How to grow a bonsai tree,?

Question

a Banyan plant (Ficus bengalensis) which I planted in a bonsai pot ten years ago has grown to 1½ feet only ,but the leafs are in the normal size of a big Banyan tree.Please tell me what must be the reason?

Answer 1

It's the branches and roots that were dwarfed and not the leaves. This is a drawback when people want to bonsai fruit trees. The fruit is too heavy for the branches to support. Here's a site with care instructions. Your leaves are normal size.

http://www.american-bonsai.com

Answer 2

It is difficult to site reasons here with space and time constrains . If you click on the links below you will learn a lot about it -

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bonsai

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_spe...

http://www.bonsai-bci.com/index2.html

http://www.absbonsai.org/

http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.jsp?ar...