Another great video. I'll be moving from PA to SC next year and will be interested in learning about the native plants. I liked your closing point about encouraging. Very nice.
love the way you teach! makes me miss collage. i graduated from with an ATA in Horticulture and love it. i would love to see further videos on the geo air system i want to make one also thank you so much
Sorry to be off topic but does any of you know of a way to log back into an instagram account..? I somehow forgot the login password. I love any help you can give me!
@Vincenzo Mario thanks for your reply. I got to the site thru google and im waiting for the hacking stuff atm. Looks like it's gonna take quite some time so I will get back to you later when my account password hopefully is recovered.
That was very helpful Gary. Can you explain the reason for grafting. What is the preferred root stock for limes and lemons. Is that root stock geared for ground or container growing. How will my seed grown Meyer lemons compare to grafted trees?
I read that pruning should be done about one eighth inch to a quarter inch above the leaf so the dormant bud just above the leaf will be encouraged to grow. Also depending on the side the dormant bud is determines the direction the new growth will take. Has that been your experience? I have a small key lime tree that I grew from a seed from my mother's key lime in Puerto Rico. I have babied the tree and it is now about five feet tall in a large container. I just noticed a couple of weeks ago that the tree is growing flowers. Unfortunately it gets down in the 20's here in north Florida so I have it on a small mover's cart so I can wheel it out to get sun when it is warm enough and wheel back in to protect it when the temperature is going to drop. I am not planning to trim it while it is flowering. I friend tried doing that with her lime tree and it caused it drop all the flowers and the few fruits it was producing. Can the small limbs growing low on the trunk be pruned now while its flowering safely?
The mentioned difference between prune apple and citrus is true only for remontant citrus species. Also shaded citrus fruits do not color well and do not ripen. For sour-fruited varieties, it "probably" doesn't matter at all, but for orange, tangerine and grapefruit the difference is obvioust! Therefore it is good to have light in the crown as in the mentioned apple tree if citrus have tree trunk! In the shrub system it would be different.
Hi Gary. I am new to growing my Lime tree and have successfully not killed it for a solid year. Coming into the spring now and curious as to how to make it more bushy? Mine has a straight up shoot and then like 6 coming off the main trunk but I'd like to get more coming off there. I was waiting to prune for the spring but it seems its already flowered and is starting to grow limes. Will I kill the entire season's yield by pruning now? I already had a lemon tree die so I don't want to lose this one too as the limes were fantastic last year
Great, easy to understand video. I appreciate you and your video :)
Another great video. I'll be moving from PA to SC next year and will be interested in learning about the native plants. I liked your closing point about encouraging. Very nice.
PA to SC. It is hot down there, but it does open additional possibilities for growing things that would be frozen toast in PA.
Thank you! Very clear and well done.
Beautiful fruit tree.
Good job ❤❤
love the way you teach! makes me miss collage. i graduated from with an ATA in Horticulture and love it.
i would love to see further videos on the geo air system i want to make one also
thank you so much
Sorry to be off topic but does any of you know of a way to log back into an instagram account..?
I somehow forgot the login password. I love any help you can give me!
@Devon Kairo Instablaster =)
@Vincenzo Mario thanks for your reply. I got to the site thru google and im waiting for the hacking stuff atm.
Looks like it's gonna take quite some time so I will get back to you later when my account password hopefully is recovered.
@Vincenzo Mario It worked and I now got access to my account again. Im so happy:D
Thanks so much you really help me out :D
@Devon Kairo you are welcome =)
Thanks! Very helpful!!
Nice video
That was very helpful Gary. Can you explain the reason for grafting. What is the preferred root stock for limes and lemons. Is that root stock geared for ground or container growing. How will my seed grown Meyer lemons compare to grafted trees?
I read that pruning should be done about one eighth inch to a quarter inch above the leaf so the dormant bud just above the leaf will be encouraged to grow. Also depending on the side the dormant bud is determines the direction the new growth will take. Has that been your experience? I have a small key lime tree that I grew from a seed from my mother's key lime in Puerto Rico. I have babied the tree and it is now about five feet tall in a large container. I just noticed a couple of weeks ago that the tree is growing flowers. Unfortunately it gets down in the 20's here in north Florida so I have it on a small mover's cart so I can wheel it out to get sun when it is warm enough and wheel back in to protect it when the temperature is going to drop. I am not planning to trim it while it is flowering. I friend tried doing that with her lime tree and it caused it drop all the flowers and the few fruits it was producing. Can the small limbs growing low on the trunk be pruned now while its flowering safely?
thank you so much
The mentioned difference between prune apple and citrus is true only for remontant citrus species.
Also shaded citrus fruits do not color well and do not ripen.
For sour-fruited varieties, it "probably" doesn't matter at all, but for orange, tangerine and grapefruit the difference is obvioust! Therefore it is good to have light in the crown as in the mentioned apple tree if citrus have tree trunk! In the shrub system it would be different.
Good job on video I am in zone 7b do I still need to bring it in .doors?
Temperatures can get down to 5-10 degrees F in you zone. If the tree is not protected, those temps are low enough to kill it.
Over area temperatures 0 to 50 f good production of citrus.
Were you able to grow fruit on that tree
How come I don't see any thorns ? Do you take them off ?
Hi Gary. I am new to growing my Lime tree and have successfully not killed it for a solid year. Coming into the spring now and curious as to how to make it more bushy? Mine has a straight up shoot and then like 6 coming off the main trunk but I'd like to get more coming off there. I was waiting to prune for the spring but it seems its already flowered and is starting to grow limes. Will I kill the entire season's yield by pruning now? I already had a lemon tree die so I don't want to lose this one too as the limes were fantastic last year
use those leaves in curry!!