AusBonsai

As the person that put the fast fig development up for Steven to post I have stayed away from this one. However I have been reading this and as usual.
Thinking we are getting our knickers in a knot and not liking it so kiss and make up.

Back to it on Ficus and DL it is made from Chicken Poo, and unless it is controlled at the point of manufacture it is variable to the extent Graeme has mentioned.
Prolonged use of it will send the soil Alkaline ( read the manufacturers guide ). So trees that do not like an Alkaline soil IE as has been noted in this thread Azaleas.
Will curl up and pass on.

Ficus on the other hand I have found love it.

Growing figs where it gets cold at night is not easy, I have built a shade house up against the super six fence on the east side so it gets plenty of heat. On the top I have alsynite sheeting along with some 25% shade cloth for summer protection( it get to 50% +) in the summer months, so plenty of water is the order high humidity.

In the winter it drops to 5 at night no water only during the day about midday. I have found under this regime they grow all year. I can and do where necessary defoliate starting in October and have just stopped, as we are still getting temps of 36% .

It is playing allsorts of tricks with our deciduous trees, I have resorted to Ice blocks and Ice water trying to get some colour for next Mays show.

Cheers Mates Pup

daiviet_nguyen wrote: (--Sorry, I do realise that this is about figs )

PM sent mate.

Great work Mojo You have done a great job.

Are spammers getting more creative these days

Anyway it reminded me to search up the pictures of the Birch that carked it after applying DL
The darker patch up the left side appeared shortly after applying DL. I removed all the DL and flushed the tree with water in the kitchen sink for a good 1/2 hour or so to remove as much as possible. The tree was fully dead within a day or so.
It was probably over 5 years ago this happened and I seem more confused than ever what actually happened. I believe the leaves looked alot more limp at first damage and they came back some after the soil was flushed which is when this pic was taken to show the dark patch that appeared on the trunk.

I did love this little tree way back when For a $1.50 tube stock I thought it had a great future with that root spread and was growing so fast it had recently received it's second trunk chop for the season.

Question about this thread, can i use a Kmart brand 65 litre tub instead of a styrobox????

You could
you just have to make sure you have lots of drainage holes.
And you will lack the insulation properties of the foam box, but in a box this size i am not sure if that will have a major effect.

Thank you, i didnt even think about the insulation aspect.