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  1. Smoke

    Bonsai Talk?

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    When should inexperienced bonsai growers shut up and let the experts talk?

    I remember you there with Vance Wood and Vance Hannah. Vance Hannah now lives in Modesto, about an hour and half north of me.
  3. Smoke

    When should inexperienced bonsai growers shut up and let the experts talk?

    I remember the List Server on Garden Web and how long the pyramid shaped threads would be. Bout 92 to 94.
  4. Smoke

    When should inexperienced bonsai growers shut up and let the experts talk?

    Disc Operating System. Before windows 95, before a mouse and before simple. You had a big ole disk (5") in your computer and similar to todays hard drive but more primitive and much slower. Hell todays cell phones have more computing power than my first Packard Bell.
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    When should inexperienced bonsai growers shut up and let the experts talk?

    I am truly sorry this has happened. It was not my intent at all. Just a check in to those that cared. I posted a tree cause someone was curious. I thought it may stimulate some serious discussion about bonsai but I was wrong. It really does sadden me to see a place like this go so bad the other...
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    When should inexperienced bonsai growers shut up and let the experts talk?

    hmmm...I have been active (no longer) on Bonsai discussion forums since typing on keyboards was done in DOS. The same arguments, and the same rhetoric has been discussed ad nauseum. I check in here from time to time, maybe two or three times a month. Last week, my name was spoken in vain several...
  7. Smoke

    When should inexperienced bonsai growers shut up and let the experts talk?

    had some fun today, life is way too busy to spend with this place. Lifes much richer than a tree.....
  8. Smoke

    When should inexperienced bonsai growers shut up and let the experts talk?

    nah...nothing better to do later this afternoon after I cut up what was left of my stand alone patio cover after the Hurricane picked it up and threw it over the top of my house!
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    When should inexperienced bonsai growers shut up and let the experts talk?

    Where I am so far. I purchased the pot thru auction in Japan, it is quite large. Lots of work to go but the form is set. 8 months!!!!!!!
  10. Smoke

    When should inexperienced bonsai growers shut up and let the experts talk?

    I started to talk about this tree last Jan. when I dug it. The thread degraded into a pissing match, and once again, I have better things to do with my time than argue with folks. I think most of the time problems could be solved by just having the opposing people post up four or five of their...
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    When should inexperienced bonsai growers shut up and let the experts talk?

    Working on trees that would be hard to comprehend....Just turned 68, working on my doctorate in marriage counseling, life is wonderful, thanks for asking.
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    When should inexperienced bonsai growers shut up and let the experts talk?

    I agree with all of it....Bwahahahaha......(cough.. cough... sputter..)
  13. Smoke

    Best time/frequency to defoliate a privet?

    You'll have to show me how that works. No cutting, just removal of leaves?
  14. Smoke

    JBP advice needed

    Bonsai has always, and always will be about how fat your wallet is. One mans almost complete, is another mans starter material. You START with what you can afford. Im 68 years old and able to spend more for someone elses time. What I do with it makes no difference on what you start with. The...
  15. Smoke

    Punked by the weather

    Your already in Mexico.....
  16. Smoke

    Straight Shimpaku

    Perseverance......
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    Straight Shimpaku

    Here is that same tree four years or so later. Just finished pruning it last week and wire. It was pretty shaggy as it hadn't really been worked since that last photo. Shoots were about a foot long. Check out the close up of a branch and see what I mean about separating into small twigs with...
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    Straight Shimpaku

    Look at each branch it looks like a fist. Now splay them out like the fingers on an open palm. Turn the tips up slightly. Clean out the growth in each crotch as you build and expose some bark on each tip with growth on the end. It just seems to me that you build a whole bunch of new fists, cut...
  19. Smoke

    Straight Shimpaku

    You have enough canopy on this tree to make three trees. Open each of those pom poms up and wire out individual branchlets. Cut off what does not need to be there. thin and thin some more. Make sub branches within the pom poms, I know there can be a lot more openings with in each branch.
  20. Smoke

    What's going on in Smokes NEW BACKYARD

    Just keep at it, you'll get it when the times right.
  21. Smoke

    What's going on in Smokes NEW BACKYARD

    Willow leaf ficus repot
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