Orlando Tangelo Tree - VERY VERY SICK NEED ADVICE
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Comments (9)MG potting soil is fine, but other mediums should added. I mix soils and non-soil-less mixes together. For my 2 Lipsticks, the soil consist of Miracle Gro, a handful of house plant soil, coarse sand, handful of peat, and Perlite. They hang in a west window, in the bathroom. Can't use a humidity tray when plants hang so 4 showers per day and daily misting increases humidity, (lipsticks need humidity) Lyssa, as long as your container has drainage holes, soil is well-draining, and watering isn't done too often, (daily, like some ppl tend to do,) there's no reason to worry about overwatering. To be honest, my lipsticks are watered when soil dries, but if you wait too long, they wilt or drop. Overwatering causes wilt and felled leaves too, so the best thing is to familiarize watering habits. Aside from using sand and perlite, both lipsticks are rootbound, so chances of overwatering are next to nil. If you worry about overwatering, use smaller pots. Lipsticks are more likely to bloom when roots are snuggly. Your lipstick will thrive in an east window, but lessens chance of flowering and sturdy foliage. Unless your plant is right against the pane and/or getting additional artificial light. Consider obsturctions like curtains, blinds and trees... Lipsticks are early bloomers..Once you see growth, start fertilizing. I alternate by using an All Purpose fert, then, the following month, Flowering fert. Herbs are difficult..they need fresh air and a good amount of sunlight, there's no comparison. If you've just started growing plants, don't count herbs. Since your leaves were soft brown, the soil wasn't being kept too dry. It's a good idea to check for insects. I'm not saying that's the problem, but one never knows unless they inspect plants regularly. Do you know what to look for? So far, saturating soil and removing dead foliage is a good start. Periodic spraying in sink or shower, or if you're into misting, helps with humidity, especially if the air in your house is dry. Good luck..Toni...See MoreVery sick Meyer Lemon Tree??
Comments (5)Thanks for everyone's response :) Hi meyermike_1micha, I know I overwatered from having the pot sitting on the floor with a plastic water catch thing. It sat in water for a bit before I had someone help me get it onto the rolling crate that it now sits on. I did notice one really small bug by the underside of the pot when I was flushing the soil. But other than that, nothing else. As far as freezing, I don't think so. I brought the tree into the house early October, but there were a couple of nights the temp. was around 45-50 degrees, so maybe that?? I had been watering it once a week, with 1 pitcher of water until the time that I watered with an additional pitcher (which I thought it looked like it needed) and then discovered the extra water in the base pan the next day. I am an inexperienced gardner and have no idea what to do other than getting some additional lighting (grow lights??) Should I flush the soil again, just in case my cat had pee'd in the pot? Should I give it some kind of food/fertilizer?...See Moreneed help! container marsh grapefruit/ orlando tangelo tree??
Comments (1)I think you'll be fine there, Crazy01. You have several years to go, yet, to worry about trees getting too tall. I would suggest purchasing semi-dwarf or dwarf cultivars, so that will help to remove the height issue. Drop-crotch pruning would be the technique you're after to keep the height down if necessary. Three feet is close, but again, if you purchase semi-dwarf or dwarf cultivars, that, plus being in a container will keep size down. You should be fine. I have two container citrus that are about 3' apart right now, and they aren't close to each other, yet, and if I keep the container size limited, they will stay that way (may need root pruning several years down the road to keep size down.) My only concern is the lack of sunshine. 4 hours is almost not enough. 6 hours would be the minimum for good quality fruit. Use a very well draining potting mix - we have a couple of great recipes on our forum, just search for "gritty mix" or "511 mix" for the ingredients. Also, Farfard makes some excellent professional mixes you can purchase as a pre-bagged product, if you can purchase Farfard in your area. Lastly, remember to fertilize properly. Most of our container citrus folks as well as myself like to use Dyna Gro's Foliage Pro with each watering, and I also use a time release higher nitrogen fertilizer as well, since my container citrus are out all year 'round like yours will be. Container citrus need more fertilizing due to their more artificial environment being in pots. I do a water flush about every two months to flush out any built up salts from the fertilizers as well. Good luck and please share your photos with us when you have your trees planted. Patty S....See MoreSick palm trees? Any advice?
Comments (7)thats the typical look on a queen palm here in so cal if not taking care of properly but than again most people, not all mainly water them every so often. it might need a good soaking since there was no irrigation & if the ground looks really dry but i agree with TZ7 with the epsom salt and a slow release fertilizer. regular water & fert. should turn this palm around in no time, there are thousands of queen palms all around especially by where you live & if taking care of they look really beautiful! goodluck...See Morestevetalacki
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