Finally Got My Lime Sulphur! And Had A Good Bonsai Trip!

nickbachman

yes, you heard me right. you may recall the discussion a while back about me searching for lime sulphur. (i know ron martin does) . but we'll get to that in a bit. anyway today, i went to the city to meet up with the bonsai master i know. i brought my big birch stock i just bought, and he and i styled it, as well as fixing a couple problem areas on my cascading juniper. then he told me he had a present for me, since i'm showing interest in bonsai. he brought out a plum tree he just got that he had cut back a few weeks ago. it's very cool lookin, and is in like a 5 gal nursery can i think. so then he showed me his bonsais, including a 125 year old Yew, his boxwood with an at least 4.5 inch trunk, his few phoenix grafts, and this mammoth-trunked azalea just to name a couple. so then i went to the local bonsai shop, DaSu bonsai. i figured, i'd do them a favor, (ron martin has showed me the light) and buy the lime sulphur from them, but they didnt have any, so i ended up buying a big bottle at a garden center there anyway. but i tried. i bought a nice glazed pot, some cut paste, and a small chinese elm there though. all in all it was a very good trip, and i came back with 2 more trees than i went there with, which is always a plus.

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RonMartin(deceased)

So did you say hi to the Lowman's for me. )

nickbachman

DANGIT i forgot! that was actually on my "things to do" list i had in my head too! oh well, i'll see dave on sunday at the state fair bonsai show. i'll tell him then . i also forgot to tell you that the master i keep referring to said that my juniper cascade could easily win the novice bonsai state show, but the entry deadline is already up. next year, nick. next year.

dbz12fan

Nick, next year you might not be a novice. It all depends how quickly you want to learn.

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Charles Bevan
Vero Beach, Fl

nickbachman

that's a great point, dbz. right now, i wouldnt consider myself a novice, but i also would not consider myself a master. the reason i would put myself in the novice class is that there is no way i could compete with the others in the regular class. i just don't have the money to buy such a big expensive advanced tree. that's what puts me in the novice class i think.

dbz12fan

No not really. Actually I have found the more you learn in bonsai the more you realize you dont know. About material, you can always go collecting, etc. I don't judge a persons bonsai skills based on their collection, but moreso on their knoledge of the art.

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Charles Bevan
Vero Beach, Fl

nickbachman

i dont think a bonsai show judge would place me in 1st for my knowledge, but a sub-par tree.

dbz12fan

Shows are different. They judge the tree not the person.

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Charles Bevan
Vero Beach, Fl

nickbachman

also, of course i could go collecting. but the subject was me entering the novice show NEXT YEAR. unless you know of a forest or ditch in iowa that has finished bonsais growing in it, i'm sh*t-out-of-luck for next year, ain't I? unless i wanted to put a large amount of stress on a tree and maybe have it look good for the show, and die the next week, but that's not my cup o' tea.