Good Day to All,
Nina,

if your jinning or along those lines,matured wood with
a resinous species works best.Or your up the plastic
resin path.Both work.

If your looking for trunk proportions of x to pot,then some
time in the ground would be helpful.If it grows faster in the
ground that's great.

If your at the finished stage,slowed growth for a year or
two allows display.Then you would have to let it get hairy
for the tree's own health.You can then whip out the photos
and speak well of memories.chuckle.

I guess it's a matter of applying the appropriate practice
at the right time.
Working with Nature.

Of course you had my opinion on the Privet and even a
shallow pot does nothing to slow down the growth on this
little beastie.Still I love em.
This one you rush the Bonsai-ites over to look at for 2 weeks
then speak only of fond memories.

For me this is the occupational hazard of growing Bonsai/Penjing
and I take it in stride.
Of course re-potting some mame' three to four times a year
takes some getting used to.
Stay especially well,Nina,
Stay Well All,
or as Anita says
GROW WELL !!!
Love it.
Khaimraj
[ West Indies/ Caribbean]


-----Original Message-----
From: Nina Shishkoff
To:
Date: 22 January 2004 6:31
Subject: [IBC] Fw: growth retardant


Hey, it's my turn to be stupid for three minutes: bonsai masters, is it
really slow growth that we want in bonsai? In my experience (15 years of
being a newbie!), the fast growing trees are the ones you can really train.
Slow growing ones (like my mountain hemlock), I had to simply try not to
ruin too much. So I'm thinking that a growth retardant isn't very useful in
bonsai. Whatcha think?

Nina

************************************************** ******************************
++++Sponsored, in part, by Mark Zimmerman++++
************************************************** ******************************
-- The IBC HOME PAGE & FAQ: http://www.internetbonsaiclub.org/ --
+++++ Questions? Help? e-mail +++++