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Originally posted by FredL
But, one thing I'm curious about: I wonder whether any of the material you collected early on turned out to have more potential than you recognized at first. I wonder whether you collected material at random that at one point didn't look like much to you and then, at a still later time, turned out to be a pretty decent starting point after all. As you went along, did you discover potential that you missed at an earlier stage?
Fred
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Fred
Sorry it took me so long to get back to the question you asked way back at the beginning of this thread. It has been a busy last few days.
Fortunately when I first became interested in bonsai there was an experienced bonsai instructor just down the road from where I lived. I took several lessons from him and did learn, at least the rudiments on styling, before I had started to collect material from the wild.
This caused me to be a bit selective before I put that shovel to work. I never collected just for the sake of collecting. Every tree I took from the ground had a plan in mind for it before I broke my back getting the darn thing out.
Some times the plan did not work out. Mistakes were indeed made. But when I realized that I had made a mistake I no longer kept the tree. I never saw the advantage on trying to make a mistake work.
So to answer your question did some of the random material that I collected ever turn out to have potential that only came out later on. No. But then I never saw the advantage in random collecting ( I am too lazy to do that anyway.) And as soon as I realized that a piece of material I was working on did not fit my plan for it I abandoned that material.
Hope that answers your question