Great job Nigel! I really wasn’t sure what you would do with that mess.. but you really cleaned it up nicely! 🐦💙🎉🐇

Thank you I haven’t pruned mine yet!

Awesome video mate, I have the Chinese elm to , I repotted it this winter and took a few cuttings , to produce some more , I’m hoping they take , mine has been a slow grower for some reason but it is healthy , maybe this year it will grow better for me ,your tree looks awesome it’s going to be a very nice bonsai , keep us posted with its update later on , love to see how it’s grown.👍

Hadir nyimak kawan sukses selalu buat sahabat selamat pagi dan selamat beraktifitas 🙏👍👍

新年快樂 : )

Yay, I love chinese elms!

You are so good at seeing the future for your trees. Definitely something I need to practice more.

Like and tyank you.

Weird I keep my Chinese elm outside till mid Winter. It has three leaves on it still ,,I've had this tree for 4 years or so. It was my real first real Kind of expensive tree.. I think I paid 200 dollars for a 25 year old tree.. It's firstt 2 years I kept it inside and almost killed it because it needed its dormant time I finally figured it out but it's been struggling because being so weak form constantly growing it got deathly sick from spider mites and then got root rot because the nursery i got him from re-poted my tree in a pretty little pot with one tiny little drain hole and after I figure it out and did a emergency repot for myself thanks to watching your channel this winter it's finally showing signs of healthy growth. Thanks

Chinese Elm week for all of us! Love the cuts made!

I love Chinese elm, you can prune them almost the entire summer, they will shoot back like crazy. Which also results in having nice pads in no time

This guy, like Einstein, is so smart that he does not need to comb his hair.

Hi Nigel, nice video. I have a Chinese elm I have to prune for the first time. First I look at your info video. Thanks

So happy to see a video on the Chinese Elm. It's my second favorite species to work with. Amazing trees and the results are so rapid. Wishing you all the luck with all your amazing trees.

I am from Bangladesh.

The bonsai zoon ,thank you sharing for bonsai🙏👍

Some excellent decision here. I probably would have just removed all branches and styarted again hahahah

I sure hope that massive cascade-style cutting roots! Great job making lemonade out of a big twisty lemon!

Love the result! Another big step for that tree!!! Best, Patrick!

Very nice outcome, and if that thick cutting roots, it will be a cracking cascade!

That's going to look great 👍 I'm sure it will exploded with growth in spring!

I've got myself an Elm and they're great! That flaky looking bark and small leaves made them a perfect species for Bonsai!

Really hope that cutting roots. Looks like an amazing bonsai already!

Super mi amigo apoyo tu canal siempre

Great tree to ring in the new year. Cool form on the trunk. Fingers crossed on the cuttings.

EXCELLENT TIPS !!!

i love my elms..i also have some rare variegated and silver edged Chinese elms

I’m so looking forward to April to play with my Chinese Elm😢 This video(Along with the root pruning session) have given me a lot to think about

Finally a tree u have that i have 😂. It was my first bonsai and the nebari was soo bad i ground layered mine. It did survive and is doing great. One problem i did run into mine grew too much on top this was before i learned ground layering soo much that the roots couldnt support the foilage anymore and started dropping leafs. I didnt know i was new to this. But every chinese elm ive seen from a nursery never has any good roots i just dont kno y. Maybe neglect. So now i know .Im not sure but mine is old enough now it has plenty of orange plates like u said. Chinese elms are such great starter trees. Glad i have one .

Classy ❣️🙌

Looking forward to an update on that cutting, Nigel! I learn something from you every video. Thank you!

Happy Lunar New Year!

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happy lunar new year 🥰❤️

Love your videos! I assume you've seen Ryan Neil's "Bonsai Mirai" channel--he explains that whenever you cut back to stumps you're setting back the tree, since it has no foliage to create health (photosynthesis) for the next year. I love your calm, methodical style!

Nice pruning, however I would keep that aerial root. I think it looked cool!

Hi Mr. Saunders! Just caught up on this episode. Fantastic job with your Chinese Elm! I love Chinese Elms. They grow real fast and are beautiful trees to work with. Also, not sure if KZfaqr Semaj Nacho will see this, but he asked about where to buy bonsai in NJ. The best place to go would be The Bonsai Shack in nearby NY State. Great trees there.

The tree does have nice flow lines after the pruning, I think taking the top off was the right decision.

The pot for the cascade cutting looks like a fuuran pot - a pot for a Japanese wind orchid.

they have course roots and long that s why is hard to get radial good nabari.

I sometimes think you deliberately tease us with your slow methodical pruning!! Even I didnt guess it was going to go back to the trunk entirely. All good choices though and with chinese elm it will bounce back quite happily. You have made a strong point about doing the hard prunes as early as you can to establish a solid primary structure. It can be tough to remove so much when you are just starting...but it is always the right choice for the benefit of the tree. Cheers, Xav

Your orange cat just wanted to make a cameo appearance just like Tom's Kevin. I'll have to think about adding an elm to my bonsai. They make beautiful bonsai, especially smaller ones. Yesterday I worked on a large Wrightia religiosa that I'm trying to get back into good health for a neighbor. Fingers crossed for it to get more vigor back into it. Nice work on your elm. Good decision to remove that section. The tree has good trunk movement. Before you removed the branches I was thinking that this would lend itself to a beautiful weeping style. What do you think? I believe the trunk shape influences my preference for this design.

I keep my Chinese elm in my cold glass house at 0C. Then it goes dormant with leaving nearly all leafs. It looks it like to go dormant. You may try this one year

Man it would have been cool plant the cutting as a raft style tree... I would be very selective if I had the number of tree's you have tho. Guess you can't keep them all..

Thats one queer Tree in the best of hands !

Oooh, I’m “like” 555! Does the main plant go in the plant room as well for those little cuttings or do they just stay in stasis in the basement? I’m so excited to see how that big cutting does!

My cuttings root better, if i cut leafs on half also.

The tree looks much better for the pruning and if the top roots it's a huge bonus. Great video. What is the tree wit the spikes which was next to the elm in the basement? I have seen them in Mexico but never seen them in any nursery or garden centre here in England.

Nigel you mentioned rubber cement as a novice owner is this what you'd use on a puncture repair kit for a bicycle?

I overwinter my elm in an unheated greenhouse in zone 7b but it does get some shaded sunlight everyday. It has gone dormant of course but should I be worried about the sunlight?

Wow must have been clipped and grown for long to get that screw shape !

Promises to be a great looking tree. Is that Contact Cement you're using on the cuts?

Did that thick (cascade) cutting take hold and grow or was it too thick/mature to root?

Keep that Chinese elm away from the year of the rabbit 🐰🐇

Hey Nigel, I know this is a little off topic however I have a Brazilian rain tree that recently stopped opening. a good amount of leaves either have browning tips or are yellow. The soil is no longer drying out at the same rate just wondering what you think I should do. I have been considering repotting in order to get it into some better draining and dryer soil.

Whats the tree with all the thorns on the trunk?

Foist

You shouldn't have it in the basement. It would be ok in the cold greenhouse.

It’s a Chinese elm but not Chinese NewYear. Lunar New Year is more correct and unbiased because this New Year is observed and celebrated by many Asian people like Korean, Taiwanese, Vietnamese, Singaporean.

Nigel, are you getting a degree in Doing Bonsai with Difficult Trees?

Whats a leader?

In recently i have been thinking in every video. You would have so more options if you hade been using wire. I know you are a big fan of cut and grow. But..