Bonsaify | Jay's Towering Redwood Bonsai
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- Опубліковано 29 чер 2024
- Eric checks in with Jay and helps him wrangle a redwood that has escaped from bonsai training for the last few years. Jay says this is episode 5.
00:00:25 - Jay explains a bit of the history and shape of the tree.
00:01:55 - Eric and Jay get to work, looking at the silhouette and reducing some branching.
00:03:27 - Some wiring tips
00:04:30 - Jay explains the lower dead branch and deadwood on the side of the trunk.
00:05:36 - He plans to enhance the trunk with a bit of carving to improve the taper.
00:06:10 - Back to wiring
00:06:35 - Results after 1.5 days of work.
00:07:00 - 3 months later, May 2024
00:07:30 - Redwood take a lot of maintenance - Jay starts the discussion of spring tip pinching.
00:08:15 - Jay likes to use scissors and trim to 2-4 new needles - leave more on weaker growth and less on stronger growth.
00:10:50 - 22 gauge copper wire is important for making small adjustments in the branching.
00:11:25 - Rounding up the look of the tree after two sessions of work. - Навчання та стиль
Thank you!!!! Coastal Redwood are the focus of my bonsai journey and I find content about them to be fairly rare, so this is enormously valuable to me.
Thank you for all the tips. Your trees look truly great. I have about fifty trees collected over 10-12 years, slowly as each takes care. I have five bald cypress started 8 years ago, not quit redwood, but your tips are valuable for training them. Thanks.
Beautiful trees. I’ve managed to keep a seedling alive for 5ish years now, after losing many dawn and coastal redwoods. I agree w the other comment that content/guidance is hard to come by. Theyre nearly as needy as a child but it’s absolutely worth it.
Where do you live , I have Dawn Redwoods, coastal and giants that I've been raising for quite sometime, also bald cypress , might be willing to help you get a healthy one 🤙🏼😎
Mark
Wow, I look forward to your visits with Jay, he is a master for sure. Trouble is you don’t get put there enough! Thanks Eric
Thank you Eric and Jay. Showing how to prune to arrest the elongation and create the ramification was super valuable for me. Beautiful trees.
This is great. I have a dawn redwood forest. It wasn't until after i purchased it I realised how different they are. I also recntly found a fantastic tree at a garden centre. It has a lovely trunk. Videos like this help so much.❤
Thanks!
Excellent video! I love the collab videos with Jay.
Hi and thank you for taking the time to share your experience very helpful and much appreciated I watched twice so far
Much Respect Bill W.
I’m with you-Redwoods I like the natural formal tall style. Thank you great stuff.
Great vibe to this video, looks like you both had a whole heap of fun!
I love this video for a hundred reasons. Thank you!
you guys are the best! much love!
Seeing these makes me want to go back and visit the Redwoods.
Fantastic work. I love my redwood, I need to get more.
Jay's a goldmine of knowledge
Great Video.
Great video! On year three of growing my first redwood bonsai. Started from a cutting taken a few blocks from my house. Very inspiring!
I live in Yorkshire, England and redwoods are my favourite tree. I have a redwood that I grew from seed, purchased in California over 30 years ago.
Brilliant video
Greetings from Alabama. New subscriber recently, so this is the first I’ve seen Jay’s place. That little workshop building is awesome with the porch entryway and all of the styling details!!
*edit, and obviously the redwood is pretty amazing too..
Thanks for this wonderful Video ! You guys just motivated me, to buy a redwood 😂❤️
Badass Redwood.
Jay's such a rad Tree Herder..
Awesome video! Dawn redwoods are my favorite tree and one that I seem to do OK with and not kill to rapidly, love to work on them love to seem them busting out in green and I pinch away with my fingers cuz I have nails lol
really like the shape which miniature the nature tree in bonsai and still got the shape of real redwood tree
Thanks
Nice vid, impressive tree... on the follow up pruning, Jay only cut back new growth tips only to 2/4 leaves ?
Super 😊👍
I need your advice, I’ve got three coastal redwoods I’m growing (for two years) in 2’x2’x1’ deep boxes and they’re in Miracle Grow potting soil, they put tons of new growth out but the trunks aren’t getting thick. I planted other coastal redwoods in the ground and BOOM! They’ve got massive trunks in about the same time, so, how shocking is it to dig and transplant these redwoods? Do they have a big taproot that doesn’t like to be severed? Do I need to put some kind of big air pot in the ground to contain the roots? Thanks! And great video 👍🏻
Nice moss. 7:15
Agreed.
First, junipers and pines that I got are going strong
Is that a coastal redwood or giant Sequoia? I watch y'all all the time and purchased mame from you, I have all the redwoods in Virginia, love em 🤙🏼😎
Coastal redwood. Thanks!
Do you "arrest the elongation" on spruce? Thanks
Yes, although given spruce normally only grow one spurt per year, concentrate on exterior pinching and thinning is more the formula.
Hi Eric, eagerly waiting for Mass Market Ficus Part 5 ?
Lol. I think when part 5 comes out I'll title it parts 5-11 since I keep filming small bits of work on the tree and compiling them into the next video. I thought it might be time by now, but I'm going to give it another month or two. I wanted to wait to see if the new branching gets a bit bigger before doing more pruning....
Can you prune dawn redwood in the same way, thanks
I don't think quite the same. TBH, I find them confusing but that's probably because I haven't worked with them much.
👍👌🙂
Were those coastal redwoods or giant sequoias?
coastal - Sequoia sempervirens.
🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉
Will there be an azalea episode soon? 11:35
I finally tried one after years of wanting one and it died a year later😢
One of the things that got left out in this video was Jay mentioning that they grow great in the right environment, but they're not super adaptable. Minimum temps are 28F, and prolonged temps below 40F can be problematic also. On top of that, consistently hot weather seems like it can be an issue - but Peter Tea grows them in Auburn, CA which is HOT all summer. Maybe not Phoenix hot, but it's hot.
hello
Can I buy that tree?
I think it was already sold after the first session but before the second. But, mcbonsai.com is a good source for redwoods - Bob Shimon.