Overwintering Citrus in containers
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Comments (7)And I have a different philosophy than many here, lol. I say, "Less is Best; more is not better; quality not quantity." I know, I know...you can never have enough plants, right? Do I sound like a recovering plant addict? :-) Ark, do some good research before adding too many more plants. You don't want to bring them into an environment in which they can not be properly be taken care of. Your enjoyment of the plants would plummet if that happened. But, many have had successful experiences with this kind of situation so I think we'll hear some good stories....See MoreMy experiencing of overwintering Citrus under growth lights
Comments (4)Have you measured actual air temperatures near the leaves on the mandarin? Is it much taller and closer to the light? 1000w HPS or MH bulbs put out a *lot* of heat. The ambient air temp in the room isn't going to tell you the air temp near the leaves. If the gold nugget was significantly closer to the light (because taller) it's possible that either it was too hot (hard to do with mandarins) or that it was just transpiring more rapidly than you thought and the soil wasn't as moist as you anticipated. It could also be that you had been over-watering it and then backed off when you moved it. Did you check the runoff water for the sour smell of root-rot? This might be the most likely explanation considering you saw veinal chlorosis? See: http://edis.ifas.ufl.edu/hs141 for comparison images. It seems odd to me that the mandarin would do better with less light and colder lows. It is my understanding that they are often grown off the coast in more desert-like environments to help them sweeten up. It is also my understanding that 50% humidity should be plenty for a mandarin. Is it possible that it was just shedding leaves in response to the transition from outdoors to indoors and then stopped once it had adjusted and the location was not the cause? What kind of sun is the solarium receiving? How many hours a day are you running the grow light? The vigor of the meyers doesn't surprise me at all - they always seem more vigorous to me but the situation with the mandarin is surprising to me and I'm interested because I'm currently over-wintering 5 mandarins......See Moreoverwintering citrus in ny
Comments (4)The bugs sound like mealy bugs. If you spray rubbing alcohol all over the plant including uder the leaves and in the forks of the branches then do it again 3 days later, you'll have a lot fewer. They thrive when the plant is unhealthy because of drought or poor light. Don't get a lot of alcohol in the soil and do it when the plants are well watered. The halogen lights produce a lot of heat and were unsuccessful here, but possibly because I wasn't home to provide the extra water necessitated by the heat. Understand that you'll get lots of tiny fruits and a lot will drop off. The mealy bugs love the base of the fruit and flowers so spray that area well. Pollinating the flowers will cause an increase in seeds without an increase in fruit set in some citrus varieties. It looks like the plant is pretty happy now and like most wont be able to support all those fruit to ripeness. That's why a lot fall off. Since you have more flowers than you'll get ripe fruit, there's no reason to try to increase fruit set by polination....See MoreGrowing citrus in hydroponics
Comments (20)Guy's guy's this isn't so hard. Now you can't grow them from seed hydroponic or by my method of "working water". But once you get it to seedling it's an easy transfer to a "Working Water system. https://sites.google.com/view/thegardensofease2/home There's a lot of information on how to grow any type of plants in the "Working Water" system, a lot of plants. Even pictures with examples. Even shows you how to build the containers. In fact I have several Ponderosa lemon seedling that need re-potting to their own system. Another thing is trees that require bright light can be train to lower light conditions such as getting light from a north facing or lower light levels. It's all in how you acclimate the tree....See Moretapla (mid-Michigan, USDA z5b-6a)
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