Indoor Grapefruit Never Blooms
midnightline
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malcolm_manners
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Comments (2)I would let them fall and then, once they all have fallen, I would thrown them in the trash. Make sure that you are watering the plant so the soil stays moist and there are no mites. Inside a house, maybe you need to do this about once every week-ish(?).... Keep them close to a window with indirect light or some direct light (during the winter but not in summer). Check the soil pH every month or every other month... And don't forget to fertilize more often since a lot of the good stuff leeches out with potted plants. I brought all of my outside plants "in" last month and forgot about watering until I saw some of the shrubbery losing leaves and a lemon tree looking sad. Woops! It happens!!! I also have an outside Debutante Camellia with a handful of browned out flower buds too. The temperatures see-sawing between 70s and teens have confused the poor thing so some flower buds bit the dust and others appear to be "on hold" until temperatures budswarm up and stay warm. The other camellias are no where the stage of blooming yet. And that is good as we are going to to the teens tonight. sigh. This post was edited by luis_pr on Thu, Jan 30, 14 at 20:44...See MoreNever brought indoors a citrus loaded with fruit.
Comments (10)Thanks alot. I just brought it in now because I was looking at that radar and it is actually snowing only about 200 miles away! Luckily I live near the coast so I wont be getting any snow, but it 40 degrees exactly right now and pouring (Burr!). The plant was also soaked so I was afraid of rot, but Im going to bring it back out next week because its going to get sunny and mild (mid 60s) and I dont think 4 days will be enough for discomfort for it to lose fruit. My goal is to keep it out long enough to get most of the fruit to ripen so I dont feel guilty if it does go into shock when it is moved inside permenantly for the winter. I might even put a frost cover on it if it looks like its going to get frosty on a night, but anything predicted to go lower than 37 and it will be spending that night indoors. Thanks again for the response, I appreciate it! Good luck....See MoreScale on grapefruit tree in indoor Atrium
Comments (7)I saw that your tree is one in which you need a Ladder to climb and in an Atrium assuming there is no way you can carry it outside, which would be great. If you connect a bottle of 'All Seasons Dormant Oil' BY 'Bonide' on the end of your hose, they have the product that you can connect to a hose, you should be able to kill them with just a couple of treatments reaching every thing in that place, including your trees...Soak every thing...Unless you use a systemic, it's the ONLY way to get rid of them once and for all..Alchohol works in small areas, but on trees that high, never..This has been the only product to kill any kind of pest I have not been able to radicate with lesser methods. They will die stuck to the tree and some will fall away, but after time watering and spraying your tree down with a hose, your tree will be cleaned of all the dead armor shells,besides, you will be killing mites, mealy bugs and any other critters that would not surprise me invading that tree.. Make sure you do this after the hottes part of the day, like any time after 3 before dark.... Next day, give you trees a good rinse off and you will be amazed) Here's a link to show you the pic https://www.google.com/search?q=bonide+all+seasons+spray+oil+for+a+hose+end&biw=1680&bih=884&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0CAgQ_AUoA2oVChMI8vzP6JufxwIVy5iACh2uqgBO#imgrc=6f2Zj8XopkgS0M%3A Here is what it does..It has many purposes and the best stuff in my armor..) All Seasons Horticultural Spray Oil For Organic Gardening. A superior type paraffinic oil that may be used as a growing season spray, dormant spray (no leaves) or delayed dormant (green tip) spray to control overwintering eggs of red spiders, scale insects, aphids, bud moths, leaf roller, red bug, codling moth, blister mites, galls, whitefly, mealy bugs and other insects and diseases. Highly recommended for use on fruit trees, shade trees, shrubs, ornamentals, roses and vegetables. Safe and pleasant to use....See MoreSick looking older indoor grapefruit tree
Comments (32)brilliant denise ... that is the suggestion i usually make when peeps ask about great grandma's precious semi dying heritage plant ... start some new ones asap ... most outdoor trees grown indoors.. do not root easily ... so it never crossed my mind that it would work with citrus ... go figure .. if in fact you do get a couple cuttings rooted ... just get rid of this old huge headache ... as many large plants like this will be quite a challenge for an inexperienced newb at the process .... in the alternative.. after you are done .. you will agree with me.. lol ... also ... in the future.. you might bone up on proper pruning techniques ... historically ... you did some real interpretational pruning ... lol ... mostly it looks like you just lopped chunks off the top .... which obviously served the purpose.. but it can be done much more artistically ... so that you end up with a much better looking tree .... im sure we could google potted citrus trees to see examples ... finally ... once you get a smaller version .. you will be able to get it outside for summer... so it can get the light levels it really needs ... and if you do.. understand.. when you take it outside after winters indoors... it goes in full bright shade until you can harden it off to direct sunshine ... full bright shade is a lot more light than sun thru windows ... but this is a topic for another post .... good luck ... ken https://duckduckgo.com/?q=potted+citrus+trees&t=ffcm&iax=images&ia=images...See MoreScott_K
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