No, never tried. But from what I've read ficus layer easily and quick too.Rintar wrote:I have 3 or more benji coming my way so this is a very interesting thread for me. Vs you have air layered benjis before haven't you? What was your succes rate of both top layer and bottom.
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No reason why you cant bring one of those lower branches down let it extend and feed the new growth through a hole and create a thread graft that way. It will all be experience for you.
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Thanks bohdi, more food for thought. Hope fully ill get atleast one living tree from the three. Could even do a different approach on each and see which goes best.
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Vey good idea Diederik. I have a benji I have been working on for a few years and got sick of waiting for a bud to magically appear where I wanted. So I am in the process of thread grafting a branch to where I wanted. As previously mentioned they are very poor at backbudding along the trunk - especially where you want it 
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