Large Ficus
- Thread starter MadSweatz
- Start date
-
- Tags
- ficus benjamina large
Apex37
Chumono
Personally I'd enjoy it as it is.
It will require a lot of work to get it 'bonsai-able', but if you absolutely wanted to use it for bonsai, you can maybe do a clump with it.
The difficulty will be getting any movement in those trunks as they are all stick straight and far too mature to bend.
It will require a lot of work to get it 'bonsai-able', but if you absolutely wanted to use it for bonsai, you can maybe do a clump with it.
The difficulty will be getting any movement in those trunks as they are all stick straight and far too mature to bend.
Flowerhouse
Shohin
Check out this thread:
www.bonsainut.com
Craigslist Ficus project
Found this clump for $40 with several interesting fusions. Must have been growing in this clump for 15 years, or so. It was 7 feet tall by 5 feet wide when I got it a 5 weeks ago. I know I should have waited until the height of summer, but it was starting to push lots of new growth since I...
Apex37
Chumono
See I stand corrected!Check out this thread:
Craigslist Ficus project
Found this clump for $40 with several interesting fusions. Must have been growing in this clump for 15 years, or so. It was 7 feet tall by 5 feet wide when I got it a 5 weeks ago. I know I should have waited until the height of summer, but it was starting to push lots of new growth since I...
Crazy Diamond
Omono
I would let it be.. But I hate benjaminas so I guess my opinion is not the most impartial in the world xD
MadSweatz
Yamadori
As far as taking bonsai sized cuttings. Will they root ok? I could definitely bend most of the branches at the top for sure.
MadSweatz
Yamadori
Just out of curiosity, why do you hate them?
MadSweatz
Yamadori
My best friend thought it would be interesting to make three canopy style clumps out of the leaves. So kind of train three levels of leaves into pads. I thought it was a pretty interesting idea.
Attachments
Crazy Diamond
Omono
I love other Ficus species but benjaminas not very much, they are finnicky drop fine ramification and make a lot of tuberous roots, I have one of the small leaf cultivar but I never really liked it xD
Paradox
Imperial Masterpiece
Benjaminas dont typically take well to bonsai culture.
I would enjoy the tree as it is. Its a beautiful large house plant that seems to be doing well enough.
I would enjoy the tree as it is. Its a beautiful large house plant that seems to be doing well enough.
ShadyStump
Imperial Masterpiece
@Arnold is not wrong, but they're also almost impossible to kill, so great for learning and experimenting on.
Benjamina cuttings root VERY easily. As long it's actively growing, and you see that white sap when you cut it, you can stick it straight in a pot of soil, and start watering like it's a tree and in a couple months it'll start growing like a tree. You can make yourself 20 new trees in a day, so not shortage of material if you screw something up.
I've personally not found them to be finicky, but I've seen enough out of mine that I can understand how people feel that way about them.
Benjamina cuttings root VERY easily. As long it's actively growing, and you see that white sap when you cut it, you can stick it straight in a pot of soil, and start watering like it's a tree and in a couple months it'll start growing like a tree. You can make yourself 20 new trees in a day, so not shortage of material if you screw something up.
I've personally not found them to be finicky, but I've seen enough out of mine that I can understand how people feel that way about them.
Your thought here seems like it would turn into more of a topiary design than bonsai, but you could play with the idea some.
Mellow Mullet
Masterpiece
I have found that they do not lend themselves to bonsai culture because the growth is always straight up. I have wired branches and left it on until it cut way in, after taking it off it slowly moves up an inch or so over a season. The only way have managed to make them stay permanently is to notch the underside and pull the branch down.
John
John
