Hi! I am in the process of bringing in my plants for the winter - I live in Northern Indiana. I have a beautiful Ficus Benjamina - probably 20 years old. It LOVES going outside for the summer, but the fun is over, cold weather is coming. I was preparing it by trimming up the wild sprouts and dead wood, and I see that my tree has some nice new growth near the bottom. I know I can root small cuttings, but is a little branch like this too large? It is growing off a large branch that was trimmed a year ago, and I was wondering what I should do. It is a healthy 12 inch tall baby and I thought it would make a beautiful plant if I could root it somehow. Could I cut off the small branch that sprouted out of the larger stump and try to root it in water . . . or could I trim off that little section of stump and the little branch and try to root that whole thing? Or should I just trim it off, toss it and forget about cuttings with it.
Thanks for any suggestion . . . here is a picture and I circled the part in question:
