My $10 Ficus, any suggestions on styling?

pnKroK

I was just wondering if anyone could help me out with styling my ficus?

I was walking thru the local grocery store and they had this ficus on top of a Coke display. It caught my eye IMMEDIATLY and I couldn't resist.

Please let me know if my pictures are no good and they don't help.

Otherwise, i'd love to get some suggestions on what I could do with this.

Thanks

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breefe

pictures are a little large, I will keep a spot in the back of my head for ya...

TreeBay

pnKrok

Please spend a few minutes to learn how to reformat images for the web and use the attachment system.

There are tools like GIMP that are free, or Paint Shop Pro, which you can download a 30 day evaluation for free at http://www.jasc.com that will let you do this quite easily.

Aside from the fact that huge inline images mess up the formatting, they take a very long time for some people to download.

Regards,

Matt

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pdbbonsai

Hi,
I was wondering if this was a "Wiandii" or "Rianne" cultivar? I couldnt quite read the tag in the pot, but it looks like a Wiandii. If so, be very very careful when trying to bend or move branches. They will snap ever so easily. The break will look like a carrot that has been snapped. I have a Rianne, that is similar. And have found that it is best done in clip in grow....thinner young shoots can be trained with wire tho, but carefully.

That being said. Perhaps some questions to you regards styles. What do you see? What are you seeing as the main trunkline, the front, future height etc? For me, I liked picture number 5 in your series as the front. An informal upright perhaps, trimming down the foliage to the first set or two of leaves. This will allow you to see some branch structure, what to remove etc. PS dont forget to plant any cuttings you may get off this, they root very easily.

Nice tree with great potential.

Paul

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