willhopper
Shohin
Do people ever carve or create jin/shari ficus trees?
Ficus question
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JosephCooper
Shohin
It tends to rot away quickly, but you could try it!
I'm not sure if anyone does it though...
I'm not sure if anyone does it though...
willhopper
Shohin
Yeah, I wondered if minwax wood hardener was used if that would change things.
JosephCooper
Shohin
Mellow Mullet
Masterpiece
I have never seen it, the wood is is soft and pulpy so I think it would be short lived.
Anthony
Imperial Masterpiece
It would be an unnatural look, and probably a phoenix graft.
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Anthony
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Anthony
just.wing.it
Deadwood Head
Unnatural like a Picasso!
Anthony
Imperial Masterpiece
Always remember that Picasso had a sound Traditional Painting education and could
already paint along the lines of an Old Master.
However, that was not the way to make money.
Still I am not sure what a ficus would look like with added whitened wood
We do however have a Ficus n., that had the heartwood die out and just the
cambium zone kept on going.
The tree is however building itself back to a round shape, away from the flat slab
that survived.
So one could try that temporary look ?
Good Day
Anthony
already paint along the lines of an Old Master.
However, that was not the way to make money.
Still I am not sure what a ficus would look like with added whitened wood
We do however have a Ficus n., that had the heartwood die out and just the
cambium zone kept on going.
The tree is however building itself back to a round shape, away from the flat slab
that survived.
So one could try that temporary look ?
Good Day
Anthony
sorce
Nonsense Rascal
I was looking at my big ficus the other day....
Doing some "grafting" lol! Yeah!
Anyway....
I was looking at all the exposed Dead bits thinking about how Bullshit it is that "ficus won't hold deadwood", or that it "rots out"..
More possible people keep em too humid inside.
Sorce
Doing some "grafting" lol! Yeah!
Anyway....
I was looking at all the exposed Dead bits thinking about how Bullshit it is that "ficus won't hold deadwood", or that it "rots out"..
More possible people keep em too humid inside.
Sorce
Leo in N E Illinois
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While you don't see dead wood features in ficus, it is not unusual to see hollows. Uro, Shari on their way to rotting out to a hollow can be seen. Also, strangler fig type ficus will form around a host tree, the host will die, rot away, leaving a hollow behind.
BrianBay9
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I've got ficus where I've partially hollowed out large pruning scars. It's been 14 yrs and the scars have not healed over and they have not rotted. This for Ficus rubiginosa.
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Jeremy
Shohin
Ive seen quite a few mature old trees with hollows and deadwood features. I certainly don't go out of my way to create them but it can be done. I have a Microcarpa var Hillli with a carved centre trunk that is solid. I leave it natural, no lime sulphur artificial looking shit. These aren't alpine trees, they're supposed to rot.
