I've been growing a lemon tree from seed since April, inspired by this tree. It received it's first major cut a couple days ago, taking the main trunk way back while leaving 2 low branches. Hoping for sunny days in the near future

It’s Citrus Sunday! I love the amazing movement on this lemon tree. 😍 Fantastic stuff Nigel. 👍

Citrus bonsai, only for the brave. Nice one!

Hi from the nothern part of Norway. I also have 3 new lemen trees. Thank you Nigel for all I have learned from your chanel🌿

@Nigel - You have a great following and your trees are inspiring many including me. Like many I also started lemon bonsai from seeds after following your this lemon bonsai. Thanks for all the knowledge and inspiration.

Your theory of why you prune this branch instead of that branch, gives everyone a chance to think when they do theirs. Root pruning is always a great part to watch as the Good Doctor Sanders displays his surgical skills. Waiting for part 2.

I also love the smell of these citrus trees, I have a citrus lime and it's a real pleasure to work on. (And let's compare against the Serissa Foetida... what a stink! since my last one died 5 years ago I'm very happy watching you work on yours where I can't smell through the interweb!)

I'm gonna show this to my lemon tree so it knows how beautiful it can be 💙☕

Lemon double header today!

I just repotted my 3yr old lemon tree that I grew from a seed a couple of days ago, glad to see the inspiration for that tree getting a nice repotting too!

Very nice video Nigel, those roots look very healthy 👍🏼

“Lemon tree very pretty “

Very neat trunk on that tree!

That tree its a legend of the bonsai zone!! Its your most viewed video right?

Your Lemon has a great structure to it. Great video.

Love u man , I’ve got a three year old from seed lemon bonsai and I grew it because I watched your Chanel , keep up the great work x

Thanks, Nigel!

Thank you Nigel for another brilliant video, I look forward to watching them. I'm in the process of creating my own channel thanks to you 😊

Hello from Bruxelles..your hair dresser loks like a bonsaï ,beautiful original .

Cool trunk on the tree. A lot of character in the trunk.

Nice Nigel. I just pruned my lemon forest on Friday. The seeds for my forest were started exactly 2yrs ago this past Friday. No ficus to work on, so it was Forest Friday for me. My forest has been growing all winter as I do not have a cool place in my house so i understand our conditions are slightly different. Nice to see you work on your lemon tree around the same time. It still gives me confidence to know that I am not out of season.

I will start doing bonsai with my chili's and peppers this autumn here in Sweden too, but i did buy a lemon tree today. It is a plant maybe the size of yours, it was on sale and i loved the trunk on it, and then i found your videos. I watched the video from when you re-potted in 2017 and it will be intresting to watch you continue on it now 5 years later. Cool hairstyle by the way! Greet's from Sweden.

I love your entire collection, but your ficuses really inspired! After a year proving to myself that I can grow ficuses, I have a total of 4 ficus bonsai in 3 species! (3 of which I made from stock, the latest one I bought.)

Awesome work on the lemon tree, going to part 2 now!

The OG video got so freakin many views (for a bonsai video). Legendary!

Liked!

Your lemon tree is beautiful Nigel. I always cut off my thorns because I'm forever stabbing myself with them. Should I not be? Looking forward to part two!

I just can't quite get rid of scale insects on my lemon. I squish all of them and then wash them off with soapy water with neem oil, but they always come back. It's only an issue in the winter when the trees are indoors.

Awesome to see the latest updates Nigel! Would you ever consider pruning away the crazy large thorns for aesthetic reasons?

Cut the tip off those thorns it reverts to branch

dude has even got, Bonsai Hair

I’m trying to watch part 1 while part 2 is premiering, ahhhh! 🤯

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My two lemon trees are a lot younger than yours, Nigel (2 years this summer). I was wondering about defoliating, but I think they're a bit young for that. Looking forward to warmer weather, when they start growing again!

Hi Nigel just found your Chanel I love it just subscribed 👌I am just starting out on my Chanel I have 2 subs so far 😂 looking forward to learning from you thanks Steve in the uk

A lovely tree Nigel, I have recently bought seedlings of Orange, Lemon, and Lime, on which leaves and those vicious thorns are developing. Would it be detrimental to the trees if I take the tip off the thorns to make pruning a little less painful? I have been a regular follower for years, but this will be only the second year of growing them myself, I am from the UK and was wondering if the time of carrying out procedures on the trees would be the same as yourself, considering different time zones?

After my research, and experimentation, I have determined that ficuses are one of the easiest species to care for, although they will and do freak out if they dry out too much. Just never let the soil completely dry, and ficuses grow!

Hey Nigel long time watcher of your videos. I have started my bonsai journey and I thank you and your videos for that. I have a question I have started 3 orange trees from seed they are now 1 year old and about 16" tall with a trunk about 1/4 in across. When should I wire the trunk to start training it and adjusting it's trunk line? Thanks for any help.

Like so many other, I learn so much from watching your video's, thank you. My question is: I have a lemon tree grown from seeding and it is now about 3 feet tall, is it too late to start trimming it back to make it a bonsai? I have defoliated it and trimmed some of the branches but should I or could I start cutting back the main trunk gradually?

I think Australian finger limes would do great as bonsai it's leaves are tiny

Great synth music in the intro Nigel! Did you make it yourself?

It's about time I trimmed my lemon bonzai it's about 3 years old

All thorns of my lemon tree are removed as I see them.

What kind of tape(the red stuff) did you use on your plastic greenhouse,and can it be bought in the UK.

Nigel. How do you keep moss indoor?

Has this lemon ever given you fruit? in so many years of updates I only saw that once it had flowers! Greetings from Venezuela 🌴

What happened to Ficus Friday this week?? Love Citrus Sunday though 🙂

I think you forgot to prune the branch that had the lemon on it. Or did you plan to let that one grow?

Hello is it OK to defoliate all the leaves of a lemon tree? Thank you 🍻🍻🙂

i have a two year old lemon tree so i'm wondering if i make it a bonsai, will it still bear fruit?

How do you water it in such a shallow pot ? Every few days ?

Hi Nigel how’s the lemon tree doing will u be doing part 2 soon?

My lemon trees, which I started from seeds are almost dead. Foliage is corse, stiff and overall looking bad. I hate losing them.

Hi There Nigel

I've been trying to get a lemon tree to grow from a seed for months. I can get seedlings to sprout but after a few weeks they always die...

good to see no ant,s this time

It doesn't look convincingly with such large leaves, and such a small trunk. Would it be better to put it in the ground and then trunk chop?

Could chat here lol so prob not foist

Foist

Ok so think about it, ripping out the roots isn't good. Just because a tree can take it don't mean one should do it. Ripping out the roots just causes more damage and unnecessary damage that the tree will have to try and heal when clean cuts are much more easily healed. And dry soil may be easier to repot but also isn't good for the tree .....it's this way of thinking that needs to change. Root hooks, rakes, metal chop sticks...unless it's an established deciduous bonsai with a nice dense rootball (in which case a rake can be reasonable for the sides, bottom, top layers), one should use a nice bamboo chop stick as they are way less abrasive and way less damaging. That allows the tree to heal much much faster...one needs to always put the tree first and let the tree lead the dance. Not every tree is gonna have a radial root system no matter how much you try. More people should change their ways as technique has advanced in great strides. I do love the lemon tree tho. A beautiful thing knowing it's been through a few hands already and been with you for 20+ yrs already.

Horrible... "it doesn't affect the roots" while also ripping them in half