HalleluYAH (70)! That's is a wonderful milestone Keith. May the most high continue to bless you with many more years. Thank you so much for your kind words but I must give all praises to the most high first and foremost. Thank you Keith.
I would do *anything* for a ringtone of you saying: “as a master gardener and certified bōtanist”!! 😊 Thank you for the gift of these exceptional videos and for reminding us that God’s love is expressed in our gorgeous 🌱 plants…and especially the not-so-gorgeous ones! 😇
You sir are a pleasure to listen to and learn from. I’m going to try this technique on a Meyer Lemon. Please keep sharing your knowledge. Blessings to you.
learn so much from you! I'm always trying to root from cuttings that I get from either from the internet or from my 12 year old half key lime / Meyer lemon tree I have in a container that I purchased from home depot in South Florida. I brought that plant up to North GA mountains 8 years ago and it has been doing very well. So far I have a 5 year old Lemon tree that I grew from seed, but hasn't produced flowers yet and a couple of Naval Orange trees that I rooted from cuttings. They also have not produced flowers yet, but they come with flowers budding on them when purchased as cuttings. They are a couple years old now and about a foot tall. I current also have couple of Persian Lime trees both about a foot tall but they are not doing so well. They lost all their leaves and are developing like a black mold on their stems and trunk. I did have them in terracotta pots and re-potted them in plastic barrel pots with drainage with new orange/cactus soil. Hopefully they will bounce back in the spring.
Sir, you are the God of the Garden of Eden !!! I never, never knew this notching technique to grow bushier, and nobody ever mentioned it either !!! All they said to pinch the growing top and you get side branches growing by which we stunt the height of the tree. But your technique gives the height and the bushier growths. Thanks a million, Sir, for giving us this technique. I will spread the news to the gardening world, Sir.
Wow I’ve watched your videos on notching fig trees didn’t know you can do this with citrus thanks for the information and keep on doing what you doing helping others
Thank you for sharing this technique, and your knowledge. I just bought a Meyer lemon tree, and it was the last one the nursey had left for sale. It looked pretty bare, but I bought it anyhow, since I always wanted one. I will definitely give this technique a try!
This is exactly what I need right now! I have an etrog tree, which is a specific citrus tree found in the Mediterranean, that is over 2 ft tall with no branches. I've done the simple things like fertilizer and a bigger pot, but no cigar. I thought about notching, but you're the first source I've found that actually show it on citrus trees!! Thank you lots!!!
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Glory be to God on the highest🙏😇 I just found your station an hour ago, subscribed and now I find myself watching your other videos...thank you so much for understanding our creators reason for creating us and our whole world, we need to be reminded to be thankful and gracious 24/7. Love your garden and please continue educating us❤🤗🙌
Thank you for this, Sir! I am going to try this on my Meyer lemon and my clementine trees. You and your wife are a wealth of information. Mississippi Girl Life mentioned your channel and I am so glad she did!
Another wealth of knowledge, thank you for sharing. So my new lemon tree has a few of these bare spots so I’m going to give it a week or two to get use to it’s new surroundings and then I’m going to do a few notches at the nodes. I have been gardening since a child and am now 62 and this is my first citrus tree so hope all goes well❤️
Great information. I am not new to gardening, but I'm not good at getting the best from my garden. I'm excited to learn and grow with you! Thank you 😊.
@@elderyehudahwatchmanoftheg8425 your great inspiration for me now I have 52 fruit trees in containers most of them citrus trees BARRAK from Saudi Arabia 😁🌴🌿☘️🍊
Thank you - I have a very straggly, small meyer lemon that has been struggling. I’m using your videos on revitalizing these trees to try to help it. Hoping it works!
Loved watching your video. May I add that my success comes from the Creator. My attitude of gratitude toward Him and the earth brings about success when others try the same techniques and fail. All credit goes to Him who provides for me♡
I wil try and remember this technique when my orange tree is bigger. I just bought one a week a go. It's still very small at just over 1 foot tall. Good info
Such an amazing educator. Your experience and explanations in your videos have been incredibly helpful. Thank you, from : my plants and my friends’ struggling tree 🌱🙏
Good demonstration, and it should do wonders for my trees, especially where I carelessly let the load be too heavy on a major branch of my Belle of GA #5 peach tree last year, and had to remove it after it broke badly. Thanks!
OK so this technique definitely worked for me! I've returned to your video multiple times to check that I'm following the technique. I recently (early July 2023) notched a bare section in the trunk of some orange trees (Bergemot, arrived last fall, potted up and watched it flush leaves in Spring, as well as a Sanguinelli Orange) and now they are beginning to emit new branches near the notches! I notched a few others to observe as well. I note that in addition to getting new flushes by the nodes, I also see OTHER nearby nodes flushing, even though they weren't notched. I presume the tree directed the same growth hormone to the general vicinity which means many of the nearby un-notched nodes also received it; a subset of those other un-notched nodes "woke up" and heeded the call too. What do you do when you get a very long branch growth to the side? Leave it alone? I also have some long side-shoots and TALL shoots suddenly - sometimes longer than the tree is tall, which is about 3.5 ft tall above soil level in a pot. Or should I wait until January (or so) to prune and administer heading cuts?
Absolutely great work and good for you. Remember prune off any branches that go directly left or directly right or directly down or straight up. Branches that shoot straight up or call sprouts and you want to cut those immediately because they will take energy away from the tree. You are on the right path please keep it going
U have described my new cleopatra mandarin lime tree exactly! One side is lush but the other side is bare. I bought the plant and I'm doing the research. I plan to perform this operation tomorrow. 👍🏻
I am going to do this to my kumquat and avocado because my kumquat went from 30 ins last yr to about 7 ft with 4 of the 6 branches growing 5.5 ft themselves, but its skinny and leafy at the top and at the original height of the plant
Well done and a good presentation. As a lifelong landscaper and horticulturist, I don't doubt you one bit and found your video very interesting and something I will definitely try. Thank you and good luck with your show!
Welcome Mr Roberts, Thank you and i appreciate your confirmation. As a master gardeners who specializes in citrus and fruit trees I have come to understand the different variations amongst the many different citrus genome. I'm also a certified botanist and a lover of indoor houseplants. It's great to get feedback from a more established and train professional such as yourself. I am grateful. Thank you and please do return.
@@elderyehudahwatchmanoftheg8425 I initially watched your show because I have been looking for a Meyer lemon for a friend and cannot find one at any local nursery. For several years they've been plentiful but this year nothing, so I discovered through You Tube how easy it is to grow one from stem cuttings or even from leaf cultures. I did not know your trick of slicing the cambium layer directly above a node but it makes perfect sense as Nature's way of protecting the tree and causing new growth after physical damage to the phloem tubes in the bark. I started my love of gardening at age 4 when I fell in love with a picture of a pink iris in a seed catalogue and my mother ordered it for me. From then on I was hooked on gardening and am now 77 and living in Mexico and growing all kinds of things I could only dream of growing when I lived in the US. I immediately identified with your love of gardening and of learning about the care and culture of growing things we enjoy. I firmly believe working with your hands in the soil and caring for things proclaiming Nature's beauty and bounty will add energy and years to one's life. "May you live long and prosper."
Mr Roberts what a beautiful story and I love the highlight of discovering your love for plants at the age 4. Mine was 12 years old when I learned how to grow food in 5 gallon buckets. Yes Mexico's climate is conducive of growing varieties of fruits and citrus, even exotic fruits that many parts of the USA can't. I would love one day to hear more of your love for nature and such. I will soon be turning this channel into a podcast like environment by inviting lots of guest telling their stories of the garden and self sustainability. Thank you for the edification . And I also hope you the best in your continued endeavors and years. HalleluYAH
Amazing! I will employ this process with a bare Meyer Lemon with only two branches (3 feet tall) I just received. I will be utilizing the methods introduced in your video Restoring a Bare Meyer Lemon. Will you please tell me when the best time to employ notching to my Meyer Lemon tree? I am in zone 8b (Oregon City, Oregon). Thanks for the video and input.
Shalom and welcome. I don't fancy this channel much but your comment appeared on my phone. Perfect Timing! All things to trees should be done in Spring. Hope this helps.
I love learning your method of improving my citrus trees. Thank you for sharing your knowledge and skills you have put into practice and success. Many thanks ... God bless and all the best to you ...
Hi!, I am also in your same general area - Sac Valley. I notice that you use a lot of those large black plastic pots. Because dark colors absorb heat rather than reflect it, I've had some plants overheat and die. The roots overheated, couldn't pump up water, and the tree leaves literally crisped and died. One hour it was fine, an hour or two later, completely crispy. It can happen FAST. So now when it's late spring to summer I drape some burlap or shade cloth over the black plastic to prevent it from absorbing heat and cooking the roots. The pot stays cooler even as the heat rises, allowing the roots to continue functioning instead of stressing, overheating and exhausting. I haven't done any experiments to compare plants with draping vs. in a sun-facing black pot; I only had to see it once to realize I needed to correct that in my yard. If your pots are shaded by the foliage of other pots, you may be able to get away with it, but it's something worth considering, especially if the heat shoots up again like we all know it will later this summer. Thanks for your videos!
Welcome, I have read your comments. I am a master gardening and have been growing food for more than 35 plus years. Black pot do absorb heat, but for it to take a negative effect on your plants roots. That would mean your soil is too porous and loose making water drain away from the pot to fast. You do see how big, green and health my trees and bushes look do you? The Heat does not affect my plant at all and never did. I use a very good well draining mix with some water holding amendments. I also much the top of the soil in container to keep the feeder roots and roots below cool. I also have plenty of foliage that also covers the top of the root ball to keep mine cool. Keep watching the channel, you can learn quite a bit here. Thanks
@@elderyehudahwatchmanoftheg8425 Thanks for your response! I am mulching too. Yes, your trees look great! I recently moved my container garden from the Bay Area last summer so it's been a challenge dealing with the heat. It's very helpful to know that you are the same area - Sacramento Valley - so I know you understand the challenges of growing fruit trees here.
Thank you so much for this! Can't wait to try it on my Meyer Lemon tree, where all the branches are growing on one side. One question: will this work at a node where a previous branch existed? Thanks again!
Well, I tried it on my Eureka lemon tree just now, as well as a rose and hibiscus. Let's see if it works. I didn't cut out a notch like others suggest as I didn't want to damage my tree by mistake.
Well the working part will have many factors, some spiritual. But I tell you this most not ready for that conversation, but until than 'LETS SEE" if it works will have a lot to do with what "FRUIT YOU BEAR"
I was just wondering about timing, if there is any. It is December in the Pacific Northwest. I lived in Texas for 25 years and planted a Meyer lemon in a magical place thatwithstood surprisingly cold winters that made me believe that I knew something aboutLemons. Wanting to enjoy same in my native region, I bought one, it enjoyed our Mediterranean summer on the island. I brought the tree in the house when the weather turned windy/cold with its several green lemons. Under an LED grow light, the lemons are beginning to turn yellow, but notice some leaf drop and there are developing bare spots. So, if I'm listening correctly, you recommend removing the fruit and flowers, preventing new growth at the tips of the plant to avoid rangy branches, and notching as demonstrated. Also, lower watering significantly. I hope I've got it. Your trees tell the story, although your nice radio voice tells us how.
Shalom Adoni! These are the videos people need to be watching and hearkening to! Videos that actually teach and show how to properly take care of and nurture your trees and plants! People grow food because they want to reap the health benefits of the crop itself, but they pay no mind or care to the truth that the plants themselves need nourishment as well so that they can be healthy and thrive optimally. We must show the creation of YAHUAH love! And most people, much less gardeners, or those who call themselves gardeners, don't do that! Love is patience and kindness. It does not boast. It does not envy. Love is not easily provoked. It does not look to only its own! (1 Corinthians 13 1-8) Its a shame because gardeners on UA-cam are the exact opposite of this. They are envious and proud and seek to only deceive and create strife. What an abomination and mockery to the FATHER and CREATOR YAHUAH! This is why people's gardens and crops fail and die and provide them no sustainability, provision or health! Scripture teaches us that love does not fail! So if you have love and nourish nature and the creation of YAHUAH with love, how can it ever fail you? It won't! If someone's crop fails, it is because their fruit is evil and wicked and without love! Oh how much the spirit and the Word of Elohim can teach us! Elohim is love. And if HE is for you, who can ever be against you? HalleluYAH! YAHUAH is beyond amazing and worthy of praise and glory! All thanks and gratitude is to HIM! Shalawam!
I just discovered your channel... And I really like your wisdom and your knowledge.. thank you!! I just bought a meter lemon tree and will this technique also work on that tree?
Welcome aboard! This technique so far seems to work on the citrus tree in this video. I'm quite sure when it comes to the meyer with all of my research and experiments. The meyer has the capabilities of healing itself and filling in where previous it was bare. Please watch my video titled "RECOVERING MEYER LEMON" part 1 -4. Thank you
I love your Channel and have you ever done professional acting you're so natural and Easy in front of the camera congratulations. I do have a question I have a dwarf Meyer lemon that I followed all your instructions it's very healthy but it doesn't have any nodes on it. I wish I could send you a picture of it. The plant is exactly one year old I'm excited to see blooms but you said it's best to cut them off the first year can you help an old retired man grow some great lemons LOL😅
Hello Mr McNulty, Thanks for allowing me to assist you. My email can be found here on the channel once you click the about me tab. Or you could send them to my Instagram account. In the meantime, your tree is 1 year old while in your possession. I'm not sure if it still recides in the nursery pot you purchased it in. Or did you repot it in a larger container? What size? What soil amendments? How often do you water it? How often do you feed it. Now that you're aboard. Please take your time and watch my citrus playlist. Their is so much to learn. A garden is, in fact, an investment. So learn as m7ch as you can okay. I'm here ELDER
Fascinating video and I could imagine that the notching must stimulate branch growth in a similar way that cutting an apical shoot promotes growth further down. Just disappointed that you didn't even try to explain what may be happening in your technique of notching; though I acknowledge that successful experiments are worth just as much in the end as published science research. Thus, if it works then do it! Thanks for your video and I'm just off to notch my rather woody and non productive lemon trees. :)
I know that this video was a few years ago but I was hoping for some advice. Back story: I purchased an improved Meyer lemon from my local hardware store, it was in a 4 inch pot standing about a foot tall (really strange shaped pot) and looks like someone lopped off a branch and grafted it to root stock. Its really lanky and has a growth shoot coming right from the graft point. I removed the plant and shook away the old soggy dirt which didn't smell healthy too me(moldy, musky,something off....not healthy dirt smell....i swear pitty for the plant made me buy it at all.) I did not have any special potting mix available so I mixed two parts peat moss with one part steer manure and one part natural fine sized clay from the garden. then added sand until it felt ok like it wasnt going to fly away on me) and used it as back fill when i transplanted the plant into a 8 inch pot (spread the roots a little more horizontally, they looked healthy but I had to cut off the rotting tap root at the halfway mark.) I layered in chicken bedding (wood chips and chicken manure) along with the soil mix in sucessive layers around the roots untill the pot was filled. It spent the summer out side in full sun for most of the day with a drip line from my sprinkler system and occasionally i would topdress with fresh bedding as my chickens would dig it out in search for bugs. Currently it is now an indoor plant because it freezes regularly here and it will remain an indoor plant until spring. My questions and problem: All summer it showed no sign of growth and some of its sparce leaves are now a bit tattered (I can see tiny puncture holes in a few) should I be concerned? Only this passed week it has been showing signs of putting out new leaves( two new ones on the tip of each new branch). Is there anything I can do or add to encourage this new growth without straining the plant? Lastly, I have no available south facing windows in my basement living space and am resorting to the use of grow lights. I currently am using an 24inch led growth light which emits red and blue light and am curious as to what you would suggest. Is one enough? Is there a better option? How soon until I should consider reporting? As a side note, the plant never dropped any noticeable amount of leaves and I havent noticed a recurrence of the strange dirt smell so I hope that I got a handle on the root issue.
One month ago I asked how long it takes to see results from notching. I now have three new branches from five attempts at notching! Pretty thrilled! Does the new growth mean it needs more frequent fertilizing? New question - my tree is tall and spindly. Got a taller one than I ordered. Should I cut the top off?
Trying this on my avocado tree. In watching other videos I thought the cambium layer had to be scrapped off. I will try your technique of just slicing into the cambium layer.
Thanks for the video! Is there a certain time of year to do the notching? I'm in Texas and just bought my first Meyer lemon tree. Thank you for your time!
Someone just gave me a small 2 feet tall Meiwa kumquat tree that is having an root rod issue. Leaves are dropping, branches turning black. I removed it from the pot and found some fedder roots are rotten. It produced some fruits last year. Please educate me how to rescue the tree! Thanks.
Thanks for the video. I have a question please. My citrus tree has one stem about 4 feet long. I can't see any nodes. I see leaves and thorns. One leaf is paired with a thorn almost just above it. What you call nodes i see thorns growing out. Should I notch above the thorn? Thanks.
I found in some other videos people remove a small triangular wedge from the plant above node, but in your video just a small cut without removing the tissue.. Can you please give a comment regarding this.
@elderyehudahwatchmanoftheg8425 thank you so much. Now I have to watch your video on how to age citrus trees. Thanks for all you do. I'm trying to grow citrus in Minnesota...
No I don't KNOW gardening I am a serious beginner at the age of 70 but I have learned alot from you sharing your knowledge with us bless you soul.
HalleluYAH (70)! That's is a wonderful milestone Keith. May the most high continue to bless you with many more years. Thank you so much for your kind words but I must give all praises to the most high first and foremost. Thank you Keith.
I love it
This was a very detail example of notching your trees. Thank you this will help us a lot. I looking forward to the next part.
Glad you enjoyed it! Thank you for your support BYG.
I would do *anything* for a ringtone of you saying: “as a master gardener and certified bōtanist”!! 😊 Thank you for the gift of these exceptional videos and for reminding us that God’s love is expressed in our gorgeous 🌱 plants…and especially the not-so-gorgeous ones! 😇
Shalom and welcome, Thank you for your kind words. Greetings Mr Zimmer
Thank you! You are so good at explaining things, your videos are so calming and peaceful. I'm so glad I found your channel.
You sir are a pleasure to listen to and learn from. I’m going to try this technique on a Meyer Lemon. Please keep sharing your knowledge. Blessings to you.
Thanks for this tip. I'm try this on my fruit trees and have a little faith that they will produce abundantly. Happy gardening 😊
learn so much from you! I'm always trying to root from cuttings that I get from either from the internet or from my 12 year old half key lime / Meyer lemon tree I have in a container that I purchased from home depot in South Florida. I brought that plant up to North GA mountains 8 years ago and it has been doing very well. So far I have a 5 year old Lemon tree that I grew from seed, but hasn't produced flowers yet and a couple of Naval Orange trees that I rooted from cuttings. They also have not produced flowers yet, but they come with flowers budding on them when purchased as cuttings. They are a couple years old now and about a foot tall. I current also have couple of Persian Lime trees both about a foot tall but they are not doing so well. They lost all their leaves and are developing like a black mold on their stems and trunk. I did have them in terracotta pots and re-potted them in plastic barrel pots with drainage with new orange/cactus soil. Hopefully they will bounce back in the spring.
I've been following you from the days of the rooftop garden, and you never let me down.
Thank you and welcome back
Sir, you are the God of the Garden of Eden !!! I never, never knew this notching technique to grow bushier, and nobody ever mentioned it either !!! All they said to pinch the growing top and you get side branches growing by which we stunt the height of the tree. But your technique gives the height and the bushier growths. Thanks a million, Sir, for giving us this technique. I will spread the news to the gardening world, Sir.
Welcome, I'm no god and never want to be. But I do know a thing or two about gardening. Thank you Kanth
Wow I’ve watched your videos on notching fig trees didn’t know you can do this with citrus thanks for the information and keep on doing what you doing helping others
I've never even heard of notching. Been gardening for quite some time. Learning never stops. Thanks so much.
HalleluYAH!
Thank you for sharing this technique, and your knowledge. I just bought a Meyer lemon tree, and it was the last one the nursey had left for sale. It looked pretty bare, but I bought it anyhow, since I always wanted one. I will definitely give this technique a try!
This is exactly what I need right now! I have an etrog tree, which is a specific citrus tree found in the Mediterranean, that is over 2 ft tall with no branches. I've done the simple things like fertilizer and a bigger pot, but no cigar. I thought about notching, but you're the first source I've found that actually show it on citrus trees!! Thank you lots!!!
I'll probably try just one notch after I repot it again. If you do see thing, do you think it's safe for a youngish tree?
Hi, Please do not notch a young tree younger than 2 years old.
Great video! I’m going to try this on a spindly lime tree I have growing. Thankyou for sharing your technique information and advise 💐
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I have faith in you and your experience and methods. I will thank you first and I will try second. Blessings from Ireland 🇮🇪
You can do it! Be well my friend thank you
I’m so glad you’re back. I love learning from you.
Shalo msista Janis, welcome back. HalleluYAH!
Great channel I’m a beginner and I’m learning a lots and you will never learn without trying.
Absolutely!
Pure charisma... you'd make a great salesman.. ( maybe you are/were one ) pure joy to watch your lectures.. thank you so much !
Welcome and I use to be a salesman for 4 years at mercedes benz, 3 years at bmw and 3 years at cadillac. Been there done that. Thank you
Wonderful informative video! Love your positive and wise attitude, so calming and reassuring. Thank you!
Glory be to God on the highest🙏😇 I just found your station an hour ago, subscribed and now I find myself watching your other videos...thank you so much for understanding our creators reason for creating us and our whole world, we need to be reminded to be thankful and gracious 24/7. Love your garden and please continue educating us❤🤗🙌
Shalom and welcome sista Cynthia. All Glory to Yahuah HalleluYAH
Thank you for this, Sir! I am going to try this on my Meyer lemon and my clementine trees. You and your wife are a wealth of information. Mississippi Girl Life mentioned your channel and I am so glad she did!
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Praise God he created all thing's. Thanks for sharing your knowledge with me.
You bet
Another wealth of knowledge, thank you for sharing. So my new lemon tree has a few of these bare spots so I’m going to give it a week or two to get use to it’s new surroundings and then I’m going to do a few notches at the nodes. I have been gardening since a child and am now 62 and this is my first citrus tree so hope all goes well❤️
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Thank you too
Great information. I am not new to gardening, but I'm not good at getting the best from my garden. I'm excited to learn and grow with you! Thank you 😊.
HalleluYAH! You're in the right places
I tried Notching and it worked thank you 😁👍☘️🍊
Excellent! And you are welcome
@@elderyehudahwatchmanoftheg8425 your great inspiration for me now I have 52 fruit trees in containers most of them citrus trees
BARRAK from Saudi Arabia 😁🌴🌿☘️🍊
HalleluYAH! Yes Yes! You have now undone me here on my suburban property. Keep up the good work and fight. Barak
Thank you - I have a very straggly, small meyer lemon that has been struggling. I’m using your videos on revitalizing these trees to try to help it. Hoping it works!
You can do it! I'm here and we can work together to breath life back into your tree. Let me know if you have any questions along the way okay.
Loved watching your video. May I add that my success comes from the Creator. My attitude of gratitude toward Him and the earth brings about success when others try the same techniques and fail. All credit goes to Him who provides for me♡
HalleluYAH! You nailed it Anna. All glory and praise goes to YAH. It' is wonderful to see you state this when so many don't.
I wil try and remember this technique when my orange tree is bigger. I just bought one a week a go. It's still very small at just over 1 foot tall. Good info
This is the best video I've seen ever on explaining notching. Great filming and amazing explanation!! 👏🏽 im going to try this in the spring !!
Awesome! Thank you!
Such an amazing educator. Your experience and explanations in your videos have been incredibly helpful. Thank you, from : my plants and my friends’ struggling tree 🌱🙏
You're very welcome!
Good demonstration, and it should do wonders for my trees, especially where I carelessly let the load be too heavy on a major branch of my Belle of GA #5 peach tree last year, and had to remove it after it broke badly. Thanks!
Thank you Mr Charles, Looking forward to hearing from you again when your trees shows it's success through your hands.
Is there a better time in the growing season to notch?
Spring
Thank you! You are a wealth of gardening knowledge.
OK so this technique definitely worked for me! I've returned to your video multiple times to check that I'm following the technique.
I recently (early July 2023) notched a bare section in the trunk of some orange trees (Bergemot, arrived last fall, potted up and watched it flush leaves in Spring, as well as a Sanguinelli Orange) and now they are beginning to emit new branches near the notches! I notched a few others to observe as well.
I note that in addition to getting new flushes by the nodes, I also see OTHER nearby nodes flushing, even though they weren't notched.
I presume the tree directed the same growth hormone to the general vicinity which means many of the nearby un-notched nodes also received it; a subset of those other un-notched nodes "woke up" and heeded the call too.
What do you do when you get a very long branch growth to the side? Leave it alone? I also have some long side-shoots and TALL shoots suddenly - sometimes longer than the tree is tall, which is about 3.5 ft tall above soil level in a pot.
Or should I wait until January (or so) to prune and administer heading cuts?
Absolutely great work and good for you. Remember prune off any branches that go directly left or directly right or directly down or straight up. Branches that shoot straight up or call sprouts and you want to cut those immediately because they will take energy away from the tree. You are on the right path please keep it going
U have described my new cleopatra mandarin lime tree exactly! One side is lush but the other side is bare.
I bought the plant and I'm doing the research. I plan to perform this operation tomorrow. 👍🏻
Glad I could help.
Thx. Going to give it a shot on my meyer lemon tree. Got it last year and it has some empty spots.
I am going to do this to my kumquat and avocado because my kumquat went from 30 ins last yr to about 7 ft with 4 of the 6 branches growing 5.5 ft themselves, but its skinny and leafy at the top and at the original height of the plant
Well done and a good presentation. As a lifelong landscaper and horticulturist, I don't doubt you one bit and found your video very interesting and something I will definitely try. Thank you and good luck with your show!
Welcome Mr Roberts, Thank you and i appreciate your confirmation. As a master gardeners who specializes in citrus and fruit trees I have come to understand the different variations amongst the many different citrus genome. I'm also a certified botanist and a lover of indoor houseplants. It's great to get feedback from a more established and train professional such as yourself. I am grateful. Thank you and please do return.
@@elderyehudahwatchmanoftheg8425 I initially watched your show because I have been looking for a Meyer lemon for a friend and cannot find one at any local nursery. For several years they've been plentiful but this year nothing, so I discovered through You Tube how easy it is to grow one from stem cuttings or even from leaf cultures. I did not know your trick of slicing the cambium layer directly above a node but it makes perfect sense as Nature's way of protecting the tree and causing new growth after physical damage to the phloem tubes in the bark. I started my love of gardening at age 4 when I fell in love with a picture of a pink iris in a seed catalogue and my mother ordered it for me. From then on I was hooked on gardening and am now 77 and living in Mexico and growing all kinds of things I could only dream of growing when I lived in the US. I immediately identified with your love of gardening and of learning about the care and culture of growing things we enjoy. I firmly believe working with your hands in the soil and caring for things proclaiming Nature's beauty and bounty will add energy and years to one's life. "May you live long and prosper."
Mr Roberts what a beautiful story and I love the highlight of discovering your love for plants at the age 4. Mine was 12 years old when I learned how to grow food in 5 gallon buckets. Yes Mexico's climate is conducive of growing varieties of fruits and citrus, even exotic fruits that many parts of the USA can't. I would love one day to hear more of your love for nature and such. I will soon be turning this channel into a podcast like environment by inviting lots of guest telling their stories of the garden and self sustainability. Thank you for the edification . And I also hope you the best in your continued endeavors and years. HalleluYAH
Thank you soo much! I will be doing this come spring! Amazing!
You are so welcome!
Excellent! So sometimes it doesn't take a lot for nature to take its course. You just have to Know what to do.👍🏻
Absolutely!
Amazing! I will employ this process with a bare Meyer Lemon with only two branches (3 feet tall) I just received. I will be utilizing the methods introduced in your video Restoring a Bare Meyer Lemon.
Will you please tell me when the best time to employ notching to my Meyer Lemon tree? I am in zone 8b (Oregon City, Oregon). Thanks for the video and input.
Shalom and welcome. I don't fancy this channel much but your comment appeared on my phone. Perfect Timing! All things to trees should be done in Spring. Hope this helps.
@@elderyehudahwatchmanoftheg8425 Thanks you kind sir.
I haven't done any notching yet, but eventually I will. :) been gardening since I was a little kid.
I love learning your method of improving my citrus trees. Thank you for sharing your knowledge and skills you have put into practice and success. Many thanks ... God bless and all the best
to you ...
You are very welcome Jean, Thank you as well
Thank you.
Hi!, I am also in your same general area - Sac Valley. I notice that you use a lot of those large black plastic pots. Because dark colors absorb heat rather than reflect it, I've had some plants overheat and die. The roots overheated, couldn't pump up water, and the tree leaves literally crisped and died. One hour it was fine, an hour or two later, completely crispy. It can happen FAST.
So now when it's late spring to summer I drape some burlap or shade cloth over the black plastic to prevent it from absorbing heat and cooking the roots. The pot stays cooler even as the heat rises, allowing the roots to continue functioning instead of stressing, overheating and exhausting.
I haven't done any experiments to compare plants with draping vs. in a sun-facing black pot; I only had to see it once to realize I needed to correct that in my yard. If your pots are shaded by the foliage of other pots, you may be able to get away with it, but it's something worth considering, especially if the heat shoots up again like we all know it will later this summer.
Thanks for your videos!
Welcome, I have read your comments. I am a master gardening and have been growing food for more than 35 plus years. Black pot do absorb heat, but for it to take a negative effect on your plants roots. That would mean your soil is too porous and loose making water drain away from the pot to fast. You do see how big, green and health my trees and bushes look do you? The Heat does not affect my plant at all and never did. I use a very good well draining mix with some water holding amendments. I also much the top of the soil in container to keep the feeder roots and roots below cool. I also have plenty of foliage that also covers the top of the root ball to keep mine cool. Keep watching the channel, you can learn quite a bit here. Thanks
@@elderyehudahwatchmanoftheg8425 Thanks for your response! I am mulching too. Yes, your trees look great! I recently moved my container garden from the Bay Area last summer so it's been a challenge dealing with the heat. It's very helpful to know that you are the same area - Sacramento Valley - so I know you understand the challenges of growing fruit trees here.
Thank you so much for this! Can't wait to try it on my Meyer Lemon tree, where all the branches are growing on one side. One question: will this work at a node where a previous branch existed? Thanks again!
Yes you can!
I came here to learn how to grow my lemon tree....I am leaving being motivated for my college! Thank you so much sir!
So nice of you. Best Of Luck Shubhanu
Well, I tried it on my Eureka lemon tree just now, as well as a rose and hibiscus. Let's see if it works. I didn't cut out a notch like others suggest as I didn't want to damage my tree by mistake.
Well the working part will have many factors, some spiritual. But I tell you this most not ready for that conversation, but until than 'LETS SEE" if it works will have a lot to do with what "FRUIT YOU BEAR"
Awesome video!
I was just wondering about timing, if there is any. It is December in the Pacific Northwest. I lived in Texas for 25 years and planted a Meyer lemon in a magical place thatwithstood surprisingly cold winters that made me believe that I knew something aboutLemons. Wanting to enjoy same in my native region, I bought one, it enjoyed our Mediterranean summer on the island. I brought the tree in the house when the weather turned windy/cold with its several green lemons. Under an LED grow light, the lemons are beginning to turn yellow, but notice some leaf drop and there are developing bare spots. So, if I'm listening correctly, you recommend removing the fruit and flowers, preventing new growth at the tips of the plant to avoid rangy branches, and notching as demonstrated. Also, lower watering significantly. I hope I've got it. Your trees tell the story, although your nice radio voice tells us how.
I do not recommending nothing any tree that is not size appropriate under 2-3 years of age. All else is correct
Shalom Adoni! These are the videos people need to be watching and hearkening to! Videos that actually teach and show how to properly take care of and nurture your trees and plants! People grow food because they want to reap the health benefits of the crop itself, but they pay no mind or care to the truth that the plants themselves need nourishment as well so that they can be healthy and thrive optimally. We must show the creation of YAHUAH love! And most people, much less gardeners, or those who call themselves gardeners, don't do that!
Love is patience and kindness. It does not boast. It does not envy. Love is not easily provoked. It does not look to only its own! (1 Corinthians 13 1-8) Its a shame because gardeners on UA-cam are the exact opposite of this. They are envious and proud and seek to only deceive and create strife. What an abomination and mockery to the FATHER and CREATOR YAHUAH! This is why people's gardens and crops fail and die and provide them no sustainability, provision or health! Scripture teaches us that love does not fail! So if you have love and nourish nature and the creation of YAHUAH with love, how can it ever fail you? It won't! If someone's crop fails, it is because their fruit is evil and wicked and without love! Oh how much the spirit and the Word of Elohim can teach us! Elohim is love. And if HE is for you, who can ever be against you?
HalleluYAH! YAHUAH is beyond amazing and worthy of praise and glory! All thanks and gratitude is to HIM! Shalawam!
This is an excellent technique. I will definitely check out the amazon link.
Glad it was helpful!
I just discovered your channel... And I really like your wisdom and your knowledge.. thank you!! I just bought a meter lemon tree and will this technique also work on that tree?
Welcome aboard! This technique so far seems to work on the citrus tree in this video. I'm quite sure when it comes to the meyer with all of my research and experiments. The meyer has the capabilities of healing itself and filling in where previous it was bare. Please watch my video titled "RECOVERING MEYER LEMON" part 1 -4. Thank you
Thanks for the tip I can’t wait to tryGod bless
Just found your channel! I will be trying soon! Definitely following! 😊🌱🍊
Welcome sista, glad to have your support. If you have any questions please ask okay. Shalom
I love your Channel and have you ever done professional acting you're so natural and Easy in front of the camera congratulations. I do have a question I have a dwarf Meyer lemon that I followed all your instructions it's very healthy but it doesn't have any nodes on it. I wish I could send you a picture of it. The plant is exactly one year old I'm excited to see blooms but you said it's best to cut them off the first year can you help an old retired man grow some great lemons LOL😅
Hello Mr McNulty, Thanks for allowing me to assist you. My email can be found here on the channel once you click the about me tab. Or you could send them to my Instagram account. In the meantime, your tree is 1 year old while in your possession. I'm not sure if it still recides in the nursery pot you purchased it in. Or did you repot it in a larger container? What size? What soil amendments? How often do you water it? How often do you feed it. Now that you're aboard. Please take your time and watch my citrus playlist. Their is so much to learn. A garden is, in fact, an investment. So learn as m7ch as you can okay. I'm here
ELDER
Fascinating video and I could imagine that the notching must stimulate branch growth in a similar way that cutting an apical shoot promotes growth further down. Just disappointed that you didn't even try to explain what may be happening in your technique of notching; though I acknowledge that successful experiments are worth just as much in the end as published science research. Thus, if it works then do it!
Thanks for your video and I'm just off to notch my rather woody and non productive lemon trees. :)
I know that this video was a few years ago but I was hoping for some advice.
Back story:
I purchased an improved Meyer lemon from my local hardware store, it was in a 4 inch pot standing about a foot tall (really strange shaped pot) and looks like someone lopped off a branch and grafted it to root stock. Its really lanky and has a growth shoot coming right from the graft point.
I removed the plant and shook away the old soggy dirt which didn't smell healthy too me(moldy, musky,something off....not healthy dirt smell....i swear pitty for the plant made me buy it at all.)
I did not have any special potting mix available so I mixed two parts peat moss with one part steer manure and one part natural fine sized clay from the garden. then added sand until it felt ok like it wasnt going to fly away on me) and used it as back fill when i transplanted the plant into a 8 inch pot (spread the roots a little more horizontally, they looked healthy but I had to cut off the rotting tap root at the halfway mark.) I layered in chicken bedding (wood chips and chicken manure) along with the soil mix in sucessive layers around the roots untill the pot was filled.
It spent the summer out side in full sun for most of the day with a drip line from my sprinkler system and occasionally i would topdress with fresh bedding as my chickens would dig it out in search for bugs.
Currently it is now an indoor plant because it freezes regularly here and it will remain an indoor plant until spring.
My questions and problem:
All summer it showed no sign of growth and some of its sparce leaves are now a bit tattered (I can see tiny puncture holes in a few) should I be concerned?
Only this passed week it has been showing signs of putting out new leaves( two new ones on the tip of each new branch). Is there anything I can do or add to encourage this new growth without straining the plant?
Lastly, I have no available south facing windows in my basement living space and am resorting to the use of grow lights. I currently am using an 24inch led growth light which emits red and blue light and am curious as to what you would suggest. Is one enough? Is there a better option?
How soon until I should consider reporting?
As a side note, the plant never dropped any noticeable amount of leaves and I havent noticed a recurrence of the strange dirt smell so I hope that I got a handle on the root issue.
I really appreciate your videos. For sanitizing tools, I use my star san so I don't cross contaminate my plants. :)
Great tip!
i am going to try this on my other fruit trees as well as my citrus,
Nice video sir😍
How soon will a new branch start to grow?
Loaded question, In due time it will. Many factors are involved
Thank you! I enjoyed your video and am heading over to notch my lemon tree. Wish me luck.
Good luck!
@@elderyehudahwatchmanoftheg8425 Thank you. I notched my tree yesterday. Fingers crossed.
Nice. Thanks for posting.
You bet
One month ago I asked how long it takes to see results from notching. I now have three new branches from five attempts at notching! Pretty thrilled! Does the new growth mean it needs more frequent fertilizing?
New question - my tree is tall and spindly. Got a taller one than I ordered. Should I cut the top off?
no
Thanks for the lesson, I'm going to try this
I will try this technique on my lemon tree. 😍
Thank you for teaching me how to knot a tree god bless❤❤❤❤❤❤
Any time
Im so trying this !!! I have a bare lime that only flourishes at the top
Thoroughly enjoyed watching your video. Thank you sir. God bless.
Thank you Roxanne
Trying this on my avocado tree. In watching other videos I thought the cambium layer had to be scrapped off. I will try your technique of just slicing into the cambium layer.
Would be a great experiment. Let me know how it goes.
You... are... the man...
Thanks so much for this amazing knowledge, I will definitely try it .
Knowledge is of the creator HalleluYAH. You are so welcome!
Thank you sir!
Thanks for the video! Is there a certain time of year to do the notching? I'm in Texas and just bought my first Meyer lemon tree. Thank you for your time!
Welcome terri, Favorably everything should be done in Spring when it comes to our trees. With some exceptions like pruning
Someone just gave me a small 2 feet tall Meiwa kumquat tree that is having an root rod issue. Leaves are dropping, branches turning black. I removed it from the pot and found some fedder roots are rotten. It produced some fruits last year. Please educate me how to rescue the tree! Thanks.
Citrus Playlist: ua-cam.com/play/PL_NBZM_wAIpXZOD-bd0nwEkza4VRJf0RW.html
So exactly how far deep into the layers are these cuts? Just the Cambium layer or should they go further?
yep
Thank you 💞
You’re welcome 😊
I will be doing this tomorrow! 🍋🍋
Nice
Thank you Sir that was wonderful!
Very welcome
Thank you for sharing Elder
My pleasure
Great information, I'm gonna try it out now!
Thank you so much!
You're welcome!
Thanks for the video. I have a question please. My citrus tree has one stem about 4 feet long. I can't see any nodes. I see leaves and thorns. One leaf is paired with a thorn almost just above it. What you call nodes i see thorns growing out. Should I notch above the thorn? Thanks.
No your tree is too young and damage to notch
@@elderyehudahwatchmanoftheg8425 ok thanks. I will let it grow more.
Thank you for sharing your knowledge with us.
Any time
I need to send a picture of my Satsuma tree. It’s very sick and I don’t know what to do!
Thank you Elder Yehudah
Shalom sista Joyce, you are welcome
I found in some other videos people remove a small triangular wedge from the plant above node, but in your video just a small cut without removing the tissue.. Can you please give a comment regarding this.
Yes that is called grafting
If you have just planted a tree, should you wait a bit for it to establish before you try notching it?
3 year old trees and above
@elderyehudahwatchmanoftheg8425 thank you so much. Now I have to watch your video on how to age citrus trees. Thanks for all you do. I'm trying to grow citrus in Minnesota...
Great information. Will that work on soursop and sugar apple. And what is the best time to do it
Don't know you would have to take the risk and experiment.
Will sure do
I got a Meyer's Lemon from a box store that over watered it and cause it to lose its leaves. Should I notch it to encourage new leaf growth?
You should not be doing anything to that tree when it is in a weakened state.
👍🏽great video
Thanks for the info: viewing from Mississippi-lived in the delta
welcome sista! I'm from Greenville Mississippi born and raised.
@@elderyehudahwatchmanoftheg8425 ok ✅I’m from Indianola
What time of year do you Notch? I’m in zone 9b like you are.
Springtime
Do you know if you can score fig trees? Because they grow differently? Is scoring only for citrus?
Ps. I so appreciate you weaving God into your videos.
Thank you so much ❤
Yes you can
I appreciate this vid! Thanks so much!
You bet!
Excellent video
Thanks for the visit