My Serissa Bonsai, Part 1, The Bonsai Zone, June 2021

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3 жыл бұрын

Today I'm working on my Serissa foetida, styling it to look like an African Acacia tree and while I'm waiting for the rain to stop, I show some updates to trees that have been worked on recently.
I'm also Zooming with the Midland Bonsai Society in Birmingham England, Joining them for their June meeting!
To check out their club, see the link below....
www.midlandbonsai.org
To see previous videos of my Serissa bonsai, click on the playlist here...
• African style, Serissa...
#TheBonsaiZone

Пікірлер: 55

@slappiepancakes8123 3 жыл бұрын

Don't forget to like Nigel's vids. He has alot of great bonsai content and we should thank him.

@gavins.6109 3 жыл бұрын

Such an underrated channel

@SharksFan1997 3 жыл бұрын

@@gavins.6109 I’ve never had a bonsai tree (sticking to indoor plants for now) and I watch this channel religiously. It’s just great uplifting content.

@domeniccosta5579 3 жыл бұрын

Best bonsai videos on KZfaq 😁😁😁

@seandoyle6688 3 жыл бұрын

I always like every one of Nigel’s videos before I even start watching it, I know they will be great every time! He’s a legend

@padkirsch 3 жыл бұрын

@@SharksFan1997 I agree! Nature related content is so wholesome!

@gratefulhank 2 ай бұрын

That upright structure really paid off. Looks great two years later... noice 😎🖼️

@TheBonsaiZone 2 ай бұрын

Thanks 👍

@AFV85 3 жыл бұрын

I'll need catch up on alot of your video's again now I'm back able to do my hobby as I used too, I've still got my babies! my Ginko and all the cuttings are going absolutely crazy just now! I pruned it the other day!

@AFV85 3 жыл бұрын

Beautiful to see some rain haha! Not seen it for age's here and I'm in Scotland haha! Unheard of! It's 3.30am here just away to bed haha catch up again

@thenaturecreater8906 3 жыл бұрын

Hope you never stop making video nigel. Makes my day 🥰

@Bearbok 3 жыл бұрын

I love the African acacia style for this serissa

@AFV85 3 жыл бұрын

I'm needing to pinch my Scots pine soon the candles are getting grown fast!

@denisemac118 3 жыл бұрын

Great start to the Serrissa

@sophiaangelini4368 3 жыл бұрын

Best time of the day: the Ducks waddllng in the garden, tiny Serissa Foetida and her African cousins- a Green world!

@waterlover 3 жыл бұрын

I liked the pictures you showed of what you want your tree to resemble with time , cool idea

@bluesbonsai6718 3 жыл бұрын

I wish I could have rain like you. where I live we’ve had a bit of a drought, I need my rain barrel to be full!

@bluesbonsai6718 3 жыл бұрын

I love the bog planting!

@marysoldeeley2218 3 жыл бұрын

Someday... My trees will grow. Always inspiring Nigel!

@christianhuber4054 2 жыл бұрын

Beautiful

@beardedbonsai 3 жыл бұрын

Nice to see so much of your collection in one video.

@batanghardinero1539 3 жыл бұрын

1:01 im young and starting alot of trees and gotta say it really is cool and amazing

@sophiaangelini4368 3 жыл бұрын

Trees are Cool. Congratulations and welcome.

@filipegomes1520 3 жыл бұрын

Hello Nigel. Honestly, your bonsais are so beautiful.

@AFV85 3 жыл бұрын

I'd Leave the serrisa looks beautiful like that!

@RosarioCostanzo 3 жыл бұрын

Hi Nigel, I am happy you continued with acacia freestyle

@Rblock777 3 жыл бұрын

When you put them in hot water inside the thermos I automatically thought that will just kill the embryos. When I put them in cold water the next day the shell was soft and easy pealable off

@Dzakiyah13 3 жыл бұрын

The best bonsai my friend

@jesperFrost 3 жыл бұрын

When I sprouted my baobab I filed a small hole in the shell and soaked it in cold water, the next day it was soft enough to peel off

@TobyJin 3 жыл бұрын

I haven't grown Baobabs before but with my experience in applying heat to seeds, I poured boiling water on my Acacia seeds without scratching the seed and left the water to cool for 24 hours and they germinated. I think if you scratch the coating, you don't need to pour hot water as the point of the boiling water I believe is to damage to coating so that the seed can germinate.

@Tybold63 3 жыл бұрын

The Serissa is just looking better and better :) I am sad about the Baobab seeds and I think your assumption is right that they virtually got cooked either because too long exposure of the hot water or that the hot water got in direct contact. Take care.

@koholohan3478 3 жыл бұрын

Duckies!!!

@shvshvhkv8608 3 жыл бұрын

👌👌👌...!!!

@Rblock777 3 жыл бұрын

18:20 you could build some structure that holds the branches up or wire the tree

@rishikbhatia1838 3 жыл бұрын

Hi Nigel, this is one of your beautiful bonsai. Is this a tree you collected from the wild or grown from a seed.? Also how did you mange to give such a natural curve.?

@farmert9679 3 жыл бұрын

Try to just scratch the Baobab pod and then plant them. I did that and it took about a month but they came up.

@Emre-syoutubehandle 3 жыл бұрын

Foist!

@littlefangel9243 3 жыл бұрын

✋

@AFV85 3 жыл бұрын

Serrisa is looking great mine have just taken off like never have before this year must be the climate change here in the UK

@Oterlia 3 жыл бұрын

Nigel what happend with the huge greenhouse you were building?

@paulschaefer5241 3 жыл бұрын

Do you happen to have a video of you building this greenhouse?

@TheBonsaiZone 3 жыл бұрын

I have a few work in progress pics here...at 25 sec! kzfaq.info/get/bejne/nKiqoMR_1L7SpIU.html

@davidchaves9070 2 жыл бұрын

What soil mix are you using for your serissa Nigel? I need to do a repot without touching the roots because the soil that came with my serissa retains too much water

@TheBonsaiZone 2 жыл бұрын

Hello Davis, I use a 50/50 mix of perlite and Safetysorb (Fullers earth). I screen out the fine particles to get a particle size of 3 to 4 mm (1/8"). This soil requires fertilizer to keep the tree healthy!

@davidchaves9070 2 жыл бұрын

@@TheBonsaiZone thank you!

@bluesbonsai6718 3 жыл бұрын

Right at the end of the premier my internet crashed😒

@UrvannAcademy 3 жыл бұрын

On a lighter note: your hair needs pruning too!!

@hirarai1789 3 жыл бұрын

Wow sir your hair and the bonsai look the same but it's nice

@entyropy3262 3 жыл бұрын

After about min 21:28 you say, "if you wire, you don't get a lot taper and movement" Would you be so kind and make a video about it, where you explain, what you want to say with that, because it does not make any sense and sounds not right.

@dk2614 3 жыл бұрын

Nigel sticks to a fairly rigid philosophy of clip and grow. Where all the branches have movement that is developed over many seasons of clipping and branch selection and reselection. So the movement that you achieve is a more subtle and less contrived since it is the tree growing the way it wants to with cooperation with Nigel. Likewise the taper and root structure are of a higher quality since it has been many seasons of growth and clipping. Many of Nigels trees don't necessarily look much like anything right now but take a look at some of his mature trees and the quality is clear to see. It's my understanding that the Japanese prefer clip and grow as the mature bonsai created are not easily achieved otherwise. Nigel might chime in but that's what I have learned from him. I do both clip and grow and wire but I use very little wire outside of setting the main structure. To each their own...