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Originally Posted by rockm
"...I have a question....
WHY would you want to chop the tree down AT the garden center or nursery"
Just to see the look on the nurseryman's face when you finish sawing a $200 maple in half... 
Seriously, it's not really l"chopping a tree down" in the sense you're chopping it to the ground. Trunk chopping in bonsai is step one in bonsai training. The majority of bonsai begin as larger trees that are reduced to bonsai height by removing their upper growth.
Bonsaiable trees in a nursery or in the wild are sometimes 25 feet tall or more. You can't get a 25 foot tree into a pick up, much less a four door sedan's trunk. You have to reduce those trees to three or four feet not only to make them fit into the trunk, but to start them on their way in bonsai training. |
OH DEAR----Rockm! Rockm! Rockm!
Me thinks you live in never never land, $200 for a maple are ya kidd'n or what, would never waste that kinda dough on a maple of any sort, for sure no starter tree of any species
I'm 72, have to carry my prizes in a small [tiny] shopping trolly, so I cut them down to let's say about 60cm high, that works for me.
Never do what you guys in the States do,
trunk chopping, nor am I into that ridiculous style call Sumo....YUK
All my trees look like trees, small trees as they do it in China, me no likey Japanese manicures, nor those un-natural fat trunks, have a few Japanese imports, but they are the exception and chosen for ther species alone.
Me also don't drive, can't think why I'd want too, never had the need either, so use buses, trams, trains and willing friends for the occasional drive/pickup.
Not attacking you or anyone else, just stating the facts man, yep, just stating the facts.
Regards,
Nigel
