tmmason10
Omono
Maybe a couple more angles? Tilt the tree around and see if the front could be changed. I think it gives it character.
Huge Ficus microcarpa
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tmmason10
Omono
By the way all your posts are making me want to work on my microcarpa this weekend.
Redwood Ryan
Masterpiece
This is the only front, I've tried other angles but this is the only useable front.
Redwood Ryan
Masterpiece
Those roots are now gone:
Redwood Ryan
Masterpiece
R.I.P. Not exactly sure what happened, but it's got some weird fungus. Oh well, I'll replace it with 7 more.
thams
Omono
That sucks. Never fun to lose a tree. At least it's not your OTHER huge microcarpa. Now that would be a shame.
Redwood Ryan
Masterpiece
It's funny how I thought this tree was "huge"
That tree is actually pushing out tons and tons of growth since I repotted it into pure pumice. The most growth I've ever seen from it.
thams
Omono
I'm going to move to a much more course mix for my next repots. How often do you have to water?
Redwood Ryan
Masterpiece
Nope, pure pumice.
The water runs straight through the stuff, but it does still hold some. I'd say I have to water every 3 days or so.
treebeard55
Chumono
As was said, never fun to lose a tree!
As for the weird fungus, hard to tell from a picture what it might be. It might be very common in your area -- but not common in southeastern Asia, so that the species has no defense against it. As I may have said on this forum before, "Exotic works both ways!"
One of our common species of scale, here in northern IN, has a sweet tooth for Ficus salicaria, and the tree, to which the scale is "exotic," resists it about as well as a Congresscritter resists a lobbyist. All the more reason to keep an extra eye on non-native trees.
(You have to allow for the possibility, too, that the fungus got hold after the tree was already moribund from some other cause. I've had that sort of scenario a time or two -- it can be pretty confusing!)
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