It been almost a year since the last update to my Lemon tree bonsai, so time to get to work! Click here for the entire playlist for this tree..... • Lemon Tree Bonsai, Pr...
Three years ago I came across this video on my feed by accident, i knew nothing about bonsai. To this day, I still watch your videos religiously. I now care fo 8 bonsai of my own, and proud to say every operation I do on them is because I learned what to do from you. Thank you Nigel
This guy is like Bonsai Bob Ross and I love it. His voice is calm, he’s articulate, he is kind in the comment section, and he is knowledgeable. Plus the birds and other background noises are peaceful. 10/10
For all of those who wanted to see tiny lemons, bonsai are not tiny species of tree. They are no different than the large versions, they are just frequently pruned like this to be kept small. If it did have fruit, it would be a tiny tree with big lemons. I wish truly tiny lemons existed, that would be a adorable!!
@@cherryblossom2911 I just came here to say that. I grew up in Southern California and used to pick kumquats off a street tree on my way home from elementary school.
@@callmetwisted5742 No, it didn't die. He's done a couple update videos. You can search lemon in his channel. Here's one from a year after this video: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-OJIw3ConsjU.html
Nigel, thank you so much! I planted some lemon seeds after watching this inspiring video in 2018. A little over 2 years later, my 11 small but healthy lemon saplings are doing well! They're finally big enough to start training towards bonsai. Growing trees is my favourite hobby! Maybe one day, once they're impressive enough, I'll be able to send you one of the 11 lemon saplings which was created because of this video! I love your lemon tree. Great to hear it's growing a lemon! 🍋💛
Thank you Noah, very nice to hear! I type "bonsai" into RU-vid every day with the "this week" filter on. You will see many good bonsai videos everyday!
Nigel, great videos! Do you sell trees? Isn't that much of cutting back both the leaves and the roots at the same time too much stress to be dealt with for the tree at once?
Maybe it’s the pot size, but had he left it, he should’ve had lemons before long. The Meyer trees still produce when small. Not sure about just lemon tho. I’d think it would be the same. Actually surprised with the 1 huge leaf. So his tree must be more than a few yrs old?
If tou dont cut the big roots, they will dominate and you will be left with just one or two roots. If you cut the big ones of you give space for all the smaller and weaker roots. This is how you get a nice radial root plane. You can see how nigel has achieved it from his other videos. Nigel is a root master, if you ask me!
This lemon tree was what brought me to your page about a year ago. I have been watching every video you've made since. I can say waiting for this particular update this whole time has not been boring at all. Good to see this lemon tree doing so well. Looking forward to the next one.
Easy to grow your own from most lemon seeds you would get with water water and lemon at a restaurant. I have several. They stay indoors in a badly-lit area. I've had some for ten years. (No flowers, no fruit, of course). As they have been kept in very small pots, I have not had to snip them. Pruned one, one time because of the badly-lit area where it sits - top-pruned even, which is a terrible thing to do.
@@mordys6305 bonsai trees will die if you dont comb out the roots and repot when needed, once a year maybe. It will become rootbound. Mine died recently because I didn't know what was wrong till it was too late.
I know right I tried to transplant something and it dies here's this guy pulling pruning raking and twisting off parts and this thing will probably grow back just fine
I talk to my bonsai's every morning and put soft music, and they are doing perfect, sometimes i hold it when i give love and respect to the plants energy *Osanyin* , every Saturday morning....🌱🌿🌳
Do you look at it while masturbating?I found this to be relaxing and reassures the plant that I love it in that special way I don't ever leave my friends around the special plants for fear they might be Bill Cosbyd while I am not there to protect them.
Thank you Nigel. Your bonsai artistry is exemplary. One suggestion my Dear Wife and I offer, has no relation to bonsai per se. Rather, it pertains to the experience of a bonsai video of this high quality... namely, Patricia and I are seniors, and thankfully escaped the era when everyone was programmed to require loud, fast-beat music ( a.k.a. noise ) in order to sit quietly long enough to learn something without falling asleep. Your videos are not thus overburdened, but we hope they will not escalate in that direction. Aqain... well done, Teacher! ... Barry and Patricia
I’m a seasoned green thumb since a little kid. Been studying bonsai for a few yrs now and finally started one this yr. A tester tree you could say some clipping sold as a bonsai. But the way you worked those roots you taught me a lot thank you.
I am so surprised to see the over-reactions from the comments below. Nigel, hats off to you and your patient humorous replies to the trolls. You are clearly an expert in bonsai from many, many years! And some of the folks who have posted comments here do not even seem to know the concept of bonsai!! My lemon plant has revived twice from complete defoliation that happened due to less sun or caterpillars chewing away the leaves. I just had to keep it in full sun after all the caterpillars flew away as beautiful butterflies! Nature has its way of reviving itself. I also saw the follow-up video that shows the growth of new foliage on your tree. I dont think any panic was necessary :) All the best Nigel. Yours is the best series of videos on bonsai that i have seen online :)
This is a really wonderful video! Thank you for posting. I could feel the pain in your voice while you were deciding whether or not to prune those big roots. I'm sure that is why your trees are so beautiful. You don't just care for them, you care about them. Thank you for sharing.
Thank you Gerald, I am glad I decided to prune the roots! The tree recovered really well and I'm looking forward to see the roots with the next re potting.
I have been wanting to do a lemon Bonsai because they take less time to get established and start looking really nice then many other kinds of bonsai. So happy to have found this video. Hope you will consider posting about your Bonsai when it is big enough. 💛🍋
I loved plants as a kid, and also loved eating lemons, so my mom bought me a Meyer lemon tree when I was about 9 or 10. I am now 29 years old and my tree is still alive and kicking. I put it into a big half barrel container before I moved out a few years ago. in 2018 I came home to PA for thanksgiving, ate a lemon off the tree and brought the seeds with me back to Miami Beach where I live now. I now have 2 three-year-old lemon trees from my original tree thriving, and they make me smile when ever I take care of them. citrus trees are so hardy. you can cut them back to the stump, not water them for weeks, over water to high heaven and they will still thrive! in my 20 years of citrus growing, the only thing that scares me are those scale bugs. bugs are the killers in my experience and I have had a few close calls over the years! anyway, nice vid, I watched all the way through and was shocked to realize it was an 189 min vid! haha
And I wonder (I wonder).... I'm turning my head up and down I'm turning turning turning turning turning around And all that I can see is Nigel Saunders lemon tree... Sorry can't help it..😂😂😂
Few months ago I saw this video and at the same time I had a lemon plant growing from a seed which I spat out while having a lemonade long before. Obviously I tried making a bonsai out of it and it is quiet well except for some white spots in the leaves (probably due to nutrition deficiency) Yesterday I watched this video again and did a repotting and some pruning and I guess tree would be fine. Thank you Nigel❤️
Thank you and I hope your little tree survives! Here is the playlist for my Lemon tree, you can follow the progress..... ru-vid.com/group/PLQouTWwmTQozaSYDGs_kTI1zoCW9laBEs
Total defoliation can knock back the vigor of a tree so it produces a new set of branches with leaves that are smaller than the ones that were pruned off. It can only be done with a tree that has a lot of vigor and it can be a risky operation. It is a useful technique because you can study the bare branch structure on trees that don't normally lose their leaves. It is also used to prepare a tree for a show, it gets a uniform colour and size to the leaves and the leaves don't have any long term insect damage. Partial defoliation is a preferred technique and is used to thin out the vigorous zones on a tree, so light can reach the inner branches for back budding. If the lemon tree was weak and the weather bad, I wouldn't defoliate it.
Nigel... I know I’m still a newborn to bonsai... but when I make choices.. and you agree.. I feel more confident... I’m ready to look for a tree or 2 to work with... I wish we had a bonsai club in our area!!!
I can tell you're not in the south, those ants came out and I was expecting you to get much less zen really fast. fireants get into everything around here.
@@sapphireblossom1982 if you've ever been bit, they hurt baad.... And those pains will last probably a week. And they're highly invasive against other ants, pretty much slaughters them.
what kind of soil is that? it looks like stone chips? did you add any manure? what care is needed after that? you video is really intresting.. now am very much intrested to do it..
I really want to start my own bonzai and love the detail you put in this video, though the sirens in background made me think they were here lol. Not the first time and it wont be the last either because that's just me lol
Damn you really went to town on those roots, perhaps a little heavy but thats just me! I have an orange bonsai that produces small edible (and very sour) oranges ;)
I must admit, as a newcomer to this art (or gardening in general, to be honest), such severe trimming of both trunk and roots seems like a very harsh treatment. I'm growing a few seedlings, one year old at the moment, and I can't even make myself cut them down, not to mention this much pruning. However, given the fact that this lemon tree is 2/3 my age, I have no doubt that the next update will be just as amazing as this one and maybe I will gather the courage to adopt the clip and grow method. Thank you for the time and effort that you put in the videos and bonsai, of course!
This was quite a severe pruning! The tree recovered very quickly and is growing really well. It is very important that the tree grows freely for an entire summer, before attempting this. Happy growing!
This is done to shape the plant into a miniature tree form. The tree is just a regular lemon tree and would grow into a large tree in a warmer climate. Here in Canada, I have to bring it indoors for the winter.
Toxic Gaming control ots all about control , man controls a plant completely . let that tree reach for the sun you are stopping its growth and basically killing it barely keeping it alive .
Bonsi-R- Us Me too, bro. I currently got about 40 seedlings (ca. 10 cm tall) (lemon, lime, orange, grapefruit) but I'm pretty sure a lot of them wont make it through winter.
Bonsi-R- Us I dont have grow lights :( I'm moving them inside with as much natural light as possible but most of the time only the strong ones will make it (so i'll be left with about 20-25 little trees in spring) But when they grow bigger I have to further select them because I cant fit all of them inside for their second winter. If they are already 3 to 4 years old I can keep them wrapped up on my balcony close to the house.
Starting my bonchi plants today and I have a lemon and lime tree I need to bring in for the winter. This was great and I really enjoyed watching. Only thing that drive me nuts was the metal on glass noise. STOP IT!! 😂 Nice voice and good camera angles. Thank you.
It depends.if u plant a few moss it might start to grow and flourish.if some moss seeds fly on the pot also there is a chance but u can also grow via putting few urself
I have a new lemon tree I'm going to make a bonsai with. Have you ever had lemons grow on one? And have you ever tried using epsom salt in the soil? Maybe the salt would help with the ants?
I would need to let the tree grow freely to get flowers and then fruit. Some day I intend to do this! I have never used epsom salts on my Lemon tree, but I read it is good for them if they have a magnesium deficiency. Here is an article... homeguides.sfgate.com/much-epsom-salt-dwarf-lemon-tree-93444.html
If I let the tree grow through a spring cycle without pruning it, it should flower and then bear fruit. I will be doing this in the future, when I get a little better branch structure. The tree is over 20 years old now and should flower well.
5winder the thing is that citrics usually dont survive when you make such a strong root work... You have to.leave some of the old soil in the roots, and avoid breaking a lot of the roots, i would like to know how is that tree doing today...
Lord Turnip He has done this exact thing several times. Some of his videos are from a few years ago and show this very tree being trimmed and repotted. It's pretty interesting to see the results of his work years later.
The equivalent of making someone live in a box to keep them small but taking them out occasionally to stretch on a rack before sticking them back in the same box.
ants on my non bonsai citrus always means scale or aphids and then sooty mold. ants on my succulents always means mealy bug. hope you caught it early. btw, you certainly do get some weird haters.
Thanks for the video. I'm a newbie at bonsai. Took something from the mountains yesterday and getting ready this morning to pot. 7am here Pacific Northwest.
I started with an Avocado Bonsai after seeing this video and I was so proud of that. But then I was on holiday and my roommate didn't water it and it was dead when I came back home😭 I've come by a store on friday which had s tiny arabica plant for 0.99, so I'm going to try making a cute coffee Bonsai 😊
