Bonsaify | Mass Market Ficus Part 3!

Eric continues his journey with a Golden Gate ficus that he got from a mass-market retailer. Check the previous videos in this series here: Part 1: Part 2: There’s nothing fundamentally “wrong“ with a mass market Ficus like this. Typically they are produced in China and imported into the U.S. with a predictable “S“ curve. They’re just repetitive and not what Eric likes to work with. The goal of this series is to follow the tree through a few years of development work to make it into a tree that conforms more to Japanese shohin rules. 00:00:10 Since episode 2 Eric has only removed the wire that was applied and then left the tree to grow. The tree has been in the greenhouse through the winter but has been growing slowly due to it being winter. 00:00:45 - Eric shows the previously wired branches. 00:01:20 - Analysis of the wound and whether it will make reverse taper. 00:02:08 - Eric elec