Ficus Celebense progression

[kcpoole]

This is another tree I used as a Demo at the School of Bonsai Show last weekend.
It is an Airlayer of a tree I won as the raffle prize at "Bonsai By the Harbour" 2 years ago

I took off 2 airlayers off the tree, and the middle section is one of my Shohin Comp trees viewtopic.php?f=140&t=9123&p , and this is the top section of the original tree.
I hope to make it into a Mame sized tree eventually but it will be real tight to get that small . The result might be just little too large.

The pot is a little large for the tree, but is so nice I thought I just had to use it anyway as the root ball will need to be reduced over time to fit a Mame Pot anyway. As an intermediate step it went into this one as the demo.
This Pot is a Pat Kennedy one I purchased at the Goulburn show a few weeks ago

Note the tree is potted into Diatomite / Zeolite mix as usual.

Ken

[Petra]

Nice Ken,
looks good, the pot is somethin special also.Them figs just keep on, keeping on dont they. Last tim i did i just stuck the cuttings in the garden, and away they went. No stopping them.
Tell me,what is the ratio of the diatamite / zeolite mix you make.As ometimes i think my trees are just like hydroponics.For when after sifting the native soil there aint much left there but black chips of who knows what. But must be alright, my trees are powering on.
Cheers mate.

[kcpoole]

Hi Petra
2/3 Diatomite, 1/3 Zeolite

ken