Wires_Guy_wires
Imperial Masterpiece
Hello Dear people of the internet,
Ah, yes, I hear the sweet sounds of the birds, the bees.. I smell the flowers, the freshly mowed lawns.. I hear the whispers of the bonsai veterans echoing it's not a bonsai, you fool. That's not design, that's thrash with a ribbon! You shouldn't touch trees, you lack respect! You're a pathetic excuse for a gardener! If computers had the patience you have, the millennium bug would have started in 1955. It's time to go outside.
And I realize: man, these are my trees, I'm the one having to look at them until my retirement (which will take another 50 years), so there's time enough to start over. If I'm happy with them, I'm sharing them here. If I'm not happy with them, they won't touch the internet until I am.
To be honest, I suck at taking critique. I suck at taking advice even more, and I damn well know that I'll be crying like a bitch if one of my idols over here starts verbally burning down my trees.
But there are times to be a bitch, and times to be a man. I mean, this is the internet, I can get up and leave whenever I want. I can come back whenever I want. The only thing I can't, is erase stuff from the web.
I know, there's a lot of bonsai picture porn around here. I've been enjoying that for a while now, and it's safe to say I'm at least 5 years away from adding to that pornographic media base. But one needs to start somewhere, right?
For the time being, I have a lot of stuff in development. All of my trees have background stories. I don't care if you're interested, I'm just going to talk about them anyways. That's what I do in this thread.
Oh, and before you start, right now my signature says:
Tomorrow will be picture day.
Today all I have to share, is this:
Poor focus, I know. A yew, or "little pine tree" as my mom's friend told me when she gave it to me. I wired it today, but now I see that it needs to be rewired. There's an empty space where it's not touching the bark. The bend was there already before the wiring, so the wire just set it in place. There is some exposed heartwood in the base, but this tree is too young to emphasize that if you ask me.
This JRP is three years old. Should I be ashamed? I think not, or maybe yes..
I didn't know anything about pines back then, and still don't. But it's budding! And that means that from this point forward, I have a live pine to play with. I have three or ten others like this. They're all in a 1cm deep pot. No wonder they're climbing out. That's 0.39 inch!
Is there any harm in leaving the dead needles? Or should I remove those?
Ah, yes, I hear the sweet sounds of the birds, the bees.. I smell the flowers, the freshly mowed lawns.. I hear the whispers of the bonsai veterans echoing it's not a bonsai, you fool. That's not design, that's thrash with a ribbon! You shouldn't touch trees, you lack respect! You're a pathetic excuse for a gardener! If computers had the patience you have, the millennium bug would have started in 1955. It's time to go outside.
And I realize: man, these are my trees, I'm the one having to look at them until my retirement (which will take another 50 years), so there's time enough to start over. If I'm happy with them, I'm sharing them here. If I'm not happy with them, they won't touch the internet until I am.
To be honest, I suck at taking critique. I suck at taking advice even more, and I damn well know that I'll be crying like a bitch if one of my idols over here starts verbally burning down my trees.
But there are times to be a bitch, and times to be a man. I mean, this is the internet, I can get up and leave whenever I want. I can come back whenever I want. The only thing I can't, is erase stuff from the web.
I know, there's a lot of bonsai picture porn around here. I've been enjoying that for a while now, and it's safe to say I'm at least 5 years away from adding to that pornographic media base. But one needs to start somewhere, right?
For the time being, I have a lot of stuff in development. All of my trees have background stories. I don't care if you're interested, I'm just going to talk about them anyways. That's what I do in this thread.
Oh, and before you start, right now my signature says:
It would be nice if people kept that in mind. I don't want to stir the toilet bowl, I don't want to piss people off, it's just not bonsai as bonsai should be. That's duly noted on my side. I'm not claiming that it's bonsai. It's a poor attempt at hybridization of gardening, penjing, bonsai and general poor care all together. It's alright if you laugh about it, but do it behind my back please. I know some stuff looks nice, and some looks like shit. I know that some of you have spent years to learn how to do things, years on techniques, years on building knowledge, I'm not here to question that. I respect you guys and I acknowledge I have a lot to learn.
Tomorrow will be picture day.
Today all I have to share, is this:
Poor focus, I know. A yew, or "little pine tree" as my mom's friend told me when she gave it to me. I wired it today, but now I see that it needs to be rewired. There's an empty space where it's not touching the bark. The bend was there already before the wiring, so the wire just set it in place. There is some exposed heartwood in the base, but this tree is too young to emphasize that if you ask me.
This JRP is three years old. Should I be ashamed? I think not, or maybe yes..
I didn't know anything about pines back then, and still don't. But it's budding! And that means that from this point forward, I have a live pine to play with. I have three or ten others like this. They're all in a 1cm deep pot. No wonder they're climbing out. That's 0.39 inch!
Is there any harm in leaving the dead needles? Or should I remove those?
