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Shafikul Garden plants lemon cuttings in bamboo tubes

A cucumber casing joins the propagation experiments in a tutorial drawing seven times the channel's usual first-day views.

Why this story? The video opened at a pace of 38,400 views a day, 7 times a normal first day on this channel (5,470).

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  1. 0:11Bamboo segments become planting cylinders, with drainage holes drilled into their bottoms.
  2. 2:40Lemon branch cuttings are inserted into cocopeat inside the bamboo tubes.
  3. 9:28A ring of bark is removed from an attached lemon branch to prepare it for air layering.
  4. 10:06A hollowed cucumber surrounds the exposed branch section inside a cocopeat-filled plastic cup.
  5. 14:12The presenter plants fresh lemon leaves, then shows roots and sprouts after a labeled three-month interval.
  6. 18:24Another set of branch cuttings is trimmed, stripped of lower bark and coated with aloe vera gel.

The pots are homemade. Shafikul Garden cuts fresh bamboo into cylinders, drills drainage holes in the bottoms and fills them with cocopeat before inserting lemon branch cuttings.

That hands-only demonstration opens "🔴LIVE:🍋Grow Your Own Lemon Trees at Home! Step-by-Step Live!", which drew about 38,000 views in its first day. It's a notably fast start for the channel's longer videos, even while views across the channel are below their usual daily pace.

The bamboo is only the first improvised container. For an air-layering demonstration, the presenter removes a ring of bark from a branch still attached to the lemon tree. A cucumber is split and hollowed out, then fitted around the exposed section with toothpicks. A plastic cup holds cocopeat around it, and a dark covering encloses the setup.

The tutorial uses time jumps to show the next stages: rooted cuttings coming out of their bamboo sleeves, and the air-layered branch being separated from its parent tree and potted. There is no spoken commentary; close-ups and written labels carry the instructions.

Later, the video presents a leaf-propagation experiment, followed by another batch of branch cuttings coated with fresh aloe vera gel. The kitchen ingredients keep changing, but the work stays focused on preparing lemon material for rooting and moving it into soil.

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The facts
Subscribers
4,090,000
Channel views, last 7 days
1,925,232
Channel views, pace per day
128,774 (on a normal day: 367,969)
Video published
November 8, 2026
Video views so far
38,469 (less than a day online)
Video views, pace per day
1,795

The numbers

The lemon tutorial's first-day audience stands well above Shafikul Garden's usual start for longer uploads. Channel-wide daily views, however, remain below their typical pace.

the video's first day
usual first day here
5,470
this video
38,400
subscribers
4,090,000
no significant change in the last 7 days
total views
1,504,356,221
views per day
128,774
typical day: 367,969
the video
views
38,469
likes
87
comments
0
days online
1
subscribers: this channel and similar channels
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5,430,000
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5,060,000
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4,660,000
As of November 9, 2026 · Data source: Trari Social News, Trari Traffic Trends and Ranking Platform, Google YouTube
Subscriber, view, like and comment counts are YouTube's. Rates, usual days, rankings, comparisons and categories are Trari's own calculations.
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