Ficus Fusion Project

[Redwood Ryan]

And the reason I chose not to wrap the trees together with anything is because there are a couple of lower branches that I'd like to keep, and wrapping would only smother them:

 

[Redwood Ryan]

FrankenFicus is pushing out a ton of growth. Go Frankentree go.

 

[Redwood Ryan]

FrankenFicus is even pushing out some FrankenFigs:

 

[linlaoboo]

And the reason I chose not to wrap the trees together with anything is because there are a couple of lower branches that I'd like to keep, and wrapping would only smother them:
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Nice project. I didn't read all the posts but want to say that they fuse much quicker with wrapped together with some pressure. With your setup I can see on the bottom when they eventually fatten up into eachother they will fuse but you should wrap them with something otherwise they will move away from the cage and eachother and not fuse.

 

[Redwood Ryan]

Nice project. I didn't read all the posts but want to say that they fuse much quicker with wrapped together with some pressure. With your setup I can see on the bottom when they eventually fatten up into eachother they will fuse but you should wrap them with something otherwise they will move away from the cage and eachother and not fuse.

Thanks, but like I said, there are some lower branches that I would lose if I wrapped them, so I'm just leaving them unwrapped to let those branches grow.

 

[Redwood Ryan]

FrankenFicus #1 has rooted:

 

[Redwood Ryan]

This first one has tons of roots now. I'd love to repot, but there's no telling which cuttings haven't rooted and which have. Guess I could just slip pot them into a bigger container....

 

[tmmason10]

This first one has tons of roots now. I'd love to repot, but there's no telling which cuttings haven't rooted and which have. Guess I could just slip pot them into a bigger container....
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Those are such cool containers to have when rooting cuttings. I would definitely leave them a little longer before slipping into a larger pot.

 

[Redwood Ryan]

Those are such cool containers to have when rooting cuttings. I would definitely leave them a little longer before slipping into a larger pot.

They make rooting cuttings a breeze. I think I will wait longer to repot, but not because the roots may appear frail, but instead like I said that all the cuttings may not be rooted.

 

[Redwood Ryan]

Now I'm really thinking of repotting


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[Redwood Ryan]

Here we are today. Looks like I've lost a few trees, but that was kind of expected. Not a big deal.