Ficus Fusion Bonsai

There are hundreds of varieties of the ficus but the most popular one for bonsai is the ficus retusa which is often shaped in an s curved trunk and has oval dark green leaves.

Ficus fusion bonsai. The fused roots will now become a fused trunk. Ficus benjamina fusion project update the bonsai zone april 2018 duration. By this technique we can produce very good mature looking bonsai in less. As they grow and swell the pressure of being firmly secured together forces the two pieces to fuse into one.

Here i show an update on my 2 5 yrs old ficus mini bonsai. Approach grafts are most commonly used to add a branch to a tree by simply securing the two together. Bonsai by lan 23 930 views. Nigel saunders the bonsai zone 56 775 views.

My experiment is inspired by doug philips who has been doing this with maple trees for over a decade. They were cut off and planted as a root cutting. In this video i have shown i have described how to make a ficus by fusing branches and fusing a few ficus plants together. Ficus bonsai trunk fusing experiment.

Weeping fig ficus benjamina indoor fusion bonsai maintenance prune august 2017 duration. How to create a fused bonsai trunk. The ficus ginseng is another popular tree. This is an experiment that i began on 4 15 06 where my goal is to create a ficus bonsai tree that will appear to be very old with an impressive tapered trunk in a few short years.

After fusion is complete the donor is removed below the graft.