Lurker's fist post and advice request

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Howdy all from snowy Butte, MT. I'm a college student (again ) and have two trees: a ficus benjamina and a boxus semprivirens (sp?). The ficus was given to me last fall and the boxwood I picked up in a 2 gal nursery container at Lowe’s last spring. Both trees have traveled over 1000 miles in the middle of the winter while transferring colleges. They both have done well; however, the boxwood is breaking dormancy now that it has to stay inside in the dorms. Today they just got repotted (realize the pot for the ficus is small) and rewired, etc. My question involves the fig: The person who cut it chopped the top and there is this nasty unclosed horizontal scar on it with three branches radially growing. From reading a lot over the winter, I realize this will eventually cause a bulge right at the top of the tree. I'm looking for some guidance on what to do with this sucker b/c I really think it is ugly. My thought would be to truck chop it at the first bend and see where it grows or maybe try a thread-graft through the lower bends to get branches on those curves...but what do I know, right? I've been learning from it, so I guess that is all that matters I don't want to whittle on it 'till it has recovered from the repotting. I've attached some pics. I wish I had one for the boxwood before the two reductions it has gone through!! That thing is a trooper.

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	ficus jan 2008 scar 2.jpg (57.2 KB, 37 views)
	ficus jan 2008 2.jpg (61.7 KB, 36 views)
	box jan 2008 front 2.jpg (71.2 KB, 29 views)
	box jan 2008 back 2.jpg (67.1 KB, 16 views)
	ficus 2008 top 2.jpg (56.3 KB, 24 views)

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eeiko321

i thinhk hes just introducing himself........

letting everyone know that hes just started and maybe dono where to post yet

welcome dude......

lehket

Errrm, well, he said, "My question involves the fig..." and thereafter gave some details of his problem, so I'd guess that's what he wanted advice on.

Actually I'd be interested in the answers he gets, too, because I've been given charge of a mallsai ficus that was given to my daughter and her husband as a wedding present last October, and it also had a big, ugly horizontal chop with a couple of branches growing out just below it (almost looks like they were grafted on to the trunk, although I'm not sure). I've been staring at the thing for months and still don't quite know what to do with it.

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