You won't regret asking,
@Elliandra.
When I moved to Florida, I brought my 25 yr. old Fiddle Leaf Ficus with me, a plant that I considered "family". That plant had been in the same composite pot, a huge 32" diameter pot, for at least the last 10 yr. I had to grow it in a pot so that I could move it inside in the fall, before winter cold hit. Now that I'm in S. Florida, I decided to (finally) put that old plant in the ground. After spending 4 mo. acclimating it to full sun, it was time to remove her from the pot. It was impossible. I finally resorted to using an axe to chop up that pot so that the fiddle leaf could be removed. If that had been a ceramic rather than a composite pot, I would have had to use a sledge hammer on the pot.
