AusBonsai

Hi This is my first post on this site and can't help but be eager to get some thoughts on some of my plants.This is a Ficus " Midnight Beauty " that I have picked up from a nursery a few weeks ago. I dont normally do trunk chops like this but as you can see the trunk is quite unique and I think there is potential. Has anyone had any joy trunk chopping Ficus like this as I am eager to see if I will get any growth from the Midnight beauty Species of Ficus?
Thanks for looking

Mick

Hi Mick,

It should grow fine, when it first shoots I would let the shoots grow hard for a while before you prune them again. It could make a nice strangler fig style or a lead tree in a forest.

good luck!

cheers
Ash

Thanks Ash you have given me hope....Bonsai is a patience game but till you see that first bud it might aswell be your very first tree. Thanks again mate!

IMO that tree is too tall and thin to grow as a single upright tree. I think that would look quite nice with quite a heavy lean to it and train some new arial roots right up the trunk, heading stright down into the soil like the famous curtain fig of FNQ. I have a couple tall trunks here i'm thinking of doing that with, would be an amazing style to recreate.

John