SU2
Omono
I've got some Ficus that I'd left til the end of my "2020 interventions" window, and that window's rapidly closing even though I'm in "outdoor-greenhouse" Florida (my bougies never drop their leaves, ficus grow through the winter just slower, crapes will grow if you give them pruning otherwise it's a 75//25 of them keeping//losing their foliage if left-alone)
#1 - medium/large ficus in development, thing was a giant bush I had to bring it down-to size, hard-pruned its leaders (most around 2/3rd removal) and am uncertain I'll do anything else to the top, but plan to root-prune him at his repotting (probably today or tomorrow as time permits)
#2 - I've got a larger limb on another ficus (both are benjaminas) that I want to remove via layering, can I set an aerial layer now and collect in spring/early summer? Or too-late in the year to set that up? For what it's worth, the limb to be layered was hard-pruned about 3wks ago (in preparation for this)
thanks for any info/advice, will get pics if I'm able (my day is up-in-the-air at this moment) but expect the descriptions are pretty clear.... basically since ficus grow year-round here, I'm seeing their "risks of supple growth getting winter damaged" being far, far less a worry than most-any other specie, and if so then I can move-forward w/o worry (I'm able to over-winter specimen as-needed, though I haven't had to protect a specimen one time in the past 2 or 3 winters here!)
#1 - medium/large ficus in development, thing was a giant bush I had to bring it down-to size, hard-pruned its leaders (most around 2/3rd removal) and am uncertain I'll do anything else to the top, but plan to root-prune him at his repotting (probably today or tomorrow as time permits)
#2 - I've got a larger limb on another ficus (both are benjaminas) that I want to remove via layering, can I set an aerial layer now and collect in spring/early summer? Or too-late in the year to set that up? For what it's worth, the limb to be layered was hard-pruned about 3wks ago (in preparation for this)
thanks for any info/advice, will get pics if I'm able (my day is up-in-the-air at this moment) but expect the descriptions are pretty clear.... basically since ficus grow year-round here, I'm seeing their "risks of supple growth getting winter damaged" being far, far less a worry than most-any other specie, and if so then I can move-forward w/o worry (I'm able to over-winter specimen as-needed, though I haven't had to protect a specimen one time in the past 2 or 3 winters here!)