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This one will take some entering as I am in about stage three (of maybe 10 stages??) and have a photo progress to put up.
In ten years time this may be the page you go to to say "how do I go about this"
Alternatively, (and more likely) this may be the page you go to to say "how don't I go about this"
either way it's there perhaps for some learning, perhaps for some inspiration, perhaps coz' I never have enough projects to do and this is just another.

I mentioned in some previous post that I had Callistemon springing up everywhere under my bonsai racks, at least 20 and probably more. Some got given away, some got planted as a hedge in my yard, some got sold and some remain in pots in the collection for future projects.
This is one of them
in the ground Aug 2015 and the rocks (gifted from a blokes fishtank) into the bottom of a styro box. The two rocks both have a whole through the centre of them so these have been aligned on atop the other. into the styro

8 months later and Jan 2017
had to get in and have a look at the roots to see what they were doing in relation with the rock, could not have picked a better time, while a good rootspread was happening a lot of it was spreading out not encapsulating the rock so two pieces of wire was used to bring it all back to shape before planting again.

I have now put it in the ground grown area. The same trees that I have used as hedges, always been in the ground, are three times the diameter of this, so another year or two will make a big difference to what this will look like but it will be more like five before I pull it. and my poorly done projection thanks for lookin'
Watty

Thanks Watty, like where you're going. Would you not lift in a couple years and recheck the roots?

Hi Craig, thanks for the interest. HMMMM, Maybe but I will hope not.
There is some growing space at the bottom of the bag and then a soil medium under that, between the bag and the ground so it's elevated slightly off ground level on a pile of my bonsai medium. My thinking is that I can saw straight under the bag when it come time for lifting. But I think it will take the two years for roots to get to the bottom of the bag, through the slight elevation and then into the ground. And then I want them considerably in the ground as well, two years might be a little early, but only time will tell me that, it's all trial from this point on.
So this gets tucked away for now, I will continue to do stuff with the top, shaping styling, etc but it will be difficult to update with a decent photo when it is in the ground.
Watty