Growing Lemon Trees from Seeds, Days 818-985
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- Опубліковано 1 жов 2024
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I find it interesting how these caterpillars were just damaging the lemon at first, but it actually caused it to grow extremely aggressively in the long run! It looks really lush now.
Caterpillars undoubtedly cost a tree a lot of resources and time, but it's similar to nonstop pruning with shears in the response it generates.
@@TheMelvinWeiwhere's vid of this?
Did you get any flowers on such an old plant?
Yea couldn't be me, those Caterpillars woulve been thrown out as soon as i saw them
He look so happy not living in sand anymore hahah
How many more years till it will start to produce fruit? I'm exited how would the lemons taste! Anyways, big congratulations on how plant grew
I don't understand your thoughts process.
Interesting how plants grow differently. I started my lemon from seed after I watched your first video on this series. It's now almost 2 meters high! But another plant from the same batch of seeds that I gave to my brother is about the same size as yours. Wonder what's causing the difference.
Some always seem to grow faster than the others and take over the pot. My conditions are the same for all the seedlings so I think it's mostly genetics, with some randomness thrown in such as whether a virus or predator/parasite attacks one plant versus the other first due to positioning, wind direction, etc.
these caterpillars feed exclusively on citrus and curry leaves. i have small calamansi trees on my balcony, everytime i see them, i quickly put them in my old fish tank and raise them until they become butterflies.
We need to get you a house so you can put those trees in the ground.
I just got a couple lemons to grow my own trees about a week and a half ago there starting to grow roots and probably in another week I’ll have little baby lemon seedlings I can’t wait 😁!
I also started a couple Valencia orange trees a couple years ago and I just checked the other day and there starting to get tinny thorns on them and the ones about a foot tall I’m keeping my favorite then giving the rest away
I’m also growing an apricot tree and I plan to have a peach and nectarine tree to soon (yes winter is coming I don’t care) luckily I don’t get snow only frost where I am so they should be fine if there under a sheet
No fertilizer used potting soil from the year before and I’m only watering them when the soil is dry on top the oranges and apricot seem to be thriving 🙂
Sadly I only have a small balcony that can only hold so much weight so I doubt I can keep them to full size (in large pots)but I plan to have an orange ,2 lemons (Meyer and regular) , a peach, apricot and nectarine trees along with my flowers until I literally CAN’T fit them anymore then I’ll try to sell them if nobody wants to buy I’ll give them away once they outgrow their pots or the balcony it’s self
I would of had an avocado to but I had to gift that to someone with a yard so it could go in the ground it was growing to fast for me
Balcony gardening is tough, as the first 8 years of my plant growing UA-cam videos showed. White nectarines are one of my favorite fruits.
Look into using Physan 20 instead of Bayer 3 in 1. That's what professional nurseries use.
Thanks for the tip, I'll look into Physan 20. The off-the-shelf stuff from stores doesn't seem to do much even after a few days.
i see root shock like this, after a transplant, you should keep the tree in indirect sunlight for a couple of days for recovery
Did that chrysalis become a butterfly?
I live in New York where it gets pretty cold in the winter, but pretty hot in the summer. I have a grapefruit tree that I grew from seed 4 years ago. I have not fertilized it once before, the soil is really just dirt with a tiny bit of clay in it, and It looks exactly like your lemon (as expected, they are both citrus) they are pretty easy to grow in my opinion, although I do think mine has adjusted to the cold climate over the years. Good luck with yours!
Hello, how do you fertilize a lemon tree?
U can buy citrus tree fertilizer
I fertilize my plants all the same way to avoid complicating things. Maybe it's not optimal but so far I've been having a great year for my plants. About 7 Liters of water with a large scoop of Miracle Gro All Purpose Plant Food and 2 crushed up multivitamin pills, with >1 L going to each plant. More or less volume of dissolved fertilizer depending on the the size of the plant.
@@TheMelvinWei Thanks, love your videos!
I always wet my coco coir before I baked it. I'll have to try baking it dry. I want a mango and lemon tree so I'm glad that you did a lemon tree video.
I would take the old soil and start a compost container.
I have 2 lemons growing and they are about 4 -5 1/2 inches in about a year. U think that’s normal or are they just slow to grow?
Mine got off to a super slow start, but not anywhere near that slow. If you look at my Growing Lemon Trees fron Seeds for 1 Year video, mine were well over a foot tall. I wish I had grown them in coco coir from the beginning.
I don't know about the caterpillars, how much leaves they ate from the first appearance? If i would got them, i would put them in some box or throw them in the trash
It was a tossup, caterpillars are interesting to me. Luckily they didn't do too much damage and all got eaten by some unknown predator, probably a bird.
You know a bag of lemons is like 3 bucks my dude.
But the fun and satisfaction you get from growing a lemon tree from a seed is priceless.
Not the point certain people like him (and me) enjoy watching things grow from seed even if it will take years to get anything from the plant/tree
Heck I’m starting a bunch of peach and nectarine seeds I’ll keep the best ones for myself then give the rest away
People also grow root stock from seed then graft on a desired fruiting branch to the root stock