Growing Apple Bonsai from Seed
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Growing Natal plum from seeds into a bonsai
Comments (4)Well you have to get started learning (it's not like just growing a house plant with a bit of a difference). Start with www.bonsai4me.com for general basic info., go to www.bonsaihunk.us/cultural.html for excellent info on tropicals (particularly Ficus), and join up sites like this one, and www.bonsaisite.com (where there tends to be more action :-). Whatever you do though, don't go out buying anything until you know what you're doing or you'll end up with dead trees and be discouraged, and definitely don't get those Wal-Mart 'bonsai' either, plus never ever go by the care tags stuck on them as they are pretty much one-size-fits-all and don't really do anything good for any tree! I will tell you that growing from seed is a long term proposition, with built-in problems, and starting instead with at least 3-5 yr old trees either from local nurseries (most of which will be 'outdoor' trees) or even supermarket "house plants" (for tropical starters that you make into bonsai) are a lot faster and easier. Outdoor trees means that wherever you live, the trees will be cold hardy to that climate, which means they not only will survive however cold it gets in the winters but if in the north, must remain outside to get cold dormancy (below freezing usually) for months and won't make it indoors....See MoreQuestion regarding spacing of apple trees growing from seed
Comments (1)In a row and 2-3 ft. tall the first year sounds like root suckers....See MoreNewbie to Bonsai, Growing from seed question
Comments (3)Well, if you want create bonsais by own sown seed plants then it will take a lot of years before you can start to cut and wire them. The thing is that it will take a long time before you've a plant from which it's trunk is thick enough for bonsai ttaining. You better buy older plants at a garden centre or at a nursery unless you're only 20 years old ;0)...See MoreGrowing Apple Trees from Seed
Comments (6)if you want from seed, choose from mango or pommegranate, both will give you reliable fruit trees if grown fom seed and both are very easy and quick... Mango: after eating a good mango, with a knife crack open the seed, and will be inside a bean, just wrap the bean in humid paper and close it in a sealed bag...(in 3 to 4 days it is sprouting) even in winter...2-3 year and you have fruit pommegranate: eat one and with your fingers smash some of the read things to get the seeds from inside (do like 20) let the seeds dry for 2 days, then put them in water for 24h and jus sow them on pots or something, from 20, maybe 18 will grow...one month after, choose the bigger one...(do this on spring or summer) you will have your first flowers in 18months (first flowers ever sometimes fall)...you can have them on pots......See Morelucy
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