New Bonsai Fig & Fukien Tea

Jackyboy · Posted: Sat Jun 18, 2005 4:21 pm Post subject: New Bonsai Fig & Fukien Tea

Hi,

I bought meself 2 trees today. Smile

I finally went for a fukien tea. The other tree is a little fig I got from abroad too.

The fukien tea is giving some flowers and more is comming on the way. The temp outside is 19deg celcius. I read they will give berries but have not seen them here. I gave it a good trim and removed all the excess compost.

My new elm as well is growing nicely, I will give it a good trim afterwards since I want to take some small cutting from it.

The little fig is budding too, it has just been re-potted. Do you know how to create such figure from a tree? What is the training/technique required to make the root grow bigger than the trunk?

My guess would be to tighten the trunk and growth concentration will be on the roots? Is that right?

I want to give it a try since this type of ficus is availaible here and I got 3 of them wild growing on a wall!

Cheers

JB.

Jackyboy · Posted: Sat Jun 18, 2005 4:27 pm Post subject: Re: New Bonsai Fig & Fukien Tea

Here are the pics, uploaded them in the gallery....

http://www.bonsaihelp.co.uk/album_page.php?pic_id=93

http://www.bonsaihelp.co.uk/album_page.php?pic_id=94

Stymie · Posted: Sat Jun 18, 2005 4:36 pm Post subject: Re: New Bonsai Fig & Fukien Tea

I like the Tea tree JB. Is the fig F. retusa which grows the aerial roots?

Jackyboy · Posted: Sat Jun 18, 2005 5:52 pm Post subject: Re: New Bonsai Fig & Fukien Tea

Cheers, the leaves are small now and they look like a retusa. I reckon it's a ficus retusa. I came across 2 sites which says they are microcarpas.... The microcarpas have roundish leaves of I'm not wrong.

This site says its a retusa...

http://www.buybonsai.com/Merchant2/merchant.mv?Screen=CTGY&Store_C ode=B&Category_Code=ficusret

These 2 sites says they are microcarpas....

http://aquiya.skr.jp/zukan/Ficus_microcarpa.html

http://flowers.en.alibaba.com/product/10155863/10214706/Ornamental_Pla nts/Ginseng_Ficus__Ficus_Microcarpa_.html

It might be this ginseng style done to a retusa and a microcarpa.

The one on my wall are retusa's after a few leaves they show clearly.

It looks like a clean job they did on the tree. It comes from Hong-kong and it cost £1 there. My cousin brought that back for me. There are no subsidiary roots on the two main roots! Still wondered how they did that, the trunk is much thinner than the two roots.
Shocked

Anyone here can enlighten me about the technique they used to create such a beautiful figure?
Rolling Eyes