My Ficus Benjamina

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Re: My Ficus Benjamina

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After a year of growing gave this a trim.
Will do some wiring at some point.
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Started to do some wiring this morning but it soon turned back into trimming.
Still think it might need some more off the top.
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Been a very long time since I have updated this one.
Has had some very hard trims, also cut the root ball in half to sit it in a smaller pot and so it wasn’t shorter.
Feel like it’s starting to resemble a small tree now.
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Nice work Ben, I like the way it's going!
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Update

Slowly selecting branches, cutting and trimming and growing. Repeat
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nice progression :tu2:
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Keep Calm and Ramify wrote: May 15th, 2022, 9:25 am nice progression :tu2:
Thanks mate
Love a good progression post. Will keep updating
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After lots of trimming, recovering on the bench.
Need to sort out the top, it looks a little too high for my likings
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