AusBonsai

Has anyone had any experience turning a Coffea Arabica into a bonsai??? Any tips would be great. Any photos would be even better!!!
PS If you have, have you been able to reduce the leaf size.?

hi jester, any chance of you posting up a pic, i've never seen one.

they'd be great for when you just want the odd short black while you bonsai!
sorry couldn't resist

Is this what you are after?
Regards,
Steven

Hi Antonio here goes and by the way sorry for the delay. Bear in mind that aside from bending it at the bottom, I have not done anything to it yet. I just want it to build up some bulk and may not do anything more to it(aside from cutting the leaves back as I have been doing) for at least another 5 years. It will more than likely go into open ground next week. I have another which is only 4 inches tall and 1.5 centimetres thick and am treating it like it were a fig. It's being cut back severely. I’m not sure if the leaves will reduce like some figs but I will give it I go. I think it will make an interesting project.

AusBonsai wrote:Is this what you are after?

Regards,
Steven

Very cute. For the amount of coffee I drink, I think I will need to get one like that

I pulled out a couple hundred seedlings of this tree today. Unfortunately, i was not able to keep any of them However, i did notice that some bug had damaged some leaves, and new, smaller leaves were growing from the nodes below the petiole. I imagine you will have very little trouble reducing leaf size. I want one now too!

JayC

guys i have not a clue about this tree apart from what the picture tells me. the growth looks very course and i question how much you can ramify and reduce leaves. then how large does it need to be to be convincing.
the reason you had prob with the photos jester is because they're too large and take time to upload. you wanna compress them down to 500-600 kb max.