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Fuck you smoke and your idealistic bullshit like you fucking know something. I have helped dozens of people on this forum had you have taken 5 fucking seconds to look through my post history. Get off your trump loving fucking high horse and get your head out of your ass. Before i joined here...

I think you missed the "consumerist" part. Also like "i'm mister big shot" @Smoke , i think you also skipped over the "that may have been" in the ending. Typical on the web these days though. People only read or acknowledge the parts they want to. You all are free to continue on though, I...

Well, I've been doing bonsai about 40 years. And have always thought you were a blistering idiot so i guess we got that in common.

Wow guy, i want some of what your smokin ;)

Of course bonsai isn't going to be a miracle cure for all that's wrong with the youth of this planet. But it can be for a segment of that group. The trick is going to be in getting the info in front of them and letting natural selection weed out the ones that wont make it. If even 1 out of every...

That is for my daughter to decide when she is old enough for the most part. For now they are for my personal enjoyment, entertainment, and to keep my old bones busy so i don't just sit and rot in a rocking chair until my ashes get put into a jar. The majority of youth are idiots, no arguing...

What does 10,000 cuttings have to do with anything? It's apparent that you have very selective memory recall. Sure I have 10's of thousands of cuttings, seedlings, and under developed stock. I also have hundreds of specimens, and thousands of pre-bonsai waiting for wire. What your selective...

In reality, No it wasn't. He was paid for doing it. As someone who has apprenticed in their youth I can tell you first hand that apprentices are paid. Apprentices are given a place to stay, and the equivalent to about half of minimum wage to pay for food and such. Being an apprentice is a job...

So jealous. Still about 6" of snow on the ground up here in the sticks. Hit 60 today though and rain tomorrow so it should be gone in a week or so.

Thanks Bnut. I put that on my watch before bed list tonight.

What was the episode name with the raffia?

Love the nail polish in that second pic. They should have called it Juniper green ;) Beautiful tree none the less. I see a lot of potential in the next year or two.

So out of sheer curiosity I asked a professional documentary film maker friend of mine what it would cost to put together a serious bonsai documentary with a lot of the concepts from this thread added in. Not the typical documentary like we have all seen about bonsai before, but something...

If it was container grown it is for sure less than 10, if it had any time in the field it is less than 3. But those are only rough estimates, a lot of things can vary growth rates.

I'm only about 80% sure as the bark is a bit fuzzy in the pictures but I am fairly confident that is a Kaizuka Juniper. It is the random splashes of lighter color in random shoots that leans it towards being Kaizuka. The easiest way to tell 100% for sure would be to cut something then watch...

Ok guy's can you take the thread litter to your own thread or private messages. Nobody wants to read all that when trying to find legitimate conversation on a serious thread.

I agree a lot @sawgrass Everywhere you turn its pretty much always the same faces. I have worked with a few of those names here and there over the years and to be honest one of the things that went through my mind when meeting them, watching their demo's, etc. was that if I were younger pretty...

I've added your idea to my list and will get back to you once I have a full list of ideas and get down to the decision making stage.

Yeah, thats called Mallsai. The typical Pro Nana Juniper. The point is to engage a portion of the younger population and get them involved in something that teaches them about life and our planet, mainly that life isn't about instant gratification, and to get them to a point where they will...

Sorry, I thought you were talking about something other than Mirai before. I've seen most of Ryans stuff. I thought you were talking about general events. Sorry for putting you through the legwork.

Sadly true, a big share of the younger crowd are all about instant gratification and there really is no changing that. But there is still a segment of that age bracket that understand the concept of working towards something and appreciate the long term success.

@parhamr do you have any of those promotional materials in your possession still? I would be very interested in browsing through them to get some ideas and investigate these ideas a little further

I think I should have been more clear in my original post. The object here is to get NEW bodies into bonsai. I.E. people who are not already googling "bonsai" and related topics. Let's think more, bring someone who has no current involvement or interest. Also, for the purpose of discussion...

How could a person target that directly to the 15-35 crowd and get them to actually watch it without having any interest in the hobby already? Making youtube videos from my experience only reaches people who are already searching for that type of content. YouTube isn't a bad idea, but getting it...

Not a bad idea, but I already have a "new life" tending to thousands of trees. I like the idea of a network of people on a large scale each working regionally or locally, but then again, I think that may take a huge amount of time to get set up even with $10,000 in funding to get it started. One...