r/Citrus

Is this what's causing the issue. I have been fertilizing with fruit loom citrus fertilizer and watering regularly. It's sitting in a 511 soil mix

Photo 1 is the tree old pot beside it 2 is what it root ball looks like, 3 is closer look, 4 ive teased out roots was that best thing to do?

This tree is about 6 years old 1st two years it had about 5 fruits since then , masses of flowers but fruit drops immediately, was fed consistently with miracle grow as in my other recent post but no mater how much just fed it it never greened up , so do you think it was badly rootbound ? do the roots look healthy as in not root rot?

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

We just got this kumquat and the leaves are all starting to look like this? Any ideas what it is and how to treat? Thanks for your help!

Bought this 2 years ago and is now fruiting. Fruit smells like oranges but very sour/bitter and is nothing like the Moro blood orange tree we had at our old house. It's supposed to be a standard tree so is this a root stock? Should I cut it down? I don't ever recall a sucker taking over the plant. Maybe they used the wrong cutting? We're in Riverside county, southern CA, with orange groves everywhere.

I got this key lime tree as a gift in October. Initially, it lost most of its leaves, but stabilized towards the middle of winter. It was kept indoors under grow lights with the rest of my plants until about 6 weeks ago, when I moved it to my 3 season porch with the rest of my plants (I’m in Massachusetts so it wasn’t warm enough until then). It got a ton of new growth and leaves in early spring, lost a few, and was looking really good until a couple weeks ago. It started looking dry (taco leaves), so I watered it. It started looking a bit yellow and loosing leaves about a week later, and I noticed the soil was still quite wet.

I watered it maybe 5 times over the winter, maybe less honestly. The soil I initially potted it in seemed to be not as well-draining as it should have been. I decided to repot it with a better mixture, and when I did that tonight, this is how i found the roots - absolutely no root growth since I got it.

It’s in a better draining soil now (a commercial citrus mix amended with sand, perlite, and marble chips), but what else can I do to encourage root growth? Should I prune it? Would rooting hormone do anything at all on something that’s not a cutting?

Note: the pictures are outside, but I only had it fully outside for repotting. It’s been on the 3 season porch because the weather has been ridiculous this spring, but I definitely can put it outside if that’s better for it.

Trading hobbies from opium to oranges. Any suggestions calomondin, satsumas, and tangerine. Any ideas or feedback?

What’re your recommendations?

I have this new growth branch at the top of a young grapefruit, but the leaves are larger, floppier, and less pointy than the existing growth. Is this a problem and, if so, what's the cause and how do I fix it?

Background - I've had new citrus plants, a lemon, a lime, and a grapefruit, for about 3 months.

* All indoors with 2x 6' vertical lights (36w, 4800 lumens each) in a north facing window.

* Potted in 14" air pruning pots.

* Watered when top layers became dry and allowed to drain, bottom watered after getting fungus gnat issue.

* Fertilized with Down to Earth Organic 6-3-3 citrus mix 6 weeks after potting and letting them acclimate. (followed instructions to the letter)

* Had severe fungus gnat problem, nematodes have done miraculous work over the last week. Also spray neem oil/peppermint soap mixture weekly on new growth bc first leaf had signs of sap suckers, no issues since.

* The lemon and lime have limited new growth but each have flowered and are growing 2 fruits each.

* Grapefruit has big new growth, no flowers or fruits.

Started from the lemon same seeds at the same time but one is lush green and the other yellowish. Any ideas?

SoCal Potted Meyer Lemon tree

Sorry the picture is bad so it’s a long shot- but I used my ID app and it said Asian citrus phsyllid (this was before I got a clear picture for the app) but I panicked so I immediately went into pest control mode spraying it and grabbing and smushing it. But afterwards looking up photos I really don’t think it was a phsyllid-
This bug sat more tightly to the branch and had a curved body that was one color not triangular and mottled. The ID app is not super accurate especially if the photo isn’t focused, so now I’m wondering if it’s a pest or not. Tree looked good otherwise no other pests or damage (I look over the branches every other day at least)

hello! in winter my lemon tree lost ALL of its leaves, but put it out in the sun as the branches were still healthy, and now it’s regrown all these beautiful leaves! I am a bit worried that the crown is getting too dense, though. Should I prune it? And where would the best place to snip be?

thanks so much! 😊😊

My gold nugget mandarin tree is about the same size (~5feet) as when I got it 3 years ago. I fertilize it regularly (March, May, July) and don’t see much growth. Now some leaves are thick with a leathery kind of feel to them and starting to turn yellow. I water it ~3x/week. Am I being impatient? Should I switch up my process? Any help would be appreciated.

I had a bad fungus gnat infestation in the soil and heard that people bake it to kill the larvae/eggs. I did that and about three weeks later, it’s still steadily dropping leaves with no new growth :((

There’s no yellowing, I’m watering when my moisture meter reads dry (I topped the soil with a layer of horticultural sand as another gnat prevention layer), I’m aerating the soil by poking through it and making sure the root ball is getting water, full spectrum led grow lights for 12 hrs, but nothing seems to be working. Same issue with my lime plant.

Is it doomed? Do I have to repot with untreated soil? I feel super shitty about this so no rudeness please lol </3

I’m located in Berkeley, CA — I love my thorny child but it has been an interesting journey with this species. I finally feel like I’m breaking through on its care. Would love to hear others’ experiences and get a discussion going. As you can see, it’s on my roof deck, which gets great sun and avoids the real cold on our winter nights, but gets significantly more wind than is ideal.

In short, I stopped treating it like my other citrus and more like a true tropical. Somewhat counter-intuitively because of its small leathery leaves (which it just starts dropping when it gets water stressed rather than taco-ing), it seems to appreciate consistent moisture more than the typical citrus deep watering cycle. I’ve also found that it appreciates consistent light feeding more than a few concentrated applications throughout the growing season. I put a watering tray beneath the pot to let it sponge up the water (with diluted dissolved fertilizer) that runs through over the next few days and it immediately surged with new foliage and flowers at basically every node, especially on the branches that had previously defoliated.

The real surprise over the last few years is that it seems to have favored its east-facing branches and has grown away from the more intense afternoon sun. It is an understory shrub in its native climate, but so are many other citrus, and this is the first one I’ve grown that isn’t begging for the most intense light available. Maybe this will shift with its new water and nutrient conditions, but my sense is that it would do excellently in partial shade/diffused & dappled light in particularly hot or windy conditions.

Also, it’s my only citrus whose flowers gets visited by honeybees, hummingbirds, and our big native carpenter bees, the last of which for whatever reason don’t go for my tangerine, lemon, lime, rangpur, or makrut blossoms. Go figure!

I recently have been finding dozens of these on my SugarBelle (3-years, in ground, central Florida, gets rain and bugs everyday). Clearly they are pests, since every leaf I find them on is partially eaten (only new growth).
What is this?
And I’ve tried spraying with a hose, neem oil, soapy water, and every day there seems to be more. I squish them by the dozen, but would love to know what they are and what to do about them. They are extremely destructive to my new growth.

I’ve had my hobby orchard going for a few years now and this winter’s harvest is the biggest so far! Oranges, mandarins, limes, grapefruit, pomelo and a few starfruit. Time to bust out the juicer, I reckon.

My Meyer lemon is curling backwards??? I've had it for 3 years and it just started this. Zone 6

I have a Meyer Lemon i brought home from the nursery last week. I put him outside under near my raised beds and all was going great. But now, like a lot of the Northern Hemisphere, Connecticut USA is experiencing a heat wave (heat indexes over 100f the past few days). I have a 30% sunshade tent on 6 ft poles around my entire garden area. Well, this poor son doesn't seem too happy, but only on this branch.

Any ideas? Is it shock from going from nursery greenhouse to full blast heat (even though shaded and a few days of full sun normal heat)? Should I use nutrients (i figured no since he still has green pellets from the nursery)? Does he have a disease? Doesn't look like a pest issue, i even saw a lacefly larva patrolling the area (I have many beneficial companions in my raised beds to attract them). I am brand new to the citrus world and would love any help. Thanks so much in advance!