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Originaly posted by Ron Martin: So what is your point Andy.
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A better question might be: What is 'your' point Ron?
The demo is the point. If the tree lives, thats just a bonus. The point of the demo is for the artist to dazzle us with his expertise in designing bonsai. If all the conditions are peak, then the tree living should be not to much of a problem. The answer given by Andy was right on the mark, as to all the things that could go wrong with a demo tree that is raffled off after the demo.
I know that in the contest thread there was bantor that we need to, as part of the contest show the tree 6 months later and show that we kept it alive. This contest in many respects is just what goes on with a demo tree. Sometimes more techniques are applied to the stock then it can take at one sitting.
Sometimes they just give up..nature of the beast..I don't think it necessarily reflects bad on the demo artist. His function was to make something beautiful with the material offered, not keep it alive.
Just my opinion, Al