Ficus rubiginosa - Cutting Resurrection

[kcpoole]

Last night, Steven remoddeled his Port Jackson fig as shown in this thread here viewtopic.php?f=112&t=957 ,
and one of the off cuts looked quite interesting, and upon looking a little deeper in his pile of off cuts, I spied its other half.

I thought if grown as a cutting it will have nice potential as a small Shohin in Short order. The only problem was that I would have to glue the 2 pieces back together so that they graft themselves!

This afternoon i got the drill and gorilla glue (Selleys Polyurethane), and went to work.

I Drilled a hole thru the top section, then lined the 2 pieces up and drilled the bottom as a blind hole.
Put a toothipck with glue in the bottom section, glue down the hole in the top and mated them up.
Wired the lot and applied cut paste to the join.

Now potted up under a clear plastic tent and see if it roots and then grafts together
Stay tuned in a few months to see if it worked

Ken

[strawbs]

do u ever stop Ken , if it works it'll be a beauty
strawbs

[kcpoole]

LOL Strawbs
When I run out room for them all I promise I will stop collecting ( at least that is what I tell the wife)

Actually I am going to start thinning out the many stock trees and pare down a bit. Be more selective on what I start, but like this one, if it takes it should be a real nice tree quite soon.

Much inspire by some of "Pups Minis" and the short time it takes to develop something nice from a decent sized and shaped stock.

Ken

[strawbs]

i think some1 has inspired us all to 'downsize' ,
ill be looking at the top of my figs that i chop this yr to make a few minis
strawbs

[AndrewM]

Nice work Ken
Being a fig you should not have may problems. I would just keep an eye out for mould or fungus growing if you get to much humidity under your tent.
Good luck with it

[daiviet_nguyen]

Daring idea! I have already booked mark this thread. See how you go Cheers.

[Jerry Meislik]

Very nice technique. Keep us posted.
Jerry

[Hornet]

thats new lol. Fingers crossed, be great if it makes it

[bodhidharma]

Ken,A.K.A the experimentor. I will be keeping an eye on this thread also to see if it works. Just because you thought of it ensures a 50% chance.

[Andrew F]

Ken aka Dr FrankenBonsai.

This is a very daring excersize and i too am subscribed to this thread, look forward to updates.

[kcpoole]

thanks all for the encouragement and Andrew, I will check for mould and signs of too much moisture regularly

Ken

[kcpoole]

Hi all
Steven commented about this one last week and during my Clean up yesterday I had a good look at it

It looks like it healed over, and it producing new shoots both above and below the join
Will be fine to leave it in the pot it is in till next spring and will then repot and check its roots.

Looks like a successful operation, Very cool eh
Ken

[hugh grant]

very very cool mate
this what i call serious tree surgery!
wouldn't it be great if we could do the same to ourselves as we can do to trees.

Hugh