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Awesome content - thanks for sharing!

I'll also tack on another question for soil amendments: do people have experience with adding silicon to their plants? Soil application or foliar spray? I found this very insightful for foliar application (https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6027496/) and am going to begin stabilized silicic acid (sSA) application at the beginning of next month - any thoughts or words from the wise?

Any thoughts on the IDs of these?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q-UmqGMWnFQ&ab_channel=WeirdExplorer

Wow. That's a deal breaker. This is incredibly discouraging for the newer class of citrus hobbyists, like myself, coming up and trying to build our collections.

Beyond other members of the forum, is anyone aware of a trustworthy source of citrus budwood online (not Ebay/Etsy)?

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Looking at the leaves I'm not sure that it is even a magnesium deficiency.  However, depending on the severity of a magnesium deficient leave the leaves affected do not regain full recoloration.

Good to know! Care to wager a guess as to what may be ailing it then?

Howdy All,

I have two questions for the group with pictures attached. Any and all comments are welcomed!

1) I have a potted yuzu that has severe cupping of its latest foliage. The leaves/plant seems very healthy otherwise and is about to start a new flush. Has anyone else dealt with this? I could not find much info on this specific downward cupping of citrus leaves elsewhere - the little I did find had people hypothesizing under watering being the issue. However I do not think that is an issue for my plant.


2) My potted NZL started showing signs of what I thought to be Mg deficiency and I threw a large pinch of MgSO4 at the base of the plant and have watered as usual for 7 days now. How quickly should I be noticing a difference in the foliage if it is indeed a Mg problem? As of yet there hasn't been noticeable change. Looking at the diagnosis resources online, boron toxicity matches the appearance of the problem but that seems quite niche for a recently potted plant (3.5 months). The plant is in a flush and otherwise seems to be putting out growth at a steady pace - to note, new leaves at top of plant are showing signs of the same chlorosis but new leaves on lower branch do not show any signs of problem.

Again, any opinions are greatly welcomed!

Thanks,
pp

I can't seem to find the post now but I remember a thread asking about how the old Italian container citrus' were kept potted for so long. Here is a video I stumbled across that seems to show the method some of the users answered/hypothesized. I can't understand Italian but you get the jist - its very straightforward.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lC1LmKHaiUw&t=1269s&ab_channel=HohnerFerenc

Side note - is that one of the Medici citrus plants? The pot appears to have their insignia

For what its worth, my Viet colleague read over the article and when asked what variety they specifically refer to it as he said "They just called it "buoi", which is literally called Pomelo in English"

Really appreciate all that. The Sonofarm sf2000 is looking like a good purchase then. For what its worth, I found the reviews by Dr MJ Coco and Rows of Green on YouTube to be really informative and helpful

If anyone has these and is open to selling some twigs let me know!

Thanks,
pp

I have also been looking for this, and/or its cultivar the Outback Lime, for a bit of time now and haven't been able to find it here in the US. Very interested if anyone else knows where to source a seed/budwood!