Hi just wondering if there are any bonsai that i can grow indoors that produce fruit that are edible? Thanks
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.
This website should answer a few questions for you re: bonsais bearing fruit. http://www.bonsaigardener.org/bonsai-fruit-tree.html
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
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.
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 )
