10 Dollar Nursery Green Island Ficus - 2 for the price of practically none!
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Shohin
Hope to see them in good shape after some years. Thumbs Up.
SockUnicorn
Shohin
Tree started air layering itself when I snapped trunk in the bend, gonna try to keep them as aerial roots if possible.
SockUnicorn
Shohin
SockUnicorn
Shohin
These two trees were made from the tree in the first picture.
bonsaichile
Omono
If you want to keep aerial roots, maybe try keeping them in a humidity tent with as close as possible to 100% humidity until the roots reach the ground and start to bark up
SockUnicorn
Shohin
I'm in Florida. What you just described is called "outside" and yes it works quite nice for aerial roots
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Omono
lol I should have checked your location first! Being in bone-dry Denver, I never think of relative humidity!I'm in Florida. What you just described is called "outside" and yes it works quite nice for aerial roots
SockUnicorn
Shohin
I also have a watering system, so I throw my ficuses on the lower shelves and let the irrigation "rain" on them rather than just standard watering. So far so good.
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The cascade is great, but the lowest trunk should have more bends working into it. If the wood is too stiff for wire, you can use hrei bar and blocks to force a bend. Not a big deal, but I do like a cascade and it would be nice if the lowest branch could mimic the curves of the middle descending branch.
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Shohin
No I agree with you but the second branch, the really nice one, snapped pretty much in half while bending this. It split the trunk so no more bending for a wee bit.
Should be fine because ficus but I need to let it heal a bit.
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