I brought my lemon saplings in from the kitchen to watch this video. I wanted them to know what they were in for.

One thing I learned from watching your videos is the importance of pruning to keep potted trees small. I gained the confidence to try this on my own trees/plants. My oldest bonsai is nearly 13 years one, a ficus started from 3 cuttings in 2008. The roots have fused and got away from me in the early years, but I’m gradually “reforming” them. I’ve also started cuttings from that tree so I now have 3 generations of trees.

Loved watching the root comb and trim! Always doing a satisfying job there Nigel, keep up the great entertainment!

I really enjoy seeing these trees that we haven't seen much of!

I appreciate the daily videos, Nigel, Thanks!!! I love that you’re always doing something different. One day you’re doing just simple updates at the end of videos. Or making Mars soil. Or rebuilding a plant room. Or taking apart a huge greenhouse. Or just visiting trees in nature and talking about what you see. Even getting Julian to do an episode. Now, it’s the daily videos. It’s never the same-old, same-old!

I love waking up and seeing which tree you worked on yesterday, helps me get my day started right! It’s a good thing you have so many trees

I am glad you liked the coffee cup my daughter in law made for you. I, myself, like a cup of decaf once a week also. Always great tutorials from the bonsai Master.

That is three videos on the radial roots of the lemon trees in one evening. Wasn't intentional. A marathon with my wild professor Nigel Saunders om one Monday evening. I loved watching how you went hunting for the soil under the winter's snow. Your poor hands. Thank you again. If I haven't learned something tonight about early pruning of branches and roots from the Bonsai Zone; then............Can't wait to get started!

A cup of hot tea after a 2 hour shoveling of snow, alley the hardest, and a great video to relax to by the bonsai master.

i missed these good old calm repotting root raking ones :)

Root pruning is my absolute favourite part of Bonsai!! Even to watch, its just so satisfying

Hi Nigel...good work👍👍

You always get the most fascinating pots. Really cool.

I don't know why I like the root work videos so much, but I do! (I've got to be careful not to copy your timing, Nigel, and attack the roots of some of my trees now, as I don't have a lovely plant room for them to recover) 😅

A relatively late comment that may seem trivial after seeing how much work was done on the roots later in the video, but I absolutely adore the look of the surface roots and the trunk bark, as seen ~00:40 into the video...I've got to find one of these tree's. Great video with lots of reasoning behind your decisions to deal with things the way you did. Appreciated as always Nigel. Be well.

Muchas gracias por tus videos , excelentes y muy grata explicacion...

Somehow i miss the good old scratchy glass table! ;)

Nice

have fun biking tomorrow goodnight nigel!

Good looking tree. Lemon has been on my list for awhile now. Maybe this spring I’ll get one. Thanks for the video.

Nice to see the progress on your lemons. I seed planted 5 trees in a grove that are very vigorous and should love the summer sun.

Nicely done!

yay the lemon!

Good decision on the pot 🍋

Fantastic ,and is the best

Learned so much from this. Will you try to start the branches you pruned off as new trees?

thanks for the video! I have so many lemons so it was good for me to watch :) (Mine are only a year old though)

Hi Nigel. I have a suggestion for a special video once a year : once a year you will show and talk about - Worst tree you had to work on during the past year. Best tree you enjoyed most working on during the past year. Most improved tree from the previous year. Number of trees lost during the year, number of trees added to your collection during the year.. Similar categories for pots as well, And other categories you and other people can come up with.

I think you are excellent at bonsai

Alright!!! Lemon tree updates 👍👍👍

Could the top have been air layered, or was it too young?

Good

I think you should try to graft the main leader with some branches. Way back home Citrus usually respond well in grafting methods. I just repotted some of my tropical 2 days ago and i was doing same thing last year but still my bonsai alive back to summertime.. 😁😆😆

You need a bonchi now!!

Say. Not related to this video ... But I've been watching some of your older videos recently ..... You grow such luscious mosses!! Some of the best-looking moss I've seen. Any chance you could do an episode on growing and maintaining mosses? Do you collect samples from the wild to propagate them or buy moss? How long does it take for good healthy growth like you get? Bonsai has got me into studying bryophites a bit, but so far I've not had much success in propagating collected moss samples. Be well. Stay healthy and as sane as one can these days. :D

U forgot to spray the leaves with soap and water

Nigel, that's was a nice growth! I wonder how often you were watering this tree in the summer, considering the pot was a small-ish one.

Holy damn he mauled the whole root ball

Another awesome video Nigel! I'm just curious, do you use the same perlite and turface soil mix for all your trees?

Hi Nigel, you really have some awesome trees! I never see you wire your trees or wire them to the pot? Would it not be easier to style them with some wire?

Woohoo

Great videos been following them as you post since I've been getting into bonsai by way of a lemon tree that was donated to me. It's been 'in training' for 4 years in a fairly big pot with potting soil. When do you recommend root pruning and re-potting a citrus bonsai? I also live in Canada, east coast. Thanks!

Will it still be able to give lemons?

Hmmm, you Can make Also lemon forest, it Can looks good

Hey Nigel I’m having some problems and don’t know were to troubleshoot too, I’m have trouble with my lemon cypress I’m having a lot of dead growth, it’s under a grow light, I recently moved it out of its greenhouse pot to a more suitable pot, I pruned the roots to a third of the original size, I’m hoping I didn’t kill it because the dead growth gets more and more every day it seems. I’m thinking about bringing it upstairs, by a window.

I have one lemon bonsai tree too

15 degrees F. with a 5 F windchill here in Chicago. How is it in the north 40 where you live Nigel? Sun finally coming out.

That's a nice tree. I've grown orange trees, but not a lemon. I planted a Pomegranate full of pomegranate seeds. My daughter wanted to save them all. Hoping for at least 6 or 7 to sprout... Well I'm at at least 2 dozen and counting now.... /FACEPALM

What is the soil mix used here? Pumice and grit? I don't have a greenhouse, so I usually feel safer having some organic soil mixed in to retain more moisture against dry indoor air during winter.

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Hello Nigel, greetings from Indonesia. Out of curiosity, I wonder if you have any problems with mosquitos in the plant room there? If you have, how you dealt with it? Thank you.

Wow most of the branches were nice tree size. Can those cuttings be rooted? Do lemon trees grow from seed fairly easy?

Spray for scale!!!!

I wish these channels would stop editing out the root combing I want all the root combing, it's like therapy for me for some reason.

What type of soil are you using?

Nigel, I need help better appreciating the lessons of this episode. It seemed like the total pruning was significant. Should I be worried you pruned too much from the top and bottom at the same time? Is there risk that the “vigor” the tree was showing could be, will be, diminished? Where will the energy for budding come from; is there energy stored in the trunk? Does the new root growth stimulated by the pruning lead to better, increased uptake of nutrients? Were the largest roots, those wrapping around and thickest, contributing to the vigor of the tree at all? When will you begin to feed this bonsai? So many things about growing bonsai I don’t know.

How can you do this heavy root prune and be sure your plant survive? I thought only 20-30% every repot this was like 65% of the root system

Does the barely-above-freezing soil shock the roots?

are those small stones? never seen that kind of soil here. I just use sand used in construction taken from the river

You have many citrus tree, but look like you don't have a kumquat :)

Sir where can we buy ceramic or terracota bonsai pots online in india . Please I search for it a lot and I am not able to get good response from internet

Can Bonsai be done with Bamboo?

Nutcracker?!?

Root comb omg

Isn't it risky to repot (cut roots) and prune it on the same day?

all your vehicles are red in colour!!

Hi

There s something that drives me mad when i watch bonsai videos, they're never in the centre of the pod, always placed out of centre, thats's something i don't understand.

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