I so appreciate the fact that you consider what your audience might have questions about and then just ask those questions during the video to make sure everybody gets the most out of your content. Your videos are always so thorough! Big big fan, thanks!
I had a neglected citrus tree in a pot from Home Depot, it got knocked over every day for a week from high wind, it rotted a little, died for a while... I went outside yesterday and it has green leaves and flowers.
I love plants 🥺 they're such little troopers. People will ask why I have a dead plant and I'm like no! She is fine, just watch. There's many reasons a plant could be losing foliage or look like its dying.
As a horticulture student who is struggling with chemistry, your videos and podcast helps me to keep my eyes on the prize and to keep going. Thank you for all your work! 🙏👍
30 minutes went by so fast, no clue why you were worried about the video being too long Kevin! Lots of great information that I'll try to use with my mighty IKEA citrus! Lol.
I just wanted you to know even after a year this video is helping so many! I finally got around to purchasing a (very late 😬) Mother’s Day variegated pink lemon. 30. Gallon. Pot. Your tips about cutting the pot and “fluffing” the roots really came in handy. Mine also had very healthy roots! I’ve got blisters from digging a 48” hole 16” deep but I really needed all the tips. Too many to point out. This is just excellent and I feel I won’t have wasted my money on this one. Thank you again!
Good video. I'll keep an eye out for sucker growth from the root stock. I've been having good luck with using an oversized pot when planting. I keep my eyes open for oversized pots at garage sales and garden shops, double the volume of the tree's pot. I cut the bottom out, leaving a 6 to 8" tall "ring". This allows me to put an inch into the soil, plant above soil level, plus room for mulch. As needed, I water and fertilze outside the pot. In a few years the sun will break down the plastic so that can be a good time to cut and remove the ring, leaving the tree above the surrounding soil.
My mind is going 100 miles/hr thinking what fruit tree to add to our lonesome (2 year old) Fuji apples. Thought about citrus fruit tree but may have to pot it, we're in Zone 7A/7B. You can tell Cameron is as passionate as you are in what you do! Great video!
Something I learned from my mom when planting trees, in addition to not fertalizeing the plant for the first season, and not watering it right at the base, is to cut a square hole. Since the roots can be kind of used to just going in a circle, if you cut a square hole it will run into a flat surface instead of just continually bend around. This supposedly can help to train the roots out. I don't know how much this actually is the case, but it always made sense to me and ever since, I've always done square holes for planting trees. But very similar to breaking up the sides. Never had issues with getting the trees to grow well.
@@Louisianapermaculture but the tree is in the pot with already formed root system, why on earth would anyone start disturbing the roots. Does not make any sense to me
One tool I found useful in hard California soil (for when your shovel doesn't go any further down a hole) is a Soil Ripper. Once you hit that hard layer, you can really tear it into clumps with that ripper and dig for a few more inches afterwards.
Great stuff! More thorough content is great for those who live on the other side of the world! Gives us more understanding of how to plant in our conditions! 🥰
We inherited an awesome lemon tree. Someone told us it is a Meyer lemon, but it is different than other Meyer lemons: thinner peel, sweeter juice, fruit stays on the tree for nine months. Inheriting trees is wonderful, and sometimes irreplaceable. We also inherited a navel orange that got sickly and died so we cut it down... Then it rose from the dead and now it is producing oranges again. Plants vs Zombies?
I planted all my trees either while raining or immediately after rain. It was a messy job but I enjoyed it and all of them took root and look healthy. I'm struggling with a chestnut tree... but I'm hopeful :) - it's my "last" tree to get going :D - This video is filled with so much positive energy, I feel like going out in the night and planting something :)
thanks as always! hope all your plants are loving the rain and spring around the corner. stay safe out there. could you do a series on growing flowers? or a section of your garden for California natives?
Thank you for the very informative video. I tend to fill the hole with water first & allow the water to drain before putting the plant in. This trains the plant roots to grow downwards & be more resilient to droughts. It's usually the top 2 cm of the soil that dries up. The soil will also absorb water better if the ground is already moist.
One thing i do with my dense clayey soil is dig a little deeper and put rocks in the bottom, then some sand, then put my root ball in it. Some plants that are even more prone to drowning i plant them higher and add more rocks. This helps a lot actually.
I love your videos. You ask a ton of questions id never even think to ask, and its so awesome that your guests can keep up with all the answers! Im excited to start my garden, i feel like i might know what im doing.
To dig deep in hard clay you need something called a digging bar. It is a 5-7 ft bar of solid metal with flat chisel blade at one end and a round flat disc on the other. Let the weight of the bar drive it into the ground, rock it back and forth, and they clear with a shovel or post hole digger. Does wonders on Virginia red clay.
Wow! Your spade cut through your soil like butter, so jealous 😳. Even after rain I still need to use a pickaxe to dig holes for my trees. One thing to watch out for when planting trees, make sure the root flare is just at ground level. The root flare is where the tree trunk starts to spread out where the top large roots are. A lot of nurseries plant trees too deep in the nursery pots and then the gardener plants them to the same depth. This can slowly kill the tree. I bought my first citrus from a reputable citrus nursery and had them plant it for me. Every year it kept deteriorating and I thought it was watering issues. Finally someone in my gardening group told me it was planted too deep. When I dug down to find the root flare it was over 8 inches down.
I do a very airy well draining potting mix of 30% peat moss, 30% pumice or gravel, 30% perlite, and 10% coarse sand and a thick layer of compost on top spaced from trunk with crushed leaves on top of that. I water daily and advocados and citrus bright green growing well healthy. No compost or wood chips down in soil as this promotes root rot, only on the top.
I live in warm climate like yours - south of France on the shore, but because i ran out of place in my garden i had to plant orange tree in a wooden container. It is doing all right, gave me 10 fruits the first year on a tiny tree like yours, survived very hot summer without me ( i have irrigation in my garden). So came here to check whether i did everything right
Hi Kevin, this was great timing for me as I planted my first 4 fruit trees on Saturday. I’ve also been over and subscribed to the Busy Gardener. Thanks for all your tips, as always 😊
Thanks for some great information. I want to do cirtus in pots (Zone 7B), but had no idea of proper cultivation. The video wasn't too long... just long enough to provide all the needed content! 😎
Ahhh I always learn so much from your videos! So much more knowledge on citrus trees now... I feel more confident to plant my lemon tree in the ground now. Thank you so much!
Oh boy, Kevin! I love to watch folks in the warmer climates plant citrus outside 😁 My little meyer lemons are on the sun porch for the winter here in the Northeast. Will enjoy watching yours grow...good luck 👍☘️
Good evening.Theres a way to know wich pot of citrus tree to choose when you go to the nursery ?How to know wich one will be health and give you more fruits? Thank you.
You asked Cam all the questions I had! Easy to understand all the steps to plant & care for a citrus. One question - do I trim branches when I plant tree? Keep a leader? Thanks for all the great info.
I really am interested in the Australian desert Lime. It can handle salinity, drought, and crazy heat and they can get over 100 ft tall. I guess they can't cultivate them en masse yet but it would be a cool hybrid tree!
You are a huge inspiration for my channel! I just picked up a Plant Daddy shirt, I am really looking forward to wearing it in the garden. Cheers, Kevin!
In CA I've found clay soil amended with mulch produces the best fruit for years. I have a dwarf orange it is a navel grafted to a Valencia that is over 30 years old and gives two crops a year.
This is such good info, im going to school for landscape and turfgrass management and all the things he said are true, learning alot of this as we speak
thank you so much! your the person that motivated me to continue gardening and you gave me so much info that helped me out through my gardening experience, I cant thank you enough!!
Hey there! I’m in Florida 9A. How would we keep or make it sweet? Fertilizer? Amend the soil? Is it something we’ll know beforehand while shopping? Or lastly, it is what it is? Fertilizer, when, what. I’m sorry if you answered in the video and I missed it. I was taking notes because citrus trees are on my 1st to do list for planting this year. This video is so timely for me and very much appreciated. Thank you, Robin
Hi Robin! The sweetness of your orange will be based on the kind that you grow, and the greatest thing you can do to influence flavor and sweetness is to plant it in sun, and pick it when ripe! Your orange will never taste like a lemon :) Congrats on getting started!
Man, I'm so jealous of your weather right now. We have about 2+ Feet of snow on the ground right now and I have the itch to grow.... I miss my fresh garden. I don't have equipment enough for indoor growing. I probably should move down to zones like 7-8 cause I can't stand absolute heat, and I can't stand absolute cold either. I'm currently only in zone 5, but its still super cold (It hit the negatives today. I think it might have been -10F [-23C] )
I let my lemon tree grow super tall and out of control (over my roof!), and before February there were blooms 🤦🏼♀️ next season I’m going to cut it back to a manageable height. I grew it from seed and it was near 5 years before I saw a single fruit, so I brushed it off that it might just be a lovely shade tree... my mistake!
I saw this outdoor survival hack that I thought would be a good idea for gardens too... They took seran wrap and wrapped it around two trees (or wooden stakes) and made a wall to block the wind/ make a kind of greenhouse/shelter. I thought it was pretty ingenious
I don’t have a yard to plant mine in so I can’t do this but it does seem like it would make sense to plant it in a hole of native soil without any additional amendments, but I think if you fertilized it in a circle around it it would give the Root some thing to reach towards and then not end up fertilizing it for a couple months anyway don’t you think? Just like a ring of compost or worm tea to give your tree GOALS 🙌🏻
Great, informative vid! I actually enjoy these longer videos, especially when they’re packed with lots of great step by step instructions. I can’t grow citrus here, but I can grow other fruit trees. I saw the other day that Master Gardeners at my local extension office are selling peach trees. I don’t have the space now, but someday.
With that bad looking more established citrus I would recommend cutting down most of it and grafting on a variety you want, and it will grow real well because of how established that root system is
I live in urban south east London, England. I've lived in my area for over 20 years and this morning while walking past the block of flats at the end of my road I noticed that outside one of the flats was a lemon shrub with lemons, I was shocked, there were about 10 lemons and they were interestingly mainly on the side closest to the brick wall.
North of Florida and you can still put Satsumas and Sugar Belles in the ground. Arguably the best varieties can handle cold snaps into the upper teens.
I always love to cover the soil from no matter I planted with a thin layer of coffeeground-ash mix, not more than half a centimeter. It ads quite some nutrients like calcium and potassium, balances out ph and filters rainwater from bad chemicals
I grew up with a grapefruit-lemon tree hybrid. The strangest thing happened to it. The first harvest of fruit we got were the size of grapefruits and the flesh was the flavor of a lemon, but we had an unusually harsh winter after that harvest and the tree died; however it grew back the next season with lemon sized grapefruits for the remainder of it's life. Addendum: Bro learn to peel an orange. if you leave the inner skin intact all that juice running onto the ground will end up in your mouth.
I shrub all my citrus 🧡💛💚 My home was built on an old creek bed in northern Calif. and I feed them twice a year. My 🍋 bush is over 25 years old and I get over 100 huge 🍋a year for the last 15 years.
In my experience, there's less risk for root damage if you ensure that it's nice and straight as you are tamping/backfilling. If you wait until the end and it's tamped in all the way around, then push the tree by the trunk, it could snap some roots at the base of the trunk. I think your citrus is fine. Just wanted to add a friendly comment to help others. :) Can't wait for warmer weather! Looking forward to gardening soon.
Great job, you two...a wealth of information you've just shared. I'm trying to figure out why my potted lime tree that was giving out tons of limes for years is now dying after the pot broke and planted it in ground. It dropped 95% of my tiny limes and tons of leaves. I think it was planted too low in our adobe dirt. Thanks again;)
I'm a big fan of Dr. Earth Organic Root-Zone Fertilizer when I need to focus on root health and growth. It also has beneficial bacteria and fungi to help the plant's health and ability to absorb nutrients. I've never noticed any top-heavy growth when using it...until I have it normal feed to boost the growth a bit. I also like KLN from Dyna-Gro for watering transplants and cuttings.
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Went a bit long on this one, but we wanted to give you AS MUCH info as possible so your citrus is off to a good start!
Kevin can I grow any citrus in zone 7
now I ask. Is lack of sunshine a big deal in San Diego?
Do you buy seed according to the area of the world your in, if can't buy a seedling?
i love the longer form vids 👌 12-25min is a solid time frame for my preference, ik everybody is different tho
Not without bringing inside or adapting your planting area
I so appreciate the fact that you consider what your audience might have questions about and then just ask those questions during the video to make sure everybody gets the most out of your content. Your videos are always so thorough! Big big fan, thanks!
I had a neglected citrus tree in a pot from Home Depot, it got knocked over every day for a week from high wind, it rotted a little, died for a while... I went outside yesterday and it has green leaves and flowers.
I love it! Gonna plant it?
@@TheBusyGardener oh absolutely! ☺️ She’s got a great backstory lol
I love plants 🥺 they're such little troopers. People will ask why I have a dead plant and I'm like no! She is fine, just watch. There's many reasons a plant could be losing foliage or look like its dying.
@@nikahatt poor abused tree. How is that doing now?
Women ☕
As a horticulture student who is struggling with chemistry, your videos and podcast helps me to keep my eyes on the prize and to keep going. Thank you for all your work! 🙏👍
30 minutes went by so fast, no clue why you were worried about the video being too long Kevin! Lots of great information that I'll try to use with my mighty IKEA citrus! Lol.
Kevin asks the BEST questions. This was like taking a master class in planting. The greatest channel.
This is great! Helping my mom with her garden and she wants a lemon tree so bad. But she’s in zone 7. Glad they can go into containers!
I just wanted you to know even after a year this video is helping so many! I finally got around to purchasing a (very late 😬) Mother’s Day variegated pink lemon. 30. Gallon. Pot. Your tips about cutting the pot and “fluffing” the roots really came in handy. Mine also had very healthy roots! I’ve got blisters from digging a 48” hole 16” deep but I really needed all the tips. Too many to point out. This is just excellent and I feel I won’t have wasted my money on this one. Thank you again!
You always ask great, insightful questions to your guests. Really helps cover all the different scenarios your viewers might be in.
I appreciate that! I try to "be the subscriber" when I'm interviewing a guest :)
@@epicgardening That style really works well! I also love your homestead channel, it's so exciting to see the developments.
Good video. I'll keep an eye out for sucker growth from the root stock. I've been having good luck with using an oversized pot when planting. I keep my eyes open for oversized pots at garage sales and garden shops, double the volume of the tree's pot. I cut the bottom out, leaving a 6 to 8" tall "ring". This allows me to put an inch into the soil, plant above soil level, plus room for mulch. As needed, I water and fertilze outside the pot. In a few years the sun will break down the plastic so that can be a good time to cut and remove the ring, leaving the tree above the surrounding soil.
My mind is going 100 miles/hr thinking what fruit tree to add to our lonesome (2 year old) Fuji apples. Thought about citrus fruit tree but may have to pot it, we're in Zone 7A/7B. You can tell Cameron is as passionate as you are in what you do! Great video!
Something I learned from my mom when planting trees, in addition to not fertalizeing the plant for the first season, and not watering it right at the base, is to cut a square hole. Since the roots can be kind of used to just going in a circle, if you cut a square hole it will run into a flat surface instead of just continually bend around. This supposedly can help to train the roots out. I don't know how much this actually is the case, but it always made sense to me and ever since, I've always done square holes for planting trees. But very similar to breaking up the sides. Never had issues with getting the trees to grow well.
I personally dig an upside down bowl shape. Then i drape the roots over the mound in the center and cover each root with dirt Individually
@@Louisianapermaculture Works well for me too .
Great Advice Thanks for Sharing 🍋🍊💟🙏💟🍊🍋
@@Louisianapermaculture but the tree is in the pot with already formed root system, why on earth would anyone start disturbing the roots. Does not make any sense to me
I just bought a home with half an acre in north county San Diego and your videos are helping me so much! Thank you!
I always add rooting hormoon powder before i plant or re-pot any plant into the planting hole to stimulate root growth which works wonders for me.
I just bought some growth hormone! I have a purple passion and having trouble propagating so I hope it helps
One tool I found useful in hard California soil (for when your shovel doesn't go any further down a hole) is a Soil Ripper. Once you hit that hard layer, you can really tear it into clumps with that ripper and dig for a few more inches afterwards.
I'll look it up!
Great stuff! More thorough content is great for those who live on the other side of the world! Gives us more understanding of how to plant in our conditions! 🥰
I’m excited for this video...we inherited citrus trees on our property and I don’t have a clue on how to maintain them 🤦🏻♀️😂
Lucky you!
We inherited an awesome lemon tree. Someone told us it is a Meyer lemon, but it is different than other Meyer lemons: thinner peel, sweeter juice, fruit stays on the tree for nine months. Inheriting trees is wonderful, and sometimes irreplaceable. We also inherited a navel orange that got sickly and died so we cut it down... Then it rose from the dead and now it is producing oranges again. Plants vs Zombies?
Great video Kevin. You guys covered so many important considerations. This video will help lots of people!
First tree and it's a solid producer. That's the way to start an epic orchard.
Good tips especially explaining softening the sides of hole where the shovel compacted it to avoid root bound. 🌱 Thanks Kevin!
If you live in zones 4-7 check out hardy orange (poncirus trifoliata). It's hardy down to -10F. Tastes like lemons crossed with grapefruit.
I planted all my trees either while raining or immediately after rain. It was a messy job but I enjoyed it and all of them took root and look healthy. I'm struggling with a chestnut tree... but I'm hopeful :) - it's my "last" tree to get going :D - This video is filled with so much positive energy, I feel like going out in the night and planting something :)
thanks as always! hope all your plants are loving the rain and spring around the corner. stay safe out there. could you do a series on growing flowers? or a section of your garden for California natives?
This is exactly what I needed!! I’ve been wanting to plant lemons for sooo long!
You've got this!
Same
Having a lemon tree is magical.
8:00 Geeking out about worms ~~~~~ I feel your joy!
Lol I was about to comment the same thing, gardeners are probably one of the only people on earth who love earth worms 😂🖤
broooo i have a HUGE aloe vera plant and its filled with earthworms and ita the best thing ever im so proud of it😭
Thank you for the very informative video.
I tend to fill the hole with water first & allow the water to drain before putting the plant in. This trains the plant roots to grow downwards & be more resilient to droughts.
It's usually the top 2 cm of the soil that dries up. The soil will also absorb water better if the ground is already moist.
One thing i do with my dense clayey soil is dig a little deeper and put rocks in the bottom, then some sand, then put my root ball in it. Some plants that are even more prone to drowning i plant them higher and add more rocks. This helps a lot actually.
I love your videos. You ask a ton of questions id never even think to ask, and its so awesome that your guests can keep up with all the answers! Im excited to start my garden, i feel like i might know what im doing.
To dig deep in hard clay you need something called a digging bar. It is a 5-7 ft bar of solid metal with flat chisel blade at one end and a round flat disc on the other. Let the weight of the bar drive it into the ground, rock it back and forth, and they clear with a shovel or post hole digger. Does wonders on Virginia red clay.
This is the best video I’ve seen and I’ve seen thousands.
My momma has an orange tree and it's like 5 years old.. No fruit but it's always been green. So thanks for this video. I'll try to help it.
Just planted two days ago, good to know I didn't do a bad job 😅👍
Wow! Your spade cut through your soil like butter, so jealous 😳. Even after rain I still need to use a pickaxe to dig holes for my trees. One thing to watch out for when planting trees, make sure the root flare is just at ground level. The root flare is where the tree trunk starts to spread out where the top large roots are. A lot of nurseries plant trees too deep in the nursery pots and then the gardener plants them to the same depth. This can slowly kill the tree. I bought my first citrus from a reputable citrus nursery and had them plant it for me. Every year it kept deteriorating and I thought it was watering issues. Finally someone in my gardening group told me it was planted too deep. When I dug down to find the root flare it was over 8 inches down.
I'm in Disney World right now so I can't really watch it yet, but I just had to say that I'm SO freaking excited for this video!!!🥳🥳🥳
I do a very airy well draining potting mix of 30% peat moss, 30% pumice or gravel, 30% perlite, and 10% coarse sand and a thick layer of compost on top spaced from trunk with crushed leaves on top of that. I water daily and advocados and citrus bright green growing well healthy. No compost or wood chips down in soil as this promotes root rot, only on the top.
It's been a while, since you posted from start to finish videos like this one
Dude, we’ve gotten 4 trees from fast growing trees at your recommendation. Couldn’t be happier with ‘em. Love your content!
I’m a new gardener and your level of detail is so helpful, thank you!!
I live in warm climate like yours - south of France on the shore, but because i ran out of place in my garden i had to plant orange tree in a wooden container. It is doing all right, gave me 10 fruits the first year on a tiny tree like yours, survived very hot summer without me ( i have irrigation in my garden). So came here to check whether i did everything right
Hi Kevin, this was great timing for me as I planted my first 4 fruit trees on Saturday. I’ve also been over and subscribed to the Busy Gardener. Thanks for all your tips, as always 😊
By far one of the best videos I've seen. So informative. Covered every topic. Thank you!
Fig tree video please!! ❤️
I have one up!
Thanks for some great information. I want to do cirtus in pots (Zone 7B), but had no idea of proper cultivation. The video wasn't too long... just long enough to provide all the needed content! 😎
This was SO helpful, thanks! I just purchased our third citrus, an Owari Mandarin, yesterday, so at least I'm going to plant it right this time!
Good to see you two together. A lot of wisdom makes a great video!
Ahhh I always learn so much from your videos! So much more knowledge on citrus trees now... I feel more confident to plant my lemon tree in the ground now. Thank you so much!
Oh boy, Kevin! I love to watch folks in the warmer climates plant citrus outside 😁 My little meyer lemons are on the sun porch for the winter here in the Northeast. Will enjoy watching yours grow...good luck 👍☘️
The most informative video on TH-cam! The closest plant I grew that looks like a tree, a cactus. I'm ready to grow a real tree after watching this!
Wow! Thank you for such a clear and comprehensive guide to planting citrus trees!
Good evening.Theres a way to know wich pot of citrus tree to choose when you go to the nursery ?How to know wich one will be health and give you more fruits?
Thank you.
I wish I could grow citrus trees in my Urban Garden! I might get a lemon tree just to try some of your tips 👊🏼
Cant hurt to shop around! I was pleasantly surprised at how many options I had in zone 9 for dwarf trees and bushes
You asked Cam all the questions I had! Easy to understand all the steps to plant & care for a citrus. One question - do I trim branches when I plant tree? Keep a leader? Thanks for all the great info.
I really am interested in the Australian desert Lime. It can handle salinity, drought, and crazy heat and they can get over 100 ft tall. I guess they can't cultivate them en masse yet but it would be a cool hybrid tree!
You are a huge inspiration for my channel! I just picked up a Plant Daddy shirt, I am really looking forward to wearing it in the garden.
Cheers, Kevin!
Appreciate you!
Eagerly watched this video even though I am about 4 years away from planting my first fruit tree.
Two happy guys being happy about worms & citrus trees
Perfect questions throughout. Great video!
i just bought a new home and want a orange tree since my parents home had one this was very informative cant wait to plant mine sometime this month
Can you make a video about how to choose fruit trees? What should I be looking for when choosing plants?
Thanks, I just bought the Lisbon lemon and looking at how to dig the hole for it. The video is very helpful.
Glad it helped, Vladimir! Good luck with your Lisbon
Thanks especially for the no need to mix in compost and supplement
S and the two X wide and one X deep tips. New to me.
I love the presentation, very clear and straightforward. I have learned a lot.
In CA I've found clay soil amended with mulch produces the best fruit for years. I have a dwarf orange it is a navel grafted to a Valencia that is over 30 years old and gives two crops a year.
This is such good info, im going to school for landscape and turfgrass management and all the things he said are true, learning alot of this as we speak
thank you so much! your the person that motivated me to continue gardening and you gave me so much info that helped me out through my gardening experience, I cant thank you enough!!
Hey there! I’m in Florida 9A. How would we keep or make it sweet? Fertilizer? Amend the soil? Is it something we’ll know beforehand while shopping? Or lastly, it is what it is? Fertilizer, when, what. I’m sorry if you answered in the video and I missed it. I was taking notes because citrus trees are on my 1st to do list for planting this year. This video is so timely for me and very much appreciated. Thank you, Robin
Will talk more as they grow!
Hi Robin! The sweetness of your orange will be based on the kind that you grow, and the greatest thing you can do to influence flavor and sweetness is to plant it in sun, and pick it when ripe! Your orange will never taste like a lemon :) Congrats on getting started!
Man, I'm so jealous of your weather right now.
We have about 2+ Feet of snow on the ground right now and I have the itch to grow.... I miss my fresh garden. I don't have equipment enough for indoor growing. I probably should move down to zones like 7-8 cause I can't stand absolute heat, and I can't stand absolute cold either.
I'm currently only in zone 5, but its still super cold (It hit the negatives today. I think it might have been -10F [-23C] )
I let my lemon tree grow super tall and out of control (over my roof!), and before February there were blooms 🤦🏼♀️ next season I’m going to cut it back to a manageable height.
I grew it from seed and it was near 5 years before I saw a single fruit, so I brushed it off that it might just be a lovely shade tree... my mistake!
This was so helpful! Great watering tips at the end. 👍 Please do a video on pruning fruit trees.
I saw this outdoor survival hack that I thought would be a good idea for gardens too...
They took seran wrap and wrapped it around two trees (or wooden stakes) and made a wall to block the wind/ make a kind of greenhouse/shelter.
I thought it was pretty ingenious
That's a GREAT idea!
Should the 4 inches of mulch follow the diameter of the foliage or should it be wider ? Thanks for a great video .
A Good Water Soaking in the Hole Before Planting..Was what I was Taught.. 🍋🍊🍋
I don’t have a yard to plant mine in so I can’t do this but it does seem like it would make sense to plant it in a hole of native soil without any additional amendments, but I think if you fertilized it in a circle around it it would give the Root some thing to reach towards and then not end up fertilizing it for a couple months anyway don’t you think? Just like a ring of compost or worm tea to give your tree GOALS 🙌🏻
Great, informative vid! I actually enjoy these longer videos, especially when they’re packed with lots of great step by step instructions. I can’t grow citrus here, but I can grow other fruit trees. I saw the other day that Master Gardeners at my local extension office are selling peach trees. I don’t have the space now, but someday.
perfect timing this is right when my citrus tree started overgrowing its pot
Gonna plant my first lemon tree in the spring I just bought : D I'm so excited!!!
With that bad looking more established citrus I would recommend cutting down most of it and grafting on a variety you want, and it will grow real well because of how established that root system is
I live in urban south east London, England. I've lived in my area for over 20 years and this morning while walking past the block of flats at the end of my road I noticed that outside one of the flats was a lemon shrub with lemons, I was shocked, there were about 10 lemons and they were interestingly mainly on the side closest to the brick wall.
North of Florida and you can still put Satsumas and Sugar Belles in the ground. Arguably the best varieties can handle cold snaps into the upper teens.
2 of my favorite gardeners. Good video guys. Keep it up
Fabulous collaboration! I enjoy both your channels. I grow citrus in containers.
Sorry I am late to your video but not to be pushy but when are you going to grow or plant a moringa tree?? Man I love moringa trees!!
Just purchased a Dwarf Washington Navel Tree from Aldi here in Australia
Thank you so much! This is great information for a new gardener like me. Greetings from Mexico! ✌🏽
I always love to cover the soil from no matter I planted with a thin layer of coffeeground-ash mix, not more than half a centimeter.
It ads quite some nutrients like calcium and potassium, balances out ph and filters rainwater from bad chemicals
Potassium is a GREAT option to strengthen the establishing phase of a newly planted plant/tree
@@TheBusyGardener yep, i got inspired by wildfires
Yay more videos!
Very thankful for this information. When I buy my first house would love to plant some citrus and mango trees.
I grew up with a grapefruit-lemon tree hybrid. The strangest thing happened to it. The first harvest of fruit we got were the size of grapefruits and the flesh was the flavor of a lemon, but we had an unusually harsh winter after that harvest and the tree died; however it grew back the next season with lemon sized grapefruits for the remainder of it's life.
Addendum: Bro learn to peel an orange. if you leave the inner skin intact all that juice running onto the ground will end up in your mouth.
I shrub all my citrus 🧡💛💚
My home was built on an old creek bed in northern Calif. and I feed them twice a year.
My 🍋 bush is over 25 years old and I get over 100 huge 🍋a year for the last 15 years.
I love it!
That’s cool you got Cameron. I’ve been a big fan of his channel for a while now.
Great video! I live in San Deigo too and I am thinking about growing orange trees in a container!
Came here from my self reliance, was NOT disappointed!😊
You guys are awesome! Thank you so much for all the info, tips & advice
In my experience, there's less risk for root damage if you ensure that it's nice and straight as you are tamping/backfilling. If you wait until the end and it's tamped in all the way around, then push the tree by the trunk, it could snap some roots at the base of the trunk. I think your citrus is fine. Just wanted to add a friendly comment to help others. :) Can't wait for warmer weather! Looking forward to gardening soon.
You're exactly right, Ethan! Keep the rootball intact with as few disturbances as possible
Good to know how to plant citrus, thanks for the tips! Where did you buy your Wash. Navel Orange tree from?
Have a wonderful day my friend! 👍
Same to you
A very welcomed video and learnt some new and useful information to apply to my Meyer Lemon and Kaffir Lime trees in containers. Thank you both
Thank you! Great details! Going out now to plant a Valencia
Great job, you two...a wealth of information you've just shared.
I'm trying to figure out why my potted lime tree that was giving out tons of limes for years is now dying after the pot broke and planted it in ground. It dropped 95% of my tiny limes and tons of leaves.
I think it was planted too low in our adobe dirt.
Thanks again;)
I'm a big fan of Dr. Earth Organic Root-Zone Fertilizer when I need to focus on root health and growth. It also has beneficial bacteria and fungi to help the plant's health and ability to absorb nutrients.
I've never noticed any top-heavy growth when using it...until I have it normal feed to boost the growth a bit.
I also like KLN from Dyna-Gro for watering transplants and cuttings.
Thanks for the EPIC Citrus tree tips, they are very helpful