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10-May-2008
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Ficus Retusa - for the tropical lovers
This ficus has been transformed over the last 2-3 seasons from long and leggy to short and stout. I cut it back hard again 6-8 weeks ago and it is back budding and filling in nicely. The pot is 23" and the nebari fills it. It now needs a bigger pot.
Anyway, the plan is, after taking it down and making it more compact, to rewire it and focus on developing the branching. That is, if I still have it. I presently have it offered for sale since it is one of the few tropicals I own, and I really don't want to own any.... 
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10-May-2008
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Join Date: Mar-2006
Location: Castroville,Texas
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WOW!!!!
That is a fatty! Irene
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10-May-2008
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Wow, that's a remarkable retusa!
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10-May-2008
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dyedb
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Here it is, long and leggy, in 2005.
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10-May-2008
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How old is it, and how long in training?
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I don't know the age. 45-50 minimum, I would think. I've had it since 2005. I got it from a friend who had it awhile before that. I believe it is from Taiwan; maybe China; really cannot recall which. It was from a rooftop nursery.
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bend me twist me
 
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great job greg wish i could get my hands on that.
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10-May-2008
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Love the nebari. Allmost looks like it's made of playdough and was dropped from a great height,
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Amen! A man in his right mind knows the truth about (those useless) tropicals...    
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Bonsai Master, in my mind
Join Date: Feb-2005
Location: Back Home in Northern California
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Ooohhh Greg...
Here comes another opinion... You messed it up with all that trimming... That very powerful nebari and trunk could easily handle the foliage mass you showed us in the first photo. "...long and leggy..."? Definition of "leggy", from Webster's, is, in part "...having long, spindly stems with leaves FAR apart...". Not what I saw in the first photo. OPINION...I say again... Without seeing this bonsai up close and personable...if this bonsai were mine...I would have trimmed...no, thinned...the foliage mass, and and reshapped the foliage to make look more like a tree...less like a bon bon. But, then, I'm not much of a mugo bonsai fancier. Well, it is your bonsai... Like I said...opinion. Or was it OPINION? Pat
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