ficus standard to ficus sumo

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Jamie
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Re: ficus standard to ficus sumo

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Greth wrote:I know your imagination was running overtime Jamie, I think you got some great ideas, but we will keep it quiet for now, hehe.

cheers mate :D will be a revolution i reckon :D ;)

as soon as i have it all sorted you will be the first to know :D


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Please excuse my ignorance, but what is a "sumo fig"? I looked it up on google and the only hits I got came back to this page or Bonsai South.
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Jamie
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Favorite Species: CLERO!!!,ficus, celtis, juniper, elms
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Re: ficus standard to ficus sumo

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was talking to dumper about this tree last night and how much it has bugged be that it didnt shoot, and ontop of that the heel grafts i attempted to do on it just would not take either. no matter what i tried everything didnt want to work. dont know why but it was bugging me.

so a couple of weeks ago i took a little cutting i struck a few months back and have done a thread graft on it, the struck cutting is still on its own root system, so it should be fine, just a matter of getting them to fuse into each other so that the base feeds the graft.

after all this time the base is still alive, i dont know how, but it is, it just refused to bud out :evil: hopefully this will see it through.
Thread fig.jpg
Thread fig2.jpg
as you can see how i am doing this in the pics, it is pretty self explanitory ;)

jamie :D
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