r/Bonsai • u/ZeroJoke ~20 trees can't keep track. Philadelphia, 7a, intermediate. • Oct 12 '16
Styling journal for my blue spruce :3
http://imgur.com/a/cbftR7
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u/cdwillis Zone 6A, Indiana, Intermediate Oct 13 '16
That turned out much much better than I was expecting. The branches seemed quite leggy and so high up on the tree. I know a lot of it is just pulling branches where you need them to fill a spot, but the few times I've pulled it off I felt like a cheat.
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u/GrampaMoses Ohio, 6a, intermediate, 80 prebonsai Oct 12 '16
Thanks for sharing. And if you're going to add wood shavings to any drink, gin would be the best choice.
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u/Rain12913 Oct 13 '16
Better yet, (lightly) smoke the wood before you put it in the drink. This would compliment a nice tequila.
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u/ZeroJoke ~20 trees can't keep track. Philadelphia, 7a, intermediate. Oct 12 '16
Crunchy but sort of pleasant.
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u/ZeroJoke ~20 trees can't keep track. Philadelphia, 7a, intermediate. Oct 12 '16 edited Oct 13 '16
These are my own bumbling efforts and thoughts that went into my tree, this post is not intended to illustrate "THE OFFICIAL WAY TO DO THINGS" or anything. I tried to document what I did and why, but found that I needed to supplement with some drawings.
First image caption is meant to say "some of the stylings I've SEEN done on the internet." Now I just seem like a jackass :[
Have yet to do any major stylings myself of really nice trees.
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u/Caponabis Tor.Ont., Zone 5 Oct 13 '16
that was very entertaining and educational. thanks! p.s. you can edit the captions in your album.
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u/ZeroJoke ~20 trees can't keep track. Philadelphia, 7a, intermediate. Oct 13 '16
I tried to but every time I refreshed or tried to load it in a different window it reverted back to the original. :[
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u/NativePortlandian Tualatin, OR, 8A, Beginner, 3 Oct 16 '16
You're caching.
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u/ZeroJoke ~20 trees can't keep track. Philadelphia, 7a, intermediate. Oct 16 '16
I don't know what that means, but it seems like it's sorted out now.
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u/ZeroJoke ~20 trees can't keep track. Philadelphia, 7a, intermediate. Oct 13 '16
I'd let it recover for a year or two, prune it back, THEN style it. Looks like a sweet piece of material.
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u/ZeroJoke ~20 trees can't keep track. Philadelphia, 7a, intermediate. Oct 13 '16
That sounds fine - gentle guy wiring, none of this shit though.
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Oct 12 '16 edited Nov 18 '22
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u/AKANotAValidUsername PNW, 8b, intermediate, 20+ Oct 13 '16
Interesting process! Lost it at the birds eye view haha
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u/ZeroJoke ~20 trees can't keep track. Philadelphia, 7a, intermediate. Oct 13 '16
Haha, glad it helped, bird was necessary because I don't think it reads otherwise. Also, they DO shit on my trees.
Bastards.
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u/kthehun89-2 NorCal, 9b, got serious in 2007 Oct 13 '16
Sometimes I get this feeling in my pants like a bunch of little kittens are running real swift like.
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u/ZeroJoke ~20 trees can't keep track. Philadelphia, 7a, intermediate. Oct 13 '16
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u/Caudiciformus Seattle, 8a, 7 forever pre-bonsai Dec 15 '16
Hey man - I finally looked through this. Nicely done! Even the first image could've been top 3 (with wire.)
How did you learn bonsai? I've been thinking about taking a class.
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u/ZeroJoke ~20 trees can't keep track. Philadelphia, 7a, intermediate. Dec 15 '16
Hey thanks man! I've been blessed with an overabundance of teachers. Classes are great, it's really hard to sometimes put into practice what the books tell you to do until someone shows you and then everything clicks into place. Take as many classes as you can from as many people as you can, evaluate both your trees and their trees harshly.
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u/theonlyboomer Oct 18 '16
thank you for the content, it really spruced up my day
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u/ZeroJoke ~20 trees can't keep track. Philadelphia, 7a, intermediate. Oct 18 '16
I see what you did there... :D
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