The leaves look pretty good to me.I have a Nectarine whose foliage doesn't seem quite as nice as that. The size is your choice.I'd probably not take a lot off.It needs to fill out some.There are some decent pruning videos on the Dave Wilson Nursery site.Check out the Summer ones for now.Brady

I just found this article maybe it will help someone here: How to remove skin tags..... I haven't tried these.. 3 Herbal Treatments to remove skin tags that actually work .. in this article I am going to focus on herbal remedies to treat skin tags. The upside to herbal remedies is that they are less invasive than other "fast" remedies. The downside is that they take a little more time and consistency in order for them to work.... Tea Tree Oil- Tea tree oil works very well for removing skin tags as well as moles. In fact, tea tree oil is used on various skin disorders. To use this all you need is a little tea tree oil and a cotton ball. Soak the cotton ball in the oil and apply it directly to the affected area. Do this once or twice daily for up to 4 weeks or until the skin tag vanishes. Castor Oil- Most of you are too young to remember castor oil but this oil was used on a wide variety of common ailments and can be taken both internally and externally. The good news is that you will be using castor oil as an external ointment (I still shudder whenever I think of drinking that stuff). Here is what you will do. Take a little baking soda and mix it with the castor oil to create a paste. I suggest you add some citrus oil as it will stink to high heaven. Apply it to the affected area and cover with a band-aid. The typical time it will take is 2-4 weeks before the skin tag vanishes. Apple Cider Vinegar-Apple cider vinegar works very well for removing skin tags and the good news is that you can buy it in a grocery store for fairly cheap. Just like tea tree oil, you simply dab some of it on a q-tip or cotton ball and apply it directly to the skin tag. Unlike the tea tree oil, Apple Cider vinegar may cause a stinging sensation for a couple minutes after being applied. Typical time until the skin tag vanishes?....2-4 weeks. Those are just 3 herbal treatments that you can use to remove skin tags. If you don't mind waiting a couple weeks and can discipline yourself to treating the skin tag at least once a day, then these will naturally treat your skin tags from your home. 3 Herbal Treatments to remove skin tags that actually work I could go over the typical remove a skin with duct tape or fingernail polish and they do work but can be painful. Instead, in this article I am going to focus on herbal remedies to treat skin tags. The upside to herbal remedies is that they are less invasive than other "fast" remedies. The downside is that they take a little more time and consistency in order for them to work.... Tea Trea Oil- Tea tree oil works very well for removing skin tags as well as moles. In fact, tea tree oil is used on various skin disorders. To use this all you need is a little tea tree oil and a cotton ball. Soak the cotton ball in the oil and apply it directly to the affected area. Do this once or twice daily for up to 4 weeks or until the skin tag vanishes. Castor Oil- Most of you are too young to remember castor oil but this oil was used on a wide variety of common ailments and can be taken both internally and externally. The good news is that you will be using castor oil as an external ointment (I still shudder whenever I think of drinking that stuff). Here is what you will do. Take a little baking soda and mix it with the castor oil to create a paste. I suggest you add some citrus oil as it will stink to high heaven. Apply it to the affected area and cover with a band-aid. The typical time it will take is 2-4 weeks before the skin tag vanishes. Apple Cider Vinegar-Apple cider vinegar works very well for removing skin tags and the good news is that you can buy it in a grocery store for fairly cheap. Just like tea tree oil, you simply dab some of it on a q-tip or cotton ball and apply it directly to the skin tag. Unlike the tea tree oil, Apple Cider vinegar may cause a stinging sensation for a couple minutes after being applied. Typical time until the skin tag vanishes?....2-4 weeks. Those are just 3 herbal treatments that you can use to remove skin tags. If you don't mind waiting a couple weeks and can discipline yourself to treating the skin tag at least once a day, then these will naturally treat your skin tags from your home. 3 Herbal Treatments to remove skin tags that actually work I could go over the typical remove a skin with duct tape or fingernail polish and they do work but can be painful. Instead, in this article I am going to focus on herbal remedies to treat skin tags. The upside to herbal remedies is that they are less invasive than other "fast" remedies. The downside is that they take a little more time and consistency in order for them to work.... Tea Trea Oil- Tea tree oil works very well for removing skin tags as well as moles. In fact, tea tree oil is used on various skin disorders. To use this all you need is a little tea tree oil and a cotton ball. Soak the cotton ball in the oil and apply it directly to the affected area. Do this once or twice daily for up to 4 weeks or until the skin tag vanishes. Castor Oil- Most of you are too young to remember castor oil but this oil was used on a wide variety of common ailments and can be taken both internally and externally. The good news is that you will be using castor oil as an external ointment (I still shudder whenever I think of drinking that stuff). Here is what you will do. Take a little baking soda and mix it with the castor oil to create a paste. I suggest you add some citrus oil as it will stink to high heaven. Apply it to the affected area and cover with a band-aid. The typical time it will take is 2-4 weeks before the skin tag vanishes. Apple Cider Vinegar-Apple cider vinegar works very well for removing skin tags and the good news is that you can buy it in a grocery store for fairly cheap. Just like tea tree oil, you simply dab some of it on a q-tip or cotton ball and apply it directly to the skin tag. Unlike the tea tree oil, Apple Cider vinegar may cause a stinging sensation for a couple minutes after being applied. Typical time until the skin tag vanishes?....2-4 weeks. Those are just 3 herbal treatments that you can use to remove skin tags. If you don't mind waiting a couple weeks and can discipline yourself to treating the skin tag at least once a day, then these will naturally treat your skin tags from your home.

Hi Limeinqueens. I am close to you in NJ if you are in Queens NY. It will do better outside in the long run. I am battling scale right now myself. We had such a long cold cloudy spring until now that my trees were not growing either, but during these last few hot sunny days they have really taken off. New growth is bursting out all over and many are blooming again. I have more than 40 trees and only the Owari Satsuma is still just sitting there inactive although it looks healthy. Several of my trees leaves got yellowish and spotty, but I think that was because they had a hard time absorbing fertilizer nutrients while it was cooler. Also, we just had weeks of cloudy weather here; no actual rain but it always looked threatening. Just days and days of clouds and hardly any sun. Now that it is sunny and hot for a few days and we have had one rainstorm the trees have really taken off. I have the problem with the ants farming the scale and some aphids, but I have been trying to get rid of them with water sprays, soap sprays, alcohol, and ultrafine horticulture oil, and fish emulsion. Usually I can just hook my miracle grow fertilizer attachment to my garden hose, fill it with fish emulsion (if you don't mind the smell) and just give them and all the bushes and hedges in the yard a good spray and it clears them all up. Not this year though; they are much more persistent. I think I have to find something that will get rid of the ants. Usually they are the little ones, but this year it seems to be much larger ants and nothing phases them. I have been cleaning my trees leaf by leaf and it can be very time consuming. Unfortunately I still have those pesky ants farming the scale mainly, but the trees are growing so fast I think they are better outside. Last evening I sprayed everything with Ulrafine or maybe it is called UltraPure hoticultural oil. Don't spray oils when it is hot or sunny or you will burn your plants. If you spray in the evening the oil will dissapate by morning and your plants will be safe if it is a sunny day. I have started to add Pro-Tekt, a Dyna-Gro product, which is supposed to improve heat and drought tolerance, increase resistance to environmental stress, and enhance growth for stronger, hardier plants. If your plants are healthy they can take care of disease and bugs pretty well by themselves. I have used it on my orchid collection for several years and I feel that the plants were more resistant to mealy bug and scale all winter when I used it during the summer. Nothing scientific about my experience, just my observation. I forget to use it last summer and then I seemed to have a buggy winter so I just started using it again. I mix it in with the Foliage Pro, but you can't mix them together or you get a precipitate. I mix the Foliage Pro with water and then add the Pro-Tekt and it is fine, just don't mix the two concentrates together first and then add water, or you will see the precipitate and it will not mix correctly. It says it on the label of the Pro -Tekt, but you might not see it. Don't get discouraged. Your tree will be taking off soon now. Don't forget to fertilize regularly. I think you have a Meyer Lemon from reading your past posts. You may have to feed it a little more than other citrus, I think because it is continuously blooming and setting fruit. Make sure your fertilizer contains the micronutients. Foliage Pro does. Many do not, and that might be why your tree is yellowing. But I think it is probably the results of the colder weather, cloudy skies, and it may just be the older leaves being drained of food as it is about to go into a period of rapid growth. I notice that happens with some of mine. Some citrus seem to be heavier feeds than others. Good luck with your tree and I hope you will soon be enjoying beautiful rapid growth and fragrant blooms. Cory

Agree w/ken on the large leaves and I would not worry to much BUT the little baby leaf above that big leaf (2nd pic) what is going on with the very tip. How much water are you giving it in Salt lake. Apples need a lot of water. If not on a drip, dig a depression moat around the base of the tree and fill with water. Remove any grass or weeds from the trunk out to the edge of moat berm. Depth s/b about 2" deep and about 3' out from ONE side of the trunk(6' in dia.)now you can use the hose, water on dribble. Fill up the depression with water. Slow and deep. .......................................Use the "fruit and orchard forum" maybe it will work a little better for ya