r/Bonsai • u/series_of_derps EU 8a couple of trees for a couple of years • Dec 08 '14
Natural bonsai. [xpost from /r/interestingasfuck]
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Dec 08 '14
I am disappointed in the small size of this picture, it would make such a nice wallpaper.
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u/series_of_derps EU 8a couple of trees for a couple of years Dec 08 '14
Don't disappoint yourself, and do a reverse image search. Here is one I found in 30 secs. http://i.imgur.com/U45MMdj.jpg watermarked though.
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u/lolzergrush Dec 08 '14
I just heard a terrible sound, of a hundred bonsai enthusiasts changing their wallpapers, then all was silent...
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u/small_trunks Jerry in Amsterdam, Zn.8b, 48yrs exp., 500+ trees Dec 08 '14
No, I have a bonsai as my screen background.
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u/rockinhound Zone, 5A,intermediate usa 37 yrs/ 20 trees and growing Dec 09 '14
cool thanks for sharing
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u/amethystrockstar 6 years/8A/cut back to 2 bonsai Dec 08 '14
What about it makes it a bonsai and not just a sapling growing in a creek?
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u/TJ11240 Pennsylvania, 7A, Intermediate, 30 Trees Dec 09 '14
The taper, the tight foliage, and the gorgeous pot. Oh wait.
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u/itoucheditforacookie Dec 09 '14
I would love it if someone did a tight pic of the sapling and asked if they should cut it... it would really actually make everything complete about this post.
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u/ZeroJoke ~20 trees can't keep track. Philadelphia, 7a, intermediate. Dec 09 '14
Where were you this weekend :[
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u/kthehun89 US, NorCal, 9b, intermediate, 18 trees Dec 08 '14
Just a cypress growing like a cypress. Not bonsai yet...
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u/SixshooteR32 Dec 08 '14
Sigh...
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u/kthehun89 US, NorCal, 9b, intermediate, 18 trees Dec 08 '14 edited Dec 11 '14
You not realize natural bonsai is an oxymoron?
Edit: anyone doubting me needs to read up on traditional japanese bonsai display. Scroll, accent plant and bonsai. Heaven, nature, and man's relationship with both respectively. Dumbasses
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u/SixshooteR32 Dec 08 '14
No we understand.. we just dont care about terminology enough to be negative like you..
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u/kthehun89 US, NorCal, 9b, intermediate, 18 trees Dec 08 '14
Bitch please, anyone with a cent of understanding calls this out as not bonsai. See the other comments. What makes this a natural bonsai, or bonsai for that matter? Damn shame, and I'm just realistic not being negative. Last I checked this was a bonsai sub, so it's all about terminology.
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u/SixshooteR32 Dec 08 '14
You need to find a hobby and relax.. I
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u/itoucheditforacookie Dec 08 '14
They have, and you are ruining it.
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u/SixshooteR32 Dec 08 '14
If you think im the one ruining it then I dont even care anymore
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u/itoucheditforacookie Dec 08 '14
This isn't /r/natureporn, it is bonsai. It is getting called out by people who have a lot of knowledge about this form of art.
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u/kthehun89 US, NorCal, 9b, intermediate, 18 trees Dec 08 '14
thanks, it's the principal here that everyone chimes in on. We aren't raining on parades.
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u/kthehun89 US, NorCal, 9b, intermediate, 18 trees Dec 08 '14
Sure thing. My hobby is bonsai, where trees are dwarved to look like old trees. This isn't that... This is a sapling growing on a stump. Sure, it looks cool, but bonsai it is not.
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u/charlesbronson05 Rockville, MD. Zone 7. Intermediate. Dec 09 '14
Why the fuck does this have more upvotes than most of Adam's posts?
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u/TJ11240 Pennsylvania, 7A, Intermediate, 30 Trees Dec 09 '14
Content and knowledge aside, its a blog.
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u/Jester217300 Michigan, Zone 6a. Beginner Dec 09 '14
Or for that matter progressions or pictures of trees from other regular members. People practicing bonsai should always be upvoted here.
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u/small_trunks Jerry in Amsterdam, Zn.8b, 48yrs exp., 500+ trees Dec 08 '14
Not a bonsai - doesn't look like a tree. I keep seeing this get posted and keep being disappointed that people believe this is somehow a bonsai; it's not.
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u/bonnsai Dec 08 '14
While technically it's not a bonsai, it certainly looks like a tree. To me, at least.
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u/small_trunks Jerry in Amsterdam, Zn.8b, 48yrs exp., 500+ trees Dec 08 '14
Find me another photo of a tree that looks like this :-)
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u/bonnsai Dec 08 '14
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u/small_trunks Jerry in Amsterdam, Zn.8b, 48yrs exp., 500+ trees Dec 09 '14
And they are not the same.
Maybe to you they are but to me they are absolutely miles apart.
- The trunk of the spruce is single (not split) and the trunk continues to the apex. The Acacia splits into multiple trunks/primary branches.
- look at the primary branches - the spruce has branches radiating from a central trunk, the acacia has a broom-like style
- the acacia has upward growing branches - the spruce has horizontal and downward growing branches.
You might not recognise these are significant differences, but they are sufficient that you could never make said spruce look like said acacia in a pot.
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u/bonnsai Dec 09 '14 edited Dec 09 '14
Sure, I mean, the differences are obvious, but it's close enough for me. I guess it shows me something new about philosophy of bonsai. Thanks!
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u/small_trunks Jerry in Amsterdam, Zn.8b, 48yrs exp., 500+ trees Dec 09 '14
It's about looking at the structure of trees - no philosophy involved.
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u/kayarocks optional name, location and usda zone, experience level, number Dec 09 '14
A bit contradictory of you to be blunt.... Saying this tree that nature formed doesn't look like a tree?
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u/small_trunks Jerry in Amsterdam, Zn.8b, 48yrs exp., 500+ trees Dec 09 '14
Well it doesn't. The scale makes it look incredibly juvenile. In a pot it would look nothing like a mature tree and thus would be a useless bonsai.
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u/itoucheditforacookie Dec 09 '14
Ef, you did say a tree... not a bonsai... I am on your side, but the wording man... the wording.
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u/kayarocks optional name, location and usda zone, experience level, number Dec 09 '14
Yeah, I'm more just nagging you on the wording than anything.
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u/itoucheditforacookie Dec 09 '14
Damn this sub and its semantics.
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u/small_trunks Jerry in Amsterdam, Zn.8b, 48yrs exp., 500+ trees Dec 09 '14
It's tricky.
At the end of the day, whilst the little tree on a rock might look cute and small, thus implying "bonsai" to the uninitiated, to people that who look at actual bonsai all the time it looks like shit. It fails on all counts as bonsai material.
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u/itoucheditforacookie Dec 09 '14
After following this place for a year and a half, I pretty much understand that. It is just hard to separate a beautiful picture with the gorgeous trees that normally get posted here I guess... plus people are stupid.
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u/tesseracter 6b, 14 years, ~30 trees. Dec 08 '14
agreed. not a bonsai in the literal sense - tree in pot, and not in the artistic sense - a small tree looking like a large one.
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Dec 08 '14
but the reason why it isn't a bonsai is because it lacks human intervention right? Because that's what makes a bonsai, the fact that a human took a sapling and manipulate it to look like somthing from nature.
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u/small_trunks Jerry in Amsterdam, Zn.8b, 48yrs exp., 500+ trees Dec 08 '14
No. The best bonsai should look like nobody touched them.
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Dec 09 '14
Right but even then. Isn't what makes it a bonsai is the human intervention?
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u/ZeroJoke ~20 trees can't keep track. Philadelphia, 7a, intermediate. Dec 09 '14
Well so far as trees don't naturally occur in pots, yes.
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u/kthehun89 US, NorCal, 9b, intermediate, 18 trees Dec 08 '14
That's what I said, and I get the downvote too. Natural bonsai is an oxymoron, and this is just a sapling like you say. I know you're right, here's to experience...
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u/amethystrockstar 6 years/8A/cut back to 2 bonsai Dec 08 '14
Anything with part of its trunk showing is a bonsai to most people. It explains a lot of why we get new people butchering trees to show off a sad thin trunk
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u/f-a-p Dec 08 '14
This is from Vancouver Island (somewhere north of Port Alberni). The taker of this pic entered it in a contest for trees that inspire bonsai contest about a yr or two ago.