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craigw60 wrote:Hi Jamie you fig is looking fantastic what an improvement, the only comment I would make is don't be in too much of a hurry to bring the branches out better to cut and re-grow and cut and re-grow and repeat,repeat and repeat.
Craigw

Jamie i agree with Craig what a improvement. Ive had to cut back hard on some of my trees manly chinese elms and a couple of figs as i had these long branches with good ramification but little taper. i have lost a few seasons with this but the end result of cutting-growing etc will pay off in the end. I think this is a habit of most people fairly new to bonsai , glad im retifying this now and not 10 years later

gday guys

thanks Graeme all good mate, all are entitled to their opinion!I wasnt happy with the tree as it was, it was ok but not what I wanted for it

cheers for the confimation with regards to benji, I was just thinking possibly not but all is good! the reason why I thought different is its behaviour, my other benji have slightly different growing patterns, this one just doesnt seem to grow like the others. doesnt matter!

thanks for the tips craig I agree I will have to cut back hard in time, letting it grow out now and getting some base branching then a hard cut back will work, it will also help thicken the new leader which is one other thing that I have noticed with this one is that it thickens quite well, especially being that it has grown in a pot for so long.

jamie

and a little update.
much happier with how this one is turning out. need to stay on top of it now to build ramification. the branching is coming along well.

coming long very nicely ther jamie i love the way you put lots of movement in those branches, its something that alot of people dont do quite enough.

Hugh