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Countless bonsai growers around the world will tell you this:

Unless you want shohin trees, generally speaking, you must put them in the ground to achieve the biggest growth in the shortest time.

Here is a caveat to that statement. You must give proper care either way. If you can only care for trees properly in the pot, then you should grow them in the pot. Neglecting trees in the ground can pretty much undo whatever it is you are trying to achieve. Neglect them too long and you have to collect them as if they were wild.

Think of it like this: if pot culture were just as good as growing in the ground, no professional would ever put trees in the ground. Pot culture takes up a lot less space and can provide more plants per square foot than growing in the ground, hence is less costly and more profitable. Professionals grow in the ground for one reason: it shortens the length of time they must work the tree and therefore is more profitable.

But you have to know what you are doing.

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