Credibility thread, this is where you get to post and shine.

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In this thread, if you have the balls, post up your best tree, in fact if you have them, post up your best three.

I can ask, but no one will listen, if you post no tree, please do not comment. I/we are not interested in your rhetoric. You wish not to join in with your best work, then stay silent, you have not earned a place to comment on someone else's tree. If there is ANY moderation at this place, non tree posters comments will be removed and the moderator will post a note to explain why your comments were removed. These pictures will go along ways towards explaining just what your talent level is in making a tree and where you fall in the comment power rank.

Anyone...pony up.
 

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My best tree is this Dawn redwood (Metasequoia glyptostroboides). It is just now approaching branch selection and soon, ramification stages.

The tree being this unrefined reflects my own journey in bonsai, A beginner, 3 years in, and why I am grateful for the experts here. I’d assign my “comment power rank” as novice level.

Or more appropriately, “he’s committed, but wouldn’t trust his techniques for a good ten years yet.”
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I got nothing even close to refining stage, but I have been working on this Mountain Mahogany for the last 2 years. considering there is virtually no info on how they respond to bonsai techniques, and therefore I have had to use a trial and error approach, I am not at all that dissatisfied with the results and where it's heading.
 

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Yo Al. Sure why not. Let me have it.
englemann spruce. My collection 2.5 yrs in. Other angles look pretty god also, but this is my current fave.
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Another englemann I collected. Not quite as vigorous but is doing well. 339CDC16-1F6E-4268-960C-6A107B3BF1BC.jpeg
 

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Siberian elm. Keeps dropping branches and sections of trunk per its reputation. Currently working on 2 approach root grafts And one thread grafted branch. Still doing ok. May not be in the top 3 but I only wanted to scroll through my camera roll so much.
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Yo Al. Sure why not. Let me have it.
englemann spruce. My collection 2.5 yrs in. Other angles look pretty god also, but this is my current fave.
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This thread is not to "let people have it". I like to see trees, and I like to see trees of people that do talking. Most of those that do the worst talking will not post in this...just the way it is. If I do have something to say it will be by PM. It's not worth ruining what people have the guts to post by trying to help someone else. Believe it or not I just want to see trees and have the occasion to help someone. Talking is overrated and accomplishes nothing.
 

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Another englemann I collected. Not quite as vigorous but is doing well. View attachment 308281
That's some damn nice wire!!
 

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Yo Al. Sure why not. Let me have it.
englemann spruce. My collection 2.5 yrs in. Other angles look pretty god also, but this is my current fave.
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Super wire job on this as well. Super composition.
 

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I will swallow my novice pride and post a picture. This is my favorite tree but I honestly don’t know why since it fights me every inch of the way. It is a Loropetalum and was one of my first trees. It grows so fast it is hard to keep it looking good. I defoliate it to reduce the leaf size and they come back bigger. During the summer it requires watering twice a day. When the bark gets wet it looks like dark mud. It is just about impossible to get all the leaves the same color.

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Arakawa japanese maple, another work in progress:


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I'll try. I received my first 'bonsai' at the age of 12 in 2012, a sad juniper and a calamondin orange in a sealed bag. So I have been at it "8" years, but I consider it more like 3 serious years.

This is not my 'best tree', but this is my best tree that is solely my work. First picture is 2016, second is a week ago, and third is the vision. It needs to be finished, the heat was getting to me so I will go back and lower the branches, finish the apex, and clean up the foliage pads. And adjust new jins.

 

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I'll try. I received my first 'bonsai' at the age of 12 in 2012, a sad juniper and a calamondin orange in a sealed bag. So I have been at it "8" years, but I consider it more like 3 serious years.

This is not my 'best tree', but this is my best tree that is solely my work. First picture is 2016, second is a week ago, and third is the vision. It needs to be finished, the heat was getting to me so I will go back and lower the branches, finish the apex, and clean up the foliage pads. And adjust new jins.jobs.

Is this two different trees? How did you get to picture two after picture one?
 

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That wasn't my question. Can you post the tree in picture two the same way the tree is in picture one. I just want to see how you got from one to two. What's removed, whats been grown out, that kind of thing. Thats how people learn when you can show them how you transformed it. You have my interest, now I want to see behind the curtain.

I thought this was your work?
 
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That wasn't my question. Can you post the tree in picture two the same way the tree is in picture one. I just want to see how you got from one to two. What's removed, whats been grown out, that kind of thing. Thats how people learn when you can show them how you transformed it. You have my interest, now I want to see behind the curtain.

I thought this was your work?
It is, I thought you were being facetious. My point was Brian helped me alot through the thread. I can post the picture when I'm home tomorrow.
 
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