hi
Alan Walker wrote:

Kim: Henrik is correct that most people eventually find that
growing bonsai from seed is unsatisfactory because it makes a
long process much longer than it needs to be. It's not wrong or
foolish or stupid, just rather impractical. On the other hand, we
all do bonsai for slightly different reasons, and you may find
that developing your bonsai slowly over 20-30 years from seeds to
be very gratifying.
it depends
Japanese have the know how to make out a black pine fron from seeds
a quite nice appealing bonsai in 12 years
for maples I have seen wonderful bonsai from seedlings in 15 years
forget to do the same with oaks or junipers .. some plants grows and
give results in a reasonable lenght of time some others don't
growing from seedlings does not give you any betetr opportunity to
avoid to make mistakes can give you some advantage to make a good
neabari and rooting ( if you know how to ) otherwise it is jut a waste
of time
for some trees a cutting or air layering can make you gain some years
zekova it is not difficult to grow but you have to know first what make
it appealing as bonsai and avoid theh mistakes theht will spoil it when
a bonsai .. and some mistakes can hardly be erased
often trees form seeds are slightly different of what expected from
parents
if you like a tree and you really want exactly the same material you
need to make cuttings or air layering ..
learn a lot about bonsai specifications and know how,before
starting a task that you cannot imagine where will lead you at !



Here's a place where you can get good information about
Zelkova. http://www.bonsai-bci.com/species/zelkova.html As you
will see, it is more common to propagate Zelkova from layers or
cuttings than from seed.
As far as getting feelings hurt, that is your decision.
Your moods spring from your own thoughts and interpretations, so
we cannot take responsibility for them.

Alan Walker
http://bonsai-bci.com http://LCBSBonsai.org

-----Original Message-----
From: Henrik Gistvall

Well see if you find me rude or not ;-). I´m sorry to say seeds
are not
the best way to start with bonsai. It takes sevaral years before
you
have a plant that can be trained to a bonsai. Where do you live?
There
might be better trees that you can buy from a nursery to start
with, but
then we need to know in what part of the world you are.

Rick and Kim wrote:
Hello everyone, My name is Kim and I just ordered some japanese
zelkova bonsai seeds. Please don't nobody say anything bad to me
because my feelings get hurt real easy. I only ask this because I
read through a couple of postings and thought some people were a
bit rude. I was a little afraid to post but I am very interested
in the bonsai because they are very beautiful little trees and I
would like a place to ask questions and read what other people
have to say about different aspects of bonsai growing.

Ok, as I began saying, I just ordered some Japanese zelkova
bonsai seeds. I would like to know if anyone has experience with
this tree?
I have already made this post kinda long so I will post questions
in another post if anyone can give me any info on how to grow and
train this type of bonsai.

Thanks, Kim

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