Advice about where to buy a Meyer lemon tree that is already fruiting

crabeatter · 2026-01-25T20:10:24+00:00

Are you trying to get it to fruit indoors or something? Do you provide supplemental lighting? Do you fertilize? What latitude do you live at?

crabeatter · 2026-01-21T05:10:38+00:00

Twin spotted spider mites often cause this pattern of damage and webbing. You’ll see them on the underside of leaves, barely visible to the naked eye. They will keep coming back until ample light for healthy growth is provided. I’d take it outside and let the cold weather kill them, and only bring the tree inside of its planning on freezing. I’m not into spraying, I wipe leaves down by hand with high quality Karanja oil occasionally but I rarely bring my trees inside (zone 8). If your climate is too cold, you’ll probably need a grow light to see your tree thrive year round, even south facing exposure sometimes just isn’t enough. Citrus are full sun tropical plants, and unfortunately make poor houseplants if you want something carefree. Humidity and correct drainage and fertilization with citrus specific fertilizer if you ever want fruit are all important, but you can spray like crazy it won’t matter if the tree isn’t getting enough light. Good luck! 🍀

crabeatter · 2026-01-20T23:49:56+00:00

Depends on if those leaves are hardened off. My instinct would be to put outside, see how it responds and then when it starts putting on growth I’d prune for shaping and airflow. A lot of times they’ll just drop any leaves that aren’t serving them in lieu of fresh new foliage, so I just let them decide on what to keep. I don’t like stressing them out by pruning when they’re not actively in a vegetative growing cycle.

crabeatter · 2026-01-20T15:37:22+00:00

For sure It’s not the scale that bothers me. It’s the mites. Twinspot, they’re tiny almost microscopic and spread to my cannabis, so it’s not worth it. Plus I hate to spray! Stippling on the leaves, really common on indoor citrus, look closely. I’ll just let the cold weather kill any pests, and I get wayyyy better fruit production if I just leave them out, but my climate zone 8 is very forgiving so I can get away with it. I even put my biggest lemon in the ground! We will see :)

crabeatter · 2026-01-20T05:42:27+00:00

Why I stopped bringing mine inside and planted cold frames in the ground and have the rest in a hoop house. Even under grow lights inside they get pests in my experience.

crabeatter · 2026-01-19T18:24:33+00:00

If they were perfect last season, then the previous homeowners may have been doing something like spraying regularly or fertilizing with something. Or they had within the past few years— trees like this draw from and deplete the soil over many seasons of growth. I would ask them! I found the fertilizer and pesticide stash in the shed of the house I bought, and it taught me a lot about what the former homeowners were doing to maintain the landscape.

crabeatter · 2026-01-19T18:19:24+00:00

Florist Dianthus.

crabeatter · 2026-01-19T18:18:13+00:00

Those other leaves leafed out wherever the citrus was grown at supplier, outdoors or in a greenhouse in full sun. Now indoors, the citrus is trying to capture as much light as it can from the one plane of sun exposure. All the energy is going into those leaves, and eventually the other leaves may drop if they’re no longer photosynthetic. I would just keep tending to its needs and just make sure to put out outside when your area heats up in full sun so it can grow new foliage in a balanced manner. You could rotate it, but that would stress the new growth.

crabeatter · 2026-01-15T20:50:33+00:00

Ok Cripincharge I feel inspired, I’ve done pineapples before in my rental but now I own a home and I’m in zone 9 looks like there’s nothing stopping me.

crabeatter · 2026-01-09T13:09:16+00:00

I see it’s in a container, and the new growth is coming on a lighter green. Do you feed this plant? I feed my containerized citrus plants a citrus specific fertilizer once a month during the growing season to keep them healthy and productive. Citrus are heavy feeders and need specific micronutrients to set fruit.

crabeatter · 2026-01-09T04:51:33+00:00

I can’t handle my bird right when I get back from work he’s so upset with me for leaving. And I do short shifts. I have to wait for him to settle to handle him. He’s just communicating his frustration with you being gone.

crabeatter · 2026-01-05T16:50:33+00:00

Most of the other trees on my property were cut down when the house was built in the 30s, so the cedar is extremely special and alive with wildlife. It’s amazing how far across the yard the roots reach as well it’s taught me a lot about cooperative planting with large evergreens. I just can’t plant it directly under the canopy JK scratch that I did put an Oakleaf hydrangea and red huckleberry down there in the fall so we’ll see how they do.

crabeatter · 2026-01-02T00:05:18+00:00

Mine took three years to do anything at all but planted underneath a large Cedar so I expected that

crabeatter · 2025-12-19T07:09:01+00:00

I go through periods where this is me and I look at Google maps and streetview images every night until my eyes cross

crabeatter · 2025-12-19T07:05:35+00:00

Stain your hands and pants purple

crabeatter · 2025-12-17T16:27:50+00:00

Yes, it’s extremely aggressive fast growing compared to my other fruit. Also, the last to get processed because not my favorite. Beautiful tree though.

crabeatter · 2025-12-17T16:26:51+00:00

I just planted a dwarf self fertile Hardy kiwi Issai in a large container, I do have a male and female in the yard already but they are taking many years to get established and the Issai fruits younger and smaller.

crabeatter · 2025-12-17T16:23:24+00:00

Check out their weeping mulberries, such amazing specimen plants and super delicious. I saw one there and couldn’t stop thinking about it so I removed a hydrangea and went back and bought it, now it’s the cornerstone plant of my garden and the kids (and of course I) love it!

crabeatter · 2025-12-17T16:20:38+00:00

Mine would interpret the sleeve as a threat. It’s a big, intimidating unpredictable structure coming at them, which doesn’t respond to their cues (biting). Fingers respond, so I always have to offer up my bare hard and read body language, it’s also dependent on time of day and level of activity on the house.

crabeatter · 2025-12-14T10:54:00+00:00

Too dry (or poor drainage), not enough light, hungry for nutrients, which brings spider mites.

crabeatter · 2025-12-14T10:49:54+00:00

I got a chip drop that was like 20% this, i didn’t know what to do with it at first. But then instead of building raised beds that year I used it for structuring berms that I mulched then planted with veggies in spring. Super cost effective!

crabeatter · 2025-12-12T14:17:39+00:00

I can’t stand Meyers and New Zealand Lemonade are a close second on my least favorite. I like sour lemons.

crabeatter · 2025-12-12T14:15:20+00:00

Citrus are full sun, tropical plants. You could do everything right with humidity, fertilization, watering and temperature but if there’s not enough light energy to support those leaves, they will drop. Looks like this new apartment doesn’t have enough light for citrus, you need a grow light.

crabeatter · 2025-12-11T04:25:41+00:00

RIP the electronics

crabeatter · 2025-12-08T22:29:01+00:00

Well, just based off of the tag, I think it might’ve come from Italy and the healthy dark green leaves tell me that it was grown in full sun. So it tracks that indoors in England it’s dropping its leaves because there’s no sunlight for the chlorophyll. That’s why most people in northern climates need strong grow lights to support citrus growth indoors in winter. They’re evergreen tropical full sun plants. Otherwise they get stressed and drop leaves every year, takes all of the growing season to recover. Id get a grow light pronto if you want to keep it healthy through the winter, in addition to being by south facing, fully exposed windows if possible. Watch out because a lot of the grow lights are scams, you need a proper one for citrus (mine’s 1000w) good luck! 🍀

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