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me personally then you re familiar with how much i detest bonsai books i have read a great many bonsai books and they all seem to have the same flaw they start like this bonsai is a japanese word that means then they say this is a picture of a tree in an informal upright style then good drainage is important and do not wrap wire too tightly or too loosely i read about bonsai to learn about bonsai what does that teach me nothing my distaste for printed material ultimately led me to the internet and the rest is history after diligently searching for information online for the past 3 years i sort of feel like i ve reached the end of the internet so about a year ago i decided to do something crazy i had recently bought a white pine which is my favorite variety of pine and was scared to death of killing it i m an over waterer live in a humid climate and can t always depend on the quality of nursery soil so i decided to give books another try my affinity for stone lantern led me to their pine and juniper book set i will tell you now without a doubt these are two books that you must have regardless of your skill level i m not trying to provide a product plug here but seriously go buy them they are on sale i promise you will learn at least one thing that you won t find on the internet or in any other books posted in uncategorized 1 comment 16 of the most magnificent trees in the world posted on august 4 2014 by bonsaiprelude courtesy of boredpanda com i don t often post non bonsai related things on the blog but this is a very cool gallery my girlfriend sent me take a look http www boredpanda com most beautiful trees posted in uncategorized 2 comments deadwood posted on july 31 2014 by bonsaiprelude credit dylan fawcett at the national bonsai and penjing museum d c hello bonsai world time seems to fly it s been a little while since my last post and this one has been floating in my drafts for quite some time as i m embarking on a masters program this fall my already crazy schedule will be significantly pinched even further so hopefully i ll still have time to provide some good info as i come across it but just a forewarning that i ll unfortunately slow down a little please feel free to shoot me an e mail as well located under the contact me tab at the top as always good luck with your trees i don t remember the first bonsai tree i ever saw or what exactly it was that sparked my interest in little trees but i definitely remember my first trip to the u s national bonsai and penjing museum in d c i was amazed at the shrunken trees and if you ve been following my blog you ve probably noticed that the majority of my pictures were taken at the museum as a child i didn t understand very much about the process behind creating bonsai or the history of the trees in the museum but i was certainly amazed of particular interest to me was the swirling twisting white parts on some of the trees i remember thinking that the thick pads of foliage looked as if they were being tossed around in a frothy ocean at first i thought they were rock plantings or carved stone of some sort maybe it was just a species of tree that grew multi colored bark when i realized it was part of the tree carved and bleached i was able to see bonsai as an art not just growing little trees i think there s kind of this weird schism in the bonsai community i m not sure if it s an american thing or a global thing but i feel like whenever the topic of deadwood is brought up everyone has to take sides you ll have those that say it doesn t look natural it s too white or those that will say it looks great every tree should have it that can i don t like to get involved in the politics of bonsai for those of you that know me personally it s the main reason i m not a member of any bonsai clubs all i really want is to do is make my trees the best they can be while opinions will abound there are some facts in regards to deadwood in my juniper post i pointed to distinguishing features as being a consideration in styling your tree on junipers deadwood is the distinguishing feature why is it a distinguishing feature because there aren t any old junipers in nature that don t have deadwood and as we all know the whole point of bonsai is to make trees that appear old there are probably 0 famous juniper bonsai without deadwood another bit of food for thought and this is where i ll stop we often look at bonsai as a single discipline but i think you ll find that in all forms of art quality examples proliferate throughout artistic preference what i mean is sure bad examples of deadwood on bonsai exist out there but i would hope that regardless of your preference for natural or abstract deadwood you could appreciate outstanding examples of both schools even if you believe bonsai should only look like trees in nature i hope you can appreciate some kimura trees ok so on to the lighter stuff all of which i picked up from some combination of ryan and marco at this year s rendezvous tracking down that live vein trees are efficient and adaptable what is the fastest distance between two points a straight line and so it is with the live veins on trees if you could grow a tree in a bubble it would be perfectly straight the water and nutrients would run up from the roots in a direct line to the underside of each branch but in the real world outside factors affect the growth of the tree wind water sunlight other plants and animals will all change the direction of the trees growth and it will have to adjust the direction of the live vein in order to maintain the branches a twisted trunk did not develop by chance some outside factor forced it to grow that way so if the tree you re working on is extra twisty how do you find the live vein there are a couple options for determining how each branch is fueled 1 first of all it s important to note that the live vein for any single branch will run down from the bottom of that branch where it goes from there will vary but at least initially it will go straight down 2 this may be obvious but as a branch grows the live vein fueling it also grows a huge branch will have a correspondingly huge live vein the un balanced growth of various branches leads to trunks and roots that are un uniformly shaped as the live parts of the tree grow the trunk expands the old bark cracks and dries and the new vascular tissue expands underneath so here s the tip the direction of the cracks in the bark is the direction of the live vein on a juniper this will be hard to see unless you have left the old fissured bark on the tree but if you follow a single crack from the branch to the root there s your live vein 3 specifically for junipers if a section of tree has recently died or the live section has not grown strongly for very long it may be difficult to distinguish the live section from the dead a good way to identify the live section is the scratch test using the tip of your scissors or similar small metal instrument make a very small scratch into the bark if it separates smoothly and the wood underneath is bright white it s a live section otherwise it s deadwood it s a really simple process and it doesn t harm the tree at all so let s get to work one of the challenges with deadwood work is determining design and size it s especially difficult sometimes on trees that are being styled for the first time because it s difficult to match the deadwood style with a branch style that hasn t fully emerged yet just as with the rest of our tree s design we should still approach deadwood work with a work with what we got attitude here are a few rules of thumb when doing deadwood work 1 live wood is significantly easier to work with then deadwood don t start styling and have the i ll go back and work the deadwood later attitude it s much easier to get in close and work on deadwood if you don t have to worry about accidentally misplacing a wired branch live wood also offers the advantage of being able to be bent wired and hold its shape after drying 2 a great approach for making jin is to make your structure branch decisions early cleaning foliage from branches you won t need and leaving enough branch to use for potential jin later on then you can go back in and strip the bark from each branch you d like to use as jin finally you can go back in and finish the branch tips by gently grasping sections with your pliers and peeling back the wood fibers along the grain remember you can always take wood away but you can never put it back so take your time 3 give your deadwood a few days to dry out before trying to apply the lime sulfur lime sulfur is a drying agent and a fungicide it s used to prevent the dead wood portions from rotting or getting invaded by insects the idea is that you want to apply it to dry wood so that the wood will soak it up like a sponge if you try to apply it freshly peeled deadwood which is still full of water resistant sap it won t soak in once dry it also helps to spray the wood with a little water before applying the lime sulfur 4 when developing shari a good rule of thumb to remember is 50 you can remove generally up to 50 of the live vein supplying any single branch without killing it so if your desired shari line weaves over into a live vein don t stress too much as long as you re not cutting off more than 50 of the branches fuel you should be fine 5 want to get an extra twisty jin but it just won t move in the direction that you want try this use trunk splitters to crack a lateral line on either side of the branch the idea is to cut about 50 75 of the way into the branch but not all the way through then make the same crack on the top and bottom of the branch by separating these additional fibers you ve increased your ability to twist this section of branch after twisting and drying the cracks shouldn t be noticeable at all 6 even if you don t like to use power tools to make your deadwood i d recommend trying out a stainless steel brush tip for your rotary tool it really gives that clean smooth look to your deadwood that s extremely difficult to duplicate with any other tools it can also be helpful in removing bark from already dead and dried areas of the tree where the classic bark stripping techniques do not work it also has a smoothing effect on fresh wood where sand paper is useless 7 ever wonder how they cram huge trees into small pots in terms of trees like junipers which have significant deadwood one strategy when developing shari is to carry it all the way down the trunk to the roots that way you can identify exactly which roots are needed to supply the deadwood portions and remove them completely this will definitely save some room in your pot posted in uncategorized leave a comment more pots from japan posted on june 28 2014 by bonsaiprelude i ve been slowly growing my collection and haven t really had the time to post the new stuff here s a few of the pots i ve picked up over the last few months first up is another satomi terahata almost like the brother pot of the oval one i have the single or double drip is sort of a satomi signature up next is a kusamono sized pot i received as a gift from yuki the potter is hidemi kataoka more popularly know as shuho he has some very cool glazes if you ask me you can buy some of his work from yuki s etsy site a photo of hidemi from his facebook page finally a couple new koyos no explanation needed here you know i m obsessed with his work posted in uncategorized 3 comments older posts how to navigate if this is your first time on bonsai prelude welcome thank you for taking an interest in my humble opinions on bonsai you ll find two types of posts primarily the first are instructional posts that i wrote with the idea of covering the very basic ideas of bonsai if you re just starting out learning bonsai i would suggest starting out with the art of watering bonsai and moving chronologically forward in the bonsai topics category the other material on this blog will be 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