Dwarf Meyer Lemon tree (suckers)
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Dwarf meyer lemon tree needs help
Comments (6)As Steve has mentioned your fertilizer is not ideal. It also appears as though your soil is retaining water, which is killer for Myers (which in my experience can be quite finicky in a pot). I would search the forum for 5:1:1 soil mixtures and repot the plant into this type of soil (which drains much better). Mixing sand into a potting soil mixture often complicates the drainage, and it is for these very reasons why so many folks on the forum are such supporters of 5:1:1 soil mixtures. As for your fertilizer, look up foilage pro and osmocote plus on the forum as well. Good luck! Zach...See MoreHELP! Need help pruning meyer lemon tree! Is this a sucker?
Comments (4)Thank you Steve!! This is very helpful and I will do so ASAP!...See Morehelp with dwarf Meyer lemon tree - indoors
Comments (3)Your big new branch appears to be a water sprout; I would prune it back to the general canopy level; it is a sign you are being too kind to your tree. Maybe next year the new branch will produce. Do not cut any of the flowers; if they make fruit, you can cut most at the size of BB or pea to give the tree more energy to put into growth....See MoreRootstock suckers on Meyer lemon tree? Where is the main trunk?
Comments (12)It's unclear whether the planting consists of several individual propagules, or the multiple trunks are all branches that connect to a lower order branch beneath the soil line. It could be either. If they are individual propagules, you can separate them when you next repot (spring), select one of the propagules, then remove any branches competing for position as the main leader so there is only 1 conspicuous trunk. If the lower branches were removed from this propagule such that all that remained is the cluster of branches at the top of the cutting, you could potentially end up with more than 8 trunks. If you pruned off all branches except for 1 with the growing tip of the branch still attached, you would end up with a single-trunked specimen, and it wouldn't matter if the pruning was done before the propagule was stuck (in the grow medium) or at some later date. If you live in the Northern Hemisphere and when you pruned, a large number of leaves were lost due to the pruning, it could be considered an error (from the plant's perspective). Leaves are each a food factory, working to produce the plant's true food (sugars/ starch). When the plant is pruned so leaves are lost, it increases the potential for the tree to be in a place where it is using more energy than it is creating (through photosynthesis). This is a dangerous position for a plant to be in as it is unsustainable; and, it puts the tree in a position where it must have enough stored energy reserves to push at least some new foliage to a point where it at least 75% mature, the break-even point where leaves change from being net users of energy to net producers. If you simply cut the 'extra' trunks off at the soil line, they will each back-bud from currently suppressed buds at or immediately below the soil line, which would add to the number of trunks/ stems on the plant. Al...See Morehoosierquilt USDA 10A Sunset 23 Vista CA
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