The 2010 Bonsainut Maple Project

[Dan W.]

Let me know if you need a baby sitter for any of the small tridents or hornbeams...lol

Thank you for sharing your work on these trees. I really appreciate being able to follow your progress.

On a serious note about the small tridents:... I want to find a quality, small trident to grow over a rock that I have. I don't know whether you're interested in selling a tree, but if you are... could I post a picture of the rock to see if you think you have anything that would fit the style and size? I can also look in Colorado tomorrow, but there aren't very may places that have bonsai stock, and I haven't seen very many tridents at those nurseries.

 

[tmmason10]

Do you typically sell some of these tridents? If I lived on the west coast i would love to have one of these materials, they look like great starts. Guess I'll have to follow your threads and do the work myself.

 

[Smoke]

Thanks for the comments Dan. One sticky thing about growing tridents on rocks. The tree needs to be large enough to have good thick roots to mold around a stone and short enough so it does look like ...well..... you know a statue of a male member. It really takes a person well versed in making trees without stones to get a tree ready for attaching to a stone.

I only have one tree which I have prepared for a stone for a number of years. This tree has been in training for 7 years from seed. This year, tomorrow possibly, it goes on a stone. I have not picked the stone, I have a puiece of petrified wood I want to use, but am not sure that will be the way to go. I'm still thinking a smaller stone in a pot so I can display it traditionaly is the way to go.

Check in on my backyard thread for future developments. Even if I can't help you with a tree right now, you can watch and see how mine comes out. Maybe it will help?

Pay special attention to the scarless trunk please???

 

[Smoke]

Do you typically sell some of these tridents? If I lived on the west coast i would love to have one of these materials, they look like great starts. Guess I'll have to follow your threads and do the work myself.

I have never really considered myself a grower. At least in the sense that I would grow it and then sell it. Each piece I grow, I grow for myself an I think that is what makes my material seem desirable. If I was growing it to sell I would not be paying so much attention to detail thinking I need to leave something for the next guy when in reality, premium material needs to actually be semi finished. I know there are those here that do not see it that way, they think that allowing someone to almost finish a tree is not really doing the work yourself so how can you take credit for it. Well thats a whole nother thread, but for me I grow it to keep it. If it seems desirable than I must be doing something right. I might add, something anyone can do. This is not rocket surgery.

 

[Dan W.]

Thanks Smoke,

This is info that isn't in the books, and great to know. It sounds like it will be a long term project... which is ok with me. That's one thing I have going for me...not a lot of experience but I do have patience.

I also really appreciate how your trees don't show the scars, as you pointed out.

Thanks again for sharing

 

[Brian Van Fleet]

@Smoke can we see these trees now?

 

[Paulpash]

I think you and Smoke are the only ones left. Most of the others aren't around any more.. Mm