Vance Wood

By all means start with the seedlings to gain experience, and have some fun. But if you can get a larger tree as mentioned in a 3 to 5 gallon nursery container this is the best place to start. Your seedlings are going to take twenty years to develop to a point you can make a believable bonsai of them.

You really don't learn much about bonsai from cultivating the little stuff. What you do learn from the experience is the ultimate conclusion that you should have started with bigger stuff. Most good bonsai are not grown up into bonsai from smaller plants. You really don't grow a tree into a bonsai. What is really done is cutting down larger trees into bonsai forms, this even applies to collected trees. This is the real secret of bonsai not often mentioned.

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The only finished bonsai is a dead one; me 1992 MABA Des Moines Iowa