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bonsai is not my hobby
Join Date: Oct-2001
Location: Egling, south of Munich
Country: Germany
Posts: 1,433
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Ok, so why would I point out that some techniques are 'used by professionals', implying that the general reader should probably not dare to use them?
As an example take my techniques with using fire to treat deadwood. I use fire much more than most others do and lots of people have seen me on stage and try to do the same. I never fail to tell them that this is DANGEROUS. Mainly dangerous because of the risk to kill living parts of the tree. One would think that in general bonsai folks are reasonable people and would understand this. Well, I travel the country and I find trees that have been burned to death, I find people who blame me to show dangerous methods etc. I now have come so far to say that this is 'for professionals', meaning it is NOT for you, general bonsai crowd!
The same applies to radical bending and braking techniques. These are quite spectacular and lots of folks are so intrigued that they want to do it themselves. Often these are people who do not yet even know how to create a decent bonsai in general. Often they do to know much or anything about plant physiology. They are bound to kill trees left and right.
The same again applies to ancient collecte trees which are terribly complicated. I tell people that soem trees are not for them. To protect the trees from the fools!
So what is wrong in making it clear that certain methods are not for the general crowd? Call me an elitist jerk, as someone did on another forum, and was NOT corrected by the moderators. Would you call a surgeon an elitist jerk who tells people that the brain surgery or heart surgery that they had just watched is NOT for the general household to do at home?
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