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Originally Posted by MarcS
This will never become a bonsai even if you let it grow 5 years (sorry, someone has to say it).
For a bonsai you need:
- a thick trunk (the thickness dictates the depth of the pot, fe a 2 inch trunkbase requires a 2 inch deep pot, and the future height of the tree, 6 times the width of the trunk base
- taper in the trunk.
Look for material like this and you will have a nice tree in two years.
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How do you have the authority or right to say something like that?!!
Dictating that a tree could/would never be able to be a bonsai based solely on it's current appearance is asinine at best.
Saying that it could be a bonsai within a determined ammount of time would also be incorrect too. However, nobody said that this tree could be a bonsai within a couple of years, the only thing that was stated was that to start off, the tree will need a few years of growth before the trunk will be of a reasonable size to begin training as a pre-bonsai. Many many many techniques could be used to turn this tree into a bonsai, given enough time.
This tree is a living thing, just because it currently looks a bit like a twig with leaves doesn't mean that it won't one day become a perfect 10.
Bonsai is about giving things time to develop.