[thoglette] F. Benjamina

[thoglette]

Back in the saddle. Following advice from Tony Bebb I've been trying to fatten up the trunk a bit more (the sacrifice branch to the right is about 50cm long)

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I haves heard of thread grafting before, but I'll definitely do some research on it!!

I've got two successful thread grafts on another F. Benji so well worth trying.

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August update as required by the rules. Still getting fatter. Most of the visible foliage is sacrifice material.

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Fatter, chopped some branches as they were getting too fat. Two steps forward, one back!

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[Elmar]

Nice progression!
Funny thing is, FB is amongst my least favourite trees but the one I got (was a pressy for daughter who wasn't really interested!) has gotten pot bound twice now and has gotten soooo fat (trunk) it is now peaking my curiosity, all I did was use a larger pot...
Keep it up and thank you.


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I was going to be away for a while during the summer so I tucked it away where it would get watered. That worked, but not enough sun so it went all lanky on me.

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The only option was to cut it all off again and I'm back to square one.

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Life's been a little crazy so this is a post-or-lose post. I potted it back out into an even bigger pot (ok, seed tray) to get some thickness happening.

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Life's been a little crazy so this is a post-or-lose post.

I have done some more work but this the photo I have. Another shocker

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The weekds are flat leaved parsley - microherbs! (that's my excuse)

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Life's been a little crazy so this is a post-or-lose post.

Been on the road for 13 of the last 15 weeks so, as a bonsai, the tree is in a worse condition than last year. However the trunk is getting fatter.

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[Steven]

Sorry Thoglette, I've had to disqualify this and your other entry as you did not post 2 final photographs.
Regards,
Steven

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Well the Comp may be well over but the tree lives on (for now). New pot from Margie Fenn, perhaps a little too late in the year but I didn’t want to wait all year.

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A bit scraggly but I’m just going to leave the foliage on while the roots recover.