When You Grow A Bonsai, What I Cant Undertsnd Is How It Stays Small. For Example Fruit Tree’s?
Posted by admin on February 28, 2010
how do the fruit end up small ? or do you have to buy special bonsai to get small fruit ? because i thought you can grow anything as a bonsai.
When you bonsai something you don’t get small fruits. You plant the tree in an extremely small container so the roots are very limited and you clip the plant itself. You also limit nutrients (fertilizer) and water.
You are not going to get tiny lemons, oranges, etc. on a bonsai.
One of the things that can not be altered when using a fruiting tree as Bonsai is the size of its fruit. its just not possible to do so. Also you can use just about any tree, shrub or vine for a Bonsai once you understand its needs and the various methods for doing so. I have several oaks as Bonsai for example and its true they do not respond well to being root pruned. But it is possible to do so with care. Also don’t wire them into shape but rather use the clip and grow method as they grow fast enough that the wire can and will bite in and leave scars on the tree. As my Bonsai Master once told me, “Learn the rules and then once you’ve done that learn how to break them also.” Good luck and may you have many Bonsai in your life.
Most fruiting bonsai start off from dwarf strains. Plants that do well as bonsai are ones that handle the regular strain of root and branch pruning and restriction. Most respond to this by producing smaller leaves, etc.
Not all plants take to bonsai. You do not see much in the way of oak or other large nut trees in bonsai, for example.