Ficus Benjamina - Bush to Bonsai - 3.4
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- Опубліковано 7 лют 2025
- Here is an update on my 3rd "Bush to Bonsai" project. I have been adding the # of which project it is, dot which part it is. So this one being the part 4 of my 3rd project, its numbered 3.4. Anyways, it has grown out big and healthy so I give it a mid summer prune and take a look at how the structure is doing.
Growing strong! Perhaps on future repottings, you could bury it deeper and cut a few potato roots each time, to slowly replace them with better roots with proper subdivisions without having to cut them all back at once. Also, most scars heal pretty quickly if you let it grow wild like you're doing this year, same for backbudding. It's going to look amazing sooner than you think!
That's a great idea! I actually completely forgot to mention what a hard time I had finding a pot that it would fit into. I think I'll end up making a cement pot this fall and then doing exactly like you mentioned.
I just worked on a ficus Benjamina this morning. About 2 hours from now, and I got your video . That's great work and patience . The tree is quite robust.
@@nikhileshkulkarni9786 Thank you! Just have to get through these awkward years first. Lol.
Wow this bush grows so thick so fast!
This thing is a beast!
Thans for sharing..awesome bonsai..😊😊
Thank you!
Mighty fine tree to work on😃. Good potential and growth too. The potato roots has to be dealt with sooner or later, either remove or split/carve them like Nigel Saunders do. Cheers
I like the idea of splitting them! I'm going to go binge on Nigel's page this week and see how he does it. Great idea, thanks!
Nice! One warning tho, i did this i bought a cheap microcarpa with a stem thicker than my leg cheap on marketplace, it had flies that i thought were gnats, but they were root aphids that cuold fly, litteraly impossible to get rid of so i lost a bunch of trees bacause they spread haha! So beware of that if they have gnats look on the wings becase they have different length on the wings. It was the biggest bonsai mistake i ever made!
Yikes! Good to know. I did see something similar in one of the earlier projects I did like this. I soaked in neem oil and I think that did the trick.
Ficus Benjamina bonsai nice ,thank you for sharing good luck Mr
Thank you!
I just found your cannel and I love ficus Benjamina. I have a few of my own and I've been wanting to try them as bonsai. I'm glad to see you have lots of ficus bonsai videos. Do you have any thoughts on growing ficus Benjamina in the ground during the summer and digging it to bring inside for the winter? My thought would be to help it grow a larger trunk faster.
Thank you! And yes actually, that's something I've been wanting to try but haven't been able to yet. There is one guy out there who did it, (maybe more). His channel is called "Maybe Bonsai" and he did exactly that. I'm hoping to be able to try it next year.
if you're having trouble with back budding I believe you can Knick/scar the trunk to encourage it or so I've heard.
Not a bad idea, I'll try it!
@@BonsaiBoise no problem, learned it on reddit its apparently how people encourage their ficus houseplants to branch particularly ones that are known to be difficult like the fiddle leaf fig, ficus Elastica, and ficus benghalensis.
Is a cheeky graft onto that bare trunk an option? If not, fingers crossed for back budding in the right spot!
I'm thinking more and more about it.
Hey Mike, it's Kevin. It looks like this benjamina is coming along great, such a cool clump 😎 How much sun do you typically provide your ficus in the summer, as much as possible or part shade?
Also I've been wondering how the benjamina 'Natasja' cutting I sent you is doing...did it root for you? If so I hope it"s doing well for you so far.
Mine are growing good, starting to get aerial roots a few inches high.
Hey Kevin, thanks! I usually put most my ficus in full sun. I have a few that are in partial shade because of space, but they seem to grow at or around the same rate as the others. Unfortunately that Natasja didn't survive. Bummer. The rest are doing great though! And glad to hear that yours is growing along too. And even has aerial roots?! That's awesome
@@BonsaiBoise Well, my 'natasjas' are getting little aerial roots.
The regular Benjamina and Willow leaf ficus from you are doing well. The amur maple seedling died, which is a shame since it had a cool curve.
If I can get a cutting of 'natasja' fully rooted this time, would you like to give it another try? They are better than 'too little leaf' in my opinion.
@@DeciduousSnurb Sure, I'd love that. And I found my bag of Amur Maple seeds too so I can send you back a bunch of those. They grow super easy from seed.
Sounds good. I just now clipped another piece of my Natasja and put in water. Once I see signs of rooting I'll put in soil. I will contact you when I think it's ready. @@BonsaiBoise
I think you'll get plenty of backbudding.
I'm hoping so! It's been about a year and a half now.