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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

Speaking of ficus...  I have a benjimina with a branch I'd like to cut about 18"
off of.  Is there any way I could use this as a cutting or can I air-layer it? 
Hate to chuck such a healthy branch that just happens to have grown the wrong
way!

-Rick
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