TimD
Yamadori
Grats Will.
I think this will have a nice image once it matures more. There's still that loop at the apex though.
I've asked this question on another thread, and I can't remember which one it was now, and I hope this isn't too off-topic, but I would like to hear some opinions on the difference (if there is one) between bunjin and literati. Are the terms synonymous? Or are there differences?
Here's a side by side of the pictures in this thread, showing a 10 month progression.
After posting this, I looked back in the thread. Yes Will, you did present a 10 month progression in that 3 picture montage. But, it was between the 2nd and 3rd pictures. I am new to this hobby and try to learn from what I see, read, hear, and expirement with. You claim to try to promote this hobby, yet if I wasn't keen enough, you would have mislead me and others. I hope your styling contest goes well.
first: http://bonsainut.com/forums/showpost.php?p=17989&postcount=1
then: http://bonsainut.com/forums/showpost.php?p=17992&postcount=3
By my count this is at least 18 months. Judging by the way you have presented yourself on forums throughout, I doubt this is a mistake. Just like Mr. Johnson.
It took about a year for it to start back-budding and filling out after that hack, but it is getting there. I was a little worried at first on the pot choice because of its extremely small size, but it has responded well.
Looking good. I'm glad you followed your vision, after only 10 months it has come a long way. Nice to see you backing it up.
-Dave
btw, how much root pruning if any was invovled in the re-pot, and when did it go into the Horst, and how much work was done at that time? I love run-on sentences. My English professor is stabbing herself in the heart right now. Thanks Will.
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After posting this, I looked back in the thread. Yes Will, you did present a 10 month progression in that 3 picture montage. But, it was between the 2nd and 3rd pictures. I am new to this hobby and try to learn from what I see, read, hear, and expirement with. You claim to try to promote this hobby, yet if I wasn't keen enough, you would have mislead me and others. I hope your styling contest goes well.
first: http://bonsainut.com/forums/showpost.php?p=17989&postcount=1
then: http://bonsainut.com/forums/showpost.php?p=17992&postcount=3
By my count this is at least 18 months. Judging by the way you have presented yourself on forums throughout, I doubt this is a mistake. Just like Mr. Johnson.
Regardless, the tree is coming along nicely and I will refer to this thread when I decide to tackle literati/bunjin.
Thanks for sharing.
I really can't follow thisWhere does this stuff come from?
The first post was posted on November 20th, 2008, 12:07 AM ....so by my math that is just over nine months. 18 months would take us 6 months past November 2009 to may of 2010. Although I have been working on the tree for a year before the pictures were posted, the time frame shown in the pictures is 10 months, from picture to picture. To make it simple, the time from the first set of pictures to the last set of pictures (the progression) is under 10 months.
No conspiracy to mislead you or others, as usual, just the plain old truth. However, I can see where my wording could be confusing, but either way it is interpreted, 10 months or 18 months, is fine with me, as it still has years ahead of it.
Will
and in post #2 you said...This pic should the tree after a hack back and a repot into a Horst pot, ...
Now skip forward 10 months, and you post a current picture and say:It took about a year for it to start back-budding and filling out after that hack
Counting backwards from the latest photo in post #45, we count 10 months to get back to the photo in post #3. Count back 'nearly a year' more, to go from the photo in post #3 to the photo in post #1, you get nearly 22 months.Here's a side by side of the pictures in this thread, showing a 10 month progression.
Will,
where you show the three sides I would take the second one. The pot is fine. It looks like you could take off the lowest branch completely.
If I showed such a tree I would pluck all old needles, making the needle balls about half their present size or less. Then I would pluck all needles that point down. You will be surprised how much better the tree will look then. It will appear much lighter. On the images there is way too much optical weight. The trunk appears too thin and weak.
Concerning the loop on the top I would bend sharply and not round right at this little branchlet which will become the top then.
Otherwise I can tell good progress and light at the end of the tunnel.
Will,
where you show the three sides I would take the second one. The pot is fine. It looks like you could take off the lowest branch completely.
If I showed such a tree I would pluck all old needles, making the needle balls about half their present size or less. Then I would pluck all needles that point down. You will be surprised how much better the tree will look then. It will appear much lighter. On the images there is way too much optical weight. The trunk appears too thin and weak.
Concerning the loop on the top I would bend sharply and not round right at this little branchlet which will become the top then.
Otherwise I can tell good progress and light at the end of the tunnel.
Wow, that means I started work on this before I had it, I am good!So, as far as I can make out, there is nearly 22 months between the first and last photos in your montage.
Amen.Silence is golden... what hooplah, no wonder folks don't post their trees.
(my bold)Come on, just pander to little old me and post the dates the photos were taken.Wow, that means I started work on this before I had it, I am good!
But let's say, for the sake of getting back on subject, that it is 22 months, 18 months, or 10 months, so what? Let's say it is 3, 4, or 5 years, so what? Do you have anything at all to say about the tree itself?