Hi - please help if you can...

I've been a ham-fisted amateur for thirty-odd years. and I've been growing this ficus for maybe ten of those (pics attached).
It's never been really happy until this year when I moved it into a training pot and put it in a cooler, shadier, much wetter corner of the garden (I live in Johannesburg, South Africa)
Now I have this lush moss growing on the surface and around the base of the trunk (which I'm hoping to thicken next season).
It looks great and adds a strong sense of "permanence", but I'm worried that it will cause the bark to rot and effectively ring-bark the tree.

Any advice?

- m

Just scrap the moss from the lower trunk.

It will not ring-bark your tree. The moss will not hurt the living bark. It may affect old scale bark (Which you do not have).

I use algea remover (for pavers etc) to get rid of moss on trunks. Yesterday I wrote an article which will go online on Friday on growingbonsai.net.

Thanks muchly - m

I’ll keep an eye out for the article, cheers - m