Ficus microcarpa progression over seven years | Bonsai Nut

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In this awful photo, you can see the ficus I bought in in the blue pot, which is about 4" wide. When I bought in from Ace Hardware, it had about 4 leaves on it, but they were tiny and the few other trees in the store were ugly ginsengs.

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After only two years of growth, and of course repotting into a larger pot with good soil. September

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I gave it a basic styling and used a sacrifice branch to anchor the new leader. There's some decent nebari under the soil.

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No photos from , but in June I defoliated and styled it again. The new leader had a sacrifice branch (it had grown at the area of the previous stub you can see from ) removed at this time, it has thickened nicely.

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In June , I removed the first branch on the right, I didn't like the bar branch look it had, plus the one on the right was far less ramified.

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January , before taking the wiring off which had began to cut in. Starting this winter, I gave all my ficus trees strong artificial light, plus sphagnum moss around the trunk base covered by plastic. The silvery wire keeps the moss in place when I take the plastic off to water it.

On this tree, it produced aerial roots, but the others not so much. At any rate, they didn't dry out badly from the forced air heating system like they usually do so I'd say it worked great.

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July after repotting into the same pot and doing some light styling. You can see the aerial roots now, I left some of the sphagnum on until they harden off.

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Front and back today. The leader will be cut off in a year or so, the tree defoliated, restyled, and the cycle continues. Right now I'm trying to increase the density of the lower branches.

Ficus are a bit of a pain because as the branches don't set easily, even when you let the wire cut in. I've found that exaggerating the bends a bit seems to help.

Forsoothe!

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In June , I removed the first branch on the right, I didn't like the bar branch look it had, plus the one on the right was far less ramified.

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Ahhhhhhrrrrrrrrrggggg Phhhhhhhhhhhhhhttttttttttt

I agonized over it for a year before chopping it off. I posted a couple pics from today, hopefully I made the right choice!

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• Sep 6,

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Good work, Really nice tree. I think it was the right move removing that branch.

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Good work, Really nice tree. I think it was the right move removing that branch.

Thanks! The tree has a ways to go, I'll keep updating the thread.

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Nice!
What an amazing growth you get. Good summers there?

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