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Hey

I sadly do not have any photo of that, so I'm gonna describe as much as I can.

I've been groving my ficus benjamina for over 12 years now. I started as a little kid, and didn't care for the tree properly, I'd water it once a week, or even less, and when I did, I'm sure I overwatered it quite a bit. To be honest I'm amazed the tree survived. But few years back I got back to the hobby and now I have over a dozen of trees that are doing great. When repoting this ficus this spring though, I noticed it had very strange roots. Just below the ground level it has a few (2-3) feeding roots, really thin, tiny I'd say, but pretty long. Aside from that, just below those little roots the trunk transitions to this huge bulb. It's maybe 3-5 times thicker than the trunk, and occupies most of the reather large pot. At the very end of this bulb (that is in volume probably comparable to the tree), there are few more roots, I'd say twice as much as the tiny ones above the bulb.

That's it for description of the problem, now to the help I need:

Do you guys think I can cut that bulb off completely? On top of loosing this bulb, the tree would also loose about 2/3 of it's roots.

Also I've been watching a lot of youtube tring to learn as much as possible to care better for my trees. One of the advices I found is that if your tree has roots problems, you should plant it in the sphagnum moss, and it would speed up the proces of growing roots. Is this something you guys recommend as well? I'm scared my ficus would rot away in a pot full of moss. Any advice regarding that? How often should I water the tree growing in moss?

Lastly: Do you guys think that the bulb is a result of bad watering habbit all those years ago? Is there a way to prevent this bulb regrowing in the comming years?

Thanks in advance for any help!

Cheers,
Bob

Heb bob, welcome to the forum.
If you could share some pictures that would help us, help you.

BobTree wrote: Do you guys think I can cut that bulb off completely? On top of loosing this bulb, the tree would also loose about 2/3 of it's roots.

Hi Bob, welcome to the forum.
One of the possibilities, less risky than simply chopping off ? of the root system, is doing a ground layer.
After a new feeder rooting system is built, then you could chop off the old roots.
Search for ground layering, it could help solve your problem.

Hi! Did it look like this? I don’t know what it is either, is it ok to remove or replant?

Also are these dark lines on the trunk anything to worry about? It is solid, not squishy.

Thanks!