BONSAI NEW EASY METHOD # 111-BAMBOO FOREST PLANTED BY SEED
WE GOT SOME BAMBOO SEEDS (BUDDHA BELLY AND CANDY CANE) AND I PLANT THEM IN SPHAGBUM MOSS INSTEAD OF THE RECOMMENDED CAT LITTER.
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BONSAI-EASY NEW METHOD-PART 3 of 3
Making, raising, and caring for bonsai is easy if you use the new soil-less method which these video clips will show you. Your trees will grow and mature faster than with the traditional method that uses messy soil. I have been using this method since 1985 and have had great results. I started using this method in Philadelphia, and then when I moved to Florida I continued and find it is the best method for me. The traditional method works with slow, tedious growth, and wiring of trees. The new method uses directional pruning and fast growth to make mature looking trees in far less time than the old traditional method. There are so many advantages to the new method, I wonder why anyone would use the old, slow, messy, and difficult traditional method. Take a look at these three videos and you will see how much fun and how easy it is to become a bonsai grower and producer. Fun, fun, fun. Easy, easy easy. I have found the less you fuss with the trees and let them do their natural thing, the better they grow, and the easier the entire process is. You need not over-care for your trees, just water and feed them and occassionally prune them. It really works! This video was shot in about April of 2004. This is a series of three segments, as the maximum time for a YouTube video is ten minutes, The last segment was shot today, December 21, 2007, and shows what happened to the Juniper that I worked on in the original taping. That taping was unplanned, as my son Aaron was visiting from Orlando and we decided on the spur of the moment to shoot a possible pilot show for TV. He had never used that camera before and I think he did a great job. There is much more to show and tell about, and perhaps one day this series will be expanded. If you’d like to see a series like this on television, write to the stations and put some pressure on them. There are many people who would love to try their hand at this fascinating art form but are scared. I hope I have shown you that it is easy and fun, and nothing to be fearful about. It is a great hobby for kids and the elderly and all the in between ages.
PART 4 IS NOW AVAILABLE ON YOUTUBE.(May, 2008- showing traditional bonsai at the Morikami Museum. It’s just a silent look at their trees, but it is inspiring)(”Morikami Bonsai Gardens May 2008″).(***PLEASE VIEW PART 12 ABOUT THE WARNING ON HANDLING SPHAGNUM MOSS BEFORE YOU WORK WITH SPHAGNUM MOSS***).
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BONSAI-EASY NEW METHOD-PART 1 OF 3
Making, raising, and caring for bonsai is easy if you use the new soil-less method which these video clips will show you. Your trees will grow and mature faster than with the traditional method that uses messy soil. I have been using this method since 1985 and have had great results. I started using this method in Philadelphia, and then when I moved to Florida I continued and find it is the best method for me. The traditional method works with slow, tedious growth, and wiring of trees. The new method uses directional pruning and fast growth to make mature looking trees in far less time than the old traditional method. There are so many advantages to the new method, I wonder why anyone would use the old, slow, messy, and difficult traditional method. Take a look at these three videos and you will see how much fun and how easy it is to become a bonsai grower and producer. Fun, fun, fun. Easy, easy easy. I have found the less you fuss with the trees and let them do their natural thing, the better they grow, and the easier the entire process is. You need not over-care for your trees, just water and feed them and occassionally prune them. It really works! This video was shot in about April of 2004. This is a series of three segments, as the maximum time for a YouTube video is ten minutes, The last segment was shot today, December 21, 2007, and shows what happened to the Juniper that I worked on in the original taping. That taping was unplanned, as my son Aaron was visiting from Orlando and we decided on the spur of the moment to shoot a possible pilot show for TV. He had never used that camera before and I think he did a great job. There is much more to show and tell about, and perhaps one day this series will be expanded. If you’d like to see a series like this on television, write to the stations and put some pressure on them. There are many people who would love to try their hand at this fascinating art form but are scared. I hope I have shown you that it is easy and fun, and nothing to be fearful about. It is a great hobby for kids and the elderly and all the in between ages.
PART 4 IS NOW AVAILABLE ON YOUTUBE.(May, 2008- showing traditional bonsai at the Morikami Museum. It’s just a silent look at their trees, but it is inspiring)(”Morikami Bonsai Gardens May 2008″).(***PLEASE VIEW PART 12 ABOUT THE WARNING ON HANDLING SPHAGNUM MOSS BEFORE YOU WORK WITH SPHAGNUM MOSS***).
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BONSAI NEW EASY METHOD #76 PART B-COFFEE TREE SEVERE TRIM AND REPOT
AFTER THE WORK DONE IN PART “A” WE LOOK AT MAKING CUTTINGS FROM THE BRANCHES CUT FROM THE COFFEE TREE.
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BONSAI-NEW EASY METHOD-PART 16-SEA GRAPE TRIM;WEED REMOVAL
THE SEA GRAPE IS A NICE PLANT FOR BONSAI. A SHRUB THAT CAN GROW INTO A FULL SIZE TREE, IT HAS PADDLE-LIKE LEAVES THAT CAN REACH 10-12 INCHES. SIMPLY PRUNING THE LARGE LEAVES WILL RESULT IN A PLANT WITH SMALLER LEAVES IN PROPORTION TO THE MINUTURIZED TREE. I ALSO DICUSS THIS WEED THAT IS ALL INVASIVE DOWN HERE. iT LOOKS GOOD, BUT BECAUSE OF IT’S ROOT STRUCTURE, IT STEALS WATER AND NUTRIENTS FROM YOUR TREE. THIS IS UNLIKE GREEN MOSS THAT HAS NO ROOTS BUT MAKES A LOVEY CARPET OF PSEDDO-GRASS.(***PLEASE VIEW PART 12 ABOUT THE WARNING ON HANDLING SPHAGNUM MOSS BEFORE YOU WORK WITH SPHAGNUM MOSS***).
VIDEOGROPHY BY JERRY LITT.
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BONSAI-EASY NEW METHOD-PART 13-FICUS PRUNING
THIS IS A PRUNING OF A RATHER OVERGROWN FICUS (FIG) TREE. THIS IS FICUS BENJAMINA, OR THE WEEPING FICUS. THIS ONE HAD NOT BEEN EXAMINED IN ABOUT A YEAR. GETTING IT OUT OF THE POT WAS A SLIGHT PROBLEM AS IT IS A COMMERCIAL POT AND HAS AN INTERNAL LIP. BUT BEING THAT THE GROWTH MEDIUM IS SPHAGNUM MOSS, IT COMES OUT RELATIVELY EASILY, WHEREAS HAD THIS BEEN IN SOIL, IT WOULD HAVE BEEN A CRUMBLING MESS. FICUS TREES CAN DEVELOP FIGS, WHICH I HAVE HAD HAPPEN OCCASSIONALLY. THEY ARE HEARTY GROWERS, AND THOUGH FULL SUN IS SUGGESTED, THEY DO WELL AS HOUSEPLANTS, AND MINE DO FINE UNDER THE SHADE OF A LARGE OAK. THIS ONE NEEDED A MAJOR PRUNING, WHICH IT GOT.(***PLEASE VIEW PART 12 ABOUT THE WARNING ON HANDLING SPHAGNUM MOSS BEFORE YOU WORK WITH SPHAGNUM MOSS***).
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BONSAI NEW EASY METHOD #76 PART A-COFFEE TREE SEVERE TRIM AND REPOT
WE TAKE THE COFFEE TREE WHICH HAS NOT BEEN OUT OF IT’S POT FOR A FEW YEARS, DO A MAJOR REPLANT AND THEN TAKE OFF ALMOST ALL OF THE LEAVES IN A SEVERE TRIM.
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BONSAI-EASY NEW METHOD-PART10-SCHEFFLERA (UMBRELLA TREE)
THE SCHEFFLERA IS A GREAT BONSAI SUBJECT. THE ONE IN THIS VIDEO IS ABOUT 11 YEARS OLD. IT IS ON A TOP SHELF OF ONE OF MY BONSAI STANDS, AND I DON’T GET A GOOD VIEW OF IT. SO WHEN I TOOK IT DOWN TO GET A DECENT LOOK, I SAW HOW MUCH IT HAD EXPANDED. MY FIRST THOUGHTS WERE TO TRIM IT CLOSELY, BUT AFTER A GOOD LOOK I DECIDED THAT THE BRANCH STRUCTURE WAS REALLY PLEASING AND I JUST DID A TRIM. I ALSO REPOTTED IT. I HAD SEEN A QUESTION ON THE INTERNET ABOUT GETTING SMALLER LEAVES ON A SCHEFFLERA …
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My newest bonsai trees
These trees were all purchased at home depot or lowes and planted in sphagnum moss using the new easy bonsia method found on youtube.
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BONSAI NEW EASY METHOD #40-BAOBOB TREE
BABOBO TREES GROW IN MADAGASCAR,AFRICA, AND AUSTRAILIA. THEY HAVE A HUGE, AND RELATIVELY SHORT TRUNK, WITH A WILD LOOKING MOP OF TOP BRANCHES THAT EXTEND LATERALLY. THEY PRUCE A LARGE FRUIT WHICH SOMETIMES LEADS THE TREE TO BE CALLED A MONKEY BREAD TREE. THAT IS THE NAME GIVEN TO THE FRUIT, WHICH IS LARGE, HEAVY,NUTRICIOUS AND HIGH IN VITAMIN C. I HAVE NEVER TRIED A BAOBOB AS A BONSAI BEFORE, SO THIS SHOULD BE INTERESTING. THESE WERE PURCHASED AS SEEDLINGS ABOUT A YEAR AGO AND I HAVE BEEN GROWING THEM IN POTS UNTIL I THOUGHT THEY WERE READY TO BE TRANSPLANTED. (I PLANTED THREE FULL SIZE TREES ALSO). ONCE THEY GET ESTABLISHED IN THE SPHAGNUM MOSS, I WILL START TO TRY TO TRIM THEM TO A SMALLER SIZE.(***PLEASE VIEW PART 12 ABOUT THE WARNING ON HANDLING SPHAGNUM MOSS BEFORE YOU WORK WITH SPHAGNUM MOSS***).
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