Treeblers verses 'Taters...

[Adair M]

I heard Boon drinks lime sulfur for breakfast. @Adair M , you can tell us the truth!

Seriously, man, this has has been a great thread for me this week. I'm trying to get over a terrible case of the flu and this has kept me entertained quite well. Keep up the good work everyone!

No, typical breakfast for Boon is two lobsters, a side order of sushi, with hot tea.

 

[bonsaichile]

What's the point?

The point is that you are a troll who craves the attention. Yoy are not standing for anything; you take extreme positions only to provoke people, not discussions. I feel sad for you.

Ps. I am putting you in the ignore list noe, @Forsoothe! So go ahead and try to provoke me! Lol

 

[Doug J]

Up in the mountains, at high elevations, the air is dryer, the UV rays are stronger, there’s no mold, mildew, algae, or fungi to attack the deadwood to induce rot. So, yes, the deadwood is white, naturally. (Or a very light grey.)

When we bring the collected trees down from that environment, the deadwood is now subjected to all those potential rotting elements, and it will start to rot! Lime sulfur is used to help prevent the rot, and it dries white, so it has the same look as the tree had in the mountains. There is some manner of skill necessary to make the line sulfur look natural. If painted on straight on dry wood, it will just look like white paint! The technique I use is to wet the deadwood, then let it dry out for about an hour. Then I apply a 50/50 mix of lime sulfur/water using a paint brush. The lime sulfur tends to absorb into the wood. When it dries, it won’t be as stark white, and the texture is the wood grain will still be evident.

Adair- Is your LS 100% strength b4 you dilute it using this method? I bought a bottle that I intend to use, and it is at 29% strength. Would you dilute this at the 50/50 ratio, or use full strength?

 

[Smoke]

One year, for a show in October, someone fashioned a witch on a broom that had crashed into the trunk of a tree.

One year at the show a guy won peoples choice with a plastic army man with rifle and a four point plastic dear behind a tree. Looked like the real thing. people go crazy for that crap...I wonder who that deer hunter was.....

 

[Smoke]

No, typical breakfast for Boon is two lobsters, a side order of sushi, with hot tea.

No wonder he's so short.

 

[anon user]

The posts of your tree was a yard sale of a bunch of bonsai people. The pictures are from so far away no one can tell what they are. If you have a weenie between your legs post a picture of a tree in a suitable picture like everyone else does.

Remember a picture is worth a thousand words and just bantor will usually end quickly as soon as you post a pic. My fortune telling instinct says that is the reason you don't post. I been here since the beginning and 10 years before that. I have seen your kind a hundred times. All mouth and no trees. When finally a tree is posted, the thread just goes away. Of course if your a whiny snowflake democrat, even the truth is not enough for someone like you. Next thing you will want me to submit seven years of tax records.......

I've been a lurker here for a while. Posted a few times because there are a few people who seem rational and therefor have opinions I respect. But thank you for this post Smoke. This...This is the post that convinced me once and for all that this forum is full of the same childish sycophants as every other forum. People like you profess to want to help people grow and learn but really you want a playground to call your own. You really have no idea how many people you turn away with your rhetoric. And I imagine you really don't care as long as enough remain to stroke your ego.

This will be my last post on this forum. I will now log off to never log in again. How many other have already left in quiet disgust I wonder?

 

[Dav4]

I've been a lurker here for a while. Posted a few times because there are a few people who seem rational and therefor have opinions I respect. But thank you for this post Smoke. This...This is the post that convinced me once and for all that this forum is full of the same childish sycophants as every other forum. People like you profess to want to help people grow and learn but really you want a playground to call your own. You really have no idea how many people you turn away with your rhetoric. And I imagine you really don't care as long as enough remain to stroke your ego.

This will be my last post on this forum. I will now log off to never log in again. How many other have already left in quiet disgust I wonder?

Did you at least participate in the poll?

 

[Cajunrider]

I've been a lurker here for a while. Posted a few times because there are a few people who seem rational and therefor have opinions I respect. But thank you for this post Smoke. This...This is the post that convinced me once and for all that this forum is full of the same childish sycophants as every other forum. People like you profess to want to help people grow and learn but really you want a playground to call your own. You really have no idea how many people you turn away with your rhetoric. And I imagine you really don't care as long as enough remain to stroke your ego.

This will be my last post on this forum. I will now log off to never log in again. How many other have already left in quiet disgust I wonder?

I don't know about you but for me I see this forum differently. When I post silly thread I get silly replies. When I post an earnest thread, I get earnest answers. I have no doubt that I will get insults if I start a thread with an insult in mind. We are mostly adults here. No matter how well one veils an insult people see right through it and respond accordingly. For me, if this thread is all about how we like the taper in our trees, I would say that I prefer lesser taper over the drastic taper of the so called taters. However I see the intent was a bit beyond that. So the OP gets what he asked for. To me that's fair.

 

[Adair M]

Adair- Is your LS 100% strength b4 you dilute it using this method? I bought a bottle that I intend to use, and it is at 29% strength. Would you dilute this at the 50/50 ratio, or use full strength?

I would dilute it 50/50. Let it dry. That might take a day or two. If it’s not white enough, you can do it again at 50/50 or raise the proportion of LS to water. The problem is putting it on too strong. Then it looks like paint. It will eventually wear off, but it takes a while.

Hey, some like it straight. But at least wet the deadwood first so it will soak in.

 

[Adair M]

I've been a lurker here for a while. Posted a few times because there are a few people who seem rational and therefor have opinions I respect. But thank you for this post Smoke. This...This is the post that convinced me once and for all that this forum is full of the same childish sycophants as every other forum. People like you profess to want to help people grow and learn but really you want a playground to call your own. You really have no idea how many people you turn away with your rhetoric. And I imagine you really don't care as long as enough remain to stroke your ego.

This will be my last post on this forum. I will now log off to never log in again. How many other have already left in quiet disgust I wonder?

What is the point of a post like this?

The poster says he’s been lurking for a while. He’s reading a thread that was started by a guy who trying to start a fight. He reads the posts, then gets pissed that someone who knows what he’s doing calls out a poseur who doesn’t. And says he’s leaving and will never post again.

Why would we care? If you never post, you’re not contributing. You’re not giving, you’re a taker. If a moocher of information goes away, it’s no loss to us. Good riddance!

 

[Smoke]

I've been a lurker here for a while. Posted a few times because there are a few people who seem rational and therefor have opinions I respect. But thank you for this post Smoke. This...This is the post that convinced me once and for all that this forum is full of the same childish sycophants as every other forum. People like you profess to want to help people grow and learn but really you want a playground to call your own. You really have no idea how many people you turn away with your rhetoric. And I imagine you really don't care as long as enough remain to stroke your ego.

This will be my last post on this forum. I will now log off to never log in again. How many other have already left in quiet disgust I wonder?

Don't let the forum hit you in the ass on the way out!!

 

[leatherback]

I like both. As long as they are large enough.



But man, can we talk about mame for a bit. I hate mame. People who grow mame are not doing bonsezai. They are wasting their time spending years to grow something in the time it takes me to get a 6 inch trunk. Mame are not bonsezais. They are shrubs. With too few branches. Which are too small on top of that. Where do you in nature every see trees that small. And without ramnififcation.

 

[Anthony]

It's April, and still the winter blah blahs.

 

[VAFisher]

Anybody else.think Forsoothe = Bolero?

 

[Tentakelaertje]

I like both. As long as they are large enough.



But man, can we talk about mame for a bit. I hate mame. People who grow mame are not doing bonsezai. They are wasting their time spending years to grow something in the time it takes me to get a 6 inch trunk. Mame are not bonsezais. They are shrubs. With too few branches. Which are too small on top of that. Where do you in nature every see trees that small. And without ramnififcation.

Jelle what have you been drinking?

 

[Nanuk]

I've been a lurker here for a while. Posted a few times because there are a few people who seem rational and therefor have opinions I respect. But thank you for this post Smoke. This...This is the post that convinced me once and for all that this forum is full of the same childish sycophants as every other forum. People like you profess to want to help people grow and learn but really you want a playground to call your own. You really have no idea how many people you turn away with your rhetoric. And I imagine you really don't care as long as enough remain to stroke your ego.

This will be my last post on this forum. I will now log off to never log in again. How many other have already left in quiet disgust I wonder?

It must be rough living a life covered in such thin skin.

Well bye.

 

[Anthony]

Maarten,

introduce Jelle to a proper Zelkova cultivar.
See if he has a change of heart.
Warm Weather.
Anthony

 

[Cajunrider]

I like both. As long as they are large enough.



But man, can we talk about mame for a bit. I hate mame. People who grow mame are not doing bonsezai. They are wasting their time spending years to grow something in the time it takes me to get a 6 inch trunk. Mame are not bonsezais. They are shrubs. With too few branches. Which are too small on top of that. Where do you in nature every see trees that small. And without ramnififcation.

Hmmm..
You sez hate. I feel love. Closet mame boyz?

 

[M. Frary]

a little too tall for my tastes

Chop them and regrow them so they look right then.

 

[just.wing.it]

I've been a lurker here for a while. Posted a few times because there are a few people who seem rational and therefor have opinions I respect. But thank you for this post Smoke. This...This is the post that convinced me once and for all that this forum is full of the same childish sycophants as every other forum. People like you profess to want to help people grow and learn but really you want a playground to call your own. You really have no idea how many people you turn away with your rhetoric. And I imagine you really don't care as long as enough remain to stroke your ego.

This will be my last post on this forum. I will now log off to never log in again. How many other have already left in quiet disgust I wonder?

Damn Al, you @Smoke 'd that snowflake fast!
Lol!