How many trees have you killed?

[ShadyStump]

define 'success' tho,
i believe for many this means having a few woody plants in pots and watering and feeding them occasionally.

What makes a successful marriage?
Someone dies on someone in the end... leaving the other better than they were without.
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I think I just philosophized all my current personal issues.

YIKES!!!

 

[BobbyLane]

as long as you dont forget to water your plants its really not that hard to keep them alive...

 

[ShadyStump]

as long as you dont forget to water your plants its really not that hard to keep them alive...

But isn't proper watering one of the most troublesome things to learn in bonsai?

 

[penumbra]

I started chopping up trees when I was a kid, probably around 2006

A reminder to me of how many people here are so much younger.
Age, now that would be a poll.

 

[HorseloverFat]

A reminder to me of how many people here are so much younger.
Age, now that would be a poll.

Surprisingly enough, this makes ME feel a touch “aged” as well.. I graduated in 2006.. it was SUPPOSED to be 2007... buuut I had all the credits and extra-curricular activities done...

 

[BobbyLane]

But isn't proper watering one of the most troublesome things to learn in bonsai?

talking bonsai and doing bonsai is two different things. many are only doing horticulture. you could just as well set up an automatic watering system and not really be doing anything at all.

 

[ShadyStump]

talking bonsai and doing bonsai is two different things. many are only doing horticulture. you could just as well set up an automatic watering system and not really be doing anything at all.

Ya know, I tried that, and my wife didn't appreciate it AT ALL.
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Oh, bonsai! That's right.
Keep getting confused.

 

[Cadillactaste]

Surprisingly enough, this makes ME feel a touch “aged” as well.. I graduated in 2006.. it was SUPPOSED to be 2007... buuut I had all the credits and extra-curricular activities done...

I had my second son by the year 2000. feeling younger now? Lol

 

[sorce]

absurd

Because just before Master, you get a new soul that hasn't killed any trees?

Agreed!

Welcome to Crazy!

A Moron can both kill hundreds of trees and learn nothing, and kill nothing till the 40th year when everything dies.

Sorce

 

[just.wing.it]

One of the best lines I've heard.....and I'm sorry to whoever said it, I can't remember who it was....
"Some people do bonsai for many years....Some people do bonsai for one year many times."

I definitely know that feeling....but I do still have one tree from my first attempts in year one.

God only knows how many trees I've killed....their poor lignified souls.....

 

[penumbra]

I had my second son by the year 2000. feeling younger now? Lol

That makes you still a kid to me.

 

[Cadillactaste]

That makes you still a kid to me.

Should I add...I was married seven years before I had my first son? hitting the big "Five Oh" this summer.

 

[Underdog]

I had my second son by the year 2000. feeling younger now? Lol

and now me CaddyShack. 6 Gkids now and coming up on 40th wedding anniversary this winter.
Intermediate level is quit accurate for me in this list. 6yrs and probably a dozen casualties. Some more painful than others.

 

[Wires_Guy_wires]

Reddit r/bonsai is a cesspool of mediocre sticks and design flaws, and especially an echo chamber of wrong information. I both love and hate it.

 

[Bonsai Nut]

I have killed hundreds of trees. In fact, I killed over 100 just for the 6 Year JBP contest. I started with over 1000 seedlings, made 90 cuttings (tossing the rest of the seedlings), culled down to the best 44, and in a year will probably keep 20 and plant the other 24 in landscape

Most of the trees I have killed have been pre-bonsai, or trees that I am experimenting with. Once a tree is established in good soil in a bonsai pot, it is unusual for me to kill it. I can't recall the last tree in a bonsai pot I've killed, particularly if they are special trees. For example, over the years I have gotten six trees from @Si Nguyen , and I still have all six. I am afraid to kill any of them!

When I started in bonsai, it was pre-Internet, so if you didn't live near a club, you were pretty much dependent upon books and magazines. Now with the Internet, there are many more options to help you learn, but nothing beats hands-on experience.

 

[penumbra]

Should I add...I was married seven years before I had my first son? hitting the big "Five Oh" this summer.

Wow! Fifty sounds like a dream. I remember those days. Tons of energy and it seemed like there was tons of time. I had a son and a daughter before you were born.

 

[Cadillactaste]

and now me CaddyShack. 6 Gkids now and coming up on 40th wedding anniversary this winter.
Intermediate level is quit accurate for me in this list. 6yrs and probably a dozen casualties. Some more painful than others.

Big milestone! 40th Congratulations!!! We had paid for an Alaskan cruise and excursions for our 30th last year...covid had other plans.

Grandkids...what fun!!!

Intermediate for me as well...I've not killed that many trees to be honest. Then even that,a small number. Some things were not actually my fault. -37F winter which froze our propane tank...causing me to lose my very small collection of tropical. I don't classify that as I killed them. They died...but to factors out of my control. *I did up the game with electric back up heaters. So it won't happen again. If it happened a second time, then that would be on me. I also have a contractors propane heater.

One that came in with Verticillium wilt... not my fault either.

Even still...my death count doesn't even touch the supposedly death count. Surely don't wish to kill trees to make that statement above, fact either. Lol

I've really tried hard to keep my numbers manageable. But laugh at anyone who kept to the number count for collection...in that time frame for beginner. Owns 1-5 trees... who says that!?!

 

[hinmo24t]

i saw a post in here that reminded me that this would have to be a ratio (success to failures or vice versa) to make anything of it.
in business and decision making, objective data, such as a ratio>data>information>knowledge>decision making

i wish the idea would apply to society and economics more in the US, way too much opinion (subjectivity vs objectivity)
its dangerous i think


my # is about 5%. so for every 20 trees i have, i lose 1 of them. perhaps 10%, one in 10

 

[Agriff]

Reddit r/bonsai is a cesspool of mediocre sticks and design flaws, and especially an echo chamber of wrong information. I both love and hate it.

This is very interesting to me because I've spent a lot of time on there recently! What are some examples of misinformation that are being spread around?

 

[penumbra]

This is very interesting to me because I've spent a lot of time on there recently! What are some examples of misinformation that are being spread around?

I have never even heard of it. This site is more than enough for me.