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This two year project is starting to come together and would have been quicker if not for our cold winter this year. A representation of a tree hanging of the edge of a cliff. I,ideally, would like the tree to completely swallow the top half of the rock and have the section below it (left hand) exposed. it is a large rock and will look the goods if i can pull it off. I might have a tree to enter into the A.B native comp for a change, that is, if this fig is an Aussie native. I think it is Ficus macrophylla but dont know which variety. Hopefully a fig expert will i.d it for me.

Great post Bodhi, I am sure the work and the wait will give you some wonderful results.

Thanks Gerard, patience and more patience. I think i am getting good at it, patience that is.

keep us posted on this one,

jayde01 wrote:keep us posted on this one,

I will update the branching progress but we will have to wait another couple of years to see how the roots are bonding.

Nice work Bodhi, reminds me i have figs to unearth.

Nice work Bodhi.
I will definitely be giving this a go.
Thanks for the boot

Andrew F wrote:Nice work Bodhi, reminds me i have figs to unearth.

Damian Bee wrote:Post by Damian Bee » Yesterday, 7:41 pm
Nice work Bodhi.
I will definitely be giving this a go.
Thanks for the boot

No problems guys, glad i could help.

It has been awhile since i paid any attention to this project as it was put up the back and in a poly tunnel and promptly forgotten about It was just fed and watered for a few years but i have just defoliated it and it has given good branching and is roaring back.

Hi Bodhidharma ..how excellent is it to forget about a tree and then find it happily going about it's business just wondering if you have considered tilting the rock to the left and making the apex your first branch, or is that me being ridiculous don't worry, my missus gives me strange looks to

Hi Bodhi,

this reminds me of a Ruby fig that I obtained a long time ago from our very own Pup. At the time the tree was only about 8" tall and positioned on top of a small rock approximately 1/2 the size of a house brick.

At the time I wanted to accelerate the root growth so I just planted it in the garden. As is sometimes the case time got away from me and I left the tree just growing un-trimmed in garden. Some two years later I dug up what was now a fairly significant side tree that was well over grown and desperately in need of a severe cut back.

When I dug the tree up I was amazed to find that the rock had been completely encapsulated by the trunk of the tree, so much so that when I "flat bottomed" the trunk there was no sight of the rock whatsoever. To this day the rock is somewhere within the base of this trunk.

Cheers,

Jeff