Ficus Burtt Davyi Bonsai Care

The ficus bonsai tree is an indoor bonsai which cannot endure frost.

Ficus burtt davyi bonsai care. The ficus is about 13 tall and is in a 8 pot. So this year i put up 3 four foot t8 dual light fixtures and put in cool white and sunshine bulbs. This tree has been a problem for me over many years. The lights are on about 12 hours a day the light is about 4 to 6 from the bulb.

The banyan style roots are commonly trained in a root over rock style. It has just not been vigorous and i have had to consider discarding it or perhaps re styling it. Sometimes it just won t grow properly. Specific bonsai care guidelines for the ficus bonsai position.

It can be grown over rocks as an unusual feature in a rock garden will adapt to a container and is commonly grown as a successful bonsai. My decision was to get radical and to cut the tree in half. It grows in coastal and inland forests up to 1500m from the vicinity of mossel bay in the southern cape to southern mozambique the forms growing on coastal dunes in the northern part of its range are salt tolerant and form low thickets on the margins of woodland. In the southern and eastern cape forests the species becomes a strangler or liane while when found on rocky outcrops.

It is an excellent tree for beginners and pros alike. Every year the plant seems to not do as well during the winter monts. It can be kept outside in summer if temperatures are above 15 degrees c 59f and it needs lots of light full sun is ideal in the house as well as outside if the tree is exposed to the ultraviolet radiation gradually or if it is defoliated before placing the tree outside. Is a fig species endemic to southern africa belonging to the mulberry family of moraceae.

They tolerate low light and humidity of a heated or air conditioned house.