Help with my non-grafted 6 year old lemon tree!
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Laura LaRosa (7b)
6 years agoDave in NoVA • N. Virginia • zone 7A
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HELP! Meyer Lemon Tree 1 year old
Comments (10)Ok..First of all, the curse of the lemon meyer!! But have no fear, you can prevail! Immediately, I mean immediately, I would get that plant out of the soil ASAP.... That soil your using, has been the DEATH of all mine when I first began. It holds way too much water, a perched water table which citrus HATE in our growing regions, no matter what the product claims, and it holds way to much residue fertilizer salts that can turn leaf tips brown. Your roots should look a healthy white. Take a peak while you are add it, if not, it is killing your tree fast. Therefore the branches dying..Root rot kills the branches, but first the leaves drop, usually green and or yellow..The leafs drop green if under watered and root damaged has taken hold.. Is there a way you can STRAIN out all the peat moss in that soilless mix you bought? Please let me know..I will give you a great idea? Do you have quick access to good nursery mix? You live in Ohio? You need to keep your tree on the dry side with such a lack of sunlight, and make sure it absolutely needs watering before you do it again.. Let us leave it at here, until you change the soil..Nothing else is going to help it, until you first take this step. That soilless mix is junk! Sorry..:-( Let me know when you have done the first step, and or if you want too.. I will then guide you from there..You NEED to put that plant in a FAST draining soilless mix, that dries out rather rapidly. One that is porous and provides great gas exchange after each watering. One that allows the salts to flush out at each watering. One that allows you to feed at every watering. One that provides oxygen and does not suffocate the roots..Does not take too long to dry out, or compact:-) There might still be hope. How much sun does it get? How are the temps? What size, kind of pot is it in? How long has it been taking the soil mix to dry out? What kind of water do you provide it with? Do you use vinager? What kind of analysis, or how high is the ph of your water? What are your cultural habits in detail.. Mike...See Moregrafting onto 4 year old lemon
Comments (7)BTW .. i dont get it ... if you graft onto it.. you will cut off all the old tree.. but for the roots ... so i dont know how grafting will help you you know.. you are allowed.. when the fruit are dime sized.. to simply pick them off.. and enjoy your tree.. w/o the man-killing fruit .. lol .. ken...See MoreNeed Help With Mr. John Lemon (My Mayer Lemon Tree)
Comments (20)I am sorry you used the advice of the Home Depot "experts". Here is a quote from Al Tapla who developed the 5-1-1 mix: I can say that I haven't actually used cedar bark/mulch to grow in, so I can't comment on the practice directly or from actual experience, but I can say that because the tannins, as well as terpenoid and phenolic compounds cedar is rich in are known to be allelopathic (inhibit growth) to many other plants, I have discounted the likelihood that it would be a suitable choice for me. :-(...See More6 year old lemon tree started from seed
Comments (14)Yeah, I would say 6 to 10 years from seed for lemons to bloom and bear. Less in the ground in the south, and longer in containers in the 'north'. So yours should be getting close. I would make sure to limit your trimming if you can. Citrus have a long juvenile period and need to develop mature growth (and get quite big) before they can bloom. Keep in mind if your lemon was Eureka or Lisbon or similar, chances are very good that you will get a true-to-type fruit. However if your lemon was a Meyer, chances are very POOR that you will get anything exactly like a Meyer, since it is a hybrid and seedlings of it do not grow true-to-type. When yours blooms for the first time, it may be fairly near the tip top of the tree. This is where the growth first changes phases from juvenile to mature. So you don't really want to cut off the top-most growth. Over the next several years, blooms work their way down lower, as middle and lower branches reach maturity....See Morejohnmerr
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Dave in NoVA • N. Virginia • zone 7A