AusBonsai

I rewired and defoliated this benji in aug 08 , I removed the wire and pruned it today. I`m happy with how it`s coming on. CHEERS ROD....... HERE IT IS IN 08 WHEN IT WAS REWIRED. TODAY

gday Rod

this is one of your monsters! i love this one, it has an air of lightness about it look forward to seeing this one in real life again, if it wasnt for the shed in the background people probably wouldnt realise the size of it!

very VERY NICE mate

jamie

I love both, but the Nekkid Photo is exceptional
Congratulations
Ken

Very nice. I love the ramification on figs.

Thanks for the comments guys. CHeers Rod...

Very nice nebari Rod! Looks great naked!!! good work mate!!!

Howzit Rod,

Very nice mate I like the nebari. How big is the base?

A Hui Hou,
-Tim

Very beautiful tree Rod. Could you give us its dimensions please ?
Craig

Rod, your Benji is superb.

Thanks once again guys, it is 80 cms high from the top of the pot 100 cms wide, and the trunk is 160 mm wide and the nebari 45 cms wide. Cheers Rod.....

How often do you defoliate? The local bonsai club told me to defoliate all figs EXCEPT Benjaminas, so I an interested in what you do, as yours is lovely and obviously has not suffered from being defoliated!

Glenda

Thanks Rod, that makes it even more impressive.
Craig

Glenda I tend to agree with them, the reason I defoiliated this was I wanted to give it a full wire. I find it a lot easier to do a full wire with no foliage, why they would say not to defoliate them is they may not come back with smaller leaves. Sometimes they can have some of their smaller branches die off, I might add that when I did this tree I did not lose too many.

Cheers

Rod...

i love this tree naked, this is the thing i am talking about when i speak of figs being defoliated and me imagining deciduous trees

seriously this tree is even more impressive in real life! so is his other

i tend to agree with being cautious on defoliating benji, i have a couple and have completely defoliated both, revoving the growing tips aswell, they came back no probs but i have lost small branches aswell. generally it is negatable and not a problem, but occasionally it can be, the other thing i have found with benji is that when defoliated they can decide to bud back but on some areas they reshoot from the cut tip and choose to extend from that tip and not bud where you want to, in other words they can be eradict.

all in all i have had decent luck with them.

jamie

Rod, this is an awesome tree man I would LOVE to have a tree of that calibre in my collection!
Nie work