Well over a year ago I got a massive ficus from an online trading platform. After an initial cutback and repot, it was left alone over winter. In spring ALL BRANCHES WERE CUT OFF! and I left it to regrow, wired and pruned and grafted over the rest of summer.

A true bonsai rescue timelapse where an overgrown commercial ficus was pruned hard and all grafted foliage was removed, so that new branches can grow, with the original foliage instead of the compact grafted.

0:00 removing all branches to rebuild a ficus bonsai
3:00 The trunk and future direction
5:32 Jumping to end of season: Recovery, grafting, wire and trim
10:16 A few weeks later