Exposing The Thick Truck of My Golden Gate Ficus Cutting and Repotting

Exposing The Thick Truck of My Golden Gate Ficus Cutting and Repotting

This post features my thick Golden Gate Ficus cutting. Now the whole trunk is not super thick, however, the base is ridiculously thick. Borderline thic. Now enough about my trees wood, lets get to the topic of todays post, a Golden Gate Ficus cutting repotting. Lets get into it!

Current Condition

From above you might not notice it, but a thick section of trunk sits right below the surface just waiting to be exposed. I didn’t even know how thick it was until I started the repotting! There are a bunch of roots sticking out of that part of the tree and I suspect they are the reason why its so disproportionally thick. I want to bring that part of the tree out from the soil and harden it up to be above the soil line.

Besides all that, this cutting is a real steady grower. Not the fastest but not the slowest. Recently, it has been growing a bit faster compared to normal but I think that’s due to the more stable environment I have the tree placed in now. Which is great! It’s always good to know what your plants like and dislike.

Golden Gate Ficus Cutting Repotting

Have you ever broken a pot while trying to get the bonsai out of it? Well I have officially joined the club. I had no intention of breaking my little plastic pot but one jab down the side was all it took. Oh well, I have many more just like it. It was actually easier to snap the pot off than it was to remove the tree. The soil was a bit tougher to remove than some of my other repottings but that didn’t stop me from removing it all.

If you read my last post about my Golden Gate Ficus grouping I talked about the lack of a root structure in those two cuttings. Well, this cutting has the exact opposite root structure. This is more of what I expected from the other two cuttings as well. All of these cuttings are around the same age, within six months of each other, so I’d assume that they’d all have similar root development. However, that is clearly not the case but I am still glad that this one does have an outstanding root structure.

Final Results and Considerations

The rest of the repotting was pretty straightforward. This bonsai doesn’t have the widest of roots so it’s a little wobbly once it’s in the pot. But, a few weeks of growing will solve that. Until then, I’ll use some larger rocks and shells to prop it up. I’m not sure what design I will be implementing on this tree but I’m positive something will come to mind eventually.

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