Today I put my yamadori ash bonsai into a training pot. I saved a large steel bucket from a skip to use as a training pot to make sure the roots don’t spread too much. As you may know, I haven’t long had the tree. Usually with yamadori you need to keep them in the ground for them to recover for a period of at least a year or so. But this ash I have has been doing so well I thought I’d put it in it’s new training pot.
It’s best to place your bonsai into a training pot before their final pot for a few different reasons. The first being that you can train them to be into the shape you desire before before placing into the final pot. Another is that when a bonsai is in training it can look a bit crappy and it would do no justice to an expensive pot!
With training pots I usually choose one for a tree which gives it ample breathing space for the roots. It it larger than it’s final pot will be. When choosing the final pot for it to be placed in it should be the right proportions for the tree even if you have to trim off a small amount of roots to place it in.
Here is the ash tree at present
It’s now become a two-man lift!
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