Starting a Dawn Redwood and a Coastal Redwood Bonsai, Part 2, The Bonsai Zone, May 2020 

Always enjoy taking a tour of your benches, just beautiful. I’ll keep your redwood in my prayers 😉. Thanks

Redwood forest are so much more amazing than I knew. I Recently found out there's an entire other forest growing in the canopies of those giants.

Looking forward to an update. Especially the coast redwood.

the local squirrels are nice enough to make sure all my pots have an oak seedling growing.

That's a beautiful redwood, I hope it makes it, it'll look beautiful as it grows.

omg that redwood looks like 3 that i have...so I'm not the only one with ugly trees, haha, you give me a lot of hope because I'm always scared to ever mess with the roots of my trees

Coast redwoods are my favorite tree, a bonsai redwood an be trained so beautifully I imagine

Great to see new spring growth on the fruit trees in the orchard and on your bonsai. I'm looking forward to following your redwoods. Those were really nice illustrations, what incredible trees ! 😀👍

Thanks for another entertaining video. Hope the oaks will do well. Mine were planted a bit to early indoors.. or I took them outside to early. They had their first leafs but when I put them outside the leafs just turned yellow and fell off. There are still some buts on them so I hope they will get new leafs later. I have another oak I collected last year. The top died off and it was judt a stick in a pot but you can see the buts starting to come out now 👍🏻 I guess oaks are one of latest trees to develop their leafs.

Studying Trees growing in nature is a helpful guidance for Bonsai. Thank you.

Coastal redwoods are wonderfully social trees! They very readily connect their roots together to share nutrients and chemical "information", and older trees will help younger trees grow. Some of the oldest redwoods end up creating such dense mats of soil on their burls that they can support the growth of new redwood saplings many meters above he ground. But given that these trees grow in northern California, I'd give it maybe a month of "winter" before bringing into the plant room. They want to stay warm and wet, since they're from a temperate rainforest. The Doug firs will also enjoy similar treatment, though they can stand drier and colder conditions. But they'll really thrive if you can give them a temperate rainforest treatment.

I took my dwarf Alberta Spruce pre-bonsai out of the regular large pot and potted in a training pot about a week ago and last night the wind blew it over, found it on the ground out of its pot this morning. I put it back together and put a rock on it so hopefully this wont happen again. Really excited about the three Japanese maples that sprouted this year and looking forward to continuing work on my boxwood, purle-leaf sand cherry and eastern white pine I started last year

Hi Nigel! I love to watch your bonsai process throughout the year, it really gives me inspirations to start a few of my own. Regarding the tamarind seeds, from my own experience, I soaked them for almost 3 weeks I think. I didn't scratch them or anything, I rinse the water once a week and just let them soak until the seed coatings loosen by themselves revealing the white seed that plumed up inside. I then just plant them in soil and a lot of them have grown well. You can also leave the seeds a little longer covered in tissue paper and keeping it in a clear container until it germinates and then plants them in soil. Anyway good luck with the tamarind, I would love to see your process for the tree and learn along the way since I have quite a few of the trees now haha. All the best Nigel, greetings from Malaysia!

Thanks for the content Nigel!

Ive grown both the coastal redwoods and giant sequoias from seed. I found the germination rate much lower on the giants but the thing i like about them is that some start to take a mature tree shape even in the first year.

I've been watching you a few months, Nigel. It's to bad you are so far from Indiana I would enjoy meeting you in person. You have taught me so much about nature and what a tree wants. My bonsai collection is still quite small only having one refined tree (chinese elm) but I have been planting trees all spring. And I'm actually about to order a coastal redwood and grow oak from seeds. Very coincidental timing! Oh I wish I could help you around the yard and at the First Nations edible forest.

As that infographic indicated, propagation/spreading from suckers is very common for coast redwoods, stop the sucker on your seedling could become a realistic feature! Many mature redwoods will have a bush-like outgrowth of suckers at the base. There are many examples here in northern California of circular groves of redwoods that all started as suckers on the roots of a much older parent tree. When the parent tree was damaged and eventually rotted away, the suckers took advantage of their parent's root system to grow vigorously and form a ring of genetically identical trees, in a near perfect circle around the gap left by the fallen parent.

great as always. wish i had a greenhouse .. the drop in temps to freezing is killing me. left a like

Wow Nigel, you guys had this late frost much stronger than Montreal...

Good luck with the tamarind!

Dont worry about Tamarind seeds. They grow wild around my parts. You just put em in the ground and keep it moist. It does takes longer than others to germinate but each and every one will germinate. The key is temperature; dont let it go cold coz here they grow around monsoon season when the lowest we go on occasions is 20°C. but mostly above 20s. Keep the temperature consistently hot and you'll be one happy man.

A windy day at Nigel's !! Very stormy here in french britany ! no thunder yet..! hope the weather will be kind for all of our trees ! HAHA the ducks... still ! :)

My Coast Redwood also turned kind of pale this spring, after staying nice and green all winter. Due to... circumstances, I had to keep it in pretty low light the last several months, so that was my guess as to why. I first got it last last spring, as a very small seedling, and I suspect it's filled up its coke-can sized pot by now, so maybe I'll repot it like you did, before it greens up!

Interesting that the bonsai grows stronger at 8:38 in the lower area than above. Perhaps a certain similarity to forsythia, which always strive to grow from below. The vagaries of nature always amaze me. Nice video.

It's mind-blowing for me how all the fruit trees where I live are already done blossoming and are growing tiny green fruit, and in Canada they are barely budding, but you will still get a harvest. I wonder how that works.

Man i love that little brass pot , you should do a semi cascade in it !! maybe a mugo pine

It shows what a few latitude degrees can make. I live in th US in hardiness zone 8 min. winter temp 10 f I have a norway maple with about 7 cm of new growth aready.

Hallo Nigel tolles Video schöne Grüße aus Austria

Hey Nigel in Japan they use cheap rice straw mats to put on the baby cypress trees until they get established it will help a lot with the winter burn

Ahumm, dear Nigel, you have your oaks figured out the wrong way round. The point is the top! The seed splits in Two halves at the thick bottom and there comes a root that turn towards the soil and the two starter leaf direct themselves to the light. You can put them at best 2-4 cm under the soil surface

I don't think I'll take on something like those .... yet LOL The kids brought me a small cone. There were seeds, so we'll see if they come up. My youngest has been keeping some seeds from cherry pits she wants us to try... :)

Hi Nigel ,nice greetings from Austria,25 degrees here

Thanks for the great video! I’ve been wanting to plant a coastal redwood bonsai forest but I’m unsure how big the pot should be. Do you think 3 seedlings 12 inches tall could fit in a 11 inch pot?

Hi Nigel. Love watching your videos. What do you use for your drainage screening and what diameter or width are the holes (in mm)?

Nigel, how is your Brazilian rain tree doing? Please give us an update, thank you!

Hi Nigel... geez.. so sad to lose a tree!! But it happens I’m sure!

Tamarind's in tropical Aus has a wet season from Nov-April and then very little rain... the bulk of the rain though comes in late January through to the end of March though. This may or may not help you...

10:07 mhhh Pines. I like pines. we need more Pines 😁😁😁😁

When are we getting an update of both your redwoods?

What about a windbreak of snow fence to keep the windburn off the trees until they get established? Might just save the trees.

HELP Hi Nigel I have a small spruce 10 cm some of the new shoots have been looking a little sad. The end tips have went a bit dry. Could it be wind or maybe to much sun. I live in Ireland. Thank you.

I would feel guilty about mowing my lawn yesterday, but this is the time of the year when everything here on the west coast just explodes. I've been meaning to ask; were you a contributing part of the 'cast' on Canadian Gardener? There's something 'familiar' about you and I can't quite figure it out. Love the updates.

Snowed today in Boston

Where did you get the tamarind seeds? I grow tamarind in North Texas from seeds. I bought organic tamarind to eat and save the seeds to grow. I just plant the seeds in garden soil and got 100% germination in a few weeks. I kept them in my living room during the Winter and they look great.

Cute duck noises

Nigel - Have any of your tamarind seeds germinated? I've tried to germinate them several times at home with no luck. I'm curious to know what I can do to grow a tamarind tree!

Hi nigel, could you show your Chinese elm in a future video when the buds come out? I guess it hasn't yet so you didnt include it. Haha I was trying to see it in this vid as you walked through the garden!

I was wondering in the first year of a trees life, is it necessary to have bonsai soil or can I just use regular soil?

Hi Nigel, when is a good time of the year to go for a walk and harvest some seeds from trees in Canada?

we had a sunny Day today in Germany 25 °C but on Monday there should be a drop to 2 °C and Snow. Strange weather here.

Hi Nigel. Will you be able. Re-use the soil in the acorn tray?

How do you treat your trees when they get leaf-fungal diseases? I usually treat them applying soap and water on the leaves and even watering them a little with the same mixture, and it seems to work. I was wondering as none of your trees shows any sign of disease.

I'm on my second Dawn redwood. Keep them away from cats. Lol.

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Isn't that stagnant water potentially harmful for the ducks to drink and wash in?

I've been growing a Giant Sequoia in a large garden pot for the past four or five years. It's coming along nicely, but will need root pruning next year. I have heard that Sequoia can react very badly to root work though, so I'm concerned about potentially killing it. There seems to be very little information on Giant Sequoia bonsai, but the best information I've found says to treat them essentially like a Juniper. Do you have any insight on these? I'll be following your Redwood progress with interest anyway. Redwoods and Sequoia are fascinating trees.

Oh Nigel, don't use the premiere feature. It tends to render videos unwatchable for some reason.

The tamarind seeds are most probably too dry. Why don't you try soaking them in warm water instead, even hot water for few minutes won't harm the seeds. All they need is a good soaking.

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you can soak tamarind seed for like a week, so plump that jar is too small.

Hello! I've very recently become interested in bonsai, and have greatly enjoyed your videos the last several days. I have been consuming all I can.. Today I almost ran over a little live oak seedling with my lawnmower, and I would love to try to turn it into a bonsai one day. I would be greatly appreciative of any advice you could give me on care and bonsai prep of this little guy. Thanks so much, keep sharing awesome videos!

May is supposed to be end of spring. Is it normal that it is still so cold?

Same with acacia seeds they've got to be scarified to germinate. And they're a royal pain to do because they're so small.

Also do you know of a decent place where you can buy training pots online ?

You made a lil mistake while adressing the different tree specs. M3 is cubic not square. Love your content dude

Hey Nigel, do you have any Alberta Spruce bonsai!?

Do you use Lava Rock? I do, less repotting.

Hi Nigel I have a question maybe you could help me with I have 3 bald cypress trees that have been grown good but the front half of the branches are brown but the back half are still green could you tell me what possibly is causing this weird situation please help my Nigel 🙏🙏🙏

After 2G internet has restore I am back you know where I live 😠 thank Nigel

Idk how you do it nigel ! 28f? I'd freeze to death .

Is it a good idea to touch all those trees in succession? Can't you spread disease that way? Just asking. :)

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How’s your yew bonsai doing ?

That coastal redwood looks dead as it looks all dried up from being exposed to the sun too much so all you did there was repot a dead twig with roots.

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