Your Bonsai Goal

[Vin]

OH MY!
That's the stuff!
Ever get flowers?

We've had it 10 or so years but I don't recall ever seeing any.

 

[sorce]

I'm gaining a healthy fear of this thread.

Sorce

 

[Stickroot]

I'm gaining a healthy fear of this thread.

Sorce

Does the word "GOALS" scare you?
Stop keeping your pot in your sock! I mean stop keeping your pots in socks!!!

 

[sorce]

Does the word "GOALS" scare you?
Stop keeping your pot in your sock! I mean stop keeping your pots in socks!!!

Lolololololol.

Ever since hearing carps goals- yes, "goals" scares the hell out of me!

Unless yelled in the soccer voice! But I hate soccer too!

Unless soccer means the wife was acting up..........then by all means....soccer.
Just playing. Wow. Too much too fast!

Sorce

 

[grouper52]

Just came upon this thread - late to the party as usual.

My goal has always been the same. Basically, I find myself forever (as some Japanese-trained somebody once said derogatorily of folks like me) ". . . quite content to bimble along enjoying the hobby . . . "

 

[Smoke]

Just came upon this thread - late to the party as usual.

My goal has always been the same. Basically, I find myself forever (as some Japanese-trained somebody once said derogatorily of folks like me) ". . . quite content to bimble along enjoying the hobby . . . "

And there it is, the true essence of any hobby. I get really bummed when people start taking this shit too seriously. Funny, my tree told me that....

 

[sorce]

And there it is, the true essence of any hobby. I get really bummed when people start taking this shit too seriously. Funny, my tree told me that....

Give me some of those coins then! ?

When does a hobby become serious? At 400k? Lol

Sorce

 

[Vance Wood]

I'd like to make a bonsai out of a little known or native species that makes other people want to use that tree themselves.

I'd like to make a bonsai nice enough to make a non-bonsai person want to try bonsai

Been there done that. I highly recommend the endeavour. However it takes so much time to do something like this when you finally succeed no one remembers that it was you that started the fire. It is when you start running into people parroting everything you have been saying with no idea where that information comes from. That is the fact of the issue, live with it. You do this for the sake of bonai.

 

[bonsaiBlake]

1-5yrs in school for horticulture.

5-10 get my general nuserey with a specialty section for prebonsai and yamadori.

10+ retire by 40 build my rep as one of the best canvas makers( yamadori collector and prebonsai grower) in the Pac nw

Heading to Dutch after next season to earn the nursery start up fund/tuition.

 

[aml1014]

My goal in bonsai is to improve. Improve on what? Everything. I try my best each day to be better then the day before. In all aspects of bonsai and someday wish to pass the knowledge down to others. I'm young (21) but still someday wishe to have a nursery of my own that I can spend day in and day out enjoying nothing but the trees the keep me going through everyday, even when it seems like the world is against me no matter what I always have my trees.

 

[Metalgrootvader]

To be happy.

If bonsai play a part in that, great.

 

[aml1014]

To be happy.

If bonsai play a part in that, great.

When this hobby really grabs you, there's very few things that'll make you as happy.

 

[Metalgrootvader]

When this hobby really grabs you, there's very few things that'll make you as happy.

I hope so....but a nice 17" smallmouth on a lure you make yourself is hard to beat....

 

[Vance Wood]

Then the bug has not bit you hard enough. In my days of wandering the woods and fishing in the rivers for trout, Steelhead and salmon I always kept an eye open for a tree. I payed attention to the trees growing along those water courses and in the Mountains and Valleys.

 

[thumblessprimate1]

Didn't meet many goals I wanted this year. Had some losses/failures, but had some success this year.

I'm looking forward to more growth and development next year in what have growing. Excited I had a large older JBP air layer start roots this year and to see my trident maple is making fine roots now. Next year, I'm setting aside some money for some good quality bonsai soil.
Focused on root and trunk development.

My Japanese quince are doing well. Focusing on trunk and primary branch development. Maybe start worrying about flowers and getting a pot next year! Would also like to invest in a red Chojubai primarily for propagation.

I love JBP and junipers, but I think I'll give more attention to my deciduous.

 

[Metalgrootvader]

Then the bug has not bit you hard enough. In my days of wandering the woods and fishing in the rivers for trout, Steelhead and salmon I always kept an eye open for a tree. I payed attention to the trees growing along those water courses and in the Mountains and Valleys.

and you are absolutely correct Vance. I don't even have the first tree so there is a lot to learn and love.