Pruning My Mulberry Tree, The Bonsai Zone, Jan 2024
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- Опубліковано 4 січ 2024
- Maybe a very controversial video about styling bonsai, as I prune up my Mulberry (Morus) tree seedling to create a basic branch structure. Let me know your thoughts on this topic in the comments!!!
To see previous videos of this tree, click on the playlist here...
• Mulberry Bonsai
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I love the new format Nigel, showing the history of the tree really helps to understand how it’s developed. Thank you for taking the time to to do this editing
Agree! well said
UA-cam tries to show me other Bonzai channels, I'm not interested unless Nigel recommends them. He's the best one, worth watching! And I dont even do Bonzai, but I love planting and gardening and trees! I've learned a lot from Nigel
You should try bonsai ✌️
@DeciduousSnurb I will! I have a small jade and I really want a ficus, I had one years ago, was afraid to get another because they are expensive and very finicky. But seeing these techniques, I feel encouraged to go ahead and get one when I see one available. I have about 150 house plants and I garden outside also.
@@kathyvettraino2267 Nice, wow that's a lot of plants.
Yeah most of my ficus are finicky as well. There's this one though that I've had for a few months and it hasn't dropped a single leaf since we've gone into fall or winter. In fact it is still pushing growth to this day, in January 🤯, though I do have a cheap grow light. It's called Ficus benjamina 'Natasja'/ 'Natasha' it has small leaves and reminds me of Nigel's benjamina. Apparently it's a popular ficus in Europe. (I live in Indiana U.S.) and I finally found someone in Long Island who sells them online.
Anyway I recommend that variety if you consider ficus for bonsai.
@DeciduousSnurb thank you! I will look for one of those. I'm also in US, the Midwest, in Michigan. Very close to Canada.
I totally subscribe to your bonsai philosophy. Keep it real. Thanks, keep growing
Got my hot cup of tea and watching. Wow!!!! A Mulberry tree. The fruit is great.
I love that you are willing to try the "fruit of your labours"! I also admire your acceptance of trees taking time. And not hours, days or weeks but years and decades - even generations. I know I do not have that patience but I can certainly exercise a little more of it at times!
You are the best at the grow and clip method.
Your philosophy is right. Nature is our teacher. Her trees are the greatest.
I like your theory on repotting and getting the root system in shape.
I ignore the controversy. If the tree looks good to me, it's good. I love your styling and techniques. ❤❤
I think those "bonsai-styled" bonsais have their place as well. Just as modern abstract art is enjoyed by many people, as well. I enjoy both of them in general less than "nature-styled" bonsais and more traditional art but every once in a while they're spectacular to me, too! In the end it all comes down to the artist and what they like or envision and I'm sure eventually there'll be a time when more natural bonsai are more in fashion than those "bonsai" bonsais.
But I guess we can all agree that we come to your channel as we enjoy how you style your trees!
Well said. I totally agree 👍
I really value and appreciate your philosophy and view about how bonsai's could look like, inspiring from real world around us, not from other people creations in terms of form. Thanks alot for reminding that 💚
Thanks Nigel for the reminder of what bonsai is and inspiring me to look closer at nature... Great work as usual 🎉
Id like to think about natural vs stylized bonsai to be likened to Fiction vs. Non-fiction. They can both be fun to read but you go in knowing one is totally fantasy and the other is not.
that's a really good way of looking at it, I like that alot
@@Sir_Lewice I have a lot of stylized trees and I know it's not for everyone. Not everyone likes sci-fi but that doesn't stop others from enjoying it.
Actually, that seedling (before pruning )looks a lot like the mother tree. Slim, beautiful.
That tree has a great future! I mostly look to nature, with a few spurts of What the heck?! trees in the middle Hahaha! Awesome chat Nigel!
I am really enjoying the format! Having a quick recap of the trees progression is very helpful.
I agree to a certain point that natural style is to be pursued, but if i am being honest most of the trees in nature don't look overly aesthetically impressive. So i think something in the middle of the both worlds is the best. Also the style in nature is not just the standard upright broom style, it mostly depends on the growing conditions of where the tree is situated. Some of the yamadori trees that people collect growing in the harsh conditions looks way closer to "artifical bonsai", as they do to supposedly only natural possible broom style.
I'm in agreement about most trees in nature being underwhelming. Exceptional trees in nature are truly rare. But so are diamonds! I like stylized trees done well. I like "natural"style trees done well also. I think the world of bonsai is big enough for both!
When I have multiple trees of one species, I tend to make one artificial and 5-10 trees I wil clip and grow. With the idea I like the natural style more in the years to come. The thing is I like to make the artificial trees, something meditative on wiring. The first year(2020) in my bonsai journey I wanted to wire all my trees. Thanks to you Nigel, I discovered the beauty of the naturally styled tree! Very thankfully for that!
The same with the typical sumo trunk trees. In the beginning I liked them very much. By now I just want to make one, just for the sake of making it.
Lovely work and excellent video Nige....I always learn something!
BIG storm coming - hope you're ready and you don't lose power.
GLTA out there....❤
Such a young tree compared to many of your other featured trees. I’m diggin where you’re taking it, good sir.
I enjoy both styles
Vidéo très intéressante. Je suis tout à fait d'accord avec ta philosophie pour créer un bonsaï "nature". Continues dans ce sens.
Hi, from Costa Rica
I start looking at trees at nature too,and using klipp and gro,like you do,🌳😍
Thank you for sharing your philosophy in a such a clear manner. It affords a deeper understanding of each choice you make and the techniques you choose not to implement. I live in an urban environment with many trees managed by regular pruning. I like to consider the challenge of maintaining and expressing the natural elements of a species given the limitations of various landscape conditions, whether street, park, or garden.
I understand what you mean, traditional style and the natural style, I have respect for both and I think both styles are beautiful and have their charms, it depends on what you like, but I understand what you say about the natural style, it flows nicely I agree with you, I have trees with a traditional style myself, but I have now also started with trees with a natural style
I know this tree is still very young, but I think it's one of my favorites in your collection. The trunk is very elegant, and the structure feels so natural!
Lovely tree!
Very good, i like it
Loving these recaps before the prunes! It looks great with its fresh cut! Maybe in future years it will get some tasty berries on it! 😃
Great video thanks for sharing. Question, where do you get your trees from all they full grown and you alter them to bonsai?
Fun fact.... Mulberry can be top grafted to Osage Orange.
Nigel you can tell your wife if she just stick branch in to the ground it will get roots faster then air-layering. I have 100% success with cuttings of Mulberry tree . Works good without any special treatment .
My goal is to make a tree like this trees in nature that people walk maybe one ot two hours just for hve a sit and admire, the best master is nature
It is true that crane fly larvae will eat plants roots. Largely a lot of the bad rap they get is unearned. Healthy plants usually do not experience much of an issue with them.
Real bonsai is torture you do not apply torture to your trees. You are very kind to your trees, so that’s very respectable..
Strange comment. I think you need to define "torture" and "real bonsai". We're still chopping branches and roots and confining growth.
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Your bonsai philosophy is truly valid as it will create more variation and in the long run more interesting bonsai trees. I think old "classic" bonsai actually had more flexible styles than it seems to be developed to nowadays. Current trend is that it seem to be a "copy- paste" in trad bonsai and exploited in trade too which create the sale of trees that look the same and in worst cases damaged from hard wire and similar. If you want this highly stylised it is totally fine but is it artistic any longer if every tree look same?
I've been doing a little winter pruning and all my maples Japanese silver and and red started bleeding pretty bad but as soon as a got them back out in the cold the bleeding stopped. I did make the big mistake of pruning my grape bonsai this winter and it was bleeding so much that i had to stop the bleeding with super glue because all my cut paste's would wash right off the water running off cut
Yep about yours philosophy, I get bit angry too I look at Bonsai shinshi channel and he is very well known all around the world he have very famous bonsai Japan master and he always says Japanese trees are made not grown soo then I get a bit pumped up but that's what most of Japanese bonsai grower's think and that's what then affects western bonsai philosophy so you can't blame them.
The natural bonsai vs artificial horizontal branch bonsai style question is as old as the fight god vs the devil ;D unfortunately most people associate bonsai itself with unnatural shapes.. So sad, keep on praising :D
I agree that some Bonsai are styled to look too much like the stereotypical Bonsai image - especially broadleaf deciduous trees that look like conifers. Artistically those are still well done trees, too, but it's true that some can look quite unnatural. As it's an artform, everyone can style their trees however they like though. If someone likes flat branches on a maple, they should go for it. Personally, I like it a bit more natual looking though!
By the way, most of the Bonsai I saw in Japan recently felt rather natural to me. Maybe something got lost in translation here in the west...
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I totally agree with your natural approach to Bonsai. A future problem in the world of generative AI is AI-generated content becomes so ubiquitous that AIs will be trained mainly on AI-generated content. Nothing original. Just copy of a copy. And those uniformed/traditional bonsai styles feel the same to me. They lack natural beauty and human original creativity.
Nigel have you ever tried to make china doll into a bonsai
I find it interesting that insect larvae are the only babies women find gross. Lol
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What would happen if you took a bonsai that is well established probably a good 15 20 years old and planted it outside and just let it grow
One of the established branches would take over as a leader and rocket up and you would have an ordinary looking tree before long. The old bonsai branches may even die off.
It would loose its "Bonsai status" within a few years and if it survived a century or two would become the tree that inspires the pursuit again ;) Interesting contemplation.
Secoid😅
Make your bonsai look like a tree, not your tree look like a bonsai.
Walter Pall
25 minutes of talking before the actual pruning starts - that's too much
Try TikTok, it may be more your style of video.
@@TheBonsaiZone wow, you're so kind!