Raffle donation for Shohin Seminar

mike_p

I've been growing several shohin sized olives in a large pot to fatten the trunks. Today I lifted one and put it in a smaller pot for a donation to the Shohin Seminar in Santa Nella, CA, Feb. 3-4-5.
With a couple of years or so of TLC and the right pot, this little guy could be an exhibit worthy shohin. bonsaiTALK'ers, buy raffle tickets. Support the cause!
BTW, the height from the soil line is 7 inches.

Mike

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Joanie

Very nice little Olive, Mike P! Maybe it will come to Carlsbad

I'm bringing a wonderful little shohin pot from Walsall Studios for the raffle, that olive would look great in it.....

Joanie

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midwestbonsai

Hmmmm, I wonder if someone would buy me raffle tickets.
-Paul

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weeijk

Hi Mike,

Really like your olives, both of them, I would have sent the fat trunked one to that seminar. Thats my personal favorite.

How do you get the folliage on these things so dense? I have 2 probably European Olives, I´m not sure, cause one has a yellowish/beige trunk, the other one has a more greyish trunk. The enviromental conditions are probable cause of a less dence folliage. Overhere in Europe, outside temps are about 30F, so the trees are in the house right now. Not the best surcomstances for an Olivetree, I quess.

Maybe you could/should write an article on olives for the articlecontest, so everyone can bennefit of your knowlegde.

I can make some photo´s tomorrow to show those bark differences if you want?

Thanks in advance for answering,

Wessel

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mike_p

Hi Wessel
No way would I donate the fat little olive to the raffle. That one is a "pet".
I have good luck with olives. I'm sure that one reason is that I live in a "Mediterranean" type climate here in California. In your country with the freezing weather, it's not so hospitable to olives.
Please post the pictures of your olives. I'm curious to see what they look like. especially the yellowish-beige trunk.

Mike

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weeijk

Hi Mike,

Don't really understood what a raffle was at first, thought it was some kind of exibition. Doesn't matter anyway, I'm not be able to come anyways.
Btw here are my two Olives, both were bought simultaniously at a gardencenter, with a little olivebottle attached to it 2 years ago. Olive203 has been put in the garden in october 2004 and stayed there during winter. I didn't think this was a good idea, so therefore I got it out spring 2005. Both were outside during May till end of september 2005, after that they went inside the house. Now they are on a North-East facing window on a stone window bench, with the central heater just 20-25 cm below.

For me the bark of both differ a lot, but it maybe has to do with the stage the trees are in. Maybe one is in the imature state and the other in the juvinile??

Hope you have some answers for me,

thanks Wessel

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Joanie

If you haven't attended one of these US shows that have big raffles, you've missed an interesting slice of bonsai life! Do other countries do these raffles? People donate really nice stuff.... trees, pots, stands, suiseki, books, jewelry (really!) scrolls, hapi coats, paintings and drawings, gift certificates, bottles of wine (good wine)....

Then the attendees buy sometimes a hundred dollars worth of tickets! Some people have special rubber stamps to mark their tickets, with their names. Really special items are given their own little container, so if you want your ticket drawn for that special thing, you put the ticket(s) in the special container. Once a ticket has been drawn from that special container, all the other tickets are thrown away. There's a big rolling cage for the general tickets, so that they tumble and tumble and get good and mixed up. People have all sorts of philosophies about when, how, and how often to slip their tickets into the big cage thing. Some people only put in a few at a time... some put a slight dent into the ticket so that it sort of sticks out... like gambling, it has its own superstitions and strategies.

It's a BIG fundraiser, and the crowd enjoys it, as long as the person reading the numbers is quick and funny. Joe James is very good at it, so is JT. They know a lot of the names from past experience, and they read the names or numbers in such a way that it keeps you on the edge of your seat.

That's why choosing something for these raffles is important. You don't put in items that you don't want anymore, like some little cheesy club raffle. You put in good items that people appreciate and are anxious to win. Like Mike's olive.

Joanie

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bonsaial1

I'm donating this Mahogany table. It is 21"x14"x3.5". Though not shohin in size, still a nice prize for the larger trees in one's collection.

(remember I will have the shohin size tables there too.)

Check back here tomorrow for an update for bonsaiTALKERS that look me up at the convention. I have a surprise for you and a peek tomorrow right here.

getting itchy, Al

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!!!!!

Joanie

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