Hi, this video is a response on the request on how to prune roots and branches of a lemon tree. Also, it is a one year update and a small experiment. Here you can see how my lemon changed and what I want to do with it. Let's get down to pruning guidance. Personally, for me there are two types of pruning, a statistical and practical. A statistical pruning consists in pruning, branches which look leggy, growing undesirable position, or just along to be nice looking. Usually, a statistical pruning is used for ornamental trees, in gardens and parks, or plants like bonsai. So, since I wanted to make a bonsai out of these trees, I broadly use a statistical pruning. Practical pruning is used for vast range of things, starting with trimming branches so that the plant is compact and fits in your room or garden and ending with pruning which is needed to graft your tree. Moreover, practical pruning is used to make your tree develop more branches or cut off a limb affected by disease, etc. I use practical pruning to make my tree smaller, shorter and thicker. Here you can see my plant one year later in the last video. The plant doesn't have much leaves because I was away from home, the lemon experienced some droughts. Now, the less it became much thicker and I pruned a couple of branches. On this picture you can see an example of practical pruning, which was made to promote branch growth. I cut the branch near the node, soon after that two branches appeared from the node below. Other branches were cut because I didn't like how they looked. This one particularly was growing in the middle of the canopy, so I cut it. By the way, all my pruning knowledge I received from Nagesunders from one size old channel. He taught me that to straight long growing inwards branches should be pruned or even cut off. The branch will like this. I pruned it where the red line is, new branches started growing where the blue circles are. Now it looks like this, keep in mind that the less pruning you do and the more vigorous tree it has and more branches you will have after pruning. In my case, it's two branches. In your case it may be one, three or even zero if your plant is sick and weak. Since my plant was injured by advice well, I don't want to do any branch pruning. I'll cut just the brown tips because they can start trotting if they get wet. When I pull the plant off the pot and remove drainage layer and the seconds growing on the top. I also want to remove the old soil. The root system looks very healthy. By the way, root pruning isn't necessary for most plants including lemons. I do it just to practice root pruning for my future bonsai plants and to make the roots look attractive. But you can prune your roots to be lush, it's the same as with the branches. Just cut the root in half or so and it will develop new growths in several different directions. It may be useful for young plants which have few roots but they are very long. I want to prune this root because it's too high and I don't like how it looks. Let's get down to planting the lemon tree. I mentioned that I want to do an experiment. As you know, it is not advisable to put plants in a considerable larger pot. So let's give it a try. Rooch on my lemon tree grow really quick and feel the pot in a month. So I want to transplant my lemon from this small pot to this. Feel the difference. I use Lika as a drainage layer. It is covered with suspect the moss as a divider. The soil is a mix of bit and polite as a little bit of sand. It's easier to put roots in wet soil. This is how the lemon tree looks in a new pot in its place. I keep it on the east facing window in my room. I think I should keep it on my balcony in summer. But now there is no place for such a big pot. The balcony is crowded by succulents and poted tomatoes. I planted some succulents on the top of the soil again. To and half months later the plant looks much bigger. It has grown really tall. Nevertheless, just only one branch has grown a lot. It has many huge leaves. The other branches look not bad too. They do not have a lot of plants. They do not have such a amount of big leaves, but they have some new buds.