I agree with Derrick, the little forest already is looking good. Can’t wait to see how you rearrange the trees when you repot in the spring! 🐦💙

They have already arranged themselves! Largest at the front even! I have been fascinated by these and giant redwood since I was a child. I used to want one to plant in my yard with my first white pine I was given when I was 5, by a friend of my father. Unfortunately the only place in Canada both will grow is the BC coast. I made it there once as a teen. I was in cadets and heading to the Whitehorse, Yukon cadet camp. We were bussed up from Vancouver. I was able to see Redwood in person. I'm a small person to begin with, but I felt like a flee on a dog looking up through the fur. Not sure how else to describe it really. Once in Whitehorse, the trees were similar to where I am now, less deciduous trees though. The trees were smaller in general. I still have the rocks I collected along the Yukon river. Oh boy, this video brought me for a trot through memory lane... Edit to add, I bet they smell very nice! Would be nice to hang the clippings in the house like we do with cedar!

I love growing trees from seed! I'm young, so hopefully when I'm retired I can enjoy 30 year old trees I grew from seed.

Thank you for sharing pruning bonsai🙏👍

I’ve had 22 Giant Sequoias grow from seeds I planted and am going to turn some of them into a bonsai (my first ever bonsai)! This channel is going to be a godsend!

That was quite interesting and informative, good sir. I’ve always come to your channel to learn, but I didn’t appreciate the effort you put into teaching until I watched Dave’s interview with you. I sure do appreciate you, brother.

Your little giant Sequoia trees and adorable already. I want one now.

Hi Nigel I’m so glad you made this video. I made a giant sequoia forest the other week and I was beginning to believe it would be me experimenting with my trees, something I was not looking forward to. I hope they recover ok. And thanks for your kind comments on my forest 👍

The forest is getting along quite nicely, I remember the one winter where they turned a bronze colour and you thought they weren't going to make it. Even as seedlings, they look quite nice already, I'm not sure how fast these ones grow but I do have a similar species, Sequoia sempervirens which seems to be so vigorous I need to prune multiple times a season. Can't wait to see how they develop.

Thanks for sharing 😍👍

Love the forest!

Can't wait to see how this turns out! Thanks for sharing.

Que belleza amigo gracias por tan lindo vidro

Thank you for this video. I literally have the same broken down seed tray, filled with 2 yr old sequoias that I didn't know how to tackle..

Last Saturday I saw two beautiful small giant sequoia at UNBC in forestry lab. I now want one so much, to try what you are inspiring. Great new camera angles. Thanks for the super instructions.

I like the trees. I used to have 2 of them, but for some reason they died when they were about 18, or 20 inches tall. I was pretty bummed about it as I had high hopes for them as bonsai. I'd not keep one smaller than 3 feet tall as they seem to not like being very small, but I hope you have more success than I did.

I love your forests Nigel, I can't wait to see how it turns out - even within the next 5 years!

Looks fantastic already. I can’t thank you enough for your tutelage. Not only inspirational but both enjoyable and informative. Thanks, keep growing

Looking forward to seeing you arrange these tree's into a forrest, already looks great and I'm sure you will create something special Nigel.

Great video, I've just taken delivery of two Redwood small saplings which I will grow as Bonsai's. hope they don't die like the last 5 over the previous years,

Can't wait to see the next one on this forest. Looks great!

My wife and I just returned from Sequoia National Park and the giant sequoias are majestic and inspiring! These magnificent trees have lived for thousands of years and have endless stories to tell. I purchased a giant sequoia tree sapling and thanks for your wonderful video💚

Grow sequoia giganteum for several years in France and what you ll get are many back buds everywhere :) Plus, strength will still be strong on the top. This winter i tried a very strong pruning : the top as every years + remove most of side branches. I just let many buds. We ll see the results this summer!

GST trees grew nice for you. The way you prune these trees, they will be ready for some nice spring growth. Of course, done by the Master, Dr. Saunders.

Just started my own journey with giant sequoias seeds. Hope mine turn out as vigorous as these by next spring! Really beautiful trees.

Heavy wet snow here. Glad okay by you.

A trailblazing master class in pruning. Thanks Nigel, very informative 👍Im off to tackle my Junipers.

Nice! 👍🏻🌲🌲🌲

I think I watched all of the series of the Montreal bonsai collection videos you posted. I dont remember seeing the sequoia. They only have a few trees listed on their website too. Maybe I'll try and find it in your videos again. I have a few 1 year old sequoias, and finding inspiration is kinda tough because of the lack of information. I'll be following your progress closely, since yours are one year ahead of mine!

Lovely little forest Nigel , gonna be great one day !! The only time I ever saw a sequoia I had to buy it , it never made it to a bonsai as it’s far to pretty , maybe though one day now I know what to do with it , I will give it a try , thanks always for your valuable information 👏

Medium to large seems to be your favourite bonsai size 😉

I have 8 sequioadendron giganteum currently going in my 2nd year. 5 different cultivars. 2 are plain. I have not any pruning. They are all mostly 3 feet tall. Looking forward to see how yours develop!

Looks interesting! I keep my fingers crossed and I hope some day these cuttings will look like miniature Sequoia forest!

Along with Coasters my favourite trees. Would love to visit the national parks one day.

floating row covers or an insulation blanket across the top of your greenhouse could reduce the volume of air and exposure during sub zero days, you could also place a large barrel of water with an heating coil in it to reradiate during the night. often in sub zero days the isolation of air pockets is just as effective as several degrees of heating *i recall from my hort intro classes in the production houses.

These look exactly like lemon cypress lol. Pls give us an update soon, i also never pruned these, very excited how they react :o

Those are looking good Nigel! I’ve tried growing Giant Sequoias from seeds a couple of times now and can never get them to make it past a year. Usually die off when I bring them inside for winter.

Well I live in Oklahoma and have had one for about 2 years now last winter was colder then shit and this past winter was colder then shit last summer was hotter then shit and hopefully this summer won't be hotter then shit but my sequoia is doing great finally coming out of it's dormancy and starting to green up again. It's about oh I don't know 2 feet tall and it's truck is about 2 inches in diameter. Pretty bad ass little tree last July had a real bad drought lawn turned to dust and blew away lost a blue spruce my duggy fur hung in strong and my sequoia never flinched a bit just kept on growing. I did have it were all my trees got the morning and early afternoon sun but then shade the rest of the day. Took me 3 days watching the sun and elm tree in my front yard to figure out a location for that to work. My wife watered them for me when I was at work then I watered them again after I got home. Made it through that shit summer. We get real high winds in the winter and the temps can drop to -10 even -20 here with the wind chill but I put them in my little green house for that. Prunes mine about 2 weeks ago and got a little die back. Pruned the roots so it could fit in the badass pot my wife bought. ( It's frost proof ) love the pot. All in all it's doing awesome for a high altitude tree growing in Oklahoma, love my little sequoia buddy. I'ma stop it from growing after about 4ft tall. I got a couple of sacrificial branches left at the bottom. Hopping to get another 3 to 4 inches of truck width. Bought another came the same height as my first about 3 inches but I'm guessing in Oklahoma they grow fast not sure why but my new one will put on about 2 feet by November I'm sure. Well I watch your videos from time to time. Got a weird hair do going on there but what ever floats your boat as they say. Keep up the great content and I'll keep watching and learning. P.s cool looking sequoia forest btw love the snow you got going on where you live. 2 thumbs up on that 👍👍

Bonjour...je viens d'acquérir un séquoia géant en bonsai , il était a Barcelone, je suis dans le sud ouest de la France..il est brumisé tout les jours 2 fois par beau temps et un peu d'engrais fertil océan..et substrat toujours humide ça aime un sol frais et humide...la personne qui le possédait ne savais pas y faire il a failli mourir...donc il me fait une belle poussée...j'adore cet arbre avec mon cyprès des marais de Louisiane

I have 7 of them and have never pruned , have two Dawn Redwood and one Coast Redwood.

they look just like eastern Red cedar when they are that small

My sequoia tree is about as old as yours, however mine is twice as big perhaps due to the large pot its in.

I hope yours grow like normal trees after pruning, my bigger giant sequoia seems to not respond that well to pruning. I get tons of back buds on the trunk but the branches do not develop as well.

I follow this interesting project, I have one giant sequoia and one costal redwood

Can almost feel the smell looking at you cutting away. They seem to have pretty soft needles do they?

:O i have this trees to i have 2 off them i got them from the super market for 2 euros ea i like the way the look and the were not pricly

Hi Nigel i was just thinking that i actually like the arrangement now, very natural without the effort! Maybe you could replicate in the repotting?

Nice one Nigel! A thought - the seeds 'gave' you that random grouping, I'd keep it. It looks natural and if some struggle to compete then why intervene? That's what trees do.

Aw man, no rubber cement today, lol jk thank you Nigel!

Will there be a follow up? I have 2 giant sequoias. One got frostbitten during the winter (turned reddish-purple). It isn‘t showing any signs of new buds forming. I am afraid it will die. Also i am super unsure on how to prune them. Van i chop branches at any length or do i need to prune back to buds/internodes? (I tried it a while back, cut a branch short and it died) It is such a task to find info online😂. Would be really cool to know how the giant responds to cutting back

yes to cuting i did it tho i lost them to thos bugs that look like cotton, i don't know if the will root tho if the are green my were woody when i planted the cutings.

Not Foist.

Are you going for a mame forest? These trees will never get larger in that pot especially with all the pruning

Thoid

btw i don't know if you know about Discord, i use it for games mostly but i think ppl here will like to show there trees to own an other.

Foist

I think that the Ryan Neil tree you saw in Montreal was a coastal redwood, not the giant seguoia.

In the beginning there I was wondering… is he smelling it or tasting it? ;-)

I dont really understand why you did this? If they have more leaves, then they'll be able to obtain more energy quicker, and grow quicker? Cutting off most of the branches will just hinder them, no? The branches weren't bad, they were fine.

looks kinda small to me to be honest

you need some pruning too🎉😂