help with lemons!

[annie trip]

Can anyone give me some help to care for a new lemon plant i have been given? I know it was expensive and as i never spend more than £5 on a plant am worried for its life! Idont have a conservatory which i think is where it is suposed to live but have it in my warm kitchen. It is dropping leaves allready what do i do? Is fine for water.

Help!!!!

[nick the grief]

I would hazard a guess that it is the dry atmospherse Annie. Try standing it in a big plant saucer with some pea gravel in it so it's not standi in water but the asmospher is a little more humis. Or spray it with some rain water.

Also I probably needs more light so a nice sunny aspect ( but not direct sun till it's feeling happier & stops dropping leaves.

[annie trip]

thanks nick, may seem a daft question but why spray with rain water and not tap?

[nick the grief]

Tap water has added lime so it will form a deposit on the leaves.

[Jothegardener]

Hi Nick

Thanks for this, I have 2 lemon trees in the conservatory 1 doing extremely well lots of flowers on and some little lemons growing, while the other has some little lemons but looks poorly and keeps dropping leaves and I was wondering why because I water them only when needed and mist them everyday and occasionally wipe the leaves with a mixture of fairy liquid and water which is all things that I have read to do, BUT I have been using tap water so that will be the deposit that is on the leaves, I have rain water in the water butts outside so will switch to using that. Thank you for your info.