Help - Lime Tree
bought a lime tree end of summer and its started to flower but never really developed any fruits due to reduced light.
anyways moved couple of weeks ago and despite being in a room with greater light levels its dropping leaves every day with some branches almost bare. i cut the remaining flowers off to try and help, as i thought this may b something to do with it as maybe the plant thought it spring after i bought it for some reason. i have feed & misted the plant very week but this doesn't seemed to have helped. your help is much appreciated as its looking very sorry next to my year old and healthly lemon tree. |
Help - Lime Tree
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from Tiger303 contains these words: bought a lime tree end of summer and its started to flower but never really developed any fruits due to reduced light. anyways moved couple of weeks ago and despite being in a room with greater light levels its dropping leaves every day with some branches almost bare. i cut the remaining flowers off to try and help, as i thought this may b something to do with it as maybe the plant thought it spring after i bought it for some reason. i have feed & misted the plant very week but this doesn't seemed to have helped. your help is much appreciated as its looking very sorry next to my year old and healthly lemon tree. I haven't pampered my 6 months old grown-from pips lemon trees at all. They don't get misted and are rarely fed. At present they are just kept slightly moist. The largest is twenty-six inches high, and all are strong and healthy. From the look of them, they are evergreen? If so, I don't know what the problem is, but I don't think you'd be doing any harm (at this time of year) if you removed it from its pot and checked for pests in the soil/peat. -- Rusty Hinge http://www.users.zetnet.co.uk/hi-fi/tqt.htm Dark thoughts about the Wumpus concerto played with piano, iron bar and two sledge hammers. (Wumpus, 15/11/03) |
Help - Lime Tree
Tiger303 wrote:
bought a lime tree end of summer and its started to flower but never really developed any fruits due to reduced light. anyways moved couple of weeks ago and despite being in a room with greater light levels its dropping leaves every day with some branches almost bare. Overwatering? Overfeeding? Hard water? Pests in soil? - ie Vine weevil. room too hot? ---- Rod http://website.lineone.net/~rodcraddock/ |
Help - Lime Tree
thanks, doubt its overwatering or overfeeding but will just keep soil moist until spring to be sure, & will check soil for pests.
the room may be too hot, when heating is on its about 21C, what temperature is ideal? |
Help - Lime Tree
"Tiger303" wrote in message ... thanks, doubt its overwatering or overfeeding but will just keep soil moist until spring to be sure, & will check soil for pests. the room may be too hot, when heating is on its about 21C, what temperature is ideal? -- You don't say what sort of Lime you have, tropical or Tahiti? Anyway, Limes don't like the cold and are more sensitive to this than most citrus. I keep all our citrus at a min of 50°F during the winter, only water when the soil seems dry, and feed every third watering making sure I flush the soil through with pure rainwater (at room temp)every now and again to stop any build-up of salts. Never leave a citrus in a water tray, it must be allowed to drain any excess water away. Wet roots are the main cause of problems with citrus (that and Scale Insect) especially in the cold/low light of winter. If you can't get rainwater and have hard tapwater then you should repot your citrus in Ericaceous Compost with added inert grit (I use orchid type bark chips) as they don't like too much lime, indeed, prefer a slightly acid and a well draining soil. If you remove your plant from it's pot and the roots look damaged or the soil looks like it's breaking down then repot immediately as above. Using E C is an old trick to get sickly citrus to pick up. p.s. if you don't know if your grit is inert then pour some vinegar on it and see if you get a reaction. If it froths don't use it. (old fishkeeping trick) :-) -- Regards Bob Use a useful Screen Saver... http://setiathome.ssl.berkeley.edu/ and find intelligent life amongst the stars, there's bugger all down here. |
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[quote]Originally posted by Bob Hobden
[b]You don't say what sort of Lime you have, tropical or Tahiti? Anyway, Limes don't like the cold and are more sensitive to this than most citrus. I keep all our citrus at a min of 50°F during the winter, only water when the soil seems dry, and feed every third watering making sure I flush the soil through with pure rainwater (at room temp)every now and again to stop any build-up of salts. Never leave a citrus in a water tray, it must be allowed to drain any excess water away. Wet roots are the main cause of problems with citrus (that and Scale Insect) especially in the cold/low light of winter. If you can't get rainwater and have hard tapwater then you should repot your citrus in Ericaceous Compost with added inert grit (I use orchid type bark chips) as they don't like too much lime, indeed, prefer a slightly acid and a well draining soil. If you remove your plant from it's pot and the roots look damaged or the soil looks like it's breaking down then repot immediately as above. Using E C is an old trick to get sickly citrus to pick up. p.s. if you don't know if your grit is inert then pour some vinegar on it and see if you get a reaction. If it froths don't use it. (old fishkeeping trick) :-) thanks Bob, i'm afraid i've no idea whether its tropical or tahiti, thou i remember when i bought it, it said 'american bartenders lime tree' for description. its still in plastic pot that i bought it so i hope it was originally potted in E C haven't got garden big enough to store any rainwater properly though manchester is a sofwater area and as i said my lemon is very healthy do u think a temperature of 70F is too high? will check roots @ weekend when i have time to repot |
Help - Lime Tree
"Tiger303" wrote in message .. Bob Hobden wrote: i'm afraid i've no idea whether its tropical or tahiti, thou i remember when i bought it, it said 'american bartenders lime tree' for description. its still in plastic pot that i bought it so i hope it was originally potted in E C haven't got garden big enough to store any rainwater properly though manchester is a sofwater area and as i said my lemon is very healthy do u think a temperature of 70F is too high? will check roots @ weekend when i have time to repot -- I do think you are keeping it at too high a Temp. considering the low light levels during the winter, and you keep it indoors which also reduces the light it gets compared to when it's outside in a sunny spot in the summer. I also doubt it was originally potted in E C. or with enough built in drainage if the ones we have obtained over the years are anything to go by. You have soft water, you lucky person you, now citrus do need some calcium so perhaps you should phone the water co to check on the analysis. If it's very soft you might need to forget the 100% E C. and use a mixture of E C with normal peat based compost also with the added drainage grit. -- Regards Bob Use a useful Screen Saver... http://setiathome.ssl.berkeley.edu/ and find intelligent life amongst the stars, there's bugger all down here. |
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s.com... bought a lime tree end of summer and its started to flower but never really developed any fruits due to reduced light. anyways moved couple of weeks ago and despite being in a room with greater light levels its dropping leaves every day with some branches almost bare. i cut the remaining flowers off to try and help, as i thought this may b something to do with it as maybe the plant thought it spring after i bought it for some reason. i have feed & misted the plant very week but this doesn't seemed to have helped. your help is much appreciated as its looking very sorry next to my year old and healthly lemon tree. -- Tiger303 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ posted via www.GardenBanter.co.uk My eperience is with Lemon, but they are the same family so here goes, they don't seem to like a change of conditions, from cooler to warmer or warmer to cooler, it's okay if it's really gradual, but they always seem to react funny if I move them from one to another. Having said that just lately my best cropper has been suffering very badly from a scale insect infestation and this is leading to large scale "deforestation" on my little lemon tree. I've had to pick/scrap these pests off by hand and then sprayed with something obnoxious, which I hate doing. The other real nasty pest which may cause this is the RedSpider mite, give your plant a really good check over and make sure there's nothing like this on it. Good luck Duncan |
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In article , "Druss" writes: | | Having said that just lately my best cropper has been suffering very badly | from a scale insect infestation and this is leading to large scale | "deforestation" on my little lemon tree. I've had to pick/scrap these pests | off by hand and then sprayed with something obnoxious, which I hate doing. I cleared it by scraping alone - admittedly on a very small tree. | The other real nasty pest which may cause this is the RedSpider mite, give | your plant a really good check over and make sure there's nothing like this | on it. Soft soap works as well as anything, and is pretty safe. Regards, Nick Maclaren. |
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"Druss"wrote in message ... .. Having said that just lately my best cropper has been suffering very badly from a scale insect infestation and this is leading to large scale "deforestation" on my little lemon tree. I've had to pick/scrap these pests off by hand and then sprayed with something obnoxious, which I hate doing. These are a constant pest on Citrus but can be dealt with by blasting them off with your sprayer filled with a couple of drips of washing up liquid and pumped up to max and kept there. Takes time but start at the top and work down every stem checking every leaf and especially the nooks and crannies. Recently was given another Lemon tree by a neighbour that was emigrating and it was covered with scale of all sizes such that the stems were totally hidden, it took three thorough goes to get rid of it which was three soakings for me to. :-) If I'd have left it then all our citrus would have been the same come spring. -- Regards Bob Use a useful Screen Saver... http://setiathome.ssl.berkeley.edu/ and find intelligent life amongst the stars, there's bugger all down here. |
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from "Bob Hobden" contains these words: Bob Use a useful Screen Saver... http://setiathome.ssl.berkeley.edu/ and find intelligent life amongst the stars, there's bugger all down here. Had a little look at the SETI wibble, but I rather think this box wouldn't be very useful for them: I don't use a screensaver and don't leave the box running when it's not in use. And it's hardly got resources to have it chuntering away in the background either. -- Rusty Hinge http://www.users.zetnet.co.uk/hi-fi/tqt.htm Dark thoughts about the Wumpus concerto played with piano, iron bar and two sledge hammers. (Wumpus, 15/11/03) |
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from "Bob Hobden" contains these words: Bob Use a useful Screen Saver... http://setiathome.ssl.berkeley.edu/ and find intelligent life amongst the stars, there's bugger all down here. Had a little look at the SETI wibble, but I rather think this box wouldn't be very useful for them: I don't use a screensaver and don't leave the box running when it's not in use. And it's hardly got resources to have it chuntering away in the background either. -- Rusty Hinge http://www.users.zetnet.co.uk/hi-fi/tqt.htm Dark thoughts about the Wumpus concerto played with piano, iron bar and two sledge hammers. (Wumpus, 15/11/03) |
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In article ,
Jaques d'Alltrades wrote: The message from "Bob Hobden" contains these words: Use a useful Screen Saver... http://setiathome.ssl.berkeley.edu/ and find intelligent life amongst the stars, there's bugger all down here. Had a little look at the SETI wibble, but I rather think this box wouldn't be very useful for them: I don't use a screensaver and don't leave the box running when it's not in use. And it's hardly got resources to have it chuntering away in the background either. Something that would find intelligent life on Usenet would be far more useful. Try sci.anthropology.paleo for a proof that ape to human is definitely a descent :-( Regards, Nick Maclaren. |
Help - Lime Tree
The message
from "Bob Hobden" contains these words: Bob Use a useful Screen Saver... http://setiathome.ssl.berkeley.edu/ and find intelligent life amongst the stars, there's bugger all down here. Had a little look at the SETI wibble, but I rather think this box wouldn't be very useful for them: I don't use a screensaver and don't leave the box running when it's not in use. And it's hardly got resources to have it chuntering away in the background either. -- Rusty Hinge http://www.users.zetnet.co.uk/hi-fi/tqt.htm Dark thoughts about the Wumpus concerto played with piano, iron bar and two sledge hammers. (Wumpus, 15/11/03) |
Help - Lime Tree
In article ,
Jaques d'Alltrades wrote: The message from "Bob Hobden" contains these words: Use a useful Screen Saver... http://setiathome.ssl.berkeley.edu/ and find intelligent life amongst the stars, there's bugger all down here. Had a little look at the SETI wibble, but I rather think this box wouldn't be very useful for them: I don't use a screensaver and don't leave the box running when it's not in use. And it's hardly got resources to have it chuntering away in the background either. Something that would find intelligent life on Usenet would be far more useful. Try sci.anthropology.paleo for a proof that ape to human is definitely a descent :-( Regards, Nick Maclaren. |
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