Arbutus Unedo - Nursery Stock Strawberry Tree Bonsai 4yr Progression

[@RolandWampers]

That was a really nice compilation. Thank you for taking the time to share its progression. Very nice tree, indeed.

[@BobbyDukeArts]

I love the way it's progressing. Thanks for sharing!

[@ToMu29]

BoobyDuke! you should try your hand at Bonsai! your creativity will match it perfectly!

[@robryan9841]

Great looking trees 👍

[@benbseattle]

Thanks Ryan

[@edmilkovitz297]

Great looking tree , coming along nicely.

[@Moonlight76876]

Very nice !

[@classyadventures599]

Man, I love your channel. I'm not sure if people can truly appreciate the work and dedication that goes into a video like this. I also really enjoy your yamadori videos. I watch them all the time for the scenery and how jealous they make me lol. Thanks for sharing. Keep it up

[@kbxiong67]

Great stuff as always Ben.

[@benbseattle]

thank you

[@tacobonsai]

Those are really cool! I hadn’t known what a strawberry tree looked like before now. Definitely looks more like a lychee. Great trunks and really nice trees.

[@benbseattle]

Always fun to turn unusual fruit trees into bonsai

[@baldyeti]

Daggum, Ben! Some fantastic work with these! They came a looong way in 4-5 years, brother. You might need to buy your neighbors out and take over their yard. Daggum, that was a lot of trees covering your yard during the growing season!!

[@benbseattle]

LOL i think I need 10 acres somewhere

[@DnHVid]

This is such a great video! Lots of work over the years and I can imagine that it takes patience to put a video like this together. Very nice to see though!! I might try and find myself a tree like this. Thank you!

[@thomasblair4339]

Dude great trees and great strategy I commented on one other video I'm in Seattle as well and recently super into bonsai man

[@marcoreptile86]

In my country (Italy) we call it "Corbezzolo"

[@Maggioretom]

Where I was born, in central Italy, we call these fruits "cocomeri". In Italian is "corbezzoli". There is a small mountain made of white rock, overlooking the sea - about 500 m. high - full of these trees. Its name come from the fruit: Monte Conero. It's a beautiful place, take a look on the web.

[@GritCityBonsai]

Nice progression! I’m down in Tacoma and found strawberry trees much easier to bonsai than kinnikinnick and manzanita. Even though I still grow them regardless without much issue. Thanks for the multi year project! 🤘

[@gillianmorris5420]

Thank you for the extensive video. I have a strawberry unedo tree in a pot on my balcony. It doesn’t have a great shape and I can’t get it to develop leaves on the bare branches. What do I need to do?

[@living_sculptures_za]

Always nice to see and learn about a new species for bonsai. What is also new for me is the term 'semi edible' does that mean the fruit is only edible at certain times or only parts of the fruit are edible?

[@benbseattle]

it is edible, but the taste just is not that great was what I meant.

[@living_sculptures_za]

@@benbseattle haha I see what you mean 😂 thank you for trying to eat it for us. Congrats on this progression video, it was great to watch.

[@racqueldedios7572]

Do you water the arbutus unedo bonsai ? If yes, how often?

[@ScottTheExperimentalist]

Awesome progression video. How well does the tree heal big cuts? Also any luck reducing the leaf size? I just started one yesterday

[@benbseattle]

yes they respond well to pruning. I haven't tried leaf defoliation yet on it.

[@ScottTheExperimentalist]

@ ok awesome thanks for the quick reply and video!