1. Space by plants equals growth 2. Container size matters, 15gal min., 25gal good. 3. More water=healthy trees, no wet feet 4. Food, Fertilizer,, he uses compost and worm casting 5. Varieties-best for pots have smaller fruit 6. Cold protection, under 32f put indoors, garage, or by structures 7. Lighting-citrus want full sun, get grow lights if indoors, fruit in winter so need light 8. Wind protection-for fruit set and pollination, plant protection 9. Four main pests-spider mites(spray water, give sun), Leaf Miner(normal in AZ), Thrips (eat newleaves), and Swallowtail Butterfly larvae 10. Have correct soil-good potting mix and drainage, no wet feet, he makes own 28 ingredients mix but no recipe.
I suggest that you do not need a dwarfing specific variety. Citrus grow in pots regardless of rootstock. Pots will construct rooting size just as a dwarfing rootstock. Dwarfing rootstocks will only start restricting size at a larger size than a pot would rendering any benefit they offer pointless. Ironically, dwarf rootstocks have better utility in the garden when their dwarfing function will actually kick in. Better to get a good quality rootstock for your climate and tree. The pot will do the rest.
i was told by a friend with a nursery in Florida who grows citus and she said citrus are actually understory plants. Once i moved my pots into morning sun/afternoon shade the trees exploded into far more growth.
Thanks for sharing this video! I’m a gardener too and I’m researching all the things I can grow in containers. I’m happy it led me to find you. I’m so happy it did your channel has so much to offer! This is very helpful. Thanks for teaching me something new. I hope we can learn more from each other as we grow our gardens and our channels!
He spends the first 6 minutes showing you how well his plants fruit, but if you believe him you can just skip to the 6-minute point where the tips finally begin.
Great information all around. I'm in Florida but have no experience growing any kind of citrus fruit. This is a great way to start. Thanks for sharing the information.
this video was incredibly informative. your trees are so gorgeous too! I currently have one lemon tree, that I'll be re-potting soon after watching this video (it was started in a 5 gallon pot last year).
Big fan of your channel Jay do you still recommend feeding potted fruit trees including citrus with whole eggs and worm castings? All your trees look awesome. Just got 7 citrus trees here in Oahu and just potted them.
Thanks for sharing all the good tips. What do your suggest as pesticides for thrips? Base on your description, I think that is what my sweet lemon plant had. I have been looking through the web for the pass 2 years to try to identify it. Its mostly happen on the young leaves, I would said 90% on my plant. Thanks again
I live in Washington state and I only keep a cheap heat light on 24/7 and they do fine through the winter in the green house we just had temps down to 17 degrees there perty strong thanks for all the good tips
You might think that your video was super-long, but I loved every minute of it! To me, there wasn't a dull moment. Evey part was informative and full of hints. I believe that growing my fruit trees in containers, like yours, might be a splendid way to utilize my barren backyard. Thanks for sharing.
Thank you so much for the info, i live in Green Valley Az, i have a small lemon tree that i planted on the ground 3 years ago, i had 1 fruit last year, this year i had 10 fruits, i have a mandarin in a 5 gallon home depot bucket it gave me 2 fruits, my other lemon tree is in a pot gave me 3 fruits, we have an orange tree on the ground since 1993, its a big tree the fruits are very sweet, but the fruits are smaller, before it was big when my Dad was alive he had a gardener before who took care of the fertilizer, now i am trying to learn how to take care of them, i learned a lot from your video
Awesome video... it was long and very informative 👌... I enjoyed every bit of it. I have over 85 citrus trees 75% of them in containers.... I leaning a lot from you. I'm in Orlando Florida zone 9b.
Excellent information! We are excited about our kumquat We have on our back porch! We will use this technique for more production, We can't wait to get more trees!
Hi Jay - what soil do you use? Thank you for the video. I started fruit trees in pots after covid. Can't wait for them to get large enough to harvest fruit. Also, do you ever water from above and wet the leaves?
Thanks so much for sharing. Your very informative video is already being of great help and source of great inspiration. I'm just 2weeks old incitrus tree painting and determined to do it right. Please what is best wind protection that can be used.? I look forward to your helpful reply .
Great video. Have been doing most things right but was planted too low and now I can see that the stems are too wet. Will raise it up in pot. Thank you!
Jay, great video and very useful information. If not wrong, I heard you also sell citrus plants. I am interested to know the price for Tango Mandarin tree and Satsuma Mandarin.
In South West US, have also seen a caterpillar that camouflages itself as a green/ white mottled “bird poop” on the lemon trees. They did little harm we could see and went away easily by just moving them elsewhere, but seemed to like the lemon tree most.
I agree with you 100% about the amount of light needed. But fact surprise myself is the lemon tree, which bearing fruit heavily inside my friend house. It's such astounding. However, I also noticed the extreme attentive my friend was giving to the tree. She kept wiping the leaves while talking to me.
Hello, I'm in Phoenix, AZ as well and want to start growing citrus trees. The water is really hard here, do you filter yours at all or do you just water straight from the hose?
I love your content ❤ I’m growing my own herbs this year, I’m tired of buying from the store. Do you mind sharing a good soil or soil mix for herbs? I’m buying a planter raised bed. Thank you!
Do you make your wooden planters or purchase them from a certain place. I am looking to repot my Lemon and Key Lime from 15 gallon to something larger but find it impossible to find good plastic planters.
Thank you for give me hope that i can plant fruits tree in pots, i don't have MUCH space at home. Live in oc.and where do u go and get the pots?where do we buy 25 gallons cheap pots?
I have a Thai lime and Meyer lemon that I bring inside in the winter. I put them by a south facing window and they do fine. Haven’t had any bug problems either.
I have a meyer lemon tree over 10 yrs old , the lemons taste really good , but they look rusty .Do you have any suggestion ? Also it gets full sun but in a heavy rain the street floods and the waves of water goes under the tree when cars pass by .Could that be why my lemons are never pretty and yellow. Thank you for any advice.
this may be a weird question. I want to know is there anything one can do for a plant once it has over grown the pot it's in besides placing it in another new pot? Can you trim the roots of the tree and plant it again in the same pot?
Is there anyway you can tell me the exact ingredients in your soil, i feel like im using the wrong soil because the water does not come out as fast as you say in the video. Thanks and great video!
Oro Blanco is a cross of a grapefruit and pomelo. More delicious and milder than a grapefruit. I get 3-4 dozen fruit from an 8’ tree growing in the ground.
Thank you. I notice the leaves of my kumquat have white powdery appearance. Is it mildew or spider mites? Will Neem oil solve this problem? Please advise. Thank you!
Nice! Your plants are looking very healthy I'm taking notes! I had to switch to terra cotta pots instead plastic containers for my citrus. I've killed 2 kumquats so far due to overwatering and I've noticed plastic retains so much water and the soil takes about a month to dry out even with perlite.
Try buying a soil meter. They’re pretty cheap online, under $29. Mine read PH (for blueberries) and moisture and it has helped me so much with over watering. It’s amazing how the soul can appear dry the first inch or so and be wet deeper down. Good luck to you!
I've switched to a soil- less mix, as even mixing perlite n peat moss and compost into my soil around here seems to retain moisture forever and often bogs down drainage in the lower half of the containers, promoting rot. Also, there are cheap moisture meters for 10-13 bucks on Amazon.
I've got one in a Terra Cotta and 4 in plastic. My plastic ones are doing better then the terra cotta(terra cotta still doing great) I use Succulant and Cactus and it drains pretty good. I'm also on the west.
Plastic works extremely well....the trick is to drill some small holes in the side of the pot. Also a good way to increase drainage is to add in orchid bark mix to your cactus/succulent blend. Toss in some slow release organic fertilizer per the manufacturer's instructions and these things should help tremendously.
Sand with a bit of peat for moisture retention and around 5% crushed biochar works well. Top dress with some good compost. You gotta soak the bio char in some sort of nutrient solution first otherwise it'll just suck up everything you feed the plant for a few months. Only downside is it's very heavy but at least it'll never blow over in a storm.
i bought a meyer lemon and key lime ands also some oranges, would those 1-2 foot citrus trees need to be placed into a 15 gallon pot, or would that be too big? thank you !
Hi! I wonder if you started your trees from seeds ? I would bee interested in some seeds because I live in Canada I can't have a tree but seeds are fine.I know that you will tel me that my climate zone is not good but I grow many things that are not suppose to thrive here like pinnaple well it gave me a delicious fruit ! Thank you in advance for your anwser and I wish you a merry Christmas ahd a happy new year 2023
I have 1 satsuma tree in a small pot I know I need to repot it the leaves are turning yellow it needs more magnesium I'm sure but I thought of putting it in the ground I live in south Mississippi and Louisiana is big on citrus to there famous for there satsumas to
1. Space by plants equals growth
2. Container size matters, 15gal min., 25gal good.
3. More water=healthy trees, no wet feet
4. Food, Fertilizer,, he uses compost and worm casting
5. Varieties-best for pots have smaller fruit
6. Cold protection, under 32f put indoors, garage, or by structures
7. Lighting-citrus want full sun, get grow lights if indoors, fruit in winter so need light
8. Wind protection-for fruit set and pollination, plant protection
9. Four main pests-spider mites(spray water, give sun), Leaf Miner(normal in AZ), Thrips (eat newleaves), and Swallowtail Butterfly larvae
10. Have correct soil-good potting mix and drainage, no wet feet, he makes own 28 ingredients mix but no recipe.
Thanks for the recap!
You are doing Gods work! I have ADHD and can't do a 45 minute video 🤣
National treasure
I suggest that you do not need a dwarfing specific variety. Citrus grow in pots regardless of rootstock. Pots will construct rooting size just as a dwarfing rootstock. Dwarfing rootstocks will only start restricting size at a larger size than a pot would rendering any benefit they offer pointless. Ironically, dwarf rootstocks have better utility in the garden when their dwarfing function will actually kick in. Better to get a good quality rootstock for your climate and tree. The pot will do the rest.
@Sheldon you made me cry 😂😂😂😂epic comment ❤
i was told by a friend with a nursery in Florida who grows citus and she said citrus are actually understory plants. Once i moved my pots into morning sun/afternoon shade the trees exploded into far more growth.
Thanks for sharing this video! I’m a gardener too and I’m researching all the things I can grow in containers. I’m happy it led me to find you. I’m so happy it did your channel has so much to offer! This is very helpful. Thanks for teaching me something new. I hope we can learn more from each other as we grow our gardens and our channels!
Thank you Jay!!! Great information
He spends the first 6 minutes showing you how well his plants fruit, but if you believe him you can just skip to the 6-minute point where the tips finally begin.
Very much appreciated.
hes a spastic rambler for sure. grabbing fruit incessantly and babbling.
God bless you
Awesome thanks
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Great information all around. I'm in Florida but have no experience growing any kind of citrus fruit. This is a great way to start. Thanks for sharing the information.
this video was incredibly informative. your trees are so gorgeous too! I currently have one lemon tree, that I'll be re-potting soon after watching this video (it was started in a 5 gallon pot last year).
What a great video Thanks a bunch...Keep smiling
Truly amazing tips. Thank you for sharing and teaching.
Very informative. Just started growing citrus. Had a garden center for 25 years but never sold citrus trees. Zone 8a
Great video. Thanks for the detailed information. Loved it.
Thank you for all your information, I need all your knowledge about citrus trees
Thanks a lot for such a great information 👍. This was very helpful 😀. Blessings to you.
Stunning trees and great tips! Thank you 😊👍👌
Very helpful info. Thank you. Could you tell us about the soil you use and your irrigation system you use?
Big fan of your channel Jay do you still recommend feeding potted fruit trees including citrus with whole eggs and worm castings? All your trees look awesome. Just got 7 citrus trees here in Oahu and just potted them.
Thanks for sharing all the good tips. What do your suggest as pesticides for thrips? Base on your description, I think that is what my sweet lemon plant had. I have been looking through the web for the pass 2 years to try to identify it. Its mostly happen on the young leaves, I would said 90% on my plant. Thanks again
I am a new subscriber, love your fruit trees . I am glad found your channel thank you for sharing.
Excellent presentation, very helpful.
I live in Washington state and I only keep a cheap heat light on 24/7 and they do fine through the winter in the green house we just had temps down to 17 degrees there perty strong thanks for all the good tips
Thanks for the tips. My Meyer lemon has been struggling, but I think I have a good plan now.
Great vid! I what are your thoughts on growing citrus in grow bags?
You might think that your video was super-long, but I loved every minute of it! To me, there wasn't a dull moment. Evey part was informative and full of hints. I believe that growing my fruit trees in containers, like yours, might be a splendid way to utilize my barren backyard. Thanks for sharing.
Thank you so much for the info, i live in Green Valley Az, i have a small lemon tree that i planted on the ground 3 years ago, i had 1 fruit last year, this year i had 10 fruits, i have a mandarin in a 5 gallon home depot bucket it gave me 2 fruits, my other lemon tree is in a pot gave me 3 fruits, we have an orange tree on the ground since 1993, its a big tree the fruits are very sweet, but the fruits are smaller, before it was big when my Dad was alive he had a gardener before who took care of the fertilizer, now i am trying to learn how to take care of them, i learned a lot from your video
Awesome video... it was long and very informative 👌... I enjoyed every bit of it. I have over 85 citrus trees 75% of them in containers.... I leaning a lot from you. I'm in Orlando Florida zone 9b.
Do you have any nules clementine? Mind sharing any tips? Live in Central FL Too.
Excellent information! We are excited about our kumquat We have on our back porch! We will use this technique for more production, We can't wait to get more trees!
I put my citrus on my porch. Now I’m afraid it isn’t getting enough sun there.
@@patriciamillar5496 depends on where you live. We're in the desert of Arizona. It can handle ~4ish hours of our summer sun and it sustains itself.
Hi Jay - what soil do you use? Thank you for the video. I started fruit trees in pots after covid. Can't wait for them to get large enough to harvest fruit. Also, do you ever water from above and wet the leaves?
Thanks so much for sharing.
Your very informative video is already being of great help and source of great inspiration.
I'm just 2weeks old incitrus tree painting and determined to do it right.
Please what is best wind protection that can be used.?
I look forward to your helpful reply .
What's your in ground Owari sized at? Do you have a video on applying the wraps to support new plants?
Thanks for sharing your information
Great video. Have been doing most things right but was planted too low and now I can see that the stems are too wet. Will raise it up in pot. Thank you!
This was so helpful, thank you.
Great info! You mentioned pruning…I’d love to see a video on that. ☺️ I’ve seen mixed info on pruning.
Jay, great video and very useful information.
If not wrong, I heard you also sell citrus plants. I am interested to know the price for Tango Mandarin tree and Satsuma Mandarin.
In South West US, have also seen a caterpillar that camouflages itself as a green/ white mottled “bird poop” on the lemon trees. They did little harm we could see and went away easily by just moving them elsewhere, but seemed to like the lemon tree most.
I agree with you 100% about the amount of light needed. But fact surprise myself is the lemon tree, which bearing fruit heavily inside my friend house. It's such astounding. However, I also noticed the extreme attentive my friend was giving to the tree. She kept wiping the leaves while talking to me.
Excellent thank you so much
Wow beautiful health plent thanks for sharing your video
Great video thank you
My brothers live in Phoenix AZ too, i live in Texas. I just bought a tangerine and a key like to grow in pots, i absolutely love AZ weather ❤
Hello, I'm in Phoenix, AZ as well and want to start growing citrus trees. The water is really hard here, do you filter yours at all or do you just water straight from the hose?
Would it be possible to get a list of your ingredients for your soil mix?
amazing information...thank you
I love your content ❤
I’m growing my own herbs this year, I’m tired of buying from the store. Do you mind sharing a good soil or soil mix for herbs? I’m buying a planter raised bed.
Thank you!
Make your own. 1 part peat moss or coco coir, 1 part compost and 1 part perlite or vermiculite. Add 0.2 part of worm castings. You will be good to go.
Do you make your wooden planters or purchase them from a certain place. I am looking to repot my Lemon and Key Lime from 15 gallon to something larger but find it impossible to find good plastic planters.
thanks for sharing the information
Nice fruits. Where did you get your 25 gal pots?
Try hydroponic shops. Usually very reasonable prices.
Thank you for give me hope that i can plant fruits tree in pots, i don't have MUCH space at home. Live in oc.and where do u go and get the pots?where do we buy 25 gallons cheap pots?
big fan of the long format video
Thank You Very Much Sir ,🙏🙏🙏
Your trees look healthy. great tips.
Very helpful tips
Thanks for the tips,. Here’s a tip, pull out the weeds in your pots they steal nutrition from the tree, replace with mulch..
Fantastic yeilds! Where do you purchase those huge pots?
online try nursery wholesale
Thank you for this video!
I have a Thai lime and Meyer lemon that I bring inside in the winter. I put them by a south facing window and they do fine. Haven’t had any bug problems either.
Thank you so much!
❤ Great tips, Brother 👏🏾👋
Yummy oranges and so beautiful! 🍊 👍🍊
I have a meyer lemon tree over 10 yrs old , the lemons taste really good , but they look rusty .Do you have any suggestion ? Also it gets full sun but in a heavy rain the street floods and the waves of water goes under the tree when cars pass by .Could that be why my lemons are never pretty and yellow. Thank you for any advice.
Hi Jay
Are you going to do a winter pruning video?
When should I first fertilize my fruit trees?
Could you share how you build your irrigation system?
What kind of wiring do you have around your trees? Does it also keep out birds? Can you make a video of that?
What part of Arizona you located? Do you have any Suma orange trees? I’ll be coming through in July and I’d like to purchase a few Citrus trees.
from where did you buy these pomelo trees? I'm also from AZ
What size containerd you used? I am new to your video.
Can you go straight to a 15 or 25 gallon pot? Mine are in 5 and 7 gallon now
how tall can a citrus tree can grow in a big pot ? I want to put many citrus pots around my house and use them as natural fence :)
how often should i feed with organic fert?
this may be a weird question. I want to know is there anything one can do for a plant once it has over grown the pot it's in besides placing it in another new pot? Can you trim the roots of the tree and plant it again in the same pot?
Beautiful can I buy all your trees in the pots yeah I like alot
Where do you find your container mines is in a 15 gallon buck. I’m finding it hard to find the right container.
The UofA in Tucson have cumquat trees 20 ft. tall growing in the ground outside
Is there anyway you can tell me the exact ingredients in your soil, i feel like im using the wrong soil because the water does not come out as fast as you say in the video. Thanks and great video!
Just use straight Foxfarm ocean forest or Micraclegrow moisture control Your plants Love them
Oro Blanco is a cross of a grapefruit and pomelo. More delicious and milder than a grapefruit. I get 3-4 dozen fruit from an 8’ tree growing in the ground.
Great video. I'm in San Antonio TX and looking to get some citrus trees going.
Your trees are a dream! 🌳 😊
How do you get rid of leaf rust?
If it is a pot crop, you can add some organic fertilizer to loosen the soil, so that the root growth of the plant is more favorable.
What are you spraying on your fruit trees?
Are they from seed or grafted?
You can grind the bottom out of a terracotta pot and the roots can go to the ground.
Thank you. I notice the leaves of my kumquat have white powdery appearance. Is it mildew or spider mites? Will Neem oil solve this problem? Please advise. Thank you!
Many thanks...
Nice! Your plants are looking very healthy I'm taking notes!
I had to switch to terra cotta pots instead plastic containers for my citrus. I've killed 2 kumquats so far due to overwatering and I've noticed plastic retains so much water and the soil takes about a month to dry out even with perlite.
Try buying a soil meter. They’re pretty cheap online, under $29. Mine read PH (for blueberries) and moisture and it has helped me so much with over watering. It’s amazing how the soul can appear dry the first inch or so and be wet deeper down. Good luck to you!
I've switched to a soil- less mix, as even mixing perlite n peat moss and compost into my soil around here seems to retain moisture forever and often bogs down drainage in the lower half of the containers, promoting rot. Also, there are cheap moisture meters for 10-13 bucks on Amazon.
I've got one in a Terra Cotta and 4 in plastic. My plastic ones are doing better then the terra cotta(terra cotta still doing great) I use Succulant and Cactus and it drains pretty good. I'm also on the west.
Plastic works extremely well....the trick is to drill some small holes in the side of the pot. Also a good way to increase drainage is to add in orchid bark mix to your cactus/succulent blend. Toss in some slow release organic fertilizer per the manufacturer's instructions and these things should help tremendously.
Sand with a bit of peat for moisture retention and around 5% crushed biochar works well. Top dress with some good compost. You gotta soak the bio char in some sort of nutrient solution first otherwise it'll just suck up everything you feed the plant for a few months. Only downside is it's very heavy but at least it'll never blow over in a storm.
I live in Michigan and grow coffee, lemons and other fruits/etc. in containers.
Hi i want to start growing citrus what type of fertilizer can recommend.
Thank you Sr
Can we buy the soil mix from you already mixed together?
i bought a meyer lemon and key lime ands also some oranges, would those 1-2 foot citrus trees need to be placed into a 15 gallon pot, or would that be too big? thank you !
7-10 gls your plant still small
what is the strip of cloth that u tried on their bases??
Where do you get the 25 gallon pots?
Will a satsuma reach full size in a 25” pot?
Hi! I wonder if you started your trees from seeds ? I would bee interested in some seeds because I live in Canada I can't have a tree but seeds are fine.I know that you will tel me that my climate zone is not good but I grow many things that are not suppose to thrive here like pinnaple well it gave me a delicious fruit !
Thank you in advance for your anwser and I wish you a merry Christmas ahd a happy new year 2023
they are all grafted
Do you sell these citrus plants?
Do you sell your soil mix?
Where did you purchase the tree.
Is scale not an issue here? Thanks for all the information.
Here’s an easy to remember fertilizing schedule: Valentines Day, Memorial Day, Labor Day.
I have 1 satsuma tree in a small pot I know I need to repot it the leaves are turning yellow it needs more magnesium I'm sure but I thought of putting it in the ground I live in south Mississippi and Louisiana is big on citrus to there famous for there satsumas to