Yes, it's quite a sight and hard to believe that trees can survive some of the harshest weather thrown at them!

Thank you Pedro, nice to hear!

Thank you Erik, I love spending a sunny day in the plant room, especially on a cold winter day!

Thank you very much!

Thank you Renato, have a great Christmas too!

can you give me some tips for my channel "KVR bonsai". i know we got off on the wrong foot the other day but i just want another persons opinion.

I know, a bit of delay between videos, sorry!

Thank you Matt, I hope that some day in the far future, we can look back and see the origins of some mature bonsai!

And you can bass fish year round!

Thanks Todd, winter does look much more appealing when watching it in a video!

Thank you Angie, winter can be very beautiful!

Coffee and Bonsai, go together like a horse and carriage! Thanks Pat, glad you enjoyed the video!

Thanks Quinn, it is nice seeing progress!

@@TheBonsaiZone so true! Your show and tell video was great, i hope you make that a regular thing.

Thanks, I'll have to make a video with all my Natal Plums soon!

Thanks, J, yes Todd confirmed that it is a Privet Cassia, I haven't really seen one as a bonsai, but I'll give it a whirl!

It's not on purpose, but the South African trees just seem to grow well in the plant room. One of our club members has a large collection of African plants and he's always giving me cuttings. I do think Africa has some of the greatest trees on Earth!!!!

I'll agree, I like to see the bonsai under all kinds of different weather conditions, it makes the hobby very interesting!

Thank you Joshua!

Thanks Holly, the cold weather has just begun!

Thank you, the tree is growing really well!

Thank you Karin, the Crown of Thorns is doing really well, it's starting to fill out and get a green canopy once again! Yeah! It's raining here today, so we are starting to lose most of the snow and I can re fill the rain barrel in the plant room!

Thank you, with some of those big cuts, you just never know what results you will get!

@@TheBonsaiZone That's the beautiful and exciting always to wait for what opportunities arise after such interventions.

They have the best flowers ever!

I don't have an Instagram account, but if I did, I would too!

@@TheBonsaiZone you totally need an instagram account 😭

Thank you, all works in progress!

They are growing really well, thanks very much for sending the seeds, I'll keep posting updates.

Thanks Andi, I hope you like the new video!

@@TheBonsaiZone I do!!

Thanks Rafael, the plant room is my favorite room in the house!

Nigel Saunders, The Bonsai Zone for sure. I can imagine. I also really like the Canada arm Lights! One day I might have the chance to visit your garden!

Wooden pots work well, you can make any size and style you want!

Thank you Shelton, good advice, I think it needs re potting also, I noticed the growth has slowed down this year.

I think it will become something really interesting in the future!

I did have a cold for a while, but back at it now!

Thanks Marcel, i do have some Flamboyant seeds somewhere, i just don't have room to plant them yet! I'll have to wait until the new greenhouse is done.

Hi Nigel, great! I would love to see you grow them from seeds eventually. I planted some seeds yesterday. Curious to see how they develop.

Thank you, we are back to rain today and almost all the snow has melted away. I'll be cleaning out the basement this week and getting ready to bring the rest of the trees down for the winter when the colder weather hits in a couple of weeks. Time is passing by quickly as it always does in The bonsai Zone!

I think we should send some of our heat to him and he can send us some cold. it's very hot here.

That's hot! I do like winter here, it can be very refreshing taking a long walk on a super cold day!

Thanks D K, I'll keep that in mind, hopefully some day it will be getting to this stage!

You are most welcome, glad you enjoyed the video!

That's the way to enjoy a video!

I have to keep all my trees off the ground as we have a lot of mice and rabbits that love chewing on the trees!

Very interesting! Thanks Paul, I didn't know this!

Thank you, good to hear, mine are shooting up really well, I'm so excited!

Keep trying, you will become one day, anyway just funny competition, Im 2 time foister...

Thank you Dave, may the foist be with you!

It was passed down to me, it's getting old just like me!!!!

It was bound to show up, like an uninvited house guest!

Thanks Lynx, I'll have to check that out! en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vachellia_cornigera

A very nice present Mike!

Yes I love her already.. Called her Tomoe Gozen.. After the 11th century women samari

I mist the Crown of Thorns twice a day and water it when the soil starts to look dry. It is placed near a sunny window, but we have been getting a lot of cloudy days lately. I do have some LED lights in the plant room that help brighten up the room in winter! The Crown of Thorns is really filling out nicely after it's last hard pruning!

You can activate auto translate, click CC on and then hit the gear icon and pick your language you want the subtitles to be translated into!

buds just opening on mine zone 7b

I hope mine blooms, we haven't had much light lately, it's been a dark winter so far!

Sounds like a nice project to remember your friend. I would collect the acorns in fall and then keep them cool over the winter. In spring, soak the acorns in rain water for a couple of days and then plant them in soil. They should germinate. Be sure to always protect the acorns from mice and squirrels, they will find them! Even when the seedlings are growing, you will need to protect them from animals until they loose the acorn shell completely, this usually happens in the first year.

Nigel Saunders, The Bonsai Zone thank you so much for the advice! I’ll do that and hopefully report back in a few years time!!

I keep my tropical trees outside until a risk of frost is forecast. The trees then go inside and with the extra heat, they think it's spring and begin to grow wild! Inside I position them in my plant room that has south facing windows, so they get as much sun as possible. I do continue to water and fertilize them over the winter until they can go back outside in spring!

Obrigado, a maioria dos vídeos tem a opção de CC que você pode traduzir para o seu idioma nativo, ele não funciona perfeitamente, mas acho que entendo muito do que está sendo dito.

@@TheBonsaiZone obrigado ! Vou tentar , assim vou poder entender melhor . grande abraço !

I didn't, I haven't gone shooting stills for a long time, i'll have to get out and just do it!

I lost all the models of pots I had created when my hard drive crashed, but I'll be making more soon! I'll show each pot in a video, stay tuned!

Thanks Sunit, glad you enjoyed the video!

I have the seeds right in front of me, I'll plant them in spring and hopefully they will germinate! If you need a ride to this months meeting, let me know and I can pick you up. This month is a social pot luck dinner. You can email me if you need a ride... thekwbonsaisociety@gmail.com

Yes, I have to get some yellow sticky papers for the room! Thanks!

Thank you, it's coming along, lots more to sort out, but it will get there!

Sure, you can send the pictures to... thekwbonsaisociety@gmail.com Thanks!

But just as important!

We have a lot of them down.here in costa rica, ants live in it, the.horns are like little apartments, ants get a house, ants protect the plant

Thank you Todd, i'll try making a bonsai out of it! Yes the Bullhorn Acacia really surprised me with some fantastic growth! The Monkey Ear trees are also doing really well. It's nice to have some rare plants in the collection!

Thanks Francisco, I didn't know this, it's very interesting! en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vachellia_cornigera

My daughter got a small stem from middle school and as of right now (it's over 10 years old now) the christmas cactus has a nice bark covered stem. I can't remember exactly when, but I would wager around 5 years of age it probably started getting slowly more and more brown and woody looking.

Yes, I think mine started to go woody after about 5 years of good growing!

Hello Lee and Kevin, The trees have been outdoors and they get acclimatized to the cold weather as it goes from summer to winter. When the trees are dormant, they can take pretty much everything mother nature throws at them! I keep my hardy trees outside on the benches until the night time temperature drops below -15 C (5 F). My more tender trees are already in the basement and the rest will go inside usually mid December.

I put a pinch of powdered 20-20-20 in my watering can.

The trees get used to the cold temperatures as winter approaches and most can survive down to -15 C without a problem. Pine sap remains a liquid even down to -25 C!

A maior parte da luz na minha sala de plantas vem da janela voltada para o sul, mas também tenho algumas luzes LED regulares que ajudam nos dias nublados. As luzes LED não são luzes de cultivo especiais, mas do tipo que você compraria para uma luz de garagem.

Nigel Saunders, The Bonsai Zone ok Nigel, essa iluminação no vídeo parece ser especial... Um forte abraço amigo!

My soil is 1/2 perlite and 1/2 turface. I use a water soluable fertilizer 20-20-20 and add a small amount with each watering.

When the temperature gets colder it can be dangerous, I bring the trees into the basement for January and February. They are fine done to about -15 C.

Thanks Zack, that is a good possibility for future action!

Only tools that use a bypass style cutting motion, like standard scissors, would give you trouble. we lefties have to learn to use right-handed shears.

Jeff Nelson thank you for replying! do you find using normal bonsai tools left handed works ok then? I can buy left-handed shears, but considering the price I was wondering if it would be better to learn to cut right handed haha. As you would know, some right-handed scissors work fine in the left-hand, and others just won't cut anything. My biggest problem with this has been in a fabric cutting scissors for sewing. I just absolutely cannot use normal scissors - they won't cut. So I was worried I would end up with his problem for bonsai tools..

Hello Katy, I think most bonsai tools are symmetrical and can be used in either hand, I do have one tool that has a slight offset, for right handed people, but it can be used in either hand OK.

No, they usually come in mid December when it begins to get really cold!

I don't think the freezing rain will kill your trees, the ice layer will even protect the tree from drying winter winds. I would suspect another factor caused there demise.

I don't have one yet, I have been using the one at the library so far. I will be getting one this winter, stay tuned for the 3D printing videos to come!

Thank you Jan!

Inside the Monkey Ear pods are the individual seeds which are about the size of an Apple tree, the pod does need to be opened up and the small seeds planted!

It is a possibility! i'll have to see how everything develops and then decide what to do.

Maybe some day in my future travels! I haven't been there yet.

It varies with the outside temperature and the daytime high and night time lows, but generally it goes from 15 C to 25 C on a cloudy day, on a sunny day it will get to 34 C!

@@TheBonsaiZone thankyou!! 👌

Yes, I have a Jade forest and also a single large Jade from a cutting that I started last year. Here are the playlists for these trees.... kzfaq.info/sun/PLQouTWwmTQoyFxAwlVL8L1aXNl_fJavtx kzfaq.info/get/bejne/pJ1hldJ2tq7MYX0.html

Ha, yes it seems that way! Thanks!

Those are North American Larch trees!

Yes the whole family was sick for a while, but we are on the mend finally! I rarely get sick, but this one was a tough one!

Wow, I've been reading up on albino trees, some can survive by drawing enough energy through the fungus attached to their roots, but as you say, most live a very short life! I have 4 Pomelo trees growing well now, I'm so excited!

@@TheBonsaiZone i will probably try to graft the seedling onto an older citrus tree... the bad part is that i dun have any pomelo trees that i could use so i'll have to graft it onto a clementine tree wich is basically the same thing... they're both citrus so i think it will live on fine... ifyou graft them onto a normal tree they can get the nutritions from the other parts but you'll still have a fully albino growing brench

I hate going that long without an upload, but I couldn't get to my trees that week, just one of those weeks!

A special winter cut!

Yes, they are definitely a cold weather tree, but you have the Texas Ebony, that I can't grow here!

@@TheBonsaiZone yes sir but you'll be able to grow them once you get your big greenhouse going .

I will be 3D printing some signs this year that I can place into the soil, should be fun!

D K great job at second!!!

Thanks D K!

Congratulations Adam on a fine Foist!

I just may be a profoistsional foister. I think I'm going to retire my thumbs for awhile though so Mary doesn't hate me forever! Haha

Nigel is letting his hair grow rampant, the same as he lets his bonsai grow 👍👍.............when he's ready he'll 'prune' his hair 💜.

Thanks for your thoughts on Aloe bonsai, they can make fantastic trees in nature, why not for bonsai also? Nothing wrong with crazy hair either!

I definitely agree that there is nothing wrong with your hair 👍💜