How to Grow Citrus Trees in Containers (or in the ground) // Complete Growing Guide
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- In this complete growing guide video, I will show you step by step how to grow citrus trees in pots or in the ground, in whatever climate you live in! Growing citrus trees is rewarding, and easy if you follow a few simple rules. In this video I'll cover planting, water, fertilizer, pruning, citrus pests and disease, moving citrus indoors in winter, and more.
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I love Satsuma tangerines. I have 3 of them. They’re dwarf but the trees are always loaded every year. I live in SoCal.🤩💕
That was good info and the way you transplanted the tree in the pot was awesome, so much easier. Thanks for sharing.
I use the same technique for all of my plants and trees transfers.
i started my lemon plant from a seed just for fun and it grew about 5 feet in the house the first year.
I'm thinking of moving it outside for the summer. I live in NJ, so I'll have to move it back in sometime in the fall.
I just purchased the most beautiful glazed Mexican pot yesterday! since I saw it I can't picture anything in it besides a lemon tree!! perfect timing to make sure my new lemon baby is off to its best life!!! thank you!!
Just bought my first Citrus Tree a couple weeks ago. This video is very helpful to me in caring for my tree. Thank you Brian!
I wasn't expecting to get a game changing tip on transplanting from pot to pot today. Huzzah!
Haha I love that “huzzah!”
Thank you
I'm new to gardening
Growing an orange, a lemon tree, and a peach tree in pots
California zone 9
Very helpful
I like your video on how to plant citrus trees. You're very thorough in explaining the process step-by-step. Thank you.
I have an orange tree in a jumbo sized terracotta pot (probably same diameter of a wine barrel but waller), in a climate with probably a good 15-20 freeze-nights over the winter. I have it on rollers on my deck and roll it next to my house to help protect it from freezing (but roll it further out for greater sun exposure.
I noticed you didn’t mention leafminer disease which I’ve been dealing with on my lime and orange trees. I am treating with Spinosad insecticide. Thanks for all the good info planting citrus!
I have the same issue. I spray weekly to protect new growth. How often do you spray with that product?
Enjoyed this video very much. My family bought me a lemon tree pre Mother’s Day gift and I plan on putting it in a pot so your video was very much appreciated.
What a col way to plant in a pot. Nice job. Once again a great video
Another great tutorial 👍🏼 I might never be able to plant these, but I just love learning about different ways to care for and grow plants.
Great way to transplant into a pot! Thanks for sharing ❤❤❤
Perfect timing!! Been wanting to grow oranges, apples, and grape fruit. Thank you
I NEEDED this video! Thank you, Brian.
We have an orange tree in a pot. This is year four I believe. This year it is looking a bit sad, but last year it was FULL! I saved and planted some seeds in a 5 gallon bucket last fall and now have 5 more little trees! I'll be transferring them to pots as well.
We had a COLD winter here in middle GA this last winter. I had to bring ours into the garage. I am hoping to build a greenhouse or at least a high tunnel I can keep heated for plants this year. Especially since I'll have 6 now!
Citrus trees are always grafted. Seedlings WILL try to grow to full size, and they'll be less disease resistant (generally). The root stock selected will provide the size control (dwarf, semi-dwarf, etc.). It also will provide varying measures of disease resistance.
Trifoliate orange (poncirus trifoliata) is a common rootstock variety for oranges. It is reported to make the fruit a little sweeter than some other rootstocks.
You can keep your seedling oranges, but it may be years before you get any fruit, and the trees may be hard to "control".
@@mattheffron391 Thanks for the info. I was honestly surprised that they started to grow at all. I will be keeping them in pots mostly just to see what becomes of them! Hopefully keeping them in the pots will help me to keep them under control.
Wonderful information to have. Very thorough, much appreciated.
Perfect timing 😂. I’m repotting this week. Love your videos.
Great information. Thank you. I'm going to try this.
Always love your video's.
Thank you for all the great info! You really covered it all!!
Thank you for all the great information.
Even though we live now in Corfu, Greece, the idea are so incredibly helpful, thank you! I love your channel..... So much to learn.
I have 5 citrus trees in pots for 1 year now awaiting our move to our newly built home here in autumn this year. Now I'm thinking of keeping some in pots after watching this. We have the true Mediterranean dry garden, and I have only had experience in Oregon and Australia.
So it's experimental at best!
But your channel is really full of great info on everything❤
Fantastic info on growing citrus
Answered all my questions and more. Thank you.
Love this video so informative. Thank you.
Great tips, thanks Brian.
Thanks Brian. Great information! 🌷💚🙃
So much advise in this video, thank you!
I spray my citrus trees with Neem Oil every so often which keeps diseases away. If I see some leaf miners I use Captain Jack’s Deadbug. I recommend large plastic containrers as shown in the video. Large ceramic pots full with soil and tree are very heavy to move around especially if you need to bring them indoors. Apart from citrus I grow an olive tree in a pot very successfully. Same care.
That's why I see them covered in the winter
Very timely video. I have a Meyer Lemon that badly needs to be repotted. I hope to be able to keep it in my greenhouse and protect it in the cold months with row cover. My zone is 7b, but we get several nights on teen temps every winter.
Incredible lesson.
Very good video! Thanks very helpful.
Well, you’re growing on me. That was an excellent video. I’m learning a lot from you. Thank you very much for taking the time. I’ve got two big pots. I’m gonna put a lemon and a lime each one. I have a Washington naval, Valencia Orange, a Ruby Pink Grapefruit, and an Owari Satsuma Mandarin all of those are going in the ground. I wish I had more room. If I did I’d plant me a couple of blood oranges in a tangelo. Maybe later I’ll figure that out.
19:09 Thanks ! I have the most beautiful mandarin orange tree outside watching your instructions ! I one thing everyone forgets to tell you it largely produces every other year. I was worried that one year I got 500 fruits and the next year only about 20 . My outdoor tree is 4yrs old about 15 ft to 20ft high ( not sure) thanks for your help.🍊
Hey Brian, just discovered your channel! This is a perfect video for me as I've just purchased a dwarf yuzu tree. I'm up in northern California and plan to keep it in a container. This video helped me out immensely! Thank you~🤙
Excellent video, thanks for sharing
Great review
That is a cool way to fill the pot with dirt around the plant first then remove the pot.. thanks for the tip..
thank u for sharing u gave us gd advice i didnt know thanks alot again greetings from Malta
Great Gardener! 👍
Thank you for the info
the leaves fell off my lemon tree when I brought it inside in the fall. I thought it died. But some of the leaves are coming back.
Very helpful - thank you. There may be hope for my little citrus tree after all. 8-)
OMG THANK YOU that’s a brilliant idea and method. I knew what you were going to do when you were doing that and I was thinking, man I wish I had thought of that years ago.😂
I never thought about using the pot method to make a perfect hole to place a plant in. 😅😅 I have always used the harder method. Thank you for the suggestion
My brain just exploded by that transplanting. All these years ...🤯
You should see what 17 degrees did to my citrus. I'm northern Florida and this was the worst winter I've ever seen.
Oh no. I bet!
After the record heat plus drought in many places, then record freeze, we all across lost allot of plants, citrus, other hardy vegetables. Was awful
@@teenagardner3623 I've lost figs, a cherry, and most of my citrus. It's an awful time to try to nurture a four year old garden/orchard. Sorry for all of us.
Yes, I’m in east Texas and last winter killed my citrus, avocado and cherry trees. They were 1 1/2 yrs old. So upsetting! The only plants that survived were my garlic that I’d planted Dec 1st. 😏We got down into the teens 16 degrees for a few days and my frost protection just didn’t cut it! 😢
@@Happy2Run4Me What I don't understand is the cherry trees. I'm in the southernmost part of the cherry area. How do I keep losing cherry trees. I've lost three already and am ready to give up on them. Why are they better further north?
ya i live in deep south texas and have a big citrus industry here for juice. we have had many citrus trees. The Birds always lets us know when the Navels and valencias are ripe, and they are usually still green but sweet. especially the navel all the criters love them. my navels are really early like ready around thanksgiving. but the valencias are really late like march, tangerines around Christmas.
#1 Can you address sudden leaf drop like I just experienced on a dwarf Navel when we had two days of 88 plus degrees. #2 Can you address re-potting, when, and how to do it?
Thank you for this!! I've always wanted citrus trees but didn't think they would survive do to Louisiana temps dropping in the winter. I had no idea I could grow them in a large pot. Definitely going to give this a try!!
Love seeing your property come together . . . So beautiful. I’m in Northern California and something loves new growth on my citrus. I’m thinking it’s leaf miners. I have so spray new growth weekly. I’ve got that copper spay I use on the olive trees for spider mites. Your recommendation for citrus and leaf minors?
TheresaP@ Oh Theresa! I feel your pain! My trees would be perfect for a horror movie! All, every single leaf is curled like a drinking straw! I just don't know what to do any more😢😭 They are my nemesis 😬💔
1 haven't been following for very long 2 super glad I found your channel 3 I've been waiting for this video 4 Question can it be any citrus tree or other fruit trees?
Thanks for all your info, very easy to understand and follow along.
Thank you. Most fruit trees are much more cold hardy than citrus. I have a couple vids on other fruit trees
Great information loved you video I have a blood orange tree this is my second year with her I have her planted in a pot and this is the first year she produced flowers I hope I get fruit she is my only citrus tree I want to get more as I become more experienced growing fruit trees that I can grow in pots because I rent.
I also have a question how do blood orange flowers look like when they are growing? I hope what’s going now are flowers .
Well done sir
The pot transfer blew me back!! INSTATNT SUBSCIBE!!!! Thank you soo much!! You just made my life sooooo much easier!!!!!!
Thank you for this, especially your potting method, so much easier! I have two Meyer Lemons, and a Bears Lime in pots here in NC, planted last year. That adjustment time would have been good to know when I brought them outside. They are looking a little stressed. Do I need to do an adjustment period when I bring them in for the winter as well? They looked stressed then too.
I use a hot glue gun to melt holes into plastic pots! No cracking and reinforces the drain holes.
Good video
I’m going to try growing either lemon or orange trees on the side of my house. It gets tropical there in the Summer sunlight and heat all day long!!
So much I have learned from this video! Every morning I found our oranges dropped on ground with half of each one been eaten by something that’s mystery, now I finally realized that rats been eating our oranges 😢
Yup. Been there!
8:17 Damn genius.
I’ve found worm castings to be a great deterrent for white flies.
Around ours, rats seem to love Bougainvilleas. Several of ours got killed because the rats totally chewed around the full circumference of the tree collars. My gardener friend tells me this is because it is sweet and they love the taste of it.
What about citrus leaves curling. Love you show.
Move it to partial shade if possible and give it a good deep watering! It's the hot sun
Great info thanks Brian. Your garden looks amazing. cheers.
Great video! I loved the pot, would you be able to tell me where you got it? Thanks…
I actually went back, thinking I missed it, but what citrus did you actually plant? Thank you!
Can't tell from video, but looks like that tall branch on potted citrus might be a sucker off the root stock.
Yes. They were and were removed completely
I'm going to grow in a grow bag. 🙏🏾
I've lost quite a few citrus trees in pots. 🍋 From your video over and under watering. We get strong winds and loose our blossoms and baby lemons, any tips?? Thanks
This is super helpful video, Brian. I have been looking for options for growing Citrus in container in the English weather (my last one died when I was out on holiday last year and failed to water it just for a week). Do you have any recommendations for some good varieties?
I am so tempted now to grow citrus. I live near Atlanta so it would be another plant I'd have to lug in when it gets cold, but so tempting.
I have always wanted to ask, on your hills/mountains in the background, are those white stones and few trees?
Lemons usually will flower and set fruit throughout most of the year, as opposed to oranges and other citrus, which, as Brian said, typically set fruit over a shorter time.
Love your videos!
FYI Vaseline/petroleum jelly is not good for the tree because it’s not water soluble. But please don’t think of this comment as negative!
You do Wonderful work and I’ve learned so much from you!
I simply learned that from another video and it makes sense.
That's why I put plastic wrap on first
@@NextLevelGardening Hot dawg! I missed That part! My bad! 🤦🏽♀️😂
I have had 5 dwarf oranges in containers (half-wine barrel) outside in zone 9b weather here in Santa Clara County and by stringing C4 christmas light, plus cloud blanket covers and we have survived the winters and temps as low as 26. Still keep my fingers crossed every time the mercury starts to drop below 45 and I have 3 remote thermometer sensors that give me plenty anxiety as I watch the digits drop.
I did the same with semi-dwarf varieties. Do you prefer dwarf over SD?
Thanks for this, I just planted a lime in a pot and the leaves are quite yellow 2 weeks later. I used citrus cactus potting mix, and half the slow release fertilizer amount (because online couldn’t decide y or no to fertilize when planting). I’m considering repotting because I just went up one pot size vs what will be final size, but worried it might be too much trauma. Are your trees staying in those size pots or will they move up?
I think my lime tree is dying of root rot. So annoying but my lemon tree is thriving. I should have started with a smaller pot for the lime tree.
@@Gkrissy make sure, if it’s in a pot, it’s not getting too much water. I have a 2 limes I got recently, the smaller one I planted a few weeks ago is my unhappy one. I may repot as even though I used the faster draining citrus potting mix, and though I had enough holes in the bottom, think it’s holding too much water. Citrus doesn’t like wet feet.
Thank you! I was also hoping to learn about "debudding" on trees in a pot. I have a new tree and it is COVERED with buds. How much fruit can a small tree - or in my case a small bush as the tree is new - support?
I'm not sure if you've done this already or not but can you do a video on planting hydrangea trees please.
I'm watching stuff I won't even plant here. Even in pots, we don't have anywhere warm to move them to in the winter.
There are cold hardy citrus trees, down to 0⁰f, one green world nursery in Oregon has many.
Perlite floats to the surface when a heavy rain occurs eliminating that perlite from in the soil.
Would a smart watering mat work for citrus. Where I would need to place my citrus tree I have no easy access to water
Can you tell me where you found your plastic pot. Love it! I have a hard time finding ones that I like here in San Antonio
If you dig a larger hole than the root ball, you’re essentially creating a bathtub for the tree, and the roots will hit the edges of the hole and stop.
Also, that soil mix in the pot will start to rot in about a year and produce hydrogen sulfide, and increase your chances of root rot and “overwatering”.
Sand, peat moss, perlite, and a little biochar is a much cheaper and sustainable option.
Citrus was grown in Europe for centuries in pure sand. Works great, you just need to fertilize.
I planted 4 seeds from a lemon in a pot. I now have 4 seedlings maybe 7” tall. When should they be transferred to their own pots? Thanks
Brian could you give us pointers on pruning Lilacs? I have a large Lilac bush that has never been touched because I do not no when to cut it back. Thank you in advance!
Really like your video, thank you!
I just bought a Persian Lime, Improved Mayer Lemon and Thornless Key Lime trees from Costco and all three trees are in ONE pot. Should I split them and plant into different pots or plant them into one bigger container. Your expertise is greatly appreciated, thank you. Ken
split them!!
Oh no, the R-word - rats! Some serious trapping is in my near future. I just planted out (larger pots) some Dill, after the last lot got eaten, and they have just munched round 2 of Dill, thankfully not all the plantlets, but two are unlikely to recover. And trying to figure out ways to make things rat and mouse proof.
Thanks Brian! How about the lemon tree. I prune mine at the last house and didn't grow anymore!☹️
Thanks for the excellent videos Brian!
Would appreciate knowing where you found the large plastic container!
A store called At Home
@@NextLevelGardening Thanks for your response!
Thanks for all the great videos! I have a tomato question. Please help!! My indoor tomato seedlings are growing in cups as per your video. Some of the plants have leaf curl and are turning purple on the underside of the leaves. I’d really appreciate some guidance! Thank you
HaniaF@ I think it's nothing to worry. I could be wrong but let's see what Brian says😮❤
QUESTION: I have to move indoors during winter. What to do to prevent insects in pot before moving in or what to use if insects etc develope after moving in??
I saw someone planted at less 3 types of citrus together
If you put a 2 ‘’ deep plate under a pot to collect excess moisture. Would that be more beneficial to the plant, or would that cause root rot?
My lemon is about 5 years old. Just got some key lime recently so the lemon is going into a larger pot and the lime is going into the pot the lemon will be vacating 😂 cheers.
Hey i watched your video on your grow light set up. Can i grow citrus in pots with that light and tent? Thats my plan. But i dont know how many lights i need. Please help
I noticed you mentioned using Cactus Mix for pots... my nursery carries a potting mix that's labeled specifically as a Citrus Tree Mix, would you still recommend the Cactus Mix over this other option? I'm located in San Diego in an zone where 9 & 10 overlap.
Great video! My potted lemon tree developed thorns the second year. Is this normal?
Yes. My 12+ year old lemon has 1 inch long thorns on many branches. (If only they deterred the rats!)
Thank you! I just bought a sanguinelli blood orange and I don't want to kill it like I killed my calamondin last year or my eureka ten years ago 😅 I have a question, how does watering change while indoors? I'm in 8b for now. My cacti collection gets nothing. My begonias under lights get everything. I think Arabian jasmine was in the middle somewhere if anything at all. Advice? 🎉