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Originally Posted by tachigi
Ummmmmm.....Yeah it is the point. Not just yours, but everyone else that puts a seed, cutting, nursery stock or what have you in the ground or pot with the hopes of one day growing "their" masterpiece.
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This is an exercise in rhetorical double talk and conundrums. No matter what side of this argument you come down on you can't win. So what does that mean? It means that if there is a right answer and both A and B don't seem to be the right answers by them selves then possibly both A and B are equally correct, flawed but correct.
To me the real right answer is what makes you as a bonsai grower happy and productively engaged in growing bonsai. Me; I get a kick out of developing the bonsai I develop out of nothing material. Others go for the top end pre-bonsai et al, and collected trees, and yet others will search out finished, or near finished bonsai to work with. So who is wrong here and who is right?
It seems that we have allowed ourselves to get trapped into finding fault with all of the methods that we don't personally use; the my way or the high way mentality. Ah but wait: A high way has many lanes and many people travel that high way and at different speeds, there is the fast lane and the slow lane and in some states the emergency lane.