3 years ago, my husband bought roughly a dozen citrus trees of different types. Oranges, lemons, limes, grape? fruit and tangerines. The two lemons were a bit larger than...
fruit and tangerines. The two lemons were a bit larger than the others. After 2 years, the lemons were roughly 8 ft. tall and last year produced a couple of small fruits. This year they hold produced nothing. The other trees have not even scarcely grown! They all are between 1 and 3 ft. tall. We know nil about citrus trees. They are in right sun, watered often and yet they are doing so poorly. They enjoy tiny bugs on the leaves now and the leaves seem highly dry, curled up and are often yellow around the edges. We live within North Central Florida and are careful to cover them in the winter months. Does anyone enjoy any suggestions to help us encourage them to produce fruit?
surrounded by order for them to fruit again they must have no bug on them also prearranged as spider mites. i would wash it thoughly and clean the individual leaves. they resembling to hide on the undersides of the leaves There is no such thing as a grape citrus tree. Grapes are not Citrus and they don't grow into trees. They grow on vines! To answer your interrogate your trees are not mature enough on the other hand.
These are tropical plants and are not meant to be in that environment, especially if they want to be covered in the winter. Make sure that the ground that they are planted in is fertilized and that the trees are appropriately watered. Otherwise, the solitary way to help them is to increase the heat that they are in, which can only be able where you are by moving them to a greenhouse. Good luck! Feed them with a fertilizer for fruit trees. They even take home a specific fertilizer for citrus. Take a the bug to your local nursery and have them diagnose it for you. Be sure you are watering deeply when you wet and that will encourage deeper roots. What is your soil like. You could topdress aroun the driplines of the trees and sea that in well. If you own heavy clay soil that could be part of the problem.
Answers: Give them a complete citrus food (bought as a small piece or powder from the nursery) twice a year... especially at start of the warmer weather. Keep the water up to them, but construct sure the soil they are in isn't water logged. they close to a well drained soil, and to dry out a little between waterings. better to tender them one really good soak once a week in the hot weather, than somewhat each day.
Only necessitate to cover them from the severest frosts. Ours survive down to -3 C without any great damage.
Spray the leaves next to a petroleum based spray (white oil) as this won't harm the plant, and it sounds close to you have a scale insect or thrip.These will suck out the godliness from the leaf and make them curl up and discolour.
The lemons will suffer. it's not uncommon for lemon trees to just own a few fruit the first year, then none the next - should capture a better crop next time.
And to the answer above re grape not being a citrus - duh! Read the full cross-question... the question mark come after the grape, but was meant to read grapefruit if you save reading :-)
Go to a nursery!