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2-Dec-2005
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bonsaiTALK Neophyte
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what type of fig is this?
can anyone identify the specific type of fig this is? I just recently purchased it. The wire had been left on too long before I bought It and I was wondering if those marks will dissapear over time? Oh and suggestions are welcome, I havent had time to do much to it yet its only been with me for about a week.
ok so now the pics...  and a close up of the leaves...  |
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2-Dec-2005
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It's a Salicifolia or willow leaf fig. Easy to care for and good choice for a first tree. Now about those wire marks... they appear to be pretty deep so if you keep the tree in a pot and even if the bark can ever heal itself at all it would take a very very long time, I'm thinking decades. If it were me I'd see if I could get my money back. Good Luck!
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2-Dec-2005
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I wouldn't worry about the wire scars on that young ficus,I have let them bite in harder than that before.On a 'young and fast growing' fig or fig branches for that matter your looking at wire scars forming in a month then repairing themselves in a season...assuming you remove the wire or it will just grow over it in a year or 3.
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2-Dec-2005
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 Guess I am using the wrong fertilizer. |
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2-Dec-2005
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I once missed some 3mm wire on a branch, in the crown of a Microcarpa. By the time I found it (12 months later) I had to cut it out from under the bark. Some of it is still in there.
Fertilise heavily in spring and summer, with slow release Osmocote and pelletised chicken manure. Works wonders for figs.
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2-Dec-2005
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I'll have to try that. In fact I have been recently considering chicken manure. I use Bio-Gold and switch at intervals to Dyna-Gro 7-9-5 and fish/seafood emulsions and have never seen that kind of growth on a 'trunk' that is planted "in a bonsai pot". You mentioned a branch in the crown, that's not the same as the trunk is it? Unless I am mistaken the crown is sorta like the apex, right? If that is correct doesn't a branch in the apex grow substantially faster than the trunk? If that is true would it not take much longer for a trunk to heal than a branch in the crown? Just curious questions from a newb.
Last edited by sauce : 2-Dec-2005 at 11:28 PM. |
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