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Shohin
I potted this hornbeam in the current pot last spring. Graduate school brought me back west, and Utah is much hotter and drier than Virginia. I think I'm going to need something deeper to keep the roots cooler in the summer. The trunk just above the soil line is about 4 inches in diameter.
I was thinking about this pot (2nd pic)... It's a Horst pot and I really like it. The current pot (tokoname) is 16 inches (40cm) long and about 2.5 inches (6.5 cm) deep. The Horst pot is about 14 inches long (36 cm), but about 3.5 inches (9cm) deep. The virtual isn't quite to scale due to the differences in length. I'm still fairly new to bonsai, so I wanted to get other opinions before I spent the $$. Is the color of the new pot ok? Is the texture too rough for the tree? I think that the color will highlight the lichen growing on the trunk without distracting from the image as a whole. Thoughts...?
Please excuse the dirty pot and the mulch, I pulled the pot out of winter storage to snap the pic. The tree will be cut back and wired this spring.
Thanks,
Christian
I was thinking about this pot (2nd pic)... It's a Horst pot and I really like it. The current pot (tokoname) is 16 inches (40cm) long and about 2.5 inches (6.5 cm) deep. The Horst pot is about 14 inches long (36 cm), but about 3.5 inches (9cm) deep. The virtual isn't quite to scale due to the differences in length. I'm still fairly new to bonsai, so I wanted to get other opinions before I spent the $$. Is the color of the new pot ok? Is the texture too rough for the tree? I think that the color will highlight the lichen growing on the trunk without distracting from the image as a whole. Thoughts...?
Please excuse the dirty pot and the mulch, I pulled the pot out of winter storage to snap the pic. The tree will be cut back and wired this spring.
Thanks,
Christian