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RE: pruning ficus

>This is probably a really basic question, but I'll ask it anyway: What
>happens if you prune a Ficus benjamina? Secondly, does anyone have a >good list of which plants like to be pot bound.

I've pruned my ficus a few times (I'm not sure which kind it is, it has
long skinny leaves), and it actually seemed to like getting pruned, as
it always put out a bunch of new leaves about a week or so afterward.
I'm trying to keep mine at the height it is (about 4') because I just 
don't have room for an honest-to-goodness *tree* in my apartment!
As for pot-bound plants, I know for sure that hoyas and African violets
like to be, and hoyas just won't bloom if they aren't.  Also (and I'm
not 100% sure about this), I think spider plants like to be a bit pot-
bound too, because mine won't put out babies until they've been
in their pot a while.  I have a really large one that's been in the same
plastic pot for 3 years now and it has over a dozen babies on it.

Cami
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