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Air Assault All The Way.
Join Date: Mar-2004
Location: Huntersville, NC (near Charlotte)
Country: USA
Posts: 1,702
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Originally Posted by akhater
I have been reading on the net and it seems quite usual that people look for well established trees with thick trunk and just chop them to make them bonsais. It makes me think of all those commercial bonsais found in nurseries.
Does a chopped bonsai worth (not money wise but bonsai wise) as much as one trained as bonsai from the beggining??
what do you, bonsai freeks, think about chopping.
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It depends. Chopping is one way to introduce taper into a long non-tapered trunk. It also forces appropriate branching and other attributes. It's just a technique, and to "value" a bonsai simply over whether it was created by a chop is not practical. Anyway, in one form or another MOST bonsai have received a chop during their life. Very common.
Best regards,
John
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