Finally got to watch this late tonight. Been doing snow removal and plow truck repair the past 5 days. Love being able to watch some tree work on one that I plan to get come spring! Thanks for this video!🍻🍻
Dude!!! Great video. Your thumb nail is going to gice me nightmares. Lol...the best lemon trees i have seen are in Florence, Italy...but yours is looking great. I dont know how you grow such an amazing trunk in only 9 years. Very cool 😎🍺🍺
another great looking transformation! Your confidence is really beginning to grow. That lemon tree is going to be beautiful in a few short years. You are so lucky to have such a long growing season. We have been hit by a series of snow storms. The only to tell it’s nearing spring is the longer daylight hours. Cheers Sam and keep those videos coming. I look forward to your posts very much!
Good job Sam, I liked the way you attached the wire to the pot. I have my trees in ceramic pots so I go pass the pot and attach to the table or stump that I have them on. Felling sorry for some of your mates with all the ice. It makes spring much more enjoyable.
Hey mate, any advice for gall wasps? Ive just got a citrus tree thats absolutely FULL of their nests, ive shaved it and trimmed it back really hard, but im worried about my continued care of the tree (if it survives the extreme damage ive just done to it)
Bonsai Bloke I hope you can help me out. I grew several lemon trees from seed. I don't really know what kind of trees they are though. Is a lemon tree a eucalyptus tree? The leaves look darker and fuzzier than the tree in your video. The leaves smell like very strong lemon when you touch them. Winter is coming soon here in Canada. Do you have any advice how to keep them from dying over winter? Should I just keep it in the garage? Or maybe move to the cool basement? Thanks mate.
I just use a little diamond flat stone that I use in the vineyard. Works a treat. Used to work in meat works so have spent 10 years sharpening knives 😊
Now that is a base and a half. A pity you had to cut the pot. Pots like that are expensive because they are so strong. Size I see by your video runs about $78 wholesale. Does, though, make a good bonsai pot.
I have a stack of different pots so it's no a big deal. People just throw them away and put there trees in a nice looking feature pot so I get them for free.
Bonsai Bloke I hope you can help me out. I grew several lemon trees from seed. I don't really know what kind of trees they are though. Is a lemon tree a eucalyptus tree? The leaves look darker and fuzzier than the tree in your video. The leaves smell like very strong lemon when you touch them. Winter is coming soon here in Canada. Do you have any advice how to keep them from dying over winter? Should I just keep it in the garage? Or maybe move to the cool basement? Thanks mate.
Hey mate. No it's not a eucalyptus. As for protecting it just don't let it get below freezing and it will be fine. They can take a small frost but that's it. A window in the shed would be enough as long as it doesn't freeze😀🥶🥶
Great lesson on primary styling. Thank you.
G'Day Sam 👍 Mate, I think its great how you de-mistify bonsai and make it achievable for the average bloke. Cheers and thanks
Cheers mate. Bonsai should be made easy so less people are scared to try 😀
Nice one Sam!
Thanks Nigel. Cheers for the watch. Loving your vids. 😀😀
Finally got to watch this late tonight. Been doing snow removal and plow truck repair the past 5 days. Love being able to watch some tree work on one that I plan to get come spring! Thanks for this video!🍻🍻
Wow mate keep those roads clear. Your weather is soo crazy to me 😀🥶🥶
I like that idea about the tubing!
Works a treat😃
A Tun of fun! You are a poet Sam.
Ha ha cheers mate for the watch 😀
Great video Sam, I always enjoy the content. Thank you for taking the time to record your bonsai work. Cheers mate!
Cheers mate. Happy to do it. Great fun and love the comments 😀😀
Awesome start. I can imagine it shaping up quite nicely.
Great information Sam.
Thanks
No worries mate 😀
Superb Video and superb tree Sam!
Cheers mate 😀
That came out freaking awesome, guide wiring for the win!
Cheers mate. Was super easy and to be honest would probably have looked similar if I went to the effort of wiring 😀😀
@@SamDoeckeAussiebonsaibloke I hate wiring too
Dude!!! Great video. Your thumb nail is going to gice me nightmares. Lol...the best lemon trees i have seen are in Florence, Italy...but yours is looking great. I dont know how you grow such an amazing trunk in only 9 years. Very cool 😎🍺🍺
Ha ha cheers mate. Sorry about the nail.
Ill check them out. This one still has a long road to go 😃😃
So beautiful.👍👍
Cheers mate
This is going to be an awesome tree! Really love the front you chose. Looking forward on updates on this one.
Cheers mate. Will be interesting as it develops for sure. Cheers 😀
another great looking transformation! Your confidence is really beginning to grow. That lemon tree is going to be beautiful in a few short years. You are so lucky to have such a long growing season. We have been hit by a series of snow storms. The only to tell it’s nearing spring is the longer daylight hours. Cheers Sam and keep those videos coming. I look forward to your posts very much!
Cheers mate and thanks for the feedback. Hope it warms up soon for you guys😀
21 F (-6C) out here in Chicago with snow flurries. Good to see a summer bonsai video.
Wow mate bet you are praying for warmer weather 🥶🥶🥶
Good job Sam, I liked the way you attached the wire to the pot. I have my trees in ceramic pots so I go pass the pot and attach to the table or stump that I have them on.
Felling sorry for some of your mates with all the ice. It makes spring much more enjoyable.
Yeh mate lots of ice. If you have a lip on your ceramic pot you can wrap a wire around the pot and attach your wire to that 😀
@@SamDoeckeAussiebonsaibloke Great idea, thanks
its coming along very nicely. great base as well!!
Cheers mate 😀
That’s a lovely bonsai mate. - great job!
Cheers mate. 😀😀
Nioce one bloke!
Cheers bloke
A cool tree with a great trunk.
Cheers mate. Should be looking really good in 5 to 10 years.
nice transformation lad, a couple of my trees are way too brittle for wiring so ill give this a go, good vid TA
No worries mate. Have fun 😀😀
Nice weather. Theres 1/2 in to 3/4 inch ice layer on everything outside here, trees, roads, power lines. Im so ready for spring.....
Ha ha yeh I've seen a few videos of the ice everywhere. Not good. Hope you thaw soon 😀
Aussie bonsai bloke!!!
Cheers for the watch
I like it! Have a lemon also but the trunk is still quite small.
Cheers mate. Thats Awesome. Good to hear. They smell soo nice 😀
With your method of wiring, no wire marks on the branches. Good idea.
Very easy. 😀
Hey mate, any advice for gall wasps? Ive just got a citrus tree thats absolutely FULL of their nests, ive shaved it and trimmed it back really hard, but im worried about my continued care of the tree (if it survives the extreme damage ive just done to it)
nice job !
Cheers mate
Bonsai Bloke I hope you can help me out. I grew several lemon trees from seed. I don't really know what kind of trees they are though. Is a lemon tree a eucalyptus tree? The leaves look darker and fuzzier than the tree in your video. The leaves smell like very strong lemon when you touch them. Winter is coming soon here in Canada. Do you have any advice how to keep them from dying over winter? Should I just keep it in the garage? Or maybe move to the cool basement? Thanks mate.
Also from seed they sometimes grow different to the mother tree. Mine is 7 years from seed and yet to flower so who knows. 😀
Another killer tree and some great tips in there. Question: how do you sharpen your snips, since you're so good at it? Whet stone? Do tell!
I just use a little diamond flat stone that I use in the vineyard. Works a treat. Used to work in meat works so have spent 10 years sharpening knives 😊
It rained all night and as the rain hit a surface it froze. So its like one solid sheet of ice out there.
Amazing, thanks again 😀
I watch you, Nigel Saunders and Peter Chan. And then also some I can't understand because I cant read squiggle squiggle.
Now that is a base and a half. A pity you had to cut the pot. Pots like that are expensive because they are so strong. Size I see by your video runs about $78 wholesale. Does, though, make a good bonsai pot.
78 bucks? Someone's having a lend of you. They're about $15 at bunnings
I have a stack of different pots so it's no a big deal. People just throw them away and put there trees in a nice looking feature pot so I get them for free.
how did you get the base so big?
Glad your not going 100% clip and grow. You’ve done such great wire work in the past.
Cheers mate. Will still wire primary branches on new stuff but will be more selective on trees that I wire. Cheers mate 😀
Any thorns?
There are some but a lot less than in the past. Yet to flower so seed could have produced something different who knows.
Talking about 'clip n grow' - you might need another hair cut. Can you make it as hilarious as the last video cut.
Ha ha maybe mate I do need one soon. 😀😀
You had me at guy wires. Lost me with the thumb nail 🤮
🤣🤣😜😜🤪🤪🤪🤯🤯 sorry mate. Not a good looking thumbnail 🤣🤭🤭🤭
Bonsai Bloke I hope you can help me out. I grew several lemon trees from seed. I don't really know what kind of trees they are though. Is a lemon tree a eucalyptus tree? The leaves look darker and fuzzier than the tree in your video. The leaves smell like very strong lemon when you touch them. Winter is coming soon here in Canada. Do you have any advice how to keep them from dying over winter? Should I just keep it in the garage? Or maybe move to the cool basement? Thanks mate.
Hey mate. No it's not a eucalyptus. As for protecting it just don't let it get below freezing and it will be fine. They can take a small frost but that's it. A window in the shed would be enough as long as it doesn't freeze😀🥶🥶