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Imagine picking fresh citrus on a cool winter morning. It feels like bringing a little sunshine into the cold 🍋❄️✨ You can make it happen too! Just use a super well draining soil mix, keep your citrus fed through the year, and bring those container trees inside anytime temps drop below 40 so they stay happy and warm 🪴🔥
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Can you imagine picking fresh citrus on a cool winter morning? Well, you could have this, too. And here’s three tips to help you succeed. Number one, you got to have the right soil mix. Citrus hate wet feet, and that means you need well draining soil that’s going to flush through without holding too much moisture. Otherwise, you’re going to get root rot. Number two, you got to feed your tree. These are hungry plants and they need a lot of nutrients to be able to sustain any type of fruit load. So that means fertilizing at least twice a year, if not three or four times a year. Skipping this step could mean the difference between a healthy tree and one that’s not going to put out fruit that year. My third tip, and most important, is that citrus like to be warm. I keep mine in containers, but I bring them inside whenever the temperature drops below 40°. Remember, trees in a container are less cold hearty than in the ground. All right, what other tips would you add on growing citrus in container? Post in the comments below.
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Mine are in 15 gal containers! I cant bring them in and my meyer lemon is fruiting now. What should I do?
I want to try to grow mayer/moon citrus indoor, I read it is feasible with a very good sun exposure (I have a wide south-west facing window and I don't have outdoor spaces rn unfortunately)
Any tips for growing citrus in raised beds for those with heavy clay soil?
3 to 4 times a year? In container?? I feed mine a lot more than that
Another Tip, sun, full sun
Spray the tree with pesticides because pests love citrus trees.
you get root rot when you have wood in the soil, plant them in a pure sand, or sandy loam, when planting in the ground make sure the soil has plenty of sand to help drainage, in clay soil you don't need to water as much but adding gypsum and sand to your site will help drainage with good drainage you can water daily in warm weather.
Would you feed the tree in the winter?