I am about to re-pot (for the first time) my little lemon tree and two blood orange trees I grew from seed. I have watched this video a few times and it has great information. I am now ready to re-pot. Thank you, Laura, for your help with citrus and all the other plants, and trees, you love so much. Please send good healthy vibes to my little trees.
I have a few dwarf citrus trees planted in half wine barrels with casters on the bottom so I can wheel them in and out of the garage if its going to freeze. I also learned that keeping them out of that hot afternoon sun as you mentioned, keeps the blossoms going longer. Thanks for all the great info!
There is really nothing that rivals the fragrance of citrus blossoms. The tiny trees they sell in garden centers are so tempting because of it. But in this area, it is a lot of work to bring them inside for the Winter. It really has to be a labor of love.
I love this! Everyone always looks so shocked when you say, "I think, I'm going to grow a tree inside.". I love how you do things that most people wouldn't even think they can.
You can do either or, depending on how warm your house is, how much sun you get and it is always good for them to go outside in the summer, but you don't have to, if you have good lighting and warmth (especially with citrus trees). Really depends on where you live too.
I used Neem oil in a spray bottle for leaves, and I make my own Colloidal Silver Water for pennies on a dollar. I spray some of both a couple of times per month. This keeps fungus , mold and Nematodes at bay. Insects or worms leaf miner are killed with the Neem oil spray. It's a great preventative , instead of waiting until you see something , THEN trying to get rid of the pesty bug or mold or fungus.
Living in southeast Alaska I never thought someone could get a fruit tree like an orange tree to grow. I was house sitting for a friend years ago, walked in their door and there was this gorgeous orange tree that had a couple not quite ripe oranges. Oh my word I was so surprised. I loved watching the fruit change colour, I bet they were amazing. That started my dream of possibly growing my own! I love your videos!
Super glad you don't have to deal with citrus leafminer. I've been battling them for a bit on my new growth. I've got Meyer Lemon, Australian Green Finger Limes, Pummelos, Ruby Red Grapefruit, Honeybell Tangelo, and a Ponkan Tangerine.
I've watched this video over a dozen times & I am constantly impressed at how beautiful the tree looks after up potting to the ceramic container. I have about 40 fruit trees in containers & find it very therapeutic when I'm up potting, watering, trimming or harvesting my fruit trees.
I am looking for a source for a mail order key lime tree, I am in zone 5 so you rarely can find the at a garden center. If anyone has had success, please advise. Thank you!
I live in Sierra Vista, AZ 4800 elevation snd our minimum lows are 15-20. We haven’t gotten that low in my yard for many years, last year we only got down to 23 degrees F. What I do is wrap it in a green and a white frost blanket. I cover the pot with the wrap also. It has done very very well. I was told in the nursery in Tucson that it was hardy down to 25.
@@pompey333 Thanks for the information. It’s been fun seeing the plant grow so big from a seed and also watching the honeybees on the flowers when I moved the pot to my garden. Now that I know, I won’t expect a good tasting lemon if I even get one.
Our meyer lemon tree was infested with aphids (brought by ants, I think). We bought a package of live ladybugs and let them feast! Seemed to work pretty well.
I learned that to prevent the ants from going up the stem put Vaseline around the stem. A thick gob works well 🥰 unfortunately you do have to reapply but it’s more “natural”
@@melissag8270 - Can you not take the bottom leaves off the plant. I do that to my Tomato Plants which means that the leaves don’t root or anything insects will climb up the stem of the plant
@@rlopez18m Ants are brought in by aphids some plants draw them. Spray an organic pesticide or soapy water once in awhile and you shouldn't have this problem.
Really enjoy your videos. I live in Boise and inherited a lemon tree and it is nice getting information from someone in a very similar climate. Thanks.
I use smartpots/fabric pots for all my plants. My Lemon tree loves it! Plus it's great because of the way roots grow. I put my avocado trees and aloes in those smartpots too. All seem to love them
@@Ivan-od7bp They are awesome, thanks for asking. Alll of the plants/trees do better in them. No root-bound issues and you can't overwater because it all runs out of the pot. Highly recommend. If you try them, let me know in the thread.
I have 8 citrus, different kinds, in pots and for about 3 years had a major infestation of mealy bugs. What a pain. I found the only way to control them was to take a bucket of soapy water, put a sock over my hand, and wash as many leaves on each tree as I could. I finally got rid of them, but ended up losing the one that brought the bugs in to begin with. Good info, though, and in line with what I've experienced so far. I live in Georgia, so your recommendations for water, light and temps are spot on. This is my first time watching one of your videos - looking forward to viewing others.
I come from a place where we have in our land Lemon, orange, mango, zapote, cinnamon, cashews tree and now I live in a place rated zone 3 and ur video gave me hopes for citrus tree. Tks Laura. U r awesome, inspiring, u r the best blogger, providing the best and honest info available, thank u.
I’ve had my orange “tree” for 3 years and only just have my first real orange that has made it to very nearly ripe stage. Its leaves are so sparse it looks a little like Charlie Brown’s Christmas tree with the orange bending the poor little dude right over. 😂 I love it tho and I’m going savour that one orange when it’s time. 🧡
Thank you! This is so helpful. This spring we bought two citrus and one pomegranate tree and we're planning to grow them all in containers in zone 10. I really hope they make it.
Hey Ik this is kinda off topic but I’ve been growing citrus plants for over a year in the NYC area and it’s growing pretty slow . Do you have any tips ?
One more thing: The fruit will get quite large and stay very dark green. You must be patient! It takes months for the green fruit to turn yellow! I usually harvest mine just as cold weather is beginning to come- late October, early November. The skins of the lemon will turn bright yellow and soften a bit. Give a little tug and it should release from the tree. Enjoy! Nothing like a Meyer Lemon.
Thank you for talking about acclimating, I never ever thought about that, not sure why, don't know how many plants over the years I've lost because of that. You are so knowledgeable, I love learning and I learn so much from you, thank you again Laura & Aaron for all you do and share with us in quality
So glad I found you! Love your honesty...."it's a pain".....!! Just pulled my Myer Lemon inside. I read you should remove fruit in the first couple of years. My little guy is covered in them and I want them!!
Just this past year I started 3 lemons trees from seed. It's been fun and they have done well, but I'm ready now just to go buy a large plant. Thanks for the great info! 💛🍋
Branka Zorić, FERTILIZE!! I recall a great garden advisor radio show years ago saying, fertilize more often than the label recommends, with a lesser amount of fertilzer or weaker dilution rate. Object being a constant availability of nutrients. That was using straight old-school kind of fertilizer; today's more likely are Organic, time-release stuff that may make this unnecessary. But still, fertilzer should make a difference. Pruning is probably just as important, and after pinching, the fertilizer will cause faster growth, allowing you to control the basic shape of the tree. 🍋🍊🍋🍊🍋🍊🍋
Oh my word! This makes me so happy. I've been devouring "all" the potted citrus"videos and web pages I can get my hands on lately... and then my favourite garden vlogger comes out with a video days later! :-D :-D My many poor potted citrus have had a hard life 6 years of moving around rental houses waiting for me to move into one of my own in order to plant them. This year they've got lots of deficiencies, because I've been too busy renovating and having surgeries - and this past Summer (it is Winter now) and all my fruit trees were hit with so many the boring and sap sucking bugs... possums and wallabies too. :-( They're very unhappy plants. Anyway, my story aside: YAY! a Garden Answer video! :-D :-D Thank you guys!
blarghies Greetings from California - having “problems with wallabies” caught my eye as one of the cutest phrases ever, but then, I am not familiar with what actual damage they may do! Wishing you and your citrus trees the very best.
@@OxfordComma47 hehehe! They are wonderful creatures. I absolutely love having macropods on my property. :) wallabies, padamelons, (bettongs), potoroos and possums (different to yours) are like deer, where I live. They will eat every plant they can get their tiny grabby hands on. I'm trying in vein to grow two purple flowering hebes as lollipops and a hedge of variegated pittosporum as a hedge, but they keep getting stripped... The bark is scraped off or stripped, branches broken or rendered useless causingdie back, and the leaves are all gone. :( I used to think olive trees, lavenders and citrus were not eaten by possums (cute little banes of my existence), but they have been eating everything. Sighhhh. People in my area shoot or run over native and escaped animals (Australians aren't great people as a whole) and I refuse to harm them no matter what. I just wish there was something I could spray on the plants that would work! I have electronic animal repellers (emit sounds and leaving lights that they don't like) but they don't seem to help. And brush tail possums will climb over any any fences or through tiny gaps like Toombs from the X Files and wallabies will bound over our cattle fencing. Can't keep them out. 😭😂 Making things grow here is like banging your head on a brick wall. Add to that my destructive geese, ducks, chooks and goat and I realise it is a labour of love with a large helping of frustration and pushing a bike up a steep hill. 😂 :) I ❤️animals and plants.
blarghies Absolutely fascinating. I could spend a month looking all those animals up! Thanks for telling me we have different possums, too, I never would have pictured deer. All the best to you.
@@blarghies Hi there - loved your comment!! I’m not an Aussie but I’ve vacationed there and have friends there!! They built a ‘sun porch’ on the north side of their house - floor to ceiling windows, half of them open, glass ceiling/roof. Or maybe high impact plastic. They put their garden in there. It’s like a lean-to added to the side of the existing room. Now the windows on that side of the house open into the sunroom - concrete unfinished floor. It’s like putting windows around a side porch. Anyway - lush garden they have!! They have lemon trees and those Aussie limes. Beautiful! And bearing fruit. One is getting so big they’re going to have to do something with it - prune or move somewhere else. And shelving covered with veggies in pots and wooden beds. Maybe you could do that at your place? Good luck with the animals!
I too live in Oregon so this is great for me :) wish I would have found it before I repotted my lemon tree. The people at the nursery was not helpful! But it’s still blooming and starting to grow fruit which makes me happy.
@@DianeCee0 Yes, that is the goal Diane! However, the downside is not many of my favorite plants can grow here and I'm not into the tropical style of garden, go figure, lol!
Thanks for this! I am just about to move from Southern California to East Tennessee and I've been trying to research how to still grow a few citrus trees out there. This was the perfect tutorial to clear up my confused mind.
Love your videos. Here goes nothing. Just picked up a Meyer lemon tree. A house warming gift. I’m new to the Bay Area so the climate is new to me. It’s been extremely dry here. I think it has rained a handful of times within a year. However, I do get fog and more wind than I expected. The plan is to have it in a pot until my landscaping is completed. Once done I will plant it in the ground. It will be at least a year wait. I have almost everything I need and hopefully I won’t kill it beforehand.
Great info! Thank you . I rescued a very sad lookingMeyer Lemon from box store. I repotted it and it took off and more than doubled in size thru the summer. Now to nurse it thru winter.
Who else thinks that Laura should make a series of cooking videos as an addition to her gardening channel where she would use all her fresh produce to make delicious food?!😋 🌱It would be great to see how Laura uses her fresh fruits and vegetables in her kitchen!🌱 🍋Your lemon tree is so beautiful, I wish I had one!🍋 🍋🍓🍏🍎🥕🥒I love your videos!🌿🍃💐🌷🌸🌺
I'm so addicted to this channel! I didn't get a video yesterday and my day just wasn't right! 😂 I don't really desire to have a citrus tree, at all, but I watched from start to finish to learn more about it because you just never know when the mood might strike to plant one! Haha! Thanks again and I missed you yesterday! ❤😊 God's best to you, Aaron and Benjamin!
@@crystalmccartney58 I know what you mean. I was telling myself that Laura and Aaron have other things to do besides videos. Then, I prayed for them because I got concerned. I'm glad they are okay and that they were back today. 💜😊🙏
Marian Kay, if you plant one (potted citrus)) you will not regret it! If you happen to get fruit you can give it away🍋🍋🍋(i recommend lemon; Meyer or Dwarf Eureka, but i guess it depends on your climate etc-- they require plenty of sun/heat) The citrus blossom fragrance is divine! If you enjoy morning coffee in the sunshine on your deck or patio, and the potted lemon is blooming nearby, you will not want to move 😄. If you don't sit outdoors in the morning, having the potted lemon near an open window is second best. I know what you mean though, about watching the Garden Answer videos. They've got ten times the space as me (at least!) but watching her landscaping decisions and planting ideas can be mesmerizing. Hence no planting chores getting done at MY house!
I needed this last Mother's Day. I got an orange tree from my son. I killed it within 3 months. I did everything the tag said, but it died anyway. He went back to giving me hanging baskets. lol Very nice tutorial, full of information. See you in the next one! Oh, would love an update on this once it starts baring fruit.
Super big 👍! Hi new friend, great informational video! I have a citrus 🍊 tree that I started from a seed 15 years ago but it only flowered once and no fruit! Maybe you have some advice to encourage flowering??? Hope you have a great rest of the week! Take care, happy planting and God bless! Animal Papa and Junior! 😎❤️👍🙏
Thank you so much for this video! I have a 10 yr old blood orange & Meyer lemon in 20” pots and was curious as to whether or not I needed to put them in bigger pots. They seem happy and have produced well, so i didn’t really want to upset them. You’ve validated my choice to leave them alone and I’m appreciative for all the great info you gave today because I have 3 more oranges now to put in pots. 💚🍊🍋
Thank you very much for such a detailed video, in this time of quarantine I've gotten into gardening and citrus trees are my number one choice. This helps me a looooooooooooot
Perfect timing as usual! I have a Meyer lemon and Key lime tree both in the same pot (FL zone 8b)...the Meyer is loaded with fruit but the key lime is struggling...it blooms then fruits but they fall off after several weeks. I’m thinking I should separate them into separate pots before I lose the key lime altogether. Super informative and inspirational as always! Thanks for all you do!! 💚🍋
I'm in central Texas. I double pot. Take a HUGE pot, place another inside. Put felt or dirt between the pots. They grow very well in our dry, hot summers. And stay warmer in winter.
Thanks you for this video very helpful. I have a Meyer lemon tree also. I learned a lot more on the care. Watch your videos all the time. Love 💐 like you and plants. I have to stop myself from going anywhere that has plants, because I end up bringing home more plants.
Thank you so much for this video! I can grow most plants well but I manage to kill off citrus. Now I have a little bit better of an idea of how to take care of them. I might expand and add a lime and orange tree next year 😁
Yes!!!! You guys are in tune with our, "the viewers" needs! Thank you! Great information. My Meyer lemon tree is behaving as you described, so now I know what to do! And... I am going to pot my next citrus trees!!
Thanks! I have 2 lemon trees in pots i grew from seed here in s. Michigan that go in and out. Last year a tree frog came in with them so no bug problems
This is super helpful! I want to buy a lemon tree for my apartment to keep in the balcony but I was wondering about pruning, mites, and sufficient sun exposure. This clarified a lot.
I love your videos! Packed with easy-to-understand information and properly sequenced, get to the point quickly without waffling, everything! Well done. I always enjoy them.
Coffee with Laura and citrus tree information how wonderful! This is another item that I think would be fun to grow at our center so will be looking into how had where we can do this. Thank you so much Laura!!!!
Thank you so much for this video! I’ve been trying to grow a lemon and lime inside for a year and they have produced. I’m struggling with pruning them so that they form into a tree shape. Please oh please do a video on pruning citrus!!!! 🙏
According to my books, citrus don't really like being pruned. The books say only to remove the essential 3Ds (dead, diseased & dying branches) & any branch that starts to grow below the graft. Shame I didn't read before I cut. lol.
I’m growing Cumquats. It’s Winter’s end late August in Oz. Repotted from plastic-2-terra cotta on saucer. Mixed in a little Citrus slow release bead fertiliser .. maybe not enough so will sprinkle more 2morro with follow up watering. Thx 4 tips on transitioning .. was wondering about that. I guess “follow the (sun-) light” is the mantra🌞. I’m gonna feature the orange Cumquats🍊, yellow Lemon🍋 & pink Frangipani🌸 eventually out front the cottage .. am just over the dunes 2 the beach .. The Beach Boys wafting thru the house .. that’s the idea @ least🤞🤞🤞
I would love to see updates on the trees and if they are bearing fruit or not. I feel like I’ve seen you plant fruit trees or bushes but never got a good update of having success or not with them.
I don't think she will. When I used just potting mix a lot of my citrus plants get stunned and die.. the potting soil retains too much water. I have a meyer lemon doing very, very well. It soil composition is mainly bark, mulch, compost and some perlite, vermiculite and sand
@@CaptainKurtAnnapolis mine are young but I'd say no because I don't get enough light indoors or outdoors because of the way the yard is. Otherwise, I think I would have much better plants in general. I get sun usually between 7am-2pm and not all of it is strong direct light. The rest is shaded and it's simply not enough full strength light to grow as much as I want and then indoors is a nightmare. So...fruit not happening soon for me.
Kurt Greening-- I just read something today, about Avocados being self pollinating, but that the window when the flower is open, is only for a couple hours per day for only three or four days! I am going to start another one from a pit, hopefully they can do what nature wants without intervention from me. Oh, they also said pot-grown trees won't fruit. 😯 However I refuse to believe that, and I'm going to try anyway!! There's lots of info online, and I'm sure there must be a "Growing Avocados in Pots" video on YT.
Live in Texas and will definitely be following your advice. Thanks very helpful .
I am about to re-pot (for the first time) my little lemon tree and two blood orange trees I grew from seed. I have watched this video a few times and it has great information. I am now ready to re-pot. Thank you, Laura, for your help with citrus and all the other plants, and trees, you love so much. Please send good healthy vibes to my little trees.
Did you graft them? Since they are not true to seed.
I have a few dwarf citrus trees planted in half wine barrels with casters on the bottom so I can wheel them in and out of the garage if its going to freeze. I also learned that keeping them out of that hot afternoon sun as you mentioned, keeps the blossoms going longer. Thanks for all the great info!
Thank you Mrs.!
There is really nothing that rivals the fragrance of citrus blossoms. The tiny trees they sell in garden centers are so tempting because of it. But in this area, it is a lot of work to bring them inside for the Winter. It really has to be a labor of love.
They make special winter blankets for fruit trees and what not.
Or it could just be an indoor plant like any other tropical u take outside in the summer
Check out Yarden.com They have pots that keep the trees small and manageable, yet still bear fruit.
Thank you.
I love this! Everyone always looks so shocked when you say, "I think, I'm going to grow a tree inside.". I love how you do things that most people wouldn't even think they can.
THEY CAN'T PRODUCE FRUIT. INDOORS!
So I believe she ONLY takes them inside to protect from frost ... & then takes them out again.
You can do either or, depending on how warm your house is, how much sun you get and it is always good for them to go outside in the summer, but you don't have to, if you have good lighting and warmth (especially with citrus trees). Really depends on where you live too.
They absolutely CAN produce fruit indoors. It may not be ideal, but there is no question as to whether or not it's possible. It definitely is.
Hi Laura😃 I finally got my husband to watch your garden tour. He is now obsessed with your gazebo 😃 Oh and he loves all your hedges too😃
I’m trying to get him to watch your parents garden tour next😃
YOU ARE PHENOMINAL. THANK YOU.
This is was great information. I will use for transitioning my lemon tree inside this fall. Thank you.
I used Neem oil in a spray bottle for leaves, and I make my own Colloidal Silver Water for pennies on a dollar. I spray some of both a couple of times per month. This keeps fungus , mold and Nematodes at bay. Insects or worms leaf miner are killed with the Neem oil spray.
It's a great preventative , instead of waiting until you see something , THEN trying to get rid of the pesty bug or mold or fungus.
This beautiful lady knows her stuff.. great horticulturist
I’ve got neem powder, do you know if i could mix that with water and spray it on?
Thank you 🙏
Living in southeast Alaska I never thought someone could get a fruit tree like an orange tree to grow. I was house sitting for a friend years ago, walked in their door and there was this gorgeous orange tree that had a couple not quite ripe oranges. Oh my word I was so surprised. I loved watching the fruit change colour, I bet they were amazing.
That started my dream of possibly growing my own! I love your videos!
How are you doing today my name is Eric moore
Fabulous. I am ready to grow mine in a pot now. Exited!
🤣😂🥰
Super glad you don't have to deal with citrus leafminer. I've been battling them for a bit on my new growth. I've got Meyer Lemon, Australian Green Finger Limes, Pummelos, Ruby Red Grapefruit, Honeybell Tangelo, and a Ponkan Tangerine.
Good tip on chopstick dip
I've watched this video over a dozen times & I am constantly impressed at how beautiful the tree looks after up potting to the ceramic container.
I have about 40 fruit trees in containers & find it very therapeutic when I'm up potting, watering, trimming or harvesting my fruit trees.
I agree! They’re very therapeutic. I have a tangerine tree that I love and I’m grafting some lemon on to it soon!
Ah. One leaf in a meal or tea gives aroma in ur meal. Yes. Wonderful. Medicinal
I am looking for a source for a mail order key lime tree, I am in zone 5 so you rarely can find the at a garden center. If anyone has had success, please advise. Thank you!
I live in Sierra Vista, AZ 4800 elevation snd our minimum lows are 15-20. We haven’t gotten that low in my yard for many years, last year we only got down to 23 degrees F. What I do is wrap it in a green and a white frost blanket. I cover the pot with the wrap also. It has done very very well. I was told in the nursery in Tucson that it was hardy down to 25.
I’ve managed to grow grapefruit and lemons from seeds and I’ve just transplanted them into bigger pots this week! Such perfect timing 🌸🌸🌸
Hope you get a good plant!
Seeds from fruit trees won't grow true to type as fruit trees are grafted.
Nicholas Vamvakos oh for sure I just think they’re beautiful plants :)
@@JessNolan96 hoping you get an interesting hybrid 😎
Nicholas Vamvakos thank you! ❤️
This was the best video I've ever seen on care and growing for citrus trees! Thank you!
I’m growing my lemon plant from seeds that were in a lemon that I bought at the grocery store.
@@pompey333 ugh, great advice, thank you! Lol, I saw this comment, and was like no way, I have a lemon in the fridge! 🤣
@@pompey333 by clone you mean propagated?
@@pompey333 Thanks for the information. It’s been fun seeing the plant grow so big from a seed and also watching the honeybees on the flowers when I moved the pot to my garden. Now that I know, I won’t expect a good tasting lemon if I even get one.
I was just gifted a dwarf key lime tree thank you for this video I found it very helpful 👍
Our meyer lemon tree was infested with aphids (brought by ants, I think). We bought a package of live ladybugs and let them feast! Seemed to work pretty well.
Jenny Jen1010 I need to do that I had to throw away a plant due to aphids and I recently noticed ants in my cactus, I’ll have to get some lady bugs
I learned that to prevent the ants from going up the stem put Vaseline around the stem. A thick gob works well 🥰 unfortunately you do have to reapply but it’s more “natural”
Yikes, we even commodify lady bugs. So sad. We are terrible beings. They must freak out in the package, can’t move or fly.
@@melissag8270 - Can you not take the bottom leaves off the plant. I do that to my Tomato Plants which means that the leaves don’t root or anything insects will climb up the stem of the plant
@@rlopez18m Ants are brought in by aphids some plants draw them.
Spray an organic pesticide or soapy water once in awhile and you shouldn't have this problem.
What a piece! That must have cost a small fortune new. Beautiful work restoring it.
Really enjoy your videos. I live in Boise and inherited a lemon tree and it is nice getting information from someone in a very similar climate. Thanks.
I live in Nampa and want to do an indoor lemon tree. Would love to hear if you've had success!
I love this lady! All informations she gives are clearly and definitely helpful!❤️
I love starting my day with coffee & garden answer 🙌🌸
I use smartpots/fabric pots for all my plants. My Lemon tree loves it! Plus it's great because of the way roots grow. I put my avocado trees and aloes in those smartpots too. All seem to love them
An year later haha how big are the pots u use ?
@@Ivan-od7bp They are awesome, thanks for asking. Alll of the plants/trees do better in them. No root-bound issues and you can't overwater because it all runs out of the pot. Highly recommend. If you try them, let me know in the thread.
Thank you - you just taught me “smartpots!” I see them now online, and I’ll check my local nursery.
I have 8 citrus, different kinds, in pots and for about 3 years had a major infestation of mealy bugs. What a pain. I found the only way to control them was to take a bucket of soapy water, put a sock over my hand, and wash as many leaves on each tree as I could. I finally got rid of them, but ended up losing the one that brought the bugs in to begin with.
Good info, though, and in line with what I've experienced so far. I live in Georgia, so your recommendations for water, light and temps are spot on.
This is my first time watching one of your videos - looking forward to viewing others.
I've watched a lot of citrus replanting/potting videos but this one is by far the best. It has all the needed information. Thank you!
This video was very clear for me. You've covered everything I needed to know, thank you!
I come from a place where we have in our land Lemon, orange, mango, zapote, cinnamon, cashews tree and now I live in a place rated zone 3 and ur video gave me hopes for citrus tree. Tks Laura. U r awesome, inspiring, u r the best blogger, providing the best and honest info available, thank u.
I’ve had my orange “tree” for 3 years and only just have my first real orange that has made it to very nearly ripe stage. Its leaves are so sparse it looks a little like Charlie Brown’s Christmas tree with the orange bending the poor little dude right over. 😂
I love it tho and I’m going savour that one orange when it’s time. 🧡
You put it in a pot?
Thank you! This is so helpful. This spring we bought two citrus and one pomegranate tree and we're planning to grow them all in containers in zone 10. I really hope they make it.
Hey Ik this is kinda off topic but I’ve been growing citrus plants for over a year in the NYC area and it’s growing pretty slow . Do you have any tips ?
How are you doing today my name is Ericmoore and how is the weather over there
One more thing: The fruit will get quite large and stay very dark green. You must be patient! It takes months for the green fruit to turn yellow! I usually harvest mine just as cold weather is beginning to come- late October, early November. The skins of the lemon will turn bright yellow and soften a bit. Give a little tug and it should release from the tree. Enjoy! Nothing like a Meyer Lemon.
Great video!
Very well done!
Looking forward to watching my lemon tree and lime tree grow thru the seasons!
Thank you for talking about acclimating, I never ever thought about that, not sure why, don't know how many plants over the years I've lost because of that. You are so knowledgeable, I love learning and I learn so much from you, thank you again Laura & Aaron for all you do and share with us in quality
So glad I found you! Love your honesty...."it's a pain".....!! Just pulled my Myer Lemon inside. I read you should remove fruit in the first couple of years. My little guy is covered in them and I want them!!
Just this past year I started 3 lemons trees from seed. It's been fun and they have done well, but I'm ready now just to go buy a large plant. Thanks for the great info! 💛🍋
Rebecca Wood Bixler
Patirnce gardening is patience I started three from seeds 🤔
I started mine from seed as well. I did it in April, now l have an almost 10 inches tall plant. Do you have any advice? 😊
Branka Zorić,
FERTILIZE!! I recall a great garden advisor radio show years ago saying, fertilize more often than the label recommends, with a lesser amount of fertilzer or weaker dilution rate. Object being a constant availability of nutrients. That was using straight old-school kind of fertilizer; today's more likely are Organic, time-release stuff that may make this unnecessary. But still, fertilzer should make a difference.
Pruning is probably just as important, and after pinching, the fertilizer will cause faster growth, allowing you to control the basic shape of the tree.
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Oh my word! This makes me so happy. I've been devouring "all" the potted citrus"videos and web pages I can get my hands on lately... and then my favourite garden vlogger comes out with a video days later! :-D :-D
My many poor potted citrus have had a hard life 6 years of moving around rental houses waiting for me to move into one of my own in order to plant them. This year they've got lots of deficiencies, because I've been too busy renovating and having surgeries - and this past Summer (it is Winter now) and all my fruit trees were hit with so many the boring and sap sucking bugs... possums and wallabies too. :-( They're very unhappy plants.
Anyway, my story aside: YAY! a Garden Answer video! :-D :-D Thank you guys!
blarghies Greetings from California - having “problems with wallabies” caught my eye as one of the cutest phrases ever, but then, I am not familiar with what actual damage they may do! Wishing you and your citrus trees the very best.
@@OxfordComma47 hehehe! They are wonderful creatures. I absolutely love having macropods on my property. :) wallabies, padamelons, (bettongs), potoroos and possums (different to yours) are like deer, where I live. They will eat every plant they can get their tiny grabby hands on. I'm trying in vein to grow two purple flowering hebes as lollipops and a hedge of variegated pittosporum as a hedge, but they keep getting stripped... The bark is scraped off or stripped, branches broken or rendered useless causingdie back, and the leaves are all gone. :( I used to think olive trees, lavenders and citrus were not eaten by possums (cute little banes of my existence), but they have been eating everything. Sighhhh. People in my area shoot or run over native and escaped animals (Australians aren't great people as a whole) and I refuse to harm them no matter what. I just wish there was something I could spray on the plants that would work! I have electronic animal repellers (emit sounds and leaving lights that they don't like) but they don't seem to help. And brush tail possums will climb over any any fences or through tiny gaps like Toombs from the X Files and wallabies will bound over our cattle fencing. Can't keep them out. 😭😂 Making things grow here is like banging your head on a brick wall. Add to that my destructive geese, ducks, chooks and goat and I realise it is a labour of love with a large helping of frustration and pushing a bike up a steep hill. 😂 :) I ❤️animals and plants.
blarghies Absolutely fascinating. I could spend a month looking all those animals up! Thanks for telling me we have different possums, too, I never would have pictured deer. All the best to you.
@@OxfordComma47 You too :-D
@@blarghies Hi there - loved your comment!! I’m not an Aussie but I’ve vacationed there and have friends there!! They built a ‘sun porch’ on the north side of their house - floor to ceiling windows, half of them open, glass ceiling/roof. Or maybe high impact plastic. They put their garden in there. It’s like a lean-to added to the side of the existing room. Now the windows on that side of the house open into the sunroom - concrete unfinished floor. It’s like putting windows around a side porch. Anyway - lush garden they have!! They have lemon trees and those Aussie limes. Beautiful! And bearing fruit. One is getting so big they’re going to have to do something with it - prune or move somewhere else. And shelving covered with veggies in pots and wooden beds. Maybe you could do that at your place? Good luck with the animals!
I too live in Oregon so this is great for me :) wish I would have found it before I repotted my lemon tree. The people at the nursery was not helpful! But it’s still blooming and starting to grow fruit which makes me happy.
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I love the way you explain for an amateur like me. Good work thank you!!
I'm in zone 9, central FL, so the climate it perfect for citrus trees, thanks for all the helpful information Laura!
So jealous. If I lived in FL, I'd have a whole grove!
@@DianeCee0 Yes, that is the goal Diane! However, the downside is not many of my favorite plants can grow here and I'm not into the tropical style of garden, go figure, lol!
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I got addicted to your channel! Thanks for great tips.
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Thanks for this! I am just about to move from Southern California to East Tennessee and I've been trying to research how to still grow a few citrus trees out there. This was the perfect tutorial to clear up my confused mind.
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Love your videos. Here goes nothing. Just picked up a Meyer lemon tree. A house warming gift. I’m new to the Bay Area so the climate is new to me. It’s been extremely dry here. I think it has rained a handful of times within a year. However, I do get fog and more wind than I expected. The plan is to have it in a pot until my landscaping is completed. Once done I will plant it in the ground. It will be at least a year wait. I have almost everything I need and hopefully I won’t kill it beforehand.
Would love to see what your lemon tree looks like now!! Great video. Thank you.
Great info! Thank you . I rescued a very sad lookingMeyer Lemon from box store. I repotted it and it took off and more than doubled in size thru the summer. Now to nurse it thru winter.
Who else thinks that Laura should make a series of cooking videos as an addition to her gardening channel
where she would use all her fresh produce to make delicious food?!😋
🌱It would be great to see how Laura uses her fresh fruits and vegetables in her kitchen!🌱
🍋Your lemon tree is so beautiful, I wish I had one!🍋
🍋🍓🍏🍎🥕🥒I love your videos!🌿🍃💐🌷🌸🌺
Thank you so much
I'm so addicted to this channel!
I didn't get a video yesterday and my day just wasn't right! 😂
I don't really desire to have a citrus tree, at all, but I watched from start to finish to learn more about it because you just never know when the mood might strike to plant one! Haha!
Thanks again and I missed you yesterday! ❤😊
God's best to you, Aaron and Benjamin!
YES! I felt selfish expecting a video 😂
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I know what you mean. I was telling myself that Laura and Aaron have other things to do besides videos. Then, I prayed for them because I got concerned.
I'm glad they are okay and that they were back today. 💜😊🙏
Marian Kay, if you plant one (potted citrus)) you will not regret it! If you happen to get fruit you can give it away🍋🍋🍋(i recommend lemon; Meyer or Dwarf Eureka, but i guess it depends on your climate etc-- they require plenty of sun/heat) The citrus blossom fragrance is divine! If you enjoy morning coffee in the sunshine on your deck or patio, and the potted lemon is blooming nearby, you will not want to move 😄. If you don't sit outdoors in the morning, having the potted lemon near an open window is second best.
I know what you mean though, about watching the Garden Answer videos. They've got ten times the space as me (at least!) but watching her landscaping decisions and planting ideas can be mesmerizing. Hence no planting chores getting done at MY house!
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Comprehensive, highly educational and to the point. Brilliant. Thanks
I needed this last Mother's Day. I got an orange tree from my son. I killed it within 3 months. I did everything the tag said, but it died anyway. He went back to giving me hanging baskets. lol Very nice tutorial, full of information. See you in the next one! Oh, would love an update on this once it starts baring fruit.
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Super big 👍! Hi new friend, great informational video! I have a citrus 🍊 tree that I started from a seed 15 years ago but it only flowered once and no fruit! Maybe you have some advice to encourage flowering??? Hope you have a great rest of the week! Take care, happy planting and God bless! Animal Papa and Junior! 😎❤️👍🙏
Thank you so much for this video! I have a 10 yr old blood orange & Meyer lemon in 20” pots and was curious as to whether or not I needed to put them in bigger pots. They seem happy and have produced well, so i didn’t really want to upset them. You’ve validated my choice to leave them alone and I’m appreciative for all the great info you gave today because I have 3 more oranges now to put in pots. 💚🍊🍋
Ah great trees and success you have. Pass it on to others.
Very educational I like your video
Thank you very much for such a detailed video, in this time of quarantine I've gotten into gardening and citrus trees are my number one choice. This helps me a looooooooooooot
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Such a helpful video! Clear instructions for newbies like me.
Perfect timing as usual! I have a Meyer lemon and Key lime tree both in the same pot (FL zone 8b)...the Meyer is loaded with fruit but the key lime is struggling...it blooms then fruits but they fall off after several weeks. I’m thinking I should separate them into separate pots before I lose the key lime altogether. Super informative and inspirational as always! Thanks for all you do!! 💚🍋
Thank you for all your tips!
I just bought a Meiwa kumquat and wasn’t sure what kind of pot, but your tips helped me tremendously… thanks!
I'm in central Texas. I double pot.
Take a HUGE pot, place another inside. Put felt or dirt between the pots.
They grow very well in our dry, hot summers. And stay warmer in winter.
I'd recommend wearing rubber or nitrile gloves when working in soil. There's things in soil you really don't want in/on your skin
What do you use for the soil mix because double potting plastic pots might hold on to excess moisture?
Thanks😀
Great tips. You make gardening look effortless.
That was amazingly helpful for me thank you ever so much. I'm in Canada and I'm really appreciating all of your canter. I think you're wonderful.
I just planted 2 lime trees and 2 lemon trees tonight. I’m so excited!
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Its so cool 👍❤️🍋🌿🌳
Beautiful I love citrus in terracotta pots one of my favorite things! 🌱
Me too. There is something special about that.
@@gioknows Not really! Clay pots forms Molds! They break and Crack easily too.
@@captainamericaamerica8090 My neighbor grew orchids in his greenhouse and only ever used clay pots and they were amazing.
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@@captainamericaamerica8090 yeah but you have to wash them before you soak them and you need to be careful with them lol
Merry Christmas to you, Aaron, Benjamin and Samantha Grace. Have a great Christmas.
Great tips Laura! 😃💚 We have a couple of citrus trees including a Lisbon tree. Hope to get a Meyers tree soon Have a lovely day! 😃💐💚💚💚💚💚💚
You are the BEST!
Thanks you for this video very helpful. I have a Meyer lemon tree also. I learned a lot more on the care. Watch your videos all the time. Love 💐 like you and plants. I have to stop myself from going anywhere that has plants, because I end up bringing home more plants.
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Excellent info, thanks. Love your videos
Thank you so much for this video! I can grow most plants well but I manage to kill off citrus. Now I have a little bit better of an idea of how to take care of them. I might expand and add a lime and orange tree next year 😁
Awesome video. Very helpful for me. Thank you so much.
Yes!!!! You guys are in tune with our, "the viewers" needs!
Thank you! Great information. My Meyer lemon tree is behaving as you described, so now I know what to do!
And... I am going to pot my next citrus trees!!
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Fantastic video! I have a handful of lemon seeds germinating right now. I’ll have to come back to this in a few years.
Thanks! I have 2 lemon trees in pots i grew from seed here in s. Michigan that go in and out. Last year a tree frog came in with them so no bug problems
How are they going?
Awesome information. I've learned so much. Thank you 😊
This is super helpful! I want to buy a lemon tree for my apartment to keep in the balcony but I was wondering about pruning, mites, and sufficient sun exposure. This clarified a lot.
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I love your videos! Packed with easy-to-understand information and properly sequenced, get to the point quickly without waffling, everything! Well done. I always enjoy them.
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Exactly what i needed. Thank you Laura and Aaron!
Just bought a meyer lemon tree standard and was very pleased with this video!
Thanks so much Laura, I’ve been wanting to plant a Myers Lemon in a pot or in the ground and that was a lot of good information.
Thank you for sharing. Our Meyer lemon was delivered today. Will follow your instructions.
Love this channel. I stumbled upon it one night recently and ow I’m getting into gardening and have already bought a greenhouse 😂
Such an addictive hobby!
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Coffee with Laura and citrus tree information how wonderful! This is another item that I think would be fun to grow at our center so will be looking into how had where we can do this. Thank you so much Laura!!!!
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Thank you so much for this video! I’ve been trying to grow a lemon and lime inside for a year and they have produced. I’m struggling with pruning them so that they form into a tree shape. Please oh please do a video on pruning citrus!!!! 🙏
According to my books, citrus don't really like being pruned. The books say only to remove the essential 3Ds (dead, diseased & dying branches) & any branch that starts to grow below the graft. Shame I didn't read before I cut. lol.
How is your tree doing now? Any advice after a year has gone by?
Excellent video.
Hey, I love your living room in the background! Great style!
I think it's an indoor patio, with patio furniture. Patio furniture has come a long way with the look of "expensive".
I followed your instructions & was about to start my own TH-cam channel ! Thank u!
Aaron-We love your graphics
I’m growing Cumquats. It’s Winter’s end late August in Oz. Repotted from plastic-2-terra cotta on saucer. Mixed in a little Citrus slow release bead fertiliser .. maybe not enough so will sprinkle more 2morro with follow up watering. Thx 4 tips on transitioning .. was wondering about that. I guess “follow the (sun-) light” is the mantra🌞. I’m gonna feature the orange Cumquats🍊, yellow Lemon🍋 & pink Frangipani🌸 eventually out front the cottage .. am just over the dunes 2 the beach .. The Beach Boys wafting thru the house .. that’s the idea @ least🤞🤞🤞
Thank you! Very helpful! I have to move my lemon tree in full sun. Great info 👍 Laura and great video Aaron 👍🤗😘💜🥀
Thanks for the VERY informative and helpful video. I'm all excited! Going shopping today for lemon trees!
Very informative! Do you suggest pruning immediately after transferring a new plant to a larger pit?
I love using espoma organic potting soil and espoma citrus tone
Its like you could read my mind!!! I needed this video Laura, thank you so much!1
Same!
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I just bought a Eureka lemon tree & Mexican key lime tree, this is so helpful thank you so much!! 💛🍋
I would love to see updates on the trees and if they are bearing fruit or not. I feel like I’ve seen you plant fruit trees or bushes but never got a good update of having success or not with them.
I don't think she will. When I used just potting mix a lot of my citrus plants get stunned and die.. the potting soil retains too much water. I have a meyer lemon doing very, very well. It soil composition is mainly bark, mulch, compost and some perlite, vermiculite and sand
Me as well. Is anybody actually getting fruit from their indoor lime or avocado trees?
@@CaptainKurtAnnapolis mine are young but I'd say no because I don't get enough light indoors or outdoors because of the way the yard is. Otherwise, I think I would have much better plants in general. I get sun usually between 7am-2pm and not all of it is strong direct light. The rest is shaded and it's simply not enough full strength light to grow as much as I want and then indoors is a nightmare. So...fruit not happening soon for me.
Kurt Greening--
I just read something today, about Avocados being self pollinating, but that the window when the flower is open, is only for a couple hours per day for only three or four days! I am going to start another one from a pit, hopefully they can do what nature wants without intervention from me. Oh, they also said pot-grown trees won't fruit. 😯 However I refuse to believe that, and I'm going to try anyway!! There's lots of info online, and I'm sure there must be a "Growing Avocados in Pots" video on YT.
She has an update video
Thank you for the video