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They were back my little privet that I've been growing from a cutting for the last few years in this little pot
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At the end of the last video I was saying it needed a trim and I'd agree but of course that didn't happen
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And as you'll see that branch at the top just started to go for it. You can see in August it was going crazy
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And as the season went on it just became comical. I don't even think at the time I realised how ridiculous it had gotten
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Can't really see anything here in October so just ignore that but it had stopped growing by this point
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here's a close up in November
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but don't worry you get to see it's full glory now look how long this is
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it's unreal and weirdly only that one branch just went for it
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but I guess that's a good thing in december it went out to the shed and then i seemed to have had a bit of a disaster
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i brought it inside in february but i don't have the footage of the branch being removed
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i have no idea why but we're joining the action here halfway through as i just prune the rest of it to get it ready for spring
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I actually took it back quite hard and you can see the big scar where the super long
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branch was removed. A few weeks later and the buds had swollen and they're readily open so it's a perfect
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time to repot. There is some great moss on this, just grew by itself
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I just loosened up some of the top soil to help get it free
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Then I managed to get it out and as you can see it's a total block of roots
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So I raked it all out. This is what I was left with
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These roots are doing really well, they're really healthy. And you know obviously I then cut them all off
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So now we have a pretty good set of roots I very happy with them
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I'll just putter it back up in the same pot. and here it is after
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all ready to go crazy again I didn't wait long to grow again so I'll give it a quick prune back
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This is exactly why you wait until the buds are about to open when you repot
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All the energy is up in the tree and you can get away with crazy root work and then still
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get growth like this. Here it is after I think it looking pretty good I like this tree
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And then a few weeks later in April it's gone crazy again
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I'll give it another prune. I think I'm going to stay on top of this tree this year
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No more crazy long growth. Here in May again, you can see some good growth, so I prune that back again
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Here we are now. Let's hope it keeps the pace up for the rest of the season. I think this tree is going to do very well this year. No pruning this month, but soon
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Thanks for watching, see you next time
