Sorry Andrew you probably don't know who Mike Page is. The old timers here know who he is and I bet are very surprised to know that Boon took carving lessons from Mike Page. I find his comments about his workshop to be on point. Mike was an elevator repairman and had many fine tools. One of the best carvers I ever seen. I am proud to call Mike my friend. We have shown trees together.
Please explain to me which part of the video you disagree with rather than just trolling the forum for your own amusement.
It's not so much disagree with, as it is you and Micheal are just not factual. I can't speak for the whole USA, but I can speak for the place I live, and many of the things in that video are just not true. In the West, many of the shortcoming he talks about have been practised here since the fourties after the war. I don't troll the forum for amusement. I troll the forum for people who spread disengenuious information, myths and just plain lies. When they do I call Bull Shit and then provide the facts to back it up. Just because a person has not studied in Japan does it make them less than superior. This blog:
http://goldcountrybonsaiclub.com/events/
Read the posts by Peter Tea: Here is one from 2015:
Fertilizing Made Easy
For those that aren’t sure about when to fertilize, here is a simple timetable you can use to make it easy. Since we all use different fertilizers and our soil components aren’t the same, I can’t tell you how much to feed but rather when to feed. It’s up to you to observe how your tree is growing and if it’s growing the way you want it to grow.
I currently use Grow Power Plus 5-3-1 organic fertilizer that I put in tea bags. I like using it because the Nitrogen is water soluble which means it’s readily available to the trees now versus other organics where the Nitrogen needs time to breakdown into a usable form. This schedule is mainly for environments in Northern and Central
California.
I wonder where he read about grow power? Could it be over at Study Group since my avatar has me holding a huge bag of it for 6 years and been using it 10 years. Oh thats right I never studied in Japan so I have no moral authority.
This one is a gem:
So what is Defoliation and what does it do for us?
1. slows the tree down. 2. allows light into the tree. 3. new leaves will come out smaller. 4. allows for ease of wiring.
Those are the 4 main reason why we choose to defoliate. If your current goals don’t match up with any of the 4 reasons, then don’t defoliate.
Example: We want a branches to grow out and get stronger. We don’t defoliate that branch. because it will slow the growth down.
Misconceptions: Cutting back vs. Defoliation
The biggest misconception to defoliation is that it will give you back budding. Back budding is not caused by defoliation, but by the cutting back of branches. We can cut the tree back without defoliating and back budding will occur. Keep defoliation and cutting back into two separate categories to help ease the understanding of defoliation.
I have been screaming from the rafters for years about defoliation and what it does. Peter's blog from Japan has numerous posts about defoliating for increased ramification. Now, that is a misconception, and I am totally vindicated by someone that studied in Japan...who knew?
Maybe you should start Drudging from the Bunker, you just might learn something and get a jump on all the dudes from Japan.
...or you could just put me on ignore...your choice.
Heres a couple more interesting tid bits for you to put into your historical drudge report bonsai archives...with attribution of course.
Everyone like to read Bonsai Tonight from Jonas:
Redacted for his protection.
an oldy but a goodie. The wire king:
Many do not know who Morton Wellhaven is, ask Adair he'll tell ya.
