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    looking for detailed photos of air layering, showing depth of cuts

    what it says. the lilac i tried to air layer just regrew its bark, though i was sure i cut deep enough
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    nontraditional and postmodern bonsai

    i'm baaaack like poltergeist. (song = RJD2's Final Frontier) I accurately etch out my well defined fantasy Across a skyline covered with sound I move into position like a cumulus cloud Acid rain slang still a part of my MO since My first demo, known to soak instrumentals With brainstorms...
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    show your toolkit/toolbox

    i really didn't know those clippers were for toenails. my toenails are not like that. so, what is the little phalangie on the side for? my theory is that it came to me to be sterilized and never left - same as clippers. the angle lets me make close cuts when pruning tomato branches Practical...
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    Japanese poetry - my favs, poems with trees, etc.

    i did blow up at you, kakejiku, and i apologize. it's hard to judge tone on the net, and front similar responses i've received in other threads, i assume snark when you meant none. and i assumed you were part of a group without confirming that, and i apologize for that. i'm glad your wife makes...
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    Japanese poetry - my favs, poems with trees, etc.

    i'm about to get called arrogant again... perhaps you're referring to modern japanese? 'thanks for sharing'? you're seriously being snide about the two season poem? do you think i don't know that you're being snide about the two season poem? now, i will school you: wikipedia: A kakekotoba...
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    Japanese poetry - my favs, poems with trees, etc.

    japanese poetry is known for its brevity. haiku is a 'modern' development, the older tanka (short poem) are 5-7-5-7-7. there's a rare form, the 'long song' or 'naga uta', of which hitomaro is the uncontested master. this is his lament upon losing his wife, which happens to be my favorite poem...
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    collecting a wild blueberry bush

    i managed a pic - i really don't understand why this one facet of technology simply refuses to work for me, but it's a trial. it's still a horrible pic, but at least it contains information - you can see the main 'trunk' and even where new leaves are putting on. so, is there any hope for...
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    what you doin with that in cali? sometimes i think america expects everyone in the south to just...

    what you doin with that in cali? sometimes i think america expects everyone in the south to just give up and become californians, but when i first when to LA in 1990, i was appalled by the racism. in the south, when we have a racial incident, we get embarrassed and nobody speaks for a minute. in...
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    collecting a wild blueberry bush

    update. well, i now understand that what i tried was foolish...but i've learned some interesting things. my bush, willie, is now out from under the glass, though his pot is still buried. no more wilting or spots or such. lesson - the potted bush needs high humidity, but cannot tolerate high...
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    show your toolkit/toolbox

    honestly, i had never looked at the name before, Victor, and there are a few pics on the internet never would have imagined it might be a thing (now, that was a confusing and useless sentence) as a gesture, i'll ask you instead of googling it - are these concave cutters? they're what i've...
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    show your toolkit/toolbox

    i actually started with a fishkit, a toolbox filled with aquarium related tools, to which was added gardening tools and now a few bonsai tools and a separate seed library. like everything of mine, it's old and has a history.
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    nontraditional and postmodern bonsai

    first, let me offer you a song: Candy Everybody Wants seeing as how this little show keeps you coming back - if lust and pain is the candy, if blood and love taste so sweet, we give 'em what they want. re: prison. i rather liked prison - i got to play DnD on the weekends, i met some of the...
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    nontraditional and postmodern bonsai

    yes, you can read it here: history of the ohsaycanyousea people, extinct aboriginal pygmies of north america. it's called a k-hole, dude, been there, done that - you swim with the jellyfish angels - but DON'T GO INTO THE LIGHT, CAROL-ANN yes, the carrier wave - i hear it all the time...
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    nontraditional and postmodern bonsai

    this very standardized world locked my ass up for two years. in the process there were a few episodes of actual torture and brutal dehumanization. the odd bit is that my crime was frightening a police officer during my attempt at suicide. i had just had to put down my ferret, my weird weasel...
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    nontraditional and postmodern bonsai

    GRE scores show my ability to use the english language, which has been attacked several times based on my nonstandard style of writing and punctuation. my relevant experience for bonsai would be the BA in japanese and asian lit, with a focus on classical japanese poetry, and three years of phd...
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    nontraditional and postmodern bonsai

    well, apparently i'm supposed to be impressed by post counts - which is better? that came up earlier, and i was judged by that standard. it's all penis measurement - but my standard matters. post counts, especially when useless threadcrapping is part of it, show nothing. you may not have read...
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    nontraditional and postmodern bonsai

    as a matter of fact, i do not text or type with my thumbs - samuel l jackson says it better than me, though it's NSFW, in Boondocks on texting. as for being humble - let's start with wikipedia: "True humility" is distinctly different from "false humility" which consists of deprecating one's...
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    collecting a wild blueberry bush

    a few days ago i tried air layering a stem from an older bush, so far, so good. i assume if you mess up an air layering, go too deep, your mistake is readily apparent? also, some bushes show magnesium deficiency, others iron in another patch, but my father says i can't correct for this until...
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    dogwood or crabapple - too late to airlayer?

    well, i've learned that saran wrap sucks. yeah, it's 'polyethylene', but not for this. but lo! i found a roll of thicker polyethylene 'tape' (not sticky, but on a roll like tape) so i'm going to start a few more with that. do you use peat moss powder or lumps of stringy sphagnum moss?
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    nontraditional and postmodern bonsai

    willie, the blueberry bush i took in in the middle of the summer, is now doing rather well. he should have died, and almost did, but i covered him with glass to provide the humidity (i read that blueberry cuttings need a misting system for humidity), but then the heat was causing brown spots. so...
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    nontraditional and postmodern bonsai

    you are saying that art is defined by the audience? as in pop art? although warhol *hated* this analysis of his soup can, to me that painting was the death of high art. when we look at the art of aztecs, we're looking at things, beautifully made things, from everyday life. japanese art was like...
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    nontraditional and postmodern bonsai

    the next page would have the fictional forms for strangler figs, where you have to grow the fig as an epiphyte on an existing bonsai (likely impossible) and the 3-layer, where you have an understory minitree, a mature canopy tree and an emergent tree, showing the layers of the amazonian canopy...
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    dogwood or crabapple - too late to airlayer?

    mmm - i found this paper: Rooting and Air Layering Southern Hardwoods
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    dogwood or crabapple - too late to airlayer?

    i've read that about dogwood, but my mom loved them so much and they are rather old, so if at all possible i'd like to get a tree to save. thanks.
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    nontraditional and postmodern bonsai

    okay, there is a book called 'why paint cats' - each image was accompanied by a detailed, utterly serious artistic evaluation. the thing is, it's a joke. you can't actually paint cats, though no doubt many people tried (i want to say that's cruel, but when i picture it, i giggle. i bet it hurt...
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