PG - If you let us know where you live, or a large city you're near, we might be able to help you find what you need. Some helpful (hopefully) observations. If you think about your soil in terms of structure/aeration/drainage, and take responsibility for providing for the plant nutritionally, instead of relying on the soil to provide, it will be a lot easier in the long run. Let the soil provide a healthy home for the root system while you, through a good fertilizer program, provide the nutrients. If you want to explore why this approach is a particularly good one, just strike up a conversation. Vigor is a genetic trait that speaks more to the plant's potential. Vitality is a measure of how well the plant is coping with the hand it is dealt, culturally speaking. Poor vitality limits a plant's ability to grow to its genetic potential. When you repot a plant and it suddenly starts growing better, what has happened is, you've eliminated or reduced the effects of a limiting factor. In most cases, it's tight roots, so let's use that as an example. Tight roots limit growth and vitality. When you repot or pot up, you reduce or eliminate the limiting effects of tight roots. Most growers would call the subsequent increase in growth a 'growth spurt'. In reality, by reducing the limiting effects of tight roots, you've allowed the plant to grow a little closer to its genetic potential, which is actually what we should consider to be normal growth. Did you do something right? Yes, you did. Now though, you can put that knowledge to work by using it to figure out how to make sure your plants are always growing at a rate you once might have considered to be a spurt. Al

so did you do anything about the media.. or is that project for next summer outdoors??? in MI ... indoors... in a miserable winter.. i would probably NOT do further repotting .... ask the citrus peeps for timing on that ... i am thinking.. winging it here ... that a late winter .. very early spring timing.. would get its feet in some proper media.. just before it starts its next root growth phase ... such will probably be triggered by lengthening of sunlight hours... and i will yell... OR I HAVE IT ALL BACKWARDS BECAUSE THERE ARE SPECIAL RULES FOR CITRUS ... this is left to your research ... my good friend rhiz said: Excess moisture is not a requirement for the fungus gnats....but a high percentage of peat and compost is. ==>> the wording just seems hard to me .... peeps who dont know how to manipulate their media... often make peaty media.. to wet .. thru.. excessive moisture.. so though i fully understand what she is trying to say.. and understand how she would handle it.... i am not sure her message is clear ... and understand.. the important roots... are sitting near the bottom of the pot.. not the top of the media.. which dries from the furnace.. not the first inch or two where your finger is... but the bottom third.. which even thought all the former are reasonably dry ... is sopping wet ... you really should not water.. until the whole pot is dry-ish ... not a sip of water.. every time the surface appears/feels dry .... that isnt really where teh roots are.. is it???? when we talk of media and drainage ... we are talking about a consistency of the media from top to bottom ... i learned about this.. when i learned to tip plants out of pots.. to LOOK at how it all works ... i dont recall the size of yours and if that could be done .. and for sure..not on a recent repotted plant ... BTW... late next august.. presuming you will be putting this outdoors in full shade next summer... late in august.. you treat the pot outdoors... so it is ready to bring it in the house in late Sept or so ... so all your bug juice is used out in fresh air.. safe is safe.. but treating stuff indoors.. even organically is not high on my list... unless.. as in your case.. the marauding hordes force your hand ... [in my experience.. no pot smaller than a bushel basket ever goes in full sun ... its all about baking the root mass in a small gob of heat retaining media... see.. we are right back to media ... and that is the lesson .... when dealing with pots] report back often.. your clem is now my friend... lol ken

Probably any root pruning should be done just before they begin their growth .. so that would be around April. If you're just potting up to the next size, and the plant is rootbound, I do not think it hurts to repot in the early summer. I do all my repotting outside, usually in June. I just don't have the room to do it indoors when the weather is cold (and I'm too much of a wimp to do it outside when it's cold!). By June the plants are really getting going and are putting out a lot of new roots. As long as I don't damage the root system too much, they don't skip a beat.

Depends on how bad the health of the plant really is, but I would probably wait as well. Mine actually thrived outside all summer, though I neglected it, and like yours, is full of buds now. Christopher