Many years back, bought a couple of Ficus from Tesco - like minature trees
with variegated leaves.
Small pots, plants about a foot high at the moment, think they started out a
bit smaller.
Cycles of care and neglect have seen them drop leaves and regrow them many
times.
Ove the years some branches (twigs) have stopped producing leaves so the
whole thing looked straggly.
The overall size has remained much the same.

I have recently done two things:

(1) Cut off all the unproductive straggly twigs - there are some signs of
new growth and the existing growth seems to be O.K.

(2) Finally got round to re-potting. Potted on into significanlty larger
pots.

Now prior to and during repotting, these Ficus, which have two vertical
stems each, turned out to be short lengths of very thick branch laid
horizontal with a couple of shoots forming the two new stems/strunks.
This implies that the parent was a tree of significant size.
Which in turn makes me think of the different sizes of similar plants/trees
I have seen.

I had one (long dead) which was in a big pot in the sun lounge and grew to
about 4 foot high.

I have seen similar looking trees in shopping centres which were much
larger - 20 feet or more.

Which brings me to wonder if all are the same plant/tree - I had assumed
that I had a minature version but perhaps what I have is a couple of
severely pot bound trees.

Anyone else taken a small version and grown it on to be huge?

Cheers

Dave R

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