Hi, sagos are funny about being repotted, don't like their roots messed with a lot, but it does have to be done sometime. You can certainly put it into a bonSai pot, but when you do it, you'll have to gently tease out the bottom of the rootball to loosen it just enough so that the roots, wound tightly in a sort of beehive, will be able to spread out in a wider circle (and soil removed from inside the bottom coils) to make it sit a bit lower to fit into the pot. Do cut back the longest, woody old roots by no more than 1/3 unless they're the sole support of lots of new little feeder roots. Don't make an extreme change in the height, but 1/4-1/3 would be possible (and more at the next repot), and replace the soil to the same place on the seed as it is now - put a layer of soil on the pot bottom (good drain holes please, and no pebbles or shards on the bottom) and when the plant's placed in it and soil piled in, the effect should be of a slight rise in the middle from the top of the soil down to just below the pot's edges, like a slight mound, so some measuring will need to be done for the right pot, taking into acct. a 1/2" layer of soil at the bottom. A coarse loam (no peat) with a good handful of perlite (not vermiculite) and some chopped up sphagnum moss all mixed together would be suitable, plus a small handful of small aquarium gravel for fast drainage. Make sure you fill all little gaps between roots as you go (in thin layers) and gently tamp in between, but don't apply any real pressure.

I dont know what the sagos palm which lucy is talking about, but if it's the one that is on sale in Lowes for $10.99 then it's a mostly "hardy" palm. Except cold waether, it will take much abuse.

Just go for it,

cheers, ooloo

har·dy1 ( P ) Pronunciation Key (härd)
adj. har·di·er, har·di·est

1. Being in robust and sturdy good health.
2. Courageous; intrepid.
3. Brazenly daring; audacious.
4. Capable of surviving unfavorable conditions, such as cold weather or lack of moisture. Used especially of cultivated plants.

Ooloo - Sagos are no more hardy in zone 4(!) than they are in 5 or 6, possibly an established one could survive in a microclimate of 7, but that's it. I notice you haven't said where you live, but if it's e.g. Calif., 'hardy' is pretty relative.

Hi Lucy, arent you "The" Lucy in LSD?

You're right, unprotected they are dead ducks in 4,5,6. Anyway, "hardy" also has a broader meaning of having the capability of surviving unfavorable conditions. Beside cold weather, unfavorable cond. include be indoor, rocks glued to your feet, wet feet, dry feet, fronds chop-off, roots chop-off, too much water, too much fert., acidic, alkaline, clay, loam and what have you soil, root bound, shade, sun, and most of all, being called a "bonsai"!

Outdoor, unless freeze up, sago will more or less survive the others.

$i =\@zone; $i->[7] = $hardy_sago . ":-)";

cheers, ooloo