picked up a lil trick

[dick benbow]

The curator for weyerhaeuser Bonsai was our demo for the local bonsai club. David de groot was working on satsuki and made the mention of a trick his teacher learned on display, that helped him to win a major prize. So simple yet so significant.

In planning ahead for an event, and positioning the tree you intend to use, when it comes repotting time, you repot the tree in a position that would place it turned 10% in towards the viewing public over normal positioning. this gives the tree the best viewing position and in tight competition can make up that slight advantage. I thought it was worth mentioning for display nuts, a few of which we have around here

 

[Poink88]

... when it comes repotting time, you repot the tree in a position that would place it turned 10% in towards the viewing public over normal positioning. this gives the tree the best viewing position...

I am not sure I got this. Do you mean lean it forward? If that is the case, I've read that in multiple books and heard it from different people, live and in you tube. If not, please clarify.

Thank you.

 

[dick benbow]

Wish i had a dime for each time I re-wrote this

I'm not talking about the standard way of presenting the hachi (head) of the tree, which would be looking at the viewer and somewhat bowed (out of respect).

I'm talking about the tree being turned in the pot 10% more than horizontal towards the viewer
to compensate for a display. In display the movement of the tree is either left or right of center (center being where the judge would view the display). So if our tree has movement to the right say, the pot
is true or square to the viewer with it's allignment, but the tree within the pot is adjusted to compensate for the center positioning by the viewer.

Hope that helps. I know some are visual in grasping but I'm not up on computer graphics enough to draw a diagram. For which i apologize.

 

[Poink88]

Got it Dick. I think I've read similar on books but not always forward. Just like the side to side location, it has to do with the tree style and where the mass is and the feeling you want to evoke. That is IIRC.

Thanks for sharing the tip!