Thank you, everyone, for your likes and generous feedback on this video. Cheers :)

He took his time and explained everything so well. I like that. I also appreciate his reluctance in the indiscriminate use of pesticides. Very wise counsel.

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Mark, its been 5 years since you made this, can you do an update on how your lemon trees are doing now. Also what variety are they..?

How to Grow a Massive KZfaq Audience! You succeeded mate, and well deserved too. You are a true winner Mark!

My tree grows way more lemons than the tree in this video 🍋 I don't mulch, though I have tried it before. The roots are shallow, and some are exposed because they need to breathe. I'll tell you what I did. Three years ago, when my family and I were living in a different state (military), we rented our home to tenants. By the time we moved into our home, the tree looked like it was dying. The leaves and branches had fungus that looked like powdery black soot. This was because it was infested by aphids. Aphids are tiny green bugs that produce a clear sticky substance called "honeydew" and fungus feed on it. When Fungus mold covers the leaves, it doesn't allow light to come in, stopping photosynthesis, and that's why the tree was dying. The fungus mold had taken over the tree. So I got loppers, pulled up my sleeves and went to work to bring this mature lemon tree back to life. I pruned it until there was nothing but bare branches left, after that I got a sponge with water and scrubbed all the black fungus off all the branches. I put in "Vigoro Citrus and Avocado" fertilizer on the roots, all around the water line (where the roots would end) under a thin layer of top soil dirt, covered it with mulch because there were no leaves to protect the roots from the sun, watered the tree every other day in 80-90 degree weather, and once a week during 50-60 (F) degree weather. After 6 months it started to sprout smaller branches, then leaves, then small flowers and after one year the fruit came back huge and in abundance. The aphids tried to come back with the fungus, so I sprayed NEEM OIL (in the evening, not in the sun) on all the leaves to kill them without hurting the tree and now they stay away. Everyone who tastes the fruit of this tree says they are so juicy and they stay fresh for quite a while compared to store bought lemons that rot soon after. I live in California by the way. This tree has so many lemons I worry that the weight is too much for the branches or that they'll go to waste, and this is after my neighbors take home bags full of them.

Because of your video, I now have a beautiful bunch of lemons (and tangerines) coming in this year. Thank you so much for sharing your expertise. I also followed your advice on pruning a peach tree and I will have a beautiful harvest this year. You are my go-to master gardener. Everything you have advised has worked . Now on to the carrots and cucumbers!

Thank you! There are simply not enough videos available on how to produce healthy citrus. I'm a Florida girl who grew up surrounded by orange groves and want to recreate that environment for my own family. Your five tips make perfect sense and best of all, you have that glorious lemon tree in the video as living proof for all to see. Well done.

Wonderful tips, my friend! Those are a lot of fruits your plants are producing. I am guilty for not mulching much but I will take your advice and start doing that more! I do much a bit with my fallen leaves but not as much as you do. Awesome tips! Keep growing!!

Oh my goodness, now I really, really want to grow a lemon tree! They're just lovely and very much my cup of tea :)

I just watched this video again, after four years, and so enjoyed these practical and sensible tips. Since I saw it first time I applied your advice not only on my Eureka lemon tree, but also on my Calamondin container tree, my lime tree, and the Cape lemon, which has a rough thick skinned fruit, with great results. I live in the Overberg, a part of the Western Cape in South Africa. The lemons have become a part of my daily diet, I make lemon cordials and marmalade, and start the day with a hot lemon-ginger-turmeric drink. Thanks for all your enthusiasm over the years and I hope you and your family stay healthy and happy!

Mark ,i am absolutely hooked on all of your video's. The calm way you explain everything is wonderful( even idiots can grow things listening to you,lol). I have subscribed and am sharing your video's on fb.......and of course growing fruit and veggies.....thanks to YOU !!! Hugs from Spain.

When life gives you lemons Say thanks lemons are expensive

I love how you protect, provide, and love. You take your plants in as a part of yourself. You consider all angles and lead with heart and common sense. If everyone did what you do there would be no more wars. I think you are doing a lot more than you realize.

Always good to rewatch your videos, including this one about the lemon tree because your 5 tips helped me bring back a lemon tree when I bought the house from the previous owner. That same tree three years later now keeps rewarding so many people when I give away all the lemons. Thanks

I'm a newbie when it comes to growing any and everything. But after watching two videos from Self Sufficient Me, I was revived with confidence to garden once again. He shares tips that are tried and true, explains thoroughly; And the winner for me is that he isn't relying on pesticides. His garden is a testiment of wisdom and passion. All I can see is how healthy his crops are...how fertile he's made his land.

Your tips are most practical and easy to follow. Great vid, thank you from California.

I loved the eco friendly and sustainable care approach for Lemon growing.Thanks buddy

I’ve been using used coffee grounds mixed with crushed chicken egg shells that I’ve cooked briefly in the oven as fertilizer for my lemon tree. Since I started fertilizing with this combination, my lemon tree has been growing like a weed.

Great video. Feel well informed, and you hold my attention the entire time. Best energy and smile!

This is really informative. I have two citrus trees near my back door that were planted by a previous tenant. Last year the lemon tree seemed to fruit really well despite being thoroughly neglected and only getting water when it rained. This year however because we've had hardly any rain I was lucky to get 2 lemons from the tree. The tree next to it which I believe is some type of kumquat fruited for the first time since I've been living here. I think in order to get a better fruit crop next year I will mulch both trees and give them some water once or twice a week in the early morning or early evening since Queensland summers can be quite brutal with the heat.

Great video! Thank you for speaking about all aspects of growing the trees. Very helpful information that I hadn't seen so far in other videos!

Purchased a lemon & lime tree yesterday, before planting today I jumped onto your channel (as usual) to get the right info, everything is so easy to follow ,Ty from Central West NSW

Your video’s are AMAZING and have helped me so much! Thank-You for your knowledge and blessings from Arizona(USA)👏❤️👏❤️👏

Godfrey, i love your gardening wisdom! Thanks so much for sharing all!!! Blessings.

Exactly what my grandfather used to say to me... But now I can understand it a lot easier. Thank you from Portugal :)

Thank you 🙋‍♀️ My Fiancé and I have watched a few of your videos now, they are presented in a way that is easy to understand, informative and inspiring. Thank you again for your time and efforts to bring the information through your trials and errors! Great work 👍

I'm only two years into growing food and came to you when searching info on asparagus. I now know I will follow you ALWAYS from hereon. Love your delivery style of so much information. Thank you for sharing and in the way you share!

Mate that was the most informative video I’ve ever seen on just not lemon trees but for just about every tree. Top vid

Thank you I'm new to gardening and I love your videos! You make it so much easier and fun for garden newbies like me

Thank you so much for your info! You’ve been tremendously helpful and for that I’m grateful. You’re a smart and caring person and should be extremely proud of the difference you make and hard work you put in. I really appreciate you’re emphasis on not spraying herbicides and insecticides. Simply by showcasing and stating that the prevention is key through love and care the natural way with compost and mimicking the environment. Truly understating the plant and listening to its communication and spirit. ❤

omg! Mark we have finally made it!!!we have our land now....and just planted our own lime tree...and many kinds of fruit trees and planter boxes to make. you have been our inspiration for ages, we have watched you and listened and now we are ON OUR OWN JOURNEY to make our own small piece of paradise. Thankyou!!!

we need more people like you... caring people.

I needed that advice for my overgrown but infertile lemon tree

Thank you for your very helpful, straightforward, practical pointers! I definitely feel "I CAN DO THIS TOO!" after watching. Love your enthusiasm and energy in all your excellent videos!

Thank you so much for this amazing information. I have a lemon tree in a pot and I have been so confused about whether to keep it outside in the winter or not. There is so much conflicting information on you tube. But I could tell by how wonderful and full of fruit your lemon tree is, I knew you were the right person to listen to.

Hey Mark, would love to see a lot more from the kitchen uses, recipes, fermentation and so on for all of the fresh produce. It would be really exciting to see how you use all of the different exotic and also regular fruits and vegetables and so on in the kitchen. Cheers from Denmark! :)

Your yard is beautiful! Thank you for sharing!

Thank you very much for your information. I was wondering how to fertilize my lemon tree after applying mulch. Now I know I may put the fertilizer on top of the mulch. This is my first lemon and lime tree and they are doing well. Also when to water more was needed information. These may seem basic to most people but as I said before I am new at this. I was a nurse and worked numerous shifts.I did not have time to garden before. I am now retired and love watching my trees flourish. Again thank you.

Love your comment about treating the pests/disease organically by pruning rather than with chemicals. Great video! Thank you!

Love your comprehensive and attractive presentation! Thank you.

Love my ladybirds for aphid control. Such good videos to understand.

Brilliant overview of how to get the old lemon tree thriving. Easy, clear principles to follow. I'm looking forward to getting out there in the weekend. Thanks.

Wow! Thanks for these wonderful ideas, I've been planting a lot of Meyer Lemons in my backyard for 3 years already here in the Philippines. This is such a big help. Keep safe always sir!

Wow, just learned more from this vid than anything I've found in a few years! Thank you.

Thank you so much for an Australian video suitable for our environment! Great tips and a great video 😉 time to start mulching!

Had to endure the beginnings of several videos before finding this video that was informative without a lot of fluff and drama. Just give me the facts in a comfortable speed of presentation. THANK YOU!!!!!! I like how you combine relevant information with common sense. Super video. Jesus bless!

Last week I planted 🍋 lemon plant brought from a plant nursery. Thankyou for the video. I will follow how you explained and watch my plant growing and fruiting .

Thanks for this, I live in California and I've got three lemon trees I inherited when I bought my home, I notice the same stress pattern in the leaves. Going to get a trace mineral supplement for them today.

I mulched my lemon tree and it’s looking much happier.

Thank you for clearly explaining the steps for mulching/fertilising/ watering! You're such an enthusiastic, knowledgeable and funny dude, thanks for all your help and constant inspiration, from a subscriber of 4 + years now!

Thankyou Mark. This is the most succinct and clear…making it very achievable, advice on lemon trees I have ever come across. Thankyou again.

The best explanation ever. I have lemon it is almost 5 years now, but it never flowered. So I will follow your tip. Lets see what happens.

Wow just amazing . Thank you for a wonderful video👍👍

Hey, just watched your how you got started video about how this video turned your content creation career around. I’ve been watching your videos for about a month now since I’ve started my own garden and you have been a ton of help, thank you!

I just germinated a LOT of lemon seeds with my 8 year old granddaughter. Today we dropped 36 of them into a seed starter. The leaves have just popped on 6 of them. I just came across your video and can't wait to show her. Some of our 'crop' will be used in container gardening as they are renters. Now that I've seen your tips, I know exactly where I will plant 6. I'll gift the rest to neighbors and friends who will be instructed to visit your channel. This is going to be FUN!

Beautiful trees and great advice thanks.

Great video. Thanks for sharing. Best regards from Stockholm, Sweden.

Thank you for this! Californian here! Was given some lovely lemons from a friend, and the seeds are so big and plump, and I want to propagate them. God bless you all!❤🙏🙏🙏

I have a lemon that chose its own spot. It rolled as a lemon down the slope from its Meyer parent which is a prolific fruiter. I didn't expect much when it emerged from some weeds but like it's parent, it too produces an abundance. I give both of them lots of sheep shit which I use like a mulch along with pea-straw. I treat my potted Ben Yen in similar fashion along with liquid seaweed feed. I can always find a lemon on the property whenever I need one.

HOP TIP: We were told that all citrus trees LOVE LOVE LOVE iron filings. So we tried it. And it worked wonders! Yes... find a friendly mobile mechanic and ask them to give you the iron filings from when they grind iron motor parts like the rotors, and then simply sprinkle it around the lemon tree and when it rains it fertilizes the ground where the microbes work on the mineral and the tree takes it up. Our tree is abundant in leaves which are a lovely deep green, and masses of fruit which grow into large juicy fruit. We've continued to do this maybe once every two years and the results are amazing. Definitely use compost to feed the tree, and a thick layer of wood chip mulch like in this video, but add your iron filings to it, and your lemon tree will become the best on the block.

One day I was using a lemon from the grocery store. As I was squeezing the juice seed popped out. Instead of trashing it I just threw it into a cup of soil. Put the cup on under a light. And it actually worked. I have about, a three inch little citrus plant. I'm going to plant it this spring. This channel was a big inspiration.

Thank you for you tips on caring for the lemon tree, now I know more about it, I’m getting a lot this year after getting rid of moths with a sticky contraption, purchased. Blessings.

Thank you for the super informative video. I absolutely love to grow citrus and this helped me in having a much broader outlook on how to deal with pests in a healthier way. Thanks again

So glad I found this channel! I live on the northern rivers of NSW and have been looking for someone close/locally to get handy tips from!

Thank you for wonderful tips. My lemon trees are babies in pots grown by myself.

You are such an amazing teacher!!! Thank you so much! We got a heart shaped citrus tree for our wedding celebration, and I really want to keep it alive and see it flourish over the years of our marriage (challenge accepted in the city of London!)

Terrific presentation on the basics of growing fruit!! Very down to earth and practical - am looking forward to watching more of your youtube videos, cheers!

These tips helped a lot! My new lemon tree wasn't doing so well, it's little lemons turned black and fell off the tree. :/ And I watered it everyday. It may have been too early for lemons since it was newly planted, but anyway, I took some old lemon peels, that I would normally cut up and put around my blueberries, and mixed them with the mulch along with used coffee grounds around the lemon tree and it seemed to give it a boost. It bloomed lots of white flowers and the more leaves, and looks really green. :) So thanks for the video with these great tips, they helped tremendously. Thanks from Texas.

When I planted what I thought was a lemon (but turned out to maybe be an orange) I fertilized it with expired vitamins dissolved in water (had iron, zinc, magnesium, calcium, copper) and it turned out good. I forgot about the tree for years until it started growing lemons. After a few years though, the lemons seemed to become oranges. A surprise but not a bad one.

The best video i can find online. My lemon tree in a pot indoors. Now, in spring did not yet get any leaves. Thanks Sir for sharing tips.

My lemon trees always give me so much fruit that i give alot to family and friends. I squeeze the lemons and put them in plastic bottles and use them during the whole year. Best tree to have.

There you go making me jealous again ; ) That thing is insane!!!

Thank you for the 5 tips to make a lemon tree successful. I love making limoncello and it takes so much of lemon rind. Our tree is not doing so well.

Thank you so much Mark I had a similar lemon tree success my lemon tree was full of lemons nearly all year around and I used similar ways of looking after my tree like you and it worked perfectly. Thanks for honest instruction.God Bless 🙏🌄

Wow. Thank you so much for great informative videos. As soon you spoke about trace minerals, growing organically without pesticides, I decided to subscribe. Was impressed with how you relayed that important information. Well done.

Absolutely amazing lemons, Mark!

u got russel crowes voice mate the lemon tree gladiator

THANK YOU so VERY much for uploading your first-hand knowledge, I'd planned previousely (to watching) to grow a lemon tree - the lemon is in the kitchen ready, stopped to gain information prior to cutting-open the lemon. I'm very grateful - thank you.

Wow. What a great video!! So informative! This is a one stop shop video for citrus! Thank you!!

3:53 The horse is gazing into my soul~ LOL

I brought 15 pots of different types of lime, lemon, key lime, pink lemon, finger lime, Thai lime, and regular lime. This video sure help me to do something better for them to produce fruits. Thanks

I wish you do a video on how to prune. I found a huge one in a property we bought and it looks crazy. Great video, thanks!

A big thanks to the farmer , so informative.. am practicing citrus farming in Kenya - East - African region and all what he has explained am going through thus affecting thee produce.

Hi, love all your tips in all videos (i just started my garden, a small one for now 😅)! I have a question, im starting lemon tree from the seed in the fruits(most of my plants or vegetables i used those left over waste), if let say my seed managed to sprout out nicely about 2 weeks, should i plant outdoor or keep in the pot until next year? My concern is winter coming soon, not sure if they can survive through it. I prefer the lemon tree to be in the ground like yours.. Hope to hear from you. Thanks. Btw, im staying in Austria so winter can be quite cold.

I know im super late but i have 2 questions. Can you fertilize your tree with fruit on it? Also can you transplant your tree to a new pot with fruit on it?

Thank you so much for the great video. Lots of useful info and very well explained in every step.

Excellent video!!! Very informative! I never knew that a lemon tree grows flowers ❣️ I'm so excited about planting my own now.

Mark , thumps up , i love your guidance thank you so much and God bless. i have abt 500 - 600 lemon seedlings in Kenya , and ready for grafting this season... Rgds , Gerald kioko

Absolutely good. Really no other words for u. Amazing and complete.

ALWAYS a great introduction and relevant information. I'm still learning lots about lemons, because of you. Nice birds on the background.

Very well explained, thank you. I especially liked your tip about not using pesticides indiscriminately. We have a small lime tree in a pot on our terrace. The caterpillars love it and leave it almost leafless every season. We don’t spray or anything. But the tree has survived and gives fruit regularly.

I'm watching this although my lemon tree just started sprouting from seed, gonna need to come back in few more years

That's great help. I'm growing a lemon tree from seed

I appreciate the fact that u could show specific samples of the pests and diseases that could affect the plant. I found the video very informative.

Thanks for your time and I look forward to hearing from you soon about more information have a great day

such a lovely and healthy lemon tree!

you can make slices and pickle them

Great explanation, thankyou for all the information just bought my first lemon tree so look forward to watch it grow.

Great that you speak about natural ecosystem and importance to keep it healthy!!! Thank you so much for all these wonderful, generous and genuine videos :)))