You're welcome, thanks for watching. I pruned some of those interior / crossing branches, and fertilized this afternoon.

@@Jesusisproo doing great, over 7 feet now.

@@Josh_Green44 can u post an update soon?

@@Jesusisproo sure thing! I'll try to make a short update video this weekend.

@@Jesusisproo just uploaded a video! It's a short.

@@PeterEntwistle thank you! Yes, I have a couple figs, they grow so easily here. I have to prune the citrus very soon! Fertilizing today. This whole week has been in the upper 90Fs. Hot again.

@@Josh_Green44 it’s only getting to 68°F here today, but that is pretty normal for me here. I struggle to ripen figs in my climate. I’ll also be fertilising my citrus today.

@@PeterEntwistle excellent! I just fertilized everything this morning, citrus, figs, and peppers! No more fertilizing the tomatoes, cucumbers, or squash this season, they're starting to wind down, and I'm fine with that 😁

@@noob19087 the dust clogs the mix and impedes drainage. When the particles average around 1/4 inch, the mix is held open, and the perlite itself reduces the overall waterholding capacity of the mix.

@@Josh_Green44 Wow, that was a quick answer. Thanks! Does the same apply to vermiculite, then?

@@noob19087 vermiculite is much worse. It is a moisture retentive spongy mush when wet and loses structure quickly. It should only be used in temporary mixes to start seeds or root cuttings.

@@Josh_Green44 Very interesting. I thought water retention was the point of vermiculite? Maybe my area (Finland) has drier air, but in my experience it seems to have helped plants from overdrying. My chilies have also seemed to like it, but then again those will probably go one to two years whereas my lemons will live for decades. Is this based on your own experience, or do you have literature I could look into further? Googling "vermiculite bad" doesn't give much results, just something apparently about asbestos. By the way, thanks a lot for your time and knowledge, I appreciate it!

@@noob19087 vermiculite makes a mix too wet, so yes it holds too much moisture and not enough air. Perlite provides that better balance of moisture and aeration.

Yes, you can prune your tree at any time. My trees was 7 feet the first time that I pruned it, and chopped it down to a 6-inch stump.

Early in the season, earwigs are horrible here, so I spread Sluggo Plus. Now, there are tomato hornworms, but I just have to stay vigilant and pick them off by hand when I find them.

Well thank you, sir! Did you have a chance to try one of those hybrid Thai X peppers?

@Josh_Green44 I will try a pepper tonight! Any thoughts on good recipes for them? I am making watermelon hibiscus coolers, with a little aged rum.

@@brandonwautlet5197 wow that sounds amazing!!!

Thanks, Tom!!!!

Also, since I grow black bamboo in a small grove, I always have trellis and staking material each season 😃

Thank you! The weather was nice for most of June. Now we are hitting 110F, and the plants are not quite as happy

@@Josh_Green44 Eek! That doesn't sound as much fun!

@@PlasBachGarden it's quite hot 😅 But today it's only 92F currently.

@@Josh_Green44 Stay cool!

Thank you! The bamboo horizontals make it easy to tie them off as they grow.

Thanks, Peter! Our weather is finally warming up, so things will happen quickly now. I still have a bunch of oranges on the Moro, but no blooms yet. I might remove all the fruit to hopefully encourage flowering.

Thanks, Peter! It would certainly provide a powerful trunk for multiple grafts....however, I don't even like avocado, and I'm rather indifferent to guacamole as well. If I *did* like avocado, though, I would get Lila and Mexicola Grande, which are both very cold-tolerant and can survive the Winter outdoors in my area.

@@Josh_Green44 those are some of the varieties I wished we could get over here as they might have a chance of surviving in my area too. I recently managed to get a Fuerte, that’s the first time I’ve even seen a grafted avocado tree for sale over here for years. But I think I’ll have to overwinter that one in my greenhouse like my citrus trees.

Yours totally can! Lots of fertilizer, and regular pruning will get it branched and bushy.

I showed how to prune in this video, I believe.

It's a 20x40 foot garden 😊

Hello! how what?

Thanks, Peter! I don't overwinter peppers anymore. But I used to. I find they grow just as well from seed each year. The citrus get spoiled 😊

I buy it locally here in northern California. The parent company that makes the bark products I use is E.B. Stone.

Thanks, Peter! The peppers have been phenomenal this season, despite the cold late start. I've pruned the Moro multiple times this year....she just keeps getting better. I poked around in the canopy, and a quick count shows between 36 - 40 oranges on the tree. I can't wait to start harvesting in a few months.

Send some pics on Facebook, and let's see if we can identify it!😃

I repotted it this Spring, raised it in its container and added fresh potting mix. It has done very well. In about a month, I'll prune it down again, and return it to the greenhouse for the Winter.

@@Josh_Green44 you sure take great care of it. I have a few avocado trees that are about 3 years old from seed. Hopefully they will stay healthy like this one!

@@dreamingofbonsai thanks! Lots of sun, lots of water, and weekly fertilization!

@@Josh_Green44 sounds good! Thanks for the tips!

Why would you do that? The point of using "Orchid Mix" is that it includes the binder component, and provides a sufficient amount of bark for folks who can't find bark by itself. Washing the mix would double the wastefulness and double the work.

Exactly right. I did a hard chop to create multiple new branch sites.

@@Josh_Green44 just starting seeing your channel... lots of prunning you did ova da years... Interesting... you know, your avocado can give you fruits if you do the "anillado". That's a technique used down here in the tropics for avocado trees from seeds that take too long to bear fruits. That will induce flowering, hence fruit at some point. Anyway, nice to see how pretty an avocado can look if trimmed constantly. It doesn't look like a bonsai and i like it. Looks like a bush which is good

Thank you!!!

Thanks! Yes, doing quite well! Enjoying the final months of Summer.

Hey, Tom! Just a seed-grown foliage plant that I keep maintained so it fits in the greenhouse for the Winter. It's a big ol' pain in the ass, but it's nearly 14 years old, so I keep her around.

I sure do! I use 511 for just about everything in containers 😊

Yessir!

Gonna be some hot sauces in the future!

Thank you very much!!!! It's a labor of love, and requires a lot of careful and coordinated watering.

Thanks! Can't wait to share some of the bounty! I had sunscald on a Naga and a Ghost pod, so I pulled them and tried them unripe. Both had their classic flavors, and a nice smack of heat. Going to be fantastic.

How hot right now? You can repot soon. Or wait until Spring after the last frost.

Thank u for response Day 38 to 40 centigrades Night 30 centigrade humidity 60%to 80^

@@drzahidiftikhar too hot now. Wait until next month or October to repot.

Thank you!!!!

Man, I knew that big pepper pot would work well, but I'm still impressed! Everything else is chugging along, too!

Would be much bigger, but the Spring freeze zapped its first growth, then a deer ate all its leaves, so it had to start over twice this season 🤦‍♂️

Hello! It is a single avocado with multiple trunks. It had a single trunk, but it froze down to the soil line, then resprouted these multiple trunks from the single root system.

This pomelo froze! Good riddance I say!

Thank you, sir!

Pumice holds a lot more water than perlite, so you'd use less pumice, but you should still add perlite.

Pumice holds water it'll end up waterlogged if you added too much which is what I'm dealing with now. I'm trying to dilute it two 5% pumice or so.

Thank you, Tom!!!☺️

I don't know, it's a gawdamn noisy neighborhood!!! hahaha

Hello! Yes, when pruning, I remove any branches that are growing into the center of the tree, because those branches will cross and get in the way.

Thank you, good sir! Fertilized today, hoping for some growth over the weekend!

Thanks, Peter! They are doing great, despite a cold Winter and a long cold Spring. My Fingerlime lost fruit and some small branches when we lost power, and my Mango seedlings died, but overall everything did really well.

The Pomelo I root-pruned? It resprouted nicely, but then froze in an early cold-snap, sadly.

No lime, as the orchid mix should already be pH adjusted. Thanks for the question!

Hello! I change the mix every few years. It has been growing since November 2009.

@@Josh_Green44 thank you Josh. Mine is just one year old but I will have to change the pot and the soil soon if it will only grow upwards. I just pruned it one week ago, now I’m waiting.

@@Zsannaist mine is just starting to "wake up" now, but growth should be bursting in the next month. Just keep pruning it back to where you want it. You're the boss!!! I'll be repotting mine this Spring, too.