A silly grafting idea
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AshleyMammal
Mame
How, what, why?
ananta
Seedling
The Why is a good question. Curiosity I guess. The How is something i’m hoping to find out.
Shibui
Imperial Masterpiece
Grafting can certainly be done but I can't see why anyone would want to spoil what looks like a quite nice ficus (apart from needing some trimming)
Cajunrider
Imperial Masterpiece
This is how Frankenstein got started.
Shun
Mame
IIRC Nigel Saunders from Youtube has a Grafted ficus with the same idea. He took a small ficus and put on top of a larger base..
Worth to check out on it to satisfy your curiosity
Empty Mountain
Yamadori
Nigel planted a rooted ficus cutting on top of a tree where the apex died. Not exactly a graft per se but an example of what's possible with ficus.
This is completely irrelevant, but I'm seeing both "fici" and "ficus" as the actual Latin plural forms of "ficus." What's interesting is that almost all Latin words belong to one declension or conjugation, but "ficus" has entries in both 2nd and 4th declensions. Some of the forms are forced 2nd, but either is a valid nominative plural form.
Anyway, I would get an uglier ficus to graft onto.
Anyway, I would get an uglier ficus to graft onto.
ananta
Seedling
Yeah, i’ll probably try it someday with some uglier specimens.
ananta
Seedling
I’ll check it out, thanks!
