Ficus Tree Survival Story Part I Revival.mp4 

I had a similar thing happen so cut the dead stuff all the way down like you would for a lantana, and it started over with leafing like yours and grew back into a beautiful tree.

Incredible! What a wonderful story. My beloved ficus given to me in about 1996 nearly succumbed after one night on the porch when it went to freezing. I was heartbroken. But it's come back again and I'll be careful from now on!

Same thing is happening with my plant and was about to give up...watching ur video makes me change my mind and learn to never give up!!

My Ficus Benjamin also had (1) yellowing leaves (2) leaves then turned brown, curled, crispy (3) then leaves fell off I do not have a "green thumb" - logically, I thought "NOT GETTING ENOUGH WATER!" Aha - the 'bubbler' sprinkler at the base of the Ficus tree was not emitting ANY water. The tree is growing (on purpose) through the concrete slab foundation next to a sliding glass door and there's a small garden outside the sliding door with its own sprinkler head (prior owner of the house did all that). The sprinklers come on at 4am. I didn't have any chance to detect the 'no water' for the tree. "The Ficus is dead!" I found the outside sprinkler spraying a FOUNTAIN of water, stealing all water pressure from the Ficus tree's bubbler. I fixed the outside sprinkler. Then the bubbler had its water pressure restored. AFTER 4 MINUTES of the bubbler being on, THERE WAS A *_SMALL POND_* OF WATER at the base of the Ficus. So because the Ficus growing through the foundation hole shares the SAME DIRT GROUND as the garden, that broken outside sprinkler FLOODED THE GROUND. The "brown, very dry, curling up and falling off" leaves symptom of the Ficus was due to TOO MUCH WATER. The person who designed the Ficus tree to exhibit 'extreme dryness' when there's too much water NEEDS TO BE FIRED I stopped all watering for the Ficus bubbler and garden sprinkler. The Ficus tree is REVIVING. .

Thanks... This gave me some hope for my little tree. Dying not from winter but 100 degree summer in South Carolina... I only left it out for two days and it turned yellow...

what an amazing plant,glad it came back thank you for sharing it

I had a ficus tree that was pot bound and it boar a hole in the bottom of the heavy plastic container to set up a survival system. It netted a new pot out of roots and created a new environment to survive in. I took pictures of it, it was s amazing! The power of nature!!

What happened to the ficus after that? How did you react? How does it look like today?

👌🏾Wow , today brought ficus tree , almost dried but leaves growth started from lower trunk. Will convert into bonsai.

I have a similiar story with my juniper. I thought it was dead so I left it out all winter and in early april I found it laying on my porch still green but blown completely out of it's pot. I repotted it in a weak attempt to see if I could save it and it's been pushing new growth like crazy ever since! I would love to see what you do with this ficus. Benjaminas tend to push a lot of growth rather quickly so it might not take as long as you think once it gets back on it's 'legs'. Great video!

Yes, humble beginnings!

This past February my furnance failed and used electric heaters in living room and kitchen because they couldnt get us a new furnance for 5 days!! My 40 YEAR OLD FICUS was always brought in the fall onto our heated porch. It appeared fine... until ALL THE LEAVES DRIED UP OR FELL OFF. Looked exactly like the one pictured. 40 YEARS OLD!!!! I hope a miracle happens. Can't bring it out until mid May here in Connecticut. Fingers crossed. Besides losing a beloved sister, three close friends & three dear pets.... this is the last blow in this horrific year.

Any updates on this tree? Please let us know. :)

Once the leaves of a tree for "unknown" reasons start te wither, prune back to the trunck. Works 95% of the time.

My girlfriends Mom had two Mimosa trees growing around her house. Sadly after the last two winters we had, it was so harshly cold that they had died, or so we thought. They ended up just sprouting out at the trunk. They cut down the one in the front because they were afraid it were to fall on the house eventually. Believe it or not, it started growing out of the trunk again. They're leaving it there and seeing what it's gonna do. Shouldn't be that cold of a winter so who knows, maybe it'll grow back into that huge tree again some day.

lets get an update on the ficus

I kind of needed to see how to save one because I put mine out in the freezing cold thinking it was an entirely different plant.😂

That dead wood is going to be fantastic carving material. You've got the makings of a fantastic cascade here. One drastic chop shash break of the dead tree on top.Graham Potter's got some great vids on this kinda technique here on RU-vid. Chop chop carve. :D

I was about to throw out mine, but after seeing this I still have hope that it will come back, I cut everything dead down and left a bit of the stem and started watering it again, it's about as old as me (22yo) and I don't wanna get rid of it. Fingers crossed:)

Reminds me of the practice of girdling trees in the west and how it elminates many potential bonsai.

how cold were your winters?

Mr Bonsai Student! How's the ficus doing? :D I just got one off a market recently and noticed only back home that one side of the tree is lookin' kinda dead o-o But this film gives me hope ;) Gonna keep on taking care of it!

Hello Its a great survival story. We have a mango tree which was planted by my grandmother in 1984. Now its dying its almost dead with no leaf left on it. It was so healthy. It gave fruit this summer. But just within a month it has died. All the leaves started falling and turned brown. I cry a lot. We love this tree so much as we have so memories related to this tree. Please tell me hoe to save it?

Same exact thing happened to my groot...ficus bonsai, we moved in winter and "he" was left out for 2 days in early March :( Trying to revive now suffering from root rot...

mine all die for some reason never been able to bring one back hope it comes out well, you are going to have extreme taper

I live in the Eastern Cape of South Africa and mine do better outside...went from a 30cm potplant to a 1,5meter tree within 3years. I think perhaps the cold kills it and not so much the sun.

Can you cut off the upper portion of the dead trunk somewhere above the new growth and try grafting on the remaining portion of the trunk where it is still alive?

if you cut the top every 6 inches you will that the tree still alive when you get to the part that still alive green . about halfe the tree the tree will come back.

I think it would work good simulor to one Graham Potter did. The video was called "Bonsai From A Skip"

How much water does it need and how much sunlight ? thank you so much for this video hope you'll response

Hi. Thanks for this video. Should the inside of a ficus tree branch be green all the way through? I recently pruned a suffering ficus and there is a circle of green under the bark and then white in the centre.

I was getting one for Christmas and it was at my nannies house. She forgot to water it and the leaves have turned black and they are falling off. Is that the end of the ficus?

I bring mine in the winter and nearly kill it but it usually comes back

My ficus all died too years ago in the winter and don't recover

I’d probably cut it all the way down

what happened to it

My ficus needs henlp

its in a dormant stage

Killer😟😟😟

you bloody well talk too much in lead up

Exactly the same thing, dates and seasons and length of years growth and mine has done the same thing! God Bless you!!!!!!! Will give it a try!