Well, thanks for the idea (and name (Non-sai! I love it! (I also love bracket stacking))), Auk.
And, so, a thread was opened where people come to post their most ridiculous attempts at bonsai, either for marketing or experimentation (or anything else really).

First off, though, I'd like to make an important announcement. I'm afraid that... Wow, this is hard to say... BONSAI NEW EASY METHOD has been deleted from YouTube, and the channel itself has also been deleted.
I'm sure that we are all deeply saddened by this loss, but life must go on.

I'm going to get the ball rolling with...
www.amazon.com/9GreenBox-Indoor-Bonsai-F...dicine/dp/B00AZ90STY
ALOE VERA BONSAI
That's right! For only $12.99US (plus shipping) you can have your very own aloe vera plant that's marketed as bonsai so that it will sell more, and will most likely die very quickly, in a low-quality faux bonsai pot!

I'm actually quite interested to see what other people come up with as looking or sounding ridiculous.

Okay, I guess that's it, now we wait.
Ed

BonsaiLearner wrote: Well, thanks for the idea (and name (Non-sai! I love it! (I also love bracket stacking))), Auk.
And, so, a thread was opened where people come to post their most ridiculous attempts at bonsai, either for marketing or experimentation (or anything else really).

First off, though, I'd like to make an important announcement. I'm afraid that... Wow, this is hard to say... BONSAI NEW EASY METHOD has been deleted from YouTube, and the channel itself has also been deleted.

NO! You must be joking!

I am a bit of a masochist, I admit it. I sometimes listen to songs like this
with a stopwatch in my hand, timing how long I can manage before it hurts too much.

Likewise, I've been going through LOADS of the 'New Easy Method' videos. I must have seen almost all of them (though I admit that I did start skipping parts after I'd seen a few, they all are the same). It was amazing to see how messy and sloppy his results were - and the enormous amount of problems he actually had planting everything he encountered in pure sphagnum moss only. Bugs, roaches, root problems... a video where he showed loads of dead/dying trees after a cold period, his bonsai pots, and the video where he baked them... and when he opened the oven, they were in small pieces, his coconut bonsai, his papaya bonsai... and his juniper from the very first video, that survived, but hadn't made any progress in his last video, some 10 or more years later... the real bonsai he purchased... and ruined, painful to watch.

All he had was ugly, leggy sticks in pots with bad root systems.

And then the reactions of people finding his rubbish wonderful, that went through all the videos to learn something.
I think that was the most amazing part of it. I guess he was telling something people simply want to hear: You can grow beautiful bonsai easily (demonstrating an actually not so easy, not so good method, producing horrible results...)

I think it is good it's gone. I won't miss it.

Yes, I do nest my brackets (sometimes, not always (except when necessary, when programming :~)))

What has to be in this topic: Bonsai Seed kits!

www.amazon.com/Eves-Black-Bonsai-Woody-Complete/dp/B0049V4BC4

"Eve's Black Pine Bonsai Seed Kit, Woody, Complete Kit to Grow Black Pine Bonsai Tree from Seed"

Including, ofcourse, a picture of something no one will ever be able to grow from the seed kit...



Note:
They really sell it as "bonsai-seeds" (not "tree-seeds of tree species that are suitable for bonsai")
This is misleading and imho a scam.

Ooh ooooh! I want some! Here's my money!!

I was given a 'bonsai seed' pack once. The guy bought it, never used it, then found out I grow bonsai. 'Here, you'll use these before I ever do.'

Jack Pine, & they were moldy. The pot was thimble size. What a scam.

You gotta check out Bonsai Boy of New York

For the very low price of $195USD this could be yours:
www.bonsaiboy.com/catalog/product8092.html

And at a $6,000 bargain
www.bonsaiboy.com/catalog/product8046.html

Who are these people?!

How about a banana bonsai?

www.bonsaiboy.com/catalog/product3313.html

And of course, bonsai cacti wil be the big hit once mass produced!


forums2.gardenweb.com/discussions/1374641/bonsai-cactus

I found this on a certain pinning website

uk.pinterest.com/pin/138837600989987407/

The actual thing itself looks... terrible, but the idea of using bamboo as a planter is interesting. I wonder if it would work?

brkirkland22 wrote: You gotta check out Bonsai Boy of New York

For the very low price of $195USD this could be yours:
www.bonsaiboy.com/catalog/product8092.html

And at a $6,000 bargain
www.bonsaiboy.com/catalog/product8046.html

I think you win the day prices for:
- The most ridiculously shaped tree for which they ask a substantial amount of money (the first tree)
- The most ridiculously priced tree (the second one)

That second one is supposed to be 55 years old. Let's compare:

Bonsai boy, said to be 55 year old Shimpaku juniper:
Very unbalanced tree, mass product, produced, probably, by wrapping the young plant around a bamboo stick:


Shimpaku juniper, 35 years old (I don't know who the artist is):


Source:
www.bonsaibaison.com/BeforeAfter.htm