Cheers, i appreciate that! :) but yeah, i love the progressions haha. Its just annoying that they are so slow/take so long but if i make enough videos about one tree it will be cool to watch it slowly change over the years

Cheers Sue. its definitely been a pumper this year!!

Cheers bro :) yeah its been a crazy grower this year

i'm completely void of melanin! lol but yeah little pot means big abuse hahah its the only way

Cheers hahah i am sure your twig will soon reach the level of my ever so slightly thicker twig in no time. I'm sure we will both end up with something decent in a few years

cheer haha yeah you probably do! makes me wonder how many things i am doing in the rest of my life and totally forgetting about !

Cheers, a lemon clump would be cool. i think thats a great idea!

cheers :)

Cheers :)

Cheers J, the thorns are so annoying, im forever getting scratched from them!

if you are not stabbing them through the heart you are doing it wrong

@@BackGardenBonsai hahaha I have a hard time trying to see what's a scale as it is, stabbing through their heart will take practice!

Cheers :)

I dont dislike it, i'm more just unhappy that its skinny, tall and straight/uninteresting but maybe with time it can dazzle me with its shape

@@BackGardenBonsai maybe I like it because, here in south Italy, all the lemon trees in the orchard are tall and skinny 😅

cheers bro. yeah those asshole scales love the lemons! at least you have one still going strong

@@BackGardenBonsai actually going to get some lemons this year too. 👶✂🌳

Cheers :)

haha cheers bro :)

Ahh sounds very cool. hopefully they are going well. As for pruning it depends what you are trying to achieve. No point styling if you are trying to thicken them, or no point just cutting them back hard if you are trying to style them. I am just letting my grow and then cutting it back... after a few years it might have developed some character and then i can make some decisions then. when they are young there is no real rush for any of this kinda stuff. :)

@@BackGardenBonsai Thank you! They are about 3 to 4 years old, I did not keep records for any of my plants, I am trying to do better now, they all have a woody trunk and yes I do want to thicken them.

Cheers :)

Cheers. mine is actually quite yellow now too. I just use normal fertilser. like standard miracle grow. but you have to be careful its not overwatered or even underwatered. as this can cause yellow leaves in lemons too.

usually if the leaves hold up like that it means they are a little dry, so i would double check on that. As for nitrogen, i dont know. i would say its about the same as any other tree. i certainly dont feed it any more. PH... maybe a little. i do add some ericaceous compost into the mix to help, but i am not sure how much of a difference it makes.

Cheers. yes. anything in my mars hydro tent is tropical-ish, so it gets to enjoy the sun in there. rather than the miserable summers we get here. definitely try a rosemary. they are good fun, not as easy as cotoneaster, but not crazy difficult

Thanks Ian! I'm so glad to have gotten through nearly your whole archive and I love how you deliberately document the plants each month and can show progress. I don't see that a lot in other bonsai channels. Please keep at it! And glad to see your thumb injury wasn't too major and you're as good as new now.

Cheers, the lack of progress always annoys me in other videos. or you see work and then nothing ever again. so i just make what i want to see hahah. im guessing i cant be the only one who likes to see them develop in this way

cheers, yes a long way from lemonade! but the soil is equal parts molar clay. perlite and compost.

well i leave the tree inside. under the grow light. if i over winter it, it would be in the shed. As for times. i change it quite a lot throughout the year. to basically mimic the natural light pattern

its about equal parts of molar clay, perlite and compost.

soon, mid july or so