It’s good to watch southern gardener’s videos. They’re more beneficial for me. It gives me a better sense of how to take care of my plants. I’m waiting for 2 citrus trees to arrive in the next 2-3 weeks. 🌱🌿🌳
Hello, im a Filipino Canadian watching you on Canada. thank you for your video. Learned a lot...its the first time I saw addition of earthworms to pots! Yes a garden without pressure, only passion. I intend to retire in Philippines 2 years from now, where I have about 10 acres of farm property. I intend to get busy with farming for the rest of my life, while I return home with big family.
I can’t thank you enough for this video. I just moved to Fort Myers Florida and I’m on a golf course and unable to plant anything in my property so I have to use pots. So now I know I can grow citrus. Thank you again.
I bought an orange tree when I was in Florida over Christmas. It was a bare root tree where the roots were in a bag, and it had maybe 3 leaves on it. I put it a gallon sized pot in a south facing window. I live in zone 6 so there is no way it can ever go outside. But it’s doing great! It’s already doubled in size and I was shocked to even see it got a flower on it. I used just regular potting soil. Like miracle grow but an off brand that is cheaper. I plan to repot it after a year. And fertilize it once a month. I’ll get the citrus soil next time though. Thanks for the advice!
Hi Scott, I live in TX and past couple years we had very low freeze, I lost most of my tropical trees during last year freeze below 16F. I bought a myer lemon 🍋 and grow it in a pot. During the freeze this year, I moved it inside garage after it go down below 16F. It looked ok for now, hopefully it will last survive thru the winter ☺️🙏🥰
I decided to grow some lemons, limes, and maybe oranges. I watched many videos & found yours to be more comforting to follow. so now I'll be following you. thanks for explaining the step-by-step so clearly. God bless ya & happy planting.
I am so glad you mentioned the wonderful aroma of citrus blossoms. I grew up in central FL, surrounded by miles and miles of citrus groves. Nothing like a warm evening and that beautiful scent wafting through on a breeze. Great stuff today - and I hope you do a vid on your first key lime pie. :)
Yes, citrus blossoms smell so good. I have 2 lemons, a variegated pink lemon and a lime growing in pots. They are fertilized monthly with a liquid citrus fertilizer. I do bring them inside for winter. However I must not be acclimating them well, because I always experience leaf drop while they are in the house. Still learning about growing citrus. Thanks for the tips.
I made up several potted citrus trees for clients First I choose a more compact variety, on a semi dwarf graft. I often used irish moss as a ground cover, or planted strawberries that could dangle out. I'd put the pot on a rolling coaster, to easily move. You might want to move it when entertaining, and you can occasionally rotate it to get it to grow more evenly. In some cases you may not want to move it to progressively larger pots. You can remove the overgrown tree from the pot, crumble away excess dirt from the dirt ball, trim off the overly long, wrapping roots, then replant as normal. My favorite soil products come from Gardener and Bloom, my favorite fertilizer is Gro-Power Plus. 😊
I grew up in inland southern California back when there was still vast orchards of citrus and they used what was called smudge pots to keep the trees from being badly affected by frosts.
I’m a new subscriber to your channel and I’m so glad it popped up in my recommendations! I’m growing (3) citrus 🍊trees in containers here in Fort Worth and they’re all thriving. They’re all still indoors right now but I plan to put them back outside next month. I have a thornless key lime, Dancy tangerine, and a Meyer lemon. Thank you for sharing your tips and suggestions! It’s very appreciated! -Calvin
Thanks so much for this information as I have 2 lemon trees and 1 lime tree that I've been growing in containers for the last 5 years and it's time to transfer them to larger containers. So I had lots of questions as to what to do. Been watching your videos and taking much of your advice over the years. And by watching and listening to your videos, I am ever inspired and learn just a bit more each time. Since I'm located in south San Antonio, the climate here is similar to your area as well. South SA is somewhat and slightly different than north SA since the southern half of the city connects to the coastal plains and the northern part of the city is connected more to the hill country.
I went out to Joseph's Nursery a few weeks ago, bought tomato and banana pepper plants. I have 2 meyer trees , second year for both enjoyed your video, subscribing to your channel.
Good video and timing is perfect for me after losing all of my Citrus to Freeze for the second time here in North Florida.Starting over this time in containers in a Greenhouse as I've been successful with Tomatoes Through the Freezes down to 25 degrees. I have always been told absolutely no mulch on Citrus.
Interesting video. I'd suggest planting Citrus in nearly pure inert materials if you can. Of course you need a balance of weight and coarseness. The sand is extremely heavy but Perlite doesn't look like soil lol I'm personally fed up with commercial mixes. They've never worked for me long term on a single plant ever except for Aloe plants but they're practically indestructible. So I'm just making my own mixes and trying to make my own brand that provides what I'm personally looking for. I agree largely with our analysis of Citrus potting medium :)
Scott, I saved my lemon tree after freezes in the Pacific NW (Mine is named Don LeMon and LuluLemon lol) with Electroculture and Pearl powder from Cultivate Elevate.. They love the copper. Don looked deader than a doornail. Wrap clockwise a piece of copper wire around a stick and put it a few inches into the soul on the south side of the tree. Cheers and thank you!
Scott thanks for the info about the new nursery you found. I went over there this morning since you said they had lots of citrus, mentioned to them you had talked about their nursery on your YT channel and found something I had been looking for over 3 years, a sweet kumquat tree. My two young lemon trees died (well one tried to come back from the root ball) this past freeze even though I covered them lightly. Just wasn't enough I guess. Excited to finally find the kumquat tree I have been looking for. I now have a celeste fig, an Italian Honey fig, 2 pawpaw trees, a jujube tree, 2 hazelnut trees, a Gold Nugget Loquat tree, a triple grafted asian pear tree from Dave Wilson nurseries, and a Sam Houston peach tree, so this kumquat will be a great addition to my little food forest yard.
Pls show bags of soil or potting mix fertilizer ty. Also the can of IV Organics, my husband paints, you can make a hole on 1 side & stick a golf tee, make sure burp to burp your can by pressing the center of can. Great video sir, good tips...
Thank you for the wonderful information! I just bought a Cara Cara, Meyer, and an Fuete and I wasn't sure where to plant them because of some future landscaping I want to do. This really helps with the trees surviving and keeps them mobile! I can't thank you enough. I used your promo code so we both got a little something!
Thank you for this video. I have one lime tree in zone 8a in a container. We successfully harvested a good amount of limes this past season but I have learned a lot watching this video
My key lime survived the freezes in the garage but I lost a lot of leaves. Now its back out and has a few leaves but is full of blooms Another great video I think I'm going to have to go out and get a lemon tree now.
I appreciate all the tips you mentioned on how to grow citrus I have been thinking about growing some myself It does get really cold In the winter time here In Oklahoma but I should be able to bring them Inside
Am way out of the zones for citrus. Suggest be because of the weight use pots with casters. When you bring in you need light and humidity and don't overwater. An unhappy tree may drop all its leaves indoors but will leaf out again if the stems are healthy.
I love blood oranges. The first time I ever heard or seen a blood orange was in a town called Jalalabad in Eastern Afghanistan close to the Pakistan border. In a vendor's stall in the bazaar. It was early summer. I was curious when I saw these oranges that had a deep burgumdy blush over a third of the round. Not knowing what I bought a couple of kilos and that changed my relationship with citrus ever since. I've been a huge fan of blood oranges since. However that first taste some 50 years ago was the juiciest, sweetest fruit not to be topped in the intervening years. Whatever was in the soil in that town close to the Khyber Pass to produce a fruit like that is truly food for thought.
Good help here. I just ordered som IV fert, and IV 3 in 1 on the way. I’ve several china de pais here in PR, sweet, no acid, in the ground, very young, and i may dig them up and add perlite; my limes and Meyers are in large containers. This was very informative, thank you.
I'm in zone 7A and I lost lemon tree inside the house during that crazy super cold but we had like two years ago. Power went out and had dropped well below freezing in the house. We normally don't get that cold, but these last few years in Texas have been crazy. Great video as normal.
Im in 7a in Massachusetts. I wrap the pot with the seed heating mat. Just to keep the roots warm during extremely cold days but so far my owari satsuma mandarin tree is surviving thank goodness.
Hi, thank you for sharing all your knowledge!! I just bought a key lime with flowers and tiny lemons and wanted to know when I should transplant it to a bigger pot.
Scott, have you seen how the Millenial Gardener saved his citrus trees with water barrels and incandescent lights and ag fabric. I followed what he did, and my 2 trees made it. 1 of the plants didn't get the water in the barrel, and it looks just like your tree.
Thanks for the video Scott. I wonder about the thorns on the citrus. I have memories of my dad planting his citrus seeds in buckets after he ate the fruit. We used to tease him about them being weapons. Can you clip them or what?
Hi, Excellent video. I have a fig tree is almost 3 years old and is producing fruit this year also have a peach, a stella cherrie and avocado trees in a pot so watching your video learned much thanks 😊
I recently up potted my calamondin (that I got from Joseph’s last year). It’s not doing well at all 🥲 droopy yellow green leaves. Hopefully it’s just transplant shock.
Hey my lime tree is in a 5 gallon pot and about 3-4 feet tall, and constantly blooming, but it drops almost all of the little fruits when they are usually no bigger than a dime, but oval, and continues to keep producing more and more blooms all year long. It seems like it only supports about 8-15 fruits at one time but it pretty much has fruits on it at all times! I think this is the 4th or 5th year of life, but I never got any fruits the first 2 years, all the blooms just kept dropping off the plant a few got to be about the size of a quarter, but then dropped off. I live in Northern Utah, and I take it outside in the summer and it loves it! It's quite hot, and I spray mist it with water a few times a day, and water thoroughly every other day because it's so arid here, usually single digit to mid teens humidity unless there's a storm system moving in. Does anyone know if this is normal, or can I do something to get it to support more fruits?
Hi, I've seen that Meyer lemons can survive down to 18-20 degrees in ground. What about in a pot? Should I shelter it when it gets to 25, or is it still Hardy to near 20 in a container? Thanks!
In a pot it can freeze at higher freezing temps because it doesn't have the who mass of the ground to insulate the roots. If its in a pot, you ought to not risk it and put it in the garage or indoors.
So glad this came across my feed. I have a small suburban lot, and even though it looks like I have little space to grow trees in ground, I have even less than it appears because of buried wires, pipes, and sewage lines. I have been gifted a nursery calamondin and I have several Meyer lemons I’ve started from seeds. I’d love to add a lime. Are there any limitations on which varieties work best for containers and which don’t work well at all?
You should and could grow citrus and pots in Chicago that's what I do mine are currently indoors under some grow lights for the Winter right now. I'm currently growing a naval Orange, a calamondin and a pink verigated lemon and they are doing wonderfully I've had them for 2 years now. They even have fruit on them right now for the 1st time since I got them.
Great Job Scott - This Was My First Of Countless More Of Your Informative Video and Am L👀king Forward To More GREAT Videos . I Live In Singapore and Only Like CITRUS FRUIT TREES . I JUST Bought A 5 Foot Potted POMELO Plant With 2 Fruits and Had Some Leaf Drop Over The First Few Days . Is The Plant Trying To Aclimatise As I live in a 48 Storey Condo . Your Invaluable Advice On The Leaf Drop Will Be Most Appreciated . .I Already Liked 👍 and Subscribed 😁 🤗 😁 🙏 👍 🙏
My owari satsuma mandarin tree didn't like that "cactus and citrus miracle gro" it was too heavy and didn't drain as great as i thought it would. My leaves got all crumbly and weird looking so i replanted it and mixed a TON of perlite in that miracle gro soil and now its on the rebound. Looking better. Even the leaves got all shiny now. It wasn't happy just in that soil without perlite. How did your tree do in just that soil?
I'm very happy to see this. I've just started to collect citrus trees. I'm in FL but we have similar weather to you zone 9b. So we do get frosts sparingly. But it's enough to kill trees. So need to grow in containers and bring stuff indoors for two months. Very annoying. Wish we were fully tropical. How are you liking those home depot blue pots for trees? I've seen them and thought about picking some up but wasn't sure if they were big enough. I'm having a hard time finding the 25 gallon black nursery tree pots.
I have some lemon trees that now have dozens of baby lemons - do I need to prune the amount of growing fruit, especially if I want to tree canopy to grow a bit bigger?
It looks like you have lots of room in your backyard, I suggest maybe a good trim and a four post tarp just for winter and keep trimming it every winter. I have five lemon trees good growing in containers.
Also have a Meyer lemon in a pot , have reported into a larger container last year from HD , trunk is green , looks good , should I pot it even larger , put it on casters in my garage when freezing is on us ?
Thank you! I was just given an established potted lemon tree. Should I be pollinating it myself? And do you think it’s too hot to keep it on my deck? I am in the mid Atlantic and the sun pounds down on the deck in the summer.
Also I’m in 9A should I cover my improved lemon meyer tree in winter it’s a 3-4 gallon size. Gets in 20s here. Or it’s pretty frost resistant you think should be fine
Lemon are also very useful and also medicinal, so farmers should grow this lemon at least as many times as before, which I also thank for sharing good tips.
There is also a different way to put them in ground, It requires their root to be deep like 8 foot so they would be in a subterranean garden Like a WALIPINI. Earth heat is usually near 50-52, most places, all year and endless supply of it, will keep it almost exclusively warm and especially if it is temporarily covered in rare freezes Or in a Polycarbonate sheet roof hut. I point to the WALIPINI setup for a host or reasons, Those gardens can have and grow any citrus tree , banana , pineapple avocado, easily. Lots of wonderful reasons these are very efficient in Northern climates and random freezes doesn't affect it whatsoever.
My Meyer lemon also got frozen ... how do you recover them ? I cut mine back to the ground where it still has some green .. do they regrow or what happens to them ? thanks
It’s good to watch southern gardener’s videos. They’re more beneficial for me. It gives me a better sense of how to take care of my plants. I’m waiting for 2 citrus trees to arrive in the next 2-3 weeks. 🌱🌿🌳
Hello, im a Filipino Canadian watching you on Canada. thank you for your video. Learned a lot...its the first time I saw addition of earthworms to pots! Yes a garden without pressure, only passion.
I intend to retire in Philippines 2 years from now, where I have about 10 acres of farm property. I intend to get busy with farming for the rest of my life, while I return home with big family.
I too am in 9b on the Texas coast. I lost my Meyer lemon and now have one in a large pot.
I can’t thank you enough for this video. I just moved to Fort Myers Florida and I’m on a golf course and unable to plant anything in my property so I have to use pots. So now I know I can grow citrus. Thank you again.
Glad I found your channel! Love Meyer lemons and now I’m in a growing zone where I can grow them on my
Patio!
I moved my pepper plants and tomatoes in and out of my shed all winter and they kept producing!! Love container growing
I bought an orange tree when I was in Florida over Christmas. It was a bare root tree where the roots were in a bag, and it had maybe 3 leaves on it. I put it a gallon sized pot in a south facing window. I live in zone 6 so there is no way it can ever go outside. But it’s doing great! It’s already doubled in size and I was shocked to even see it got a flower on it. I used just regular potting soil. Like miracle grow but an off brand that is cheaper. I plan to repot it after a year. And fertilize it once a month. I’ll get the citrus soil next time though. Thanks for the advice!
Hi Scott, I live in TX and past couple years we had very low freeze, I lost most of my tropical trees during last year freeze below 16F. I bought a myer lemon 🍋 and grow it in a pot. During the freeze this year, I moved it inside garage after it go down below 16F. It looked ok for now, hopefully it will last survive thru the winter ☺️🙏🥰
I decided to grow some lemons, limes, and maybe oranges. I watched many videos & found yours to be more comforting to follow. so now I'll be following you. thanks for explaining the step-by-step so clearly. God bless ya & happy planting.
I am so glad you mentioned the wonderful aroma of citrus blossoms. I grew up in central FL, surrounded by miles and miles of citrus groves. Nothing like a warm evening and that beautiful scent wafting through on a breeze. Great stuff today - and I hope you do a vid on your first key lime pie. :)
You hit all the marks! This is THE BEST video I've ever seen for citrus trees! I'm following!!!
My Meyer Has tiny blooms starting I am soooo excited
Yes, citrus blossoms smell so good. I have 2 lemons, a variegated pink lemon and a lime growing in pots. They are fertilized monthly with a liquid citrus fertilizer. I do bring them inside for winter. However I must not be acclimating them well, because I always experience leaf drop while they are in the house. Still learning about growing citrus. Thanks for the tips.
They will drop leaves at the slightest change in routine. They usually snap out of it.
I made up several potted citrus trees for clients First I choose a more compact variety, on a semi dwarf graft. I often used irish moss as a ground cover, or planted strawberries that could dangle out. I'd put the pot on a rolling coaster, to easily move. You might want to move it when entertaining, and you can occasionally rotate it to get it to grow more evenly. In some cases you may not want to move it to progressively larger pots. You can remove the overgrown tree from the pot, crumble away excess dirt from the dirt ball, trim off the overly long, wrapping roots, then replant as normal. My favorite soil products come from Gardener and Bloom, my favorite fertilizer is Gro-Power Plus. 😊
I grew up in inland southern California back when there was still vast orchards of citrus and they used what was called smudge pots to keep the trees from being badly affected by frosts.
your so right scott the soil is key to a healthy plant.i enjoyed this video.
What they use in the south, is lime with water (not latex paint) . Yes, to prevent sunburn but also to prevent insects climbing up the tree.
I’m a new subscriber to your channel and I’m so glad it popped up in my recommendations! I’m growing (3) citrus 🍊trees in containers here in Fort Worth and they’re all thriving. They’re all still indoors right now but I plan to put them back outside next month. I have a thornless key lime, Dancy tangerine, and a Meyer lemon. Thank you for sharing your tips and suggestions! It’s very appreciated!
-Calvin
How do you treat pot before bringing in? I brought roaches in years ago and vowed not to do that again.
Thanks so much for this information as I have 2 lemon trees and 1 lime tree that I've been growing in containers for the last 5 years and it's time to transfer them to larger containers. So I had lots of questions as to what to do. Been watching your videos and taking much of your advice over the years. And by watching and listening to your videos, I am ever inspired and learn just a bit more each time. Since I'm located in south San Antonio, the climate here is similar to your area as well. South SA is somewhat and slightly different than north SA since the southern half of the city connects to the coastal plains and the northern part of the city is connected more to the hill country.
Good timing. My dwarf Meyer Lemon is ready to be up-potted this spring. Currently in Dallas but might end up moving to Austin area.
Very thorough. Always fun to see your pooch too! Thanks.
I went out to Joseph's Nursery a few weeks ago, bought tomato and banana pepper plants. I have 2 meyer trees , second year for both enjoyed your video, subscribing to your channel.
Good video and timing is perfect for me after losing all of my Citrus to Freeze for the second time here in North Florida.Starting over this time in containers in a Greenhouse as I've been successful with Tomatoes Through the Freezes down to 25 degrees. I have always been told absolutely no mulch on Citrus.
Those blood oranges would look great in an Old Fashioned.
Now I have to try it.
My lemon soil mix is pearlite vermiculite, black cow, homemade biochar, and peat moss.
Interesting video. I'd suggest planting Citrus in nearly pure inert materials if you can. Of course you need a balance of weight and coarseness. The sand is extremely heavy but Perlite doesn't look like soil lol
I'm personally fed up with commercial mixes. They've never worked for me long term on a single plant ever except for Aloe plants but they're practically indestructible. So I'm just making my own mixes and trying to make my own brand that provides what I'm personally looking for.
I agree largely with our analysis of Citrus potting medium :)
Scott, I saved my lemon tree after freezes in the Pacific NW (Mine is named Don LeMon and LuluLemon lol) with Electroculture and Pearl powder from Cultivate Elevate.. They love the copper. Don looked deader than a doornail. Wrap clockwise a piece of copper wire around a stick and put it a few inches into the soul on the south side of the tree. Cheers and thank you!
I’m in Florida and just bought one from Walmart! Wish me luck ! 🍋
Good luck!!
In FLORIDA you should have no problem...I am in Northern KY so it will be a battle. 🤣
GL🤞🏼to us both.
I regretted not grabbing a few seeds of blood oranges while in Sicily...Lucky you 😊
Scott thanks for the info about the new nursery you found. I went over there this morning since you said they had lots of citrus, mentioned to them you had talked about their nursery on your YT channel and found something I had been looking for over 3 years, a sweet kumquat tree. My two young lemon trees died (well one tried to come back from the root ball) this past freeze even though I covered them lightly. Just wasn't enough I guess. Excited to finally find the kumquat tree I have been looking for. I now have a celeste fig, an Italian Honey fig, 2 pawpaw trees, a jujube tree, 2 hazelnut trees, a Gold Nugget Loquat tree, a triple grafted asian pear tree from Dave Wilson nurseries, and a Sam Houston peach tree, so this kumquat will be a great addition to my little food forest yard.
Perfect timing. Just got my two semi-dwarf sumo trees in.
Pls show bags of soil or potting mix fertilizer ty. Also the can of IV Organics, my husband paints, you can make a hole on 1 side & stick a golf tee, make sure burp to burp your can by pressing the center of can. Great video sir, good tips...
Thank you for the wonderful information! I just bought a Cara Cara, Meyer, and an Fuete and I wasn't sure where to plant them because of some future landscaping I want to do. This really helps with the trees surviving and keeps them mobile! I can't thank you enough. I used your promo code so we both got a little something!
Thanks so much, hope you have a delicious harvest!
Thank you for this video. I have one lime tree in zone 8a in a container. We successfully harvested a good amount of limes this past season but I have learned a lot watching this video
How many years did it take to bear fruit?
Thanks for telling us about Joseph’s Nursery. I picked up a couple of citrus trees today! 😊
I learned so much! Thank you for sharing and making it so easy to understand. I'm looking forward to growing my first lemon tree! 🍋 😊
I just found your channel in the last few weeks. Really like your traching style. Have learned so much from you. Thank you.
Control is what I need to keep trees small and controlling for the height.
Great video Scott! First time seeing your videos. Subscribed!
My key lime survived the freezes in the garage but I lost a lot of leaves. Now its back out and has a few leaves but is full of blooms Another great video I think I'm going to have to go out and get a lemon tree now.
Great video, as always. This gives me hope for growing citrus in NW Ohio.
Thanks for your growing citrus tree video.This is my first time ever hearing about "blood oranges".
I soak a couple of scoops of cow manure in a 5 gallon bucket and steep it and then water a few hours later, and it loves it.
I appreciate all the tips you mentioned on how to grow citrus I have been thinking about growing some myself It does get really cold In the winter time here In Oklahoma but I should be able to bring them Inside
Greetings! 😍👋 Thank you so much for sharing your knowledge and experience with us.
Thank you BG! Very helpful.
Very informative! Thank you!!!
Am way out of the zones for citrus. Suggest be because of the weight use pots with casters. When you bring in you need light and humidity and don't overwater. An unhappy tree may drop all its leaves indoors but will leaf out again if the stems are healthy.
Love your videos Scott
I love blood oranges. The first time I ever heard or seen a blood orange was in a town called Jalalabad in Eastern Afghanistan close to the Pakistan border. In a vendor's stall in the bazaar. It was early summer. I was curious when I saw these oranges that had a deep burgumdy blush over a third of the round. Not knowing what I bought a couple of kilos and that changed my relationship with citrus ever since. I've been a huge fan of blood oranges since. However that first taste some 50 years ago was the juiciest, sweetest fruit not to be topped in the intervening years. Whatever was in the soil in that town close to the Khyber Pass to produce a fruit like that is truly food for thought.
Wonderful video, thanks for sharing!
Good help here. I just ordered som IV fert, and IV 3 in 1 on the way. I’ve several china de pais here in PR, sweet, no acid, in the ground, very young, and i may dig them up and add perlite; my limes and Meyers are in large containers. This was very informative, thank you.
Thankyou so much senior teacher...your video inspire me somuch
I live in Southern California and I have just started my seedlings.
I'm in zone 7A and I lost lemon tree inside the house during that crazy super cold but we had like two years ago. Power went out and had dropped well below freezing in the house. We normally don't get that cold, but these last few years in Texas have been crazy. Great video as normal.
Yepppp, southeast Texas here, it's been wild with the freezing.
Im in 7a in Massachusetts. I wrap the pot with the seed heating mat. Just to keep the roots warm during extremely cold days but so far my owari satsuma mandarin tree is surviving thank goodness.
Hi, thank you for sharing all your knowledge!! I just bought a key lime with flowers and tiny lemons and wanted to know when I should transplant it to a bigger pot.
Scott, have you seen how the Millenial Gardener saved his citrus trees with water barrels and incandescent lights and ag fabric. I followed what he did, and my 2 trees made it. 1 of the plants didn't get the water in the barrel, and it looks just like your tree.
Thanks for the video Scott. I wonder about the thorns on the citrus. I have memories of my dad planting his citrus seeds in buckets after he ate the fruit. We used to tease him about them being weapons. Can you clip them or what?
I'm not sure yet about clipping the thorns. Working on that myself. Need more research.
Hi, Excellent video. I have a fig tree is almost 3 years old and is producing fruit this year also have a peach, a stella cherrie and avocado trees in a pot so watching your video learned much thanks 😊
Chinese Pomelo farmers have pots that are over a foot wide in diameter.
I recently up potted my calamondin (that I got from Joseph’s last year). It’s not doing well at all 🥲 droopy yellow green leaves. Hopefully it’s just transplant shock.
Can you do a video on how to keep your trees small
Thanks I have been wanting to plant a citrus tree in my area Tampa fl. Great video. 👍 😊
Our #single-seed challenge is about 4 in tall. Black beauty seed from Stef Hall. We did a seed exchange, so fun!
Ii love your videos on citrus fruit channel it is very good thank you!
It will be a miracle that it grows. Miracle grow distroyed my garden.
Hey my lime tree is in a 5 gallon pot and about 3-4 feet tall, and constantly blooming, but it drops almost all of the little fruits when they are usually no bigger than a dime, but oval, and continues to keep producing more and more blooms all year long. It seems like it only supports about 8-15 fruits at one time but it pretty much has fruits on it at all times! I think this is the 4th or 5th year of life, but I never got any fruits the first 2 years, all the blooms just kept dropping off the plant a few got to be about the size of a quarter, but then dropped off. I live in Northern Utah, and I take it outside in the summer and it loves it! It's quite hot, and I spray mist it with water a few times a day, and water thoroughly every other day because it's so arid here, usually single digit to mid teens humidity unless there's a storm system moving in. Does anyone know if this is normal, or can I do something to get it to support more fruits?
In a freeze you just have to put a sheet over it that night. On your in ground lemon tree
Hi, I've seen that Meyer lemons can survive down to 18-20 degrees in ground. What about in a pot? Should I shelter it when it gets to 25, or is it still Hardy to near 20 in a container? Thanks!
In a pot it can freeze at higher freezing temps because it doesn't have the who mass of the ground to insulate the roots. If its in a pot, you ought to not risk it and put it in the garage or indoors.
Enjoyed your show
Great video, I learned some great information!
So glad this came across my feed. I have a small suburban lot, and even though it looks like I have little space to grow trees in ground, I have even less than it appears because of buried wires, pipes, and sewage lines. I have been gifted a nursery calamondin and I have several Meyer lemons I’ve started from seeds. I’d love to add a lime. Are there any limitations on which varieties work best for containers and which don’t work well at all?
I grow citrus in containers because I can move them to prevent sunscald.
Hi Scott I planted Lemons trees in container since 2016 and used Citrus & Palm potting soil I have not repotted the plant yet When should repotting?
How tall are they? If the canopy is much larger than the pots it might be good time to pot them up or give them a good trim back.
Thank you. I have subscribed.
Great video Scott. Wish I could do these here in Chicago. I could move them in and out maybe.
You should and could grow citrus and pots in Chicago that's what I do mine are currently indoors under some grow lights for the Winter right now. I'm currently growing a naval Orange, a calamondin and a pink verigated lemon and they are doing wonderfully I've had them for 2 years now. They even have fruit on them right now for the 1st time since I got them.
I'm planning on a lemon tree since ours also froze.
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My owari satsuma mandarin tree didn't like that "cactus and citrus miracle gro" it was too heavy and didn't drain as great as i thought it would. My leaves got all crumbly and weird looking so i replanted it and mixed a TON of perlite in that miracle gro soil and now its on the rebound. Looking better. Even the leaves got all shiny now. It wasn't happy just in that soil without perlite. How did your tree do in just that soil?
So far they are doing well. I'm about to up-pot a couple of lime trees, I might add some perlite. Good idea.
Its eating out of the sewer 😮 and its healthy 😮
I'm very happy to see this. I've just started to collect citrus trees. I'm in FL but we have similar weather to you zone 9b. So we do get frosts sparingly. But it's enough to kill trees. So need to grow in containers and bring stuff indoors for two months. Very annoying. Wish we were fully tropical. How are you liking those home depot blue pots for trees? I've seen them and thought about picking some up but wasn't sure if they were big enough. I'm having a hard time finding the 25 gallon black nursery tree pots.
The blue pots are OK for if you keep the tree pretty small. I like a larger pot for the final growing space.
I have some lemon trees that now have dozens of baby lemons - do I need to prune the amount of growing fruit, especially if I want to tree canopy to grow a bit bigger?
If you want to encourage foliage, yes, prune the number of fruits.
Good video
I've only seen a blood orange once in all my years living in the UK.
It looks like you have lots of room in your backyard, I suggest maybe a good trim and a four post tarp just for winter and keep trimming it every winter. I have five lemon trees good growing in containers.
Also have a Meyer lemon in a pot , have reported into a larger container last year from HD , trunk is green , looks good , should I pot it even larger , put it on casters in my garage when freezing is on us ?
Never hurts to up-pot a tree.
Thank you! I was just given an established potted lemon tree. Should I be pollinating it myself? And do you think it’s too hot to keep it on my deck? I am in the mid Atlantic and the sun pounds down on the deck in the summer.
I don’t bother hand pollinating. The bugs do it perfectly.
Great video very informative thank you 🙏
Thoughts on using compost on potted lemon trees?
Also I’m in 9A should I cover my improved lemon meyer tree in winter it’s a 3-4 gallon size. Gets in 20s here. Or it’s pretty frost resistant you think should be fine
If it’s in a pot you should take it indoors or in an attached garage if the temps get into the 30s or below. And yes, compost is good for all plants.
@@ScottHead it’s in the ground but thank you for feed back. Will do the compost
How do you get your tree to start growing in size? I have been pulling off all the blooms to encourage it to focus on growing leaves.
They grow slowly in pots, and usually stall out when the roots fill the pot. Get a large pot for a slightly larger tree.
more N for leaves and growth.
Oh my. Dying for blood orange now! ROFL!
I've been wondering how Lucy made it through our freeze.
My Meyer lemon tree made it through the frost this year, but they my dog chewed it up and killed it.
Are your potted citrus semi-dwarf or dwarf? Thank you!
Lemon are also very useful and also medicinal, so farmers should grow this lemon at least as many times as before, which I also thank for sharing good tips.
There is also a different way to put them in ground,
It requires their root to be deep like 8 foot so they would be in a subterranean garden Like a WALIPINI.
Earth heat is usually near 50-52, most places, all year and endless supply of it, will keep it almost exclusively warm and especially if it is temporarily covered in rare freezes Or in a Polycarbonate sheet roof hut.
I point to the WALIPINI setup for a host or reasons, Those gardens can have and grow any citrus tree , banana , pineapple avocado, easily.
Lots of wonderful reasons these are very efficient in Northern climates and random freezes doesn't affect it whatsoever.
Please tell us how to get the citrus tree leaves to be a deeper green when it is yellowing.
My Meyer lemon also got frozen ... how do you recover them ? I cut mine back to the ground where it still has some green .. do they regrow or what happens to them ? thanks
Thank you.
I fertilize my lime tree last year with chicken manure and it seemed to work.
Thanks for sharing this great content. I’m on FL and my lemon tree Ian not flowering. It’s in the ground. What May the problem?
Sometimes citrus takes a year off. Really.