Voting Thread - 2020 Little Christmas Tree Contest

[cishepard]

This is the official closing of The Little Christmas Tree Contest.

The contest thread is here:

https://www.bonsainut.com/threads/the-little-christmas-tree-contest-2020-2023.41048/

Of the 37 original entries, a few trees have died and quite a few of the members just don’t frequent the forum much anymore. Only 8 of us posted final photos of our trees.
Please cast your votes using whatever criteria you desire, be it most creative, best use of the material, ”follows the rules”, “breaks all the rules”, or simply the tree that you like the most : )

At the beginning of the contest @Eckhoffw offered up a cedar grow box as a prize for the contest winner. Perhaps he can chime in on this thread once the poll has closed, in 5 days from now.

(Please don’t start voting until I get all 8 of the photos posted to this thread … thx)

 

[cishepard]

Pherphace’s Dwarf Alberta Spruce

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[cishepard]

Underdogs’ Norway Spruce

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[cishepard]

Canoeguide’s Thuja occidentalis

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[cishepard]

Bonsaidoorguy’s Blue Point Juniper

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[cishepard]

brentwood’s Grocerius Chrismasius

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[cishepard]

Colorado’s Blue Spruce

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[cishepard]

Woocash’s Serbian Spruce

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[cishepard]

cishepard’s Skyrocket Juniper

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[PherPhace]

Pherphace’s Dwarf Alberta Spruce

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Pherphace’s Dwarf Alberta Spruce

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This wasn't my final photo. It might be a better angle, but was taken on my old crappy phone with bad focus.

 

[Eckhoffw]

This is the official closing of The Little Christmas Tree Contest.

The contest thread is here:

https://www.bonsainut.com/threads/the-little-christmas-tree-contest-2020-2023.41048/

Of the 37 original entries, a few trees have died and quite a few of the members just don’t frequent the forum much anymore. Only 8 of us posted final photos of our trees.
Please cast your votes using whatever criteria you desire, be it most creative, best use of the material, ”follows the rules”, “breaks all the rules”, or simply the tree that you like the most : )

At the beginning of the contest @Eckhoffw offered up a cedar grow box as a prize for the contest winner. Perhaps he can chime in on this thread once the poll has closed, in 5 days from now.

At the beginning of the contest @Eckhoffw offered up a cedar grow box as a prize for the contest winner. Perhaps he can chime in on this thread once the poll has closed, in 5 days from now.

At the beginning of the contest @Eckhoffw offered up a cedar grow box as a prize for the contest winner. Perhaps he can chime in on this thread once the poll has closed, in 5 days from now.

Yep. Still have it for the winner.
Probably pretty dusty.

 

[cishepard]

This wasn't my final photo. It might be a better angle, but was taken on my old crappy phone with bad focus.

Go ahead and post your better photo in this thread - it’s not too late!

 

[PherPhace]

Here is my final tree and a bonus possible future front since I'm at a disadvantage
I had a lot of fun with this and this guy is now one of my favorite trees.

 

[Underdog]

@cishepard Thanks for doing all this

 

[cishepard]

And the winner is Colorado’s Blue Spruce!
( @Colorado )
Thanks to all who participated in the Little Christmas Tree Contest. I entered a few contests when I first joined Bnut, and this was the first one that I completed. It was fun at the start, but enthusiasm wans and tastes change as the years go by as is evidenced by the lagging participation. It has certainly been a lesson in patience and perseverance, as are most things bonsai. I did learn some things and I will enter other contests but maybe with more of discerning eye towards material that I will be likely to keep on my benches long term (such as the winning blue spruce!).
Cheers, everyone : )

 

[Woocash]

Thanks @cishepard for doing this and congratulations to @Colorado for your deserved victory. I somehow missed this vote thread despite looking for it, but I would have voted the way of the winner as well. That little spruce will be a lovely tree as time moves on and I hope you still post progress over the years to show what can be done with readily available material. Same goes for @PherPhace who deserves an honourable mention for your lovely entry as well.

I think, unfortunately, as most most of the old hats will have no doubt noted at the time, that 3 years was never enough for a largely conifer based contest to really get any proper refinement but it taught me about care of of spruces and their growing cycles nonetheless.

Some have lost interest, some have had casualties, some have chopped and changed and some have ended up with handsome little trees, but I am sure that we have all learnt some useful things along the way, so good job those who stuck it out in the end.

 

[Colorado]

This contest was a ton of fun! Thank you very much to the organizers for keeping us in line. Congrats to everyone who made it to the finish line!

And I am flattered that the community liked this humble little spruce

 

[PherPhace]

Congrats @Colorado ! Great little tree! A big thanks to all that participated. Even those that didn't make it to the finish line. I enjoyed all your threads.

 

[misfit11]

Fun contest, everyone. I didn't get a chance to vote, but TJs Blue Spruce was my favorite as well. Congratulations and we'll done @Colorado ! Thanks to everyone who participated. It was fun to see the evolution of this contest.

 

[Orion_metalhead]

I would have voted Colorado's tree also. Great transformation!

My two trees died and the backups were commandeered by wifey for the landscape. Lol