Wood Training Pot

guercio

Hi ,Victrinia.
Very complicate for a pot deteriorable, for only 2-3 years ,very nice.

This is my easy metods .

http://www.easybonsai.it/forum/topi...127&whichpage=2

Wooden coltivation pot in wooden floor. (fast end easy).
Bye.
Stefano.

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bandbchute

You have a point rockm... I just repotted a Acer campestre last night that I purchased last spring from Onion Creek Bonsai Nursery. The tree had been in the grow box for one year. The bottom of the box looked identical to Vics... ie. plywood with holes drilled in it for drainage. I was glad that I didn't leave the tree in the box for another year, because it was completely rotten and about to fall apart. The tree is in a large mica now... waiting to build new branches this year.

So a word to the wise... I would figure out some way to protect the box, because it is beautiful and you did put some effort into it... Very nice Vic!

Just my opinion,

Cheer's,

Brian

hackberry

Training pot? You are too modest - That is a work of art.
You continue to amaze and inspire!

Mcspeed

Spar varnish(poly ureathane) the interior, and with it made from cedar it'll take more than a year to degrade bad enough to worry, 3/4 subfloor is going to stand up for a while, unless it's not sealed.


Very nice project, well done.

the only thing I would do different is make it more open on the bottom (screened of course), and also put holes in the sides as well al la Vance's.

Victrinia_Ensor

Mark... you kill me. I laughed quite hard my friend, at your cheeky remark.


It will rot quite nicely I think... since it was never my intent for it to last for years. I wanted it so I could see what kind of pot I would need for the tree next year. But not having potted the tree before I had no idea what to ask for. So I figured the tree could get used to being potted in something I could make. It cost me nothing to build it, and therefore I am not concerned if it's not in great shape after a year-ish. Not to mention as expensive as a hand-built pot is (and rightly so), it would suck to put a tree into a costly pot and not have it survive the transition.

But it is a good thing I made the pot... the tree was a bit of a staggering disappointment once I popped it from the can. lol It's not worth any great effort (as a bonsai).... but heck... it's in the pot already, I'll give it a chance. And the worst thing that will happen is that it will become a tree I learn on. White pines are tricky enough... may as well learn on one that has no merits as a bonsai what so ever...lol

As to the idea of a lot of effort being put into something so perishable... you should see/taste what I do in the kitchen...lol I've put two times more hours into the creation of a single desert than it took to make this box from start to finish. Beauty is like kindness... why not take the time if one can? (smile)

It has been suggested that I could epoxy the inside to make it last... When I make another one... I will probably try that. In fact I will probably make a few different ones and try different things out.

One nice thing... it is as light as can be... a nice change of pace from some of my other potted trees that weigh many more pounds than this one.

To the kind compliments from my friends and others, I thank you. I am glad it was received well. I truly had a good time making it. I am fond of making/creating things.

Yours most kindly,

Victrinia

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rockm

Ms Vic.--no need to explain the pot. It's beautiful. I would kill for such a training pot. Sure beats the black plastic nursery containers, oddly shaped wooden crates and such that I use. Like I said, I'm lazy...

carmi

It's look too beautiful to be a training pot.

From my own experience I would leave the wood natural, although the pot will not last long the trees are much "happier" in a natural wood pot, or at least not a sealed wood.

For a training pot its looks to be too shallow.

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Dale Cochoy

Wow Vic, I wish I'd known you wanted some wood training pots. I have several around here that my old partners dad made us years ago out of cedar, and some treated wood also. Some NEVER used, in fact when we had his big tree sale several weeks back there were some left at his house also. No one bought them. There are a few floating around hereabouts.
Why did we never use them....well, it was about the same time mica sprung on the scene and we found that mica looked better and was a lot cheaper than making a wooden pot!
Yours looks nice. Real nice, but, I think Mica is a much better wayto go.


Dale

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BunjinEnt

Very Nice, Vic! My wooden training pots look like old wooden beer and soda crates...because they are.

Well Done.

-Wm