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| Hello everyone,
Thought I would also post about a mallsai I picked up from Lowes about 2 months ago. It was all ready to go for Christmas and had a bow and everything!
But then, I saved it:
I've been debating this trees future for quite a bit and thought this was probably the best way to go:
Thoughts? |
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- Posted by ryan_tree 7aVA (thebonsaiguy1993@yahoo.com) on Sun, Feb 13, 11 at 15:42
| I'm not really in Zone 10, more like 7a VA. Not sure why that happened.... |
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| hard to give any actual shaping advice seeing as the ficus hasn't really developed any real branch structure yet. Could make a nice informal upright in a few years. I would just start a heavy fertilizing schedule starting in spring to give a bulk of growth and go from there. The Nebari looks to be very poor from the appearance of the first image. I would consider doing a tourniquet layering (maybe where the white string is wrapped around the trunk near the base of the tree??) to give it a better even root spread, which will be important for the tree to evenly and adequately absorb water and nutrients (as well as for aesthetic reasons). |
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