Can you make a video showing how you get primary branches to grow where you want them? Maybe if you did a series that follows one or a few trees from the start would be dope.
Yeah that would be awesome! I struggle to put it all together in my head. Having a playlist for one tree from start to finish would give us an idea on how it progressed. Amazing trees...you got skills bro!
@@LittleJadeBonsai I have a young Portulacaria afra. I really would like to know how to train a young plant to develop into something that looks like a tree. We know that the Portulacaria is actually a bush and it grows naturally like a bush. It takes some kind of know how to turn a bush into a tree. Please help.
Have been following you this year on Instagram. Very instructional. Am learning and applying your concepts daily and since I am in my 70's am looking for some more established ones to add to my small underdeveloped collection so I can also do some maintenance work.
Brand new to bonsai and just bought a little Jade pre-bonsai. Scouring the web for information and how to get started and this video is the best so far. Would love to learn your thought process on how you trim to establish your branching when you're starting from the pre-bonsai stage.
THANK YOU!!!!! This is so helpful!! I am so excited and this is my favorite plant because I rescued her from a Walmart trash can. She’s so big now and I have her babies all over my house. It’s so lovely.
I learned so much from this video! I have old (20 years+) jade plants have massive trunjks and are actually pretty wild looking, which I like. But thanks to you, I'm going to try my hand at turning in a newer plant into a bonsai. Thanks for the excellent videos.
I would like to see a series of vids on starter trees also. from small cuttings. how to create primary branches etc. would be good as I'm guessing you have enough to use different trees at different stages to speed up the series , rather than filming over say, a 5 year period. great video, looking forward to seeing more 👍🏼😊
I love how you promote constant cutting while Nigel Saunders trims every year... I can see both of your results, which are both amazing, so I know I can experiment and do whatever my trees need! Thank youi so much for the information
I just love your obsession for lil port! you are a proud owner of some very beautiful ports! I would love to see a demonstration on how to start Port RootOverRock. I guess ROR design is so in demand and many viewers will benefit from it. Waiting for it eagerly!.
Very awesome! I love what you are doing with ports. Very underutilized bonsai. I think you should do a video on a neglected port and teach us how to get it into “little jade bonsai” shape.
Great video! I watch a lot of bonsai videos and yours are some of the very best. Simple, informative, they give me something I can USE. I live in Florida and have lots of ports in my landscaping, many growing down and over large boulders. I've never focussed on making them into bonsai but now I'm INSPIRED. THANK YOU!!!
awesome video. awesome tree. This was the info I needed. I just started with a dwarf jade and had no idea how to develop ramification. My suggestion for video idea is how to develop roots/nabari, I have a jade with a pretty thick truck that has roots only growing on one side.
This is an awesome video very helpful. What I would like to see and others will agree im sure is how to develop a plant. Show us more of the process on a progressing plant rather than a maintenance plant.
I know this is a couple years old but it is new to me. Great video. I use a tomato clamp thingies, that is a Japanese word meaning duhicki, and string or wire. The clamp doesn't mark plant and easily comes off without cutting.
Thanks for this! My spekbome (P. afra) are several months old and were grown from truncheons. They're looking very sparse, and I've realised it's because I've just let them grow basically untouched! Poor things are going to get the pruning of their lives today...
Great informative video! Can you make a video on turning nursery stock with really long branches into bonsai? I feel like I just have to completely prune the branches off from mine and start over in order to make it look nice.
Nice tree! I’m just getting into bonsai. I’m collecting bonsai material and I think dwarf jade might be a quick and easy way to go. Keep those videos coming. What type of soil can I get by with as I don’t have regular bonsai soil available
Little Jade Bonsai. Nice video. I enjoyed the tree and your insights. There seems to be a lot of back and forth about sacrificial branches, and thickening up trunks and branches, but I've also thought that more division leads to more foliage thus everything lower than that gets thicker. Especially with fast-growing trees like the PA. I'm in MN, so my trees need to be inside for a long time, but my trees are loving my plant room environment right now. Are you trimming all year long where you are or do you back off for a while during winter season whatever that means where you are?
Another awesome informative video, thank you! I'd love to see what you can do with a nursery stock port afra :) Also do you just lift up the root bowl over the years to get those exposed roots?
Looking forward to a repotting. I've gotten so much conflicting info! Seems I let mine get to dry during some portion of the process. Everything I hear or read implies they will rot if they even look at water, anytime near or after a report.
Tree looks beautiful! Got my first bonsai tree this weekend and it’s actually a portulacaria but the variegated version. I’m a bit at a loss on how to start trimming and stumbled upon your video. Can’t wait to see how mine will look in a few years? I also just repotted it, do you recommend waiting before trimming or can I do it right away?
Hi, fantastic work, may you please tell us in case of comparison, would sacrifice branches get thicker trunk or trimming continuously will get us that result faster?
Que buenos vídeos... A mi también me gustan mucho las Portulacarias Afra. Alguna vez has hecho injertos en ellas? Cómo lo hiciste y cómo te fue con eso?
Can you do a video about starting a bonsai tree from an established elephant bush plant that has never been trimmed? My plants are falling over because the center trunk of the plant is very weak.
Thanks for the video. Quick question. Can you prune an Afra as soon as it starts growing new leaves? EG: Beginning of summer? Or must I wait till it has finished growing and then prune?
