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Old 06-08-2010, 05:42 PM posted to uk.rec.gardening
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Default Citrus -Acid lovers /feed & water



"keith kent" wrote ...
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Martin Brown wrote:
amount of chlorine added to it along the way (especially at weekends).


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I am not over watering, but may be over doing it with the feed maybe .
I feed once every week or two and give them sequestered iron , are citrus
light feeders ?

No, heavy feeders.
But are you flushing the compost through with plain water between feeds?
Otherwise you get a build up of unused salts in the compost.

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Bob Hobden
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