AusBonsai

Hi everyone

I have had this PJ for about 3 years and I'm not happy with the way it is looking. It is 2 dimensional and looks sad
Can everyone please help me with ideas and I will do what is recommended and post pictures of the progress here for everyone to see.
Thank you!
BB

Bonsai Boy unless you want a very small such as a Shohin. It needs to be in a larger grow box something like a veggie of styrene.
Then feed feed it will then grow and give you more to select from. Also it will give you a chance to work on the roots. To spread them out so you have a better root spread. Not the twisted ones usually associated with Figs
By the look of the foliage it is under a lot of heavy shade. It needs In my opinion more sun than it is getting at the moment.
Wire is the best way to hold those branches in position. I hope this helps in some way. Could you please, try to get a plain back ground, when you take pics as all those bricks are so distracting. Pup

If you want thicker trunk, do as pup suggested as well as get a few more from your supplier. Try to match bark and fuse them together.

Both of the previous replies are well stated, the question is as Pup said - What size bonsai are you wanting BB? If it is a Mame then I feel that the trunk is almost there and with a bit more work on secondary and tirtiary branch structure, you could have a very respectable small bonsai in a relatively short time.

This is the way that I would head - if you want a bigger bonsai, start with better stock as the time required to gain girth and size is not what having bonsai is all about in my opinion.

Jon

You are getting good advise there BB. They only thing i would add (provided you are after a bigger tree) is, dont worry about the branches or anything else just yet. As Pup said....Plenty of sun, water and feed feed feed! You will end up cutting back to a bare trunk in a few years, 2 maybe 3.
Peter

Hi BB
Looks like a bigger version of mine.

I puchased this one a year or so ago, and have trimmed it back. Now I am starting to Develop the canopy.

It is about 6" tall

Thanks very much for your thughts and advice. I will make a Shohin from it tonight. May even put it into a bonsai pot at the same time cause its getting warmer here in Brissy.
I'll post a piccy here tomorrow.

BB

Hi BonsaiBoy,

I think I am too late but the cutting can root. And if you have times and patience, QLD is a good place to collect Australian
ficus seeds. There is even a big ficus tree close to the city I think in Adelaide St?

Regards,

Viet.

im not sure, but i think there's one on the corner of eagle and elizabeth in brizzy.
i was working close by, i think i have a photo...

yea, and i know im in the wrong thread, but if you want to increase aerial roots on a fig...
plant it in the streets of brizzy...
definitely a memorable tree

Hi everyone, I did a little work last night
Thanks to everyone who offered suggestions. What do you think about what I have done?

I'll keep posting as it recovers.

BB

use those cuttings to fuse with if you want a fatter trunk.

G, day BB I like what you have done so, far the top needs attention though.
Wire it up the cuttings you have taken do not need all those leaves. Pup

Hi BB, I agree with Pup, the top needs to be wired up into a more formal trunk line (unless of course you are thinking along the lines of an Informal upright).

In order to do this, you should make a concave cut at the top somewhat like this picture - Figs heal well
Jon

This tree should be showing a fair bit of new growth now?

Is it appropriate to ask whether you could post progression phoyos again, BB?

I would have repotted into a flatter pot, cut just above the third branch and wired the two side branches horizontal after defoliating. And fed it. By this time it would have had a heap of new branchlets....