"Trashdori"

[Fidur]

So, this thing is finally in my garden.

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Now I'm gonna begin my works on it. First I'll make a cut on those roots at 20 cm below the soil line. After some prunning and train on those roots, I'll place it in a wood box mostly filled with lava rock. Also I'll try to fuse all those trunks aplying a wide belt or something like that.

I'm a bit concerned about the last month growth. New leaves are smaller and weird colored:



I have to think that this has been unpoted for 10 months, and it's winter, but even so, I think something wrong is going on.
My plan is todilute some iron chelatos in water and apply.
Thoughts on what is happening to this ficus?

 

[Colorado]

I think it’s just stress from not being in a proper container for almost a year….

 

[Fidur]

Poted.
It was a miserable process to pot this one. I have had to cut a lot of thick roots with an axe and the resulting tree was still about 40kg, wich made to handle it a bit of a hell. Also I wrongly choosed a very heavy pot (about 30kg).
I have used mainly lava (about 20kg) and some of the original soil, and couldn´t bare root. I left the original soil in about 80% of the ballroot.
I'm not confident to have made a good job, and that it was worth a try. But now this is oficially my biggest tree, and will left it alone till I can see if it was a succesful repoting.....




I will leave it in the spot it is now. I can´t move it anyway....

 

[Crazy Diamond]

 

[Fidur]

Yes, in fact today I saw some of those roots (and the round one was the first ) . Also some of the trunks are partially dry under the bark, so I will chop and carve those trunks. I will use a belt to try to fuse the resulting trunks. Lots of work ahead (if it is still alive in some months...)