Good morning guys. So I am out here admiring my key lime trees. As you guys know, I have two of them. And this year they super outdid themselves. Last year around September I was harvesting them. This year I let them sit on the tree and I'm using them as I need them. So every morning before I go to work I grab a few because I always eat fruit with lemon and a little bit of chili pepper. The powder kind. And as you can see although that I've been grabbing tons of these little key limes and picking up the ones that are dropping the district is still completely loaded with key limes. As you can see this is the tree that gave me the hardest time. I made so many mistakes with this tree because I had an idea of growing a key lime like a lollipop so I wanted it at the tree to be you know like stick and then it to be round little did I know that the habit of this growing habit of the tree was completely not compatible with the idea of how I wanted to grow it. So I'm going to show you guys something. As you can see there's tons of cuttings that I did because I didn't want any branches coming out of the bottom of the branch and before I knew it all I had was two branches going upwards and it was completely I would have to say look ugly I just totally made all the mistakes I possibly could with this tree. And when I discovered that this tree had a different growing habit with this tree I realized that I had to let it be. I couldn't continue to be trimming the branches off the trunk I had to just let it grow and I did and once I did that it was just so much happier and as you can see the tree is completely loaded so I am definitely expecting it next year to be even more loaded this is the first year that I let it grow out like it should have been for years I've had this tree for maybe about five years and yes this tree would have been much bigger I would have been loaded with fruit. And this one I got around the same time however this one was not as mature as that one when I received it I purchased this one was given to me and it was already maybe about five years old when when I was given to me and this one was just a little baby maybe about a year old and as you can see because I let this one grow however it felt like growing with the exception of sometimes cutting some branches that were crossing each other in the middle of this the tree you can see that they almost look like they're the same age but they're not you can see the difference this one's much bigger this one's getting there however although this one had a rough start it has more lot keylimes than this one does and that's completely understandable considering that this one's not as mature as the other tree because the more the older the trees are the more fruit they will provide so as you can see just a quick little lesson when you purchase a tree make sure that you do some research and find out what kind of growing habit the tree has to research look at pictures that way you get an idea of how your tree is going to grow that's also going to give you an idea of where you can put the tree because once you know that the growing habits you know what kind of space that tree is going to need once it hits maturity okay these are door trees so I didn't have to worry about it but I'm had them in pots for the last five years and I just been doing what I do with all my citrus and containers if you guys haven't seen what I've done go back and look for the video where I repotted my con quads and give it some root pruning and repotted to refresh all the soil in there I do that with these type of trees maybe every every two to three years because I want to avoid that they get root bound and I want to make sure that they continue to thrive and grow and produce okay so every three years is not bad considering how much fruit the tree's giving you so that is my quick little lesson on my key lime and growing habits and what to do every couple years if you're deciding to grow your citrus and containers and as you know I have tons of citrus and containers this is my myer lemon this is in the ground and sad to say this tree has less fruit than my you this is a ureca lemon and I have a ureca lemon in the in the container that's probably not as mature as this one as you can see how thick the trunk is let me just show you just because this tree is my pride and joy and it's probably taught me most of what I know about growing citrus and containers I also have a video on that on everything this ureca lemon taught me throughout the years I've had this for about seven or eight years and I've learned so much with it but anyways guys as you can see it's in a container and it is super super loaded with fruit a lot more than the tree that's in the ground that came with this house here are some more citrus these are my conquats growing in a container I absolutely love these these don't last very long I actually want to grow some more because I just debower these as soon as they they get ripened and as you can see they're in a container and I do have a video on when I repotted these in the same container I just had to pull them out refresh the soil and take care of them so they can continue to thrive so yes I feel like I'm rambling just because I absolutely love talking about my citrus this is my cave fiery line anyways guys just a quick lesson on my key lines and what I learned about them and I wanted to show you what they look like all right guys I hope you guys have a blessed day if you guys have any questions or comments leave them down below I try my best to answer as soon as possible but if not usually the weekends is when I have a break and I go through all the messages all right guys you guys have a blessed day and I'll see you guys in the next one bye bye