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Hi Everyone,

I'm a complete newbie when it comes to bonsai, but i have always been interested in the topic and with the recent quarantine, i though it would be a great time to actually start.

I have been scouring around my area in Portugal for some trees for collecting and came across a beautiful fig tree. I want to collect this tree but i have virtually no idea how to approach it in order to get the best chances of it surviving. I was wondering if anyone could give point me in the right direction?

I did dig a bit around it to expose the root yesterday and see what was going on.



I recently collected a small peach tree from my garden as well which i will post for some constructive criticism from the forum

This is not a good time of year to be digging trees up in the northern hemisphere. You can do it but you have to keep the root ball completely intact.

Some trees have all the feeder roots at the ends of long roots. If you cut the long roots short you lose the feeders, and the tree dies. Some have all the feeders in a relatively small ball so digging the tree up you get the feeders, but this time of year you risk the root ball drying out.

One technique I have read about is to take a shovel and cut an arc about a sixth of a circle around the tree on both sides, repeat a year later, then again after a year, then dig the whole thing up the fourth year. That takes four years and probably is only practical in a farm situation.