My personal opinion is that the trees and landscape should be seen as one unit. Nature means trees, moss,stones ... You are really a grandmaster in Bonsai and landscaping. I am a fan for years
I watched The Bonsai Bloke sit on one similar and spin his arse around on it. So I'm sure the larch is good and safe Nigel. Adrian makes them as strong as they are beautiful. Great video, can't wait to see the rest of the trees to come across the new toy.
Thanks Trevor, I bet Sam had fun spinning! I really like the new turntable, it made pruning the forest so much easier this weekend, how did I ever make do without it?
indeed, Spinning Tree* turntables are the cats meow - watched Sam introduce them - the professionalism is great & is amazing how much weight they can take. 3D pots are super cool; hope they work out. Your Larch forest looks like a million bucks; thanks for the exciting & daunting adventures, Nigel; Peace!
My favorite bonsai/forest of yours. Looking fantastic. That turntable looks a lot like Aussie Bonsai Bloke’s. Spring is right around the corner now, then the fun really begins. Thanks
Thank you Matt, after a three day snowstorm, spring is coming here once again! Yes the turntable is a "Spinning Tree Bonsai Turntable" made by Adrian. It was a very special gift and a very useful one!
Hey Nigel, forest is looking good. I think you got as excited as Sam did with his turntable and sign,! Like kids at Xmas, you did give me a laugh. Adrian did a great job, I know you'll use it over and over. Enjoy.!
It's an amazing present and I can't believe how well it handles the large forest! We just had a big snow storm last night,, I have so much work to do before spring that I'm in no hurry.
Nigel... I loved this video... lots of work on your pots, forest and moss details!! The rocks are an added bonus’!! The truck is looking really good .. can’t wait to see you driving it in the gardens!!!!
It is always a pleasure to watch your work. A very nice design. Also how you perceive the subtleties (like at 40:50 with the root). Just perfect. You can be very proud of this design.
This forrest reminds me of the mixed beech and pine forrests we have in germany. And it is completely covered by lots of moss. I also like to lie on the moss in the Summer and sometimes in autumn when searching for mushrooms 😊 Good work Nigel
Your Larch forest and landscape is incredibly real. You've given the design a lot of depth. Off to the forest I go to fill my soul. It is a place of rest. Your enthusiasm is really inspiring. I wonder how old this forest is as I hadn't watched your programming for quite a while.
seeing your plantroom always brightens my mood.. i can only imagine how you feel when you're inside. btw adrian, good to see you supporting two of the best bonsai channels :D
Great video! 3D printed pots, amazing turn table! Amazing forest! Great.... about the polemic discussion on plastic pots, I may say that I am very interesting on them because of the light weight, price and they work really fine... also, if one considers the impact of mass production ceramic pots plastic will sounds really ecofriendly.
I have tried some in the past and they can look really good if you find the right dead tree! I'll keep trying different ideas for the landscape to improve the realism. Thanks Don!
So when do those turntables go on sale, have you signed a product licensing deal yet? Anyway a quick larch question. We have had a warm winter down here and as a result most of my American larches started to open their buds. Then we had a return to colder weather so the bud popping stalled. So the question is have you run into this before with your larches and do you think this means I should not do any repotting and root work on them now? They have been in the current soil and pots for about a year and some really do need to be moved up to larger pots with more soil and root space. However I don’t want to kill them. Maybe for those in smaller pots I’ll just slip pot them into bigger pots and hope for a colder winter next year to keep them asleep longer. Thanks for the videos and great advice-Larry
The turntable is a one off gift from Adrian, but I believe he will make a custom one for everyone! The Larches might need some protection to save the needles that are already coming out. The new needles can survive some light frost, but need protection from cold drying winds. If they die off, the Larch will usually recover and more buds will emerge. It may be better to re pot them in a more normal spring (if there is such a thing!) I would rake out the roots and only do a light root pruning to help the tree retain enough energy to recover from this strange weather.
Great video Nigel, that would be fantastic a video about sharpening your bonsai tools, because I really need to find out how to sharpen my bypass pruners and my scissors 😁👍🏻
Goodness gracious, I love that forest! That turntable is fantastic! Looks very sturdy, well made. The pots are neat and the truck is coming along! Oh... You're looking great too Nigel! :D
I'd happily spend time in your larch forest Nigel, looks stunning! Hopefully some birds will join me in my lay around.....that be the best 😊 pots are also coming together nicely and the truck teaser was most welcome too,.....patiently awaiting part 4 (is it ready yet? lol) 💖😊👍💖
I always enjoy your bonsai videos Nigel, I live in North Florida and grow Bald Cypress which are native here. I have several forests breaking buds for Spring growth.
I'm going to have to get a Bald Cypress, one fellow in the Toronto club has been growing one in Canada for about 15 years! He overwinters it outside, but heavily mulched into the ground.
The group looks great. The moss shaping was very interesting, too. I don't think I've seen such well rounded moss before. The turntable looked fantastic and very helpful, and the 3D printed pots looked very promising, too. The two seedlings were also very nice. I wish I would find such seedlings in the garden. But since I usually don't, so collected some seeds from my nearby park and I also got some online (I made a more detailled comment about that in Part 1). I'll sow those in March and I hope they'll do well. I wonder if you have any tips on successfully growing seeds and things like where to make the first cuts on the young trees. I think you got that "From Seeds to Bonsai" board in your plant room. I have to say, I'd love to learn more about that. The scissor sharpening lesson you mentioned sounded very interesting, too. Anyways, I'm looking forward to Part 4!
The turntable if great, must make your work a lot easier. I’ve used an old office chair with the seat removed and a piece of thick plywood bolted to the base. (An idea from Peter Chan At Herons Bonsai). Your larch forest is amazing, the moss I’ve used on mine keeps getting thrown off by the birds at the moment.
Thank you Margaret, I'm hoping to meet Peter Chan this summer! Birds love my moss too, it seems the better looking the moss, the more chances of it getting removed!
Nigel Saunders, The Bonsai Zone I hope you get to meet Peter and hopefully record the meeting! That would be an amazing video. My two favourite Bonsai masters together at once. I’ve never been to Herons, it’s a bit too far from Manchester, but I would love to visit there one day.
What accent, Eh? Funny to hear I have an accent, many Canadian actors are used in movies because the accent is somewhere between an English accent and a Southern American accent, it's sort of neutral I guess.
The prices you mention on 3D Printers are crazy high. I have an Ender-3 that cost below 200$ and it can easily print finer lines then the one you have used for these pots! Worth checking out!
Canadian prices are always a bit higher, the Ender 3 is 305 dollars here, still a fantastic price. thanks! I'm going to get a 3D printer, I just can't choose one!
Ive been looking into getting a 3D printer for about 2 yrs now. Prices have dropped significantly! I could use one for all my hobbies lol. From printing ant nests and tarantulas hides, to bonsai pots! And Nigel, love the length of this one. Thats the first thing I look at when a new vid of yours comes up haha. 30+ mins and im happy. Till the next vid.....
I watched the video for the second time, to get more details as you can do in a good movie... At the end more than of 2 hours lost my mind in The Bonsai Zone 🤣
Hi Nigel, quick question for ya. I got a root rake with a kit and the forks are sharp and I feel it just tears roots so I've been using a chopstick instead. Your root rake looks like it has softer, dull forks more like a chopstick. Would you be willing to share where you got yours? Thanks for all you do! Your passion for bonsai is invigorating! You also have a great eye for your landscapes! Take care!
Hello Sean, I got the root rake at a second hand store 25 years ago. I've never seen another like it. I'm hoping to make a 3D model of it soon so people can 3D print it either in brass or a tough type plastic. I'll be sure to post a video.
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you may look up some material guides. pla is known to break down in moisture and sunlight. paint very well may be a good solution to that. petg may be worth looking into. I do a lot of 3d printing, and have seen pla break down in these circumstances. You would likely get a year or 2 out of an untreated pla pot though.
Thanks Alec, yes the PLA tends to distort in the hot sun, I will be printing all my pots using nGen plastic from Colorfab hopefully in the future. I have several pots made from nGen and they have stood up to everything over the last three years!
@@TheBonsaiZone That is great to know! I'll have to print some pots with that material now. Really hopping that 3d printing helps me keep down my pottery costs I the future.
If the trees are native to your region, why do you have to keep them in the basement? don't they stand the winter outside?whn i was young i had an olive tree and was outside all year around, here in Spain they are used to be both in the cold and hot.
The trees are very hardy, but our winters can go down to -37 C, this is very cold for a plant in a pot. I have kept them outside for the winter in the past, but it is better to keep them around the freezing point in my unheated basement. If the trees were in the ground, keeping them outside would be no problem, but we get so many rabbits here, they would get chewed up.
I love this forest! it looks very beautiful, natural, multivariate, mysterious... I also admire your attention to details and imagination: creating all paths, passages, hiding/secret places - superb! I can relate to it in 100% Just my thought: you may try to put some vertical stone (dark one) on the left side of the forest, where path is turning. Personally I would test vertical one - not very high though. It would give some more dramatic wall-like structure to hide turning path. Make it disappear more. Some vertical stone on top of that hill would be interesting as well. And, there are 3 stones on the front next to the lip of the pot - I would remove 2 of them. They look too much symmetrical positioned (one line). This is just my suggestions but since I can't test in in person I am not sure if it would works. Anyway, I love to collect stones since childhood and use them in bonsai landscapes. Keep us updates about this lovely forest! Cheers!
Thank you, great to hear your thought! The landscape under went some big changes today, check them out in the soon to be posted part 4! I like your ideas, I'm hoping to find some good rocks to try out and improve the look into the future!
You have quite a large following. You know what, you should try your hand at making custom clay/glazed bonsai pots for your older more valuable gardens and sign the pots. Would be neat.
Some are printed with PLA. The PLA ones seem to last about 3 years of normal bonsai use. The better plastic to use is nGen from ColorFab. It is holding up really well and should last a lifetime. colorfabb.com/filaments/co-polyesters-filaments/ngen
Nigel Saunders, The Bonsai Zone I have wondered of the outside longevity of pla, given its eventual biodegradable nature, I had thought of give8ng them a couple of coats of the smooth on resin that’s intended for smoothing to effectively seal the pla, then paint for uv protection. I’ve not tried the ngen stuff yet, I’ll have to get a reel and see how it goes :)
I try and re pot at least every 3 years if the tree is growing well. If you are refining a tree and not allowing it to grow wild, you can re pot less often. Generally the top growth mirrors the root growth, so if the top have grown a lot then so have the roots!
The forest is looking great so far, that was a lot of moss to carve around ! Really nice to look at the branch structure before the new spring growth. The turn table looks sharp and appears to spin good, what a job ! The printed pots are coming along nicely, I might look at printing one sometime.
I have! I actually scanned a rock on the 3D scanner and created a model from it. I haven't tried printing it yet, but that will be coming! The rock should be very light weight, something I need to consider as I get older!
@@TheBonsaiZone It's similar to a knife I use for PLA, it's really the best and maybe only way to fix some abnormalities. So I hope it helps you smoothing things out!
Warning to all my Bonsai friends. There is a poster called Trap Taps with a black and white avatar. Do not go to their channel. I have been warned that they are stealing profiles. Taping on the avatar is all they need.
I publish all the pot 3D files on Thingiverse, you can download them for free. I only have two pots on there, but more will be coming! www.thingiverse.com/search?q=nigel+saunders&dwh=845e5bee53be533
My personal opinion is that the trees and landscape should be seen as one unit. Nature means trees, moss,stones ...
You are really a grandmaster in Bonsai and landscaping. I am a fan for years
Thank you Tobias, I think you are correct, all elements should balance in harmony!
1 hour and 9 minutes hanging out in the plant room 🌲🌳🌱🌿
The Bonsai Zone goes everywhere today!
Fantastic turntable Adrian!
Nigel, you sounded genuinely delighted and put a big smile on my face 😊
Thank you Kate, I'm still smiling to this day!
I watched The Bonsai Bloke sit on one similar and spin his arse around on it. So I'm sure the larch is good and safe Nigel. Adrian makes them as strong as they are beautiful. Great video, can't wait to see the rest of the trees to come across the new toy.
Thanks Trevor, I bet Sam had fun spinning! I really like the new turntable, it made pruning the forest so much easier this weekend, how did I ever make do without it?
Hi Trevor, that was hilarious 😂 thank you
Glad you are enjoying your turntable Nigel😀
Regards
Adrian Eggleton
Spinning Tree Bonsai Turntables
We share in your excitement over the turntable!! Just splendid work! 🌟
How did I ever mange without it? It was so helpful this weekend!
My favorite tree of all is your larch forest, it’s magically
beautiful!!!!!!
Love that gorgeous turntable.
Me too, such a nice present from Adrian!
The Forest path is poetic and real
indeed, Spinning Tree* turntables are the cats meow - watched Sam introduce them - the professionalism is great & is amazing how much weight they can take. 3D pots are super cool; hope they work out. Your Larch forest looks like a million bucks; thanks for the exciting & daunting adventures, Nigel; Peace!
Thank you HUD.. regards Adrian
Spinning Tree Bonsai Turntables
Thank you Hud, I can't wait to work on the next spinning tree!
My favorite bonsai/forest of yours. Looking fantastic. That turntable looks a lot like Aussie Bonsai Bloke’s. Spring is right around the corner now, then the fun really begins. Thanks
It looks a lot similar because it’s been made by the same guy, Adrian. Expanding his customers base out of Australia I guess. 😀
Thank you Matt & Pat 👍
Regards
Adrian Eggleton
Spinning Tree Bonsai Turntables
Thank you Matt, after a three day snowstorm, spring is coming here once again! Yes the turntable is a "Spinning Tree Bonsai Turntable" made by Adrian. It was a very special gift and a very useful one!
WONDERFUL work on your larch landscape
Hey Nigel, forest is looking good. I think you got as excited as Sam did with his turntable and sign,! Like kids at Xmas, you did give me a laugh. Adrian did a great job, I know you'll use it over and over. Enjoy.!
It's an amazing present and I can't believe how well it handles the large forest! We just had a big snow storm last night,, I have so much work to do before spring that I'm in no hurry.
Turn table is a solid pcs of art work. i like it n great winter work i am excited to see when those trees turn green...
Thank you Mehmet, a great turntable and I'll definitely update the forest for spring!
Precioso .....me encanta su creatividad !!!! unida a sus bellos y trabajados bonsai....Muchas gracias🌿🙏🙋♀️👍🌲😘💖
Great video Nigel. So glad that you loved Adrian's turn table. They are strong and stylish 😁😁
Thanks guys 😀👍
Thanks Sam and Adrian, i'll be giving the turntable the torture test this spring, lots of trees to re pot! Have you ever met Adrian in person?
@@TheBonsaiZone hi mate no. He's almost as far from me as you are from him 😉😉
New turn table is REALLY COOL! Larch forest also looks amazing. Spring is so close i can't wait for it just like you i think. Thanks Nigel!
Thanks, it's going to get very busy here soon!
Finally, my 2 y.o. daughter has smth common with me in terms of UA-cam content - Nigel painting the pots works for both of us now:)
Good to hear, I'll be doing more pot painting this week and hopefully get them planted too!
@@TheBonsaiZone you already have the playlist for 3d pots;)
the turntable is REALLY cool! 😀
I really like it Katy, I'm so lucky to have it!
Nigel... I loved this video... lots of work on your pots, forest and moss details!! The rocks are an added bonus’!! The truck is looking really good .. can’t wait to see you driving it in the gardens!!!!
Thanks Mary, I'm glad you liked the video, I finished with part 4 today!
I could never have a group style bonsai. nice tree
I hope you do grow a forest, they are really fun, even when just young seedlings!
Love that truck and your latch forest!
I was just out for a truck update today, it's making progress! Thanks Kyle!
Nigel could you do a video on adding moss to bonsai? Type of moss and methods used to cultivate it on the floor of your bonsai. I’d love it!
It is always a pleasure to watch your work. A very nice design. Also how you perceive the subtleties (like at 40:50 with the root). Just perfect. You can be very proud of this design.
Thank you very much and thanks for watching!
your the Bob Ross of Bonsai man
Thank you, I'm a Bob Ross fan!
This forrest reminds me of the mixed beech and pine forrests we have in germany. And it is completely covered by lots of moss. I also like to lie on the moss in the Summer and sometimes in autumn when searching for mushrooms 😊 Good work Nigel
We are going to be putting a mushroom section in the edible forest, one with wood chips and one with horse manure!
Your Larch forest and landscape is incredibly real. You've given the design a lot of depth. Off to the forest I go to fill my soul. It is a place of rest. Your enthusiasm is really inspiring. I wonder how old this forest is as I hadn't watched your programming for quite a while.
Wow my friend so beautifoll your trees 😊❤🌳
seeing your plantroom always brightens my mood.. i can only imagine how you feel when you're inside. btw adrian, good to see you supporting two of the best bonsai channels :D
Thank you, we are both Australian, Sam and I! The turntable is fantastic, it makes pruning so much easier!
Thank you Eternity....don’t tell anyone but yes…they are my 2 favourite channels lol 😂👍
Regards
Adrian Eggleton
Spinning Tree Bonsai Turntables
Great video! 3D printed pots, amazing turn table! Amazing forest! Great.... about the polemic discussion on plastic pots, I may say that I am very interesting on them because of the light weight, price and they work really fine... also, if one considers the impact of mass production ceramic pots plastic will sounds really ecofriendly.
Thanks Alvaro, I'll be working on the pots some more this week, I'll maybe even get them planted with a tree!
Thx ! I can't wait to see the final look of the pots.
Thanks, I'll be finishing them this week and hopefully get them planted too!
nice work great forestscape!!!
Thank you Deniz, I'll be doing more work on it today!
The bob Ross of bonsai 😃
I'm a Bob Ross fanboy!
This is probably my favorite planting in your collection. Have you ever considered a few fallen trees to add additional realism to the forest?
I have tried some in the past and they can look really good if you find the right dead tree! I'll keep trying different ideas for the landscape to improve the realism. Thanks Don!
So when do those turntables go on sale, have you signed a product licensing deal yet? Anyway a quick larch question. We have had a warm winter down here and as a result most of my American larches started to open their buds. Then we had a return to colder weather so the bud popping stalled. So the question is have you run into this before with your larches and do you think this means I should not do any repotting and root work on them now? They have been in the current soil and pots for about a year and some really do need to be moved up to larger pots with more soil and root space. However I don’t want to kill them. Maybe for those in smaller pots I’ll just slip pot them into bigger pots and hope for a colder winter next year to keep them asleep longer. Thanks for the videos and great advice-Larry
The turntable is a one off gift from Adrian, but I believe he will make a custom one for everyone!
The Larches might need some protection to save the needles that are already coming out. The new needles can survive some light frost, but need protection from cold drying winds. If they die off, the Larch will usually recover and more buds will emerge.
It may be better to re pot them in a more normal spring (if there is such a thing!) I would rake out the roots and only do a light root pruning to help the tree retain enough energy to recover from this strange weather.
Going to round up some western larch aka tamerak. Want a nice forest like this one, good thing I'm watching the pro on how it's done!!
Great video Nigel, that would be fantastic a video about sharpening your bonsai tools, because I really need to find out how to sharpen my bypass pruners and my scissors 😁👍🏻
Check out these videos from our club meetings....
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ua-cam.com/video/NlcC-0TYjCk/v-deo.html
Goodness gracious, I love that forest! That turntable is fantastic! Looks very sturdy, well made. The pots are neat and the truck is coming along! Oh... You're looking great too Nigel! :D
Thank Marysol, I was just out looking at the truck today, it's starting to go back together and if you squint, it almost looks like a truck again!
I'd happily spend time in your larch forest Nigel, looks stunning! Hopefully some birds will join me in my lay around.....that be the best 😊 pots are also coming together nicely and the truck teaser was most welcome too,.....patiently awaiting part 4 (is it ready yet? lol) 💖😊👍💖
I just finished editing part 4, it is rendering and hopefully can get posted tonight! Thanks Karin, I always love reading your comments!
Great video as always Nigel!
Thank you very much!
That is looking really good!
Thank you Mara, I was back at it today and it has changed quite a bit, hopefully for the better!
Another lovely video!
Thank you, this one was a long one!
I always enjoy your bonsai videos Nigel, I live in North Florida and grow Bald Cypress which are native here. I have several forests breaking buds for Spring growth.
I'm going to have to get a Bald Cypress, one fellow in the Toronto club has been growing one in Canada for about 15 years! He overwinters it outside, but heavily mulched into the ground.
@@TheBonsaiZone Bc are fast growers you can have a nice tree in about 6 years, the muddier and swampier the water the faster they grow.
The group looks great. The moss shaping was very interesting, too. I don't think I've seen such well rounded moss before. The turntable looked fantastic and very helpful, and the 3D printed pots looked very promising, too.
The two seedlings were also very nice. I wish I would find such seedlings in the garden. But since I usually don't, so collected some seeds from my nearby park and I also got some online (I made a more detailled comment about that in Part 1). I'll sow those in March and I hope they'll do well.
I wonder if you have any tips on successfully growing seeds and things like where to make the first cuts on the young trees. I think you got that "From Seeds to Bonsai" board in your plant room. I have to say, I'd love to learn more about that. The scissor sharpening lesson you mentioned sounded very interesting, too.
Anyways, I'm looking forward to Part 4!
Thank you Lukas, here is the link to that series....
ua-cam.com/play/PLQouTWwmTQow-nd5uHUYQPGbo3bd4WPJl.html
nice content
Thank you!!
I agree, I'm not big on chemicals unless its an absolute must I use them (insecticides and such).
Yes, much can be done with hand removal and a little soap and water!
The turntable if great, must make your work a lot easier. I’ve used an old office chair with the seat removed and a piece of thick plywood bolted to the base. (An idea from Peter Chan At Herons Bonsai).
Your larch forest is amazing, the moss I’ve used on mine keeps getting thrown off by the birds at the moment.
Thank you Margaret, I'm hoping to meet Peter Chan this summer! Birds love my moss too, it seems the better looking the moss, the more chances of it getting removed!
Nigel Saunders, The Bonsai Zone I hope you get to meet Peter and hopefully record the meeting! That would be an amazing video. My two favourite Bonsai masters together at once. I’ve never been to Herons, it’s a bit too far from Manchester, but I would love to visit there one day.
My favourite forest 🥰
Thank you, Nigel! You have a very relaxing voice and nice accent. Greetings from the Netherlands!
What accent, Eh? Funny to hear I have an accent, many Canadian actors are used in movies because the accent is somewhere between an English accent and a Southern American accent, it's sort of neutral I guess.
tremclad product seems very apetizing ! ^^
It works well on the 3D prints!
The prices you mention on 3D Printers are crazy high. I have an Ender-3 that cost below 200$ and it can easily print finer lines then the one you have used for these pots! Worth checking out!
Canadian prices are always a bit higher, the Ender 3 is 305 dollars here, still a fantastic price. thanks! I'm going to get a 3D printer, I just can't choose one!
@@TheBonsaiZone You should go to Bangggood.com and order from there, that's where the majority get them, me included :) Great customer service aswell
Ive been looking into getting a 3D printer for about 2 yrs now. Prices have dropped significantly! I could use one for all my hobbies lol. From printing ant nests and tarantulas hides, to bonsai pots! And Nigel, love the length of this one. Thats the first thing I look at when a new vid of yours comes up haha. 30+ mins and im happy. Till the next vid.....
I watched the video for the second time, to get more details as you can do in a good movie... At the end more than of 2 hours lost my mind in The Bonsai Zone 🤣
Still more to come, thanks so much!
I haven’t seen moss that thick since my last camping trip to the Hoh River rainforest!
I never notice it growing, but when I prune it in spring, I find the growth unbelievable!
I've sharpened knives, but not scissors. I'd like to see how you do that.
I'll try and get a video out!
Are you getting a lil Spring Fever?? LoL
Plus 8 degrees today, I'm going full spring fever, Yahoo!
@@TheBonsaiZone LoL Stay warm Bud!
Hi Nigel, quick question for ya. I got a root rake with a kit and the forks are sharp and I feel it just tears roots so I've been using a chopstick instead. Your root rake looks like it has softer, dull forks more like a chopstick. Would you be willing to share where you got yours? Thanks for all you do! Your passion for bonsai is invigorating! You also have a great eye for your landscapes! Take care!
Hello Sean, I got the root rake at a second hand store 25 years ago. I've never seen another like it. I'm hoping to make a 3D model of it soon so people can 3D print it either in brass or a tough type plastic. I'll be sure to post a video.
I have some Joshua trees I've grown from seed, do you think they are suitable for bonsai?
Yes, check out my Yucca forest!
ua-cam.com/video/lHIpzRUUgLU/v-deo.html
do you have or can you make a tutorial series on 3d printing bonsai pots? what materials and tools you use and what to be aware of in the process?
Great idea Daniel, it will have to wait until fall or winter, but I'll keep it in mind!
Magnifique forêt
Merci, j'ai fait beaucoup plus de travail aujourd'hui et j'espère que les résultats vous plairont, la partie 4 sera bientôt publiée!
gotta luv a bit a varsol!
Smelly stuff, but my hands are paint free, for the moment!
I used the link to the Spinning Tree Turntable site, but once on the site, none of the links are active. You can't get any information. Just FYI.
I think the site is still under construction, you would have to contact Adrian with the information under contacts.
Yes website is just up and he has to finish it but will be running soon 😁
Hey guys,
The new website is www.bonsaiturntables.com
For more exposure. I had issues with godaddy website builder system.
Facebook/spinningtreebonsaiturntables
Email: stbt01@outlook.com
Phone: +61412328472
Regards
Adrian Eggleton
Spinning Tree Bonsai Turntables
you may look up some material guides. pla is known to break down in moisture and sunlight. paint very well may be a good solution to that. petg may be worth looking into. I do a lot of 3d printing, and have seen pla break down in these circumstances. You would likely get a year or 2 out of an untreated pla pot though.
Thanks Alec, yes the PLA tends to distort in the hot sun, I will be printing all my pots using nGen plastic from Colorfab hopefully in the future. I have several pots made from nGen and they have stood up to everything over the last three years!
@@TheBonsaiZone That is great to know! I'll have to print some pots with that material now. Really hopping that 3d printing helps me keep down my pottery costs I the future.
If the trees are native to your region, why do you have to keep them in the basement? don't they stand the winter outside?whn i was young i had an olive tree and was outside all year around, here in Spain they are used to be both in the cold and hot.
The trees are very hardy, but our winters can go down to -37 C, this is very cold for a plant in a pot. I have kept them outside for the winter in the past, but it is better to keep them around the freezing point in my unheated basement. If the trees were in the ground, keeping them outside would be no problem, but we get so many rabbits here, they would get chewed up.
13:00 hahaha Nigel!! Made my Day!!! ;)
Thanks Andi!
I love this forest! it looks very beautiful, natural, multivariate, mysterious... I also admire your attention to details and imagination: creating all paths, passages, hiding/secret places - superb! I can relate to it in 100%
Just my thought: you may try to put some vertical stone (dark one) on the left side of the forest, where path is turning. Personally I would test vertical one - not very high though. It would give some more dramatic wall-like structure to hide turning path. Make it disappear more. Some vertical stone on top of that hill would be interesting as well. And, there are 3 stones on the front next to the lip of the pot - I would remove 2 of them. They look too much symmetrical positioned (one line). This is just my suggestions but since I can't test in in person I am not sure if it would works. Anyway, I love to collect stones since childhood and use them in bonsai landscapes. Keep us updates about this lovely forest! Cheers!
Thank you, great to hear your thought! The landscape under went some big changes today, check them out in the soon to be posted part 4! I like your ideas, I'm hoping to find some good rocks to try out and improve the look into the future!
Hi Nigel. What type of fertilizer do you use and how often do you use it?
Hello Kim, here is a video on this!
ua-cam.com/video/gXIIpxUqxdY/v-deo.html
Thanks for getting back to me Nigel. I can seem to find 20/20/20 fertilizer. Is it a certain brand?
You have quite a large following. You know what, you should try your hand at making custom clay/glazed bonsai pots for your older more valuable gardens and sign the pots. Would be neat.
I'm sure I'll take up pottery one of these days!
The pots look great. What material did you print them in?
Some are printed with PLA. The PLA ones seem to last about 3 years of normal bonsai use. The better plastic to use is nGen from ColorFab. It is holding up really well and should last a lifetime.
colorfabb.com/filaments/co-polyesters-filaments/ngen
Nigel Saunders, The Bonsai Zone I have wondered of the outside longevity of pla, given its eventual biodegradable nature, I had thought of give8ng them a couple of coats of the smooth on resin that’s intended for smoothing to effectively seal the pla, then paint for uv protection. I’ve not tried the ngen stuff yet, I’ll have to get a reel and see how it goes :)
I swear I heard chimes after you were done singing your intro song
I have a small wind chime outside the greenhouse, you weren't hearing things!
How often do you trim the roots of your for rest bonsai trees
I try and re pot at least every 3 years if the tree is growing well. If you are refining a tree and not allowing it to grow wild, you can re pot less often. Generally the top growth mirrors the root growth, so if the top have grown a lot then so have the roots!
The forest is looking great so far, that was a lot of moss to carve around ! Really nice to look at the branch structure before the new spring growth. The turn table looks sharp and appears to spin good, what a job ! The printed pots are coming along nicely, I might look at printing one sometime.
Thank you J, the turntable has stainless steel aerospace quality bearings, quite a step up from my wooden lazy Susan!
That forest is 12 out of 10, but then I'm a bit bias toward forest plantings . I don't suppose Adrian is selling those turntables ...Eh Adreian !
Hi Johnathon,
Check out www.bonsaiturntables.com or Facebook/spinningtreebonsaiturntables
Regards
Adrian Eggleton
Spinning Tree Bonsai Turntables
Thanks Jonathan, that's a good score! Thanks Adrian!
@@TheBonsaiZone Thanks I'm communicating with Adrian now
great video. Have you thought about 3D printed rocks ?
I have! I actually scanned a rock on the 3D scanner and created a model from it. I haven't tried printing it yet, but that will be coming! The rock should be very light weight, something I need to consider as I get older!
Acetone doesn't really work on PLA, it's used for smoothing ABS.
I thought it was just for ABS, I found the scraper worked well on the PLA!
@@TheBonsaiZone It's similar to a knife I use for PLA, it's really the best and maybe only way to fix some abnormalities. So I hope it helps you smoothing things out!
G"Day - nobody can copy an Aussie accent
G'day, Aussie bonsai bloke here, how'sitgoin!
Haha. 3rd. From India
Hello India!
Hello India! I know some Indian words but they're all bad lol
Great Indian third!!!
Do the forest know about its fans all around the world?
I'll be sure to tell the forest it has some fans!
@@TheBonsaiZone Thank you Nigel. :]
Nigel must be either a software engineer or a scientist besides being a bonsai nerd. :)
Maybe a bit of both!
when you "do do do do" my cat jumped hahaha
I don't know why, but I find that very funny and yet very satisfying too!
@@TheBonsaiZone oh it was funny. poor kitty was just fine tho no worries
Warning to all my Bonsai friends. There is a poster called Trap Taps with a black and white avatar. Do not go to their channel. I have been warned that they are stealing profiles. Taping on the avatar is all they need.
LOVE OF PLANTS 🌻
Yep thats them. They have takin over large channels.
Thanks, good to know!
Where can we get files for 3D printed pots?
I publish all the pot 3D files on Thingiverse, you can download them for free. I only have two pots on there, but more will be coming!
www.thingiverse.com/search?q=nigel+saunders&dwh=845e5bee53be533
i honestly cant tell that the miniature pot is 3d printed
It turned out well!
Does he have a way to contact him if I don't have Facebook?
You can email me at....
thekwbonsaisociety@gmail.com
Some people don't agree with plastic pots? Even the Japanese use plastic pots. :/
They have a Terracotta type PLA plastic now! Also a wood type, I'll have to try them out!
13:03 lol
FOIST!
Dubsy Dabster close.. Nigel will call!!
Dubsy is Foist today , very nice!
Nice mate.
ahhhhhhhhhh that sand paper sound! worse then nails on a chalk board lulz. skipped tht part nigel sry haha
Warning, don't watch my latest video!
Foist
Very close Mary, only seconds apart!
Nigel Saunders, The Bonsai Zone ... it was close!!’
third
Thanks, a tight race for Foist!
Jm know kiknt ok op