Amazed by my ficus.

Therion9116

The first tree I purchased when I started bonsai a few years ago was a little Ficus Benjamina. I bought it from my local nursersy (which is now, sadly, out of business), and over the last two or three years it has been doing wonderfully. Recently, I went out of town for a week, and left it (and my other trees) in the kind hands of my mother..... She sadly overwatered all of my trees, watering them when she watered the rest of her plants.

I managed to revive my trees, but then my cat decided that he should help me prune my ficus.... He snapped the trunk (the Ficus was 8" from pot to tip, and is now 4"). Basically I was forced to do a trunk chop, after I had just had to do an emergency re-potting. Today, only 4 days after the forced trunk chop, there are buds showing, and shoots seem to be sprouting.

Moral of the story: Be nice to your trees, take great care of them, and they just may be able to survive being drowned and half-eaten by a housecat. Truly amazing!

~Brian

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