DON'T PRUNE YOUR CITRUS TREES like you do your Deciduous Fruit Trees! How to Prune Citrus

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I've never been more comfortable with pruning my citrus trees. Thanks for doing this!!

Thanks so much for this video. It really helps me to understand that growing citrus is more like an evergreen bush not a deciduous tree.

I'm really enjoying watching some of your back video content, Cameron. 😊 This was an excellent video on pruning citrus! I agree with you - citrus are such wonderful, easy fruit trees to grow! I'm enjoying learning how to help them thrive, and my young Meyer Lemon - which is hardy down to 20F - gave me over 200 fabulous lemons this season! Made tons of lemon zest, lemon extract, and lemon juice (froze that!), and now enjoying all sorts of lemon baked goods for the holidays. My dad gave me a Buddha's Hand Citron tree for my birthday recently, so can't wait to see that fruiting next year! 😊

I live in a very warm state (zone 8b) that is moderate for a few months (spring), crazy hot for a few months (most of summer, a bit of fall) and has random, wicked winters with occasional crazy freezes. I have to put shade cloth on my citrus and persimmons in the summer and greenhouse tents (Aldis $20) over the citrus in the winter, tree jackets on the rest of the fruit in the winter. I also have lovely, red clay soil 😅. All in all, we are blessed with fresh fruit from our own trees. Your information contributes greatly by encouraging us and providing fabulous info. Thank you.

What does your citrus pruning routine look like? Any citrus pruning tips that have worked well for you? Check out my other pruning videos here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ey_j0Dtw3Nc&list=PLScRNuJpsSkxX6m7IuTsndsw71PA5aaJD

Thanks for this Cameron!...I have to say that I Love the idea of just clipping off the leaves with leaf miner damage...I never thought I could just do that but now I know I can and wow how easy is that!...This is a great video and you explain things really well...and yes, I also let my tree grow as a big shrub, as it likes to. To me the less you trim off of citrus the more natural it is.

Hi I am a new gardener due to working from home. I wish I had started years ago. After watching your videos I started planting my backyard orchard. I am in the Northern California Bay Area. Thanks for being my inspiration and I love your videos and good to see a man of faith. Cedric

Thank you! Came here after seeing you on Epic Gardening, and now I'm super inspired to start a citrus hedge. We live in AZ and already have a few mature tangerine and lemon trees that just don't give us the same quality fruit that they used to. After watching this, I feel much more confident now giving them a good pruning to see if it helps!

I'll prune my lime tree as you showed in this video, thanks

Thanks for letting me know citrus is different from deciduous. I was told you can grow them in a hedge but I saw huge lemon and orange trees. After seeing huge trees I doubted myself I could grow so many so close in my backyard but I went off the word of my YouTube gardners and grew them close together. I’m sure I can manage 6 semi-dwarfs into a nice hegde. Thanks

How are your groupings doing? Any regrets about doing the close multi plant holes?

I just planted improved meyer lemon small 3 gallon already giving fruit should I thin out fruit? Or keep it there? Thnkx!!

I mived into a house that has muktiple lemon trees. Back in the day they grew so many, the owner used to give them out in 5 gallon buckets. The original trees doed but theres so many that still grew and are growing. But thwy dont produce feuit. Any ideas why.

Awesome video and information on the citrus trees! Well done!!! 🙋‍♀️✌😊

I like your tip of leaving the bush hang low. Sure, weeding may be difficult, but low fruit may mean less snapping of over burdened branches. I try to open my citrus up to provide light and airflow though.

I saw you cut lot of young tips off a citrus tree, does this cutting weaken the tree? Thank you for your great video. I just start to plant 3 young citrus trees (1 orange, 1 mandarin, and 1 tangelo). Therefore I watch lot of channels to learn how to trim to keep them more healthy. Your video is very special and I love it 💓💓

Phenomenal video and exactly the education I was after. Thank you so much!

Yeah...learned my lesson when I did what I thought was a fairly mild prune on my satsuma tree (15 gallon size pot) and then had some major branches die back on me from massive amounts of sunburn. The tree is now recovered and is very bushy. I've noticed that the citrus branching that occurs after pruning isn't as well behaved as a deciduous tree (as you said, they kinda grow they way they want). Seems like the overarching message is to not thin them and just tip them back into a balanced shape, but no more. I'm excited that I'll probably get my first satsuma this winter. I grew up eating fresh mandarins off my grandmother's tree, so I know how insanely tasty they can be.

I have a 2 year old clementine tree. It hasn’t fruited yet. It’s about 6’ tall and just has branches at the top 1/3. All the leaves are healthy and green, with only rare leaves dropping. The overall trunk diameter is about 1/4” wide and has bark. Is this ok? Any tips?