Pruning for the Future on My Chinese Elm, The Bonsai Zone, May 2023
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- Опубліковано 25 лис 2024
- I'm pruning my Chinese Elm (Ulmus parvifolia) for the second time. I'm taking it way back in hopes of creating a nice basic structure that I can grow into a larger tree in the future. This tree was from a Tropical Expressions workshop!
For previous videos of my Chinese Elm bonsai, click on the playlist here...
• Chinese Elm from Workshop
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A very nice meditative 35 minutes of unhurried pruning.... thank you Nigel!
Yes I'm listening to try and calm my nerves 😂 It's been a week! And it's only Tuesday 🤣
i love elms because you can do this kind of pruning and give it a new shape pretty quickly
Nigel is like the “Bob Ross “ of bonsai🤙🏽🤘🏽👊🏽 thanks for the chill ride Nigel👊🏽
You and those scissors😮
Lol haha
Not much left after that pruning. Setting up the primary branch structure takes skill and confidence. Well done
Thanks for the recap, a lovely tree. Great work 👍 chinnese elm cuttings root incredibly, I know of no other tree that roots so vigorously and uniformly radial 💚
How exciting! Love Chinese Elms. Yours has a great structure. Looking forward to future episodes with this bonsai.
Evening Nigel. Mike from Mikes bonsai nursery in Maine, USA. 6:06
Amazing job Nigel thats really set-up well. Your "big cut coming up" always makes me smile.
Nice work on the Chinese Elm. Keeping the tree to one and planting the others was a nice idea. Great little tutorial.
I hope they all do well!!
Nice little elm. I am now wishing I should have taken more time pruning my youngster and taping it. Many views already!
Thanks Jelle, yes it seems many people have Chinese Elms. I really took this one back today, hopefully it will become a nice tree some day!!
Enjoy your content, many thanks 💛
Thank you so very much for this video. It was therapeutic
Thanks John!!
The timing of this tree could not be more perfect. I’ve got a crap tree from a nursery and I’m trying to build it from scratch. I’m still waiting for the new growth to harden off, but you’ve given me some fantastic insight and a few clues to how I’m going to take care of my little fella
Sure do appreciate you, good sir.
Nice taking care of Xin's plants while he is on vacation.
I hope he likes the work I'll be doing to them!!
@@TheBonsaiZone With your skills, he will like it. I know I would.
Lovely pruning!! Ty for the tips!
I am so glad you put this video up.... I am doing broom style on mine
Very nice! Seems like great days ahead! I had to rush my last work and video as things weren't going as planned LOL I forgot so much stuff in the video. Our frost safe day is full moon in June. We are still going below zero some nights. I haven't even started my Bonsai shuffle yet. I enjoy your videos the way you talk everything through. It's very helpful!
Thanks Marysol, we are going close to freezing tonight, all the tropicals need protection, so I'll put them in the greenhouse for the night!
Thanks.
Hi there enjoyed the video and I would love to have any Chinese elm cuttings. Thank you
Thanks Becky!
around 4 hrs a day watering all your trees, have you considered an outdoor watering system? I know it cant be used during winter, or when its freezing outside but it could be a big help during the heat in summer :)
I like to use rain water, I could use a pump and a drip system, but it would take a lot to set it all up. Maybe something worth doing!!
I was quite surprised how much you cut it back
Do you ever do the straight trunk Chinese Elm?
Big fan if your videos!
I have previously got myself a chinese elm, it was from a plant store and no shaping or styling has been done, how hard can I prune it back and root prune?
Thank you for any help or advice! :)
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I have about 6 branches.. there is one I might cut off... we will see around july.. there is one I gotta let run to thicken but got a pretty good start
Is the top of that tree grafted? I’ve stared at it for about 20 minutes and still cannot tell lol
Very nice meditation watching you work your magic. The last time I hard pruned my Chinese Elm like that, it died within a month. Now, I stagger the prunings over several weeks on my elms. Is 2023 the year that you thin out your herd of bonsai trees??
I hope this one does well, I don't think I'll be giving any trees away, but the plan is not to get any more new ones!
Unlikely that the pruning killed it, had to be something else. You can chop them down to soil level and they shoot every time.
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Hello!!
Yesterday only I pruned my Chinese Elm. But my plants wont grow fastly or vigorously like your plants, even though I'm from tropicalIndia region. What might be the reasons???
Could be a variety of reasons. Might be too much shade, too much light, not enough water or too much water. Or maybe a bad soil medium. Try putting your finger in the soil. If you can't put your finger in the soil is too compact. If it's wet, don't water it. If it's dry water it. You can try looking at your leaves and if "floppy" then it's usually a watering issue. If the edges of the leaves are crispy or you notice spots of discolouration that could imply sunstesss or not enough light.
Another reason might be getting root bound, or root rot. An emergency repot may be in order.
Overall I'd say learn as much as you can about that particular species of tree and it'll teach you a lot about making it grow healthy and vigorous ❤
@@Stettafire thanks for these information. I'll check the points you've suggested :)
What happened to the other cutting that you took from this tree and made a cascade? Did it make it?
No, it slowly withered away. I did get many successful cuttings from the tree though!
Hi Nigel. I just got a chinese elm for a big box store. It's indoors until the warmer temps come along. I was wondering when the best time to do root work would be? Could I do it now or should I want until fall?
If the tree looks healthy, I'd hold off on the repotting, but if you do repot, try and keep the root pruning to almost none, just replace the soil and the pot if they don't look good. Spring is the best time for repotting after a cool winter!
@@TheBonsaiZone Thanks so much Nigel! The tree looks very healthy and has started putting out some new growth (probably from being under my lights and in the warm house).
Hi Nigel. My Elm is shedding all its leaves, its Winter in Australia (Almost)
Is that normal?
Ask Sam ( Aussie Bonsai Bloke) ✌️
What is your substrat mix for the seedlings?
I use my usual bonsai mix, 1/2 perlite and 1/2 clay particles.
Thank you! @@TheBonsaiZone
naturalistic ? broom ?
Do you think elms benefit from sacrifice branches or do they thicken rapidly enough where its not necessarily needed? I have one single siberian elm growing from seed its about 9 months old. Next year its going into a large shallow box for 4 or 5 years and allowed to escape the pot. It will get trunk chopped the entire time. I want it to be around 25-30 inches tall.
that should fatten up very repidly
@Growing Bonsai by Jelle I hope you are right! Currently, it's in a 6-inch net pot, and it's seems to be growing slow. honestly, that could be just my impatience. Bonsai has helped with that bit of me, but sometimes it rears its ugly little head lol.
@@chasingthefish9042 maybe allow it to grow more. Fertilize, sun, water. And siberian elm should explode
¿can you use a hose connected to a pump to water your trees on the benches? it would take 10 minutes to water all of them
I find the hose uses too much rainwater, it would still take quite a while to water them all!
@@TheBonsaiZone you could place all your trees on big plastic trays and the leftover water would fall oin a bucket to get reused, but if you prefeer expend 4 hours daily watering and you enjoy it, i'ts you time.
Excellent improvement if I remember wrong this tree was sort of "industrialised" when you acquired it and not so natural but now you got it in the right direction.
Yes, this was a typical S shaped commercial bonsai!!
Your pruning is like playing chess
Yes, you always have to wait for the tree to finish it's move!!!
nice pruning, but looks naked.