I dont have any experience with yuzu, but I would have to say as long as it looks healthy it will bloom when its ready. Sometime stress with induce blooms, but im not willing to try that with mine. Just be patient, it will reward you when its time.

I think you will find early next spring it will be in bud.My 2 year old has come into bud after a very wet winter.

Darlox, welcome..

From the sounds of it, it sounds like a very happy content tree..Adding 50% to it's size is more than many of us can accomplish with many of our citrus..

I had a friend that had to induce flowering with cooler conditions...It had nothing to do with fertilizer at all..

I hope someone that grows these can confirm what it needs, if other than patience..

Mike..:-)

Thanks all - and sorry for the delay. I've been out of town the last week...

I think I've gotten lucky on this one, more than skill. I had a devil of a time with my first attempt at citrus, but this time out (so far) these guys are going crazy! A combination of overly-paranoid feeding and management mixed with long-periods of benign neglect when I'm traveling. ;)

Regarding inducing with cooler conditions: I've heard this from others as well, and think that I might need to chill this one a bit before spring arrives. That's definitely what it would receive in its native Japan. However, I've never done that particular operation before, and am wondering if anybody has advice for doing so without killing the tree? I'm in Ohio, so it's probably not quite as simple as just hauling it outside sometime during the winter... I have to keep the GH temp above 60 because of some other plants in there.

If I were to try and give it a period of cold, what would folks recommend as the best way to do so, without damaging it or compromising its existing growth? If I put it inside my attached garage, for instance, would it need additional light during that time to not be damaged? Would it need a transition period of being hauled back-and-forth to not shock it??

Any tips appreciated. Thanks!

Can anyone tell me where I can buy a yuzu tree here in the Dallas TX area ?

I procured my Yuzu from Four Winds last June. It has always been a bit 'stagnant', that is, neither growing or dropping leaves. But all of sudden it bloomed and has set fruit.

There is a japanese proverb that goes "Peach, chestnut, 3 years. Persimmon 8 years. Yuzu 18 years." Yuzu takes longer time to bloom than other citrus.
I heard that grafted yuzu (on poncirus) will bloom faster than yuzu started from seed.

I have a yuzu grafted onto flying dragon and it is at least 4 years old and 5 feet high. With a very thick trunk. This spring I was so hopeful after our rough winter (Vancouver, BC) but there is nothing but vigorous new growth. Not a flower in sight. Patience is a virtue I guess...

I'm also in Vancouver with a 3 yr old yuzu that came through the past winter in decent shape. It lost some leaves when I let it get a bit dry but has since put out a tremendous flush and there are about 9 little yuzu fruits hanging on. They haven't grown very quickly which I'm attributing to the cool and wet temperatures that we've had. Maybe if summer ever arrives, the fruits will begin to get bigger. Oh, it gets fertilized with Foliage Pro and has Osmocote mixed into the soil.

Hi cf03(8a) and bassmikey I'm also in Vancouver, BC. I got a Yuzu as well, wondering if you just left the plant in a pot outside or did you move it inside during the cold months, and did you gradually move it in, or just moved it in one day.

Thanks

The yuzu did real well in a pot left in a sheltered spot outside during our cold snowy 2016 winter. I was overly ambitious and planted it last August into the ground where it seemed to settle well. The winter rains caused the 3 remaining fruits to stop growing and/or rot. If you remember we had some short periods of around -10 C at night and I covered the yuzu with a frost cover. Not well enough as it looked dead in the spring but this is it now

Thanks for the tip. Wow how old of a plant did you buy, it fruited the first year? Did your tree branch our or did it just grow vertical?

Here is a pic of mine.

The yuzu was really nice looking with some fruit when I planted it into the ground in Sept 2017.

There is a member, PacNorWest who grows a yuzu in a container on a rooftop terrace in Seattle. It's done really well for her but I think she covers it when temps drop too low.