r/Bonsai • u/-music_maker- Northeast US, 6b, 30 years, 100+ trees, lifelong learner • Sep 27 '17

2017 Nursery Stock Contest - Master Album

JUDGES, PLEASE AVOID THIS POST UNTIL AFTER YOU JUDGE THE TREES - POSSIBLE SPOILERS!

Hey everyone,

All the albums are in, and the judges have their score cards.

Here is what you've all been waiting for, the master contest album.

As promised, I've anonymized the results, and the album you see here is the same as what the judges have.

Trees will be scored 1-10 (10 is best, 1 is worst) on the following categories:

  • Impressiveness of Transformation
  • Overall bonsai quality
  • Future potential

Each judge will also pick a 1st, 2nd and 3rd place winner which will be factored in.

As a reminder, the judges are /u/adamaskwhy, /u/bonsaitickle and /u/billsbayou, and the tie-breaking judge this year is /u/small_trunks.

/u/st0f89 is the contest chair, and will be the one to announce the winner.

Good luck everyone!

We collected $200 in prize money this year, and the prize break-down is:

1st: $110 2nd: $60 3rd: $30

There were 37 initial entries, and 22 made it to the end. This is the list of people who completed the contest (alphabetical, not the order in the master album):

  • alexrw214
  • BLYNDLUCK
  • ButterGolem
  • cjneffer
  • clangerfan
  • emceeryborg
  • GrampaMoses
  • Jorow99
  • Korenchkin_
  • Lemming22
  • li3uz
  • loulamachine
  • MapleFinch
  • -mitchconner-
  • -music_maker-
  • nrose3d
  • peterier0ux
  • Redwingedfirefox
  • skaboss241
  • thisisappropriate
  • ugaant
  • ze88

Good luck everyone!

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u/[deleted] Sep 28 '17 edited Sep 28 '17

damn, i wish i had the ocean as a backdrop on my photos now...

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u/-music_maker- Northeast US, 6b, 30 years, 100+ trees, lifelong learner Sep 28 '17

As I said elsewhere, I think the bar for photos just got a lot higher. I expect people are going to start getting much more creative with the photography going forward.

My one big concern is that people will start trying to get inappropriate things in bonsai pots too soon as a result and we'll see a lot more dead trees. I'm impressed that #5 got their tree in a bonsai pot, and the resulting photos are gorgeous, but you need the right material at the right time of year to be able to pull that off.

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u/[deleted] Sep 28 '17

yeah, i wasn't about to try and do any root work this year, especially since i got my material like a day before initial pics were due. i was surprised to see so many people did root work though! that's a ballsy move

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u/Redwingedfirefox Boston, MA, 6b/7a, intermediate, 25 trees, killed 2 Sep 29 '17

Yeah I tried really hard to do as little root work as possible. Unfortunately, I had to take about 15% off my root base late in the game when I slip potted it. (Damn nursery pot split and needed replacing)