As Damsel indicated yesterday in her Lemon Blossoms post, we planned to prune back the lemon tree. Well, today was the day that I attacked the spurious growth of the little tree in our “orchard.”
There were multiple suckers growing out of the ground near the main trunk of the tree in addition to multiple sucker growth low on the trunk. Although there were lemon blossoms on some of the undergrowth, they all had to go in the interest of confining the tree growth upward rather than outward.
I would have trimmed the tree into a perfect round shape if I could, but I did not because of the upper branches that are viable and will produce fruit this fall. Therefore, the shape is a little lopsided and has some thin spots, but there are lots of lemon blossoms and buds. As a matter of fact, I have already found some tiny lemons now developing on some of the branches.
The image above starts out with the ‘before‘ photo and can be clicked to alternate between that and the ‘after‘ image, courtesy of Damsel. Flash™ animation and code by yours truly.
