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Bonsainut, I too have had Naka look me in the eye. You can tell what he is thinking before he even utters a word. Those eyes, those searing dark eyes.

A word or two about being critical. EVERYONE is a critic. If you have told someone about a great bonsai web page, or told someone of a great movie you just saw. Maybe you are a Ford man and tell everyone you see that you have no use for Chevrolet? Well, you are being a critic. It''s unavoidable in everyday things that you do. Just deciding to prune or pinch your bonsai is a critical assessment. If you did not make a critical decision, your tree would just turn back into a bush.

Leesa, trust me having over 800 posts makes you nothing except a gas bag. I just love to talk bonsai, and it's not the thing that one can do anytime they want, except here, which fits my lifestyle quite well. I too have not given responses to many trees posted here simply because I can offer no advice that would be of any help. Sometimes it's a matter of waiting for growth, or maybe a layer or a grafting issue. These things take time and can not be solved in a few posts in an evening. Sometimes a virtual of how the tree might look is all that can reassure someone that they are on the right track.

It makes me no nevermind if someone wants to post their newly potted stick tree. Hey, everyone has to start somewhere, and I agree with that. But it's the outcries for help after that are hard to deal with on a level conducive to good bonsai. I would like to see a post whereby someone has bought the material with something in mind, and they have done an initial pruning on it towards that look. It may be a pencil size tree or it may be the most beautiful trunk that one has ever seen. At least in this way good solid help in the direction the person is going can be given. You won't see 4 or 5 virtuals of every bonsai style. Just the style the artist is going for. Makes sense to me.

I guess it's not so much the size as it is reckless abandon when it comes to buying material. Sort of a "you can make a bonsai out of anything" attitude. Well you can, I guess it just comes down to your taste in art.


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