Fall 2017 contest anyone?

[defra]

My entery no 1 already has its own thread i will upload my work ive done there

So updates are ok but please make a thread instead of posting them in the entry thread!

 

[defra]

I think im going to enter my red pot contestent from last year as seccond entry i kinda styled it for the last years redpot contest and let it get strong over the season so its ready to go for another round and improvements can be made allong with a spring repot

 

[Starfox]

The first part of my order arrived today, lots of cool young trees but none are really ready to style. The Callistemon I wanted was a mini variety and I know they come ready made for a style but I could only get the larger variety which nurseries let get leggy. It could be a good bonsai eventually but now just needs to be cut back and I doubt having a stump as my finished entry would be much good.

There may be one something else I can enter from this delivery but will wait and see if the second batch of plants turn up before deadline and what is in there.

 

[Underdog]

I was walking around the pond today looking for the second victim.
I;m looking at this as a most improved contest and I have lots of room for improvement trees abound.
Was gonna cave and buy a mugo but they sold em out,
My next entry is a stump of a corkscrew willow. Lots of room for improvement there... I'll post it up this weekend unless I come to my...

 

[Starfox]

I'm going to wait until the last minute to see if the rest of my order comes through tomorrow which I highly doubt it will so I will probably enter an Eremophila.

 

[Vance Wood]

I don't understand how this thread can be closed down so early in the development stage and I don't understand who as the authority to close the thread and disallow me from posting and how can you possibly vote on anything when it is not available for examination. I went to the link where this was announced and found I was prohibited from posting a reply there? I'm still working on my two trees and I have yet to see the final results from any of the other entries, this makes no sense to me. I have only posted the entries not the final results. We are supposed to post the finished trees in another thread to be buried in the depths of archive posts?

 

[defra]

I don't understand how this thread can be closed down so early in the development stage and I don't understand who as the authority to close the thread and disallow me from posting and how can you possibly vote on anything when it is not available for examination. I went to the link where this was announced and found I was prohibited from posting a reply there? I'm still working on my two trees and I have yet to see the final results from any of the other entries, this makes no sense to me. I have only posted the entries not the final results. We are supposed to post the finished trees in another thread to be buried in the depths of archive posts?

Vance only the thread were the entry's can be posted is closed since people were allowed to join the contest till 01-12-2017
I will open another thread to post the progressions(end results) close to the date of the contest end date wich also can be used to cast votes

Also its impossible to get buried in the contest section since there arnt that much contests

 

[Vance Wood]

OK but the way this is set up we cannot see the before photos.

 

[defra]

OK but the way this is set up we cannot see the before photos.

In the first post of the entry thread included this:
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When the contest ends i will open up a voting thread where we can post the results when that time comes i will post an example on how to post the results
Make sure you take some pics from your work allong the way.
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In the voting thread i will create we should make one post per tree we entered the contest with
And my tought is something like this

Pic 1 entry pic

Pics of the steps

Pic result

So the voters can see what steps are taken and what the before and after looks like

 

[M. Frary]

I have yet to see the final results from any of the other entries

I imagine they will look pretty much the same come spring.

 

[theone420]

@defra so are we supposed to create a thread in the appropriate forum for the tree we are entering? do I post my Juniper progression in the juniper forum?

and then when the contest is complete, do we move our final entry pic to the forum you create for voting?

 

[defra]

In the voting thread i will create we should make one post per tree we entered the contest with
And my tought is something like this

Pic 1 entry pic

Pics of the steps

Pic result

So the voters can see what steps are taken and what the before and after looks like

Its fine by me have a thread about your entered tree elsewere on the forum
As long you follow the rules on posting the results in the entry thread when the time comes.

 

[theone420]

Its fine by me have a thread about your entered tree elsewere on the forum
As long you follow the rules on posting the results in the entry thread when the time comes.

Got it thanks

 

[defra]

Doh lol i forgot to enter my seccond entry haha

 

[Starfox]

Doh lol i forgot to enter my seccond entry haha

Oops, lol.

So I did some trimming and wiring to my Eremophila today, kind of a funky tree to work on. Well it is a bush really which is half the issue, if you google them their natural growth is kind of hard to make a tree shape from but I may be on to something. Or not at all but now I'll wait and see what happens in Spring. My other entry may be dead already.

 

[theone420]

Doh lol i forgot to enter my seccond entry haha

shhh dont tell anyone.....open the thread and post it then close the thread again.

 

[Underdog]

I for one wouldn't mind an exception in your case. Appreciate you putting this and the other contest together.

Put a couple wires on my willow but waiting on them both to go dormant. Willow still has green leaves. Forecast is next 3 days with highs below freezing and lows in the teens... that should do it.

 

[Wilson]

I imagine they will look pretty much the same come spring.

Working on the apex of my spruce...

 

[Soldano666]

Working on the apex of my spruce...View attachment 173373

Me too except its larch. Haha

 

[defra]

Nice!
We never get snow