Ficus progression thread

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A place to post and update my recent ficus work.


The 2 in the back right rooted this year and are running.



This is the tigerbark on the front of the group pic april of last year.



Angles



side


I want to make that lower right branch into the first branch, so I'm letting it grow after wiring it down, and pinching/pruning the rest of the branches on the way up until it surpasses them in thickness. It has a while to go, but all of these buds emerged this year.

 

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Closeups of the others

 

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And this little guy that I trunk chopped on christmas. About a 1 inch wide.




Removed the aerial roots, next I'm wiring those new lower shoots downward. I'm trying a method I learned from Blue Sky Bonsai's youtube channel to place a large pebble in the middle of the pot before filling with soil. I'll be checking on the roots in late june and then dropping it back in.

 

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Took this guy out of the ground, I planted it last summer to see what it would do. Has some nice character. Pruned 80% of the roots, and made a perlite/shredded sphagnum/organic fertilizer mix for it, into the training pot.



topsoil close up, the mix drains super well

 

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Closeup of the trunk. Will be carving out that elbow to improve the taper.