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Come on guys, you can tell people the truth that doesn't include a long drive off a short pier. Sometimes a real bad choice can manifest itself in the very material being impossible or not worth the effort. You can't expect a bonsai virgin to know all these things. But the bottom line is this. Trying to encourage someone to stay in bonsai is more valuable to the art than putting a blind fold on them and pointing them on a walk through a mine field.
I don't believe either one of you are so mean spirited as to exploit an opportunity to be hurtful to someone who asked for help. If you think answering one of these questions is below you then don't answer it. I have certainly ignored more than my share of threads in my lifetime; mostly because they didn't interest me.
ahhhh.... Vance I was minding my own business when someone else decided to drag Harry and I into it. Go back and read the first sentence in post 9. I had already read this thread the day before and had nothing nice to say and passed right over it. I stand by my original post saying buying something without a plan in mind is just wasting ones money anyway you cut it. Besides isn't this a discussion forum? Am I not entitled to an opinion even though you may disagree? I think everyone needs to just step back a moment and reflect on this thread and stop beating on those just being honest.....I don't remember there being any rules that I have to stretch the truth just so the forum will like me. We both have been on the internet a looong time and have history together way back to gardenweb being a list server. We both know each others past, don't try to sound too goody goody, we all know otherwise eehh....