I see... thank you everybody for the advice. I hope it will work better next year. Would it make sense to put a tight wire around the branch instead of removing the bark? I read somewhere that it works on beech (I read that after I tried what you see above).
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I'm completely new to bonsai. I did own a mallsai ficus for several years but I killed in June by trying to grow aerial roots. About the same time I decided to airlayer an annoying beech branch above the patio in my backyard. From what I read on the web, I understood that the...