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A couple years ago I drove to Flagstaff for a Dr. appointment. It's a 2 hour drive from where I live so I figured I'd make an afternoon of it and stop by some thrift shops. In one of the thrift stores they had this Ficus patch growing in this god awful looking blue plastic pot with no drainage holes. They only wanted $30 for it so I decided to "rescue" the poor thing. The first thing the wife and I did was drill some drainage holes on the bottom which caused about a gallon and a half of sitting water to pour out. I don't know how long it was growing in swamp conditions but it didn't seem to mind lol. We then cleaned up the back buds at the base and tried to make it presentable. I ended up buying a Terracotta pot about the same size as the ugly blue pot the next time I was out of town and we transplanted it. It lost a lot of leaves from all the traveling, poking and prodding, and repotting. It took about a year to start shooting out new growth. The problem is it's not the prettiest Ficus specimen as all of the trunks are bunched together and have grown straight up like a broomstick without any movement. My wife has talked about giving it away to someone because it's taking up too much space in our bedroom. I remember seeing some pictures of people that wrapped a group of ficus trunks together with plastic and tightly clamped them together causing aerial root growth and grafting. I'm not sure how long that would take with this but I figured maybe I could do something like that to get a thick trunk, and then chop it. What are your expert opinions? I don't even know what species of Ficus it is, we have another Ficus tree that has larger and darker leaves that naturally moves as it grows instead of broomsticking like this one.