The Tropical Fruit Forum

I really want to bring my lemon tree in for the rest of the winter. I read Millets 2014 post but still unsure how to prevent WLD. My mother in law waited until in snowed and then brought her Meyer lemon in and she lost very few leaves but she waters it very little and even though it’s south west windows I think the blinds are forgotten to be opened for long periods and her tree is doing great. Any suggestions?

This was labeled as a Meyer from a big box store when I bought it earlier this spring. But my old Meyer lemon tree produced lemons that were round like a ball and this one has a little of a neck. What do you think? The other variety they were selling was Eureka.

Is UGA pink frost grapefruit have good flavor and is more on the sweet side like a white grapefruit?

What is your most heavy producing citrus tree. I’m tired of having divas and want 3 trees. 1. Sour like a lemon or Limequat. 2 sweet.  3. Sweet and cold tolerant.

I have been thinking about getting these in this order but I am open to suggestions
Shiranui
Kishu
Fukushu
Xie Shan
Cara Cara
Lakeland Limequat
Bloom sweet grapefruit
Nordmann seedless kumquat
Thomasville citrangequat
Variegated pink lemon

I have a
Naval orange that is a diva
variegated minneola (new)
Miewa(new and little)
Meyer that hasn’t kept any fruit yet (the small one has but I bought it for my sister. )
Owari (I just planted in ground this year)

Does anyone know what these black spots are on my naval orange leaves?

I found videos and pictures of large kumquat trees shaped like rats, dragons and Christmas trees in Vietnam for TET. It is vietnams largest celebration. In the pictures and videos it looks like the grow the trees in mounds and then dig them up when they sale them and plant them it pots. Some of the pots have multiple trees planted in them like the dragon shows ones but I believe the other ones just have one tree. I would love to try something like this and use the kumquat tree as my Christmas tree one year. Any thoughts? What kind of kumquat do u think is used? They are round.

Isn’t c-35 rootstock highly incompatible with any type of eureka? If so why am I finding all these trees here at big box stores with them grafted together?  Am I wrong or do they not care and are just trying to make money? How long does it take to show incompatibility? Their grafts look really good so I’m just wondering.

Soooo excited. I just bought a Miewa kumquat (it’s been in my list for a long time) and a variegated minneola from Madison citrus nursery. And it’s sooooo beautiful. I’m so excited. And there are so many more I want.

I want to use an old ceramic glazed pot for my new tree. But I don’t know why my last lime tree  died. Is there any risk in putting my new minneola tree in the same pot with different soil?

Does the size of perlite in a 5-1-1 mix matter? Can you use a pine and fir bark mix instead of just pine or CHC chips?

I’m going to switch my citrus to 5-1-1 mix soon. I have used coco coir chunks in the past and had great success but I have heard you can use pine chips. What’s the difference? Is one better? Other than pine being cheaper.

I have had this naval orange for 4-5 yrs. It gave me fruit the first 1-2 yrs but nothing since. It flowered amazing last year but I lost all of it. I tried spraying it with urea 2 years ago and I still lost the fruit. I have it in the turf mix that others have used here but I have not consistently fertilized it. I use the jacks fert but I’m thinking of changing to osmocote plus and foliage pro in hopes the osmocote will help it get fertilized more. I really really want fruit this year any tips? Would planting it in the ground right now help? I live zone 8b.

Help! I’m loosing all my Meyer lemons. How do I make it stop? They are almost grape size and I’m afraid the golf ball sized are next. I bought it at star nursery in Las Vegas for my mother in law a couple of weeks ago. And bought one with lemons on it so she would like it better. I moved it to a semi shady spot then it started loosing the really small lemons so I moved it to a sunny spot. I also sprayed it with the correct amount of neem oil because aphids were attacking 2 near by trees. I also pulled back a few 1-2 inches of soil and added compost. At that time I noticed the feeder roots were at least 3-4 inches down and that compared to my other citrus the soil drained a lot slower. I have been fertilizing it and it has a new flush of leaves. It was just loosing the tiny lemons but now it’s gradually loosing larger and larger lemons. It’s possible I over watered it in the beginning but I haven’t watered it in a week and it’s still dropping lemons.