Meyer lemon problems:pale leaves, dropping leaves
Amanda Frye
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Meyer lemon - small leaves turn yellow and drop
Comments (6)Here are three pictures from this afternoon. The small leaf in the container must be a newly dropped one some time today. I am in central WI. Our weather this week looks to range from 82F-88F with majority of days on the lower end. The lows are in the mid 60s. I will note that I do not think the tree has grown. At least there appears to be no new buds. I've had it for just over 3 weeks now. Note: I removed the stake once and the tree was angled about 45 degrees when I went out to look at it one day. I have it re-staked and tied near the very bottom now. This post was edited by Neurosci on Fri, Jul 5, 13 at 19:48...See Moremeyer lemon tree dropping leaves
Comments (51)nina 313 and bdeller1, you each should start a new thread to get good answers to your questions. Tagging onto an old post will get you a lot less replies. People look at the start date and figure the subject of the post is no longer relevant. nina, we could use some better pics of the whole tree, and bdeller, we need pics from you too. Each person's own thread should include info about your watering habits, how much and how often. Any fertilizer or anything else you've added, how much, when and why. How long you've owned it. Also give info about the soil your tree is in; original from nursery, or re-potted, brand and/or ingredients of the soil. Is it kept indoors or outdoors, indoors only in winter, outdoors in summer, and if indoors, what kind of light, ie in front of window(window direction), or grow lights or combination. Help us help you. : ) Also, if you start your own thread, you can track answers to it in your "your houzz" area....See MoreMeyer Lemon leaves dropping! Help!
Comments (9)Hgonet....Unfortunely for me it's better to put my trees in the shade when I take off for a few days than to leave them in the sun. Sometimes your pots stay wet even though it's hot because the roots will just shut down and stop taking up moisture which leaves them left to die in a sea of plenty, especially with constant moisture..If the roots are healthy enough, they will start to take up moisture again once they cool off a bit. Hopefully they were not susceptible to spide mites at a time when the leaves were weak...Do check for them and until the roots cool off, don't fertilize to make it worst... As for mites, just because you don't see webs, does not mean you do not have them. BY the time you see webbing, it can be too late to save any plant or to stop and epidemic of them from killing your tree and other plants near by. That is why you need a magnifying glass to examine the underneath of the leaves very carefully It should be a monthly ritual to check for them, especially in winter. Prevention is always the best cure...One treatment does not rid them for good either...You need to do several days apart to kill the adults and hatching eggs too..At this time of the year, spraying down the leaves almost every day in the a.m can go a long way preventing mites from taking hold....See MoreMeyer Lemon tree in trouble - dropping leaves
Comments (7)Well, you have probably made some of the classic Meyer lemon errors. First, when you dramatically change the light conditions a Meyer will drop most, if not all its leaves, to replace them later with leaves better suited to the new light conditions. To move a Meyer from outside to inside without the leaf loss, you need to move it from full sun to partial sun for 2 weeks; then to full shade for 2 weeks; then indoors; reverse the process when putting it out in the Spring... and please DO put it out, if you can; you will be rewarded with a happy, healthy plant. Second, when you bring it indoors to a sunny window, the plant gets warm; but the roots generally stay cool; and citrus roots don't like to grow into cool soil... the solution is to put some sort of heater to warm the soil, or to put the plant a little further from the window. The thing to remember is first the roots grow; and then the leaves and branches....See MoreAmanda Frye
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