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![]() The person might not know, or he/she 'may' have said that so you think it is normal and it delays your going back and complaining about it dying.
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![]() ![]() Wow! Your lemon trees are loaded with fruit this year! Congratulations! Lucky dog! Very nice! Aww, you’re very sweet! Thanks as always for your help! I truly appreciate it! ![]() ![]() ![]()
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![]() Hello! I’ve got a little bit of an update for you! I just noticed that there is a little bit of green leaves starting to grow already!
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![]() That's great to hear. I love citrus trees
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![]() Once it comes out of shock, get it out that peat moss. That stuff is just pure evil. I would also suggest a pH meter to test the soil you do put it in, to make sure it's at the optimum pH for your tree(s). You can get one at the Homie Despot that doesn't take batteries pretty cheap. You have Menard's up there, right? They should have them too. In containers, it's really easy to change your pH. I had a dawn redwood one time that was growing in 3.8. Vinegar is 3.5, so it was pretty acidic. Luckily the dawn could take it, but it would have killed just about everything else though. It was a damn fine experiment however! Even I didn't know they could take that low of a number and be okay. It wasn't thriving, mind you, but it wasn't languishing either. I have no idea how in the hell they went extinct, as hardy as they are.
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![]() When it blooms, there are sometimes as many as 20 blooms in each clump. I wait until the fruit begins to form, and pinch off all but about 3 or 4 of them. The branch would not be able to handle the weight of more than that.
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![]() Here’s yet another update for ya’ll! I wanted you guys to be able to see the nice green leaves that have grown already! Plus the BIGGEST surprise of all is I’ve got some flower buds growing! The tree has come a hell of a long way! Don’t you think?!
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![]() By the way I wanted to mention that I didn’t do a thing to that tree! I didn’t move into a bigger container. I didn’t use different soil other than the peat moss it’s been in all along! The tree is not only a survivor but also tough to take just about any kind of abuse! Yeah I was just about to throw it away after talking to you guys before! Good thing I didn’t! Am I right or what!
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![]() i had prolific flowers on mine after bringing it indoors
it was the first time it had flowered it dropped all the flowers which i somewhat expected since it was the first time it had flowered hopefully next time a few of them set fruit |
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![]() Umm, don't you have to pollinate them? I know on peppers and tomatoes and such, if they don't get pollinated, the flowers just fall off.
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![]() Yeah, anyone who is familiar with plants and pH's, is usually shocked to hear it was growing. A friend of mine who went to forestry school and I, went to see Dante's Peak. When Pierce Brosnan took a sample of the lake water and it registered 1, we both said at the same time, "Holy s**t!" We were the only people in the entire theater who understood the significance, or what it even meant. Battery acid.
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![]() i do have the odd fly down there,
all my other citrus flowered and set fruit when i brought them inside lots of limes, lemons, calamondin, buddhashand, and pomello fruits forming |
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You can pollinate the flowers manually, with a Q-tip, but the bees will do it as well, once they go outside. If you get more, just do it yourself to get a jump on the season. IDK if oranges have male and female flowers or not. but if they don't, like peppers, just gently squeeze them to match the pollen. If they do, use the Q-tip to take pollen from one flower to another, like you would with cucumbers.
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