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Hi I have a Ficus Retusa that during the summer months lives in the garden and over winter it gets moved indoors to a south facing window in our living room. It had a quite a severe prune back in 2019 and this year I've just left it.
Since bringing it indoors its gone mad and and now its getting quite leggy.
Will it be ok to prune it back in to a nice overall shape or should i just leave it?
Currently it looks nice and healthy so I don't want to spoil that.

Maybe it has started doing that because of the sudden lack of light?

Trees dont get leggy just because lack of light. They get leggy because an inbalace between light and heat. So the solution is eigther provide more light or lower the temperature. But I am not sure that was the question

I saw bonsai zone latest upload just now. Nigel did a quite drastic prunning on a ficus recently. I cannot tell if it is advicable or how big the risk is. Nigel seems to get away with almost anything. But it can be done.

Whether you're just starting out with caring for plants, Plants will benefit from a good trimming the most during spring.

Please post a picture.

Getting leggy can mean a lot of things..

If it is a tree with long branches and only a few leaves at the end, it is a weak tree that needs all the energy it can gets. If it is a dense ball of green, it is healthy. However if it is long branches with leaves far apart, it is lacking light. All advice will have to be based on the actual situation.

On top of this.. Ficus is a tropical plant, and needs loads of heat and light to stay full on healthy. Without that available trimming back is not a great idea.

Tropfrog wrote: I saw bonsai zone latest upload just now. Nigel did a quite drastic prunning on a ficus recently. I cannot tell if it is advicable or how big the risk is. Nigel seems to get away with almost anything. But it can be done.

Thanks for your reply it's in a warm sunny position currently which is why it's growing so well at the moment would think.
Funny enough Nigels video is what got me thinking about it in the first place
I had intended to leave it until the spring but now I'm unsure.