Ok I admit, my juniper too does pot :)

Alain

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This afternoon I was chitchatting on another thread:
http://www.bonsainut.com/threads/hey-newbies.23009/#post-346322

where I happened to mentioned a little Home Depot $4.50 nana I bought last year:
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This was in order to demonstrate my belief that even a cheap tree could be pretty cute, pretty fast and that this little guy may very well be my 1st 'bonsai', meaning my first tree in a real bonsai pot.

Then I added: 'well, not really a real bonsai pot as for this tree I made the pot:
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All this discussion made my think to my little buddy and there it is after its spring repoting:

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:)
 
I guess it is "cute" but it needs some work.

Why do you have those wires wrapped around the pot? It looks like you had wires attached to your rock to secure the tree.
 
jeanluc83 said:
I guess it is "cute" but it needs some work.

Why do you have those wires wrapped around the pot? It looks like you had wires attached to your rock to secure the tree.
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Yes but it didn't work well.
That's the 1st time I'm trying to use a rock as a pot and what I though was a good idea isn't in fact ;)

Otherwise of course there is work to be done! It's a bonsai, it is supposed to die after me so lots of time remaining (for it :) )
 
Alain said:
Très amusant vraiment :p
Are you pissed because I didn't use a foemina? :p:p
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@Smoke may be a bit more dismissive than I would be, but he's not wrong. This tree doesn't really have much going for it. Let's be honest; it's a stick-on-a-pot. I'm not sure I even agree that it's "cute."

All of that is not to say that there's anything wrong with you enjoying it; that's a separate thing, and you don't give a crap what the internet thinks about that! However, if you're offering it up to support your proposition that cheap Box-Store stock can make nice bonsai (and I don't necessarily disagree), you're not doing your argument any favors by choosing this example . . .
 
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ColinFraser said:
@Smoke may be a bit more dismissive than I would be, but he's not wrong. This tree doesn't really have much going for it. Let's be honest; it's a stick-on-a-pot. I'm not sure I even agree that it's "cute."

All of that is not to say that there's anything wrong with you enjoying it; that's a separate thing, and you don't give a crap what the internet thinks about that! However, if you're offering it up to support your proposition that cheap Box-Store stock can make nice bonsai (and I don't necessarily disagree), you're not doing your argument any favors by choosing this example . . .
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My proposition wasn't that cheap big store stock can make nice bonsai right away!
Due to the subject of the conversation (beginners shouldn't buy home depot products basically) it was more to say that there is nothing wrong working with them, that it could be a lot of fun and they could make nice, let's say 'starts', rather quickly.
However I know that my little buddy (which I like very much btw) is not to enter a show in any foreseeing future, that the reason why I use 'cute' and put the bonsai appellation in bracket (actually the bonsai appellation in this case refers to the fact that it's potted in a pot I would not hesitate to use with a real bonsai - unless it kills this tree of course! :) )

Anyway I still don't understand the exact meaning of what @Smoke said and I am pretty sure google translate won't help on this one :)

jeanluc83 said:
It might be worth it for you to read Brent Walston's article The Rules of Bonsai

I do have to say that your stone slab pot is very nice. I think it deserves a better tree though.
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Thanks but actually I don't think my tree breaks any of the basic bonsai rules, it's itch the eyes otherwise ;)
And thanks also for the comment on the pot! I plan to try numerous other ones like that :)
 
Alain said:
i don't get it :)
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Think of it in terms of the high jump or the pole vault. The "bar" can be set to various heights in those events. For example, if you equate one of Mach5's JMs (or Smoke's tridents) with a bar height - it would be about world record height (or pretty damn high). If you equate a "pretty cute" tree to a bar height, it would be much lower. I might even be able to make that jump.

I think Smoke's comment (not that I would put words in his mouth) is that maybe we should aspire to a higher bar than "pretty cute".
 
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VAFisher said:
Think of it in terms of the high jump or the pole vault. The "bar" can be set to various heights in those events. For example, if you equate one of Mach5's JMs (or Smoke's tridents) with a bar height - it would be about world record height (or pretty damn high). If you equate a "pretty cute" tree to a bar height, it would be much lower. I might even be able to make that jump.

I think Smoke's comment (not that I would put words in his mouth) is that maybe we should aspire to a higher bar than "pretty cute".
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Ah ok!
Well the 'bar' for this little buddy was set rather low to access the 'pretty cute' definition for me :)
More or less the height you will set the bar for a Toddler's Olympics ;)
in fact at the beginning the idea was to try to make a pot from a rock I found in our yard :D

Smoke said:
I subscribe to " brevity is the soul of wit" , but your paragraph is spot on. I guess I assume people get me, obviously they don't. In the future I will dumb it down:)
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In a general way I think I get your comments but remember that English isn't my first language and thus sometime I guess that the substantifique moelle is lost in translation :)
(but I can live with that knowing that my English is most certainly dumb enough to compete with a bunch of people's French :p)
 
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Alain said:
I am sooooo soooorrryyy! :oops:
I won't do it again:rolleyes:
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Alain said:
Ah ok!
Well the 'bar' for this little buddy was set rather low to access the 'pretty cute' definition for me :)
More or less the height you will set the bar for a Toddler's Olympics ;)
in fact at the beginning the idea was to try to make a pot from a rock I found in our yard :D



In a general way I think I get your comments but remember that English isn't my first language and thus sometime I guess that the substantifique moelle is lost in translation :)
(but I can live with that knowing that my English is most certainly dumb enough to compete with a bunch of people's French :p)
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Is there a French site? Maybe I can be an ass there?
 
Smoke said:
Is there a French site? Maybe I can be an ass there?
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You can be an ass anywhere!:D

There is actually one called 'Artbonsai' I was part of before finding this one (via Brent Watson website who in fact warns people about some ass population acting up around here).
I stop going to the French one because 1) the products they were using are most frequently impossible to find here, 2) and mainly because there were like 20 members in total so the conversation wasn't going very fast, 3) I'm so good at being an ass myself in several different languages :)
 
Alain,

About your rock... It looks like you glued wires on, right? What is the purpose of the mesh? Did you drill drain holes? Why not run the wires up the drain holes? If no drain holes, why the mesh?

Je ne comprend pas.

Sorry, high school French was 45 years ago!
 
Adair M said:
Alain,

About your rock... It looks like you glued wires on, right? What is the purpose of the mesh? Did you drill drain holes? Why not run the wires up the drain holes? If no drain holes, why the mesh?

Je ne comprend pas.

Sorry, high school French was 45 years ago!
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Tabarnack! I didn't think about the freaking wires thru the drain holes!o_O
Otherwise yes all the metallic parts are glued (epoxy resin) in small holes in the rock.
 
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