What are your thoughts on the condition of these?

[Chomerly]

These are my citrus plants that i purchased last year.



I potted them up into a compost that is "designed" for citrus plants. Apparently.
What are your thoughts on their condition?
I have no clue about these things and i am planning on potting them on into a regular MPC as to me, they don't look that great.

so, Thoughts?

[RaptorUK]

so, Thoughts?

When did you pot them up ? when did you last feed them ?

[Alison]

I believe that citrus compost provides good drainage so you'd need to add grit to the MPC if that was what you were planning on using. The ones in your pictures look like they're low on nutrients, as asked above, when did you last feed then and with what?

[rustylady]

I think they need a feed.

[Chomerly]

Just a little over a week ago and they've had maybe one or two feeds since the end of the last growing season.

I was thinking of giving them some potash feed and i have another foliar feed which i purchased from a garden centre last summer.
I didn't because if you look at the nearest plant, there a couple of leaves that look like they have burnt tips.
I thought that it may be because of over feeding?

The gardening learning curve.
So much to learn.

[Chomerly]

Right.
I've just gotten back in from the garden and figured that i would pot up these plants.
There was no need for me to do this as i found out.

Checking the roots for each of these revealed that the actual plant itself hadn't actually pushed any roots down into the soil which i potted them up in last summer.
In fact, i could have probably gotten away with planting them into 12cm pots as the root ball was that small.
Anyway, when i checked the soil it just fell away from the base of wher some roots had come through.
I just crumbled as much of it away as possible and re-potted each plant into som nice, new multi purpose compost that i had mixed perlite into for good drainage.

Hopefully, both will now take off and show some good growth over then next few months.
And i also expect to see some nice deep coloured leaves in the next couple of weeks.

[Chomerly]

No change on there condition for the most part.
They are a little greener than before but mostly, they haven't changed.

I've given them a liquid feed (Tomotorite with seaweed extract) today to see if that would help them out any.
I did feed them with a different liquid feed last week and i don't know if that is the reason for there slightly improved colour.
I guess i will have to sit back and wait until next week to see how they react to this new feed.

[WendyC]

If you are as ting them to green up then I think you need a high nitrogen feed. I know my MinL has specfic citrus feed one for winter and one for summer.

[Chomerly]

I'm planning on going to a very good garden centre either tomorrow or Friday so i will look out for a citrus specific feed.
I do have a nitrogen feed that i can use should i not be able to get to the garden centre, or if they don't have a specific feed, so now i know that i will get on the case.

Thanks WendyC

[lyndapet]

I'm planning on going to a very good garden centre either tomorrow or Friday so i will look out for a citrus specific feed.
I do have a nitrogen feed that i can use should i not be able to get to the garden centre, or if they don't have a specific feed, so now i know that i will get on the case.

Thanks WendyC

B&Q also sell the citrus feed , I have just moved on to summer feed and the leaves should be quite dark and glossy. I hardly water mine over the winter and it is in a warmish conservatory.



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[Chomerly]

I had mine stored in the greenhouse with my other plants and fruit bushes.
They seemed to do fine over the winter but their appearance hasn't changed none too much since then.

Its mad because the soil they were in when i first bought them was pretty poor in quality and i went out and purchased a compost that was for designed for citrus plants.
Being potted up into that made no difference and the roots didn't push down into the newer soil as much as i expected.
In fact, the far smaller pots the came in would have been more than enough for them.

[kazmum]

Looks like it could be magnesium deficiency, try dissolving some epsom salts in water and giving them that.

[Chomerly]

I forgot to update this thread with regards to this issue.

The citrus plants seem to be doing ok now.
About a month ago I purchased some liquid citrus plant food from a garden centre I use.
It's made by Doff.
A couple of feeds of the stuff, spread apart by about 10 days, and the colour started to flood back into the leaves.

I've only fed them about two times up to yet as the last thing I wanted to do was over feed them.
I'll be giving them another feed in the next couple of days just to keep them happy.

So overall, happy with how they've turned out.


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[alldigging]

I gave my mini orange tree some tomato food when I feed the tomatoes. Full of flowers now! Mind you it might have been a bit thirsty before that.

[starloc]

I gave my mini orange tree some tomato food when I feed the tomatoes. Full of flowers now! Mind you it might have been a bit thirsty before that.

Its not the feed making it flower, citrus can be made flower by drought, most citrus that seem will not flower just need to be let dry out a bit and will then flower, for the tree to hold any fruit you need a better fertiliser, get a real citrus one make sure it has a large amount of micronutrients listed