Growing from seed, my lemon tree appears to have slowed down in terms of height, now around 35-40cm, and is now growing branches out of the main stem.
It’s a year and 2 months old, and is becoming crowded due to the development of branches of such a young age/height.
I’ve been avoiding cutting these off on the assumption that the more leaves the merrier , assuming the more leaves the more chance it will grow further.
Now as pictured it’s getting quite busy, should I break off the lower branches? Some of the new growing branches have actually died off at the end half whilst the stem half is still green, should I remove any branches that are dead at the end? Please see pictures.
The small leaves on the soil I just took off as they were at the very bottom and presumably insignificant