I’ve been a member here for almost as long as I’ve been a fan of little trees in pots, about 3 years. I definitely wouldn’t qualify myself as a “journeyman” of bonsai for lack of a better comparison, but I find myself much more comfortable with tasks like repotting, wiring, deciding what to prune and when. The first time I wired a tree I was petrified I was gonna kill it! Same with repots and even feeding on an appropriate schedule. Ive had two successful seasons worth of JBP cuttings, hoping to get some cuttings off the Bloodgood JM in my front yard next.
Theres still so much I haven’t done: never successfully collected a yamadori (into the burn pile after about 6 weeks), never attempted an air layer or improved a nebari by root grafting. That’s just to name a few.