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Omono
I like the idea of these types of interactions in bonsai but the one I'm most familiar with, Reddit's annual nursery-stock contest (or twice-annual maybe?), has no appeal to me (I don't like acquiring anything w/o a decent trunk, and I dislike the idea of trying to make a tree look 'finished' & pretty in a short time because that's /= to properly developing it (not that you couldn't just un-wire after the contest and then start a proper, long-term plan for it, but still)
Maybe a BC contest, as BC collection season is coming up? @BillsBayou & @Zach Smith & @Mellow Mullet would you guys be interested in anything like this, where it's a 1yr or 2yrs contest? Get your chosen specimen in the next ~8wks / declare it in the contest thread, then a year (or 2yr) later there's a winner for who did the coolest job with their specimen? Obviously I'd come in 4th of the 4 of us from this BC idea but even still I'd be eager to participate!
Or in the spring/summer there could be a tropicals contest, wherein people submit their favorite tropical that they'd collected in that season, and the contest-thread would be an on-going type of deal (w/ "finish date(s)" for motivation & fun & choosing winners, but I think that in all of these cases it'd be great seeing it as it un-folded
Thanks for reading and let me know your thoughts, will PM mods if there's interest & they don't see this
Maybe a BC contest, as BC collection season is coming up? @BillsBayou & @Zach Smith & @Mellow Mullet would you guys be interested in anything like this, where it's a 1yr or 2yrs contest? Get your chosen specimen in the next ~8wks / declare it in the contest thread, then a year (or 2yr) later there's a winner for who did the coolest job with their specimen? Obviously I'd come in 4th of the 4 of us from this BC idea but even still I'd be eager to participate!
Or in the spring/summer there could be a tropicals contest, wherein people submit their favorite tropical that they'd collected in that season, and the contest-thread would be an on-going type of deal (w/ "finish date(s)" for motivation & fun & choosing winners, but I think that in all of these cases it'd be great seeing it as it un-folded
Thanks for reading and let me know your thoughts, will PM mods if there's interest & they don't see this