Help me pick my first Ginseng Ficus. Pic included.

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Like title.. Need help pickin my first bonsai. Or would you skip this batch all together and wait for new ones to come along.

These are 4inch pots. I'm kinda drawn to far left but totally sure yet. Def not center. Let me know what you guys think.
 

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You are the one who will have to live with it. You obviously have some ideas of what you want so why not make a choice.
IMHO all the swollen root ginseng Ficus are ugly and there's no real branches so I don't think it matters which one you pick.
The one on the left is probably less ugly than the others, if that helps at all.
 
Is a ginseng ficus what you really want, or just what you’re choosing from? Lots of folks show up here with one of these eventually wanting to layer off the tubers in favor of the scion cultivar. They are a novelty and not typically long-term bonsai material. I’d suggest finding a F. nerifolia or a F. retusa because they lend themselves to traditional bonsai training techniques.

That said, of the three, the left one has the most solid base, so it would be my choice of the three shown.
 
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