Is your tree on a hill and what USDA zone are you in .Is your natural soil some what porous. My reasons for asking is that we usually don't add amendments to the soil unless it is very sandy or porous soil. If you are on a hill then amendment can be beneficial. Do you know your rootstock variety.

remove the plastic and add a proper mulch .. god did not intend you to warp the soil under your tree in plastic ...

roots need air as much as water.. and plastic does not allow air movement ... and roots like to be cool.. not stay warm all night due to the black plastic retaining heat long into the night ...

see link below .. note the part about not amending soil in a planting hole .. especially with anything that includes fert .. you might burn the stressed roots ...

and then do not apply more fert on top.. for at least a month or two.. until the roots have settled down from the stresses of planting ... wait.. that might a pic when it is in the pot.. if so.. this plant was clearly overfertd in the pot.. so it didnt need anymore in the ground ...

with a plant planted this march.. you are loving it too much ... just water properly for the next few months ... and quit trying to fix everything .. do no more harm ...

ken

https://sites.google.com/site/tnarboretum/Home/planting-a-tree-or-shrub

ps: note the bag says ... POTTING mix.. it does not say throw it in the hole mix ...

I'm in the zone 8B in Florida I have 12 in of topsoil and then clay layer below that it is on a slight slope at the toe.

your tree is good to go. Let it do its thing.

It's best to backfill the planting hole with the soil removed to make the hole, and the heavier the soil is (the closer it is to clay) - the more important the practice is

Did you bare-root and correct root issues within the root mass? If not, they'll forever be a limitation.

"Feeds up to 6 months" is a ploy to get you to purchase the product. Note the NPK %s of the fertilizer in the product: 0.21 - 0.11 - 0.16

Al

It was in a 1 gallon container, I loosened up the root ball dug a 2x2 square hole and put 50% of the potting mix in to get better drainage. Since the post I removed some of the silt fence and put a leaf mulch in. I just don't know if I'm over watering it or not? I've been putting a slow drip milk jug on it about every other day when it doesn't rain. I have started to go to watering it every 4 days with a deep watering when it doesn't rain. I haven't added any fertilizer after planting it.

When planting a citrus tree the hole dug should be just large enough to put the tree in. No amendments should be added, but backfilled only with the dirt taken from the digging. Large holes and amendments creates a lake effect that the trees roots set in..

I guess I should have checked how to plant citrus, I've planted apples, pears, plums, pomegranates, loquats, mulberries, pawpaws and persimmons and just figured citrus would do as good as all my other trees since they are all growing great.

I guess at this point I will just leave it alone.

it'll probably be ok. Just feed it with a good citrus based granular fertilizer and water deeply. I’d be more worried about HLB if I lived in Florida.

Nice Info