Gary Flynn wrote in message
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someone wrote:

Bought a kaffir lime in a market in London in 1979, and planted the
seeds. One came up. It's a very small tree, but still going
strong,
the leaves are useful for cooking oriental food. However, it's
never
flowered. It's in a small pot and lives indoors in the winter.

How should they be cared for indoors in the winter?


I treat it as a normal indoor plant. It lives on a south-facing
window-sill, with sun from time to time when it occurs (not a lot of
that here in U.K. in winter). I feed it every two weeks with a water
containing Citrus Winter Feed. (No, I'm fibbing - I look at it once
every couple of weeks and if it looks like it's wilting, I give it some
water).

Seriously, I do treat my citruses rough. I feed them every month or so
with Citrus Winter Feed, but aside from that, I only give them a bit of
water through the winter. Our house is quite cold, about 65F, normally.

In the spring I repot them into bigger pots if they require it, with new
soil, and accustom them to going outside in the garden.

My three other citrus trees were planted from supermarket fruit seeds in
1973, when we were indigent and living in a crappy one-room bedsit - a
grapefruit and two orange trees (I think). They're still with us, they
live in our living-room through the winter with very little natural
light and go outdoors in the garden in the summer. They're all very
healthy and the oldest tree is about 3 feet tall.

s.