3 Months ago I decided to start a little project from a mallsai, well not even that, Ficus that I had for over a year and wanted to get rid off. You can read about that on the Funky Ficus Project Part 1 post.

A couple of months later now I wanted to post an update on this subject.

Both of the cuttings rooted very easely so new growth started to emerge quite rapidly. I noticed there was still a branch from the grafted ficus species on the rootstock so I cut that away. I also prined a bunch of branches on both cuttings so the long straight pieces would dissappear.

This was 3 months ago:

This is now. Shorter , less straight, branches and lots of new growth:





I’ll let them grow now for another year and maybe prune and wire some more branches to get a good branching structure.