Kurite
Illinois
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| Posted: Sun Aug 16, 2009 9:40 pm Post subject: What bonsai produces edible fruits? |
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Hi just wondering if there are any bonsai that i can grow indoors that produce fruit that are edible?
Thanks
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toni
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North Texas, Zone 8a
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| Posted: Sun Aug 16, 2009 10:15 pm Post subject: |
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Bonsai isn't a type of tree, it is the art of aesthetic miniaturization of trees by shaping them and growing them in containers to keep them small. Keeping them small and shaped also involves root trimming so I have a feeling that any tree that produces fruit/berries/nuts would suffer too much stress to ever produce anything.
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toni
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| Posted: Mon Aug 17, 2009 12:19 am Post subject: |
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Well I'll be darned, reading about Bonsai over the years and all it involves fruit trees were never mentioned as possible candidates. Learn something new everyday 
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aythya-camellia
Toledo, Ohio
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| Posted: Mon Nov 16, 2009 4:34 pm Post subject: |
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Several types of bonsai produce fruit in their full-sized forms, but when bonsai bear fruit, which isn't often, due to the stress of some of the pruning needed for them to stay small, the fruit is almost never good enough to really be considered as an edible of any quality.
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KK Ng
Malacca, Malaysia.
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| Posted: Fri Jan 08, 2010 1:33 pm Post subject: |
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I have a lime tree that is an unintentional bonsai. I got it from my mum which she marcotted from her plant. Her plant is a good 4 feet tall at least.
I got it more than 6 months ago and it is less than a foot tall. Today it is just as tall and as big as the first day I got it. During that time it had flowered and the fruits were real tiny.  Wonder where did I go wrong  
Unintentional Bonsai - Lime ( photo / image / picture from KK Ng's Garden )
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