Dav4]Thanks, Dale. I'm glad you posted. I'll get that bottom pic for you the next time I visit the nursery.
Are they holding it hostage until paid for??
From what I've been told, the pot is handmade. My only concern with the pot (other then the price
, though I do suspect it is fair) is the deterioration/wear that is apparent near the central drainage hole. I don't have the luxury of keeping my trees frost free during the winter, and this tree/pot combination will freeze solid for several months minimum each year. Should I be concerned about further deterioration? I suppose I could pull the tree from the pot each fall
.......yuk.....I've got to start buying smaller stock! Any way, thanks for any input.
Dave, even the best pots can crack/break if frozen ( although some think that if they are expensive Japanese they are immune to this). Many Japanese and Chinese pots are truly not great quality clay and/or very high fired fired quality clay, depite what they say. I just read another thread elsewhere about concerns someone had about their Tokoname pots cracking in the winter. I have had several 'Tokoname' pots crack in the winter. Tokonome is NOT a magical area in the far east!
Their pots can crack in winter just like us common guys can.
Here is a large one in picture still hanging together. I've had many crack right at the soil lines. If your overwintering temps are loosly controlled , as mine are, then you will lose a pot once in a while. That is the price we pay for growing trees in ceramic pots in cold areas!! But, if older and hand-made it may be much better clay and fired very nicely. Your run of the mill cheap chinese pot with cheap low fired low quality clay and glaze are always at risk in the winter. I've had MANY on retail trees that feet fell off, sides popped out, etc.
Just like the occasional dead tree....we have occasional broken pots.
D.