hi guys
here is a little green island fig i got from a mate yesterday, it is a nice little trunk and will make a nice semi with a bit more refinement. this beast had massive airials, when he handed it to me they were long enough to hit the ground when i was standing up! oh one other thing, the thick cascading branch although you cant see it, there is another cascading branch going to the back, it was as thick as the branch coming off the trunk, it will make a nice little tree aswell, i have no fear it will not strike as it had some developed airial roots that had some feeders on it, so that will be another tree in a couple of months!
ok some dimensions!
height- 200mm, thickness- nebari 100mm, above nebari 70mm
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jamie
Green island fig- semi cascade
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Re: Green island fig- semi cascade
Good stuff jamie that type of leaf reminds me of the jade. i have a GI fig but nothing like that
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gday chris
yea the leaves are a little similar to crassula, they are quite thick on GI figs aswell. the do reduce and will get tighter though. the thing with green island figs is they take a long time to grow size and thickness, im not sure but i think these are known as golden gate ficus over in USA??? can someone clarify this?
yea the leaves are a little similar to crassula, they are quite thick on GI figs aswell. the do reduce and will get tighter though. the thing with green island figs is they take a long time to grow size and thickness, im not sure but i think these are known as golden gate ficus over in USA??? can someone clarify this?
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Re: Green island fig- semi cascade
Jamie.
Nice find! Should work up to make a nice cascade or semi-cascade in your hands.
The Green Island tends to have pretty round leaves. I have seen many Ficus microcarpa seed grown plants that have all shape and texture of leaves. Many, many can have round-ish leaves. Green Island is just one cultivar that has such rounder leaves.
I believe Golden Gate does not have such round leaves. It has a typical microcarpa leaf that is thicker and smaller than normal.
You can see some information here.
http://www.horticulturist.com/mastermag10/ficus.html
Keep us posted on how it goes.
Jerry
Nice find! Should work up to make a nice cascade or semi-cascade in your hands.
The Green Island tends to have pretty round leaves. I have seen many Ficus microcarpa seed grown plants that have all shape and texture of leaves. Many, many can have round-ish leaves. Green Island is just one cultivar that has such rounder leaves.
I believe Golden Gate does not have such round leaves. It has a typical microcarpa leaf that is thicker and smaller than normal.
You can see some information here.
http://www.horticulturist.com/mastermag10/ficus.html
Keep us posted on how it goes.
Jerry
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Re: Green island fig- semi cascade
Very nice. One of the best greeny I've seen. This reminds me the two big ones I saw at the flea market recently - they were on sales for $10 each and I was a bit too late
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Nice GI Jamie
I have a couple that i am training as cascade but not as advanced as this one.
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I have a couple that i am training as cascade but not as advanced as this one.
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Re: Green island fig- semi cascade
thanks jerry its always good to recieve feed back from yourself
thanks DK and andrew this one definately has some age to it, if you can get one with size and taper i would of snavelled it DK!
i cant take credit for growing this one though, this one was grown by Rod, and grown well considering that they are slow to thicken and a develop.
i can see this one coming up nice
thanks for the link jerry and the clearing up of the species i didnt realise GI was a cultivar of microcarpa! ya learn something new every day!
jamie
thanks DK and andrew this one definately has some age to it, if you can get one with size and taper i would of snavelled it DK!
i cant take credit for growing this one though, this one was grown by Rod, and grown well considering that they are slow to thicken and a develop.
i can see this one coming up nice
thanks for the link jerry and the clearing up of the species i didnt realise GI was a cultivar of microcarpa! ya learn something new every day!
jamie
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