Brian Van Fleet
Pretty Fly for a Bonsai Guy
Ha! Bet it’s easier to ship pot than junipers to CA.Did you say buying pot?
Were you on rec.art.bonsai? I lurked there in 1996-99, never posted. No photos, just a newsgroup/message board.
Ha! Bet it’s easier to ship pot than junipers to CA.Did you say buying pot?
I would love to see anything you have. I lost a lot of photos in 2009 in a computer crash. I had the same IT guy as Hillary Clinton so some of my photos may be on Comey’s hard drive. And one hard drive was smashed with a ball batt so those trees are gone. So, yea post them up and if I still have them I can show comparisons. I can think of a few I have from before 2006. I still have foeminas from 1984!if i looked hard enough i may even have some photos of your stuff from the old bonsai talk days - i remember saving some examples of yours and don blackmond posts from wayyyy back.
Yes I posted a few times with Vance Wood and Vance Hannah. Then went to GardenWeb and was banished to Disneyland twice by Spike Hernandez. He let me back in if I promised to play nice but that damn Mark Rockwell always got me going!!! Then I went to bonsaiPage and in 2001 the server went down and never came back. I was already friends with Matt Chroust at Mindori club where Peter Tea was just joining. I was selling soil and supplies to Matt for Tree Bay. He started bonsaiTalk and I was the first guy to sign up.Ha! Bet it’s easier to ship pot than junipers to CA.
Were you on rec.art.bonsai? I lurked there in 1996-99, never posted. No photos, just a newsgroup/message board.
When @Bonsai Nut was updating the website, I was able to go to "new posts" and hit the double arrow button and it went all the way back to the very first post ever; that was pretty cool!Is there a way to search back that far
Is the scots the same one in the bottom right front? If so, really nice progress! The trunk thickened quite a bit.sorry for poor photos but its all i have at moment (dont think i have a current one from the front). scots pine from winter of 2006 to spring 2018
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If I remember correctly Greg sent out personal invitations to members of bonsaiTalk that he wanted here.
Thanks! Yeh same one i just dont have a pic from the front. Trunk went from about 1.5 to 5.5 inches. (bark makes it look about an inch thicker than actually is)Is the scots the same one in the bottom right front? If so, really nice progress! The trunk thickened quite a bit.
Thanks! Yeh same one i just dont have a pic from the front. Trunk went from about 1.5 to 5.5 inches. (bark makes it look about an inch thicker than actually is)
This one.From just this forum or from all forums since I started on forums in 1997?
And the gal from San Diego whom Matt made a moderator and she screwed the forum all up with her namby pamby ways. Let the people say what they have to say. Those that know will rise to the top just like the cream does.
Wow, seriously? That's crazy growth. Did you put it in the ground at all or kept it in a pot?
I have a Scots that I put in the ground for about 3-5 years. Caliper only got to about 1.5", and I ended up digging it up this year to put in an anderson flat. I was going to keep it on the smaller side, but if your kind of growth is possible, I might rethink things. I saw a number of larger Scots Pines at the National Arboretum earlier today (including one donated by Bill Valavanis) - they almost make nicer pine bonsai than japanese black pines.
I would love to see anything you have. I lost a lot of photos in 2009 in a computer crash. I had the same IT guy as Hillary Clinton so some of my photos may be on Comey’s hard drive. And one hard drive was smashed with a ball batt so those trees are gone. So, yea post them up and if I still have them I can show comparisons. I can think of a few I have from before 2006. I still have foeminas from 1984!
Thanks! Yeh same one i just dont have a pic from the front. Trunk went from about 1.5 to 5.5 inches. (bark makes it look about an inch thicker than actually is)
You remember this tree? I dug it in 2005 and posted it on BonsaiTALK. It got killed by a person helping me in the backyard. I was repotting cause I needed help lifting it. It weighed a ton, like 200 pounds. I had been cleaning windows and I had a spray bottle filled with ammonia and vinegar. I had to go to the bathroom and I asked him to spray it down to keep the roots moist. guess which bottle he used. When I came out I saw what had been done and we tried to wash the thing but I think the ammonia just killed stuff on contact. I potted it and hoped for the best and it was brown in about four days. This was a common myrtle and I took the stump as a cutting. No roots at all and it grew so hard it was crazy. never get ammonia around your roots it will kill a tree fast.im going to look a little more - at one point i know at one i had an "ideas" folder that was a bunch of bonsai talk photos before it went bye bye. im usually very organized so im not sure why im not finding that folder and i rarely delete anything. ill let you know .