Johnathan
Omono
So first just to get the quick questions out of the way...
#1, does "feel like" temperatures play a role in winterizing bonsai?
#2, last year I only had 1 maple, an Amur maple. I left it outside all year and it survived our freezing and all the elements. This year, now I have tridents and Japanese maples as well. Can they also survive outside winter with little to no protection?
#3, is there any special precautions to take when overwintering air layers?
And finally the real reason I wanted to post... I don't typically keep up with Bonsai people. I mean, I know of Bjorn, Ryan, and Walter but that's about the extent of the professional bonsai people I know.
Recently I started listening to the bonsai podcast as a way to kill time at work, blew through all the episodes of Bjorn's and now I'm up to about episode 5 of Mirai's podcast.
Anyway, all of this discussion has really changed how I view "professionals" and the people who are REALLY involved with the hobby.
It has also made me appreciate this forum and the guys who I consider professionals here like BVF, Adair, Smoke, Vance, Sorce, TeslaScott, Mach (etc etc I could keep going but I feel like I'm rambling) anyway, being here in OKC I don't really feel like there is HUGE bonsai learning experience available.
So with that being said, all of these podcasts and my feeble mind got me to thinking, could there be a such thing as an Online Apprenticeship... then I figured not really because Apprenticeship would have to be more hands on. So I change the question to you all. Could there be a thing as an online mentorship? If so how would it work? For those of us smart enough to actually take the advice given on these forums is that the extent of an online mentorship?
Just thoughts.
#1, does "feel like" temperatures play a role in winterizing bonsai?
#2, last year I only had 1 maple, an Amur maple. I left it outside all year and it survived our freezing and all the elements. This year, now I have tridents and Japanese maples as well. Can they also survive outside winter with little to no protection?
#3, is there any special precautions to take when overwintering air layers?
And finally the real reason I wanted to post... I don't typically keep up with Bonsai people. I mean, I know of Bjorn, Ryan, and Walter but that's about the extent of the professional bonsai people I know.
Recently I started listening to the bonsai podcast as a way to kill time at work, blew through all the episodes of Bjorn's and now I'm up to about episode 5 of Mirai's podcast.
Anyway, all of this discussion has really changed how I view "professionals" and the people who are REALLY involved with the hobby.
It has also made me appreciate this forum and the guys who I consider professionals here like BVF, Adair, Smoke, Vance, Sorce, TeslaScott, Mach (etc etc I could keep going but I feel like I'm rambling) anyway, being here in OKC I don't really feel like there is HUGE bonsai learning experience available.
So with that being said, all of these podcasts and my feeble mind got me to thinking, could there be a such thing as an Online Apprenticeship... then I figured not really because Apprenticeship would have to be more hands on. So I change the question to you all. Could there be a thing as an online mentorship? If so how would it work? For those of us smart enough to actually take the advice given on these forums is that the extent of an online mentorship?
Just thoughts.