How to Grow Kaffir / Makrut / Meyer Lemon & Citrus Trees in Containers, Seed to Kitchen!
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- 5 videos in 1! Let's grow a citrus tree in a container. I'll show you how I have grown my kaffir lime tree over the past 9 years. We'll look at growing a tree from seed, grafted trees, how to care for it (like pruning), and some of the problems I have experienced such as scale! Yikes! I'll also show you how I use it in the kitchen. Enjoy!
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Usually, I cannot watch a long video but this is the best and worth watching the whole one. I learn a lot more from one video than other 50 videos. Thank you so much for spending so much time to show every detail.
the best video about Kaffir limes i’ve seen so far! Ours fruited last summer and i kept the seeds. In the winter however we lost it, as we got 5 inches of snow here in Charleston SC. I put about 100 seeds in wet paper towels/ziplock bags and germinated about 50 seeds. Moved to a seedling tray with grow lite and 45 of them are doing great and about 4 inches tall. i guess i’ll be swimming in Kaffirs here in a bit. Will take a while bit am looking forward to this second generation doing well.
Good job!
rufush. how ur kaffir lime trees from the seeds ? : )
a free video with 10 years of knowledge, thanks !
Thank you so much. It's hard to find material for the citrus hystrix and I purhcased one recently needing repotting and care. This was the most helpful video I could find for it by far!
Dear lady thank you!! Its my kaffir lime holy grail! So comprehensive!! Tx a ton and just what I was looking for!! I just bought a small plant and wish me luck🙌🏼
Glad it was helpful!
The Fruitsof the Kaffir Lime tree add a very nice flavour to food. You can try a peanut butter sauce with one or two limes cut in half on blanched vegetable mix like cauliflower, tauge, and baby carrots. It's perfect in summer and with the peanut sauce even children will love the veggies
This video is hilariously comprehensive, all in a nice southern accent
By far, the best tutorial I have seen about Kaffir Limes. They grow well in Zone 9b. Excellent advice about using the lime juice around the house! 💥
Thanks so much!
Awesome video packed full of helpful information. I am really excited to try growing a dwarf Kaffir Lime. Thank you for sharing!
Thanks for stopping by! Happy Gardening!
I never watched any how-to video that's over 10mins long so when I saw yours was almost 30mins I was ready to press fast forward. To my surprise, it's very good and kept me watching to the very end. Thank you for so much good info.
Love your video. I usually don't watch long videos but with your video can't resist because it's so informative
you're so resourceful, and your curry paste looks phenomenal, I can smell it from here!
What a lovely and informative video. I have a mature kaffir lime tree coming in the post, and your advice is well noted and appreciated. I hope I get 100 limes in the near future. So important for Thai curry pastes, and they cost a fortune here from online suppliers! 🌱❤️
Glad it was helpful!
This video is very informative, I like it, not bored at all when watching this video.
You did a great job on this vid! I'd nominate you for a TH-cam award - if they have them! ; ] Now I'm looking forward to your others. I'm in Z5, but can adapt your info to suite my zone. Many years ago, I kept putting off eating a grapefruit. No idea why, but it's skin dried & thinned & grew hard, but it wasn't rotting, so I found myself wondering if it was still edible. Cut it open & it had huge seeds & at least one was sprouting. It looked so vigorous I planted it & it grew & grew in my sunroom - which bumped out on the south side of the house, up on a bit of a hill, with plenty of sun - from sunrise to sunset, with all glass windows on 3 sides.
Its leaves were double - shaped like some you showed, and maybe 4" long. They were a beautiful deep, rich, glossy green. I gave it some food on occasion, but think it was so healthy due to a compost enriched soil added to a standard potting soil blend with pearlite. It had those big thorns too, & I had to keep it pruned to maybe 7' high & 6' wide maybe, to keep it in check. It got scale & mealy bugs occasionally, but I kept a non-detergent in water spray & physically removed anything i could see - like you, using alcohol - but with a q-tip to apply pressure. Of course, in my climate, & living indoors, it never bore fruit.
When I left my BF, I had to give him custody of our pets - a German Shorthair pointer, & 3 cats, & also my grapefruit tree. For years he kept it going, & brought it out on the deck in summer. I have no idea if iit still exists but I've been considering getting a Meyer lemon & now have seen your Kaffer lime tree! Thanks so much!
I love my Meyer lemon tree! So fragrant and delicious.
What horticultural Solutions you use to get rid of those insects? Do you use citric fruits fertilize?
Can you use the Kaffir lime juice in food and drinks?
Wow! I learned a lot!! I only discovered kaffir lime few weeks ago, i am no germinating seeds,i hope they grow ☺️,thank you for this video 😊
So informative. You can't beat first hand experience. Love the usage tips at the end. Thank you so much for sharing. ( Mal's wife Sue )
Beautiful
Awesome. Your video is jam packed with useful info. We skin the zest, then blend the zest in a food processor until it's in powder form.
I like how you are so dedicated to your plants
THANK YOU ♥ for all the great information on growing the trees and using the leaves in cooking. I am learning to cook Thai food. I can't wait to buy a tree for my patio!!
Wonderful! I hope you were able to check out this other video too! th-cam.com/video/5Gts9dTs4aU/w-d-xo.html
Thank you, this is the best video I've seen about kaffir lime plant care.
Wow...You are a Very Productive Person...Thank You...
Excellent video and worth watching. You have some great tips on how to care for Kaffir Lime citrus trees. Thank you!
Glad it was helpful!
Wow am new here. Love your kaffir lime tree. I wish you can sell some of those leaves to me. Haha. But I begin to learn how to grow this. Didn’t know that I need this until I can’t find fresh leaves from the store where I live
If you call a couple of Asian markets in your area, they may lave some.
So informative and well dine. Thank you for taking the time to put these different facets together.
You are so welcome!
Wow I am so impressed and thankful for this video! Your tree is such an inspiration!
You are so welcome!
When you decide to take some leaves for cooking just cut off the outer half of the leaf on the Kaffir Lime, it gives the plant more foliage left which is good for both the plant itself and it's aesthetics
Very informative. its good to see a tree years after you planted it from seed.
I just enjoy your videos so much I can almost smell the kaffir limes through my computer. I have a small lime tree that has yet to produce limes for me.
My citrus trees always seem to respond well to a nice dressing of a complex compost. Have you tried high-end compost?
I am in zone 8b, I think I will try growing a Meyer lemon tree in a container. Your video is so well done and informative. Thank you!
I lived in zone 8b and my neighbor had a Meyer lemon tree planted outdoors in the ground. I also had a neighbor who had a huge red grapefruit tree. It is so nice to have fresh picked citrus. You will love it! I enjoy my Meyer lemon in soda water and the zest in desserts like cookies and cupcakes. YUM!
Rainbow Gardens really planted outside!?! Interesting! I’m zone 8b and just inherited a Meyers lemon tree cause it has scale, assuming soft as it’s sticky.
We’ll see how it goes!
Gonna keep it indoors for the winter at this point.
I totally enjoyed this video. I have a nice sized kaffir lime tree and I've started several cuttings from it. Still no fruit. My Indonesian wife loves using the leaves for cooking her traditional foods. I also have a beautiful mandarin orange tree I grew from seed. Still no fruit. Or flowers. I have an asian pear tree that I grew from seed about eight years ago and I got about a dozen very sweet pears last year. I plant Kemangi seeds every year for her. And a lot of hot peppers for her hot pepper oil. 😁
Thank you for such a detailed video. Very helpful indeed.
Thanks for the video..... I Make delicious fried rice and some others dishes with those kaffir lime leaf
Thanks for such an in-depth informative coverage!
Thank you so much! Glad you enjoyed it.
Thank you, a very informative video. I will also be growing in containers, as I know that I am growing in a totally unsuitable part of the world (Wales, UK). I have an insulated greenhouse and intend adding heating, so the trees should be spared the harshest of the weather - saying that the greenhouse doesn't suffer any damage. You are correct about the thorns; I have a Yuzu and some of the spikes are about 4cm long, and very strong -in fact they would serve well as a security barrier as no one would want to brush past them - I have been caught enough, working with them! Thanks for sharing.
I really enjoyed this video 😃. It is very informative.
I LOVE YOUR VIDEOS. You are so sweet and great at explaining everything and you are in MY ZONE. THANK YOU SO MUCH. I am so excited to grow!
interesting video. btw if anyone has bugs on their citrus i really do recommend using the oil type pesticides which are really safe but they should not be allowed to dry and must be rinsed off after use.
Interesting! Thank you.
Great video, informative well put together. From garden to kitchen and the tips are wonderful thanks
Wow beautiful. I ❤ it
Thank you! 😊
Thank you for this video. Very helpful.
Omg is wonderful video. Thank you so much . I know best way to care and cook with Kaffir Lime now 👏
Thanks for sharing the "good, bad and ugly" of growing lime trees s. I'd love to grow some citrus trees (grafted). 😁
Thank you for upload, very helpful, nice and happy smile voice.
You're welcome 😊
Great video. Thanks!
Wery good advice about lemon trees thanks
Very informative video. Love from India❤️
Thank you for making the video and all the info, love your channel
Thank you so much so informative and thorough. Video and information is beautifully put together.thank you so much.
Thank you!
Best video ever. Thank you. Finally found answers
Excellent presentation. Thank you very much!
Glad you enjoyed it!
Great video with so many details 🙏🙏🙏🙏
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This was a fabulous video! Now I have the bug to grow a tree!! Thanks for sharing!
Thank you! I hope you give it a try. The Meyer lemon trees are nice to grow too with delicious fruit (part lemon / part orange).
Donna Smit
Great video thanks for sharing my friend 👍
Thank you for sharing. I've seen some of your videos and they are very interesting, educational, and entertaining. Looks like you almost have all ingredients/spices plants to cook Indonesian rendang (curry). I hope you still have your kafir lime trees.
Such a lovely video and so helpful. I plan on purchasing a keifer lime tree as I live in zone 8. The Spring and Summers are hot. I will grow my tree in a container as well. I really enjoyed how you use all of your limes for cooking and cleaning. You have a new subbie😊
Glad it was helpful!
Such a great video!!! Have to grow me a lime tree. Really liked the idea of making a natural cleaning solution with the lime juice.
Thank you!
You should buy a lab steam distillation kit and extract the hydrosol perfume off of the extra kaffir lime leaves and peel you get. I can bet it would be magnificient! Awesome video! My kaffir lime tree is still alive, seed grown from 2013. Living in a zone 4-5 climate, it it still only 1 1/2 feet tall!
I will give it a try for sure!
Great video! Thanks so much for sharing your insights!
Well done video
Thank you so much!
This was a really thorough and helpful video. Thank you.
I have a little one (4” pot) that has not grown much since I bought it. It is indoors on the window sill getting eastern and southern light (in 9B, San Diego Co.). I saw in one video that had no audio that the person recommended digging a hole and breaking one egg, shell in all into the soil and covering it up. Have you ever tried this?
Thank you so much! Egg?No, haven't heard of that and probably would not do it either...lol
Very well done video. Thanks for the info!
Glad you enjoyed it!
I need help ,I got a citrus tree and it lost almost all its leaves,and I have no insecticide what should I do.
Fabulous and informative video. Having lost my Kaffir plant to UK's cold weather, I am looking forward to growing some from seed. Thank you for all your tips, especially about the scale insects, which my plants have always been plagued with.
Hi Fiona, have you any luck growing a Kaffir lime tree in UK? How did you winterise it?
@@milinlim5211 I have about 40 plants grown from seed and after 1 year, they are about 20 cm tall. They have been outside all summer and looking pretty healthy. I have just brought them inside and they are on every available window ledge and I am fast running out of space!
@@fionapeek1017 wow, I have only managed to germinate 1 from seeds in 3 years ... 😂
Extremely informative. Tq for sharing.
Glad it was helpful!
Thank you so much for such a great and informative video! I have recently started growing a few Kaffir limes and am not much of a gardener to say the least, so your tips were very useful.
It was interesting that you water from the bottom, because I had read that you keep the bottom free of water and let the roots drain well, but if it works for you I will give it a whirl. Thanks again.
Thank you! I try not to have my plants sit in standing water because it can cause root rot. However, if it takes it up within a few hours, then I know it needs water.
This video was extremely helpful, as I have a large Kaffir lime tree that has gone rogue, and the leaves are not aromatic any longer. It has tons of sucker growing out from the trunk. Now I know I need to cut all those off and find out if it will grow the fragment leaves. Thank for the helpful tips on insects I will check for that also. I just bought a 4 inch lime tree on line, and I have it under a grow light. Wish me luck. Thank you. Marci B
Great video, very helpful. One question: what insecticide did you use that was finally able to get rid of the bugs?
New subscriber. Thank you.
Great video! Thanks! I have been growing citrus for years, and I'm just starting some Kaffir seeds I was gifted from a friend.. Hey, FYI, look into transitioning over to a lighter soil mix. There's a ton of different recipes online, but the one I switched over to is: "The basic mix is 1:1:1, pine bark fines: Turface: crushed granite. It's perfect to grow that go 2-3 years between repots." I am able to buy turface from a lawn/outdoor supply company for cheap. Also, I used coarse sand and crusher run gravel instead of granite. My trees are loving the extra drainage.
Very informative video, thanks.
Such a wonderful presentation. Thank you for sharing.
Great video! What are your potting mixtures and do you use citrus tone fertilizer? I found some information on germination of the seed and it’s instructions were to use 1 part peroxide, 3 part water. What you recommend? Your video was very simple, just damp paper towel in ziplock. I rather try that. Thank you!
amazing video, thank you
Great video! I love kiffar lime trees!
Nice video
Thanks so much!
Excellent video. I am growing 4 this year and this was timely
Wonderful! What varieties are you growing?
Rainbow Gardens Meyer Lemon, Ponderosa Lemon, Calmondin Lime and Keylime lime quat
Fantastic video! I have one kaffir lime I love it.
Yes, they are sooo nice to have around! Thanks for watching!
Hort/oil is the best, its all you need for all pests .!. Cheers🇨🇦
Very instructif . Thank you
Smarty Pants, I never thought of all the ideas for this, really enjoyed it, plus all the others you've made, growing, cooking, guilty as charged, kinda slowed down watching, thought you we're maybe leaving you're channel, never see you in your video's anymore, sorry it's just feels different reading instead of watching you being in there, guess I'm Ole country, we live in Oklahoma
Thanks so much!
A wonderful, thought and really informative video. Thank you!
Hello. I am an American living in tropical Philippines. I have always wanted a kaffir lime tree to use in my curries and figure I live in a perfect climate for growing one. It was VERY difficult finding the plant but I finally got my hands on a small one. I brought it home, gave it good soil in a container and set it out where it got good direct morning sun. For 4 months it's growth was great. But one day it just upped and died! I am not sure as to why. We recently went thru our wet season and it got a lot of rain so I cut back on watering it. The rain stopped but I didn't immediately increase watering it (maybe once every 10 days). That's the only thing I can think of. One morning I went out to water it and saw that all the leaves had dried out. The branches were GONE! No where to be seen. They didn't just fall off and onto the soil below. They had completely disappeared so I also wonder if an animal intervened. We have fruit bats that can mess up fruit trees but it had no fruit and would a fruit bat go for full citrus branches? Another possibility is that plant was the envy of my neighbors. (I admit that I often said to my neighbors, "I have a Kaffir Tree and you don't") Could they have snuck in to get the branches thinking the could use them to grow their own Kaffir? I have one friend who started growing a kaffir about the same time as me so it's still small. I figure I can sneak over there in the dead of night and make off with it. I am sure he will never suspect me.
PS I am a terrible gardener and have no idea what Im doing. Ive killed more plants then I can count. Ive even planted them upside down causing shock and ridicule to rain down on me from my neighbors! But Im slowly gaining skills and improving. My point in saying this is that there could possibly be another obvious reason for my Kaffir's demise that I have no idea about.
A big wow
Thank you!
This video is excellent. Thank you for such a wonderful content.
Thank you for this incredibly helpful information.
I was a Chef in a California-Thai fusion restaurant and had a Vietnamese woman as a boss/Chef and we would use the dried leaf and bash it with bird peppers and other spices in a mortar and pestle, so there was no "leaf" or leaf vein to deal with, so using the whole thing is traditional
Good information .really informative.
Glad it was helpful!
Very helpful. Thank you.
You're welcome!
I'm zone 9b and I ordered some seeds. It does indeed freeze here in Central Florida sometimes. I tried to buy this tree but everyone is out of them.
Very well growing
Love your videos what kind of ferderrizer do you use
Super informative!
Glad it was helpful!
Someone sold me a Kaffir Lime however I thought I was getting a Kalamansi tree. I quickly learned what I had by the distinctive shape of the Kaffir. leaf.
Thank you for this video. I have 5 very old trees that my mother grew from seed when I was a child. They are all over 35+ years old. We bring it in every November to winter inside. Being from Thailand we use the leaves to cook. Where did you purchase your grafted tree? The local nurseries do not carry citrus trees.
I bought kaffir from Costco
I was told by a friend that you can use the fruit skin by squeezing the skin n the oil you see can be used in your hair to make your hair shinny.
Brilliant thanks 👍
Could you please show the steps of grafting the kaffir lime tree? I could not find the technique. Thank you very much. It's an excellent video.
Question I own a kaffir lime tree one is about 7 years old and one is 13 years old but don’t have flowers or fruit? I need help!