SU2
Omono
Here in FL ficus both fuses trunking, and initiates aerial roots, very readily. I'm newer to Ficus myself, and with a near-100% success propagation rate every time I prune my ficus.M's (or 'benjamina, too little' cultivars), have been accumulating whips/seedlings.
LOVE the idea of using a whole bunch of them, to fuse together over time into a clumpy banyan piece, and have found tons of pics of people setting-up such approaches (see it a lot for Maples as well-- am left confused at why it seems Maple & Ficus are the "go-to" species for this technique)
Problem is I can't find many(any?) good pics of how these fusion-base specimen look 5, 10yrs down the line (IE I can't find good photo proof that the fusing 'completes' and obviates the look of it just being a bunch of separate trees!)
Any pics, or insight on this technique, would be greatly appreciated!! I've already made some haphazard 'fused-group' plantings where I used raffia to kinda "mate" several whips around a small ~0.5" thick lil piece of deadwood so that, as they fuse, they'd have a "hollow center"(and correspondingly thicker trunk girth at that height) but no idea how they'll turn out they were setup in the past half year..
LOVE the idea of using a whole bunch of them, to fuse together over time into a clumpy banyan piece, and have found tons of pics of people setting-up such approaches (see it a lot for Maples as well-- am left confused at why it seems Maple & Ficus are the "go-to" species for this technique)
Problem is I can't find many(any?) good pics of how these fusion-base specimen look 5, 10yrs down the line (IE I can't find good photo proof that the fusing 'completes' and obviates the look of it just being a bunch of separate trees!)
Any pics, or insight on this technique, would be greatly appreciated!! I've already made some haphazard 'fused-group' plantings where I used raffia to kinda "mate" several whips around a small ~0.5" thick lil piece of deadwood so that, as they fuse, they'd have a "hollow center"(and correspondingly thicker trunk girth at that height) but no idea how they'll turn out they were setup in the past half year..