Thank you Steve! That is a great idea! I will do the vacuum thing and amend the soil in the spring. How frequently did you vacuum the air through the root zone?

After a soaking, 2 times a day for 10 seconds each time. after a couple of week 1 time a day for 10 seconds. Make sure your tree get good light. A fan will draw a lot of moisture out of the leaves/soil. use the fan after wrenching and slow down on fanning as the soil looses water. The trick is to get the soil drenching wet as the tree comes in and aerate and fan till the tree can use up the extra wet. Follow up with vacuuming only so the tree stays moist and aerated longer before the next soaking is needed.

I will do this and let you know what happens! Thank you Very much! I have supplemental light and will put a fan in there as well! I will post the pic of my setup as I'm putting a unistrut on the ceiling for the lighting.

How long has it been outside? When did you bring it in?

I see a very healthy looking tree there for now and I would not re pot into anything that requires a bare root until spring..

If that was my tree, I would stick the whole shabang into a different pot bigger than that one and let the mulch or soil in that pot act as a garden bed to wick away the moisture..That's it..Very simple and no stress..

Hi Mike, It has been outside since early August when i purchased it. The leaves were a darker green then, now they're on a lighter side ( I can see some yellow blotchy-ness) . I've brought it in two weeks ago (seems longer but its probably because I'm worried about it :) I have small pine bark mulch that i can use in addition with some garden lime.

The leaves do not look like the ones on your trees! Yours are beautiful deep green! Tonight i'll get better pics to post on this thread, hopefully I'm over-reacting and its a part of my learning process on how to grow citrus. I am waiting to water and perhaps the color will change a bit once I'm able to water with some vinegar.

I have been spraying with dyna-gro foliage as of late but to counter the low humidity I in the begging i used some dyna-gro bloom, sprayed it a few times. Maybe that helped the bud explosion. You cannot clearly see the buds coming up they're coming form every node!

Here is one pic that i have of it closeup!

Thank you for all your help!

Adri z6a

Adri, what is happening to your tree is very common when left to cold temps at night..The nutrients are just not available like they would be if the roots were consistently warmer..Once the roots warm up it will all go back to a rich green. I think you tree will be just fine..Just watch your watering practices and pull back on the fertilizer until spring time...

You may think it's the spray of Dyno-Grow that caused all those buds..But it's more likely due to lots of sunlight and cool temps that triggered it...It's going to flower for you just fine as long as you give it TONS of direct sunlight in a very sunny window and twist the plant once a week to give all side of your tree equal amount of light so that one side does not suffer..

Mike,

Thank you! My Meyer is looking better already! I still have not watered it and don't intend to for a while as the bottom of the pot is still moist to the touch. It really seems to like the heat mat I have wrapped around the pot and its got the added benefit of drying out the soil at a faster pace. I think ill up pot it at the next watering and put the pine bark mulch around it to get it through the winter. The tree is definitely not dormant that is for sure so wondering if pulling back on fertilizer will make it not fruit or drop flowers. The smell is amazing!

Steve,

I was unable to utilize your vacuum advice, but it was not for the lack of trying. My pot has three holes in the bottom and it is too big for the coffee can. Hubby got all excited seeing me with the vacuum but it was short lived since I needed his help to lift the pot! LOL

Thank you so much for your help! I will keep post the update.

Adri z6a