How to Grow Citrus Trees in Pots
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- Опубликовано: 6 фев 2025
- Growing citrus trees in pots needs careful maintenance with regular fertilising, watering and disease and pest management. But, sometimes it is a good solution.
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You are a legend, great tutorial vid, lots of useful tips to take from, thanks for sharing your expertise 👍💕🤝
Thanks for the feed back, really glad it was useful.
Happy gardening 😄
Thank you for practical advise Steve. I have a young lemon tree in a selfwatering pot. Is that good? Or should I repot it? It's doing very well and has lots of new leaves and flowers.
Great info. Of course I just bought a tall skinny pot for my lime tree lol. Looks like I'm going back to the store.
Haha ...... sorry, but it will be happier with a wide top for those feeding roots 😄
What does water regularly mean? Need you to be specific. Same for fertilizing. Which fertilizer and how often?
What water regularly really means depends on your climate. In hot climates, that can mean water every day, while in cooler climates it might mean every 3 or 4 days. The real intention of this statement is that you need to monitor the moisture level in the pot and ensure that the soil does not become too dry.
Hope this helps.
I grow my citrus in pots because my home is in the mountains and winter temperature can often drop to less than 0 degrees F . Much too cold for the tree to survive out of doors. I over winter in a cool greenhouse 40 to 50 degrees F. I am having issues with them not flowering. Always something to work on.
I hope you are able to correct this. Something to consider is that when we grow plants in pots, sometimes we can tend to not water them enough and get the nutrient levels wrong by either fertilising too much, or not enough.
Each of these can impact on flowering.
Hope this helps 😄
Thank for the great video. What do you mean with regular watering. One a week or twice or. ...... Thanks
Thank you for your question ....... it really depends on the position and how hot/dry the climate is.
But, typically I would expect twice a week would suffice in most situations. Just check regularly - the soil mixture should be neither too wet or dry. Moist is a good indicator.
Hope this helps 😄
iCultivate thank you for taking the time to reply. And I will try to do my best 😬👍🏼
What is your take on the citrus plant sharing herbs, and or flowers in the same pot? Thank you :)
This is a really good question - thank you for asking it.
All citrus are surface feeders - most of their nutrients are sourced by their roots that are within the top few inches of the soil.
Therefore, planting other plants around the base of a citrus tree puts them in direct competition for the nutrients. Therefore I would avoid planting herbs and flowers in the same pot. This is fine with many plants, but I would not recommend it for citrus.
Hope this is helpful, and good luck with your gardening 🌱
Thanks a lot brother i want to know what is the best mandarins plant .. If you have time please answer
Good question, but much is dependant on your climate. I have had a lot of success with the Imperial mandarine variety. Another very good one for the home gardener is the Emperor variety.
I hope this is helpful 😄
iCultivate Thanks a lot. l am living Australia (Melbourne .)
Just liked and subscribed ! I have a Kaffir lime tree that my Indonesian wife uses to make her traditional spicy foods. I was able to get a successful cutting started, also, recently. Also, hot peppers and kemangi plants. I have a Mandarin orange tree I started from seed about ten years ago. I started out training it like a bonsai. It's healthy and doing well but has yet to produce fruit or even flower. I have been using citrus spikes and it's in a short but wide container. Any advice how to make it flower and fruit ??? Thank for your time and consideration. Loved this video.
Thank you for your question ....... unfortunately most citrus trees that are purchased are grafted. Growing it from seed is often fraught with risk.
Try the following ..... ensure it receives plenty of sun and is well watered. also, ensure that you fertilise it 3 or 4 times a year.
Hope this helps :)
what would be recommended pot sizes for backyard citrus - 30cm, 50cm diameter? preferred shape?
Eventually they will require a large pot, perhaps even half wine barrel size. I would recommend starting with a 40 to 50 cm pot.
thanks for ur teachings , however me am using buckets rather than pots
That is great 👍. A pot or a bucket are just examples of containers. If it can hold soil, it can be used to grow plants.
Just ensure that you have drainage holes in the bottom.
Thanks for contributing to the conversation 😄
Why is my lemon tree in a pot only green leaves
heh didn't know about the pot size, i'll deffinitly take that in concideration when i'm sizing up. By any chance, do you also have good advice on dealing with scales? I tried things like neem oil mixture all the way to harsh eco-unfriendly pesticides but these buggers keep popping up.
Thank you for your question ..... I am glad you found the pot size information useful :)
I have found that the best way to deal with scale is a combination of physical removal (a hose can often do this) and a natural oil - white oil is a good option. washing down with soapy water can also help.
Hope this is useful ...... good luck :)
Use the jet setting on the water nozzle and spray them off. Easiest way. Only bad part is you have to repeat as soon as you see signs of infestation.
Can a potted plant grow into a huge tree after transplanting to ground (despite being spent 10 years in a pot)?
Also, can coconut husk be used as mulch?
If it became root bound in the pot for a long time its not so good but you could remove from the pot ....get a bread knife and root prune one third of the roots away and then plant out........then water with a root stimulater solution and you could be away....trim the top a bit at the same time......plant out late winter...give it a few weeks to settle in and you should get a spring flush.
Great what seize to plant a lime or lemon
Do you mean what season? In cold climates, the best time to plant citrus is spring. If you live in a warm climate, you can plant any time of the year.
Hope this helps.
I have a citrus tree that I planted from seeds, at the moment the leaves are sad looking, I have no idea what is going on, it does not have bags and the potting mix is humid, I had it on the window in my kitchen, is about an open hand tall, do you know what is going on and what I can do to help it be healthy again?
i also grew one from seed, currently it's in it's 5th year. Make sure the soil is loomy/sandy and well aerated. Also use a fertilizer, and most importantly, don't water it so much, let the soil dry out a little bit. That's what helped me with my citrus. Usually you can find potting mixes designed for citrus in stores.
I heard terracotta pots are bad because they breathe and make the soil dry out?
Thank you for your comment - what you have said is true. But I probably would not describe them as bad. As long as you monitor the amount of water your plants receive, all will be good. However, the the moisture drying on the pot can also have a cooling effect.
I grow mine in perth western australia and they are in terracotta pots.....there are pros and cons .....in winter they are great because they breathe and dry out quicker......citrus hate staying wet.....in the summer...yes they do dry out quicker........so in theory in summer a plastic pot would be better and in winter a terracotta would be better to avoid soggy roots !!! hahaah......generally i find everything grows better in terracotta because the roots can breathe through the terracotta ....good roots = good top growth.....so even in 40C heat......most of my trees are in terracotta pots and i have 35 of them !........the tree demonstrated by this gentlemen is in a terracotta.........I drill 10mm holes in the pot with masonary bits = 5/7/10 mm in increments so not to break the pot and use mesh screen on the bottom to prevent mix washing out.....Its a myth to put gravel/broken crock to improve drainage.....dont do that......pot up in stages 2-4 inches in size each season to avoid death from "wet feet"........more citrus are killed from over watering than anything else.....ive killed heaps in my time.
"Keeping citrus trees in pots?" Do they have a tendency to leave the pots?
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