Re: beyondhom Re: rubric help & thoughts needed

On Apr 13, 2012, at 7:10 PM, Jane MacRoss wrote:

> Bonsai fruit would be too small for me!

A proper little Bonsai mango tree would likely be several feet tall, it's just such a huge tree normally:-) 
But the fruit would be normal or close to normal size. ...may be a little smaller due to "abusive" growth conditions.
But bonsai fruit trees grow whatever fruit of the usual size that the un-bonsai'd tree would grow.

Guess what - I googled-  bonsai mango - and it has been done! There's a picture.

Big as I suspected for a bonsai -  it is a forty inch tree with 8 inch diameter trunk at age ten yrs. And of course the usual size big leaves, which some complain are out of proportion to the bonsai tree...
who cares - so long as it makes mangos:-)

You still need the right climate and soil etc conditions.
Pics here:
http://forums.gardenweb.com/forums/load/tropicalfruits/msg1216135720413.html?20

We can dream.....
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