名媛直播

I am new to the art of 名媛直播 and I have a Ficus that I have been letting grow for a few years and now it is time to cut it back.... but now that it's time to cut back I'm nervous. I don't want to kill my tree! It has grown tall and lanky and it's roots have grown considerably. They have fattened up but my trunk isn't as thick as I was hoping for. Either way I feel as thou t is time to prune considering how tall it has gotten and it's shape is really not looking very nice.
I know cutting back is the next step but figuring out where to cut is my issue. I do not want to cut it too much and have it die as I have worked hard to keep him alive (even cleaning each leaf with cotton swabs when it got scale one year)

If anyone can give me an idea of where I should cut him properly it would be much appreciated. I'm considering wire training as well since he wants to be so upright and he has started to lean to one side.

I'm no expert on ficus but I would cut the branches down and let new growth come in, from what I know they are good at back budding

Ficus is a lovely tree to work with as you have to do something really bad to kill them, I managed to do just that when I started trying to cultivate bonsai, The clock on my auto watering system failed whilst I was away. Another plus side of ficus is whatever you cut off when pruning, poke it into a pot and you've got another tree to work on, they are that easy to propagate from cuttings.

Backbudding on F Benjamina is tricky. Some people never get backbudding and trees do die sometimes when you cut them back below the last leaves. I personally never have that problem. Perhaps you have to get the tree growing nice and strong, and only then cut back.