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Join Date: Jan-2006
Country: Western Australia
Posts: 858
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Originally Posted by rmiller042577
One inch or less is just not going to happen unless you start with a species that has smaller sized leaves. It does not matter how much light you give a plant that has 6-7 inch leaves naturally. It's not going to change that even with pinching ect... This is not a crap answer there are hundreds of types of ficus and weeijk is generalizing. Only about 20 species of them are "good" for Bonsai... Anyone will tell you large leaf species are not good for Bonsai.
religiosa from what I have seen though does not have 6-7 inch leaves and you could posibly do such with it....
As for crap.. it is crap to call anyone elses post crap.
weeijk I am sorry it is your opinion not a fact that any ficus can be reduced to one inch. only those species predisposed to such area able.
RM
Mortalis aequo.
In death all are equal.
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I strongly disagree. In Australia, Ficus macrophylla is used quite a lot leaves do reduce to less than 1inch (25mms) from leaves that normally grow to 10 inches (250 mms ). Ficus rubiginosa which is smaller than macrophylla, the leaves are normally between 4-6inches ( 100mms-150mms )the leaves on the port jackson as the rubiginosa is called can be reduced to 1/4inch ( 5mms) or less with persistance. The picture is rubiginosa aftre defoliation one moth ago. Pup crap is what dogs do
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