I have just bought a small 12cm bunyan fig bonsai that i plan on giving to a friend on their birthday. It came in your run-of-the-mill plastic pot, and i'm looking to find a slightly more spacious and decorative pot to allow the tree to grow a little bigger and more workable.I am a practicing metal smith, and so i thought it would be a nice gesture to make a pot myself out of copper, to make the gift slightly more personal. I know that it is ok to use copper in the garden, but i've heard that if the roots of a bonsai touch the copper pot they will die. Is this true? And if so, will it cause detrimental effects to the bonsai, or will it just stop any further growth?Is there a more suitable metal that i can use?
copper will leach into the soil and kill your tree. try to find a nice ceramic pot for it.
Copper sulfate is used to kill roots in septic systems. Therefore, copper will kill your plant. Best to use ceramic for bonsai.
