Hey Andrew,
IMO what's missing is better context for articles/books.
Authors have significantly different philosophy's/culture. There's a pretty radical difference between container culture vs soil culture (in the ground).
Yes and no. Plants grow as plants grow.
Further authors subscribe to various philosophies... ancient bonsai purest, new age bonsai experimentalist, horticulturally educated bonsai enthusiast, hortoculturally educated bonsai nurseryman, seed not speed, and so on, and so on. Wish there was a real list of these categories 
I have a Deborah Koreshofs(sp?) book... good book...
Correction: Excellent book, but still not written for bonsai in
YOUR neighborhood, YOUR climate, YOUR water, with Miracle Grow
(or whatever) fertilizer.
Jim Lewis -
jklewis@nettally.com - Tallahassee, FL - Wishing that people would remember to snip all the unnecessary OLD stuff from messages.
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