Some citrus, like Meyer lemons, tend to flower whenever you fertilize them. Others flower only at certain times of year; and still others flower seemingly "whenever they feel like it". Try not to stress over it; just be happy it is blooming.

You are right, my Meyer Lemons do seem to bloom any time they want to. They are one of the best smelling things in the yard and thats saying alot since I grow so many fragrant things lol.

The Thai Lime has to go in the gh here soon since we freeze. Maybe it will get some fruit on it in there.

My Bearss lime tree is the only citrus I have now that has flowers on it. I never really paid attention to when others bloomed, but it seemed like they mostly started blooming in January.

I have several lime varieties and I think the Bearss/Persian lime is the best one! My favorite anyhow lol.

I was looking carefully theough my Thai lime leaves today..its about 8ft and hidden was a full size bumpy lime so I guess it mudt of flowered at some point in the spring and I just missed it.

Bahama dan let me know how your rooting method works out. I have more citrus, like red fingerlime that I want to try and root. My large Buddahs Hand fell over one time and an whole branch rooted in several places in the ground and I got 3 large cutting that way lol.

I've actually rooted a key lime cutting in perlite before, albeit in a styrofoam cup seal in a baggie not in a water bottle-turned humidity dome lol. Love the story about the Buddha's Hand, why propagate your plants when they can do the propagation for you? ;)

What do you use a kaffir tree for, fruits or leaves. I have heard leaves are used as a herb.

Hi Bob, I like to cut the leaves a few times then use them in stir fry Asian dishes. You can also lie the leaves on top of fish and bake or grill them. I don't actually eat the leaves just use them for flavoring similar to using bay leaves etc. They are also nice for adding flavor to rice like Jasmine rice. I usually do the Thai leaves along with garlic and fresh grated ginger.

The Thai lime fruit is usually just used for the rind. They are bumpy and not really juicy limes. The rind is thick and fragrant so you can add it to anything you want to add a lime flavor.

I hope other might add how they use it. Its always interesting to see what else can be done with citrus.

My citrus are still blooming and producing an abundant crop of Meyer lemons and red limes.

Red lime today

Beautiful trees! I wish I could leave all my citrus out here. Much of mine isn't hardy in 9a.

Is your Red Lime a Rangpur citrus tree, red fingerlime, or something else?

Sultry, thanks for your respond. My wife and me use a few Thai and Indonesia recipes where they use Kaffir leaves. Here is one that we like.

Thank you Sultry, about the red lime I really don't know. The only thing that I know is that I got it at Excalibur with that name. It has a really nice citrus taste , very different from the regular limes. It is great for cooking, lemonades or desserts.

Bob, that looks like a great recipe. I grow turmeric and lemongrass. Red Snapper is my favorite fish other than salmon :) I wonder if I can fond candlenuts. I actually had to look that up lol.

Sylvia, those are pretty limes! I will have to look on the excaliber site. It would be neat to have one of those. Yours seems very prolific. I have the red australian fingerlime. They actually had 4 rooted in the pot. They havent produced yet though.

you can substitute macadamia nuts.

Excellent! I know I can find those :)

Whgillie that looks very nice; what kind of figs are those in the pots?

Thank you BahamaDan, I have 2 figs in pots one is Adriatic and the other is Mairselles VS. The one in the ground is a variety planted by the settlers in the area, kind of like the Celeste in size and produces abundant crops. I have figs sun dried and frozen from the summer crop and now I am getting a second crop.

I have had my Thai lime (and Key lime) indoors since 10/13/18 as I understood they were more sensitive to cold, and so far both had been or are blooming. Took a pic of a Thai lime bloom that I found today -

Since I have been doing more Thai cooking this past year, those leaves are really an essential ingredient to give it that "authentic" taste - and especially for green curry recipes like green curry chicken (Gang Kiew Wan Gai). However I have read that the leaves from the seed-grown trees supposedly have a stronger flavor/smell than the grafted ones, (this past year before I got this tree, I actually bought some dried leaves and was surprised at how strongly fragrant they were)... But at this point, just having fresh leaves makes it easier to shred and incorporate.

Thanks for that recipe Bob! I have made a Thai red curry with mackerel (Choo Che Pa) that turned out great and whole mackerel is so hard to find outside of the Asian/International supermarkets but worth it. Next time I'm at one of those stores, I'll be sure to look for some candlenuts too just to have in the pantry (I believe they are the same as kukui nuts found in Hawai'i - I have either a bracelet or lei made of those from when I was there 30+ years ago).

Thanks for the feedback whgillie; how do the Adriatic and Marseilles VS varieties perform in our climate? I have a small Chicago Hardy fig I bought from the store about a week ago and transplanted into a 7 gallon pot.

You are welcome BahamaDan, your fig tree in the pot looks good!

A lot of figs do well in my area, I like the Marseilles and the Adriatic that I have in pots. But of course I am a fig lover and grew up with fig trees.

Thanks, I can't take any credit as I bought it looking like that lol. Might I ask what container size and mix you use for the figs?

BahamaDan, my figs are in big containers something like 18x18, they are older about 5 years old. When young I had them in smaller size containers. Because I want to keep them small I had to trim the roots one time.

I don't make mixes anymore, usually I buy commercial mixes and add small pine bark if I have it. The Kellogs potting soil I bought recently from Lowes works fine for container plants. For smaller size containers and seed starting I use the Pro Mix HP.

Those are some big containers! And interesting note about the growing mix; thanks for the feedback.