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When should I repot these citrus plants? Please help..!

william_meister
7 years ago
last modified: 7 years ago

Hey everyone; I have several citrus plants that I purchased from logees this year. I live in CT zone 6. They have been growing steadily since they arrived in the spring; most of them came in 4 inch pots. I have put most of them in 8" and 10" clay pots outside and use the 5:1:1 mix which they seem to be doing well in.

However, I am wondering if these plants should be repotted soon and if so, what size to go up to? There are a small amount of roots poking out of the bottoms. I see everyone on this forum using 5 gallon buckets for their citrus. So my question is, are my plants big enough to be "potted up" to 5 gallon containers from the 8 and 10 inch clay pots they are in now? My second question is, if you think I should repot these, what time of year should I do it? Now or when
it is colder? They will come inside under artificial lights for the
winter.

I am attaching the pictures of the plants so you can see their relative size.

From far away

Same plants closer up


Please help! Thank you!

The only plant that is older than the rest is the ponderosa lemon all the way on the left, which I got last year. The others, grafted variegated
calamondin orange, a blood orange, a grafted mandarin orange, a meyer
lemon, a valencia orange, a persian lime, and then a little myrtle leaf
/chinotto orange I got this spring

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