Some interesting figs chopped on Australia Day

[kvan64]

Someone needs them gone and I got the opportunity to have them all but they are around 350kgs each so no chance of transporting by myself...so I yelled out to some of the guys I met recently who also love bonsai. We gathered this morning and managed to borrow a truck, a hydrophilic mini crane and got to work on them. Hard work but I am happy with my prize thanks to my good new friend. I got a reasonable first choice pick. Will be a nice tree I guess. The problem now is...to unload it!

[wattynine]

Awesome, love a project.
Watty

[kcpoole]

A little on the large size for me but good luck to you
Nice find

Ken

[melbrackstone]

Crikey! That's HUGE!

[bodhidharma]

What a great score kvan and i know you will create a great tree from this. A good thread to show progression on.

[srini]

pretty sure I saw them on gumtree the other week but decided to pass due to their enormous size. Will be very epic one day! Just a bit too much trouble if you need to move more than a couple of times in a lifetime.

[srini]

Just looked at those again and whoah they are massive and i'm a pretty strong guy. But stunning stumps. What kind of fig are they?

[sheepdawg]

Do you have any updates on these guys?

I'd love to have a fig of that size

[srini]

I second that, update please. They must have shot like crazy since the chop.

[kvan64]

OK guys. Sorry for not updating the progress sooner. I didn't have time to work on them. Thanks gods, it has been raining a lot here recently and the branches developed quite decent to work on. This is my first branch selection. Hope that they will suit the design. I also had trouble finding a suitable pot for it. It took me over a year to find a 1.2m (W) pot around Brisbane area.

[Lane]

That's going to be a ripper!

[Matthew]

that has developed very quickly. Advantage of living in the sub tropics . When I was in central qld my figs grew at a rate in one year that I have found in NE vic takes 5 years + . Fantastic large bonsai that is going to be

[Ray M]

Hi kvan64,
Do you think reducing the height improves the tree or not? Just a thought.

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Regards Ray

[kvan64]

Thanks for the comments guys. About the height reduction, it's a great idea. However, as this stage, the branches are still short and thin. I need to wait till the thickness of the branches get proportional to the trunk then decide. At that stage, I guess the length of the branches will be kept longer. That may change the overall looks.
Just a temporary thought at this stage.
DK

[kvan64]

It's been raining heavily this week and the foliage has been pushing up very strongly. I think I will refine the branches a bit more. Will update if there are changes.