I have read of people planting caudiciform plants in garden beds to get them to grow and develop faster. Spring of 2019 I decided to try this out and planted one of my Pseudobombax in a raised bed in the vegetable garden, intending to dig it up and bring it inside in the fall. Well, come September/October I forgot about it, so that was the end of that experiment :-(

Experiment #2: I decided to flout conventional wisdom (never transplant into a pot much bigger than the root ball). I've planted one of my two remaining Pseudobombax into a large air pot, hoping I'll get some of the benefits of planting it in a garden bed.

Here she is... the clay pot to the left is the one she came out of.

Will this work? I guess time will tell. I'll worry about fitting it back in the house in the fall.