Options for pot

[Isitangus]

Hoping to get opinions on a) if people think this fig is ready for a bonsai pot and b) suggestions for pots.
Whilst I think my bonsai skills are progressing I am still hopeless at matching pots.
I am very critical of my own plants-if I had any training pots my plants would probably live in them!
Thanks
Angus

[Isitangus]

Oops pics help

600ml h20 bottle for sizing.

[Bougy Fan]

If it were mine I would build the branches thicker before taking it out of the grow box. Presuming you are happy with the trunk size ?

[Watto]

Personally my trees get more love when they are in a bonsai pot. I'm not discounting Bougy's thoughts (they are correct) but if over potted a little bit gives it room for expansion then I would pot.
I have a preference for Australian made pots.

[jezz_39]

For me, shallow glazed oval pots are a Figs best friend.
Sky blues, light green and even creams are good complimentary colours. I think even a round pot would suit the fat base on this one.

Nice taper, a little more time on ramification and should be looking real nice.

[milly.abrahams]

Angus, I agree with Boughy here. Great start but both those left hand branches need a lot of fattening up to give balance to your tree. You need to allow rampant growth on those branches while keeping tight control on the right hand branches. In that way the growth on the left will catch up with that on the right.

[mugen]

Nice looking fig have to agree with bougy power feed it up to grow the bones of the branches, until they are getting close to the desired shape before potting into a bonsai pot then once the growth slows down you can work on the finer details. I'm not the best at choosing pots I usually go for rectangular pots blues and light greens work well with figs, but I usually go for the brown ones because they tend to available in the shapes I want and are affordable.

[Isitangus]

Thanks for the feedback, good to get my views validated by fresh eyes. This will stay in a grow box for now-or may try to sneak it into the vege patch.

[kcpoole]

Not so
Much fattening up but ramification and elongation of the branching. That can be done in a nice pot and can be a little oversize to develop in.
A training pot will give slower growth and hopefully better control over the detail IMHO

Ken

[DavidWilloughby]

Hi Angus,

What is the Nebari like ? If it is okay then I cannot see any reason why it couldn't go into a Bonsai pot now.

I myself have found that figs develop quite fast in any location, be it grow pot or bonsai although my preference is Bonsai pot because you can get the node length down alot more than if it were in a grow tub.

I keep hearing the word "Quicker", I didn't realise Bonsai was a race, just saying.

Cheers

David

[Isitangus]

Thanks ken and Dave,
Not sure what's happening with nebari, I've been putting off reporting until I knew what it was going into and for whatever reason it didn't get done last year.

[thoglette]

Not so much fattening up but ramification and elongation of the branching. That can be done in a nice pot and can be a little oversize to develop in.
A training pot will give slower growth and hopefully better control over the detail IMHO

+1 Given the chunky symmetry I'd be looking a slightly deeper pots which will also allow you to develop the branching - and improve the transition between roots and trunk.