When to use fertiliser for different tree species, 1-3 year seedlings and repotted bonsai... Schedule fertilising? or fertilise whenever?, Seasonal fertilising?... You would also need to be working on one or more of your beautiful bonsai in the video as you explain your fertilising techniques, reasons... Thanks for another great video!
Hello TCTO, I have a video on watering and fertilizing here and also one for indoor watering....
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I see a micro drone in your future ;-)
Yes, they keep making them better and better!
Merry Christmas to you and your family
Nigel .. how are you all
Thank you, all is well here, have a merry Christmas and a happy new year! Lots more to come in 2020!
In all the years ive followed you ive never seen the plant room lol
It's not as big as it looks on video!
@@TheBonsaiZone yeah but dinomite comes in small boxes! Lol would be intresting to work out how old collectively the tree age is in there
Interesting test shots with the Go-pro. The overhead views were particularly good. Seems like it would be a useful and fun video making tool to have. ~ One possible way to create a subtle, non-distracting landscape for the forest would be to have a wash. A wash is a ribbon of exposed gravel cut into the surface of a desert floor by run off from a cloud burst. A minimal amount of pumice and / or very fine gravel placed into a slight indentation in the soil could be used to create the barest suggestion of a wash. ~ Happy Holidays to you and yours - from the land of Giant Jades ! - John
Awesome idea, I'll look up this feature and try it out! Thanks John, great idea!
mojavedesert.net/desert-habitats/desert-wash.html
Neat!
Thanks Holly!
Hello Sir, I actually grow a variety of things from seeds... wisteria, apple, lemon etc I know they may not be good for fruiting trees for some years but I was thinking as bonsai material they might do good. Would you have any advice on how I might be able to possibly sell my growings off to bonsai makers maybe? Or if it would benefit me to maybe try and contact some bonsai groups locally? I'm not asking how to sell so much as if it would be a good idea to try and contact some of these groups locally to me? I don't want to unduly harass any group of people with a solicitation if it would just be bothersome and unneeded....I don't really know if Bonsai creators would welcome or be irritated by my "offer" to them if there's no real need to the service I would be suggesting. Thank you!
Edit: Merry Christmas Eve~
There is always a market for pre bonsai material. If the seedlings are well cared for and the roots are nice and radial and the tree is developed to the point of looking like a tree, you can get good money for them. I have found that very few people are willing to pay for something that looks like an ordinary plant,.It would be best to join a bonsai club and see what members are buying and what they are willing to pay for them. Try and build a relationship with the club, supplying them with trees for demos and work shops.
@@TheBonsaiZone Thank you so much! I don't even really care about a "sale" per sey. I grow stuff because it's fun and I enjoy doing so but became worried when I realised one day i'm going to have 20 non fruiting apple *trees*....I wanted a plan I guess. I don't want to deliberately kill something I grew, granted for no reason, but if there was a need for them I'd rather see them live than die. A profit of some form would be cool but I'd donate them rather than see them die first. If nothing else it's comforting to know I can call a Bonsai training course or something and know they would probably welcome free martial.
I'm a weird emohippypagan who thinks it's sacrilege to kill a tree if it could live otherwise.
Is there no problem pruning these in winter rather than in spring, considering the limited amount of light they will get in the coming months?
You have to keep the soil on the dry side and give the plant as much sun or light as you can. As long as you don't soak the soil, it should do well!
You should get the probe lens for that kind of stuff
I checked them out, really expensive, but you can get some really unique shots!
I got a jade at my nearby nursery and I keep it on my windowsill someone closed the shade and one of the main branches on jade is barely hanging on and a lot of soil fell out 😬
I would place some large stones around the Jade to prop it up until it begins to support itself again.
Love the Canada arm, you should try mounting the Go pro to it or add a second arm for a 🎥 camera! Merry Christmas!
Good ideas Laura, I'll keep playing around with the GoPro, it's really a fun camera!
I really like this planting and remember when you created it. I really like to work on crassula ovata. As I saw your video last year, I knew i had to get some crassula ovata gollum, too. And guess what... I got one at our vacation last summer. This winter it's time make some cuttings and flood the house with gollum just like it's alreadfy full of the regular crassula ovata. By the way. The name you use "Jade" always irritates me, cause in our country "Jade" stands for Portulacaria afra. We call crassula ovata translated "Moneytree" or "Pennytree" but I know you use the name "Moneytree" for another species. Luckily we have the latin names! Merry Christmas Nigel! .... playful as you are, I am really astounded that you didn't hang some Christmas baubles into your trees....
Thank you Basti, it just seems like yesterday the Crassula forest was put together, time flies when you are having fun!
Here in Canada crassula ovata is jade and portulacaria afra is elephant bush. It doesnt really matter though, common names are silly and often create confusion with all their overlap.
Merry Christmas and Happy New Year. Hope you have a good and safe holiday.
Could you share what soil mix your jades are in. I have several and would like to improve them and maybe make a forest like that.
Stay well.
Hello Scott, i am using a 50/50 mix of perlite and turface, the perlite is Miracle grow and the turface is sold as Safetysorb. I sift the ingredients to remove the dust and fine particles to get a final size of 3 to 4mm (1/8")
I mist the jades twice a day and am careful not to wet the soil too much. I keep the Jades outside in the summer, but they go under cover when it rains as to not mess up the watering cycle of watering thoroughly and then letting the soil dry out. I add a small pinch of fertilizer in the water every time I water, even in the winter. In the summer I can water almost every second day, but in the winter I just mist the trees and water very lightly. If you soak the soil in winter and you get a week of cloudy weather, the soil will stay wet and your roots may rot.
Nigel Saunders, The Bonsai Zone Thank you for the info. I will try that mixture. Be blessed and continue the Great vids!
hey nigel, I dont know what software u use to edit, but if its premiere pro or after effects theres an effect called warp stabilize.
when used right this can remove alot if shake from the footage!
Thanks, I tried it out, but it just made the footage even more dizzy looking!
@@TheBonsaiZone make sure to fiddle with the setting, as often a lower % leads to better outcomes, when footage is extremely shakey trying to salvage it trough this method just wont work. hope youll get it to be usefull sometimes :)
If you give your jade a spacious pot and water only when the leaves start to feel a bit floppy, it can grow surprisingly fast. I have one I statted about two years ago from a leaf. it is now about 2 feet or aprroximately 50 cebtuineters high. with a stem at the soil level as big as my ring finger.
Amazing, they can really take off once you get a strong root system!
Nigel took inspiration from star wars 9 and got the GoPro out happy days
I haven't see episode 9 yet, but I am going soon, it may be the last one for a long time!
How often do you find yourself having to water these jades in the soil you use? How much food also?
I water the Jades only once the soil goes dry, this can be every day or two in the summer, but in the winter I water very little and usually just mist the tree ans soil. If you soak the soil in winter, it may not dry out for a month and the roots could rot. I put a little bit of fertilizer in the water when I am misting or watering. Just a pinch of 20-20-20 powdered fertilizer.