My Lemon Tree Bonsai, Part 1, The Bonsai Zone, Feb 2022

[@wilerman]

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

[@purelyiconic]

My lemon tree will be 5 years in July🖤 thank you Nigel the bonsai wizard for great guidance

[@growclipbonsaiforseniors1951]

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.

[@lenibergfald459]

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🌿

[@BlueJayBonsai]

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

[@BlueSkyBonsai]

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!)

[@emmkay]

@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.

[@audryscraftingchannel3597]

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

[@growclipbonsaiforseniors1951]

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

[@TropicalBonsai]

Citrus bonsai, only for the brave. Nice one!

[@paulcarley5382]

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

[@Ducesweden]

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.

[@PSPMHaestros]

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!

[@jessevdmeer]

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

[@arnoldmmbb]

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

[@marysoldeeley2218]

Very neat trunk on that tree!

[@SamisBonsai]

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

[@carolholt416]

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!

[@Derrick8WLee]

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.

[@debfaulbonsaigurl]

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 😊

[@hagakuretv]

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

[@pedrobarros409]

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

[@MaybeBonsai]

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

[@seiyuokamihimura5082]

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.)

[@hyperionhelios190]

Lemon double header today!

[@paulbyland]

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.

[@DakotaDS]

Thanks, Nigel!

[@tomconnaghan9610]

“Lemon tree very pretty “

[@kenliu6117]

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

[@Denkar11]

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!

[@hsvfanjan17]

Why'd you want to defoliate a 2 year old tree, though? I bet the main trunk should still get some strength and build character, selecting secondary and tertiary branches comes way later :)

[@chasingthefish9042]

2 years old for a lemon tree is ok to remove the foliage. Well atleast for trees in the ground. I removed the foliage of mine at year two and it exploded with new growth. it also made it easier to see what really needed to be removed branch wise. This year past year was year three and gave me a pretty good amount of fruit and I suspect the next year will be way better in fruit production.

[@neverdieadam7618]

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.

[@hogita]

Liked!

[@Rob6.]

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?

[@robingoergner725]

I don't think it will harm the trees at all to remove the thorns. There're just a defence mechanism against browsing animals and have a negligible affect on the tree's ability to photosynthesize. I hope this helps.

[@kc7brj]

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?

[@seiyuokamihimura5082]

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!

[@rec.bonsai]

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

[@TheBonsaiZone]

2 lemons in over thirty years!! Not great for making lemonade!!

[@fishmanroly7450]

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

[@TheBonsaiZone]

Thanks!!!

[@cedricstadelmann4827]

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

[@Steviejapanesegarden]

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

[@evaculakova6917]

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

[@franklindulnuan9587]

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

[@floranfauna3090]

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

[@TheBonsaiZone]

Lol!

[@Denkar11]

Me too!

[@allanreid2721]

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

[@allmetaliswelcome]

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

[@RampartPh]

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

[@natemurphy4367]

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

[@jsal7241]

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

[@robertobarlos4098]

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

[@robertobarlos4098]

@Nigel

[@z00ropa]

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...

[@TheBonsaiZone]

It may be the soil, I've always grown them in bonsai soil and it seems to help!

[@chrisrose323]

Nigel. How do you keep moss indoor?

[@stuartrose7628]

Cut the tip off those thorns it reverts to branch

[@guilhermeschenadeoliveira5647]

🇧🇷🌱🍃🍃🍃🍃

[@ndang3920]

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

[@johnrb9397]

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?

[@LetsDoBonsai]

Hi There Nigel

[@invertevision4757]

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.

[@goo757]

good to see no ant,s this time

[@LetsDoBonsai]

Could chat here lol so prob not foist

[@LetsDoBonsai]

Foist

[@TheBonsaiZone]

Scott, you are in the Foist Zone today!!

[@LetsDoBonsai]

@@TheBonsaiZone haha I didn’t think it had gone up 😂 lol

[@Bobylly]

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

[@edinborogh]

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