What is this bonsai?
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Ryan123 wrote: What is this bonsai?
Dear Ryan, don't be sad but this IS NOT A BONSAI.
It is a houseplant.
Please follow the link below and see for yourself what a bonsai looks like:
www.bonsaiempire.com/inspiration/gallery
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Ryan123 wrote: It was with the bonsai at the garden centre
I own a printing house, specialized in fineart printing.
It means using only acid free,100% PH neutral, cotton or kozo fiber paper.
These papers combined with mineral pigment inks can make a picture last 200 years, unchanged.
Still...
There are cheap papers made from cellulose (lignin drenched), that carry heavy amounts of chemical optical brighteners, and perhaps only 5% of cotton.
They are very cheap, very bad, don't last more than 5 years and don't hold the ink.
But...
Vendors sell these 5% cotton papers with names like "Cotton Matte Art Paper". It has cotton in it after all, right?
It is the same regarding bonsai.
Garden vendors sell ANY KIND of plant in ugly glazed cheap pots from China and call them "BONSAI".
They are plants after all, right? Small, and in bonsai pots. So they can call them whatever they decide.
Ryan123 wrote: I did not buy the full tree in case it was not suitable for me. This was a branch of the main small trunk
So, they sold you a cutting (a cut branch) as a bonsai.
I don't think this is a nice commercial behavior at all.
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Can't wait for my tree to arrive
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Good.Ryan123 wrote: I have a Chinese elm coming soon
A Chinese Elm can be trained into a bonsai.
BTW, the plant on your video is not the same species as the cutting you've got at the garden place anyway.
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it was not nice from you going to another forum with the same pictures and the same question AFTER I (and others) have already answered you, given you some useful links, and said the plant in your pictures are not the same plant shown in your video.
I feel I have wasted my time while trying to help you. Not even a thank you, isn't it?
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i have never been on bonsai forums before. I created both topics at the same time as I didn't know how much bonsai forums got used and I just replied to people who answered on both forums.Clicio wrote: As a side note,
it was note nice from you going to another forum with the same pictures and the same question AFTER I (and others) have already answered you, given you some useful links, and said the plant in your pictures are not the same plant shown in your video.
I feel I have wasted my time while trying to help you.
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