Recent content by mat

You might worry about the roots rotting if they've been sitting in the same wet, wrapped ball for two weeks.

If you're in Orlando towards the end of May, you'll want to stop by the vendor area at the annual state convention. There's always tons of good stuff there (& free admission). Locally, Adam Lavigne has trees for sale. Jason Schley is about an hour North. Ft Myers has Wigert's of course -...

I think 60 is way too high a temp to start worrying. 40 would be fine. I bring my nicer ones in when 40 or lower is forecast for the night. I leave many of mine out even down to freezing and they've never had an issue. They're very tough, sub-tropical plants - tougher than most books or...

I think you did a pretty good pruning job. It's challenging material, but you've taken a step towards it looking better in the future. It could use a good hard pruning, but I understand the desire to take it slow. Especially since it'll be getting cold there soon. Maybe next Spring cut those...

In my opinion, this tree isn't ready for you to start reducing the leaf size - need to get the structure in order first. I'd get in there and clean it out where you have multiple branches coming out of the same point. That's why you have some bulges that will only get worse. Leave two...

This picture has been floating around the internet for a while. I've never seen a credit (or species) given, so I'm definitely interested to see if anyone else has. Looks like a Ficus to me too (not sure what a "plain old" ficus is).

so, it's Claytite plus organic components? What's Calytite?

How are you shipping Ficus to Vin in this scenario? Probably just want to compost those guys. I doubt FedEx is making stops to deliver your $15 package. Maybe you could pay MadMax to deliver it, but Vin is probably having problems of his own and doesn't need any more liabilities. Now is when...

That's what I thought the original post was referring to also.

D&L Nursery's tree at EPCOT this year (photo by Adam Lavigne) EDIT - They have some other nice big ones at their nursery, but I don't have photos of any of those on hand.

Wasn't that the first one I attached in my post?

Haruyosi posted this today: "I removed leaves of Shinpaku. I usually do this work with scissors. And at last I arrange the figure with fingers a little."

What are you talking about?

Now that's funny.

It looks healthy to me. If it were mine, I'd cut back every branch hard, leaving no foliage (as Giga suggested). I think buds will pop on each one.