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Hello! I am an almost total newbie. I've had this ginseng ficus for about a year, just finished the first growing season. Lost most of the leaves due to insufficient light after I brought it inside. It sits under a light now and is doing much better.

The question I have is about branches, specifically new ones. The nodes you see at the bottom of the trunk with the tiny twigs (I did not cut those, it came that way) will new branches grow from there eventually? Should I cut the remaining wood back to the trunk? How can I encourage more branching from the trunk? Also, branches that lost their end shoots, will they grow new ones or are they stuck.

It grows fine from the existing branches. I'm just wondering about those tiny stumps that are visually unappealing and with how bare it is (even though it's a very young plant) I would like to encourage it to grow fuller. Tha ks in advance and I'm really looking forward to being a part of the community.

Nothing will grow from that twigs. Just cut it away.

At this point in time the best you can do is.. Nothing.

Let it recover. There are very few leaves. Mid-winter is a dificult time of the year for tropicals -assuming you are in temperature nothern hemisphere-. So getting ti to spring is your priority.

If you now start cutting things off you run the risk of cutting into living tissue, at a time that the tree is weak, and therefor less able to respond.

In spring, move it outside (Making sure you do a slow transition ensuring you do not move from the dark house into full sun in one go) and get it to grow strong. Once you have succulent glossy branch extensions you can look at bringing foliage back in. By that time you clip the growing tips and if you want to go bold, all leaves off the plant. The tree will respond with a flurry of new branches all along the living tree.

Thank you for the advice. I wasn't planning on doing anything at the moment. What do you mean by glossy branch extensions? I've read that when clipping leaves, I should leave the stems, is that correct?

A healthy ficus will get very thick, shiny new growth. Unmistakable once you have seen one going from weak to healthy.

I just cut through the narrow stem of the leaf. Pulling the leaves off works too, but you risk damaging the stems.

Got it. So new shoots will come from the ends of the existing branches?

I think LB means with glossy branch extensions this.

Oh, lol. Yea of course. Thanks. But now I'm wondering, will the branches that lost the end sprout grow new ones?

Take a look: www.bonsaiempire.com/forum/progressions/...kea-ficus-for-bonsai

Looks amazing, thanks for all the info.