Superfeeding & Frankenstain
Jad
HI folks, HI Brent ( as I am using your e-mail)
Sorry again to intrude on this passionating topic..
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>I soon discovered that the control of insects and rodents eating the cakes
>took a level of chemical control that made me uncomfortable.
Insects and other pests cannot be avoided 100 % rodents yes.. if into a
garden you put your trees on a shelf, if the shelf is on a pole, add around
the pole a sort of reversed funnel to avoid rats to climb .. if you have
rats at home.. well this is another problemm
In Japan they use cakes and I dont' think that they love rats and pests
either ..
I am in a rural area so this is a big problem.
>These of you growing in urban areas may not have this problem.
OMYA in Japan is a city and housing is quite dense and nurseries too ..
so the problems are the same
>
>His trees are grown slowly over the long haul, they take about twenty years
>to develop. They have delicate tapers, many slender branches and few scars
>to heal. They don't look like Michael's trees or my trees. He gets this look
>by the way he grows them.
Michaels attitude is a little aggressive probably, but our philosophy of
living is diffrent too ( and in Japan also ..)
I wish to have some beautiful trees before quitting this world.. and my
posterity probably won't care about them,
so, now either I spend some thousand bucks ...or I steal it ( could be a
quick solution) or I try to grow it .. quickly.....
Bosai growing tecnics are far from being sweet..
Tres are grown by a farmerinto fields for roots growing few years,
than sold
to another grower that will grow into another field with drastical
pruning to form the trunk.. few years later th tree will appear like
a cone with a huge nebari surrounded by abuoy of about 2" of fine
rots and fastened like a tyre with no branches at all a Halloween
witch hat cone exactly..
than will be put into a container for growning the branches and be sold to
the Bonsai trainer that will buy for making out of it a Pre -bonsai..
what we buy..and than it will take several years to make out of it
something nice..
30 -40 years to make "maybe " a masterpiece..How old are we.. we are the
now generation aren't we ?
I am reading an article with photos on that matter...
and all that becouse there are almost anymore Wild old trees in
Japan and because of craze on bonsai around the world..
So to make a tree 1 st the roots than the trunk and for the
branches.. do what you want ...
I sow a nice penthafilla straight vertical splitted in vertical
into five trunks from the same nebari and than with a copper rod to
keep each part stiff , fastened with raphia to have the bark formed around..
..or several benjamina clustered around a plastic tube to join together
and make a huge( hollow) trunk..
facing these and some others tecniques.. well pushing by fertilizing the
growth is a kids game.. and classic bonsai growers do the same anyway...
Btw have you ever heard of GRAFTED driftwood on alive trees..
> On the other hand I
>saw the rise of some new, never before seen diseases, weird things that
>people don't usually get. So what do I blame? What do I credit? Horticulture
>is much more complex than most of us would like to believe. Many of the
>answers we seek in bonsai are simply not known. They are either too complex
>or have no macro economic benefit and are thus not worth investigating at
>elevated levels.
About this I don't know ,the world is changing and strange things happens..
but bonsai normally should be kept in total health by daily care, that's
what make them live so long ( normally :-))more than thei similars in nature ..
at least some variety..
Challenge everyone and everything, especially what you yourself BELIEVE. I
>can't tell you how many times I have changed soil mixes, fertilizing, and
>watering formulas. It's difficult to do this. We invest a lot in what we
>believe, and it is hard to admit that we might be wrong, or something else
>might work better, or something else might not be so much work. Pride
>yourself on your ability to suspend your own convictions; embrace others for
>purposes of evaluation. Perversely, as you obtain more and more experience
>and knowledge, you may find this harder and harder to do. Watch out.
Ok Brent I agree with you but you admit that the tricheries were not
started by us.. Other, these who created the art of bonsai alredy did that
as human life is too short in compareson to the bonsai span of life...
I deserve my masterpiece NOW !:-)
Friendly Jad
.. paths of pebbles are rivers and waterfalls..
the flickering flames of maples, and combed sand
help you in meditating
...the stillness of fleeing hours into eternity...
Jad < uly...@iprolink.ch >
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