I am looking for a fruit tree which I can make into a bonsai, but I have a lack of patience. Please suggest a fast growing tree in Delhi environment that could easily be bonsai.
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Are you wanting to use the fruit produced from this tree? If so, do you mean bonsai (which won't fruit), or do you mean trained into a small form, such as espalier or fan trained, outdoors?– BambooCommented Jan 22, 2016 at 17:57
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Bonsai can fruit, but it takes a while for a small tree to mature enough to support fruit bearing. However for the original question, bonsai is not suitable if you want to bear fruit, in which case bamboo is 100% correct. You probably want a fruit tree on a dwarfing root stock.– EscoceCommented Jan 22, 2016 at 18:23
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A bit unconventional, but if you want something that will grow quickly, train well & produce beautiful flowers and fruit with proper care, you could try a chili plant. fatalii.net has some wonderful examples of chili plants trained like bonsai. Scroll down his page for info on growing & more photos.
Bolivian Rainbow Chili Bonsai
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Results like some of those on his website can be achieved in less than a year & the plants, if taken care of well, can live for many many years!
If something like that is not appealing to you, Mulberries are sometimes used for bonsai & are relatively fast growing (perhaps the white mulberry "Morus alba" would be a good choice).
For the quickest results, you would want to collect a reasonably grown wild specimen, or purchase one locally rather than grow from seed.
White Mulberry Bonsai
I am working on several mulberry white and black when one plant I collected the parent plant over 30 years old had several stalks rooted and had leaves that were attached to the main stump I quickly cut them away and planted them now the are fruit bearing mini trees like a tiny orchard ..very happy I collected my own specimen..
