About 4 years ago I started this project where I cut off the weird looking roots entirely from a Ficus I bought at the local grocery store. Here’s how that was done.

Today I repotted the tree in it’s first bonsai pot.

This is how the wannabe Ficus bonsai looked after 4 years in it’s training pot that had gotten too small.

I prepared a rivetted drum pot I once bought from the lovely people at Willow Bonsai all the way from South Africa.

Once the tree was removed from the training pot the roots got combed out and some thick roots got pruned.

Then the tree went into the pot and the rest speaks for itself.

The base of the tree widened significantly due to the growth of all those new roots. And it will continue to do that the next years I hope.