I love being able to access prior videos when that particular tree finds its way into my garden. I have a bunch of conifer seedlings that will get my attention this week so this was a great refresher class on what to do with my western conifers: red cedar, hemlock, douglas fir, larch, lodge pole and the five little scots pine gracing my landscape beds. My larger bonsai trees have quite a few scots pine volunteers that I will do something with, like put them into a seed tray or largish pot. Thanks!!!!
Wow! That greenhouse really is giving those trees a nice head start on spring. Here in Connecticut we’re still waiting to break dormancy. Everything looks fantastic. Thanks, keep growing
It’s not as tho this video is better than the rest but I felt like giving a post tonight! “ So here I go.” Nigel has that thumb of vigor. The absolute most positive and influential plant person I’ve never met! Id like to feel that most of you agree! The nige has made “A big cut” on many of us and still growing strong! Thanks for just being you and helping people like me join the world of BONSAI. Cheers to The Man Nigel Saunders!
It sounds like you will have a "Goldilocks" forest someday Nigel. A big pot where papa tree grows, A medium pot where mama tree grows. and perfect little pot where baby tree grows. Alice will love walking around beneath your forest someday.
The new greenhouse really gives your trees a nice boost for a nice spring green up. Nice updates. Basement trees are doing nice also. Seedlings grew nice for you. Nice trim of the roots and the repotting.
You are very correct, Dr. Saunders. Once attached to the roots, they stay attached. This is a nice little repotting of the pine. Root tips starting to grow, cool. Root flow explanation. Super. Pine looks nice in the pot.
Feels good to see all those promissing young trees taken care of and ready now for a good start! Glad to see the smoke tree allee and wiel. Thanks again for sharing!
Ohhhh love this babies seedlings 🌱 and thanks so much for caring and sharing I learned a lot 👍love to do this as well 🌲I am in North Carolina 👋spring now time I go around looking for seedlings to rescued from walk-sides drive ways a crack on the road.. and take them home to help them grow… safe and beautiful ♥️🌹🌱🌲❤️
Hi Nigel, the trick that I have picked up over the years is that if you're going to propagate edible figs from cuttings. That you have to start them in early spring before they're leafing out. Just put them in some nice soil, and they almost act like willows.
Cool! Nice roots the pine seedlings have. I might just try the bonsai soil for my next seed plantings, now I've used coir. I just collected a cone from a mugo pine, seems to have many seeds in it, so a planting spree is coming up!
Thanks for the update, I really enjoyed it, but most of all thanks for the tutorial! My two red pine and blue spruce seedlings will soon get to that stage! I’d be very curious to see a new forest on the make too!
Can't wait to get my greenhouse up this season so I can start sooner in the year. Ordered my pea gravel and I have my foundation materials ready to go so it's getting exciting now! Great video Nigel, I was waiting for that Doug fir, I have one and don't quite know what to do with it!
I have a Japanese cedar (Cryptomeria japonica) since the beginning of this year and it also stayed red/orange until just recently in June when it then turned into yellow and now finally green. Maybe your sequoia also start a bit slower, but I anyways hope they're fine! I'm sure the pines will do well in their new pots. They all look good and promising!
17:00 top right is that a chamaecyparis pisifera squarrosa or soft juniper as we call it in denmark, i love that tree it will do so well as cut and grow
How old are the 5 pine seedlings that you have planted Nigel? And your newly potted Douglas Fir bonsai is a beauty. Thank you for this video. Happy early Spring.
Looking great! Seeing how much you took off of those roots, I'll be fine... Is it right to do 1 heavy job, like severe root pruning, per year and let them recover?
This awnsers my question, thanks. I wish I had more room to make bigger bonsai... I am basically doing mame and shohin, because of this. I also got another question... You had this "show and tell"-part in your videos a while back. I'd like to show you some stuff... (like how "your" clip and grow method worked out really nice on this little shohin tree) And perhaps others...
hey Nigel, what if I plant 2 seeds and I got lucky and both grow on the same pot. When should I remove/separate them? Can I repot them separately? cheers!
Hey Nigel, is this time of year good for repotting pines? I have a mugo pine from nursery stock that I want to cut back, and also put in bonsai soil, but I'm unsure about when to do either.
@@TheBonsaiZone Thank you Nigel. I have a couple Austrian Pines that I have been unsure when to dig and or to re-pot them! I'm still trying to figure out the pines.
I find they grow much better after the roots are sorted out and are growing in bonsai soil. I've never seen the vigor reduced, but most people don't recommend bare rooting.
Wintertime Discoloration of Giant Sequoia Seedlings Young giant sequoias typically undergo color changes in the winter and early spring. The younger the tree the more susceptible to the color change it is. Trees less than one year old are most often affected. I have seen this condition in trees up to five years old but never in older trees. The wintertime discoloration produces a color that is yet to be named by whoever names colors. It has been described as purplish-red, rust, brown, and bronze. Everyone who tries to describe the color struggles with an attempt to describe a color that has yet to be named. The discoloration does not occur every winter. It typically will come on suddenly in the wake of a cold storm after a period of unseasonable warmth. Seedlings that are buried in snow do not discolor, only those that are exposed to the wind leading us to believe that the discoloration is the result of freeze drying. The discoloration does not harm the trees it simply brings out a pigment that is already present. The condition will disappear when the temperatures remain warm for an extended period in the spring.
Hi Tag. Great explanation of how young Sequoias react to the cold and suffer from discolouration. I have a few Coastal Redwoods as part of my collection and what with the early spring weather that we had a few weeks back, they all produced lush green leaves. Then recently a sudden cool spell arrived and all of these young Redwoods have gone back to their Autumn colours; a rust brown, bronze colour. Sounds just like what you have explained above. I have taken comfort from your comment, now knowing that these Redwoods will most likely make a recovery and return to their full green colour once the warm weather returns. btw: Has the comment above been copied from anywhere? I wondered if the article goes into greater depth on the other Redwoods, such as Coastal and Dawn Redwoods. Thanks Gavin
@@NotAnotherBonsaiChannel I live in Northern California where I don’t see them change colors not the one in my pot for sure anyways so I looked it up on the Internet out of curiosity and found that great information so I can’t take credit except for finding it.
Great info. I have a few giant sequoia seedlings where the tips went brown/rusty over the winter, I was very worried but they are fine now, this is also reassuring info. Nigel I hope yours stay healthy!
@@ouskaer Great to hear that your Sequoias are back to being green. Spring is in full swing where I am in the UK, but my coastal redwoods are still a rusty brown colour. I am hoping that if this warm weather continues that they will recover and turn green again soon.
Brutal honesty regarding the pencil cactus. Lol
I really appreciate the dedication to the french lilac music. Makes me smile every time 🥰
Great updates and amazing seedlings. A future forest in the making!
Thanks Jay, yes, a pine forest to come! Now I just have to get them to survive!!!
I love being able to access prior videos when that particular tree finds its way into my garden. I have a bunch of conifer seedlings that will get my attention this week so this was a great refresher class on what to do with my western conifers: red cedar, hemlock, douglas fir, larch, lodge pole and the five little scots pine gracing my landscape beds. My larger bonsai trees have quite a few scots pine volunteers that I will do something with, like put them into a seed tray or largish pot. Thanks!!!!
Wow! That greenhouse really is giving those trees a nice head start on spring. Here in Connecticut we’re still waiting to break dormancy. Everything looks fantastic. Thanks, keep growing
It’s not as tho this video is better than the rest but I felt like giving a post tonight! “ So here I go.” Nigel has that thumb of vigor. The absolute most positive and influential plant person I’ve never met! Id like to feel that most of you agree! The nige has made “A big cut” on many of us and still growing strong! Thanks for just being you and helping people like me join the world of BONSAI. Cheers to The Man Nigel Saunders!
This is Nigel's work and his glory to bring to pass as many bonsai trees as possible
You explain
so well. very succinct and you demonstrate while talking. Thanks.
So nice of you, thanks!!
It sounds like you will have a "Goldilocks" forest someday Nigel. A big pot where papa tree grows, A medium pot where mama tree grows. and perfect little pot where baby tree grows. Alice will love walking around beneath your forest someday.
Seedlings coming along nicely! Nice to see the updates. Even the, ummm... Happy loss...😋
The new greenhouse really gives your trees a nice boost for a nice spring green up. Nice updates. Basement trees are doing nice also. Seedlings grew nice for you. Nice trim of the roots and the repotting.
Always love the updates! Can't wait to see that forest one day. Happy little seedlings now. 😁
Can't wait!
You are very correct, Dr. Saunders. Once attached to the roots, they stay attached. This is a nice little repotting of the pine. Root tips starting to grow, cool. Root flow explanation. Super. Pine looks nice in the pot.
Feels good to see all those promissing young trees taken care of and ready now for a good start! Glad to see the smoke tree allee and wiel. Thanks again for sharing!
Ohhhh love this babies seedlings 🌱 and thanks so much for caring and sharing I learned a lot 👍love to do this as well 🌲I am in North Carolina 👋spring now time I go around looking for seedlings to rescued from walk-sides drive ways a crack on the road.. and take them home to help them grow… safe and beautiful ♥️🌹🌱🌲❤️
Totalmente 💯 love that hair many benches growing 🤪 haha healthy tree 🌲
Awesome, it's nice taking care of little trees!
Hi Nigel, the trick that I have picked up over the years is that if you're going to propagate edible figs from cuttings. That you have to start them in early spring before they're leafing out. Just put them in some nice soil, and they almost act like willows.
Thanks Thomas, that might be the next tree I tackle then!!!
Cool! Nice roots the pine seedlings have. I might just try the bonsai soil for my next seed plantings, now I've used coir.
I just collected a cone from a mugo pine, seems to have many seeds in it, so a planting spree is coming up!
A great video Nigel I don’t think these will need needle wiring til next April 😅
I enjoy watching your videos, thank you for the tips😊👍
Thank you for so many detail steps for us, Master!!
Thanks for the update, I really enjoyed it, but most of all thanks for the tutorial! My two red pine and blue spruce seedlings will soon get to that stage! I’d be very curious to see a new forest on the make too!
Hurra pines i love em
Hi Nigel 👋 great video seedlings looking good, great updates 👍
A trick I use to avoid the dust is to moisten the soil slightly both as I'm mixing my soil (mostly the perlite) and when I'm reporting.
Laying the dust! ✌️
What is that soil mixture? Is it vermiculite?
I think I got into the finals. Hello bonsai people. Hello Sir Nigel!
Hello, awesome!!
Always nice job Sir 👏👏👏
Thank you Donabella!
@@TheBonsaiZone You're welcome Sir!
i dont know how you're able to keep track of all these trees its quite amazing really!
Can't wait to get my greenhouse up this season so I can start sooner in the year. Ordered my pea gravel and I have my foundation materials ready to go so it's getting exciting now! Great video Nigel, I was waiting for that Doug fir, I have one and don't quite know what to do with it!
I have a Japanese cedar (Cryptomeria japonica) since the beginning of this year and it also stayed red/orange until just recently in June when it then turned into yellow and now finally green. Maybe your sequoia also start a bit slower, but I anyways hope they're fine!
I'm sure the pines will do well in their new pots. They all look good and promising!
Wow beautiful material for bonzai new subscriber her from filipines.
Thanks so much Gomez!!!!
17:00 top right is that a chamaecyparis pisifera squarrosa or soft juniper as we call it in denmark, i love that tree it will do so well as cut and grow
Lovely!
Thanks!!
I have been wondering about the Mars project you had going
Hi Nigel, thank you for video. The aloe you consider to be tiger aloe seems to be another type, maybe aloe tarrington (tiger aloe don't have spines).
Thanks for the info!
How old are the 5 pine seedlings that you have planted Nigel? And your newly potted Douglas Fir bonsai is a beauty. Thank you for this video. Happy early Spring.
The seedlings are two years old! Thanks!
How should the seedlings be cared for now that they’ve been root pruned and repotted?
Looking great! Seeing how much you took off of those roots, I'll be fine... Is it right to do 1 heavy job, like severe root pruning, per year and let them recover?
Yes Bart, the trees will be allowed to grow for the whole summer!
This awnsers my question, thanks.
I wish I had more room to make bigger bonsai... I am basically doing mame and shohin, because of this. I also got another question... You had this "show and tell"-part in your videos a while back. I'd like to show you some stuff... (like how "your" clip and grow method worked out really nice on this little shohin tree) And perhaps others...
@@bartstellink307 Hello Bart, can you send your pictures to the channel "Blue Jay Bonsai", I'll see them there!!
hey Nigel, what if I plant 2 seeds and I got lucky and both grow on the same pot. When should I remove/separate them? Can I repot them separately? cheers!
Nigel, awesome video as usual. What is your soil made of? Vermiculite and perlite? Thank you!
I think this is the Fullers Earth / Perlite mixture for the soil? I saw this video of yours: ua-cam.com/video/p522AYawgOI/v-deo.html
It is perlite and Turface mixed 50/50 and then I add a bit of pine bark.
@@TheBonsaiZone Thank you!
@@TheBonsaiZone Thanks!
Nigil what kinda grow light you using? How many hours you leave it on.
Question
What do you use for soil on your bonsai?
I would love to know this too!
Hey Nigel, is this time of year good for repotting pines? I have a mugo pine from nursery stock that I want to cut back, and also put in bonsai soil, but I'm unsure about when to do either.
Foe most pines yes, Mugo's seem to prefer to be repotted in the summer according to many people, I haven't had any experience with this!
Great question! I was about to ask it! I guess I have some work to do today! Good luck with your mugo pine Clint.
@@TheBonsaiZone Thank you Nigel. I have a couple Austrian Pines that I have been unsure when to dig and or to re-pot them! I'm still trying to figure out the pines.
How old where those pine seedlings?
15:00
is there any ingredients in that rock soil?
or you give a tree extra ingredients?
What soil do you use for the seedlings ?
Did your Sequoia's ever turn green again?
👍👌👌🍎
My knowledge is nothing compared to you Nigel but i always thought pines shouldn’t be bare rooted do you notice any difference in vigour ?
I find they grow much better after the roots are sorted out and are growing in bonsai soil. I've never seen the vigor reduced, but most people don't recommend bare rooting.
Nigel, is this greenhouse heated during the winter?
Yes, I keep the heat on low to try and keep it above freezing!
Fuist!
Из чего сострит ваш грунт для бонсай? Не владею английским, извините
With all due respect pencil cactus you're out of the zone🤛🤜👊👎👎🥾👢🦵🦶🌋☄🔥🗑🚽🚱🏴☠️
foist?
Scott A, zooms in for a Foist!!!
🚀🛸🚲☝️👍👍🖖
Wintertime Discoloration of Giant Sequoia Seedlings
Young giant sequoias typically undergo color changes in the winter and early spring. The younger the tree the more susceptible to the color change it is. Trees less than one year old are most often affected. I have seen this condition in trees up to five years old but never in older trees.
The wintertime discoloration produces a color that is yet to be named by whoever names colors. It has been described as purplish-red, rust, brown, and bronze. Everyone who tries to describe the color struggles with an attempt to describe a color that has yet to be named. The discoloration does not occur every winter. It typically will come on suddenly in the wake of a cold storm after a period of unseasonable warmth.
Seedlings that are buried in snow do not discolor, only those that are exposed to the wind leading us to believe that the discoloration is the result of freeze drying. The discoloration does not harm the trees it simply brings out a pigment that is already present. The condition will disappear when the temperatures remain warm for an extended period in the spring.
Thanks, I think they will go back to green, hopefully soon!!
Hi Tag.
Great explanation of how young Sequoias react to the cold and suffer from discolouration.
I have a few Coastal Redwoods as part of my collection and what with the early spring weather that we had a few weeks back, they all produced lush green leaves. Then recently a sudden cool spell arrived and all of these young Redwoods have gone back to their Autumn colours; a rust brown, bronze colour. Sounds just like what you have explained above. I have taken comfort from your comment, now knowing that these Redwoods will most likely make a recovery and return to their full green colour once the warm weather returns.
btw: Has the comment above been copied from anywhere? I wondered if the article goes into greater depth on the other Redwoods, such as Coastal and Dawn Redwoods.
Thanks
Gavin
@@NotAnotherBonsaiChannel I live in Northern California where I don’t see them change colors not the one in my pot for sure anyways so I looked it up on the Internet out of curiosity and found that great information so I can’t take credit except for finding it.
Great info. I have a few giant sequoia seedlings where the tips went brown/rusty over the winter, I was very worried but they are fine now, this is also reassuring info. Nigel I hope yours stay healthy!
@@ouskaer Great to hear that your Sequoias are back to being green. Spring is in full swing where I am in the UK, but my coastal redwoods are still a rusty brown colour. I am hoping that if this warm weather continues that they will recover and turn green again soon.
When would you needle wire on pine 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
After he’s wired his hair!
@blueSkyBonsai Awesome Dave!!
Awesome channel!!
aw shucks I'm blushing here!! 😊