Concrete hollow patch.

[sorce]

need a translator

Yes...! Which is totally awesome!
You still channel Klytus better than I!

@GroveKeeper thank you!
DO tell Adair I took a couple piece off and started over!
I figured with all the fine branching it would be good practice...and it was.
I still found a couple of places where I simply couldn't get a wire on without crossing over....So I omitted it.
So still a lot of practice necessary!

This is where a yee-haw pull you over and ask for a pic of that crepe!

Sorce

 

[GroveKeeper]

Yes...! Which is totally awesome!
You still channel Klytus better than I!

@GroveKeeper thank you!
DO tell Adair I took a couple piece off and started over!
I figured with all the fine branching it would be good practice...and it was.
I still found a couple of places where I simply couldn't get a wire on without crossing over....So I omitted it.
So still a lot of practice necessary!

This is where a yee-haw pull you over and ask for a pic of that crepe!

Sorce

I'll take some pics tomorrow. The homemade filler I made is a little rough. I want to smooth the surface with another layer or two of paint.

 

[M. Frary]

Uros fellas,uros.

 

[YukiShiro]

Well fine.
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Sorce

Late on this one... but I'm digging it!!!

way to go Sorce

best regards
Herman

 

[sorce]

With a couple good rips like this, which looks worse in person....


And this...

Glad to see leaves all over...
10 days after defoliation.


Whew O'clock.

Sorce

 

[sorce]

Can't stop won't stop gettin Mad Figgin.




Sorce

 

[sorce]

Unwired a couple weeks ago...
Lil too early....
Usually they stick solid.



Still figging...no less than 36 again.


And a branch where I could use it!

A wee ass leafless branch!

Sorce

 

[Brian Van Fleet]

Fwiw, I've seen and used concrete to patch holes in the past. It was a very common practice, but over time, what happens, is the concrete holds water, and the area around it rarely dries out, so it rots, receding from the concrete plus/patch, allowing even more water to build up.

I made it to a workshop at Kathy's a few weeks ago, and she spent some time talking about this, as students were chiseling out 20-year-old concrete plugs from very old trees. Since yours is a ficus; not an old ginkgo or hornbeam, I bet you can get the tree to swallow the plug before it's a real issue. Then it's problem solved!

 

[Dav4]

Interestingly enough, I was at a club meeting today with Jaun Andrade, who recently finished his 3 yr Japanese internship, and he spoke at length about this subject. It turns out he and others in Japan are huge fans of concrete patch to fill and heal large voids. He went as far as to suggest that it would be perfectly fine to use concrete to fill voids on my very big and very old Satsuki... and we all know how easily azalea wood rots. I will probably try it and see what happens. As it is, even though I cleaned out the compromised wood, those areas are going to continue to rot.

 

[sorce]

It was only a trident I seen it on...

Reckon that heal just as fast...

Good point...

Sorce

 

[sorce]

Repotted this a couple days ago.






Sorce

 

[Anthony]

@sorce,

you mean - bare rooted ?

BUT tree is looking good.

Thanks for showing.
Good Day
Anthony

 

[sorce]

you mean

I thought of you when I chose it's new home too....

Just a little deeper....
A lot wider.


Yes I still hold trees in with rocks not wires.

Sorce

 

[jeanluc83]

Nice work.

Is that a dog dish?

 

[Anthony]

@sorce,
Wish I could send you our Ficus b., we hardly use them as preference is for Ficus p.
Now if you didn't BARE ROOT and just trimmed the ends, you wouldn't even need the rocks.

Keep the faith.
Good Day
Anthony

 

[sorce]

Is that a dog dish?

http://www.bonsainut.com/threads/i-dont-know-what-this-was.24075/



Sorce

 

[GrimLore]

Is that a dog dish?

Max nailed it in that older post. It is a plate cover for heating a plate of food in the Microwave.

Repotted this a couple days ago.

Looks good and healthy too. Have you setup an indoor spot in the new place yet? Curious as I just basically sterilized and redid some setups in our plant room as I don't want to "dance" and just bring them in when it is cold at night.

Grimmy

 

[Waltron]

that thumb nail sorce... an impressive work of growth in its own right!

 

[sorce]

indoor spot in the new place

I got a basement spot that doesn't get much outside light at all...so it's gonna be all fluorescents..4 4ft...I was looking at getting one of them weed growing lights too...

There is a long countertop with a bright white surface...so that should be a nice place....

Been thinking bout getting it going lately!

Sorce

 

[sorce]

that thumb nail sorce... an impressive work of growth in its own right!

My defoliater.

Sorce