Why of course I do! I've even got the google sheet documentation records and amazon cloud drive album to boot if you like!
At the risk of confusing things, I'll just put the info here in this thread, but note that this post is regarding a different tree than all the other pics I've posted prior in this thread. I got this triple trunk Ficus Benjamina in this post for free from a nursery friend. Disclaimer -- I do not claim to be a bonsai master...or even to know exactly what I'm doing. I'm posting this since it was asked for and in case maybe it will help us all (including me) learn something.
1/30/16 -- First two pics show it when I got it from my friend. I potted it just after the pics and it spent the winter inside near a south facing window and supplemented under the pink LED grow light I linked earlier in this thread.
4/17/16 -- I raffia'd the three trunks together tightly. Just soaked the raffia in water and wrapped and pulled the trunks together. It was doable at this point for these smaller trunks, I have no idea how well this will (or won't) work for the bigger trunks we're discussing elsewhere in this thread.... I thought I took pics of it at this time...but I can't find them! I think it was still too cold here at night so I believe it spent a bit more time indoors before going out for the summer.
6/11/16 -- Here, the next two pictures (3 and 4) show it with the raffia still on after 2 months. Notice the couple spots where I left just a strand or two of raffia holding the trunks...later on I would discover this was scarring the trunks a bit. Were I to do it again, I would use a lot more raffia and cover everything, or run some raffia longways along the trunks first, or find some other means to evenly distribute the pressure along the whole trunkline and prevent scarring from being cinched together.
7/4/16 -- Finally, I realized my error on the raffia scarring and removed the raffia at this time. It wasn't awful scarring, but it wasn't great either. Regarding the fusion however, I was not expecting it to have worked so well so fast....honestly, the trunks seemed pretty darned fused to me (and my wife for 2nd opinion) already along the inside junctions of the 3 trunks. The trunks stayed together even w/o raffia and looked good. My reading indicated this was likely too fast to have fused together, so despite what looked like pretty decent fusion, we still decided better safe than sorry so I wrapped the trunks again. Only this time I used paraffin wax "tape" (which isn't sticky) to wrap the trunks with the thought that I didn't need much cinching strength anymore and that this would just sort hold them in place for now with a string or two tied at the top of the fusion area to keep the trunks from wobbling apart from the topside.
7/20/16 The last two pics (5 and 6 in this post) were just taken today and show I'm actually getting some air layer roots in there under the paraffin...in just over 2 weeks. I'm tempted to cut the paraffin off and string the roots down the crevasses of the trunks and then re-paraffin it to see if I can get the roots to keep running downwards and...well I dunno, do something cool -- like fuse to the trunks and thicken the trunkline even more...or get them to run all the way down and provide aerial roots off the trunk to the soil...or something...I really don't know what to do at this point...ideas?
If you're still reading this...thanks! - Boise_Guy
