Bodhidharma,
I would be most interested in your results if you get to set up an experiment.
Always have our learning caps on.
Thanks.
Jerry
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if i remember correctly from chemistry from school any 2 different metals will cause electrolysis. a little experiment you could try is to get a lemon put a copper wire into one side and an aluminium wire into the other if you connect the wires up to a low wat light bulb there should be light. just something you could try if you wanted.
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Its progressed nicely from when it started. Personally I'd leave the dead trunk to rot away rather then keep a constant image, if you let it rot it will show character and slowly show how a real epiphytic tree would progress naturally and in the end produce a very natural image which we are all after in bonsai.
I can't wait to uncover mine next spring that I've going at the moment and will hopefully start another 2 at the same time.
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I can't wait to uncover mine next spring that I've going at the moment and will hopefully start another 2 at the same time.
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de Keizer, maybe we should do a bonsai style using a small light bulb and some mixed wires?
Grant, love to see your interpretation of this style when you get to it.
Appreciate very much all the comments.
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Grant, love to see your interpretation of this style when you get to it.
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Jerry
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de-Keizer,
Great idea!
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Great idea!
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