Ickyguy's Tigerbark #1

[IckyGuyBonsai]

Here's a Tigerbark Ficus that I've been messing around with for awhile now. Part of my first batch of tropicals back when I started, and it's finally starting to kinda come together

I threw on some wire to set some of the secondary and tertiary branching. Also got rid of an ugly big root from the front and I'll be getting after a proper repot and rootwork next summer. Still not sure about the lowest left branch, but I'm leaving it on for now just in case I decide to use it and it'll thicken things up in the meantime regardless.

Some other angles




Next steps: I gotta clean up a couple old chop sites that weren't cut flush. But that'll probably happen next summer when it's outside and pushing hard again. Besides that, it'll be mostly clip and grow from here.

Cheers, enjoy.

 

[czaczaja]

Really nice. Love that accent branch low down

 

[IckyGuyBonsai]

This one got a light rept and root prune this summer, trimmed back the apex to this go around, as well as cleaned up a old problem cut site that wasn't healing as flush as I'd like. Pretty soon it'll get another wiring to pull everything back down again. I should've left the wire to cut in a bit more last time around.