Wuggums-En banyan project

Frogboy

Oh, it definitely works with trees other than Ficus. Theoretically, it should work with any tree, although that isn't always true in practice. As far as maple seedlings go, it definitely works there. Just ask Doug - www.dugzbonsai.com - He has been doing exactly this for quite some time, albeit on a much larger scale, and it seems to work like a charm.

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pootsie

Personally, I've only tried with ficus.

Orn, all I can say is it takes as long as it takes. My earlier approach has taken way to long for many reasons, but the rate of growth, the size of the seedlings, lots of things can probably affect it. So, keep the tape on until it's time to remove it

pootsie

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titusblm

Making aerial roots on a ficus is as easy as 1.2.3. Here's how you do It.
1. Put your ficus in part shade.
2. Make a plasic tent over your ficus.
3. Keep it warm and wet.

This will work on all ficus's though some are harder to get going. Also this will only work on a Mature tree.

pootsie

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grampz

Are they in the center or on the outer layer of cuttings?...If in the interior, I have just cut the tops using a knob cutter, and sealed with cut paste...When active growth resumes, you can injure adjoining bark in the area to encourage callousing over the dead wood...If on the outer layer, it is best to remove in my opinion...This would be dependent somewhat on the method you have used to bind the "hampflingle mess" together...

Regards, and best of luck with your decision...
Behr

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pootsie

Update:

I went and removed the dead cuttings, which it turned out there were a lot of. A couple were quite mushy and black, a very bad thing to have in the middle of tthe tree (or what would have been the tree if it survived).

Lesson learned: don't use any but the strongest, well-rooted cuttings for a project like this.

I ended up taking the whole hampflingle mess apart as referenced above. I now have two, very small fusion projects as a result.

But heck, how can you learn from your mistakes until you've made a few?

pootsie

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BonsaiGreenhorn

Good try though, you're right, mistakes are what made so many things possible, learning from them.

-Evan

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Joanie

It looks like an Ent that just came out of surgery....!

Yes, someone please do answer about whether you should peel away some bark or something before binding. Would it help with fusing sooner, or will the trees do that anyway? Would it help to put some spagnum moss in areas so that perhaps roots would also grow, perhaps up the trunks somewhat?

Joanie

pootsie

Joanie:

I've learned that they will just fuse on their own (at least Ficus "too little) without scraping the bark:

http://forum.bonsaitalk.com/showthr...ight=wuggums-en

Even with this one, some fusion was starting to occur. There were some spots where two had grown together so that there was no bark between them, although they hadn't grown far enough for any strength to hold them together.

pootsie

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