"Lemmy" is doing much better this winter!! Thanks to everyone's help! I just keep my fingers crossed! After all, he was planted from

My experiences are on another thread, but I am fertilizing those trees which are in a warm and well lit location. They are showing growth so I feel they need it.

Denise, if you have a couple of pictures of your beautiful trees, please post them here. I love the hard work you put into your trees and I know they are beautiful.

Brian and Cory, where have you both been? I miss you and everyone else thank you for being a vital part of threads like this. You are all so special.

Stacy, so green. Good job!

Here is the thread that Denise put much work into I thought many would enjoy incase they missed it)

[https://www.houzz.com/discussions/my-experimental-experience-with-growing-citrus-indoors-dsvw-vd~5570501?n=72[(https://www.houzz.com/discussions/my-experimental-experience-with-growing-citrus-indoors-dsvw-vd~5570501?n=72)

PLEASE. LOTS OF PICTURES if you can! Makes us smile in the dead of winter on these dark and gloomy days!

Mike

Seed grown Meiwa kumqaut #4 has produce 2 fruits. at 2 years 2 weeks old

Seed grown meiwa kumquat##3 is 2 years 2 weeks old

2 year 2 week old seed mewa kumquat #2 has started new growth

seed grow 2 year 2 week old meiwa kumquar#1 is my largest of the seedling Meiwa kumquat trees

In ground New Zealand Lemonade on C35 enclosure before/after snow storm.

Outdoor 6 year old Poncirus Trifoliata has seen -12F 4 years ago while in a 30 gallon container.

I'm fertilizing when I water at 1/2 strength because they are all growing and blooming. I don't like the indoor growth, but can't seem to stop it. Knock on wood, but I have not seen any major pest problems - YET...that can change quickly. Most of mine are well but there are a few that have been having a rough time and more significant leaf drop - 1. Rangpur lime (I have no idea why, I don't remember having this problem before), 2. NZL - lots of leaf drop, 3. baboon lime and kaffir lime have had more leaf drop than other years, 5. one of my remaining meyer lemon trees - not Alexander. It is another nice tree that has not suffered as much in the past. She is right next to Alexander and he has not dropped many leaves at all. I think her fruit load may have been too ambitious. I just now removed most of the lemons hanging on her. I think she needs to put her energy into self-preservation, not growing limes. I also took the ripe rangpur limes off that tree - about seven of them. Now I need to find recipes!

All of these were from my suffering meyer. If anyone wants the budwood, I'm happy to mail it!

All my trees are under lights but only the seedling trees are trouble free. I am planing to cease any feedings till spring set out time. The foliage grows but the roots don;t. What won't fit in last post.

New Zealand lemonade on uS897. Looses all new growth before it can reach 3/4 inches. I have lost over 50 shoots. The tree is holding onto its established leaves. below NZL is on seville

Valentine pomelo top and bottom

Seedling Fukushu has the fullest head of leaves and measurable twig lengths of any of my trees. Fukushu on C35 below

I do not heat the roots of any of my plants.

Steve

This is my mystery grapefruit from seed March 2017... It's just plugging along. I think I put it it too big of a pot a year ago... Hoping it's just doing a lot of growing below ground. Its only about 4 inches tall.

Steve, where's the picture of the one in the snow? If it survives in our winters I would love to plant one. I am thinking 'sour orange' ? Very nice pics there and one day I will set up a small area like you. I almost did last fall but time caught me off guard my friend. Steve, is it possible you might have mites you can not see with the naked eye, even barely with a magnifying glass? They can nip all your new growth all winter long. Oops, going back up I see the tree I was talking about. It's the Poncirus Trifoliata. Does it flower for you ? Does it smell good when it does? Is the ground frozen where it is? Do you ever have to cover it? Do you know anyone that sells that particular tree? Josh was suppose to send me one last summer but never got around to it. I would love to try one if they give sweet blooms.

Stacy, you have a lot of patience to be growing anything from see. That is a nice looking seedling there.

Laura, isn't that strange? Last year you had major leaf loss on the very one doing very well this winter. I don't get it either. I had the same exact thing happen to me. Major leaf loss on a couple and now this year, not a one leaf. Your trees are magnificent!! I love the one that reached the ceiling. Please take another good picture of that one. I love to see it. Lot's of fruit there. funny, you could have your own grocery market with all the fruits you have been picking these days. Amazing on how many you get. Good job.

I have 10X magnifier and a 3x I can get up to 30X. There are no mites and no webs to be found. There are no attacks on any of the seed grown tree. I have 1 fruit that should provide 15 seeds, It is small. I,ll have to send it "safely" Let me Sleep on it. I am headed out the door.

The soil here was scraped off by the top 3 feet deep. Hard pan clay. I dug the hole dried the clods out and pulverized them in to dust with a hammer. I placed the tree in the hole an poured the dust in and watered it in as I poured. They grow like weeds in solid clay.

The sour orange died. I have replaced it with another and it just pass 23 hours 20F or lower down to 16F-15F-16F-15F-16F-15F-16F for 9 hours. Th US897's and the C35 look undamaged.

Pictures tomorrow.

Hi Mike, so nice to see & hear of everyone’s trees.
Well, my four are alive, but my Buddha’s Hand (or was it the Ponderosa I’ll check I’d tag later) suffered around the holidays the heat ran too much and cause I was busy I didn’t notice how thirsty it was. So now it’s a bare trunk without leaves, its now sprouting tiny new growth cause I’ve been checking in it and watering. I haven’t taken a pic yet, it’s such a sad state.
My Kaffir lime is kind of yellow hue not really green (not in the overwatered way) any idea? maybe just feed more?
Thanks

My satsuma mandarin in bloom. Technically second year it’s bloomed but last year was only 2 flowers and this is my first profuse bloom on this citrus :) my room smells like heaven the Moment I walk in

Very nice.

So far so good, growing and/or growing/blooming/fruiting

My calamondin is has been putting out branch growth all winter but dropping leaves. She’s a bit of a drama girl. it has 5 lights on her. I slacked off in December but I have been fertilizing once a wk with jacks citrus feed in January because both trees have erupted with major new growth and blooms. Both are setting a lot of Fruit.

Calamondin looking a little bare and I should have taken the pic before I shook off most of her flowers. It was glorious. My deck is covered in petals haha. I have it in the sink right now watering it and if it gets any bigger it won’t fit!

My gold nugget is having the biggest growth spurt I have ever seen it have. It is getting leaves in places it has never had leaves before!

My house is about 65-66 degrees regularly and I have my trees by my back porch door. They get the morning Sun. I don’t recommend the blue red and pink lights. The clear ones that Laura uses are much better. I’ve been slowing replacing the colored ones with clear lights as they burn out.

Also I just want to say thank you to everyone on this page for straightening me out years ago on how to grow citrus! Everytime I smell a blossom or eat some of the fruit I think of you guys! I graduate nursing school next spring and I’m looking forward to having time to expand my collection again. I had to give some trees away due to lack of time to care for them.i kept my first tree, calamondin, and my golden nugget. thank you guys! Garden buddies for life!

Sorry it's not citrus, but I was just excited that my pomegranate is sprouting a new "branch"! And yes, we got some snow last night!

My ponderosa's been maintaining itself with little leaf lost in the last month. it gets sun from 8 am to 4 pm in a southern window. the leaves get warmed up because its near a charcoal sofa. since it gets good heat near the leaves, I turn on the heating mat during sunny days. so far it seems to dry up the bottom soil better and could maybe decrease chance of root rot? I hope I get new growth pretty soon cuz its looking a little bare

Root rot preventer.

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Really works well.I used this on smaller trees to purge excess water after watering then once a day. Once my tree grew big enough for its pot I could stop using. 3 weeks ago my seed grown Meiwa kumquat dropped leaves on its new growth so I pulled air through the soil and the leaf drop stopped very quickly.

Steve

I have a unheated garage, but I am a lazy gardener. Too much equipment, space and work to deal with. I am dedicated, but not that much. lol.

The vacuum chamber can be used on aesthetic pots too. It doesn't stay there but goes from tree to tree in need. But I do understand. My goal is to get 3 years worth of growth in 1 year and then out they go with a suitcase birthday part.

New growth hardening up.

Each shoot has a bud at the end and will harden up each shoot about 2 inches longer.

Steve

Glad to see everyone’s trees doing so well! We’ve had a pretty mild, albeit wet winter so far here in GA. My $7 key lime has at least 100 blooms forming on the lower half of the tree. My eureka that nobody wanted also has two blooms forming.

I’m most excited about my self-grafted trees: the Lunario lemon is finally growing!

I also grafted 6 trees, 3 weeks ago today: 3 Carrubaro lemon and 3 Amalfitano lemon. So far, two of the carrubaro didn’t make it and all 3 of the Amalfitano are still green. Hopefully they can hold on till spring.

Happy wintering everyone!

Here is my small collection that winters in front of a full south facing window. All but the 2 smallest are blossoming and setting fruit (as they do every winter). My house is kept in the 60F at night, 65F in the day when I am home and is probably a few degrees cooler in this upstairs room (old house). I water about every 7-10 days. When I bring them in for the winter I will give them a fresh dose of Osmocote, and then use Foliage Pro in the watering probably less than once a month. There are 2 geraniums, a dwarf pomegranate, and a mandevilla also in the space.
The one in the pot in the lower right of this first picture really struggled last summer with about 50% dieback. It seems to be recovering now and starting to put out some new branch starts

Raee, don't you just love the blossoms? Nice work

Kelly look at the new growth. You must be very excited about that. That is awesome even in winter. Goes to show you we have the gift of growing these things despite all oddddddss up here)

Steve, you are way too funny my friend! I LOVE the shape of that tree. What is that one?

Kevin, all that snow..lol I hate it. Great job and love your cat. What a beautiful one. Let's pray for new growth. The reflection of the light off that snow should do the trick)) Keep in touch().Kevin, we jus don't get enough strong daylight to encourage huge growth if much at all. It all happens in spring when we can put them out. I would just fertilize very weakly weekly and then give full strentgh once you tree can go outside. You juts have to be consistent which is what many are not and therefore use slow release forms of it as I do at times. You are lucky your tree is holding onto to fruit. It seems to me that my trees can only focus on one function at a time in winter. Either they loose their bud and keep leaves. Loose fruit and flower, or grow new leaves and loose everything else. Crazy!

I will be back soon))

It seems to me that my trees can only focus on one function at a time in winter.

Mike - I think that is a good observation and notably for the young trees. I had a medical issue pop up with a close family member in December that kept me involved with her for most of that month and that meant neglect on my part for my babies. I am trying to make up for it now though.

My Australian red lime had about 17 fruit on such a tiny plant and I wanted to see how long they could go. One full-size one had dropped off early on (that I posted about back in November) and another a little after that. I ended up pulling 13 more off this past weekend when I started getting some twig dieback and I wasn't seeing any new growth or blooms on it. Here it was before pulling the fruit (was trying to experiment a bit to see what constituted "done") -

Here was the harvest -

Some other pics of trees in the same bedroom on the other side include my Thai lime (left) and key lime (right) -

Both have bloomed but have had no fruit set yet (that I can find). This past weekend I was excited to be able to harvest a couple leaves off the Thai lime to use in a recipe (Choo Chee Pla - using mackerel) and it worked out great!!

Here is my NZL (it is starting to put out a little growt) -

Because of my lights, it has been a bit hard to take a good pic but here is my ST (far left - it has a real tall shoot) -

My Shiranui is hanging in there (the poor tree itself was neglected in December and thus had leaf drop but am getting my schedule back). There is actually another small fruit way up at the top of it by the window but it's hard to take a pic of that area. Here is the main big fruit -

Will have to get to the rest (the ones in the basement) a bit later..

all four of my outdoor citrus greenhouse trees are undamaged.

Steve

Mike

Thais the top foot of the seed grown meiwa tree that produced 2 fruit.

mike mentionned the snow in my picture. here's an update after last night's "snowmageddon", around 50-75cm fell.

Oh how I would like to see snow like that

Wow, Kevin that's a lot of snow, thanks for showing the pics!! Also, I love the kitty too :)

My trees are hanging in there. The only one looking crappy is the Meyer. I would give it away but hold on to it because I've had it for 15 years. Most everything else looks OK. Blooms or flower buds on the Tango Mandarin, Santa Teresa, Kaffir Lime, Meyer, Palestine Sweet Lime, NZL, and an unknown citrus. Fruit on the Meyers, Tahitian Pomelo, and Meiwa Kumquat.

Also...I guess this graft worked?! lol

Lucky, are those blooms on the scion? Congratulations on the successful graft!! Did the buds push through the film or did you wrap around them?

Don't let the flowers bloom. They will pull to much energy from the roots.

Kevin wow! Watch out for the avalanches coming off your roof. Geez. That was my area 3 years ago. We got 165 inches of snow in a month and a half. It was horrible.