BonjourBonsai
Chumono
It's a gateway plant!
Is bonsai going to grow or decline in popularity?
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Wires_Guy_wires
Imperial Masterpiece
It truly is @BonjourBonsai !
As for bonsai and popularity, quite recently we'e seen what media attention can do to a traditional art form: tattooing.
Its popularity grew over the course of 15 years and it's declining again at this moment - good shops are booked for a year, bad ones are losing customers fast. I think this has to do with both media presence as well as a novelty factor. At this moment there aren't any rockstars promoting bonsai, so I believe that it'll grow in popularity but only by a little. The old founding fathers of the art in the western world are dying, and there are people taking over in their own way, a good way too because they're all up in social media. But judging from the numbers, just straight up view counts on youtube, it's a steady pace of small growth in the numbers behind the decimal each year.
If there's no sudden lift off, I think it'll be a niche for the next decade at least.
As for bonsai and popularity, quite recently we'e seen what media attention can do to a traditional art form: tattooing.
Its popularity grew over the course of 15 years and it's declining again at this moment - good shops are booked for a year, bad ones are losing customers fast. I think this has to do with both media presence as well as a novelty factor. At this moment there aren't any rockstars promoting bonsai, so I believe that it'll grow in popularity but only by a little. The old founding fathers of the art in the western world are dying, and there are people taking over in their own way, a good way too because they're all up in social media. But judging from the numbers, just straight up view counts on youtube, it's a steady pace of small growth in the numbers behind the decimal each year.
If there's no sudden lift off, I think it'll be a niche for the next decade at least.
WNC Bonsai
Masterpiece
I think the injection of a new generation of bonsai professionals in the form of Bjorn, Ryan, and others will help drive growth. That along with the growth of bonsai culture on YouTube is making it more accessible for a new generation. It was very disappointing thogh that we lost the NC Bonsai Expo and the Shohin show, that was a major exposure to many folks in the SE and definitely will slow our local growth.
That's great! But I'm pretty sure he just wants to grow weed... BUT, one of his friends that have been over to the house told him he thought my trees were cool.
LuZiKui
Shohin
So funny, I had the same experience too. Growing weed indoors is a great way to learn about lighting, nutrients, basic plant lifecycles, flowering, ramification, etc. I started out doing it for the final product then fell in love with the process along the way. This was before kids/wife, so first thing I would do when I got home from work was go open up my grow cabinet and stare at my beautiful green beauties basking in that 1000W metal halide light. Thanks for the walk down memory lane!
An added bonus of transitioning to bonsai is that I don't have to use a massive charcoal air scrubber anymore!!
Wires_Guy_wires
Imperial Masterpiece
They are!That's great! But I'm pretty sure he just wants to grow weed... BUT, one of his friends that have been over to the house told him he thought my trees were cool.
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