Can I grow a lemon plant from lemon seeds?
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Newly Potted Meyer Lemon - Should I Prune Already?
Comments (2)If you just pinch three leaves back from the tip of the middle branch (the longest one), you should get 2-3 new growths coming out on it. This will make your tree bushier, more balanced, and keep its center of gravity closer to the ground, and make it less likely to blow over on windy days. Citrus often send out super vigorous sucker like growths that need to be kept in balance by pruning, to maintain the tree's symmetry. They come out at strange places, and at odd angles....like the tree has a whimsical, illogical idea on where a new branch should be. More twiggy branches=more lemons! Moses...See MoreMeyer lemon tree browning leaves
Comments (9)Citrus have a hard time adapting indoors. If you want to continue growing in the winter you will need artificial light. Brown leaf tips are an indicator that something is wrong. It can be caused by relatively low light conditions indoors, soil too wet or too dry, or relative humidity too low, or over fertilization. Citrus have very specific fertilizer requirements. Buy a fertilizer specific to citrus. There are 17 essential elements or nutrients required for proper plant growth, function, yield and quality. Carbon, Hydrogen and Oxygen make up over 90% of a tree’s biomass. The other 14 essential, mineral nutrients are categorized as primary (N, P, K); secondary (Ca, Mg, S) and micro (Fe, Mn, B, Zn, Cu, Mo, Cl, Ni). These categories indicate the relative amounts of each nutrient required to achieve successful plant growth and yield. The pictures look like yellow vein chlorosis is starting. This is when your citrus tree leaves display yellow veins while the rest of the leaf remains a normal green color. Usually this occurs in the autumn and winter period due to reduced nitrogen uptake by the roots from the soil in low temperatures....See MoreMeyer Lemon Tree Problem
Comments (8)Lemon Lime Orange at your service. This is really simple. Outdoors the leaf temperature is equal to the air temperature because of wind and breeze. Indoors the leaf temperature skyrockets because the air is not moving. Your room temperature is 68F but your leaf temperature is actually 95+ in the window. Many of your leaves are misshapen from heat and moisture loss. The problem is the root temperature. If your air temperature is 68F your root temperature will be colder. As water evaporates from the pot it actually cools the soil. Your soil is probably about 65F. The problem is soil temperature, leaf temperature, and air temperature need to be in the zone. Between 54F and 72F transpiration of moisture to the leaves is very low. From 72F to 85F their is a linear relationship with 85F being ideal. You need to heat those roots with a germination heating pad. You need a breeze to cool the leaves. You can buy an infrared thermometer on Amazon for $20 and check your leaf temperature. I think in this case the brown tips are sunburn. The plant knows what to do, leave the fruit and flowers alone. If you want to grow indoors you need to understand VPD, vapor pressure deficit. You want as low a VPD as possible. As leaf temperature increases the VPD skyrockets. Google VPD chart. For fertilizer don't use spikes. The N in spikes moves through the soil quickly. The PK does not and when the roots touch the PK the plant gets zapped. If you are looking for some ideas about growing indoors check out my idea-book. When you see leaves curling like in your photographs they are trying to conserve moisture. Make sure you have any heating vents near the plant turned right off. For fertilizer growscripts are great because feed the top and the bottom. With citrus you have to fertilizer the leaves with a foliar spray. I don't know your light situation but sometimes you need to augment with a grow light....See MoreCan my warneckii dracaena lemon lime plant be saved ?
Comments (0)ok I brought my warneckii dracaena lemon lime plant from home depot Saturday and it was light green and really green looking. so today when I exposed it to extreme cold weather carrying it from my house to my car I noticed that the leave had turned brown. Can this plant be saved? it had now been sitting in my warm office for 5 hours and I have not seen a change in its color. I was planning to take back to the store but If the color will come back I was going to keep it. Can I save my plant? If so what can I do?...See MoreDave in NoVA • N. Virginia • zone 7A
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