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No I don't KNOW gardening I am a serious beginner at the age of 70 but I have learned alot from you sharing your knowledge with us bless you soul.

This was a very detail example of notching your trees. Thank you this will help us a lot. I looking forward to the next part.

Thank you! You are so good at explaining things, your videos are so calming and peaceful. I'm so glad I found your channel.

You sir are a pleasure to listen to and learn from. I’m going to try this technique on a Meyer Lemon. Please keep sharing your knowledge. Blessings to you.

I would do *anything* for a ringtone of you saying: “as a master gardener and certified bōtanist”!! 😊 Thank you for the gift of these exceptional videos and for reminding us that God’s love is expressed in our gorgeous 🌱 plants…and especially the not-so-gorgeous ones! 😇

Wow I’ve watched your videos on notching fig trees didn’t know you can do this with citrus thanks for the information and keep on doing what you doing helping others

learn so much from you! I'm always trying to root from cuttings that I get from either from the internet or from my 12 year old half key lime / Meyer lemon tree I have in a container that I purchased from home depot in South Florida. I brought that plant up to North GA mountains 8 years ago and it has been doing very well. So far I have a 5 year old Lemon tree that I grew from seed, but hasn't produced flowers yet and a couple of Naval Orange trees that I rooted from cuttings. They also have not produced flowers yet, but they come with flowers budding on them when purchased as cuttings. They are a couple years old now and about a foot tall. I current also have couple of Persian Lime trees both about a foot tall but they are not doing so well. They lost all their leaves and are developing like a black mold on their stems and trunk. I did have them in terracotta pots and re-potted them in plastic barrel pots with drainage with new orange/cactus soil. Hopefully they will bounce back in the spring.

I've never even heard of notching. Been gardening for quite some time. Learning never stops. Thanks so much.

Thanks for this tip. I'm try this on my fruit trees and have a little faith that they will produce abundantly. Happy gardening 😊

Great channel I’m a beginner and I’m learning a lots and you will never learn without trying.

Great video! I’m going to try this on a spindly lime tree I have growing. Thankyou for sharing your technique information and advise 💐

I’m so glad you’re back. I love learning from you.

Thank you for sharing this technique, and your knowledge. I just bought a Meyer lemon tree, and it was the last one the nursey had left for sale. It looked pretty bare, but I bought it anyhow, since I always wanted one. I will definitely give this technique a try!

Wonderful informative video! Love your positive and wise attitude, so calming and reassuring. Thank you!

I have faith in you and your experience and methods. I will thank you first and I will try second. Blessings from Ireland 🇮🇪

Pure charisma... you'd make a great salesman.. ( maybe you are/were one ) pure joy to watch your lectures.. thank you so much !

This is exactly what I need right now! I have an etrog tree, which is a specific citrus tree found in the Mediterranean, that is over 2 ft tall with no branches. I've done the simple things like fertilizer and a bigger pot, but no cigar. I thought about notching, but you're the first source I've found that actually show it on citrus trees!! Thank you lots!!!

Thank you soo much! I will be doing this come spring! Amazing!

Oh, happy citrus...Very heartening for unbalanced trees...Thank you...

Thank you.

This is the best video I've seen ever on explaining notching. Great filming and amazing explanation!! 👏🏽 im going to try this in the spring !!

Thanks for the tip I can’t wait to tryGod bless

Awesome video!

Thank you sir!

Thoroughly enjoyed watching your video. Thank you sir. God bless.

Thanks for the lesson, I'm going to try this

I love learning your method of improving my citrus trees. Thank you for sharing your knowledge and skills you have put into practice and success. Many thanks ... God bless and all the best to you ...

Thank you for teaching me how to knot a tree god bless❤❤❤❤❤❤

Glory be to God on the highest🙏😇 I just found your station an hour ago, subscribed and now I find myself watching your other videos...thank you so much for understanding our creators reason for creating us and our whole world, we need to be reminded to be thankful and gracious 24/7. Love your garden and please continue educating us❤🤗🙌

Thank you for this, Sir! I am going to try this on my Meyer lemon and my clementine trees. You and your wife are a wealth of information. Mississippi Girl Life mentioned your channel and I am so glad she did!

Great information. I am not new to gardening, but I'm not good at getting the best from my garden. I'm excited to learn and grow with you! Thank you 😊.

U have described my new cleopatra mandarin lime tree exactly! One side is lush but the other side is bare. I bought the plant and I'm doing the research. I plan to perform this operation tomorrow. 👍🏻

Great information, I'm gonna try it out now!

Another wealth of knowledge, thank you for sharing. So my new lemon tree has a few of these bare spots so I’m going to give it a week or two to get use to it’s new surroundings and then I’m going to do a few notches at the nodes. I have been gardening since a child and am now 62 and this is my first citrus tree so hope all goes well❤️

You... are... the man...

Nice

Thank you 💞

I tried Notching and it worked thank you 😁👍☘️🍊

Thank you Sir that was wonderful!

Nice. Thanks for posting.

I wil try and remember this technique when my orange tree is bigger. I just bought one a week a go. It's still very small at just over 1 foot tall. Good info

I will be doing this tomorrow! 🍋🍋

Thank you for sharing Elder

i am going to try this on my other fruit trees as well as my citrus,

Good demonstration, and it should do wonders for my trees, especially where I carelessly let the load be too heavy on a major branch of my Belle of GA #5 peach tree last year, and had to remove it after it broke badly. Thanks!

Such an amazing educator. Your experience and explanations in your videos have been incredibly helpful. Thank you, from : my plants and my friends’ struggling tree 🌱🙏

Thank you for sharing your knowledge with us.

I came here to learn how to grow my lemon tree....I am leaving being motivated for my college! Thank you so much sir!

👍🏽great video

Thanks so much for this amazing knowledge, I will definitely try it .

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I will try this technique on my lemon tree. 😍

Thank you so much!

Thank you Sir!

I appreciate this vid! Thanks so much!

Just found your channel! I will be trying soon! Definitely following! 😊🌱🍊

Thx. Going to give it a shot on my meyer lemon tree. Got it last year and it has some empty spots.

Thank you - I have a very straggly, small meyer lemon that has been struggling. I’m using your videos on revitalizing these trees to try to help it. Hoping it works!

Excellent! So sometimes it doesn't take a lot for nature to take its course. You just have to Know what to do.👍🏻

Nice video sir😍

Well done and a good presentation. As a lifelong landscaper and horticulturist, I don't doubt you one bit and found your video very interesting and something I will definitely try. Thank you and good luck with your show!

Thanks for the info

Excellent video

Sir, you are the God of the Garden of Eden !!! I never, never knew this notching technique to grow bushier, and nobody ever mentioned it either !!! All they said to pinch the growing top and you get side branches growing by which we stunt the height of the tree. But your technique gives the height and the bushier growths. Thanks a million, Sir, for giving us this technique. I will spread the news to the gardening world, Sir.

Thank you for the video enjoyed watching

Im so trying this !!! I have a bare lime that only flourishes at the top

Thank you! I enjoyed your video and am heading over to notch my lemon tree. Wish me luck.

Thank you Elder Yehudah

Loved watching your video. May I add that my success comes from the Creator. My attitude of gratitude toward Him and the earth brings about success when others try the same techniques and fail. All credit goes to Him who provides for me♡

Praise God he created all thing's. Thanks for sharing your knowledge with me.

thank you

I am going to do this to my kumquat and avocado because my kumquat went from 30 ins last yr to about 7 ft with 4 of the 6 branches growing 5.5 ft themselves, but its skinny and leafy at the top and at the original height of the plant

Fascinating video and I could imagine that the notching must stimulate branch growth in a similar way that cutting an apical shoot promotes growth further down. Just disappointed that you didn't even try to explain what may be happening in your technique of notching; though I acknowledge that successful experiments are worth just as much in the end as published science research. Thus, if it works then do it! Thanks for your video and I'm just off to notch my rather woody and non productive lemon trees. :)

Thanks for the info: viewing from Mississippi-lived in the delta

Thanks for the tip!!

Trying this on my avocado tree. In watching other videos I thought the cambium layer had to be scrapped off. I will try your technique of just slicing into the cambium layer.

😊Thanks

I just discovered your channel... And I really like your wisdom and your knowledge.. thank you!! I just bought a meter lemon tree and will this technique also work on that tree?

I know that this video was a few years ago but I was hoping for some advice. Back story: I purchased an improved Meyer lemon from my local hardware store, it was in a 4 inch pot standing about a foot tall (really strange shaped pot) and looks like someone lopped off a branch and grafted it to root stock. Its really lanky and has a growth shoot coming right from the graft point. I removed the plant and shook away the old soggy dirt which didn't smell healthy too me(moldy, musky,something off....not healthy dirt smell....i swear pitty for the plant made me buy it at all.) I did not have any special potting mix available so I mixed two parts peat moss with one part steer manure and one part natural fine sized clay from the garden. then added sand until it felt ok like it wasnt going to fly away on me) and used it as back fill when i transplanted the plant into a 8 inch pot (spread the roots a little more horizontally, they looked healthy but I had to cut off the rotting tap root at the halfway mark.) I layered in chicken bedding (wood chips and chicken manure) along with the soil mix in sucessive layers around the roots untill the pot was filled. It spent the summer out side in full sun for most of the day with a drip line from my sprinkler system and occasionally i would topdress with fresh bedding as my chickens would dig it out in search for bugs. Currently it is now an indoor plant because it freezes regularly here and it will remain an indoor plant until spring. My questions and problem: All summer it showed no sign of growth and some of its sparce leaves are now a bit tattered (I can see tiny puncture holes in a few) should I be concerned? Only this passed week it has been showing signs of putting out new leaves( two new ones on the tip of each new branch). Is there anything I can do or add to encourage this new growth without straining the plant? Lastly, I have no available south facing windows in my basement living space and am resorting to the use of grow lights. I currently am using an 24inch led growth light which emits red and blue light and am curious as to what you would suggest. Is one enough? Is there a better option? How soon until I should consider reporting? As a side note, the plant never dropped any noticeable amount of leaves and I havent noticed a recurrence of the strange dirt smell so I hope that I got a handle on the root issue.

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Thank you so much for this! Can't wait to try it on my Meyer Lemon tree, where all the branches are growing on one side. One question: will this work at a node where a previous branch existed? Thanks again!

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I love your Channel and have you ever done professional acting you're so natural and Easy in front of the camera congratulations. I do have a question I have a dwarf Meyer lemon that I followed all your instructions it's very healthy but it doesn't have any nodes on it. I wish I could send you a picture of it. The plant is exactly one year old I'm excited to see blooms but you said it's best to cut them off the first year can you help an old retired man grow some great lemons LOL😅

Hi!, I am also in your same general area - Sac Valley. I notice that you use a lot of those large black plastic pots. Because dark colors absorb heat rather than reflect it, I've had some plants overheat and die. The roots overheated, couldn't pump up water, and the tree leaves literally crisped and died. One hour it was fine, an hour or two later, completely crispy. It can happen FAST. So now when it's late spring to summer I drape some burlap or shade cloth over the black plastic to prevent it from absorbing heat and cooking the roots. The pot stays cooler even as the heat rises, allowing the roots to continue functioning instead of stressing, overheating and exhausting. I haven't done any experiments to compare plants with draping vs. in a sun-facing black pot; I only had to see it once to realize I needed to correct that in my yard. If your pots are shaded by the foliage of other pots, you may be able to get away with it, but it's something worth considering, especially if the heat shoots up again like we all know it will later this summer. Thanks for your videos!

I was just wondering about timing, if there is any. It is December in the Pacific Northwest. I lived in Texas for 25 years and planted a Meyer lemon in a magical place thatwithstood surprisingly cold winters that made me believe that I knew something aboutLemons. Wanting to enjoy same in my native region, I bought one, it enjoyed our Mediterranean summer on the island. I brought the tree in the house when the weather turned windy/cold with its several green lemons. Under an LED grow light, the lemons are beginning to turn yellow, but notice some leaf drop and there are developing bare spots. So, if I'm listening correctly, you recommend removing the fruit and flowers, preventing new growth at the tips of the plant to avoid rangy branches, and notching as demonstrated. Also, lower watering significantly. I hope I've got it. Your trees tell the story, although your nice radio voice tells us how.

OK so this technique definitely worked for me! I've returned to your video multiple times to check that I'm following the technique. I recently (early July 2023) notched a bare section in the trunk of some orange trees (Bergemot, arrived last fall, potted up and watched it flush leaves in Spring, as well as a Sanguinelli Orange) and now they are beginning to emit new branches near the notches! I notched a few others to observe as well. I note that in addition to getting new flushes by the nodes, I also see OTHER nearby nodes flushing, even though they weren't notched. I presume the tree directed the same growth hormone to the general vicinity which means many of the nearby un-notched nodes also received it; a subset of those other un-notched nodes "woke up" and heeded the call too. What do you do when you get a very long branch growth to the side? Leave it alone? I also have some long side-shoots and TALL shoots suddenly - sometimes longer than the tree is tall, which is about 3.5 ft tall above soil level in a pot. Or should I wait until January (or so) to prune and administer heading cuts?

Shalom Adoni! These are the videos people need to be watching and hearkening to! Videos that actually teach and show how to properly take care of and nurture your trees and plants! People grow food because they want to reap the health benefits of the crop itself, but they pay no mind or care to the truth that the plants themselves need nourishment as well so that they can be healthy and thrive optimally. We must show the creation of YAHUAH love! And most people, much less gardeners, or those who call themselves gardeners, don't do that! Love is patience and kindness. It does not boast. It does not envy. Love is not easily provoked. It does not look to only its own! (1 Corinthians 13 1-8) Its a shame because gardeners on RU-vid are the exact opposite of this. They are envious and proud and seek to only deceive and create strife. What an abomination and mockery to the FATHER and CREATOR YAHUAH! This is why people's gardens and crops fail and die and provide them no sustainability, provision or health! Scripture teaches us that love does not fail! So if you have love and nourish nature and the creation of YAHUAH with love, how can it ever fail you? It won't! If someone's crop fails, it is because their fruit is evil and wicked and without love! Oh how much the spirit and the Word of Elohim can teach us! Elohim is love. And if HE is for you, who can ever be against you? HalleluYAH! YAHUAH is beyond amazing and worthy of praise and glory! All thanks and gratitude is to HIM! Shalawam!

Well, I tried it on my Eureka lemon tree just now, as well as a rose and hibiscus. Let's see if it works. I didn't cut out a notch like others suggest as I didn't want to damage my tree by mistake.

Amazing! I will employ this process with a bare Meyer Lemon with only two branches (3 feet tall) I just received. I will be utilizing the methods introduced in your video Restoring a Bare Meyer Lemon. Will you please tell me when the best time to employ notching to my Meyer Lemon tree? I am in zone 8b (Oregon City, Oregon). Thanks for the video and input.

Thanks for the video! Is there a certain time of year to do the notching? I'm in Texas and just bought my first Meyer lemon tree. Thank you for your time!

Is there a better time in the growing season to notch?

I need to send a picture of my Satsuma tree. It’s very sick and I don’t know what to do!

One month ago I asked how long it takes to see results from notching. I now have three new branches from five attempts at notching! Pretty thrilled! Does the new growth mean it needs more frequent fertilizing? New question - my tree is tall and spindly. Got a taller one than I ordered. Should I cut the top off?

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Great information. Will that work on soursop and sugar apple. And what is the best time to do it

I got a Meyer's Lemon from a box store that over watered it and cause it to lose its leaves. Should I notch it to encourage new leaf growth?

I found in some other videos people remove a small triangular wedge from the plant above node, but in your video just a small cut without removing the tissue.. Can you please give a comment regarding this.

Thanks for the video. I have a question please. My citrus tree has one stem about 4 feet long. I can't see any nodes. I see leaves and thorns. One leaf is paired with a thorn almost just above it. What you call nodes i see thorns growing out. Should I notch above the thorn? Thanks.

Someone just gave me a small 2 feet tall Meiwa kumquat tree that is having an root rod issue. Leaves are dropping, branches turning black. I removed it from the pot and found some fedder roots are rotten. It produced some fruits last year. Please educate me how to rescue the tree! Thanks.

What time of year do you Notch? I’m in zone 9b like you are.