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howdy y'all

my cuttings are stickin' there toes out of the pots so time for some work.im tearing apart my backyard prparing for a new garage which is giving me the oppurtunity to go through my 100's of collected rocks (i have a problem w/ rocks too ) and found a perfect one for this cutting.its been rooting for almost 2 months in bonsai soil.i wired it before cutting it off the tree which made styling much easier.here is the proccess...


the supplies


the roots ...not as much as expected oh well


the placement


the final result

i wrapped the roots and rock in wet sphagnum moss and plastic wrap and taped it tightly . i will water from the bottom to draw the roots down...hope this works this has been my best looking cutting yet

Did you cut back the roots or was that all that was there? I was surprised to see so few roots. When did you take the cutting? I hope it works, ficus are pretty hardy so it should.

thats it, its been rooting for about 2 months .it really surprized me too.
the base was alot lower in the soil than i thought so thats why the roots were coming out the bottom. this one has a brother that is doing the same i may do another ROR with that one too. its shape isnt as interesting as this one tho. this ones guna sit till around december and then ill open it ,unless i see roots coming out of the bottom again i know they wont be small

Ya, you will know for sure then. This tree will look great once it has some taper on it

howdy y'all

well i decided to do some work on this one today it kinda just poped into muy head how i was going to style it while doing morning dishes

the thing that sucks is i dont have the pics from when i did a root check last month,but they are doing great. i could pick the tree up and the rock stayed put :woohoo: i spent an hour removing the sphagnum moss from around the roots,it was a real pain so next ROR planting i am going to grind it up finer i repositioned some of the roots and rubberbanded them in place.

this is an earlier pic i found to give some referance




this is the front


and the back


seeing this is a retusa it may be tough to pull off the windswept effect when the leaves emerge, but i am persistant and noone ever said bonsai was easy

nice tree!

it is always nice to see how a plant/tree was and how it is now.

I could see this making a nice penjing style bonsai with a few figurines on a flat tray and a nice landscape to go with it. I love the movement, good job

thanks that was just my plan,i have a rectangle pot that is very shallow (3X6X1/2 inches)that will work great.i do think i will add another rock underneath the one it is on to add alittle height so ill be searching through my piles

Looks like a fun project, I plan on making a penjing bonsai some time, I brought a nice little swan figurine to go in a water display below a tree. Im still waiting for the right tree.

Nice, I like it!