Recent content by Bill S

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    These taste like $&@#

    :eek:
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    So proud of my son

    Great to hear Dave. It also helps to show that who you surround yourself with .....
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    Larch Progression, 5 years

    Definitely helps working with Boon.
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    Anybody get winterburn on some of their trees?

    I am thinking freeze thaw cycles, it can warm considerably in sheds and garages. Also by the doors they may have gotten the cold drafts after warming. Do the look like a whitish color over most of the needles?
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    Mid Atlantic Bonsai Society Convention 4/17-4/19

    If you check the Mid Atlantic website, if not already there, there will be club contact info available. Yama Ki, and there is also a club in New Haven.
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    Mid Atlantic Bonsai Society Convention 4/17-4/19

    Did you see the sweet little twisted Junis, that Bill had ?
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    Procumbens chop or not?

    Don't pinch off the tips. Don't pinch off the tips. Take this to a work shop somewhere.
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    concave cutters keep getting damaged!

    Gauges, chisles, and knives, the concave cutter is for raw cuts, sphericals too.
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    Mid Atlantic Bonsai Society Convention 4/17-4/19

    Great festival this year. The artists were fantastic, accessible, friendly, and good at teaching bonsai. The vendors area was packed to the gills. Bill had some nice goodies, I got some seedlings from him. A Sara Raynor pot from Pauline Muths booth, assorted tools, and left assorted drools, as...
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    Mid Atlantic Bonsai Society Convention 4/17-4/19

    [I am going too , I am part of the Board running it. We should make an effort to meet each other. Put a little BNut on your name tags. I am with the club from Springfield.
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    Judging New Talent

    I will leave it at, I wish I had seen this in writing before I made an attempt at this, would have made a huge difference, HUGE. Spot on Al, spot on. At one point I was seeing if the majority of the tree would snap off, but I stopped and used the whole thing. Later Charles Cerronnio asked...
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    Bonsai soil mixes

    The bark doesn't really slime either. Look For article by Colin Lewis, and search the threads here, there are enough pages to keep you reading for a while. A common soil now is straight pumice and lava, no organics, and it works well. Find Collins article.
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    Took a Break this Summer, what I been doing....

    I saw this yesterday Later on hit the road and talked with a customer about the work they were doing. In the middle of the conversation I looked over to where they had been digging and ended leaving with this. Guessing milk but could have been cream I guess, it from an old local dairy, Asselins...
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    Violence averted at the San Diego Bonsai Pavilion

    Friends of mine growing up had to go to the yard to get mom or dad a switch if they did bad things. HUGE deterrent. I mean I watched him toss out a branch that was too small, saying he would get it worse if the switch wasn't going to fit the punishment. I am a firm believer that children...
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    The Incomparable Vance Wood

    Ron was a popular guy on the bonsai interwebs
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