Man I know this is an old thread and idk who if any of you will see this but after reading through it I’m a little dumbfounded.
Enthusiastic beginner has an idea that he finds fascinating and is “ecstatic” to try it out with some of his extra seedlings. Then
@choppychoppy chumpychumpy comes along and shuts him down with “doubt”… he DOUBTS they will fuse.. and why? Because their bark hardens pretty quick… and you can’t do that because tree grows faster by itself.. umm what does that have to do with anything? and why are you putting your opinion of a scientifically proven process up in a forum where someone is asking for any tips or guidance based on experience or facts towards his future project based on said scientifically proven process. He wasn’t asking permission. Chumpychumpy proceeds to throw a tantrum when his comment that provides nothing but irrelevant information preceding a wild guess he came up with based on ‘cuz bark is hard’ that he himself isn’t even entirely sure is true only “doubtful” was disregarded… anyone with half a brain could see that chumpchump doest provide anything beneficial or useful to the thread yet he has multiple people backing him up, and I don’t mean his comment I mean they are literally backing up that fact that a beginner is disregarding a what? veteran? Is that what they claim to be? Or “experienced” A bunch of cry babies complaining about how this is what this forum has come to.. “a bunch of guys that don’t know jackshit about bonsai” interesting claim considering the original question really had nothing to do with bonsai yeah he was growing the seedlings for bonsai but this was strictly a botanical question on the science of trees fusing or “inosculation” which y’all clearly know NOTHING about…. “I doubt they’ll fuse” gotta be kidding me.. I’m new to this forum but if this is all there is on here just a bunch of close minded old timers that think they know all there is to know in this world then I probably won’t be sticking around much longer.. probably never even heard the term inosculation..
go look at bald cypresss in nature they naturally look like a bunch of saplings that grew real big and fused to each other the idea of starting from scratch with a beautiful bonsai in mind with 8-12seedlings that you grew and trained specifically to tie them together so they will fuse is a bad ass idea and this thread could have gone an entirely different direction if you weren’t a giant dead stump in the first comment
