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Old 9-Apr-2006   #1
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Ponderosa pine. today's project

This ponderosa has been in my collection since 1987. It started out as a dual demonstration by Dan Robinson and myself at the Bonsai Society of San Francisco annual exhibit.
Dan worked on the pine (that he collected several years before) while I put the rocks together with fast set construction grade epoxy.
Today I removed old wire, cut off some needles and lime-sulfered the jin.
Height from table is about 27 inches.
The link is to a picture of the pine in the early '90's
http://forum.bonsaitalk.com/attachm...achmentid=24226

Mike
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