Take a pic of the light for me. I’d love to see it. I’ve been using lights for years and found real good led ones that work just as good as the sunlight. Getting lots of sunlight will help your tree go hang busters

Hi again, yes you're quite right..Cela-n-dine is our native cute little yellow plant you refer to, but CELA-DINE is a common, but non the less lovely plumeria variety with a very nice fragrance. It is also more cold tolerant than some of the more exotic types,....(one of the many facts I have learnt from here). After several sets of mini leaves coming and dying off and minute root growth, I eventually got it to get going in the greenhouse by placing a cut off lemonade bottle over it to create a mini greenhouse. Once it had rooted enough it put out leaves and also a flower stalk. Have attached a photo to show you what it was like. It is currently housed in the living room and has now dropped all growth and gone dormant. Where did you live in Oz? We have rellies just south of Freo and have visited them a couple of times, thats where I saw my first plumie and got my aunt to send some cuttings from a neighbour who had 'demolished'' a huge tree in her garden. Only one of the 6 cuttings survived, I lost the others to stem rot before I joined this forum and learnt better! Catch you again maybe? Regards, Greenclaws

I just went and looked at the tree again to make sure i had estimated the right height and I think I have underestimated it, it could be more like 8m tall I think. The shock theory is a good one, although we have recently (as of December) had our bore reticulation automated because we planted new lawn in our back yard. The yard is getting watered regularly (every other evening). Before December our yard was a sandpit for 8 months and before that, over run with weeds and knee high grass for years! Could it be the sudden attention has sent it into shock? You might have also read my post on the Sir Walter in the back yard starting to yellow, I'm starting to think the 2 problems may be related, as they yellow spots and lillypilly are all in the same general area. I have tested the ph of the soil and it is sitting between 6 1/2 and 7, so pretty much neutral.... What a mystery we have on our hands! Ange Ange

Update of new growth on my gold nugget dwarf mandarin. Again I see these small brownish spots only on new leaves. It appears that they may be causing the leaves to curl. Are mishapen new leaves any indication of scale or sap sucking insect? Also I've noticed that with my meyer and my mandarin fairly healthy looking leaves have been either dropping or turning slightly yellow since the new growth has taken over. Is this normal? I would expect the old leaves to be 6 - 12 months old so I have no idea if citrus will shed old, less efficient leaves when they feel that they have a good chance at steady growth for a while. Again the new leaves look very healthy (except what I think are baby scale which are causing slight curling).