Spring Feed For Citrus Trees

[Artisan]

Being a first time grower of Citrus trees in containers that I purchased last summer please can someone tell me what would be a suitable fertiliser to spring feed the trees. At the moment the trees are in my greenhouse where they have over wintered but they will be moved outdoors as soon as the temperatures are suitable.

Thanks.

[Jungle Jane]

You can get special citrus feeds for summer & winter. I don’t have citrus trees but there’s some instructions here about a summer feed -

[Jungle Jane]

Winter feed says to use till March there’s other brands available too

[Artisan]

You can get special citrus feeds for summer & winter. I don’t have citrus trees but there’s some instructions here about a summer feed -

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Thank you for the info. I do have both the winter and summer feeds but what I was wondering was if there was a specific Feed like BFB that I use in spring on my container grown fruit trees.

[Jungle Jane]

I think applying both those feeds monthly would give them enough of what they need,BFB would be adding more NPK & that would be too much I would’ve thought but I don’t grow any citrus so wait for a citrus grower for proper replies

[Deano's "Diggin It"]

Hi Artisan

This is a relevantly new product which as now become available to the home gardener, and getting rave reviews by all counts!

https://www.incredi-range.com/range/incredicrop/

[devonuk]

Urine, diluted 10:1 (seriously)

Out of interest, the following survived two successive nights of -3.7C in the greenhouse, draped in 1 thickness of light horticultural fleece: willowleaf tangerine, chinotto orange, calamondin, lemon "eureka" plain and variegated, kaffir lime, seedling lemon. Only damage is, all the small green fruit on the tangerine are now avocado-coloured and (I assume) dead. Mature fruit on the tangerine and chinotto are unscathed.

NB there was a sunny day between the 2 freezes when the greenhouse warmed up considerably, a solid freeze might have had more serious results.

[boatsman]

I don't recall experiencing temperatures of -3.7C, but I have had the citrus trees covered in snow. My citron and root stock orange are in large tubs and the lemon, lemon-lime and red grapefruit are in the ground. I have never given any of them any special treatment and they are all doing well, I just regularly water them. When I planted the grapefruit a few years ago I added some compost as I filled in the planting hole, that's it, nothing more.

[Artisan]

I have found that I can replace the top few inches of the established trees with new compost whilst add some Growmore to the mix. I'm going to give that a try and see what happens.