Here's my advice.
When you evaluate advice that you read on the internet, take the source into account. Ideally, take a look at trees they've been growing using the techniques that they advocate. If you can't, a decent fallback source of information is the excellent set of translated-from-Japanese articles in Bonsai Today. I'd trust those authors before I'd trust unknown voices on the net.
(Of course, this is just advice. And my gallery doesn't have photos of trees, just accent plants. So I suppose if you follow my advice, you have to disregard it.
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Best regards,
Carl