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Granny smith or Pink Lady as Bonsai? Has anyone has any experience with these as bonsai?

Any photos?

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All apples make good bonsai, the trouble is with the size of the fruit. However if anyone has one I'd be interested too.

I want to eventually do a whole mini orchard. Even if they dont end up looking like great bonsai they will be potted and trained and fruiting hopefully. But another that is interested to see any. (Well all edible fruit Bonsai really)

You can buy grafted apples with small fruit but need a good graft. Make sure you study the graft to see if it is going to bulge. Here is a piccy.

Dug up those apple trees that I mentioned in my OP.

Not too much work to get them out of the ground. It took me about 2 hrs to get both of them out. Most of the roots were very close to the surface. I think they are a Pink Lady and a Granny Smith. Not too sure though......

One had a nice thick low branch so I cut it down to there to create some taper, these are all just preliminary cuts and will be looked at in more detail if they survive. The other one has a small branch buy I didn't cut down to that one, maybe I'll have a think about it, so I may have to cut it down further because it is just too tall. Both have fairly decent nebari....

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Nice roots on those. With all those great roots I think they should do well
I can't see any sign of graft unions on these so was going to ask if they are seedlings? If they are named varieties they would normally be grafted onto a commercial rootstock.
When you cut them right down low you may have cut the scion off and only have the rootstock left. That won't matter, rootstock is still an apple and will also have fruit - just not as nice colour or flavour.

Yeah, that root ball is sweet! These could turn out to be pretty nice little bonsai The size of the fruit will be the trouble, but if they look out of place, you can just take them off Keep us posted

shibui wrote:Nice roots on those. With all those great roots I think they should do well
I can't see any sign of graft unions on these so was going to ask if they are seedlings? If they are named varieties they would normally be grafted onto a commercial rootstock.
When you cut them right down low you may have cut the scion off and only have the rootstock left. That won't matter, rootstock is still an apple and will also have fruit - just not as nice colour or flavour.

Not too sure if they were seedling or not shibui,

Regarding fruit size - im not too bothered regarding the size of the fruit. If they fruit, thats a bonus.

I'll report back in about 10 years when they have grown some decent branches.

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Any progress update?

7 year update??

I had to sell them many years ago as I moved up north.


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This is a cutting from a Dorset Gold I think it's called. I bought the original from Daleys years ago, and it's grafted onto dwarfing stock, so this cutting would just grow huge if it was planted in the ground. The fruit is quite a nice size for this tree, it's about 30cm high from top of pot to top of tree.

Nice one. I always love a bonsai with a fruit on it..