Me too, mine dropped pretty much ALL of the leaves in about a month, but there's still fruit on it, and it's still blooming, but it's February in Utah and I have puppies I'm trying to potty train, and the door is open A LOT so I'm guessing the temperature fluctuations are probably messing with my dwarf lime tree. I wish I had a greenhouse, that would be AWESOME! I have a humidifier, but I don't dare run it until 2-3 days after I water it because I have grown mold on top a few times doing that.
I live in Vermont,I had my lemon and lime trees in my greenhouse. I put them in my kitchen.leaf drop was bad. I put them in my woodstove room with humidifiers and mist them.much better!70-75 all the time. I do have to water more often which I know I’m not getting root rot.for me it’s temperature and misting.fruit and flowers when it’s 20 degrees outside!!
Yes, temperatures and light are going to highly affect citrus. They are a little finicky when it comes to being moved around, it they always bounce back in the spring. 😀
Thank you, I was really getting worried about my orange tree, but now I feel calmer as it still blossoms and have a fruit hanging. Probably because of the temperature change. Also I live in The Netherlands where we lack sun during winter but I just found some grow lights.
Thank you, sir! My 4 year old keylime tree started blooming for the first time, and it shed a lot of leaves. This video took my worry off. Zone 9 Texas.
Great video!! I am just getting started with a few citrus trees, I am in WA by the coast, so I guess I am a little crazy, keeping them inside during winter time now, need to find a good way to create some humidity, and I love videos like this that help me along the way, thank you!!
Isn't the humidity extremely high by the coast in WA? I live in Northern Utah, and we're lucky if we hit 15% most of the time, and mine does pretty well most of the time just misting it with a spray bottle a fee times a week!
1st time viewer, thanks! My potted grapefruit has 3 huge fruits that I'm trying to ripen here in Maine in my grow room, but in the past couple weeks, it's begun dropping its good leaves, even though it has new buds and young leaves starting. I'm repotting in the spring, but don't dare right now, or I'll lose my fruit. I hope I don't kill the tree by holding off... 😞
I have a theory: when citrus defoliate and then suddenly put out a profusion of flower buds from the almost bare branches, it has gone into 'panic mode' and wants to 'spread its seed' (pass on its genes) in case conditions never improve again. Since I have stopped using readily biodegradable substrates like coir or compost, I no longer get winter defoliation on my citrus, even at temperatures just a few degrees above freezing (e.g. 5 degrees C) and even at suboptimum winter light levels. I've watched the livestreams by Gary Matsuoka (channel: Gary's Best Gardening) and what he says makes a lot of sense: readily biodegrable substrates, like coir (coco 'peat') or compost, are continuously breaking down due to microbial action, and if these materials are fine-structured and powder-like, they hold onto too much water at the expense of oxygen. Under these conditions, anaerobic bacteria establish themselves, and they attack the roots. Under anaerobic condtions, bacterial fermentation products like hydrogen sulphide are produced, which are poisonous to plant roots. The finer the potting substrate, the more water it holds onto (at the expense of oxygen), meaning that root function might be compromised especially in winter, when plants are less photosynthetically active and the substrate remains moist for longer without the periodic dry-downs that enable fresh oxygen to permeate into the substrate. No longer do I see defoliation and twig die-back on my plants- including the citrus- since I've been using a very fast-draining and oxygenating coarse aggregate-based substrate (a mixture of chunky pumice, perlite, calcined clay 'gravel' (also called 'kittydama'- a cheaper alternative to akadama), coarse-grained potting sand or grit, coarse coconut husk chips, charcoal and a little amount of peatmoss (the peatmoss is to provide acidity and cation exchange capacity). I grow all my citrus in containers, by the way.
My orange tree is defoliating now in this Arizona heat. We did replant it to a Terra cotta pot to give it room to grow from the original pot from the nursery.
In a very hot place like Arizona I do not recommend terra cotta for citrus. They will simply dry out way too fast. I would also recommend giving it some shade in the hottest time of the day.
@@PlantFanatics Greetings from Hungary! I've got a Meyer lemon about 5 months ago. We repotted it into a good water permeable soil with some stone rubble and osmocote in it but the tree keeps defoliating. It had like a hundred flowers on it at beginning of July but most of them burned off of it in the 40 C heat and those where new fruits started to develop dropped off after a week o lr two. Now the tree barely has any leaves on it, just the bigher fruits remain on it which were already there when I got the plant. I have no idea what causes its stress and how could I solve it. It got direct sunloght, lots of heat and was watered regularly. I thought maybe the too much sun and heat is the culprit so I put it into a shaded area now but any advice would be much appreciated
I love this channel and the content, I think this channel really can take of in a couple of months, maybe a year. You are good at making troubleshooting videos, explaining common citrus problems and soforth. So interesting and easy to follow along :)
My citrus leaves are following from my limequat and kumquat, I think it is because of the cold weather I had -10 C and then I took them inside. So I guess it is being stressed out because of the temperature variation? I dose all my citrus with a spray every day for humidity.
I live in zone 9a Florida. My ruby red grapefruit is planted, not in cold soil gets watered once every week or 2 if no rain. The fruit were almost ready to pick and it's dropping all of its leaves. I think this is a nutrient deficiency.
thank you. Happy New Year. Great to know its stressing out as said. I guess everything I am doing is spot on, we'll ust keep picking up the leaves, glad its another 100 days till warm weather hits again Lol. Maybe I'll throw another grow light on wrap a blanket around the base add some heat, and talk to the plant some more
I planted my yuzu tree in the ground and it started to show transplant shock. Some leaves have turned yellow and when the sun is out, it droops. I spray leaves with water and it seems to help keep leaves hydrated.
Yes, transplant shock is very common with newly planted trees. The most important thing to do is water it in thoroughly upon initial planting. After this it just takes time. 😀
Hi, I am in zone 8 and have a meyer lemon tree and key lime tree that were doing great until I brought them in. Artificial lighting is my only choice . They are dropping leaves fast, please advise things I could do to save them and help them thrive. Thank you!
When i moved my lemon from natural light to growlight for winter all the leaves fell off. I havnt moved it since and i have new spring growth but those leaves are falling off as well. I dont think its still in shock. We dont have good sun here yet so idk what to do
I have a Meyer lemon that lost all its leaves in the Spring. It had hundreds of flowers all the flowers dropped all the tiny lemons that were starting dropped and then all the leaves dropped. It wasn't temperature. I started feeding it some of my worm casting and compost teas. All the leaves came back incredibly fast but no flowers during the summer. It's in the house now in front of a window and it has a ton of flowers. I also went from a 7 gallon pot to a 15. That might have had something to do with it.
How many years old is it? I saw that I shouldn’t expect to get anything with my sapling and to just keep it growing and thriving for a few years. I get flowing periods where there’s seemingly hundreds of flowers, then they all fall off and sometimes I’m left with hilariously small limes that never grow. I was wondering if I should just pick them off to help it focus on growing it’s branches/roots
There are many reasons a citrus tree will drop its leaves and/or drop fruit. I believe we made a video a while back going over other reasons too. Over the years I’ve received a ton of inquiries from viewers and temperature fluctuations in the root zone are by far the most common problem. We also have a very large majority of our viewers growing in northern planting zones though.
@@PlantFanatics oh geez, my roots aren’t very deep, should I put more soil on top of them to help with that temperature changes like 70 during the day down to 45 at night? I’ve been bringing this potted key lime inside when it drops below 50, but it’s definitely been stressed multiple times
I live in the panhandle of Florida. In mid August my potted Meyer lemon tree dropped ALL it's leaves. Im not sure what to do. We get rain, I've fertilized it, and it's in a sunny spot. It's potted in a ceramic planter with a nickel sized drainage hole. Maybe i need to switch the pot?
Can you do a vid on some of the best fall and winter blooming trees for pollinators? Around here in zone 8a there’s very little food available for my honeybee hives. I just bought a loquat and some Texas Sage this week for them.
Hi, I am not sure if I overwatered my kumquat bonsai tree but its leaves are turning yellow-green and are dropping by twos or threes daily. The leaves are looking very unhealthy too and the branches are still green but seem to look like they are drying out. Could this be a possibility that I am overwatering it? It is planted in pumice and bonsai soil mix. I am just not really sure if the hot weather caused it (it is summer in my place in the tropics and the daily temperature is about 35-40 Degrees C daily.) or my overwatering caused it. I hope you could please help me so I could save it. Your advice would be greatly appreciated. Thank you very much.
I'm growing an Owari Mandarin in a container in the PNW. We bring it inside Oct-May and so I guess that temp and humidity change is too blame. Should I prune any of the empty branches or leave them alone? It's 4 years old, I've never gotten fruit, Still has thorns.
Can you recommend acceptable grow lights? I just purchased two new meyer lemons and am thinking about getting two variegated pink lemon trees. I am in NE Ohio zone 6, so come October they will have to come in. I don't have a good area in my home that doesn't have heating ducts nearby, so I am eyeing the basement with supplemental lighting. I love citrus trees but they really are a hard thing to keep alive in Ohio over winter.
Woke up this morning and my windowsill lemon tree has dumped a load of leaves overnight . No idea what to do. The leaves are green and moist, no yellowing or dryness. All I did recently was water from the bottom as I haven't watered in awhile since it's winter. This is the first year this is happening. My lemon and mandarin trees are all at least a few years old. The one that dropped a bunch of leaves suddenly is about 8 years old. They haven't done this before in any place they've lived. When this has happened before I've washed them in the shower which gave them a good soak and I hope washed off any invisible bugs. Where the leaves dropped new branches tended to grow on another one this happened to. But why does it happen? I can only guess too dry?
Help? We are in south Louisiana. We just planted 4 new citrus (2 satsumas, a Meyer lemon, and a grapefruit). One of the satsumas (Owari; planted in a pot with nice organic) is losing green leaves and some of the leaves are turning yellow. The lemon tree is planted in the ground in the organic soil mixed with native soil, and it is also losing green leaves and leaves are turning yellow. I wouldn’t say it’s due to temperature variation, because it’s hot all the time here.
Maybe someone here has some advice for me? I bought some fuyugaki p orange trees ones about 2' the other about 3' I live in an apartment so growing them in pots. When they came a lot of the leaves were brown/crusted they were rolled up mostly. I rinsed them off really good in case it was spider mites gave them new soil it's been about 2 weeks but the leaves have been falling off since I got them like they're dried out. They have water and I have a humidifier going on all the plants. Could it just be the stress of shipping? Never tried growing fruit trees before especially not indoors tia
Hi, I have a kumquat tree which is losing a lot of leaves, it is dropping its leaves by twos or threes daily. I am not sure if the hot weather caused it (because it is around 35-40 Degrees C daily in the tropics where I live.) or if overwatering caused it. It is planted in pumice and granular bonsai soil mix. I watered it daily. Also, it gave a lot of fruits, which I plucked and planted the seeds in soil. I hope you could please give me advice on how I could save my tree. It is still green but it is really losing a lot of leaves and the tips of the branches seem to look that they are drying up. Your advice would be greatly appreciated. Thank you very much in advance.
Leave curl up, which means not enough water and hot temperature. Do not water in the day time. Apply deep water only early in the morning in the summer. Do not water in the evening. It will go into plant shock. If your leaves curl down, which means too much water or heat plant shock.
Hi! I bought two finger lime trees two years ago. They were in a pot and, last year, I planted them in a sunny open area in my garden. They have lost most of their leaves and don't look very healthy. Here in Corfu, Greece, it rains a lot during the winter but it's quite sunny too. What should I do?
Make sure the tree gets adequate drainage and isn’t in a waterlogged soil. Make sure your tree is also in a healthy fertile soil. Outside of that, it may just be going through a transition period.
@@PlantFanatics thanks for your response! Do you think I should add some fertilizer? I read that lemon juice and coffee would do them well, but it sounds a bit weird...
I found some strange looking mushrooms 🍄 in my citrus tree 🌳 plant pot and the leaves defoliating, thought my tree was dying. All the branches are still green. What can I do to get it to grow its leaves 🍃 back?
😢Thank you so much! My beautiful Dwarf Meyer Lemon is almost bare and she was so beautiful all summer. Bella (her name) is 3 1/2 yes old and she has 5 golf ball sized green Lemons 🍋 should I let them ripen still?
i made the mistake accidentally leaving my like tree outside when it frosted last winter and pulled it in late, it lost all leaves and is completely brown at this pt. i put it back outside and am allowing the natural sun, rain, temps hit it bt i dont see any signs of green or life happening. is my lime dead?
Are oranges supposed to be hard while they starting to grow? Some leaves are yellow. My tree is in a container outside. I am in AZ zone 9B. Right now it is 102 degrees to 106😢
Make sure you fertilize and keep the soil consistently moist. In those temps you may need to water multiple times a day depending on container size. But yes, the fruit should be small and hard at first.
Hello, I spray my kieffer lime baby plant with neem, dawn dishwashing detergent and little peppermint oil. My leaves are yellowing and falling off. please help and tell me what to do to save my plant.
Make sure you spray your trees in the early morning hours before the hottest time of the day to avoid scorching the leaves. However, yellowing and dropping leaves was not caused by your spray. It sounds like a moisture issue, or a fertilization issue.
I was bought a lemon tree, but we are in U.K. and temp here terrible for fruit trees. The tree I have had a problem (not exactly sure what) but white sticky bits on it. I have sprayed it with a neem oil mix which seems to have helped but most of the leaves have fallen off. Any tips?.
I just bought an orange tree form the nursery but I feel it is dying. I don't know it I should leave it indoor until I'm assured the temperature won'T drop below 5 degrees celsius.
Hi. Some time later. . . Use an 'Artists' Paint Brush. Like the ones used for Water Colours etc. A Sable one, is better than a Artificial type. Sable Hairs are finer and smoother, and use their 'static' to hold onto the Pollen Grains. Otherwise, I could lend you a few Bees. . . Not ! Unless you have a lovely warm Spring or a hot Summer, the Bees will find those 'Flowers' no problem : the Scent is just amazing ! Hope this helps. 😎
@@ME_MeAndMyBees I spoke too soon ...it dropped every leaf. I think it got a cold draft from those those arctic temps we had. It's still alive but pitiful looking lol
It’s your choice. If the tree can’t handle them, it will drop them on its own. I would personally remove them though to ensure all energy goes to producing new foliage.
I like ur shirt. Born and raised in St Louis Mo. I live in Florida, sorry but your trees don’t look well. All of them need care for sure. All of them r very bare. Maybe because of where u live. Growing in a pot probably? Your leaves shouldn’t be Turing yellow so much. Citrus trees do better is u hardly water them. It’s probably why ur loosing so many leaves. I suggest u research this! They shouldn’t be loosing so many leaves, yours a bare.
Maybe someone here has some advice for me? I bought some fuyugaki p orange trees ones about 2' the other about 3' I live in an apartment so growing them in pots. When they came a lot of the leaves were brown/crusted they were rolled up mostly. I rinsed them off really good in case it was spider mites gave them new soil it's been about 2 weeks but the leaves have been falling off since I got them like they're dried out. They have water and I have a humidifier going on all the plants. Could it just be the stress of shipping? Never tried growing fruit trees before especially not indoors tia
This was excellent!!!!! Your trees look amazing! Thank you for this, I feel much better! I was panicking over my little tree.
Me too, mine dropped pretty much ALL of the leaves in about a month, but there's still fruit on it, and it's still blooming, but it's February in Utah and I have puppies I'm trying to potty train, and the door is open A LOT so I'm guessing the temperature fluctuations are probably messing with my dwarf lime tree. I wish I had a greenhouse, that would be AWESOME! I have a humidifier, but I don't dare run it until 2-3 days after I water it because I have grown mold on top a few times doing that.
Great tip, if the tree defoliates and stems go black it needs cutting or if the branches dry out. Homes are really dry sometimes.
I live in Vermont,I had my lemon and lime trees in my greenhouse. I put them in my kitchen.leaf drop was bad. I put them in my woodstove room with humidifiers and mist them.much better!70-75 all the time. I do have to water more often which I know I’m not getting root rot.for me it’s temperature and misting.fruit and flowers when it’s 20 degrees outside!!
Yes, temperatures and light are going to highly affect citrus. They are a little finicky when it comes to being moved around, it they always bounce back in the spring. 😀
Thank you, I was really getting worried about my orange tree, but now I feel calmer as it still blossoms and have a fruit hanging. Probably because of the temperature change. Also I live in The Netherlands where we lack sun during winter but I just found some grow lights.
Thank you, sir! My 4 year old keylime tree started blooming for the first time, and it shed a lot of leaves. This video took my worry off. Zone 9 Texas.
Great video!! I am just getting started with a few citrus trees, I am in WA by the coast, so I guess I am a little crazy, keeping them inside during winter time now, need to find a good way to create some humidity, and I love videos like this that help me along the way, thank you!!
Thanks for watching! Keep up the great work!
Isn't the humidity extremely high by the coast in WA? I live in Northern Utah, and we're lucky if we hit 15% most of the time, and mine does pretty well most of the time just misting it with a spray bottle a fee times a week!
1st time viewer, thanks! My potted grapefruit has 3 huge fruits that I'm trying to ripen here in Maine in my grow room, but in the past couple weeks, it's begun dropping its good leaves, even though it has new buds and young leaves starting. I'm repotting in the spring, but don't dare right now, or I'll lose my fruit. I hope I don't kill the tree by holding off... 😞
I have a theory: when citrus defoliate and then suddenly put out a profusion of flower buds from the almost bare branches, it has gone into 'panic mode' and wants to 'spread its seed' (pass on its genes) in case conditions never improve again. Since I have stopped using readily biodegradable substrates like coir or compost, I no longer get winter defoliation on my citrus, even at temperatures just a few degrees above freezing (e.g. 5 degrees C) and even at suboptimum winter light levels. I've watched the livestreams by Gary Matsuoka (channel: Gary's Best Gardening) and what he says makes a lot of sense: readily biodegrable substrates, like coir (coco 'peat') or compost, are continuously breaking down due to microbial action, and if these materials are fine-structured and powder-like, they hold onto too much water at the expense of oxygen. Under these conditions, anaerobic bacteria establish themselves, and they attack the roots. Under anaerobic condtions, bacterial fermentation products like hydrogen sulphide are produced, which are poisonous to plant roots. The finer the potting substrate, the more water it holds onto (at the expense of oxygen), meaning that root function might be compromised especially in winter, when plants are less photosynthetically active and the substrate remains moist for longer without the periodic dry-downs that enable fresh oxygen to permeate into the substrate. No longer do I see defoliation and twig die-back on my plants- including the citrus- since I've been using a very fast-draining and oxygenating coarse aggregate-based substrate (a mixture of chunky pumice, perlite, calcined clay 'gravel' (also called 'kittydama'- a cheaper alternative to akadama), coarse-grained potting sand or grit, coarse coconut husk chips, charcoal and a little amount of peatmoss (the peatmoss is to provide acidity and cation exchange capacity). I grow all my citrus in containers, by the way.
Thanks for sharing. I wondered about gritty vs bark/composts mixes and what happens over time.
The lemon jiggling is fantastic
Definitely agree, seasonal stress and watering variations did it for mine
Citrus can be finicky when it comes to being moved around. Light, temperature, and moisture will all cause leaf drop. 😀
My orange tree is defoliating now in this Arizona heat. We did replant it to a Terra cotta pot to give it room to grow from the original pot from the nursery.
In a very hot place like Arizona I do not recommend terra cotta for citrus. They will simply dry out way too fast. I would also recommend giving it some shade in the hottest time of the day.
@@PlantFanatics
Greetings from Hungary!
I've got a Meyer lemon about 5 months ago. We repotted it into a good water permeable soil with some stone rubble and osmocote in it but the tree keeps defoliating. It had like a hundred flowers on it at beginning of July but most of them burned off of it in the 40 C heat and those where new fruits started to develop dropped off after a week o lr two.
Now the tree barely has any leaves on it, just the bigher fruits remain on it which were already there when I got the plant. I have no idea what causes its stress and how could I solve it. It got direct sunloght, lots of heat and was watered regularly. I thought maybe the too much sun and heat is the culprit so I put it into a shaded area now but any advice would be much appreciated
just subbed growmie thanks for sharing!!!!!
I love this channel and the content, I think this channel really can take of in a couple of months, maybe a year.
You are good at making troubleshooting videos, explaining common citrus problems and soforth. So interesting and easy to follow along :)
My citrus leaves are following from my limequat and kumquat, I think it is because of the cold weather I had -10 C and then I took them inside. So I guess it is being stressed out because of the temperature variation? I dose all my citrus with a spray every day for humidity.
I really appreciate you saying that, and I'm so glad you enjoy the content! Thanks so much for all of the support!
I live in zone 9a Florida. My ruby red grapefruit is planted, not in cold soil gets watered once every week or 2 if no rain. The fruit were almost ready to pick and it's dropping all of its leaves. I think this is a nutrient deficiency.
thank you. Happy New Year. Great to know its stressing out as said. I guess everything I am doing is spot on, we'll ust keep picking up the leaves, glad its another 100 days till warm weather hits again Lol. Maybe I'll throw another grow light on wrap a blanket around the base add some heat, and talk to the plant some more
I planted my yuzu tree in the ground and it started to show transplant shock. Some leaves have turned yellow and when the sun is out, it droops. I spray leaves with water and it seems to help keep leaves hydrated.
Yes, transplant shock is very common with newly planted trees. The most important thing to do is water it in thoroughly upon initial planting. After this it just takes time. 😀
Hi, I am in zone 8 and have a meyer lemon tree and key lime tree that were doing great until I brought them in. Artificial lighting is my only choice . They are dropping leaves fast, please advise things I could do to save them and help them thrive. Thank you!
When i moved my lemon from natural light to growlight for winter all the leaves fell off. I havnt moved it since and i have new spring growth but those leaves are falling off as well. I dont think its still in shock. We dont have good sun here yet so idk what to do
I have a Meyer lemon that lost all its leaves in the Spring. It had hundreds of flowers all the flowers dropped all the tiny lemons that were starting dropped and then all the leaves dropped. It wasn't temperature. I started feeding it some of my worm casting and compost teas. All the leaves came back incredibly fast but no flowers during the summer. It's in the house now in front of a window and it has a ton of flowers. I also went from a 7 gallon pot to a 15. That might have had something to do with it.
How many years old is it? I saw that I shouldn’t expect to get anything with my sapling and to just keep it growing and thriving for a few years. I get flowing periods where there’s seemingly hundreds of flowers, then they all fall off and sometimes I’m left with hilariously small limes that never grow. I was wondering if I should just pick them off to help it focus on growing it’s branches/roots
There are many reasons a citrus tree will drop its leaves and/or drop fruit. I believe we made a video a while back going over other reasons too. Over the years I’ve received a ton of inquiries from viewers and temperature fluctuations in the root zone are by far the most common problem. We also have a very large majority of our viewers growing in northern planting zones though.
@@PlantFanatics oh geez, my roots aren’t very deep, should I put more soil on top of them to help with that temperature changes like 70 during the day down to 45 at night? I’ve been bringing this potted key lime inside when it drops below 50, but it’s definitely been stressed multiple times
@@Bittamin 6 years
Amazing.....your tree is so tall!
Magic ✨
how come to my orange 🍊 tree is stress I kiss them every day :/
Your plant went into shock because there was too much fertilizer in the hot temperature.
I was looking for what soil amendments went into the pot. I'll try someone else. I hope that helps.
I live in the panhandle of Florida. In mid August my potted Meyer lemon tree dropped ALL it's leaves. Im not sure what to do. We get rain, I've fertilized it, and it's in a sunny spot. It's potted in a ceramic planter with a nickel sized drainage hole.
Maybe i need to switch the pot?
Is it better to water from bottom or top
Good information for me.
Can you do a vid on some of the best fall and winter blooming trees for pollinators? Around here in zone 8a there’s very little food available for my honeybee hives. I just bought a loquat and some Texas Sage this week for them.
Sure! That’s a great idea. I’d be happy to do that! 😀
@@PlantFanatics even big shrubs for that matter. But trees are bigger and can produce more food.
Hi, I am not sure if I overwatered my kumquat bonsai tree but its leaves are turning yellow-green and are dropping by twos or threes daily. The leaves are looking very unhealthy too and the branches are still green but seem to look like they are drying out. Could this be a possibility that I am overwatering it? It is planted in pumice and bonsai soil mix. I am just not really sure if the hot weather caused it (it is summer in my place in the tropics and the daily temperature is about 35-40 Degrees C daily.) or my overwatering caused it. I hope you could please help me so I could save it. Your advice would be greatly appreciated. Thank you very much.
I'm growing an Owari Mandarin in a container in the PNW. We bring it inside Oct-May and so I guess that temp and humidity change is too blame. Should I prune any of the empty branches or leave them alone? It's 4 years old, I've never gotten fruit, Still has thorns.
Feel free to prune it however you’d like. They’re very vigorous growers so if you don’t like how it looks it won’t take years to grow back
Can you recommend acceptable grow lights? I just purchased two new meyer lemons and am thinking about getting two variegated pink lemon trees. I am in NE Ohio zone 6, so come October they will have to come in. I don't have a good area in my home that doesn't have heating ducts nearby, so I am eyeing the basement with supplemental lighting. I love citrus trees but they really are a hard thing to keep alive in Ohio over winter.
Any full spectrum, high lumen grow light will work. Just be aware that it takes quite a bit of light to keep plants in active growth.
Woke up this morning and my windowsill lemon tree has dumped a load of leaves overnight . No idea what to do. The leaves are green and moist, no yellowing or dryness. All I did recently was water from the bottom as I haven't watered in awhile since it's winter. This is the first year this is happening. My lemon and mandarin trees are all at least a few years old. The one that dropped a bunch of leaves suddenly is about 8 years old. They haven't done this before in any place they've lived. When this has happened before I've washed them in the shower which gave them a good soak and I hope washed off any invisible bugs. Where the leaves dropped new branches tended to grow on another one this happened to. But why does it happen? I can only guess too dry?
Help? We are in south Louisiana. We just planted 4 new citrus (2 satsumas, a Meyer lemon, and a grapefruit). One of the satsumas (Owari; planted in a pot with nice organic) is losing green leaves and some of the leaves are turning yellow. The lemon tree is planted in the ground in the organic soil mixed with native soil, and it is also losing green leaves and leaves are turning yellow. I wouldn’t say it’s due to temperature variation, because it’s hot all the time here.
Does my lemon tree need to be in sun if I have a heat light on it
Maybe someone here has some advice for me? I bought some fuyugaki p orange trees ones about 2' the other about 3' I live in an apartment so growing them in pots. When they came a lot of the leaves were brown/crusted they were rolled up mostly. I rinsed them off really good in case it was spider mites gave them new soil it's been about 2 weeks but the leaves have been falling off since I got them like they're dried out. They have water and I have a humidifier going on all the plants. Could it just be the stress of shipping? Never tried growing fruit trees before especially not indoors tia
Hi, I have a kumquat tree which is losing a lot of leaves, it is dropping its leaves by twos or threes daily. I am not sure if the hot weather caused it (because it is around 35-40 Degrees C daily in the tropics where I live.) or if overwatering caused it. It is planted in pumice and granular bonsai soil mix. I watered it daily. Also, it gave a lot of fruits, which I plucked and planted the seeds in soil. I hope you could please give me advice on how I could save my tree. It is still green but it is really losing a lot of leaves and the tips of the branches seem to look that they are drying up. Your advice would be greatly appreciated. Thank you very much in advance.
Check out my answer on my other video where you posted this.
Did you have any video about leave curling up and down (I have two plant, one down and one up) thank you.
Leave curl up, which means not enough water and hot temperature. Do not water in the day time. Apply deep water only early in the morning in the summer. Do not water in the evening. It will go into plant shock. If your leaves curl down, which means too much water or heat plant shock.
Hi! I bought two finger lime trees two years ago. They were in a pot and, last year, I planted them in a sunny open area in my garden. They have lost most of their leaves and don't look very healthy. Here in Corfu, Greece, it rains a lot during the winter but it's quite sunny too. What should I do?
Make sure the tree gets adequate drainage and isn’t in a waterlogged soil. Make sure your tree is also in a healthy fertile soil. Outside of that, it may just be going through a transition period.
@@PlantFanatics thanks for your response! Do you think I should add some fertilizer? I read that lemon juice and coffee would do them well, but it sounds a bit weird...
I found some strange looking mushrooms 🍄 in my citrus tree 🌳 plant pot and the leaves defoliating, thought my tree was dying. All the branches are still green. What can I do to get it to grow its leaves 🍃 back?
Mushrooms won’t affect the tree. It’s most likely due to one of the issues in the video
Thank you
😢Thank you so much! My beautiful Dwarf Meyer Lemon is almost bare and she was so beautiful all summer.
Bella (her name) is 3 1/2 yes old and she has 5 golf ball sized green Lemons 🍋 should I let them ripen still?
I think so! The tree knows how to handle itself. Even under stress. 😀
Appreciate all the encouragement from all of you and Merry Christmas 🎄
i made the mistake accidentally leaving my like tree outside when it frosted last winter and pulled it in late, it lost all leaves and is completely brown at this pt. i put it back outside and am allowing the natural sun, rain, temps hit it bt i dont see any signs of green or life happening. is my lime dead?
Are oranges supposed to be hard while they starting to grow?
Some leaves are yellow. My tree is in a container outside. I am in AZ zone 9B.
Right now it is 102 degrees to 106😢
Make sure you fertilize and keep the soil consistently moist. In those temps you may need to water multiple times a day depending on container size. But yes, the fruit should be small and hard at first.
How to heal potted citrus trees root rotting?
Let it almost completely dry out in between waterings
I live in jersey all my leaves fell off then my branches got brittle
Hello, I spray my kieffer lime baby plant with neem, dawn dishwashing detergent and little peppermint oil. My leaves are yellowing and falling off. please help and tell me what to do to save my plant.
Make sure you spray your trees in the early morning hours before the hottest time of the day to avoid scorching the leaves. However, yellowing and dropping leaves was not caused by your spray. It sounds like a moisture issue, or a fertilization issue.
How do you know when to put your citrus plants in a bigger pot
When the roots fill the entire container. You don’t want them to grow in circles inside the container.
I was bought a lemon tree, but we are in U.K. and temp here terrible for fruit trees. The tree I have had a problem (not exactly sure what) but white sticky bits on it. I have sprayed it with a neem oil mix which seems to have helped but most of the leaves have fallen off. Any tips?.
This is my current problem, I’m in the UK too, did you manage to find a solution?
I just bought an orange tree form the nursery but I feel it is dying. I don't know it I should leave it indoor until I'm assured the temperature won'T drop below 5 degrees celsius.
Whatever you do try to be consistent for a while and not flip flop. The change in humidity will give the tree a bit of shock
My lemon trees are dying in 110 heat grow zone 9a. Have wood chips water every two days . 3 ft tall. Help
Typically in 110 Fahrenheit they’ll need to be watered at least once a day.
I brought my Lemon tree inside and not much leaf drop but it is starting to bloom . Guess I hand pollinate ?
Just rub your fingers over the flowers. That’ll be enough. 😀
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Some time later. . .
Use an 'Artists' Paint Brush. Like the ones used for Water Colours etc. A Sable one, is better than a Artificial type.
Sable Hairs are finer and smoother, and use their 'static' to hold onto the Pollen Grains.
Otherwise, I could lend you a few Bees. . . Not !
Unless you have a lovely warm Spring or a hot Summer, the Bees will find those 'Flowers' no problem : the Scent is just amazing !
Hope this helps. 😎
@@ME_MeAndMyBees I spoke too soon ...it dropped every leaf. I think it got a cold draft from those those arctic temps we had. It's still alive but pitiful looking lol
so how do you fix it~~ you just explained why not how!
What if the leaves fall off but the fruit stays on the tree?
It’s your choice. If the tree can’t handle them, it will drop them on its own. I would personally remove them though to ensure all energy goes to producing new foliage.
I like ur shirt. Born and raised in St Louis Mo. I live in Florida, sorry but your trees don’t look well. All of them need care for sure. All of them r very bare. Maybe because of where u live. Growing in a pot probably? Your leaves shouldn’t be Turing yellow so much. Citrus trees do better is u hardly water them. It’s probably why ur loosing so many leaves. I suggest u research this! They shouldn’t be loosing so many leaves, yours a bare.
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Maybe someone here has some advice for me? I bought some fuyugaki p orange trees ones about 2' the other about 3' I live in an apartment so growing them in pots. When they came a lot of the leaves were brown/crusted they were rolled up mostly. I rinsed them off really good in case it was spider mites gave them new soil it's been about 2 weeks but the leaves have been falling off since I got them like they're dried out. They have water and I have a humidifier going on all the plants. Could it just be the stress of shipping? Never tried growing fruit trees before especially not indoors tia