Help with my non-grafted 6 year old lemon tree!
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Comments (5)Thank you for all the compliments and help! As for soil, it does include some bark components, but is not a specific recipe or anything and does contain some regular soil. Now that I know of some good soil recipes from the forum, I was going to amend it with either the coco-husk or 5:1:1 recipes. Although, it does seem to be doing great in what it is in. Yeah, the only huge lemon I know of is Ponderosa also, so I assume it can or is a Ponderosa. But since every Ponderosa I have seen or grew always fruited when young, I often have wondered if it is not, and maybe some weird Italian native that I do not know of? Mgk65, Thank you! I have learned something new again from you! I really have to find some info about leaf node #s and counts. Hopefully there is a thread here explaining it here in more detail on the forum? So, are the # of leaf nodes to fruit numbers pretty much the the same within one variety? Or, does the # of nodes before fruiting vary greatly even within the same variety? Does the leaf node count apply to just fruiting, or does it apply to when it starts to blossom also? Does a tree have to have a certain amount of leaf nodes before it just blossoms also? Thanks again for all the help! I will be back soon! Christy...See MoreMy citrus trees are 6 yrs old & not producing any fruit/flowers
Comments (5)6 years old is still very juvenile in terms of tree life spans. Some species of Crataegus (hawthorn) take >30 years on a good site to flower/fruit. Look, we tend to think of the age of plants in the same manner we think of age in humans or animals, chronologically. We, like plants, go through several life stages. Embryonic, juvenile, adolescent (intermediate in plants), and mature, are human stages roughly mirrored in plants. Where we vary greatly is in the way our cells age. In animals, body cells all mature at approximately the same speed. Plants grow by consecutive divisions of cells at the growing points (meristems), so their various parts are different ages (the top of the plant, or the ends of branches and stems are younger than the basal (lowest part, just above roots) portions, chronologically, but there is another way of aging plants. The ontogenetic age of plants is related to how many times a cell has to divide to make that particular portion of tissue. Basically, the closer the tissue is to the roots the younger it is ontogenetically, even though chronologically, it is the oldest. I got off track a little, but let's look at why this is important & how does it applies to your tree. In trees from seed, the entire organism is juvenile dynamic mass. Plant's tissues need to attain a certain ontogenetic age before they are physiologically capable of producing reproductive parts (flowers/fruit), so you must wait for the tissues to reach that age. Cuttings, on the other hand, retain their ontogenetic age and so flower/fruit much sooner (chronologically), but you must remember that the tissues are already much older ontogenetically. You would think that cuttings taken from the same plant would roughly flower/fruit at the same time? Not so. Tip cuttings from the higher parts of the tree will flower/fruit sooner than cuttings taken from the basal (close to the roots) part of the tree. There is a trade off here though. The basal cuttings will be more juvenile and have retained more genetic vigor and will root more readily than the older wood. Hope this wasn't too confusing? Al...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 MoreHalf of my lemon tree is non-producing
Comments (19)That tree is 10 years old; it is naturally a shorter and bushier type, assisted by a little pruning. That tree produces 400 lemons per year; that and the natural shape of the tree is why I selected that cultivar to be the future of Meyer lemons in Guatemala. To date all of the 35,000 trees we have produced have been genetically identical, having come from a single tree selected as the best of the first 500 I brought from California. I have made a decision that this new cultivar is better than the previous "Mother tree" because of the consistent production and the shorter/broader size, Let's hope that I am right; only the future will tell. We have a new "grove" of 64 of this tree, which beginning next year will be the budwood for all our new production. We may have to adjust our spacing a bit with the broader tree; we will experiment with that before recommending spacing for new growers or expanding growers....See MoreRelated Professionals
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