Ficus Benjamina Cold Fusion, Where's My Nobel?

Tips, Tricks

8754View count

16m 9sLength in seconds

Our intrepid hero, Adam, acquires a big ficus benjamina (yeah, one of those trash trees) and tries all the tricks he knows to make it a bit more palatable. Bad jokes and terribly acted skits ensue.

Comments

GREAT VIDEO AS USUAL,
CAN I ASK WHAT THE GOOPY LOOKING STUFF IN THE LAST CLOSE UP OF THE TREE IS?
LOOKS LIKE NEOSPORIN LMAO..... AND DO YOU PUT IT ON AFTER THE FUSION ? AND DID YOU USE ANY BEFOR YOU PUT THEM TOGETHER?

alcohol and dish soap work well for lots of bugs. just mix together and spray on. let sit about 20 mins. rinse off.

Nice job, very practical!

im learning a lot from you tnx for the videos hope you'd share more

For those concerned about how 'natural' grafting is, trees of many species that are growing very close together will fuse.Interesting about the history of horticultural techniques, but ground-layering would have had to predate air -layering. Many species do this without human assistance, and our ancestors were a much more observant bunch than we are.

The graft is really cool, but that tree looked pretty good to start with. A little more of a temperate tree look than a tropical, but a nice look. Broadleaf trees also get scars and holes... Though traditionally not the young Japanese maples that represented women to the Japanese (as the Japanese black pine stood for the samurai, if I remember correctly). That's cool, but ficus isn't a Japanese species, eh?Love your videos. Hope you do more on different species. Thanks!

dope

You mentioned that sometimes planted get grafted for new smaller innernodes and leaves. Is the grafted benjamina the same as the base plant?

Hi Adam, you got lots beautiful trees there i congrats you! My question is about air pruning, recently i found out about that and i'm experimenting with one of my small trees, but too early to get into any conclusions so did you try it earlier and if yes how it went? Does it speeds up the growth?

Do you place these growing boxes in the ground or leave them as they are?

Great video. I'm excited to see what happens to the tree in the future. so jealous of your growing season.....ours is finished, done, bye bye till next May, April if we are lucky.

I love your videos. the video shows the size of your nursery that can't be seen from the blog. what type of soil are you using? it looks different from the soil you use for finished bonsai.