Basic participation rules:
- To keep it accessible to all: Any starter material / species / origin allowed, including seed, airlayer purchased and collected material, as long as it is not clearly set up as raft bonsai.
- Aim is to show what can be done with normally sub-part trees.
- Special focus on being creative and original.
- Keep it fun: no trees of over 100 USD.
- Aim is to learn together, so document the key steps as much as wanted but as a minimum the material at the start, with annual updates.
- Start anywhere between October 2025 and the end of 2026.
- Tally at the end of the 2030 growing season in northern hemisphere [does this do justice to Southern hemisphere growers or Is the growing season there too far to start?].
- For fun add virtual stickers of accomplishment, and who knows whether we decide upon an additional price for the winner in 2030.
- Thread naming convention [username] [species] Raft contest.
- A main trunk has fallen over, and may sits on the ground, and may have rooted in multiple spots.
- Multiple trunks come up from the one fallen over, each developed as a small tree.
- Crowns may have fused into one canopy, like a forest-style.
