Thanks, John. That is a great video. What maple cultivar is that at 5:10? Also is that a seiryu at 6:05? Thanks.
Man this was a great show. I loved the Susquehanna display, it was truly awesome. I love the fact that they did a western style display, dare I call it an American Bonsai display. It was beautiful, artistic and elegant. It reminded me of farm lands and trees nearby. I was impressed that the vast majority if not all the displays you filmed had little Japanese influence. Its truly refreshing to see a bonsai show that does not look like its members are a bunch of silly old farts pretending to be Japanese.
The seasonal display with the Halloween flavor was nice too and what a unique way of piquing the youths interest in Bonsai ! Shows what people can do when they start to innovate rather than stagnate through mimicry.
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Thanks, John. That is a great video. What maple cultivar is that at 5:10? Also is that a seiryu at 6:05? Thanks.
......sorry work prevented my attendance.
Nip,
I met the owner of the shohin JBP, but I don't remember his name. I can offer a little info: it was NOT decandled this year. It is extremely dense. The needles, however, are a little thin. Which means it's getting a little weak.
Once JBP get to this level of refinement, they get put into a cycle of cut back, let grow, decandle, and refine. You really can't keep them looking this good all the time. If you try, they will get weak and decline. So, you refine it for showing, then after the show season, thin it back and cut back, repot, and let it grow to regain vigor. Then restart the refinement process by decandling again. Generally speaking, these cycles last 3 or 4 years. Kind of like the Olympics, you try to "peak" at the proper time.
Which means to show shohin every year, you would want to have 2 or three JBP "box topper" trees that are rotated every year, having each tree in a different stage of the rejouvination cycle.