Indoor Gardening and Houseplants: Need some help with Corn Plant, 1 by bacarney

bacarney wrote:
This 12-year-old ficus has been with us through thick and thin and has outgrown the largest pot I've been able to find. My teenage sons will be going off to college in a few years and the husband and I are getting too old to move it--without it turning into a concern about whose heart is going to give out--first.

I'd like to keep the tree--is there a bonsai technique that I can use to move this plant into smaller digs? I also have an orange tree that my husband and I purchased on our honeymoon in 1987. This too is getting more than I can manage-- I keep the tops trimmed but the root systems are filling the very largest pots I can find.

What to do?