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Originally Posted by bonsaikc
Al, I disagree heartily with your Porsche metaphor. Please don't read too much into what I have said so far. I think bonsai is more than wiring. But bad wiring will not work as well. It will not accomplish what we want if it is not anchored properly. It will cut in in odd places if the coils are not laid carefully.
And just because someone wires well, do not think that I believe that makes bad material a good tree.
My point is that wiring is important, and it's a discipline worth learning and practicing. It will improve what we do.
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There is a big difference between people who do not know how to wire and people that do, but may be lazy and maybe even a little sloppy. Anchoring wire properly has nothing to do with asthetics. It's mechanical. It either does its job or it doesn't. Asthetics has nothing to do with its holding ability.
I can wire for show and I can wire for training. I have no problem taking shortcuts on trees in training and feel that my abilities are not going to diminish on both depending on the tree. Wireing trees in training and nursery containers for show is just a waste of time. Frankly I don't see much difference in wireing for show or wireing for training except that when I wire for training I am more apt to cross wires and tie off on existing wires. Training wire is seldom on a tree more than a year anyway. A tree in training over a period of 5 years may be wired and unwired 7 times. Knowing your stock and what will be kept and what will be pruned away and needs no training is more important than wireing all the tertiary's just to prune them away the following year. This is the biggest mistake I see beginners make.
Learn the basics of wireing and practise those and save the theatrics for the appropriate time.
Cheers, Al