This past Christmas my friend sent me a year old Calamondin tree from Four Winds. I followed all the instructions that the company sent with the tree: plant in regular potting soil mixed with redwood chips (i used cedar as a sub) in a 12 inch pot with lots of drainage. Water every week to keep soil the dry side of moist. Mist leaves daily. I have been using a truecolor oct-lite to supplment the lack of light in my new england apartment (it's not on a schedule, I usually turn it on when I get home from work and turn it off before bed). It was doing great, I got a few flowers which led to green fruit which dropped before rippening (I figured this normal along with some leaf drop since it is a young tree and it was winter). So within the past few weeks, the leaves have been dropping like mad. Some of the leaves are brown and soft, some are green, brittle and wilted and some are curled. I did have a fruit that rippened (well, it took a long time to turn orangey-yellow, before i thought it was taking too much energy from the plant since the other branches started to wilt, so I plucked it). I read a post here about a person who had simular problems (although they were over watering) and it may have been root rot. But their tree was several years old and I'm not sure if that advice would help a younger plant or just finish it off. I'm not sure what to do. Would a humidifer help? It has gotten more humid outside in the past few weeks, but that is when the problems started. Should I replant in a different soil? The days are around 60 and the evenings are in the 40s, is that still to cold to but it outside? I have really HARD water, could that be hurting it? I'm not sure what happened, any advice that can help would be wonderful.

Thanks, Sarah