The list: You aren't doing bonsai unless you have:

[Nybonsai12]

I thought it would be fun to create a list of things you do or have done over the years in your bonsai journey.

The rules are, just add the next number and provide something you feel is either funny or necessary to say you do bonsai! Pics encouraged but not necessary. Maybe some posts will give you a chuckle, maybe some will encourage you to try something new.

Here are some examples:

1)You aren't doing bonsai unless you have grown something from seed.
2)you aren't doing bonsai unless you have bought and slaughtered a tree from a big box store.
3)You aren't doing bonsai unless you have successfully completed some sort of graft.
4)You aren't doing bonsai unless you've tried to figure out what would be needed to anneal your own copper wire and then decided it is a dumb idea and you should just buy it.
5)You aren't doing bonsai unless you've whiffed a bag of biogold as if it were smelling salts.

 

[Nybonsai12]

6)You aren't doing bonsai unless you have taken a workshop with a pro.

 

[hardtimes]

7 you aint doing bonsai if you didnt climb a mountain to dig out a tree for 9 hours

 

[19Mateo83]

8 you aren’t doing bonsai until you have added to this list.

 

[BobbyLane]

9 You aren't doing bonsai unless you carry out all tasks in spring

 

[PaulH]

10. You aren't doing bonsai unless you have more empty pots than you have trees.

 

[Dav4]

You aren't doing bonsai unless you've
11) nearly drove off the road staring at trees off the shoulder instead of the road
12) enlisted your father- an attorney - to dig a foot trodden pitch pine off the walking trail of a city park under the cover of darkness. Some beer may have been involved.
13) approached complete strangers, neighbors, relatives, etc., to discuss their foundation plantings.

 

[River's Edge]

14. You aren't doing bonsai unless you check your trees before watering.

 

[Cadillactaste]

15 You aren't doing bonsai unless...you've smuggled an umpteenth tree onto the bench without detection.

 

[River's Edge]

16. You aren't doing bonsai unless your dreams include an automated soil sifter.

 

[jeremy_norbury]

17. You aren't doing bonsai unless you spend more money on bonsai than on your wife/husband/SO.
18. You aren't doing bonsai unless you have more space allotted in your garden/yard to bonsai than to people.
19. You aren't doing bonsai unless you pay someone to water while you're on holiday/vacation but the cat can fend for itself.
20. You aren't doing bonsai unless you spend more time out there with them than indoors without them, given the option.

 

[River's Edge]

21. You aren't doing bonsai unless your vacations involve deciding how to bring trees home or ship them.

 

[cmu268]

22. You aren't doing bonsai unless you've asked a new Nut to add their location and hardiness zone for proper advice.

 

[penumbra]

23) You aren't doing bonsai unless you have read this entire list and still have not given up.

 

[bonsailevel:master]

You aren't doing bonsai unless you have...
24) Corrected someone when they
mispronounce bonsai as "bon-zai"

 

[River's Edge]

25. You aren't doing bonsai unless some of your trees are older than you.

 

[jeremy_norbury]

26. You aren't doing bonsai unless you wire more than you prune.
27. You aren't doing bonsai unless you watch the weather more than you watch sports results.

 

[Wires_Guy_wires]

28. You aren't doing bonsai unless you've spent 8 years in Japan.
29. You aren't doing bonsai if your trees aren't selling for over 5000 dollars.

 

[Nybonsai12]

30) You aren't doing bonsai unless you've tried to make a cascade on a tree that shouldn't cascade.

 

[Dabbler]

31) your aren't doing bonsai unless you stop on the side of the road to look at a particularly interesting trunk.