There is a saying with folks that collect coins ( yes, I'm also a coin nerd) "Buy the book not the coin" which I think is relevant to Bonsai as some of us or at least I have bought a tree when instead maybe I should have updated my library.
As a begginer I think its important to have good literature on the type/species of trees we own/work on . My favorite trees are maples and on one particular Japanese maple I have I was stuck on how to proceed until I had bought Peter Adam's book "Bonsai with Japanese Maples".
But now that I started a method described in the beggining of chapter 2 which most of you will recognize as a very basic development method. I'm kicking myself for not letting the new truck extension run which I had pruned back before I had a plan for this tree ( big rookie mistake). So anyways here we are today.
As a begginer I think its important to have good literature on the type/species of trees we own/work on . My favorite trees are maples and on one particular Japanese maple I have I was stuck on how to proceed until I had bought Peter Adam's book "Bonsai with Japanese Maples".
But now that I started a method described in the beggining of chapter 2 which most of you will recognize as a very basic development method. I'm kicking myself for not letting the new truck extension run which I had pruned back before I had a plan for this tree ( big rookie mistake). So anyways here we are today.