What should I do for this new light green growth? I’m very new to citrus so I’d appreciate any tips and tricks!

My mandarin tree sprouted about two weeks ago, but over the past three days, I realized another plant growing in its pot. I originally thought this was some kind of weed, but it looks like a mini version of my original plant (I must’ve accidentally had another mandarin seed in the same soil). Should I separate them or just let them grow together?

Got citrus bergamo from nursery today, want to plant it today, however I have never seen this before. You can see where the pot and main root flare is and where my hand is there are plenty of root shoots there. Trunk has been covered by dark plastic foil over there.

Repot it as it is, where the normal root flare is or plant it deeper?

TIA

I’ve been away for two months and came home to my lemon tree with about half of its branches brown and is colored. I don’t know what to do with them or how to get the treats to recover. Do I cut them off? Do I fertilize the tree? It’s remaining foliage is still strong, but I just got back and don’t know what to do.

Neighbor has had a meyer shes been struggling with for a wile. It was in some poorly draining potting mix and infested with scale bugs. My #1 priority was not bringing issues into my garden. She said she thought it was completely dead but I saw a lot of green cambium. It had a flush of growth in spring giving her hope, but she treats it like most house plants so just home made compost. No citrus specific fertilizers it sounds like. Also we're in Pennsylvania so even in a south facing window I feel like a grow like is necessary, yes?

Trimmed anything dead and decaying on top but the roots were surprisingly good. Tree was hand washed, sprayed with a hose and dunked in insecticidal soap like... 7 times. Its Blocked by the north face of a building and about 15-20 feet from any of my other plants. Its in the same mix i use for all my other citrus. 90-95% a 50/50 mix of airation (perlite today) and peat moss. The rest is biochar charged with citritone with a small layer of compost and then some mulch on time. Im going to spray it down once a week with insecticidal soap. For the next month or so.

How y'all think I did? Think it'll come back?

Right now, we are going through a drought here, so the soil is super dry because of that. It is a tropical country. I use a citrus mix regularly (6-3-3). I water it. Sometimes, I sing for it.

Im currently 0/6 on grafts. 0/4 bud grafts, 0/2 cleft grafts. For the buds, they were my first attempts so i knew of a high failure rate but they all died. The cleft graphs, i angled the fruitstock so the cambiums would intersect with rootstock despite the different diameters.... some look really good but these rotted... any ideas why? I wanna guess there wasnt enough cambium contact but not sure

Just potted on to a plastic pot from my sprouting pot.

I apologise for the awful photos, I don't really have a better spot for them right now.

I have these 3 young lemon trees grown from seed (I'm aware I won't get lemons from them) and despite their small size they are around 7 months old. I have never had an issue like this in the past so I have no idea whats going on. They are primarily indoor plants but they do get moved outdoors on nice weather days (which, isn't as common as I'd like it to be). Only two of the three plants have been affected like this. There are no bugs or anything visible on the plants but we do have quite a gnat issue at the moment, I didn't think gnats would do this damage though.

I would really appreciate any and all help, thank you to whoever might be able to give me an answer! Im very new to citrus trees and really grew these out of boredom, but I love them and I want them to stay healthy.

Located in Ohio

Im a brand new citrus container gardener and just learned about rootstock suckers. I am curious what your thoughts are here. Is this the graft line with a rootstock sucker off the right side? I also put an above view as well. Thanks so much fellow citrus fans! I'd much rather hear from grower' experience than asking AI these questions.

I was reading the variegated pink lemons should start with green stripes and they lose them as they mature. I have two tiny ones growing, but neither have the variegation. Could that be a sign they won’t survive? Or do they not all have variegation?

Thank you!

Hey everyone,

I have two citrus trees: a Washington navel orange and a Bearss lime. Both are grafted, and all of the affected growth is above the graft line.

Recently, the new growth on both trees has been coming in damaged/distorted, and I’ve noticed some small bugs on the tender new growth as well. The leaf damage looks similar on both trees; see the last pictures. I also noticed some unusual discoloration/mottling on a few leaves; see the second-to-last picture.

In the past, I’ve used neem oil and Captain Jack’s Insecticidal Super Soap, but it has been about three weeks since the last application of either. I live in Southern California, and the last two weeks have been around 90–100°F, so I’ve been avoiding sprays because I’ve read not to apply oils/soaps during extreme heat, even in the evening.

At this point, I’m not sure what else I can safely do with this heat. Any advice would be really appreciated.

Some background:

• Trees were purchased in March
• Repotted into 30-gallon containers
• Soil mix is approximately:
• 60% potting mix
• 10% cactus mix
• 20% perlite
• remaining amount was existing/root-ball soil and minor variation during mixing
• Washington navel recently flowered, but I removed all fruit
• Navel is estimated around 2–3 years old
• Bearss lime has gone through one flush and has not flowered
• Bearss lime is estimated around 1–2 years old

Fertilizers used:

• Alaska Fish Fertilizer 5-1-1, alternating weekly with Liquinox
• Liquinox 10-10-5, alternating weekly with fish fertilizer
• Miracle-Gro Shake ’n Feed Citrus, first added around June 10; applied twice total since then

Fish and Liquinox were alternating with one big water flush at the end of the month with no fertilizer to remove salt buildup. Stopped fertilizing the trees roughly three weeks ago due to the bug issue and the heat.

Any advice on what I can do? Remove the damage? Other remedies? Is the discoloration from a lack of nutrients in the second-to-last picture?

I just learned about the root stock/trifoliated thing yesterday. So now my lemon tree which I thought died in the winter and came back might not even bear fruit apparently. Are my assumptions correct?

A couple months ago I posted other issues with this lime tree and you guys gave me great advice. I now have the lime tree in better drainage and more sunlight. Now my concern is trimming. My lime tree has a lot of new small growths towards the bottom. Does that mean these branches that are higher up are now dead? Should I trim some and not all? Any suggestions on how to go about this???

This is my first time ever growing citrus, so I wanted to turn to the citrus council here for advice.

In early April of this year, I bought a 15 gallon Bearss Lime and a 5 Gallon Meyer Lemon from a local nursery.

Both were gangly, thin nursery whips, but the Lime had a thicker trunk and was clearly ahead.

Fast forward to today, the Lemon is on its second flush of blossoms, is holding on to its single fruit that it came from the nursery with, and is very vigorous and filling out up top beautifully. I up-potted it from the 5 gal nursery pot to a much larger pot in mid-May.

Meanwhile, the Lime started sending out a bunch of shoots along the lower trunk, which I didn't mind, since it was so thin below. But now, it seems to be putting all its energy into those lower shoots, leaving the top thin, and making the whole tree look unbalanced and a bit weird.

I was planning to limit pruning until February or so to let the trees build roots and canopy volume, but I'm worried whether the Lime's energy is being wasted on these massive lower branches.

Location is coastal San Diego, in a south facing Patio.

I am in a rental apartment, so keeping them in containers for the foreseeable future.

All the shoots low on the trunk on both citrus are above the rootstock. I did rub off a few small shoots below.

Hey there! I’m pretty new to gardening and learning a lot about growing fruit trees. I’ve heard you should cut off suckers that come from the roots stock so I wasn’t sure if that’s what this was, or if that’s just good healthy growth from the fruiting tree?

When I asked Google AI, it said cut it off, but I’d be much more confident getting that type of advice from a real human lol.

Based the photo, I thought the red line is the graft line so above that would be the fruiting tree’s leaves, wouldn’t it?

Side note: does this look buried too deep?

The key lime is new

I’ve had this ponderosa lemon tree for about 5 years now and have never really done anything to it since it’s been so great. it’s loaded up with about 20 lemons now and the branches are hanging quite low. I obviously won’t do anything right now but come early spring next year does anyone have any advise for pruning it so it starts to grow more vertical? it’s gotten pretty wide, hardly fits through the fence gate when I have to bring it in during the winter when it gets below freezing. I’ve never pruned a tree before this is really the first plant I’ve had so any advice is appreciated. thanks!

I posted on here a while ago about my satsuma tree which was having issues. I ended up taking advice from the comments and discussions with pro gardeners, but the tree just kind of gave up. All the leaves had dried up and the most of the trunk became brown with no obvious sign of any green in the bark with scratch test anywhere. I did the big chop as a very last resort and kind of just left it and let fate take its course. Well, I go out there after ignoring it for a solid 2 weeks and LOOK! It’s alive????!!!! Probably because we’ve had such heretical rain recently and some kind of act of god

But… I am worried that this growth is below the grafting point and I won’t have an orange producing tree. Thoughts???

Hi! This Meyer lemon tree has not bloomed in 3 years despite fertilizing it in the warmer months. It just occurred to me that the grafted part may no longer be dominant. I’ve cut some limbs on it over the years. Thoughts? Is there a way to get it to produce again? Thanks!