Fo Auction II

erubeck

Paul:

No bid. I'm 61 years old and can't reasonably live long enough to do anything with it. BTW it looks more like a yew than a spruce.

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ripsgreentree

What if the material was pictured like this with roots exposed. Would this help you to make a bid.

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ripsgreentree

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xiaohuang7

oh my...

DavidN

Now your showing off Glenn.

This would help push the price up and I'm sure there would be more bidders.

David

Carl_Bergstrom

Here it seems we've got rather the opposite problem. The roots look good, but I can't make heads or tails of the upper portion of the tree. What species is it? What styling options are there? I'm really not sure...

That said, seeing the roots on a tree with good roots would increase the auction price. Seeing the roots on a tree with crappy roots would lower the auction price.

-OMC

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ripsgreentree

Carl; this material is white flowering apricot from japan. This is one piece of over 100 that will come out of the field in the spring. All of the tops are diffrent but the roots are all the same. This is what I have been talking about all along, someone needs to create a good foundation, roots and nebari that the bonsai artest can work with to create the tree that he/she wants. This you can be shure of, when potensai comes out of our field it will have roots like this or go into the bone pile. What you get to see is this. But you are garenteed the roots that are in the picture above.

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skydivingcoffee

OK, on the first triple trunk. I wouldn't bid on this tree. It's too leggy and I don't like it. Keep it, I'd have to plant it in the garden if someone left it on my doorstep.

On the other trees, sorry I've been too busy to read up on them. Must get back to work

Carl_Bergstrom

Interesting piece of material. I like it quite a bit more than many of the "straight trunked" trees you've shown us, because I think I'd be able to work some movement and some taper into the design without having to start from scratch just above the root base. I'm a bit worried about what appears to be reverse taper right below the main trunk junction, but perhaps you can tell me whether this is real or just an illusion from the camera angle.

It's certainly a piece of material for an advanced artist - I'm not sure I'd know what to do with it myself. But it could be a lot of fun to try, or to take to a workshop. And as you say, the roots are great!

How do you envision that the artist will go about styling this one? As a single-trunk informal upright? Or some other way?

All the best,
Carl

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