Ficus styling input
Posted: September 4th, 2018, 1:08 pm
Hi there. I’ve been ‘lurking’ on this forum for a while now, but not really posting... as the homepage suggests I should get more involved, I thought I’d post about the next tree I plan to work on. I’m very much a beginner with very undeveloped stock.. but here goes..
I picked up this fig recently, a bargain for 5 bucks I thought.
Some scale, now treated, but otherwise healthy. I have potted up into something I felt more suited to training. A nice surprise with a better-than-expected nebari below the surface. One large root removed and then potted higher to take advantage of the extra nebari width and taper..
So now that the scale is treated and it’s settled in this pot, I’m ready to style (and defoliate, since it’s hot here and I want to be sure that scale is gone). I hope I’m in the right forum on this site.
Here are the 4 ‘sides’ of the tree in its current state, and a top view..
The first photo I anticipate to be the front. I was thinking of removing the first branch as it’s too low and I like the movement without a branch there. Then keep the next branch on the left to be the first branch, the following on the right as the second branch, and the use the next branch on the left as the new leader to get some taper and remove the rest. I hope that makes sense.
Here’s a (pretty embarrassing) sketch of what I’m talking about.
Anyway.. sorry it’s not a very well developed piece of stock to be asking advice on, but it’s what I’ve got. Super keen to hear thoughts from anyone.
I hope the photos come up ok, seems I had to reduce waaay below one meg to get them to load..
Thanks in advance
Dave
I picked up this fig recently, a bargain for 5 bucks I thought.
Some scale, now treated, but otherwise healthy. I have potted up into something I felt more suited to training. A nice surprise with a better-than-expected nebari below the surface. One large root removed and then potted higher to take advantage of the extra nebari width and taper..
So now that the scale is treated and it’s settled in this pot, I’m ready to style (and defoliate, since it’s hot here and I want to be sure that scale is gone). I hope I’m in the right forum on this site.
Here are the 4 ‘sides’ of the tree in its current state, and a top view..
The first photo I anticipate to be the front. I was thinking of removing the first branch as it’s too low and I like the movement without a branch there. Then keep the next branch on the left to be the first branch, the following on the right as the second branch, and the use the next branch on the left as the new leader to get some taper and remove the rest. I hope that makes sense.
Here’s a (pretty embarrassing) sketch of what I’m talking about.
Anyway.. sorry it’s not a very well developed piece of stock to be asking advice on, but it’s what I’ve got. Super keen to hear thoughts from anyone.
I hope the photos come up ok, seems I had to reduce waaay below one meg to get them to load..
Thanks in advance
Dave