My 50 Dollar Juniper Challenge Tree, The Bonsai Zone, May 2024

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  • Опубліковано 30 тра 2024
  • I've picked out a Juniper for the 50 dollar challenge!
    I'll be using clip and grow to shape this nursery stock Japanese garden Juniper.
    #TheBonsaiZone
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  • @AsiaPacificGarden
    @AsiaPacificGarden Місяць тому +8

    18:54 that is a cat wearing a chicken suit.

  • @angieb6899
    @angieb6899 Місяць тому +11

    So excited to finally meet the rooster in the background of your videos 🐔👩🏻‍🌾🪴😬

    • @TheBonsaiZone
      @TheBonsaiZone  Місяць тому +6

      Thanks Angie, it's nice to see him being so quiet!!!

    • @kylefisher4883
      @kylefisher4883 Місяць тому +1

      ​@TheBonsaiZone being from the country now in the city for a while I appreciate the rooster noise mixed with bonsai knowledge 👌

    • @nicolekuster6215
      @nicolekuster6215 24 дні тому

      That reminded me so much of the following joke:
      A farmer's rooster dies and he buys a new breeding rooster at the livestock market, a real splendid specimen. The farmer brings it home to the farm in a box, opens the box and - bang - the rooster runs straight into the chicken coop and takes on one hen after the other.
      Then the rooster comes out of the stable, looks around briefly and runs straight to the ducks.
      The farmer is completely speechless. In the afternoon he looks out the window and sees the rooster with the geese. After a while the rooster staggers out of the coop and comes to a stop in the middle of the yard and flaps over.
      The farmer goes to rooster and says: "Well, you've probably gone a bit overboard, haven't you?!" Then the rooster opens one eye and replies: "Go away, old man, don't spoil my number with the vulture!"

  • @1_a179
    @1_a179 Місяць тому +10

    You make such cool videos!! I watched countless over the last few years and never wrote a comment and probably forgot to leave a like most of the times. I enjoy your videos quietly and today I had the need to thank you!
    Best wishes from Switzerland!

  • @steev927
    @steev927 Місяць тому +3

    That stand for $3.50 is an absolute steal!

  • @snylilith
    @snylilith Місяць тому

    Oooh, I love the round table!!!

  • @christophe5740
    @christophe5740 Місяць тому

    I think you got lucky on this one ! I like it! Thanks nigel

  • @snylilith
    @snylilith Місяць тому

    Very interesting tree, I love what you made of it ☺️

  • @growclipbonsaiforseniors1951
    @growclipbonsaiforseniors1951 Місяць тому

    Dr. Saunders, your surgical skills are fascinating in shaping this Juniper. I can see a great future in this tree.

  • @slongo702
    @slongo702 Місяць тому +1

    I would love to see an update on the $12 juniper.

  • @DavesBonsai
    @DavesBonsai Місяць тому

    Those were sone “big cuts” my friend! Great clean-up!

  • @nerinat8371
    @nerinat8371 Місяць тому +1

    Wow! What a difference a cut makes hey.. awesome thx

  • @Darkfire1300
    @Darkfire1300 Місяць тому +2

    Rooster resting. Maestro manifesting. Life well lived.

  • @nathantyler5675
    @nathantyler5675 25 днів тому

    Is that called Bush-Wacking?!? Turned out nice...Looking forward to following its progress...Thanks...

  • @uppergorple
    @uppergorple Місяць тому

    Like your analysis and boldness. I wonder what the base of the trunk looks like.

  • @JaneHalsell
    @JaneHalsell Місяць тому +1

    This video was really timed perfectly for me. I live in SE Texas. I wanted to start Bonsai this past winter, but my husband tripped over our new dog and broke his neck (not the dog's neck). He'll be fine, but I really had to step up and assume all his chores. I wasn't able to start bonsai in the cooler months, so I was really discouraged. I have a little more time now, and starting with a juniper that i dont have to repot is ideal. Thank you so much for all the effort and information you put into each episode. JANE

  • @chrismarshall8321
    @chrismarshall8321 Місяць тому +3

    Nice work nigel. Who gave you the challenge? Wish someone would give me a challenge like that so I would have to challenge myself. Enjoy a challenge lol

    • @anthonygawron7251
      @anthonygawron7251 Місяць тому +3

      I challenge you to a $50 juniper challenge lol

  • @birgittej5895
    @birgittej5895 Місяць тому

    Wow! That was a lot of foliage that you took off! Great trunk! It will be interesting to see it develop into the future 😊

  • @SherwoodFluFortuna
    @SherwoodFluFortuna Місяць тому

    Looking at it should be a juniperus procumbens, you got it at a nice price. Nice work Nigel, you inspired me, I have one more or less of same dimension sitting in the garden since 4 years, now you inspired me

  • @andysbonsai
    @andysbonsai Місяць тому

    That has some amazing potential! Excellent work as always 👍

  • @ignaziod5372
    @ignaziod5372 Місяць тому +6

    Foist😂

  • @harlem_nerd5191
    @harlem_nerd5191 Місяць тому

    I would make all sorts of cuttings 😂 big and small 😂

  • @FrostBiteBonsai
    @FrostBiteBonsai Місяць тому

    Wow! That was quite the transformation!! Very nice! Definitely picked one with potential! Great show Nigel!

  • @joycefleming4986
    @joycefleming4986 Місяць тому

    Hi Nigel. What a lovely nursery find this is! I like the movement in the trunk and branches. Many of my bonsai are from nursery stock. I recently bought 20 eucalypt seedlings, ( I am in Australia), Spotted gum, Eucalyptus regnans (Mountain Ash) and Gippsland Mallee Gum.
    I plan to create some eucalypt forest bonsais from them, both single species and mixed. I've repotted them and done the first trim of their tap roots. I'm looking forward to watching the progress of your Juniper.

  • @TanglewoodSoapCompany
    @TanglewoodSoapCompany Місяць тому

    I'm thinking it's the differences in our own areas that cause newbies to do too much or too little at the wrong times. I'm in Louisiana in the southern US where April is considered early spring, May is spring, & June def brings in summer. It can be 90F+ in May. I'm pretty sure I killed a lovely little juniper by trimming & repotting in late April. The heat came in soon after & I think it was all too much for it. Also 10 beautiful Larch seedlings. They came in bare root but leafed, I put them into pots & trimmed the height. I lost them all. Hard lessons to learn, but definitely learned!! Thank you Nigel for the wonderful videos you put out for us!!!

  • @XaviersBonsaiRetreat
    @XaviersBonsaiRetreat Місяць тому

    I know what you mean by luck...but you still have to make all the right choices to end up with the tree you have now. This has some lovely movement on it and will develop in true bonsai zone fashion :)

  • @empret7704
    @empret7704 Місяць тому

    Strange sunbathing chicken 😂 ... cool juniper 😊

  • @jasonhorton1973
    @jasonhorton1973 Місяць тому

    Nigel, I would love to see you do a one off project tree in which you use wire to manipulate the branches into position. I know your not keen though 😂👍🏻

  • @brucedeacon28
    @brucedeacon28 Місяць тому

    👍👌👌

  • @reconmodelsvaughn469
    @reconmodelsvaughn469 Місяць тому

    Question for you I always repotted in new soil and pot I never ever had any problems with Juniper's

  • @baldyeti
    @baldyeti Місяць тому

    Whoa! Quite the transformation!
    I’m diggin it, good sir
    When styling a juniper like this, what trees are you trying to imitate?

  • @SuperDjButters
    @SuperDjButters Місяць тому

    Are you going to root all the cuttings or you don't have space for them?

  • @t3dwards13
    @t3dwards13 Місяць тому

    No new trees...Unless it's for a challenge! Lol

  • @bonsaisn
    @bonsaisn Місяць тому

    hello

  • @johnzeiger910
    @johnzeiger910 10 днів тому

    Nigel do you live in the ghetto? Always hearing sirens. Do they have ghettos in Canada?

  • @metaxmann
    @metaxmann Місяць тому

    You'v cut so many branches, it could have a lot of jins, you dont like these?