New to Bonsai from NJ

[W3rk]

NJ metal? Let's hear it for Bon J... err no.
Listening to Red Fang, Baroness, and Mastodon at the moment.

 

[Orion_metalhead]

I saw Mastodon with Slayer locally about... 12-13 years ago I think. They put on a good show. My playlist for tonight is:

Ordinul Negru - Faustian Nights
Accept - Breaker
Grim Reaper - See You In Hell
Mayhem - De Mysteriis Dom Sathanas

The Ordinul Negru is very good modern day second-wave black metal. It's nothing totally original, however the melodic movements are excellent, the bass playing is standout, and the overall songwriting is done extremely well. Each song is capable of evoking strong imagery.

The rest are classics!

 

[eryk2kartman]

I saw Slayer on 1.11.2018 in Dublin on their last world tour(i hope not) together with Obituary, Antrax and Lamb of God.
Man what a gig, i was sore for couple of days...... deadly!

Ive not much experience with new metal bands. I want to see Cannibal Corpse together with Unleashed! Im old.....

 

[Potawatomi13]

Pinus Strobus (Oh no!!)

Oh YES! See Bonsai Mirai forums for encouragement. Little to be found here.

 

[Orion_metalhead]

Oh YES! See Bonsai Mirai forums for encouragement. Little to be found here.

Ok. Will do! I need to know whats the bwst care practices for these after plucking a few this spring. I dont mind the disregarding of the species here. It gives me a more rounded opinion of them and if they can be worked. Thanks.

I saw Slayer on 1.11.2018 in Dublin on their last world tour(i hope not) together with Obituary, Antrax and Lamb of God.
Man what a gig, i was sore for couple of days...... deadly!

Ive not much experience with new metal bands. I want to see Cannibal Corpse together with Unleashed! Im old.....

Cannibal Corpse is playing around here sometime soon... was considering going but ive seen them a couple times past. They are great live. Unleashed I have not seen... but would love to see in person.

I grew up as not a huge Slayer fan, but ive been more appreciative later. I got out of thrash before I explored the genre classics deeply... something im catching up on now... 20 years later.

If you like Death Metal theres a lot of newer good bands... Spectral Voice, Blood Incantation, Undergang, Necrot, Horrendous... id find them on youtube and give a listen or simply go browse Dark Descent Records site... Matt's been pretty much the go-to for top tier material in the US for the past 6 or 7 years.

 

[Tentakelaertje]

I saw Slayer on 1.11.2018 in Dublin on their last world tour(i hope not) together with Obituary, Antrax and Lamb of God.
Man what a gig, i was sore for couple of days...... deadly!

Ive not much experience with new metal bands. I want to see Cannibal Corpse together with Unleashed! Im old.....

I saw that one too yeah! Was hella brutal and gonna see Slayer and Lamb of God at Graspop Metal Meeting in 2019 again

 

[Tidal Bonsai]

Fuck yeah metal!
You are right in time to go get yourself one of those nice christmas trees! Many will say they are bad bonsai subjects, but I have found them very good material to practise wiring on as they are hard to break/crack and they will take a lot of abuse. I used to think they are very difficult material too but once I learnt what they like mine does very well!

Oh and tryna put some bends in that young material you dug up! Can't start cranking those bends early enough!

Welcome!

I am also a fellow metalhead who Is into bonsai and lives in New Jersey! What are the chances?!?! My screen name also contains my other hobby, making beer, wine and dabbling in making spirits.

In about a week or two, all of those “living Christmas trees” will be 50 to 75% off. They are great material to practice with. I liked this one so much, that I didn’t wait for it to go on sale. It’s a species of dwarf Colorado blue spruce that I think has a great potential for an informal upright/slant style. I have only been in this hobby about 2-3 seasons, but this is my general 10 step procedure for working on stock:

1. Expose the nebari and identify a best front (for now)
2. Clean out everything that’s dead
3. Identify the trunk line, and remove things that cause inverse taper.
4. Remove branches that are too thick for the design (A general rule of thumb is any branch that is bigger than 1/3 the thickness of the truck section)
5. Reduce whorls of branches to one primary branch.
6. Reduce secondary branches to pairs of two (any more will risk swelling).
7. Wire main/primary branches and set them to your envisioned design.
8. Wire secondary branches.
9. Wire with detail wire all of the tertiary branches.
10. Enjoy all your labor!

I will be posting my work on this piece of stock in the next few days once I finish all of the tertiary wiring. It will not be “finished” for some time, but I wanted to share my process and vision for the future to help others out there.

I am not posting to pretend that I am an expert, it’s all about growing over time. Many of the members on here that have been doing this for decades are light-years beyond my skill level. For me, as long as the trees I worked on now are better than the ones I worked on a few years ago, I am happy!

Cheers!!!

 

[amatbrewer]

I am also a fellow metalhead who Is into bonsai and lives in New Jersey! What are the chances?!?!

Brewer who loves metal and practices bonsai. I was born in NJ but left when I was about 7, does that count?

 

[Tidal Bonsai]

Brewer who loves metal and practices bonsai. I was born in NJ but left when I was about 7, does that count?

It depends, answer me these questions three:
1. Do you say porn roll, or Taylor ham?
2. Do you say going to the shore or going to the beach?
3. Is it sauce, or gravy?

 

[amatbrewer]

It depends, answer me these questions three:
1. Do you say porn roll, or Taylor ham?
2. Do you say going to the shore or going to the beach?
3. Is it sauce, or gravy?

I guess that would be a no, because:
1. Can I assume those are food?
2. Having grown up in Hawaii it is beach.
3. Entirely depends on how it is made. (if it is brown and poured over rice, egg, and spam it is gravy...and the recipe for the best food on earth)

 

[Tidal Bonsai]

I guess that would be a no, because:
1. Can I assume those are food?
2. Having grown up in Hawaii it is beach.
3. Entirely depends on how it is made. (if it is brown and poured over rice, egg, and spam it is gravy...and the recipe for the best food on earth)

I regret to inform you that you are not from New Jersey IMO, lol! Hawaii sounds much nicer anyway!!!

 

[Orion_metalhead]

I am also a fellow metalhead who Is into bonsai and lives in New Jersey! What are the chances?!?! My screen name also contains my other hobby, making beer, wine and dabbling in making spirits.

Will respond in PM. Thanks!

It depends, answer me these questions three:
1. Do you say porn roll, or Taylor ham?
2. Do you say going to the shore or going to the beach?
3. Is it sauce, or gravy?

1. Pork Roll... definitely not Porn Roll...
2. Going to the beach.... the "shore" is what everyone from Staten Island calls NJ beaches. Usually go to Sandy Hook, Seven Presidents, Asbury Park, or Point Pleasant during the summer.
3. Sauce goes on pasta... gravy goes on meats.

Amatbrewer, while seemingly a likeable fellow... definitely not NJ.

 

[Tidal Bonsai]

Will respond in PM. Thanks!



1. Pork Roll... definitely not Porn Roll...
2. Going to the beach.... the "shore" is what everyone from Staten Island calls NJ beaches. Usually go to Sandy Hook, Seven Presidents, Asbury Park, or Point Pleasant during the summer.
3. Sauce goes on pasta... gravy goes on meats.

Amatbrewer, while seemingly a likeable fellow... definitely not NJ.

You passed with flying colors, definitely from Jersey! I did mean to type PORK roll, LMAO!!!

 

[Orion_metalhead]

I had no doubt haha. Born and raised here.

 

[LanceMac10]

Yikes!!! I saw Slayer...…..









wait for it...…………….














THIRTY YEARS AGO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!



It hurts to even read that...but those were great times.


one of my favorite albums from those day's......

opened for Testament in 88.....

 

[Orion_metalhead]

Hell yeah! I love Mercyful Fate. I'm partial to Melissa. Don't Break The Oath is incredible though. I'm going to put it on now.

 

[Orion_metalhead]

You guys / gals think this is a holly? No idea where it came from.

 

[Tidal Bonsai]

You guys / gals think this is a holly? No idea where it came from.

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Looks like it to me

 

[Leo in N E Illinois]

Yes, the leaves look like holly, Ilex aquifolium. However seedlings of some types of live oak, and cork oak have similar spines, as do some species of Mahonia.

 

[Orion_metalhead]

Yes, the leaves look like holly, Ilex aquifolium. However seedlings of some types of live oak, and cork oak have similar spines, as do some species of Mahonia.

I dont think live oak ever grows naturally this far north, no? I thought it was mostly a southern species.