Is Your Bonsai Tree Ready for Potting? October 24th, 2010
Before a bonsai tree is potted into its final bonsai pot, it should first be potted in a training pot, where more space and resources are available for the bonsai tree to develop its roots and new branches. In this period, development and final placement of branches begins.
When one get a new bonsai tree, if it is a juvenile bonsai tree that is still growing quite quickly, we should use training pots before we commit to a final show bonsai pot to show our bonsai tree. While aged bonsai trees, which do not need to be trained no more and have been repotted and root-trimmed countless times already, are accustomed to staying in tiny bonsai pots, pre-mature bonsai trees need a lot more room to live healthily. Juvenile bonsai trees require to be trained slowly to readjust to staying in smaller bonsai pots, by trimming their roots every time they are being repotted. Rather than potting our young bonsai trees in fancy bonsai pots, we can use plastic pots.
When we repot our bonsai tree from the bonsai training pot to its final bonsai pot, the shape of the bonsai tree should have already been decided and set. Most of the shaping should have been done by this moment. At the training phase, much work is going on. The bonsai training containers are like a workshop of the bonsai pot. Most of the shaping, as well as wiring, are completed when the bonsai tree is potted in the training container.
As a result, bonsai training containers need not to be handsome works of art. All they require to be is well-built and light in weight. When the bonsai tree is ready to be repotted from the bonsai training pot, we can start looking at beauty. And this is when the appealing bonsai pots and bonsai stands come to play. And this is when designs of bonsai pots become important.
Visit Happy Bonsai Shop for a large selection of bonsai pots, Chinese bonsai figurines, bonsai display stands, and wall scrolls.