#tiger bark ficus

[opashoo]

In better news, my baby's doing great

[htxbonsai]

Alright, well I decided to go ahead and try to help the aerial roots make it back to the soil. I also chopped off the branch that was growing upwards. Realized it was unnecessary and I like where this is going now.

[htxbonsai]

One day difference on my trident maple.

Root work on the wysteria and repotted into cedar grow box for at least this year.

Also a picture of my first ficus. I am currently trying to train it into an exposed root tree.

The Hawthorne I ended up leaving alone. The buds have already started to open and I was worried that it would be too late to do major work so I guess it will stay in the pot it’s in until I can slip pot it into something a little bigger.

[growingstoriesandgardens]

So...my tropical trees (some Tiger Bark Ficus, Pomagranate and Brush Cherry. Yea, not much at all) all seem to be growing REALLY strongly.

I don't think it is the very mild winter we are having either. Been getting a lot of sun in that window, which isn't uncomon this time of year. It's about this time of year that generally the sun decides to show more of it's face here, espeaislly in our south faceing windows. Meaning, the exact place these plants are. Guess it makes sense they are beginning to wake up.

I am just REAL worried the space I have isn't gonna cut it, and will end up having to do another round of pruneing I wasn't intending to do in order to keep airflow and space at a reasonable leval.

Not complaining to much though. Much worse problems then trees that are growing strongly.

[growingstoriesandgardens]

So as my Christmas gift to myself I got a little Tiger Bark Ficus and was inspired by seeing a few other TBF's in the bonsai tag on here! With winter as long as they are here I like some indoor bonsai. I've failed with several other species so trying again :).

It had a bit of a difficult recovery but as you see it's beginning to grow beautifully!

[htxbonsai]

First ever trim on this guy. This is a cutting from my original ficus bonsai. I'm attempting a formal upright style after doing a bit of reading of that John Naka book. Yes, I know this tree has little to no taper right now. Yes, I know it looks like shit. I pruned back hard to try and get the ramification going. Hope I didn't screw up too much. I got 23 cuttings into the dirt off this guy too so hopefully they'll all take and I can fuse them together. I have another ficus cutting from the original tree that's a little bit smaller than this, I moved it into a large patio pot today. I'm going to try my damndest to just LEAVE THE TREE ALONE for a few years and let it get massive.

[htxbonsai]

Early June to July 12. I had taken this as a cutting from my original ficus and put it in this cascade pot that had housed my now dead juniper. It's really taken off. Glad to see, because some of my more recent cuttings didn't make it. (My own fault...Going to invest in one of those domes for the next round of cuttings) As of right now I have four strong plants from the original ficus and a few cuttings that MIGHT make it (not crossing my fingers).

[htxbonsai]

Tiger bark ficus cuttings in water. First time I've tried anything like this with the ficus. My avocados sent roots out but never did anything else. Ficus can supposedly be rooted like this really easily. A guy on Facebook showed me some of his and they were going crazy and all he did was put them in water bottles like this. My cuttings may be too small, the donor tree isn't big enough to afford losing some nice 1/2" branches. We'll see...