Hotchoccy, you'll need to get some solid information about your soil situation before you can hope for success. If the sand is very fine textured, like flour or powder, you'll never be able to do much with it. Coarse textured sand has more possibilities, though that kind of soil is not at all physically stable....it shifts. You'll also need to find out about the water table and the sodium content of the soil. Do you know what the pH is? What about the quality of the water that will be used? I think that once you find the answers to those questions, you'll be in a much better place. You'll have to work with the sand because it's an almost impossible soil type to change. Mike is right. We can grow our plants in almost anything...as long as the fundamental needs of plants are provided in the right balance: water, air, essential elements....and sunlight. What are the typical nighttime temperatures? I'm curious.

Ray, it's hard to see yellow spots, but after expanding pics I think I see what you mean. The leaves look a bit pale. Bare-root plants need more adaption time and effort than plants shipped in soil. Add diluted fertilizer. Either Citrus or well-balanced for starters. Eg, 15-15-15 w/minerals. A dose of Epsom Salts should help too. Follow directions on ES's and fertilizer for dossage. You said you potted in topsoil. Do you mean dirt used for outdoor gardens? If so, topsoil is way too heavy for tropicals, or any house plant. It's not sterile, has weed seeds and possibly insects eggs and/or adults. Perhaps I misunderstood. What size container did you repot in? It's hard telling looking at online pictures. I'm unfamiliar with dwarfcitrus.com. Did you check www.gardenwatchdog.com for feedback? Also to see if they're still opened for business? Ray, for the time being, if you used outdoor topsoil, you'll need to repot to a lighter, well-drained soil. If I misunderstood, I'm sorry, my mistake. Second, fertilize. I deal with bare-root succulents, and to get them started, they need a little push which is what fertilizer does. Add Epsom Salts. Water only when soil feels dry, but not bone dry, especially since roots need to form. Good luck, Toni

What was the brand of fertilizer? There are differences between fertilizers in that some that are meant for plants in the ground don't work as well in a container. Also in my experience, most organic fertilizers do not work as well in a container. The organic fertilizers are raw materials, ie; blood meal, cottonseed meal, bone meal, etc. which relies on the soil microorganisms to convert the raw food to nitrogen, phosphorus and potassium and micro nutrients which the plant can then absorb. Most potting mixes do not have a sufficient amount of soil microorganisms to do that converting, so the plant can't absorb the food. I'd use a slow release food such as Osmocote Plus if I were you, especially as you're getting a lot of rain. It doesn't wash out of the pot nearly as quickly as regular granular foods. And the Plus formula is advertised to last 6 months, though with all that rain it may be more like 4 months.

The branches are green so they are alive. Remove the grass from within a half meter or more. My trees do not grow in summer until august or later. That puts your date at February or later. It looks like it needs nitrogen. I feed my inground tree 28-0-4 grass feed. Make sure that the grass feed is free of any poisons but is just grass feed.