AusBonsai

Heres a ficus I picked up from Australian Bonsai Grower finally i have got these pics up

cheers Regan

mate that looks like it has a nice taper in it mate

what you want to do is choose a leader and give it a good old chop to increase the taper and that will be awesome, the airial roots are working realy well to help with that too, i would use them to fuse to the base as it will help heaps and create nice fluting


jamie

Nice stock Regan

Jamie wrote:mate that looks like it has a nice taper in it mate

what you want to do is choose a leader and give it a good old chop


jamie

Plenty of leaders to choice from
Keep us posted with what you do to it mate.

Andrew

to right mate the earlier it is done the faster it will heal .

jamie

It will. E vetting the chop pretty soon fellas

I'm thinking the big long branch for the new leader, what do you think

it only took 2 hours to choose this one but I think I picked one of the best ones there

cheers Regan

Regan,

Can I ask how much $$

if you can mate maybe this one
or just flat chop it and you will get a massive amount of new shoots and then angle cut it after it has been selected

jamie

or that little one to the right of that just below it.

I thought he was talking about this one

didnt think bout that one, i would go with a smaller branch as it will be easier to wire up, it wont take long to thicken, and being lower it will give it better taper.


jamie

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Yer i see what you mean, so many options with this one

Shannon $90 mate, you have to pick through a lot of junk though

Good score Regan Lots to choose from ,every time when I purchase a tree I go thinking I will judge harshly and therefore narrow the selection process but then I usually narrow it down to 5 or 6 Do you have a plan for this one (long term short term?)Looking forward to the progression .
Cheers
Tony

Tony I did have a bit of an idea but I'm not sure now, have to draw up some ideas.

i pretty much chose this one for the base/trunk, all the low shoots and the fact it had a bit of taper already

I had three good potentials and about 10 maybes picked out of about 50, this one had the most developed base on it, there is another one there that i will get when i've got the cash

You don't go fishing with any of the teachers from north primary do you?

cheers Regan