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Originally Posted by Hawthorn

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.

While I will agree that someday any tree COULD become bonsai..... I would like to quote my dear teacher and friend Daniel Robinson "It's a 200 year plan"... which is not to say that it would actually take 200 years... The point is that often times the amount of time required for a specific piece of material to become worthy of bonsai is so far ahead of us that it's not worth considering now... if ever..... material that will never be much of anything for a vast majority of your lifetime may or may not be worthwhile to you.... I perfer material I can realize a vision in within 5-7 yrs or less

just another perspective