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« on: September 19, 2020, 03:41:05 AM »
Where are you in Belgium? If you speak French, read recommendations on forum Agrumes-Passion, there are many people from Belgium that successfully growing citruses.
Basically, I guess your problems are in roots, pots should be very aerating, citrus roots outside soil need a lot of oxygen to withstand diseases. Most of citruses from Sicily are delivered in heavy clay, because they were grown in fields. In majority of cases the vendors are washing this soil, but just add some light substrate outside. The water is easily draining but the clay is becoming dry. So you should wash this clay on delivery.
Than the easiest way is to use a cheap pine compost that is always available in supermarkets, check it before, it should still contain some granulation. If you want to use something else avoid "Citrus" substrates, majority of them are very bad. Instead, a good commercial substrate for potted plants with addition of equal volume of perlite should be fine.
To assure aeration, some people here are perforating the bottom sides of plastic pots with holes of ~1 cm and the same distance between them. You should not put any drainage matter to the bottom. To fill the gaps between roots just use water flow.
For the fertilizer- most so called citrus fertilizers in Europe are not appropriate. The closest to ideal is Feriligene fertilizer for geraniums 18-6-12 with Mg and microelements.