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I have a good 20-30 fig cuttings i have taken recently. With my poor success rate as of late i thought with that many at least a couple have to take. Anyway i was wondering, if i have some better luck this time and most take i will have he and heaps of figs (already have 21), what would you guys do with 20-30 to play around with? I was thinking of fusing a heap, how amny would be too many to fuse into the 1 tree?

John

I would fuse all of them. I saw a wonderful fig at the Baulkham Hills Bonsai show produced in just that way.

Sweet, would be the best way to make something nice and big quickly.

John

Send em down here. Thanks John.

if i get enough i could send a few down to ya if you really wanted.

John

Hi John,
That would be great.
I was thinking of doing the same. That large fig gave me inspiration and normally creators don't talk. However, the Vietnamese man who created the fig on show was happy to expound on how it was created.
Michael Toohey

John

International Bonsai magazine has an amazing article about a bosai grower in Bali who does huge fig trees from fising many smaller saplings and the photos just need to be seen to be believed. I have it at home (borrowd it from my local club... more good reasons to be a member of your bonsai club!!), but there may be members out there who know the one i'm speaking of straight away. I'll update tonight when i get home. Maybe i can give a few teaser pics as well??

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Stewart_Toowoomba wrote:John

International Bonsai magazine has an amazing article about a bosai grower in Bali who does huge fig trees from fising many smaller saplings and the photos just need to be seen to be believed. I have it at home (borrowd it from my local club... more good reasons to be a member of your bonsai club!!), but there may be members out there who know the one i'm speaking of straight away. I'll update tonight when i get home. Maybe i can give a few teaser pics as well??

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Curiosity peaked, look forward to that.

You could try something like this... No doubt you could do a better job, my first attempt a fusing figs on a frame.

Hoping that it works...

Hi all

I got it wrong, it was Bonsai Focus magazine that had the Balinese fused figs as a piece. Issue 4 July, 2009. As i said previously, our local bonsai group subscribe to this magazine and we can borrow at each meeting - thanks Toowoomba Bonsai Group!!

I was amazed to see the process and end results of the fig fusion. Sure you've never been to Bali Elmo?? - your effort looks a lot like the article!

These six pages constitute less than 10% of the total magazine size so i don't believe this is in breech of copyright, and we are not for profit as well, so here they are for your pleasure. Hope you enjoy them.

Sorry it was a little later than planned, but I lost the driver disk for my scanner and had to locate, then download it from HP

Hey, thanks for taking the time to scan those in. That was illuminating.

Only been to indonesia once when I was a kid, don't remember seeing any bonsai.

I thought I was steeling the idea from http://www.dugzbonsai.com/ and a few others that had modified his maple techiniques to figs online.
http://www.bonsaix.com/bonsai-trees-in- ... ng-bonsai/

I had not seem many inspiring examples, great to see these.

Gives me a better idea of what might and might not work, and confirms what I had hoped about fusing figs.

Thanks heaps for the upload Stewart.

thanks for those scans mate, very informative. One question, what are the "brads" he refers to? (hope i read it right) and are they nailing the new trees directly onto the old ones?

Brads are like little finishing nails with almost no head on them. I hadn't heard of them till I picked up a staple gun for a different project recently and it turns out it can shoot brads too. Now I see they have a higher purpose in life!

hornet

The brads are some sort of short small nail i'd say, like hobbyists or cobblers use. They dont indicate what happens to them and they do nail into the older wood so it probably gets grown over with no effect.

Cheers

stew