Forsoothe!
Imperial Masterpiece
Bonsai that need to be "grown-out" verses "Potatoes with leaves"...
I'm not an admirer of potatoes with leaves. I like trees that actually look like trees and I am unclear on the thinking processes of those who take trees that just need to be grown-on to a more mature state and chop them them down to a stump. In my experience, it takes about the same number of years to grow-on said young plant to a show-able condition as it takes to hide the scar made by the stumping, and when both processes are done the potato still doesn't look like a tree. The bigger to potato, the bigger the scar. Some scars look like a giant anus right there in plain sight. It almost says, "Look at me, -but don't get too close..." I admire really old trees, but I've never seen a potato tree in the flesh. I view as especially repugnant skinny sticks poking out of the potato, -even "styled" sticks. What I find really incredulous is that the same people who are devotees of potatoing espouse growing trees for twenty years before they are mature enough to be show-worthy, yet they show pictures of naked potatoes with wiry little sticks poking out as though they were some kind of artistic victory. (LOOK! It's still alive even if it's ugly enough to warrant killing!) ? Perhaps, one of you 'Taters would enlighten us? We Treeblers want to know, "How do your minds work?
I'm not an admirer of potatoes with leaves. I like trees that actually look like trees and I am unclear on the thinking processes of those who take trees that just need to be grown-on to a more mature state and chop them them down to a stump. In my experience, it takes about the same number of years to grow-on said young plant to a show-able condition as it takes to hide the scar made by the stumping, and when both processes are done the potato still doesn't look like a tree. The bigger to potato, the bigger the scar. Some scars look like a giant anus right there in plain sight. It almost says, "Look at me, -but don't get too close..." I admire really old trees, but I've never seen a potato tree in the flesh. I view as especially repugnant skinny sticks poking out of the potato, -even "styled" sticks. What I find really incredulous is that the same people who are devotees of potatoing espouse growing trees for twenty years before they are mature enough to be show-worthy, yet they show pictures of naked potatoes with wiry little sticks poking out as though they were some kind of artistic victory. (LOOK! It's still alive even if it's ugly enough to warrant killing!) ? Perhaps, one of you 'Taters would enlighten us? We Treeblers want to know, "How do your minds work?
