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Fri, Jul 30, 10 at 22:49
| In July 2007 I bought a willow leaf ficus and pruned it's branches for cuttings. 6 cuttings took and where tied to the main trunk of the original tree and shaped in 2008. This year it took off and is growing like I have never seen any ficus grow.
My question is: Should I let it keep grow to make all the trunks grow into one trunk or start pruning and shaping??? Or what??? It was about 10 inches high x 6 inches wide in the spring and is now 16 x 16 in a 3 month period with many branches forming. Paul |
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| Have you wrapped the trunks so they can fuse, or are you just thinking it will happen automatically? |
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| Yes the trunks are wrapped (tied). I just looked at them again and there are more uprights growing from the nebari and some long low branches. I may have to re-wrap them and incorporate some of the new growth into rest of the trunks. I'll wait about a week and take a closer look. Will the trunks meld sooner if I keep it growing with out trimming. |
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