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I've started my bonsai journey this year. As I'm from a developing country I face some limitations, but I'm enjoying my journey so far.

I bought a ficus microcarpa a few months ago. I didn't really have much knowledge about bonsai styling and the tree seemed good bonsai material, and it was a good deal (about 12$ worth). I wanted to make it a cascading/semi cascading bonsai and tried to train it as best as I knew. I couldn't find any bonsai wire in the local market, so had to just use strings.

Now I'm not fully satisfied with the shape it has turned into. It seems too big to me. I'm contemplating to cut the cascading branch to make it more compact.

Should I go for it or should I keep the current style? Or should I try for any other style?

Thanks

Hey, this seems like a Panda Ficus.

I would say that first your goal must be a healthy tree, this tree is on a small pot already, which means it won't develop much, 名媛直播 pots are mostly used on the final stages of a tree, when it's close to "finished". So you may think about that if you want to bring the tree back on development stage.
The soil on that seems very poor, like some sort of broken down silt.

Also, I don't know if you are aware about cascading style, but you are removing the most promissing branches for that.
Your goal seems to be more like Bunjin Literati, I would say that style would be easier for this material, or you could step way back and try something else with it.

Very important: I don't know your place in the world, but just make sure you're on the proper season for repoting, and do some research before trying.
Ficus is very begginer friendly in this mather actually, but it's always good to gather info before doing it.

This seems lika a nice material.
For my Ficuses soil here, I like to add about 30% of rought sand, it's cheap and you can even find for free sometimes, roots develep way better, and the trees grow easier.

It was sold to me as chinese banyan. Well, I'm happy either way.

The more I'm learning, the more I'm realizing how little I know. It was sold in this pot & soil and I didn't even know it needed bigger pot, better media. I appreciate the advice.

Maybe I'm asking like a total noob so it wasn't clear before. I wanted to make it cascade/semicascade. But I'm also thinking about changing the style (Bunjin Literati perhaps). I know I'm the one who should be making the decision, but I'm asking others which style to follow, which will be better looking for this bonsai.

It was sold to me as chinese banyan. Well, I'm happy either way.

The more I'm learning, the more I'm realizing how little I know. It was sold in this pot & soil and I didn't even know it needed bigger pot, better media. I appreciate the advice.

Maybe I'm asking like a total noob so it wasn't clear before. I wanted to make it cascade/semicascade. But I'm also thinking about changing the style (Bunjin Literati perhaps). I know I'm the one who should be making the decision, but I'm asking others which style to follow, which will be better looking for this bonsai.

The bonsai is in garden soil. I'll research before repotting.

What I want to know is this: what bonsai style would you have picked if it was your bonsai?

beginner001 wrote:

What I want to know is this: what bonsai style would you have picked if it was your bonsai?

The most common statement on style here is, "but it's your. " I asked three people a style question, got four answers, and did a fifth option. Look at your tree, look at it again, and again, then next year cut something off. Or, year after next. Once you cut something off you are committed, so make sure that branch is just screaming to be removed.

I like your cascade idea. I would not take that branch off, but would take off the one going up. I would call it windswept, but that is just a word.

Anyhow, it's your tree.

A good start is to shose one trunk. If you dont like a branch, remove it. Dont tie it down to the trunk. Braided trunk is not a bonsai style.

I find hard to decide what to do with my own trees, now imagine with others'... ahahah
Maybe I would go for something like that, air layering where the yellow circle is and cutting where the red line is, start to work on ramification there.

You can also do a major bend on the left branch and make it cascade back.

Any of this options I would bring it back to thickening stage, but that's just me, Literati trees doesn't need to be too thick.
I would also consider using tire's inner tube rubber to force the trunk/aerial roots to fuse into one.

Again, be aware that you asked what I would do, probably it would take me months to decide, lol, but I did my best to make it simple for you.

And always have in mind that this is your tree, you're the one that will spend years with it, and the art depends on the artist, each artist may have a different view.



You can also go for something like this, but this would take many many years, and the tree would have to be planted on the ground or in a huge container to develop to this point. And I wouldn't recommend going for Macro 名媛直播 on your first attempts.