How large of a branch can one air layer?

[ETN_bonsai]

I’m joking about the Pi in college thing. It was a bit more complicated than that. I went East Tennessee State University. This trunk is a train trunk about 6-8 feet in the air, so it’s an irregular shape so using Pi wouldn’t be very useful. And I don’t remember enough calculus to figure it out.

 

[Peter/Chang’s/Nebari/]

Please, please stop with the math talk. This is a bonsai site. I have been dealing with the trauma math has caused for the past 25 years. The last day I had in my second year of Algebra 2, when I graduated high school.

From my namesake there are many good videos on YouTube Peter Chan of herons bonsai has posted. He had successfully AL many big a$$ maple specimen on his channel so they may help you friend.

 

[Gabler]

Please, please stop with the math talk. This is a bonsai site. I have been dealing with the trauma math has caused for the past 25 years. The last day I had in my second year of Algebra 2, when I graduated high school.

From my namesake there are many good videos on YouTube Peter Chan of herons bonsai has posted. He had successfully AL many big a$$ maple specimen on his channel so they may help you friend.

We're just talking about proportion. Is that not what bonsai is all about?

 

[Peter/Chang’s/Nebari/]

We're just talking about proportion. Is that not what bonsai is all about?

You can see proportion, talking 3.14 and getting technical is not necessary. Is it?

 

[Gabler]

You can see proportion, talking 3.14 and getting technical is not necessary. Is it?

I wouldn't call that technical. It's just arithmetic. And it is necessary to find the diameter of a circle when you only know the circumference.

 

[Bonsai Nut]

? not sure I follow how this affect me understanding the US measurementsystem?

No one understands the US measurement system - definitely not the average American. Ask your average person in this country to define an "acre" of land. No one knows. Explain to them that it is the amount of land that can be plowed in one day by a yoke of oxen pulling a wooden plow. Or, if that is too confusing, it is exactly 660' x 66', or 43,560 square feet. No one knows this. They just know an acre is "a decent amount of land" while two acres is "bigger".

Ask your average American how many cups are in a gallon. Or how many feet in a mile. Or the boiling point of water.

Fortunately, because of international markets they now are selling liquor in the 0.75 liter, 1 liter, 1.75 liter sizes. So much easier. I hope that eventually the US will be dragged kicking and screaming into the metric system. I am old enough to remember when we were close enough to have speed limit signs in both miles per hour and kilometers per hour. But we have too many people here that fear change and are stuck in the "old ways".

 

[BonsaiManic]

No one understands the US measurement system - definitely not the average American. Ask your average person in this country to define an "acre" of land. No one knows. Explain to them that it is the amount of land that can be plowed in one day by a yoke of oxen pulling a wooden plow. Or, if that is too confusing, it is exactly 660' x 66', or 43,560 square feet. No one knows this. They just know an acre is "a decent amount of land" while two acres is "bigger".

Ask your average American how many cups are in a gallon. Or how many feet in a mile. Or the boiling point of water.

I appreciate that you recognize that I am not no one and that I'm not average (never been accused of being average or normal).
I know these distance/area measurements because of helping on my grandfather's farm every summer, from ag classes, and from a golf course and turfgrass management program in community college. I use this degree daily working on a railyard.
I know the others but I can't tell you where or when I learned them. I just know stuff. LOL

The metric system is definitely easier. My conversion struggle is from American to metric. I hope we wise up one day as well.

 

[ETN_bonsai]

No one understands the US measurement system - definitely not the average American. Ask your average person in this country to define an "acre" of land. No one knows. Explain to them that it is the amount of land that can be plowed in one day by a yoke of oxen pulling a wooden plow. Or, if that is too confusing, it is exactly 660' x 66', or 43,560 square feet. No one knows this. They just know an acre is "a decent amount of land" while two acres is "bigger".

Ask your average American how many cups are in a gallon. Or how many feet in a mile. Or the boiling point of water.

Fortunately, because of international markets they now are selling liquor in the 0.75 liter, 1 liter, 1.75 liter sizes. So much easier. I hope that eventually the US will be dragged kicking and screaming into the metric system. I am old enough to remember when we were close enough to have speed limit signs in both miles per hour and kilometers per hour. But we have too many people here that fear change and are stuck in the "old ways".

Thanks to reading a lot of sci-fi when I was in middle & high school, I developed a working knowledge of the metric and imperial system (and their conversions) before college. Knowing both isn’t a terrible task if a backwoods bumpkin such as myself can figure it out as a preteen/teen.

 

[Bonsai Nut]

I know these distance/area measurements because of helping on my grandfather's farm every summer, from ag classes, and from a golf course and turfgrass management program in community college. I use this degree daily working on a railyard.
I know the others but I can't tell you where or when I learned them. I just know stuff. LOL

LOL I hear you. Two days ago I was spraying a systemic fungicide. I had to read the instructions for application rate in ml/liter of water... and then recalculate everything for my four gallon backpack sprayer. I should just write "15 liters" on the top of the sprayer... but then I will get a product that has instructions in ounces/gallon.