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Originally posted by ripsgreentree
So this lead's me to my question to you. You do work shops and teach people how to do Bonsai, do you start with the foundation? Do you make correct rootage first and then create the top of the tree? Or do you do like every other teacher that I have seen and just work on the top of a tree in your workshop and quietly ignore the foundation that your work is sitting on?
Glenn
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Not really a fair question.
At most of my workshops I supply the trees. That means that they are healthy trees. Given a healthy tree almost anything can be done.
That having been said I must also say the following.
It is IMHO never a good thing to style a tree and then immediately put it into a bonsai pot. Even when using a tropical tree one should wait at least 30 days between the two chores. Longer on other trees. Doing both at the same time puts an unnecessary strain on the tree and definitely retards the recovery process.
I have done both at the same time in a workshop but never by choice. And I have always warned them that it wasn't the best thing to do.
I would imagine everybody will have different thoughts on this but it is not the way I like to teach. I like to teach how to succeed in bonsai. One very seldom succeeds when the bonsai is pushed too hard.