There's not really anything to be said now. Ficus can recover from such treatment but whether or not yours will, considering the present circumstances, only time will tell. Maintain the best conditions you can manage and wait it out. Sometimes these things work out, sometimes they don't. We all lose trees, more so early on. If you do, consider it a learning experience.Yes, thanks for that, I have read those quotes .... and acted on them ... it does not answer the missing roots query,
Norm