Patience

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YOU ONLY NEED PATIENCE WHEN YOU ARE DOING SOMETHING YOU DO NOT ENJOY.

I have found this quote to be very valuable when people,
say I don't have the patience to do Bonsai.

Think about it do you need patience to drink wine beer, or when you nudge some one with a smile even at my age I still smile.
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Glider

Very true. I need buckets of patience when repotting my azaleas. I love my azaleas. I hate azalea roots (at least until they've formed a nice stable pad) and I hate working with kanuma; it gets everywhere! Happily, they only need repotting every two to three years :-)

kcpoole

The only thing I don;t have patience with is waiting for my tress to grow!!

Hurry up you lot so I can get to work on you.

ken

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lehket

I don't have too much trouble with it. The only thing I get impatient with, where bonsai is concerned, is winter.

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PatArizona

"...YOU ONLY NEED PATIENCE WHEN YOU ARE DOING SOMETHING YOU DO NOT ENJOY...".

Disagree!

When you are doing something YOU DO LIKE, patience comes easier. But, with bonsai, it is still needed.

Pat

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zen

I agree with the statement, in as much as, I do not particularly "enjoy" WAITING, for my trees to fill out, grow that new branch, thicken, back bud etc., but when I get to work on them, I am too busy working to think about the patience that I am using in taking the time to make sure that work is done well. >>gasp for air<<< xD

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Glider

I agree. I hate winter (sub-clinical SAD), but I get through it by obsessing over my younger trees once the leaves have gone.

I bring them in, one at a time and look at them on the turntable working out what to do next, which ones I need to repot, looking for any wire I might have missed when they were in leaf, which branches to remove for shape & taper/backbudding, marking them with chalk. I can do that for a couple of hours without cutting anything. After a week or so I'll bring in the same tree, check the chalk marks to see if I still agree with my first impressions, then I might do the cutting and sealing.

There's also pine to dewire/wire, tools to clean and sharpen, soils (akadama & kanuma) and fertilizers to order (yay for Kaizen) etc..

Yes, winter is a bad time (for me), but if I can get a bonsai fix (i.e. doing anything bonsai related) every couple of weeks or so from November to February (happily, my katsura maples are really early, so I rarely have to wait later than February to see the first movement) it's not so bad.

Ashbarns9999

The solution to patience to my mind is to have enough trees in different stages of development that you would hardly notice the the frustration creeping in.

Ash

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