Where Can I Get a Cheap forest pot?

[music~maker]

I have to say here that those who want to make bonsai cheaply are really spitting into the wind. Bonsai may not be the most expensive hobby in the world, but it does require that you spend some money. I know that's hard on kids and just-out-of-school adults, but that's the way it is.

Cheap tree, plus cheap pot equals I-don't-want-to-look-at-it bonsai. And I know, I know, it is all a "learning experience." But I just don't know what you can really learn.

With bonsai, you generally invest money or time. In my experience, you can learn an awful lot from just chopping up nursery stock and watching it re-grow. You can spend years learning how to reduce material and hardly spend any money at all.

Do you learn/accomplish more by starting with better materials? Maybe, but I don't think learning only happens with fancy pots & expensive stock. There's a lot that can be learned from just a seedling and the ground. Some of my biggest bonsai epiphanies have come from watching a $20 juniper procumbens grow out over 4-5 years.

 

[Arcto]

Your creation stick root?

 

[sorce]

I thought about concrete BUT I cant remember how to make it safe for trees or the thread on it.

I don't remember that thread.
But the stuff I used worked.
It is here
http://bonsainut.com/index.php?threads/those-pot-materials.18202/

I'm sure there something better, that you don't have to sift the rock out of.
But the sealer item # is there.

Or you could make em now and water em till spring, and you should be fine.

.....Chuck is an awesome guy, and this could work.
http://www.ikerbonsaipots.com/primitive-bonsai-landscape-slab-15/

Every month or so, he fires a couple new ones. I like em!
Been waiting for one to suit some of my ideas.

Sorce

 

[Stickroot]

Your creation stick root?

Yes

 

[jk_lewis]

I am looking for a 12"-14" one but I guess larger wouldn't hurt.

They have those.

 

[jk_lewis]

I cant remember how to make it safe for trees or the thread on it.

GOOGLE! Ciment fondue. (and the spelling is correct.)

 

[jk_lewis]

It is a very nice natural pot but I am looking for something quite a bit smaller yet deeper. I think they would dry out way too fast in that.

A good forest will live in a very shallow pot. Wide shallow pots stay wet longer than deep pots. Physics.