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The parameters.
They are pretty easy but will be difficult for some since they are poor picture recorders. This thread is for pictures of your best efforts at bonsai from non bonsai material all on your own. The YOUR is in quotes in the title. These are the trees that you make in the backyard and put into pots but maybe not show them to people because they have flaws or things maybe you have not dealt with. You know self depricating bonsai. If you are taking this tree you post to your teacher, Don't post it here.
Required
A before picture, I don't care if the picture is thirty years old. (If you don't take pictures of your material before you start, don't post a current picture of it now. You didn't make it)
Either collected material or non bonsai nursery material. No material from a bonsai nursery, unless its un-worked, because bonsai nurseries like Chikugu En has plenty of un-worked material for sale. That's why the before picture is critical.
A picture of the tree as it looks today (today being 2015 or thereabouts.)
Collected can be either mountain or urban.
Tree can have wire but must exhibit a more finished state and contain all the parameters of what a bonsai is, meaning that it should contain some age as a bonsai and contain the branch structure of what a typical bonsai looks like.
It should also be in a bonsai pot and been there since at least last year so as to be stable in the pot and growing.
Try to keep comments out of the thread and lets post them someplace else.
I think it best to keep it to one tree per post, that way there is no confusion on mixed up pictures.
They are pretty easy but will be difficult for some since they are poor picture recorders. This thread is for pictures of your best efforts at bonsai from non bonsai material all on your own. The YOUR is in quotes in the title. These are the trees that you make in the backyard and put into pots but maybe not show them to people because they have flaws or things maybe you have not dealt with. You know self depricating bonsai. If you are taking this tree you post to your teacher, Don't post it here.
Required
A before picture, I don't care if the picture is thirty years old. (If you don't take pictures of your material before you start, don't post a current picture of it now. You didn't make it)
Either collected material or non bonsai nursery material. No material from a bonsai nursery, unless its un-worked, because bonsai nurseries like Chikugu En has plenty of un-worked material for sale. That's why the before picture is critical.
A picture of the tree as it looks today (today being 2015 or thereabouts.)
Collected can be either mountain or urban.
Tree can have wire but must exhibit a more finished state and contain all the parameters of what a bonsai is, meaning that it should contain some age as a bonsai and contain the branch structure of what a typical bonsai looks like.
It should also be in a bonsai pot and been there since at least last year so as to be stable in the pot and growing.
Try to keep comments out of the thread and lets post them someplace else.
I think it best to keep it to one tree per post, that way there is no confusion on mixed up pictures.
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