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Bonsai Doer
Join Date: Aug-2001
Location: Fresno, CA
Country: USA
Posts: 5,537
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Learning Comes With A Price?
Humm...question mark? I put that in the title because this is speculation on my part, and maybe we can discuss this.
I feel that the price may not be money. It may be the failures we encounter on the journey.
While it is an easy matter to learn from someone, will the instruction give the same results as trying it and failing and using that as the model.
Let me explain; If someone tells you that taking a tree to multiple instructors will spell certain death to your tree, and you do it anyway, you take a risk. If the tree lives, you feel cocky and may try it in the future and lose a really expensive tree.
If you try it , and surely it turns up dead, then I guarantee that will never be tried again. Sometimes learning and failures go hand in hand. Sometimes many failures lead to new techniques that will prevent failures in the future. I am sure that Kimura killed many trees separating live veins from deadwood before he perfected it. I am sure that if Andy Rutledge had been there he would have told he was crazy and that he better take a picture of that for tomarrow it will be dead.
We all know that Kimura separates live veins as easy as layers now. I am sure that I would kill many trees in the process of perfecting this technique, but I am not going to let anyone tell me not to try it. This is what bonsai, artistry, horticulture, technique is all about.
Eager for opinions, Al
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