Whats Going on in Smoke's Backyard?
- Thread starter Smoke
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That's some great ramification. Very nice.
Smoke
Ignore-Amus
Black pine dug Jan 18
Black pine June 4. Look how black the wire was 5 months ago and how it will be silver in another three months.
Black pine June 4. Look how black the wire was 5 months ago and how it will be silver in another three months.
Gary McCarthy
Chumono
Glad to see you're back posting!
j evans
Omono
Yep it is nice, you've been missed.
namnhi
Masterpiece
Why the front has no branches. It looks kind of bare all the way up.
Smoke
Ignore-Amus
Don't know, what do you want to hear? I'll agree to anything...you make it up.
Smoke
Ignore-Amus
Pomegranate I picked up at a club show. March 7.
June 4 today. The pot is temporary and due to a squirrel mishap. Tree has 19 blooms on it. Think it can take 19 poms hanging on it?
June 4 today. The pot is temporary and due to a squirrel mishap. Tree has 19 blooms on it. Think it can take 19 poms hanging on it?
Lazylightningny
Masterpiece
I also have a small pomegranate that I picked up this year. Not sure how cold hardy it will be in ny.
Smoke
Ignore-Amus
Cold hardy...pretty good. Frost or snow hardy....not so much
Tycoss
Chumono
Very nice image, especially considering what you started with. Even just repotting has made a big difference with the elegant trunk line.
PeaceLoveBonsai
Chumono
what’s with all the wire and mesh on the trunk?
This tree lacks taper, no? and the upper part of the tree is wildly out of proportion to the trunk.
I’m interested in your plans for the future for this tree. At first glance, the tree seems like it needs a chop and many years of training ahead.
Maybe I’m wrong?
Lazylightningny
Masterpiece
I overwinter my plants in a poly tunnel, so hopefully that will be enough protection.
Smoke
Ignore-Amus
The mesh on the tree is protecting the bark from the four wire tie in that I did to make the tree rock solid in the nursery container. It has a very small root ball and crossing wires over that will not cut it.
Lack taper, yea some. Not perfect. But I didn't pay 3000.00 dollars for it like a lot of people do to get good taper. I traded a stand and two diaza carved for it. Here is one, haven't carved the other yet. I have no expense except wood. So for me this is priceless.
So this tree is six months working on it. I would be curious to know how long you been working on that "very weak" pine in your avatar that looks like it needs some wire? My cuts were made for the future and there are scars on the front of the trunk where I removed branches. The shoots I retained and those that have grown in the last six months will be trained to peek over the trunk along it's length rather than have a bunch of eye pokers up and down the trunk.
I would be very much appreciative to have a link to the tree in your avatar. Maybe I could critique yours as well. There will be no doubt it would help you.
JudyB
Queen of the Nuts
Ooo I like this. And you know I love that pot...
PeaceLoveBonsai
Chumono
Appreciate the response. Btw, I mean no disrespect. Just thought you might like to have an actual bonsai conversation.
. And, I just don’t feel this pine is quite at the standards of most of the other trees I’ve seen you post. But, I’m here to learn and I appreciate you engaging with me. I’ve posted an update on my avatar pine in another thread...won’t take up space on your thread by posting it here. I look forward to your (and any others) critique.
Smoke
Ignore-Amus
Appreciate the response. Btw, I mean no disrespect. Just thought you might like to have an actual bonsai conversation.
It may not be, it's only six months. Give me five years, that's about how long I need to make a difference. I can post the trees to prove it. Others can't, hell many here have been working on trees for more than a decade and they still look like the day they got them.
leatherback
The Treedeemer
I gotta ask, because I truly do not understand.. Why can you not appreciate what you do for you? Why the need to compare what you do to how others do it? Live and let live or something? Wouldn't that make your life a lot easier?
Smoke
Ignore-Amus
Because I can.....
Smoke
Ignore-Amus
If you stay at it long enough, there will come a time when you are despised. Thats a fact. I have been doing this too long not to see it. When your work gets very good people will be jealous and will look down their nose at how you post. That happens if you interact with the forum. If you just wish to post a tree and run then you are not open for the words. Guys like MachV and Judy and Brian and Adair, they don't post much anymore and they don't do a lot of interacting.
If you wish in the future to just post a tree and not talk to anyone, then yea I can see your point, but if you want to show a tree to someone to help them improve and open the discussion to fielding questions like "why you gotta be a dick", then yea it gets hard.
I might ask you why you felt the need to come in here and ask these questions, surely they do not move the dialog forward. In fact it's none of your business....is it? Now do you understand?
