How big is your Trunk

Whats your girth measured across the trunk?


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Smoke

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Well I completely missed this part of the original post. I guess there is my answer.
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Wow, Al, I expected more than this from you! I think you’re losing your wit!

No hedging has been performed on that olive. Please do not infer that I am a follower of Walter Pall!
Why did you bring up hedging...I never brought up hedging...probably guilt?
 

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At this rate I'll crack 9800 by morning.

Maybe I could start a thread about the 2018 BIB exhibit.....that would be a hoot! I think I came home with 7 pictures. That was the only seven good trees in the exhibit and I been going to that for 20 years. What the hell happened!!!!
That was the 19th BIB show, Al! You couldn’t have been going for 20 years! Kirby’s JWP was there. You can’t comlain about that one!

Next year will be the 20th show. I expect the BIB members will be bringing out their Sunday best! You can’t show the same tree two years in a row at BIB.
 

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That was the 19th BIB show, Al! You couldn’t have been going for 20 years! Kirby’s JWP was there. You can’t comlain about that one!

Next year will be the 20th show. I expect the BIB members will be bringing out their Sunday best! You can’t show the same tree two years in a row at BIB.
I moved into this current house in August of 97, in fact we got the TV hooked up and watched as princess Di was killed. I thought I remembered going to the first BIB show that first Jan in 98. But why quibble over 1 year I can say I was there!

As far as not exhibiting two years in a row, they should have made an exception this year. I have went every year except two while my wife was dying. I have never been disappointed like I was this year.
 

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In fact I would have thought someone would have really pissed Boon off if you had to display in the north exhibit room. That looked like the room of rookies in there. Some really bad trees. Many had wire and there were no branches on some. What branches were on some were thin and very young and the wire accentuated that. The half inch trunks I speak of, yes there were some of those too.

Now one can say that this was chance to allow the beginners to show their trees. Come on...I'm not buying it. The south room was pretty decent but some of the trees were pretty poorly displayed. Bad stand choices and bad compositions. Remember I come to this annually and I know the difference between a good show and a lousy one and this was a lousy one....I just don't understand why?
 

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I looked thru my files and didn't even make a folder for this years exhibit. That's how poor the showing was......
 

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There's at least a dozen well over 3" trunk trees in this front section of my garden but I prob have at least 30 trees 3" size or larger. The raintree on the end is show ready - it has been a bonsai for almost 40yrs and it doesn't have a single chop mark or carved section to hide cuts, not one single wire scar.

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I looked thru my files and didn't even make a folder for this years exhibit. That's how poor the showing was......
Well, I’m sorry you didn’t like the show. And forgive me, I’ve never paid attention to the orientation of the rooms. I guess the North room is the one on the left as you enter? Where the smaller trees are?

BIB is a club made up of about 25 people. Most of the stands are owned by Boon, and the stand selection is made on Friday night.

By the way, I purchased and donated to the club a new Shohin box stand. The one we had been using was too narrow. Most of the BIB members have big trees. And not very many Shohin. So, they bring their Shohin and let someone select which ones to put on the box. In the past couple years, that “someone” has been me. I did contribute one tree to the display, the chojubai:

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I should mention that I am not actually an official member of BIB since I’m not local and can’t attend the meetings. As a graduate of Boon’s Intensives, I am allowed to participate in the show.

You have been able to attend far more than I have, so you would have a better perspective on whether the quality of the show was as good as past shows. I did hear talk of people holding back their best trees until the 20th anniversary.
 

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I look at all the new posts each night and all I see are threads about cuttings, little tiny trees from mail order houses. Scrawny trees dug up from the woods, fruit trees with trunks barely 1/2 inch across.

Now please use common sense and only post replies that have to do with "bonsai". You know, trees that are well established and fit the definition of what bonsai is. Ramified branches that are well defined. Residing in a bonsai pot and ready to be displayed in an exhibit. I understand that people may have smaller trees that are being grown out and even starters in 4 inch cups. That's not what I'm interested in. I just see a trend here and would like to see how this breaks out.

If you only have one tree that is 2 inches across, thats OK.

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