Ficus Burtt Davyi Bonsai Care

So this year i put up 3 four foot t8 dual light fixtures and put in cool white and sunshine bulbs.
Ficus burtt davyi bonsai care. It has just not been vigorous and i have had to consider discarding it or perhaps re styling it. It is an excellent tree for beginners and pros alike. The lights are on about 12 hours a day the light is about 4 to 6 from the bulb. Ficus burtt davyi can be a difficult bonsai subject.
In the southern and eastern cape forests the species becomes a strangler or liane while when found on rocky outcrops. Sometimes it just won t grow properly. Specific bonsai care guidelines for the ficus bonsai position. It grows in coastal and inland forests up to 1500m from the vicinity of mossel bay in the southern cape to southern mozambique the forms growing on coastal dunes in the northern part of its range are salt tolerant and form low thickets on the margins of woodland.
The banyan style roots are commonly trained in a root over rock style. Every year the plant seems to not do as well during the winter monts. Ficus is one of the most popular trees for indoor bonsai. Is a fig species endemic to southern africa belonging to the mulberry family of moraceae.
It can be grown over rocks as an unusual feature in a rock garden will adapt to a container and is commonly grown as a successful bonsai. Plant ficus burtt davyi in full sun or light to partial shade in well drained soil well away from permanent structures paving and pools. This tree has been a problem for me over many years. The ficus bonsai tree is an indoor bonsai which cannot endure frost.
The ficus is about 13 tall and is in a 8 pot.