ficus clump to a banyan

[Jamie]

thanks mate

I have enjoyed working this one immensly, especially being a benji and how much of a challenge they can be, this one is just doing practically everything right that benji arent supposed to do it is the midnight beauty variety aswell so it gets the dark leaves which is nice and I think I said before about the leaf size on it, but they are all between 12-15mm long and 7-10mm wide if that or there abouts the other thing I have noticed with this variety is the internode length, ubelievable you would have to see it to beleive it, will get a pic of the tight internodes, which is another plus for an otherwise variety which gets a bit of a bad name.

up here we get some good growth we do sacrifice some of the cooler climate species for this though

jamie

[Andrew F]

Update???

[bonzaidog]

We wish, Velvet ,....Jamie has gone M.I.A.. ....Dog.

[Pat093]

Thats so cool man,
Your like a bonsai freak?
haha, makin something outa nothing.

[Andrew F]

We wish, Velvet ,....Jamie has gone M.I.A.. ....Dog.

Heaps sorry, i might not stir up old threads from now on.

[Jamie]

quick update.

had to remove a couple of the heavy parts of the trunk as they werent doing anything, trimmed out a few of the branches to allow light in and am in the process of building the apex!

benji fused.jpg

[Jamie]

hi guys

I was asked to give an update pic on this via pm so here it is

ficus benji 2.jpg

ficus benji 1.jpg

its getting there, still has some fusing to do, but all in all not to bad for the time it has grown and developed in.

[Andrew F]

Jamie, you owe me a new keyboard, this one isnt drool proof. Excellent job.

[hugh grant]

Nice! This one is definitely a favourite of mine from your collection. it looks so much like a big old fig especially with the tubular look on the trunk from fusing them which is a good characteristic of figs in nature.

What are the dimensions of this one? if you dont mind

Hugh

[Jamie]

gday mate

tree dimensions for this one are around -

height - 500mm

width - 650mm

trunk - 100mm (fused from around 7 trunks originally)

root spread - goes to the edge of the pot, I want it to develop like this with really long root spread to create what we see in a natural grown tree with large spreading, fissured like roots.

cheers

[Gareth]

THIS.......IS....... LOOKING...... WICKED!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Some close ups of the trunk????

[hugh grant]

gday mate

tree dimensions for this one are around -

height - 500mm

width - 650mm

trunk - 100mm (fused from around 7 trunks originally)

root spread - goes to the edge of the pot, I want it to develop like this with really long root spread to create what we see in a natural grown tree with large spreading, fissured like roots.

cheers

Nice! thanks mate, its bigger than i thought it looked.

thats the way, i like your thinking trying to replicate what nature gives us, you'll end up with a much more convincing image hat way.

Thanks,
hugh

[Luke308]

gday mate

tree dimensions for this one are around -

height - 500mm

width - 650mm

trunk - 100mm (fused from around 7 trunks originally)

root spread - goes to the edge of the pot, I want it to develop like this with really long root spread to create what we see in a natural grown tree with large spreading, fissured like roots.

cheers

G'day mate,
Love the look of this, just wondering how big the figs were when you started fusing them? Did they have any branches when you started? I have a heap of 2 year old P J figs that I was thinking of doing something similar to this with. Any suggestions would be great

[MOGGINATOR]

ummm update????????

[Bougy Fan]

Not possible with Jamie - he was sent to the naughty corner forever