My name is Stefan and as a bonsai novice I enjoy growing various tree species and learning their growth habits as I attempt to transform them into bonsai trees. I prefer working with succulent and drought tolerant species but I equally enjoy growing other tropical and non-tropical species.
As the channel name suggests, some of the species featured here, as well as my approach to bonsai, may not fit the traditional approach to bonsai. I will be covering the evolution of odd bonsai as well as more usual tree species while also tackling other bonsai related topics such as home-made bonsai tools and pots.
Hello the Yucca plant Whisperer .... Im in the UK and have a container grown 7ft Yucca in an open porchway. It grew too tall and bent right over from the top . I cut the top leafy part off to make it straight again . Its taken a while to recover and now has a few pups growing from the trunk. Should i start feeding it yet and with what? How regularly should i water it in the summer and should i water it until the water flows out from the bottom of the container and how often should i top up the soil???? 🙏
Hey! I’m a new comer and was thinking about subscribing, but I noticed it’s been a year since your latest upload :/ Love your stuff and I hope to see more of you one day
Thank you, i purchased my first one and this will be my first "bonsai" attempt! I aspire to one day have several healthy beautiful bonsai, I am however very timid. I believe this is the best place for me to start!
Question -- could you have left some of the roots above the selected root plane on the tree above ground and planted the tips to make aerial roots? Or will you progressively raise the tree so that the selected root plane becomes exposed as nebari and aerial roots?
Jades are resilient plants. Good thing. The 'soil' you provided looks a lot more like gravel than soil. Once acclimated, my jades love full summer sunlight. I can't imagine them being sunburned by grow lights. It's been a couple of years since this video was posted. I hope the jade is doing well.
This was really helpful, i'd love to keep seeing videos on the progress. I'm about to start my bonsai journey and i have some ficus trees i want to turn into bonsai 😊
I performed hard pruning two weeks ago on my ficus benjamina clump-style bonsai that is 22 years old. I had let it get leggy, but the base is massive. I cut the top by 50 percent. I left it alone in a shady area to recuperate and am happy to report that there are many back buds up and down the trunks. In another season or two I hope to have a much improved bonsai. Thanks for the video.
You really love and care for your plants! It was very soothing watching you plant the first two cuttings so gently. Thank you for sharing this information with us!
Hi, I m living in a tropical climate & just started to grow jade plant. The weather is hot & I leave it under the garage. I don't water everyday but leaves are still dropping.. where did I go wrong? ? I try to propagate using the drop leaves but no luck
I´m just trying to save a 16 year old overwatered house yukka, today I cut it back and repotted it and left it on the balcony where hopefully the sun can dry it out a bit. But I put it in soil not stones, is that a mistake?
Were there follow up videos? I typed in Wisteria in your main channel and only saw this video with "Wisteria". I bought a kit with multiple seed types for my wife for Mother's Day and it contained Wisteria, Japanese Maple, Judas Tree, and several others. I was hunting around for more information on Wisteria.
I took my seeds from some pods that had dropped off my wisteria which last year had hundreds of pods. The pods are still there from last year and haven’t exploded or twisted. However the seeds I germinated took about a week or so and hey presto little inch high sprouts have appeared!
Thank you very much, it is an excellent video. In what month did you work on the roots? I am located in Mexico and now it is spring. Can I work on the roots of my fucus now?
Is it true that wisteria from seeds will take several years (maybe a decade!) to produce flowers? I have a few seeds that are growing but got very disappointed when I saw another channel saying this😢
