ficus benjamina

I am brand new to bonsai - I have had this ficus for about a month. It has been doing so well! Happy and healthy as far as I could tell. It's winter in my region - house at 68. I water an average of once per week, wetting the soil surface, allowing the water to penetrate, and then wetting...

I just got back from the Phipps conservatory in Pittsburgh with some friends. Went to see the tropical bonsai show ( was amazing by the way would definitely recommend if your in the area) I saw that they had some small pre-bonsai in the gift shop. Decided to pull the trigger on this Benjamina...

I ordered this little Ficus Benjamina 5 or 6 months ago. It was about 10inches tall with a small double trunk structure. I’m a beginner and so far Ficus have been alot of fun to work with. They’re so flexible you can really get some cool shapes. Im pretty happy with how this one is progressing...

May 30, 2024 I attempted to salvage my upper canopy on my ficus benjamina by grafting the branch lower on the trunk where I needed more branches. It is July 10th now and it seems that the branch has taken and is pushing full leaves. I thought this might have been a bit too large of a branch to...

Hia! I wanted to post some of my first baby-projects and look for some advice. Recently I've separated two twigs from my store-bought clump, and did some basic trunk wire (any criticism on the wires appreciated, first time doing a full trunk! I'm proud of the blue one). The goal is to give them...

I recently wired this young F. Benjamina and I’m quite proud of it! However, at the moment the leaves are disproportionately large and the trunk quite thin. What would be the best course of action to correct this?

I picked up two Ficus Benjamina a while back, with the intention of using them in a different project but realized that they would make great bonsai. Any ideas for styling? I’m thinking a formal upright/broom with the smaller one but don’t really have a plan for the larger one. I put some wire...

Inherited my dads ROR ficus approx. 11 y.o. with the tree left to grow freely. Fear of killing the tree its been Semi-neglected the last 4 years, it's been great practice learning trees habits, and basic bonsai techniques(Thank you bonsainut community!) The lack of balance and unruly growth is...

I’ve had this cool “growhouse” lighted herb garden for a while…but I killed all the herbs I was growing. I’ve decided to repurpose it for growing cuttings from my Ficus benajmina, which is my only tropical tree. The cuttings are in perlite and chopped sphagnum, and I plan to mist a few times a...

Hi Currently, I'm developing my bonsai Benjamina. its almost 10 years now progress is still 50 %, I'm planning to put this giant tree to the ground so it can stimulate the branches to grow fast

Inherited a Ficus Benjamina last year. It was overgrown and badly in need of a prune so I decided to air layer and chop. Recovery went great and the tree seems to be healthy and vigorous. My intentions were to attempt to bonsai this beast. However, I am having a tough time trying to figure...

Hey everyone! Hopefully this is an appropriate thread to post my questions in. So I have two common beginner trees, Ficus Benjamina (Midnight, from what the person I bought it from told me) and a Chinese Elm. I am curious on people's thought of the current soil in each of them and on pruning...

Got this from Home Depot a few years ago. It was originally a planting of several seedlings that were bound together. I dismantled the original group planting and put the seedlings in separate containers to grow them out. This was one of those individually grown seedlings. Here are pictures of...

Starting this thread to document the development of my ficus Benjamin collection. All the trees in this thread have been propagated from an a pot of ficus Benjamina natsja sold at Wilko as indoor foliage plant for 5£. Unfortunately I am very bad at recording my trees development and I do not...

What should I do with this Ficus? Its around 12 feet tall.

Hello, I am looking for ideas to restyle a 20 yrs old ficus benjamina. The history is as follows - got the plant from a nursery as a pot with 4 straight stems 20 years ago - I fused the 4 trunks over the first few years - It almost almost completely dried 12 years ago, I cut all the deadwood...

Home Depot ficus consisting of multiple saplings tied together that I untied, repotted, wired, and grew separately. I just recently repotted and put some of them back together. My intention is to get these to fuse together into one funky pretzel of a tree.

This was originally a Home Depot plant consisting of several saplings tied together. I separated them and repotted when I got it home and have been growing separately. Have done some pruning and wiring before but neglected to take pictures. Recently repotted some of those trees and brought them...

Any idea what could be wrong with our bonsai? She gets watered once a week and has direct sunlight. We’ve had her 4 years and have never had this problem! We recently moved from AL to CO but she’s never outside and we’ve changed nothing. Thank you in advance!

Just a progress thread. This lady started out as a “houseplant” which consisted of several cuttings. This one was towards the center and was almost entirely shaded out. I don’t plan to chop her at any point - this is a 40 year project. And today:

Hello Everyone, I have been dabbling with root over rock noob experiments (over 20). I say experiments because I wont find out if I succeeded till next year :). I have been watching some amazing threads on this forum and I have tried to watch every video there is about root over rock and exposed...