r/Citrus

Probably 6 yrs old, grown from a Cara Cara seed I found in the fruit.

Just wanted to post a few pics of what's keeping me happy these days in my little citrus town. Not all perfect but geese its alot for one!

Hello, I bought this young thornless key lime for half off. I am curious if I should prune it and at what time it may be best to do if so. I am in zone 6b. Thank you in advance.

I bought this calamondin tree about a month ago. It had spider mites upon buying, which after treatment they seem to be gone (no new activity for almost 2 weeks since last horticultural oil spray). This yellow spotting started a few days after the horticulture spray, so im thinking it is possibly just some damage from that. Several leaves have it, and you can see on both top and underside of the leaf. No textural changes to the leaf surface.

Does it look like it could possibly be a nutrient deficiency? I have not fertilized since I bought it about a month ago.

This is our new Meyer Lemon tree, just planted a few months ago. There are several tiny ( pea sized) fruits already, but some are actually turning yellow at this size, leading me to wonder what exactly is going on.

I assumed there would be no fruit until it got significantly larger. Since these fruits seem to be ripening at this size, would it be beneficial for me to just snip them off, in the hopes of forcing the tree to put more energy into growth rather than fruit?

Is it beneficial to leave them alone and let the tree do its thing on its own?

Or am I paying too much attention and overthinking this, and need to just ignore it for a couple of years?

Any advice is greatly appreciated!

I have this small lemon tree that I think is in reasonably good health, which already has about 10 small lemons growing on it.

It recently started flowering again like crazy. It's coming to the end of summer where I live. Should I pull these flowers off, will it help the existing lemons grow better?

Or should I leave them on there, I am new to citrus plants, so not sure what to do.

I started this little dude from a Clementine seed in February. It's a very slow grower. I don't have high hopes as I know growing from seed isn't ideal for good quality fruit but it's a passion project lol

Any tips to keep this guy happy indoors in the winter? I do have grow lights, and my basement is tropical temperatures in winter due to a wood stove, but dry. Any tips would be great!

I’ve been hunting for a GOOD citrus nursery on EU and absolute majority sucks. So basically ordered, got a healthy looking tree at first look. Top of the pot was covered in saw dust and underneath looked like normal black soil, but… removed it from nursery pot and guess what. Edges had “proper” soil woth perlite, thin layer, where all roots are and core rootball is just clay and sand mix. Almost 0 roots there. Washed out some clay, so basically there was almost nothing alive. This is bound to die due to waterlodge. Already raised this issue with the seller. Same was with 3 different nurseries already.

Does anyone know a good citrus nursery in EU? 🙏 Thank you!

Anyone using bioadvance on their citrus trees? What are your thoughts?

I have a lime tree at my family home in Saudi Arabia that has been here for at least 22 years, possibly longer.
It’s a small green lime variety, and the tree is roughly 4–5 meters tall.

It’s extremely productive. We don’t normally weigh or count the harvest, but during the season we can shake the tree over several days and collect large buckets full of limes each time.

The tree currently looks healthy with dense green foliage. The photos I’m posting were taken around autumn, which is why there is some yellowing/leaf drop visible in that particular photo.

The soil is at about 3 meters deep

I’m trying to learn more about it and take better care of it
Any advice from people who have experience with very large mature citrus trees would be greatly appreciated!

I ate an orange and spat the seeds into the pot last May.

I’ve got several citrus trees and have been looking into root flairs. I realized that the trees I get seem to have buried root flairs pretty deep. When I repotted them originally earlier this year after getting them from the nursery, I just went up to where the soil already was.

Have I identified the root flairs correctly? Why do so many nursery trees have these buried so deep? And if the tree is doing okay, is it really important to unbury them?

I’ve had this potted Meyer lemon for about 6 months. It immediately grew 2 feet straight up with bug beautiful leaves and then suddenly they all started dropping. I repotted it into a 5 gallon with my own citrus mix and got it an additional grow light on top of the window it’s next to. I’ve tried watering more, I’ve tried watering less. Fertilizer no fertilizer. I treated it with Neem oil in case it had pests. It gets a shoot of new leaves and then they all fall off and it repeats…. Please help me I am a fool

Update: Turns out it was worth it, but for surprising reasons. Both trees were 100% rootstock, the second tree looked terrible up close and I immediately declined. The first tree was smaller than it appears in the photo and I dug it out fairly easily but cut two of the longer taproots. My reasoning was that I didn't care that much if it died but I'm not going to spend an hour and break my back digging it out in full sun. I pruned it nearly entirely of its canopy before digging out. I bagged all the fruit on it for seeds for future grafts. Then the old lady who was impressed by my citrus knowledge wanted to show me her other fruit trees in the backyard and she's no dummy, she's got practically an orchard of goodies. She let me take a bunch of cuttings from her amazing late blooming Washington navel, which i will graft to some young rootstock I have been growing. And then other cuttings from avocado and some others. All it all, it was a pretty easy task and well worth it. As for the rootstock tree surviving, no idea. But it's in shade and i gave it a light water with seaweed extract and molasses.

On my in-ground SugarBelle (3.5 years, central Florida, sandy soil, pH=6.0 soil, watered every day with rain) has recently been getting countless numbers of these beetle-like insects.
They are devastating my new growth, but I don’t know how to control them because I don’t know what they are.
If someone has an insect identifier app, I would greatly appreciate the identification so that I can figure out how to control them.
I have seen so many pests on my dear citrus, but this one is really puzzling.
Thanks in advance!

I have a grafted Tahiti lime on Swingle citrumelo rootstock. Before this photo I've already removed one obvious trifoliate rootstock sucker.

Now another shoot is growing but this time exactly from the graft union/scar, and I’m sure it is Tahiti lime, not rootstock.

Would you keep this shoot or remove it? Any structural or long-term issues with letting a scion shoot grow directly from the graft union?