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23-Oct-2001
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Join Date: Sep-2001
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Ficus Benjamina for critique
this a before shot of a six yr old ficus benjamina verigata.
[img:c2acf722fa]http://albums.photopoint.com/j/View?u=1273504&a=13603583&p=52665194 [/img:c2acf722fa] a few weeks ago i cut a quarter off the heigth,defoliated,and wired it.also did some root work. i need advice please. thanks [img:c2acf722fa]http://albums.photopoint.com/j/View?u=1273504&a=13603583&p=55570821 [/img:c2acf722fa]
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23-Oct-2001
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Re: whaddya think?
If you would like to separate the trunks more, you can use sections of chopstick or cork and put them right between the trunks like splints
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24-Oct-2001
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Re: whaddya think?
i think i ruined it.
it looked one hell of a lot better as a houseplant 
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25-Oct-2001
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Re: Ficus Benjamina for critique
Denny: Bonsai is like a bad hair cut it will grow out. In one year you will be looking at it and wanting to cut it again. If you dont beleave this look at the befor and after pictures of the black pine that I worked on two days ago.
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28-Oct-2001
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Re: Ficus Benjamina for critique
Denny,
you are on the right track. This virtual shows how your tree could look like in one or two years. best regards Walter Pall Walter.Pall@t-online.de http://home.t-online.de/home/Walter.Pall 
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28-Oct-2001
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Re: Ficus Benjamina for critique
I think its a good specimin, give it a while to re-foliate and it will be a good ficus/ Leave it ints planter for a while and I think I heard somewhere that banyan roots will start and make it look more natural.
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30-Oct-2001
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Re: Ficus Benjamina for critique
oh wow!
thanks for the virt walter.and the encouragement mr.k. nice pot.
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31-Oct-2001
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Re: Ficus Benjamina for critique
I agree with these guys. Give the tree a chance to recooperate. I think you'll be very happy with it. I have the same feeling after working on my trees, but if I let them sit for a while without doing anything else to them, they seem to grow out of anything I do.
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2-Nov-2001
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Re: Ficus Benjamina for critique
Denny,
Thanks for being courageous and putting up your benji. I have found that they tend to grow like mad on top (apical dominant)while shedding lower leaves and branches. The only way to keep a benjamina for any length of time is to ruthlessly cut the top to keep the lower branches healthy. A few years back I got very cheaply some multi trunked bennys like you have here. I cut them back to 6 inches and bound their trunks together with raffia. Now the trunks have fused and small round canopies have formed. A much more pleasing bonsai. But you gotta be brave!!!
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2-Nov-2001
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Re: Ficus Benjamina for critique
I myself have done like bonsainut. I had an older tree that was like 5 or 6 trunks put together with raffia and they fused, had a nice 3 inch trunk on it i think. Unfortunaly it died due to lack of water for a long month. I now have another growing, I htink it has about 12 trees in it, but each trunk is significatnly smaller of each indiviual (old ones were about half inch each, these are at most a 1/4 inch. now my trunk is about 2 inches, still letting it fues, and gregrow, but doing nicely, one day I will post it.
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