Ficus help

[Arizona bonsai]

I need some ideas on these two ficus benjamina that were trunk chopped last year & root pruned six months ago. What to make of them, how to do it? The trunks are one inch diamater.

 

[Arizona bonsai]

These are ficus nitida, not benji. My memory is not good! They were air layered a few years ago. They never had a good taper so I tried a hail marry chop, thought they were dead but sprouted this july.
Our cold weather is normally in jan&feb so I probably have time for some growth. Just thinking out loud here, will post when I decide my direction.

 

[Colorado]

Well, that is a relatively massive chop scar so in my opinion there’s not much to do other than grow out a new section of leader to start healing that scar and get some taper. You should put them in larger containers for that, but don’t go overboard.

I don’t really think this material is suitable for a very small bonsai with a chop that large, unless you redo it at an angle and hide the chop in the back of the tree.

 

[AZbonsai]

I think I would just let them grow out to see what kind of branch possibilities will develop. Eventually you will need to do some carving on your chop. Does it have any kind of root flair (nebari) at the bottom? Whats your goal height wise? Find a picture of a bonsai that is similar to your goal and use it as a model.

 

[Arizona bonsai]

I don’t have a goal, just want it to look better. I did an angled chop on it before reading the above posts,thanks for the input. It was then put in inorganic soil & a plastic bonsai pot. It does have nice flat fine radial roots.