I'm looking to purchase a second bonsai. I would like to get a ficus. I have found two that I like - https://www.bonsaiboy.com/cgi-bonsaiboy/sb/productsearch.cgi
and this one -https://www.bonsaiboy.com/catalog/product1979.html
Just looking for opinions. I like the shallow pot and dark leaves of the first one but I also like the "too little" one with the tiny leaves.
Darn it! Well one of them is the ficus "too little" with the tiny leaves, but the over all tree is a little bigger. Then the other one is a "midnight" it says the leaves are smaller (just maybe not quite as small as the other one) and very dark green. The pot it's in is pretty small and shallow which I like. So I was just looking for opinions if anyone has or knows anything about either of these trees or maybe has another suggestion for me. This is only my second tree and I'm pretty inexperienced.
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Kacey52,
Here is one of your links, corrected.
https://www.bonsaiboy.com/catalog/product1979.html
And this is the only 'Too Little' specimen that I can find listed.
https://www.bonsaiboy.com/catalog/product184.html
If that is indeed the plant you are considering I must say that the price seems a 'Little Too' high. The Midnight seems to be a better value, unless I have the wrong link above.
I am growing F. benjamina 'Mini Lucie' and I have had pretty good luck with them. I got them at one of the box stores as 5 cuttings in a smaller sized pot. After about 5 years of growing them out (kind of slow here in PA) they are starting to look like something finally. The only negative that I have discovered was a lack of response after a hard trunk chop, I lost that individual.
If I were to purchase a Ficus today I think I would consider the 'Willow Leaf' cultivars.
https://www.bonsaihunk.us/info/ReductionBuilding.html
That site is well known among Ficus growers and you would do well to have a good look around.
Norm
Here is one of your links, corrected.
https://www.bonsaiboy.com/catalog/product1979.html
And this is the only 'Too Little' specimen that I can find listed.
https://www.bonsaiboy.com/catalog/product184.html
If that is indeed the plant you are considering I must say that the price seems a 'Little Too' high. The Midnight seems to be a better value, unless I have the wrong link above.
I am growing F. benjamina 'Mini Lucie' and I have had pretty good luck with them. I got them at one of the box stores as 5 cuttings in a smaller sized pot. After about 5 years of growing them out (kind of slow here in PA) they are starting to look like something finally. The only negative that I have discovered was a lack of response after a hard trunk chop, I lost that individual.
If I were to purchase a Ficus today I think I would consider the 'Willow Leaf' cultivars.
https://www.bonsaihunk.us/info/ReductionBuilding.html
That site is well known among Ficus growers and you would do well to have a good look around.
Norm
Willow leaf ficus is great for bonsai. The problem with them is, good ones are really expensive, and the ones that aren't expensive aren't good. I'd love to have one, but I've resigned myself to ordering some assembly line nursery's forty dollar special, taking it out of the bonsai pot, putting it in a large tub and waiting a few years for it to start to look interesting.