Improvement of the Too-thin Trunk Top of Ficus microcarpa


Before style arrangement


The thick old trunk did not fit the slender trunk top.

 

1996.02
 
Girdle the thin branch of the maternal plant to make the aerial roots grow.

Have the aerial roots cultivated in a small pot until the time for inarching.

The cut small branches were about
 to be inarched at the concavity
 on the tree, as the circle shows.
 June of 1997

The daughter plants were inarched on the trunk top, as the arrows indicate.


 Wrap tightly with long cloth for
 better combination.

The long aerials roots of daughter plants were drawn to the ground through tubes.

Cutting the long aerial roots

The trunk without the aerial roots
that extended to the ground
 
Both the long aerial roots that reached the ground and
the trunk’s aerial roots grew exuberantly, which meant
that the nutrient for the inarched branches was being
 delivered directly by aerial roots instead of the trunk.
Therefore, the trunk did not have a big change in its shape.
 
Removing the useless aerial roots that were attached
 to the trunk during fertilization

      
After removing the aerial roots, the connecting part had
mostly recovered and formed a whole.



After style arrangement, March of 1998

The cultivation of the first and second part of
the branches had finished, 27th of March, 1998.

 
Height: 100cm
August of 2004


 
Height: 104cm
August of 2004
     
     

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