A bonsai training planter structured in the form of a screen walled plant container covered with a sheet material having a preselected opacity. It is preferred that the corners thereof be provided with structural members to which screening is attached. The mesh size of the screening is small enough to hold soil placed within the planter, but large enough to permit roots to grow therethrough. The sheet material is placed over the screening in order to provide a low light environment at and near the screening which is conducive to auxin production. In operation, a seed or seedling is placed in the soil of the bonsai training planter. As dominant roots grow, they reach the screening and then commence to emerge therefrom into air. The portions of the dominant root emerging from the screening dry-out and die. The death of the emergent portion of the dominant root send auxins up the root, thereby inducing feeder root growth along the dominant root. The method according to the present invention continually repeats so as to result in development of a very complex system of feeder roots; the bonsai artist pruning branches in the usual way thereduring. The plant will develop into a bonsai in minimal time with minimal effort on the part of the bonsai artist.
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