Affordable Spruce Bonsai ! Begin a bonsai for 50 bucks ||

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Күн бұрын

WIth lots of money, anybody can buy bonsai. But if on more of a budget, what will 50 bucks get you, if you have to buy substrate, pots, and a plant? Follow me as I search for plants at a nursery, repot, and do a first styling of affordable bonsai material
The original 50 dollar bonsai challenge took place last year. At the time, I styled a yew (My Yew: • Affordable bonsai ! Be...
) , but I also brought home a spruce. This tree was only lightly prunes at the time. now it is time to go through this picea and do a first styling.
0:00 50 euro bonsai challenge
0:30 Tree origin and plan in this video
1:35 First repotting picea for bonsai from nursery container
3:15 Bare-rooting a picea pre bonsai rootbal
6:01 repotting bare-rooted picea pre bonsai
7:26 First styling when creating a Picea [spruce] bonsai
9:37 Understanding wiring out foliage pads for Picea bonsai development
10:49 Pruning back spruce (picea) pre bonsai for development
14:24 Bonsai design Dilemma: Spruce bonsai
15:36 Discussing Spruce bonsai design
16:10 Call to all with a 50 dollar bonsai challenge
17:39 Update on 50 dollar bonsai challenge yew of last year
I am asking all the original participants: Share an update!
Watch the playlist: • All 50 Dollar Bonsai C...
(Who am I missing? Drop me a comment with other videos in the challenge!):
The original challenge by @BonsaiYEAH challenging @TheBonsaiZone : • $50 DIY #BonsaiChallen...
Nigels' answer: • The 50 Dollar Bonsai C...
@expressionsofgracebonsai explicitly challenged me, when I was done recording my video, after some informal challenges by chat / comments! • $50 Bonsai Challenge
@BlueJayBonsai : • $50 Bonsai Challenge -...
@TonysBonsai : • $50 Bonsai challenge
@FrostBiteBonsai : • $50 Bonsai challenge -...
@bonsaibysnc : • Video
@BonsaiYEAH made another: • $50 Bonsai Challenge: ...
@thelazybonsai : • $50 Bonsai Challenge #... and part 2 • Part 2, in MN, $50 Bon... and update • 30 Day Update #BonsaiC...
@TheBonsaiGarden : • $50/£50 Bonsai Challen... and part 2 • $50 Bonsai Challenge p...
@growclipbonsaiforseniors1951 : • $50 Challenge from SnC...
@Candice.BonsaiScience : • E80: 50$ Bonsai Challe...
@drunkbonsai6715 : • The $50 Bonsai Challen...
@therisingofroninbonsai : • $50 Bonsai Challenge @... update • $50 Bonsai Challenge @...
@SamDoeckeAussiebonsaibloke : • 50 Dollar Bonsai Chall...
@bobcat bonsai: • $50 BONSAI CHALLENGE
@BonsaiCornwall : • $50 Bonsai Challenge!!!
@LetsDoBonsai : • $50 Bonsai Challenge a...
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@blaqfish Жыл бұрын

Thank you for sharing this video about wiring. I'm going to attempt my yew this afternoon because this was so helpful.

@GrowingBonsai Жыл бұрын

Best of luck!

@TheBonsaiZone Жыл бұрын

It's looking good Jelle, big changes in a short period of time!!

@GrowingBonsai Жыл бұрын

:) Indeed. Time will tell how it responds (Not that I am too concerned, but mistakes do happen). Thx Nigel!

@FrostBiteBonsai Жыл бұрын

That is EXACTLY what I wanted out of my Christmas tree Challenge!! I used my twin trunk Dwarf Alberta Spruce! It had a rough winter so I'm leaving it to grow this season. I don't have wire so I will likely use guy-wires, or string Haha! Great video!

@GrowingBonsai 9 ай бұрын

That is awesome! Glad it worked out!

@sueb1317 Жыл бұрын

Brilliant tie-down method - been struggling with this in the past! Quite like the secondary trunk on the main tree. Very old growth looking.

@GrowingBonsai Жыл бұрын

Very happy you got this out of the video! Been struggling as to leave it in or not. But to me these little tricks make a difference when learning!

@marosbonsai Жыл бұрын

Really good result for the initial styling. Spruces are tough trees to work and make them look good.

@GrowingBonsai Жыл бұрын

Thank you! Cheers! I am so excited about second wiring in winter!

@andreastefanini11 Жыл бұрын

Very very nice! Good job Jelle!!

@GrowingBonsai Жыл бұрын

Thank you!! 😁

@Yurup Жыл бұрын

My Picea is still weak from its repotting and is hardly putting out new growth. So I wont be doing anything to it this year but watering and hoping it will grow. Love your version of the tree, can't wait for next years update!

@GrowingBonsai Жыл бұрын

IF it remains with me for that long. I am thinning out my collection and some of the trees will be moving on!

@robertscarborough68 Жыл бұрын

Beautifully done 🙂

@GrowingBonsai Жыл бұрын

Thank you! Cheers!

@risqiardana Жыл бұрын

Thank you for sharing

@GrowingBonsai Жыл бұрын

You are welcome! THank you for stopping by!

@phillipwaterman5721 Жыл бұрын

Nice job jelle great video thanks jelle keep up the good work mate thanks

@GrowingBonsai Жыл бұрын

Hey Philip, good to see you again. Thank you so much for your support!

@nerinat8371 Жыл бұрын

Job well done, what a difference

@GrowingBonsai Жыл бұрын

Thank you so much!

@snoekhoek Жыл бұрын

Very good

@GrowingBonsai Жыл бұрын

Dank je!

@DH-yj7bx Жыл бұрын

Let’s get it Jelle!

@GrowingBonsai Жыл бұрын

@joegarland4885 Жыл бұрын

Did one of these last year with a double trunk and it’s coming on well this year they don’t look there best after until they start to fill out and ramification takes place, I like you wire method for tying down the tree I have used similar on pots with only one hole, the yew is coming on well. Thank you for the video.

@GrowingBonsai Жыл бұрын

Thank you so much. The best tool one has for bonsai is time!

@sbragaglia Жыл бұрын

Very nice to see an update on the $50 challenge! Well done! Very helpful to see how are you developing your trees!

@GrowingBonsai Жыл бұрын

Thank you so much! So would you say I should do a second wiring on my yew from the first video?

@sbragaglia Жыл бұрын

@@GrowingBonsai I’m a student, anything would help me! Maybe with more accent on the styling rather than on how to apply, when, and why?

@tasanastasi7799 Жыл бұрын

Im with you ...

@GrowingBonsai Жыл бұрын

@babe1s Ай бұрын

I love your videos mate but you can start spruce bonsai for much less, especially at Christmas 😊

@GrowingBonsai Ай бұрын

Sorry to say but.. Around here 18 euro for a spruce with rootball established in a pot is a pretty god deal.

@DH-yj7bx Жыл бұрын

What would you recommend for a first time bonsai in uk weather? Kinda cold and always wet here. I like red maples, yews, junipers and stuff that fruits also

@GrowingBonsai Жыл бұрын

Elms and yews should be really easy to grow in your climate, as would hawthorn!

@Bonsaiandknives Жыл бұрын

Hi Jelle, very nice tree. My little Christmastree was too dry in winter. It loosed all the old needles. Bad. What kind of substrate is the red one and where do you buy this? I saw such a substrate at a company which is producing plants for green roofs. - And off course, a nice cat. Best regards

@GrowingBonsai Жыл бұрын

Hi Andres, the orange stuff is either Seramis or Diatomous earth/Molar Clay (The Linda Moler kitty litter is pure molar clay)

@brucedeacon28 Жыл бұрын

👍👌👌🙂

@GrowingBonsai Жыл бұрын

❤

@ChrisNLger Жыл бұрын

Mooie boom

@GrowingBonsai Жыл бұрын

Dank je wel!

@everycutmatters Жыл бұрын

Nice spruce ! I liked to have a Little bit more branches in the back, in the emty Space between the two trunks. But it’s only my taste! Can you Link my 50€ Video to your list! I can‘t find it! Thx! Werner

@GrowingBonsai Жыл бұрын

Thanks for the tips! I thought I had linked! Now it is.