u/slamsmcaukin

I received my first orange tree in the mail in mid May. It didn’t come in a pot or anything, was just a rootball with some soil in a plastic bag. I potted it right away, I tried to use pretty chunky soil mixed with some normal potting soil, but I think I ended up using too much of the normal soil and now I think it’s not draining enough. I can go about a week or more without needing to water it again. Initially I was watering every 3 days but then realized it was probably too much. I’m in Ontario with good sun and it’s been pretty hot out lately.

Would it be too much stress on the tree to repot it again using a better ratio of soil? My tree looks ok, but there hasn’t really been any new growth, it stopped blooming (which is fine) but all the fruit that started have fallen off (except for one orange that looks like it might be about to fall off, and there’s a decent sized orange that was on the tree when it arrived (was thinking about cutting it off but not sure)). Some slight yellowing of new growth, but that could have been due to nutrients - seems to be ok for now.

I think my best option would be to repot, but I don’t want to stress it any more than it probably already is

I would like my tree to straighten up a bit, but I’ve read that staking can hinder trunk growth, and I would like to thicken it up. So I’m wondering if having it facing the sun in this direction would be enough to have it lean the other way, correcting the lean, or if loosely staking or tying to the railing would help better

Just have a few questions about my young (and first) orange tree. The tag on the tree says it was grafted (I think) in 2022. It is still a bit young looking, in terms of trunk thickness, and my goal is to have a nice “tree” shaped tree rather than a bushy one.

I’m wondering since it’s still fairly young if I should remove all fruit and flowers from it and let it focus solely on trunk and branch growth while it’s outdoors for the summer (have to bring in for the winter since Canada winters are way too cold).

If it’s not ideal to remove all the fruit and flowers, would it then be ideal to at least remove the flowers from the thin apex branch so that I can let it get the growth it needs to thicken up? Right now that branch barely looks like it’ll be able to hold one orange, let alone the 7-8 potential fruit that are already starting to grow on it.

Just a few notes: I will have it outdoors all summer while giving it liquid fertilizer. Using almost a full 5-1-1 soil (added just a bit of top soil for some moisture retention since I’m not always home every single day and summers get super hot where I’m at). Also of course I’d love to have a bunch of fruit by the end of growing season, but if it will give my tree a brighter future lol I am willing to go fruitless this year and see how it goes next year

Thank you in advance

Just got my first citrus tree. I’ve read that you should have a bit of a mound, and there is a very slight one, like a 1% incline lol but is it enough or am I over thinking it?

Thank you

Need some help before I sell this thing. I got this m2 grater on marketplace for a great deal. I can’t really afford to buy other parts for it such as an air cooler instead of my aio and the vertical gpu mount.

I’m struggling with gpu temps. Spent literally a week trying different build variations. My cpu is running pretty cool, but gpu is always at 80-84C when gaming no matter what fan layout i have. I have tried raising the mobo to put fans under the gpu but that didnt help much and the I could no longer fit fans on the top. Also I added 20mm 3d printed feet and have tried additional case fans on the front and back but the fans don’t seem to help much.

Wondering if air cooler would help solve the issue or if I should buy the riser cable and try some vertical build variations.

Also I know the cables are a mess lol I’m using cheap fans and they have so many wires on them. Also I know the psu isn’t the best in this case but it’s all I have

Don’t hate me, I love the look of the case but I think since I’m kind of on a tight budget and using less than ideal parts, it might be better to just get a different case

Current airflow setup: top fans are exhaust. Aio set as intake. Mini case fan on the back set as exhaust

Edit: I ordered a peerless assassin 120 mini air cooler and I’m basically getting the same temps. Actually my cpu is spiking quite high when executing new tasks, higher than I’ve ever seen, but gaming it’s more or less steady but still higher than the aio now. I’m wondering if it’s just my shit fans not moving enough air around