[Neli] Ficus

[Neli]

• Species name Ficus
• Original height of stock 1m
• Where you obtained it from: Bought it today from the Rose garden
• Cost of stock$3.50
At list there is not enough time to kill this one before the competition starts, so I can compete for at list few days.

[Neli]

I first trunk chopped it. Then bare rooted it and planted it in sand to recover. Soon it will go in a large pot. Style will depend on where I get back budding.
Removed the tap root and more than 50% of the roots. The remaining roots arranged into radial fashion to start creating the nebari.Reduced the foliage also by more than 50% and put it in the shade.

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[Neli]

Not much improvement, but it is alive.

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[Neli]

Trunk chopped the leader and will wait to see buds before deciding the direction

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[Neli]

Started branch development...but I think somewhat late.
Carved some parts of the top. Plan to have it open umbrella canopy.

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[Neli]

Ken this topic was updated all the time but it still shows not updated. Can you please check it up?

[kcpoole]

Ken this topic was updated all the time but it still shows not updated. Can you please check it up?

I see what happened, The april post was in the fist week of the Section, and the next post was 5 months later at the end of the next cutoff date.
Restored now

[Neli]

Thanks Ken. Does it have to be shifted? It is still in the disqualified entries.

[kcpoole]

Thanks Ken. Does it have to be shifted? It is still in the disqualified entries.

Its in the right forum now, Maybe bougy did it for me?

[Neli]

Thanks, not that it will win anything but it feels better.

[Neli]

Trying to create an umbrella canopy in typical African style.

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[squizzy]

Hi Neli,

I see a different tree in this particularly with a change of planting angle. Food for thought!!!

Will be a cracka if you can keep it going. Is it going into a bonsai pot before comps end?

Squizz

[Neli]

Thanks Squiz!
Kind of you to advise. This fig has huge roots...I started cutting them short one by one... Figs are easy so I shall make a cement pot for it before the end. He he he! Me and my cement pots.
I am going to look at it again and see how it will look if I change planting angle.

[Neli]

I repotted it today, and root reduced it hard.


He he he! I can not stop laughing! I was so absent minded, repotting many plants...and my parrot busy trimming them for me, that I potted the front to the side of the pot... But it does not look too bad...What do you think?
This is how it was potted in one of my DIY cement pots

And this was the intended front:

[Neli]

The tree was trunk chopped and repotted in a DIY cement pot.
Lots of wiring and escape branches were used.
There are still branches that need to be removed...like the lowest branch...and some in the canopy, but I want to use them in the future to fatten selective parts of the tree.
No leaf reduction was done yet.
Work was done on the nebari, large roots were removed or shortened to 1-2 cm.
Pad definition
ramification
wound healing and some carving on the trunk.
Possibly shortening the second section of the trunk and starting over with the apex area.
Removing sacrifice branches after thickening has been achieved
Leaf reduction.

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