cishepard
Shohin
A great suggestion from @FreshAirSinshine in honour of the legendary Vance Wood:
https://www.bonsainut.com/threads/the-passing-of-a-formative-bonsai-artist-vance-wood.63779/
Let’s do a 4 year Mugo Pine from nursery stock, using Vances’ methods as outlined in this tutorial:
https://www.bonsainut.com/resources/compiled-vance-wood-on-mugo-pines.23/
Please read or re-read the tutorial to familiarize yourself with Vance’s techniques. The contest will start now with the selection of new nursery material, to make the playing field even and end in 4 years (Spring of 2028).
Please start a new thread for each your trees with the words “Vance Wood Mugo Contest” in the title. Multiple entries from one person are allowed.
The rules of the contest are simple:
If these terms are acceptable, I will get the thread changed into a contest forum and we are off!
https://www.bonsainut.com/threads/the-passing-of-a-formative-bonsai-artist-vance-wood.63779/
Let’s do a 4 year Mugo Pine from nursery stock, using Vances’ methods as outlined in this tutorial:
https://www.bonsainut.com/resources/compiled-vance-wood-on-mugo-pines.23/
Please read or re-read the tutorial to familiarize yourself with Vance’s techniques. The contest will start now with the selection of new nursery material, to make the playing field even and end in 4 years (Spring of 2028).
Please start a new thread for each your trees with the words “Vance Wood Mugo Contest” in the title. Multiple entries from one person are allowed.
The rules of the contest are simple:
- Purchase one or more commercial nursery stock Mugo Pine (not one already trained as a pre-bonsai). The tutorial has advice on selection. It does not matter when you purchase the tree, as long as it is still in a nursery can and has had no work done to it prior to the start of the contest.
- Follow the Vance Wood 4 year plan for repotting, pruning and wiring as outlined in the tutorial.
- Post an update twice a year with an explanation of what steps you have taken with your tree, and when.
- Voting will be done by poll at the end of the contest, with 1st, 2nd, 3rd place and honourable mentions. If anyone wants to donate prizes in honour of Vance, please let us know.
- edit: After 4 years, the trees will be voted on with the criteria being the entry that has progressed the farthest on it’s bonsai journey (this is open to individual interpretation!). At that point, if there is enough interest, we will extent the contest for another 4 years to further follow the progression of the entered trees.
If these terms are acceptable, I will get the thread changed into a contest forum and we are off!
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