If i can choose, as many as you want, im very interested to see what kind of material you start with. Choosing good material is not easy as i thought
The Any Maple, Progressive~Progressive Bonsai Contest
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Giga
Masterpiece
Even if you can"t get great material you have to start somewhere. Graham did a video on this I think on youtube
Smoke
Ignore-Amus
As many as you wish. Judging trees not people. Post as many as you can, I know I will enter three or four.
barrosinc
Masterpiece
http://www.bonsainut.com/index.php?threads/starting-my-maples-d.14131/page-3#post-209967
This tree just qualifies... I did not much to it this year and got dieback of the top. I think I will enter it.
This tree just qualifies... I did not much to it this year and got dieback of the top. I think I will enter it.
ColinFraser
Masterpiece
Hmmm, I dug a palmatum from someone's yard last year for $50. I put it in a wine barrel and was really thinking of it as a landscape plant. Spread at soil surface is at least a foot, trunk 5-6" at least. I really should let it settle and survive it's ill-timed harvesting, but this thread and all the interesting stock being posted makes me wish I could do something to it!
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ColinFraser
Masterpiece
And then there's this side . . . Might be in the running for the ugly contest 
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Ground layer!!!
erb.75
Chumono
I actually really like the first maple....I have a soft spot of tall and skinny bonsai done well...That one could look wonderful! maybe i'm wrong, but it's what I see
erb.75
Chumono
I'm really looking forward to seeing everyones trees! I don't have a 3+ in caliber maple but I know I need to plan some future work for my kiyohime I got last year...maybe I will get some good ideas...Trying to decide if I should man up and chop it down a ton or if I should make a more elegant taller tree....don't know how good kiyohime's are at getting a nice upper crown though, so I might chop...something to consider
erb.75
Chumono
People definitely need to treat this as a great opportunity to learn...I don't have/won't have any maple that could be entered into the contest but it's very wonderful to be able to go on bonsai nut and see what others are doing and learning. Most people charge a pretty high fee for that knowledge and it's free on here!
erb.75
Chumono
where did you pick this up? at a local generic nursery?::steps into the tee box::
I picked this old stag up for 12 dollars along with 2 others that I'll be air layering some 2-3" suckers from. It is an ugly beast but I'm in for a ten year contest
fraser67
Shohin
Since I already started a thread...I imagine I just keep posting updates on that thread? I'm posting a bunch of pics tonight!!! I'm excited anyway... lol.
Smoke
Ignore-Amus
It will be much easier to find later on if you guys keep them in the maple forum. That forum is pretty sparse. A month to month update will mean going thru as many as a hundred threads in general.
Smoke
Ignore-Amus
Choosing it is pretty easy....finding it is whats hard
vaibatron
Shohin
Yeah a landscapers nursery, however it is not your typical box store. They admittedly have material that "could be suitable for bonsai", but as you can see it will take years of work to produce something that can even be considered bonsai. I feel they didn't know they could market their stock as such until some bonsai people brought it to their attention.
BunjaeKorea
Omono
Lol yeah tried but they won't have it. I guess I am out of the game, no large maples to get my hands on here. Maybe if I go to the country in the summer
Cadillactaste
Neagari Gal
With a few in general discussion...will they be relocated to the maple section so later we don't lose sight of them? I do plan on watching what ones bring to the table.
Smoke
Ignore-Amus
Not up to me, but since the forum containes so many sub forums for species I figured it would be natural to post them in the maple section. I guess I supposed wrong huh.....but I see people post trees all willie nilly so its par. People talk about collected trees in general all the time and we have a collected sub forum and everything.
People get mad when noobies ask quetions that have been chewed on numerous times like soil, but they are not all in the soil subforum. If someone new comes here and wants to learn about soil, they will miss more than half the threads. Moderation takes time...and no one wants to be a baby sitter....
tmmason10
Omono
I'd also like to point out that there seems to be no lack of participants so far. Brian? Al? Have you guys made any decisions?
Smoke
Ignore-Amus
I'll be in, just getting my pictures in order. I was out of town for the weekend chasing poppies. Stayed the night in Morro bay, ate at the favorite resturant and looked for depression glass. Oh and drank some wine. Love spring at the Bay...California the Golden State.
